The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

LIIITISH AND FOREIGN.

The South Lnndon Press states that Mr. Spurgeon is
rather Beaus') unselL
Prime Arthur's reception in the North American
colonies harbeen a most cordial and enthusiastic one.
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A farmer named Reilly has been murdered at Trim,
In the county of Meath, and it is feared that the crime is
agrainut in its character.
The point if the Roseg (Piz-Roseg), in Haute-
Eti.polit,e, on which roi one had hitherto been able to place
his foot, was recently ascended without accident by Dr.
Gun-burg, of Bonn
Wilmington, North Carolina, in order to mourn the
death et its late p.puloir lamplighter, put crape on the lamp-
posts.
The Emperor of the French has just purchased an
estate mar Li mieaux fir £42,000.
The Sporting Gozettc hears, in addition to Lord Rose-
bery's, ot the probable break-up of another racing stud.
The Choir announces that the Prince of Wales has
given a prize of £5 for bagpipe playing, to be competed for at
all annual Highland gathering.
Apropos of the marvellous expertness in his trade of
the Loudon thief, a gentleman in the metropolis has broken
the key of his safe, and cannot get at his vvlnatiles, lie has
beta &ivßed to advertise for a burglar, and treat him like a
geutleniau.
A shoemaker in the Faubourg do Temple in Paris,
cl Red his shop at five o'clock the other ' atternoon, and
affixed the tollowing announcement to his shutters
lased ! The proprießr has gone to see La Chatte Blanche
at the Gaffe."
Dancing must be a decidedly jolly busiress in Louis-
ville, Ky , fir the papers say that " no leis than live persons
have beer, shot or cut at balls in that city within the previous
'few day s dolls, going as merrily in these saloons of
pleasure ass 11/11C7 al bell.
:iinne tine is endeavouring to frighten New York by
the ge loghal Oiscovery that 17,321 years hence Manhattan
Island will ''cave in."
A Ditch Jewi,-h paper reports that a Jewish lady in
her hoodretith year a, cent', visited the Ainste, dam
Eshild-
Mini, accompanied by her grandson, who was himself a grand-
father. She inspected a sewing-machine and threaded a
needle without the aid of spectacles.
It is stated that Marshal Prim, before leaving Paris,
attended a mass in pursitatice of a vow which he made in
ease his in,urrection of last year should be successful.
Ile celebrated the winterise, yof the revolt religiously. It
was not suspected that he was such a good Catholic.
On Tuesday at ternoon the Court Theatre, at Dres-
den was discovered to bean fi,e, and in a very short time was
totally destroyed. The Museum containing the celebrated
collection of pictures solidus the theatre, and for a time
was in danger of destruction, but happily by the exertion, of
the firemen the flames were confined to the theatre, and the
Sltiseurn saved.
The Lord justice Clerk of Scotland (Mr. Patton)
has been missing since Monday InOrilitg. lie weld to his
estate at Glenalmond, Perthshire, on Saturday last, and on
‘londay slanting went out before hn-akf oat for a walk, and
has not since returned. 15 is feared that he may hive acci-
dentally fallen RAO the Almond River, which hi in tt.iod, and
neon drowned. The river was dragged on Tuesday, and
about 200 persons went over the nim.rs in search of him.
The Proeurativ cd for the county has gone to Gimlet-
mond to institute inquiries.
Amongst the foreign hstlies at Baden-Baden chignons
are quite gene out, and supplanted by thii k rows of plaited
hair, hanging down to the nape of the neck. ntl, metes
high-heeled boots and straps are de rigueur now amongst
the aims de Id crew.