The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-27 00:00:00

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It Is asserted that in the battle of Froschwiller tite 1 much mated I LoAt Ole bad never bad a meoarnagn before.
Cuirassiers had 122 ctn.:ere titled. and that the 3rd Humes, be stated that a porter named WriAt wan there and
after making 17 charges, were renuced 10 30 men, helped her up, and also a clerk named Richardson.
6,500 men are now stationed in lielgien Luxemburg to They denied that the husband was drunk.
protect th
se&Per* provinceand s
diqum the letter if th galnst potaible Inroads from boucle of Mr. Overend QC in opening the defendant's case,
themselvee General Chapel, commandeninechiet
fugitive , to ey
of the present
stated that he had an overwhelming caw to prove a
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army of observation, has new his headquarters at Namur. gross conspiracy and fraud. He should show that the
The principal Dutch papers a correspondent tells us, are plaintiff and his wife did net arrive by the train
now writing very strongly against France. The Catholic referred to at all They arrived by the train at seven
clerical papers do it nu account of the seamen= of Route, o'clock. Richardson Was not there; it was his" Sine'
and the Liberal Journals express openly and energetically
their sympathies with the German cause, day off." Wright did not help her up. The station.
master Fox saw her open the door and now her fall,
The tint French gun taken In the present war was by a
sergeaut of the Prussian sth Mlles (of Gorlitz). The reward. and helped her up, as did also the guard and another
offered by the Cologne person. She and, "There was mettle g the matter,
he received consisted of 500 thaiers
Ot twentyhnifiretife.,ea . d bt
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matter as an accident Before nine
sehveenwruepoonrltytahobit shook." The station-master did not
offered by a councillor of Posen—altogether about £lOO.
hsthatel
o'clock the plaintiff went to the house of a man in
The Comaitutiona say.—" We can station good rathority Deweluny, named Goocilad, and told him about the
that the Government arsenals contain at present 500.000 accident, and the wife said, pointing to hi r husband,
chasrepots, 1 500.000 musket% converted into breech-loaders. "It's through that drunken pig. I'm like to have
tat m correc
An r Meer of artillery with. whom we were in conver d
issation ' .
tans eof 800 metres (half a mile), and as rapid in loading of the radway carriage said he was very drunk. Two
as the former; their only inconvenience Is that they me a persOne also etated that they had been with the
lately declares that thesein aim to a - . been lamed." The penises who helked him to get out
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little heavier than the chassepots." wife on two previous occasions when the had a lids.
The Independance attribotts the removal of Marshal carriage.
Baragney dll ulcers teem the command of Paris to an out His Lordaleip said :If all this is proved, it is one of
breek of temper ou the pert of the Empress. Having made the moat exirooroinaty, 1 may my diabolical,thantpirae
Bentley about the state of Paris, the Marshal said ti'at calm me,l ever heard.
would soon be restored. "But about us ; about the dynast) d" .
"Oh ! the people ore not thinking of that; their whole aim The ' evidence given supported the opening of the
at present is to drive out the Prussians at any cost Other I learned counsel
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things they will settle after." Toe Empress got scary. and ! Mrs. Wortington, being recalled, stated that she had
had the Marshal replace I._
The
determined to a of Compeigue :
The lime PePor adds tint leer never been in Goodiad'e house at all.
Mt has con
Into en ambulance, and to rottedvert uthese ofP thelace gardens of the ,
Hie lord hip M mnrnieg pia this wax the most
Tuileries for the same purpose. ' extraordinary cane which had happened in hie long ex-
e, e ti, se
" The Emperor Napoleon timid to have halted at Lonfreville . Perience. There wee! such a mans of perjury on one
for fifteen bourn lie was quartered in the house of Colcnel I aide or the other, as not only to ehork one's mind, but
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lienocque, the former Deputy, where he was men seated on , to be a diegrace to the town and county where it secret,
a straw chair, in a corridor. Other otheerepre,eoll thst they j lie summed up very strongly in favour of the de-
saw him on the evening of the 14tAi on the neld of battle, to /ea.:a,
which my name may be given Imet that of Lorgeville. Some I
oßfelxifteinters, DienutkewofreMaelitiVit
of the soldiers, cheered by that (lay's emcees, eriel out ' l'im • After a short deliberatirn the foreman of the jury
yg ht
affordedw el l begroctlead. tl
eitherß e tit! er statedofo
rt htehte plthereplaintiff.
fie r. e elevenulti
in aftreirlyt,htehe defendantsi. y
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a dukedom or an explosion of toy." 1 a verdict for the defendants.
ilitari 'ell
The Paris Figaro has initiated and by this time has rearly
concluded a subscription for • sword of honour to be pre- l
tented to Marshal MacMahon, in testimony of the country's !
approved of his gallant defence at Woerth and ie imembourg.
The contributions are said to have _ been numerous nod
liberal, 2,50(11. haying been paid In on Friday. A Indy ;seeds
a dianmed, and another subscriber offers • quantity of lents
Delhi for the decoration of the sword. One very charac-
teristic contribution is forwarded with the following note—
The dead who lived in the hatred of Prmsta should also
subectibe. I enclose, therefore, on behalf of my deceased
father arid mother, one franc."
"1 am reluctant to repeat the tales of savagery which one
is ccntinually he-ring. All we can hope is that they are ex-
ceptional ; but really the French seem to have a few raises
among them et hose conduct they would do well to repudiate.
A wounded lirmaim officer tells a story to this effect. He
spy.: !I welts forward with my soldiers—tiretileurs—when
cc heart the cry of "Grace !"bII,ICPIM d bring A company
of Freuoh troops advanced, holding their Clamsepets high,
and m.king dens of surrender. When within speaking Ms
tance, I cried "A be In armee," and • rain of bullets wes
the mime,' The narrator adds that the set el treachery
was puntahed etch unsparing rigour, s;.arcely a Freechmau
of the company NMI; left alim '!--Correspondent of Daily
Ness.
Icear Mets two thousand labourer' are employed in con.
etrneting a railway which wilt join the Niel and 101 l telt rail.
way at lidemdly, about eicht int.ea soutibeirst of Mete, and be
continued thence to the 100 from Niels to Fronard, and be
carried round opposite t:: the west front of the fortress, thence
crossing the Moselle a second time to the east, so an to term
a elreefr, By means of this railway, which will he In direct
connection with all the railway. of Germany. the immense
war materiel, weighing many thomand torts, necessary for
the siege of a great fortress, hming been brought to L,rrei,e
from the artmeals, foundries, and magminas of the Rhine cud
Elbe, may be marled to mly Put, at the siege works that may
be desired

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" i spoee you the description of the horrible scenes. In
every village lie wounded in mimes, but well cared for and
removed as fast as possible. I met at Reichshofon 217 pri-
soners from Vehtenberg, a little hill fort, where 230 fugitive
from Worth had taken shelter. Abhg the meadocs were
strewn the letters of the French archives, waggon, some re-
vealing loteresting heart m3steTies 4 the past, some the
political events of the ;-„resebt. I gathered a great bundle
of them sos'imi with rain, rind in which love played an im-
portant and duty • very Wiling role. If I were not naturally
discreet, I could compromise famously some of those -rear-
gersund ladies."—Extrect from Lftter yf tierataa. Sttedeht.