The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

eeen a Turco cut the ears and the tongue of a wounded
Bavarian soldier. Although wouuded toyself, I still had
power enough to kill that reaeaL"

A RETORTID TRENCH VICTORY.

The Opinion Nationale of Saturday evening Nays :
...__

W. have received Information from an honotirabie and
trustworthy source. A lieutenant-colonel of Artillery, who
has been wounded, ha. arrived to Pars Ile relates that on
toe 2,rd or the 2.4. h, we to not prechely know which, a great
hat tie wail fought, in which ha vet wAti a wound ditch has
caused his return to Parts. In that hattle our troop. mused
sit .h a butchery *more tba 1..11`11‘11 troops that this
Lett•enant-coloto I, who was in charge ef mitraillenrs
enabled V, protect his pltces luttind the h ulies of ti.e
Prusalan slalim, collected a height that enabled them to setae
as a parapet. We repeat, the source from which We have
this account Is perfectly certain."

"ONE TdICH (F NATURE.," &C.

The Prim mu hien dues not seem destitute of maby hnman
traits. At some village post-vino the other day he was very
particular In making requisitions for ostage Canute, and
wanted them of all procurabie colours. The postmaster ex-
pressed his amazement. 'Me stamps, he pleaded, were no
longer of any use lit a province which King William hat dm
elated to he antlered to Germany. • They are for my Kinder-
a/Dune—for my m colleeVon—quoth the Uhlan
And again, one of thete wandering specimens, bast set to
mount guard over a te:egraph Mattis, got into talk with the
telegraph Clerk's attire., and after a while took the head of
a lat'e flaxenttaireil girl between its hogs brown hands and
kissed it, and fell analog. Sword mut lauce, blood
and gunpowder, and t Kluge and desolation, had all
radon away from Rana Breitmann, far away in,o the
Eteigkeil. Ile law on'y his pitted Saxon or l'ome-
ranian home: his old grandmother at her spinning wheel;
his father sin, king the 11l porcelain pipe beim., the tire;
the helmet which a Frenchman's sabre cleft in two at Jena
hanging over the mantel ; the kind pastor looking in at the
window to bid them goof-day; the hint singing in the cage
the print on the wall of firetchen pulling her flower to
pieces ; the palm branch behind the minor with the box•
wood rame ; the housemother pourirg the savoury mid-day
Soup Iwo platters ; the troop of white-haired chtdren
emceeing about, brandi.hing abundant Butterbro4; and
..• 'p.m the dog with the shaggy bile and the otm eye, leap-
ing tip at them, and wsgging his tail for Joy. The Uhlan
looked hack into the distant land, and saw Peace smiling
Intl fear-no (1. 1, doing no harm. What was there peace
trait earth? Five thousand years ago? lam sure, tome, it
seem", yet Ms but six weeks since.—Correspondent of
Daily Telegrai.A.

IMMENSE PROGRESS IN THE FEELING OF GERMAN UNITY.

A correspondent at Dresden, writing on the 23rd of
August, Kaye :
Tne Frewlan losses at Gravelotte are reported to have
been enormous ; the ebasrepot, it appears, is extremely
destructive at long ranges, and it is only at close trader*
that the needle-on has the advantsge. The wounded are
pouring in tinily: already more than 300 Salons have been
lodged it, the hospitals of the town The tab about Alsace
and Lorraine has a good deal subsided, but there can be no
doubt of the immense progress made since the war in the
teeth gof German unity. The provlucialbm which was
formerly PO strong in Saxony has IPIRIOOt disappeared; the
army or the Rollin Government are no longer spoken of as
Prussl sn, but as Golnan, and, Indeed, the word 'Prussian
may be now said to have been erased from the Saxon voca-
ble/try. The belief that the war will be • long one seems to
he shared even by the press of Berlin. The Exchange qazett
speaks with some anxiety of the unhearebot obstinacy with
%which the French, according to all accounts, fought in the
battles of last week; and the Zakanft says that 'the rust
of blood and ccrpres which covers the banks of the Moselle
has hitherto prevented a clear view of the battlefield,' and
adds that 'it is certain more desperate struggles are await-
ing us, even up to the vary walls of Pad,'"