The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-28 00:00:00

THE TWO SUCKING PIGS.

A protracted lawsuit ahout two sucking pigs, to which two
railway compatdes mai two French noblemen were parties.
has jay been the auhiect of a judgment which may perhaps
yet be iinesttoned on appeal.
La July, last year, the Count de Montenol, of the
Chateau de la Vacherie. purchased from his neighbour
the Marquis d'Arazent des Deux Fontaines a boar and
ROW pi !, of a special breed, for the handsome price of
PIK The Marquis writ.- to the Count that the pigs
would arrive at the Romilly Station of the Western
11a4way in the evening of July 25, and, in point of
feet, they Ilia not get there till the morning of the
261,. Hence the litigation. They had been duly sent
:cool the Cloyes station of the Orleans Railway to be
be transferred at the junction to the Western
Railway, and a study of the time tables would
luave shown the purchaser that they could not
liv poasibility have arrived earlier than they did.
hut the Count de Montenol. who went punctually on
the day and hour fixed by the Marquis to receive his
pigs was in great wrath at not finding them, and when
two days later he had notice from the Western Rail-
way Company that they were impounded, and waited
for him he refused to have them. He had bought
them, he said, for a prize show, and they must neces-
sarily he deteriorated by their protracted railway
j.aarney. The railway company, while awaiting the
interpleader, put the pigs in a stye, and in the course
of time they throve no well that from little pies they
become great ones, and a huge litter of little pigs
added to the expenses of the company. For these ex-
penses, aotimated at 750 f., tan action Wa3 brought
against the Count de Montenol.
After hearing and a rehearing the Civil Tribune of
the Seine decided that the Marqnis d'Argent des dent
Fontainem must bear the whole of the expenses OCCIIe
sioned by his innocent mistake about the hour of the
:arrival of the train at Romilly. The count was justi-
fied in not receiving the pigs, and the marquis maid
pay his costs, the costs of the two railway companies,
and the claim of the Orleans Company for the keep of
the prolific couple and their progeny.

appear.
Lettera from Wildhad state that the Princess of
Wales is ahewing a material improvement in health under
the course of waters. The inflammation, the recurrence of
which appeared in the knee-joint, has mainly subsided, but
the want ot flexibility is still very apparent.
The famous oyster-tanka in the hay of New York
are being devastated at the present time by a singular fish
known as the di um-fish. The damage already done is esti-
mated at a million of dollars.
The City of Paris which sailed from Queenstown for
New York with Prince Arthur on hoard, occupied only six
days twenty-eve hours and a half in her passage, which, after
allowing for difference of thee, is at the rate of thirteen and
a half knots or fifteen and a half miles per hour.
Through the aid of an emigration society formed at
Bristol in the spring, which has not received very general
support, 63 persons, including children, have emigrated, at
a cost to the society of £73. Forty-seven went to Canada,
six to Queensland, and ten to the United Slates. Others
have been sent out by private efforts. It is c, ditemplated to
start an emigration club, and to send out a ship direct from
Bristol early in the spring. Satisfactory letters have been
received from some of the emigrants.
"A duel took place in Georgia on the sth. J. IL
Cresswell was accused of the seduction of a yowler lady named
Addison, and while on his way to this city, accompuded by
his brother Charles, he was met by George B. and James
Addison, brothers of bliss Addison. Nothing is known
regarding the unfortunate rencontre save that Charles Cress-
well s as shot dead and J. 1) Creswell dangerously but not
mortally wounded. The brothers Addison gave themselves
im to the authorities."—New lock Paper.
Eddystone Lighthouse is to be connected with Ply-
mouth by means of a telegraph wire. The distance from the
shore to the lighthouse is fourteen ndles.
A procession of total abstainers, numbering pro-
bably abont four thousand, and accompanied ay perhaps an
equal number of sympathising onlookers, attended the re-
mains of William Scott, a temperance advocate, to Forest-
hill Cemetery, Loudon, on Sunday last.
There has been a heavy failure in New York—the
suspension of Bowers. Beckman, and Co dry goods com-
mission merchants, with liabilities of 2,500,t00 dols.—and it
has been the theme of extensive comments. The failure was
caused hy the steady depreciation In value since the war
chased of wool and woollens, a loss which the house, though
esteemed one of the strongest in New York, ciuld no longer
carry. They claim to have assets greater than their lia-
bilities, and ask tor an extension to arrange their affairs.
The nanyor and corporation of Deal went to Walmer
Castle on Monday, and presented an address to Mr. Glad-
stone, congratulating him upon the fact that his health had
been partially restored, and expressing their hope of his
complete recovery. Mr. Gladstone in reply thanked the cor-
poration for the honour they had done him, spoke of the
historical reputation of the Cinque Ports, praised the scenery
of that portion of the coast, and dwelt on the natlon2l im-
portance of the commerce ever floating in the Downs in view
of Deal, and the almost exceptional prosperity which pre-
vailed In East Kent owing to the fertile character of the
laud. Mr Glashclone afterwards comiu2ted the deputation
through the ground& of the castle.
The North German Correspondrnee of Saturday says
that the castle plague has broken out in East anti West
Prussia, at EMMA and Rosenberg, in the district of Merles-
werder, where 214 head of cattle have been slang dered, and
in the neighbourhood of Mithlhausen. The places in question
were at once surrounded by ano lit try cordon In tile Neu-
mark this system has proved no t ffedual that it has already
been found porsit.le to modify tan regulations in some re-
apicts so as to facilitate traffic.
William Henry Hall, a man who gave himself up to
the London police last week, stating that he had killed a loan
at Highgate, and that, he was t e mau who committed the
Cannon-street murder, was brought before the Highgate
magistrates on Monday. As it aptwared that there was no
FEARFUL LEAP Or A COACH-HORSE—A sin- truth in his statements, and the medical ofti, rat the prison
ular accident happened one day last week to the trtrouriced him to to port-oily sane, he w. 5 duicharged
coadl ant runs daily li-eween Ballacbulish and I r rtl
puJetaerve:a„lisldeit.=,
,oretorigiis.tor deszr) ed
annul. On reaching Glenorchy hritke a stray aheep arog ,1 hime„.„l mitt.ti 'startled one of the leading honots—Which had been A boy six years of age, the son of Mr. 11t.1p4
r.ative &wog the journey troth Inverarnon—that it optician, of 83, St. John street-road, London, was catching
aped r the it, paranet of the bridge, and after lan ybirda the other eveninis itt as father's garth it, and thin-
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tangling for a moment, slipped from the harness and ing the old nursery ditty M. Latly.nird, lady-bird fiy awn)
fell into the river from a height of 30 or 40 feet. The nome." Ills mother finding he was treating the insech
accident happened so suddenly that it was impossible cruelly, chastised him and tent him as a punishment int,
the workshop where Maladies- .d some Men were at work
ifir the driver to prevent it, and the passengers, as may .lhere were tw'ri ginger-beer bottles on a bench, one content-
ly guesesci, were considerably alarmed. The horse ins water, and the other sulphide acid. The child, shaper-
Was not killed, hut was so severely inured an to be un• coved coos up the bottle containing sulphuric acid, swel-
able.te proceed on thejourney.., ausd lowed some of the liquid, and died wit day.