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

ITEMS OF THE WAR.

111, Pahl that the stench raising trim the dead horses at
Gravelotte is perceptiole a mile and more distant.
The Itruesntn. ftvettou•ly my that t• the bottom has fallen
out " of the French Empire.
The French authorlths have accorded full pardons to 627
men undor lenience by the man a y tribunals and collthlll,ll-
- of puutyhmeut to 348 others.
In tr e battle of the 16th of August, Marphal Ermine was
wounded In the cheek by a splinter, General Decrien In the leg,
and General Castaingy In the arn.,

A correspondent, writing to 1, igiro, recommends the em.
plorre,it of exp!osive millets, riot that all provisions
forcibly furnished tot!,, Pinstians 1,3 poisoned.

A dmresponticnt of the Frrnkfort Gazette gays thtt th
Prnssi.in military authnrities at U dz., hunt a young French
girl who had cut off two fingers of a Pruetttan soldier with a
Hatchet.

e are Informed thlt the French army Is extremely
short of provisions, and that the conimissth let Is paying so
uch as 4 fr use per pound fr ',eat. a pole.which Is likely
to increase rathtr than dlailt.lai "—Food Journal.

The battalion of free marksmen ratted in ltd. have ap-
point,' as their c`..aplain the Athe Testory, of the chapter of
St. Dents, who hay served already in a similar capacity in the
campaigns of the Crimea, Italy, and Mexico.
It lea proof of the overweening Cooftlonce of the French
that even after such Irssons as Wissembourg, Woerth,
tr. ken, awl Vionvlllia. they made no preparation at Grave-
lotto in case Of etreat benig tarelniaty. flit fact cl hofog
compelled to leave the whole of their Inig;age plainly ipeaka
for itself.
The King of Prussia on the Writ of the IG' h slept on the
field among his troops, &nil was very well pleased to get a
plate of floe and soup from a beignKiuring canip settle
after a day—slreen hours some soy—tin Moat:back, and that
at the ego of teventy.ili ee.
'Big with the f ite of Cmiar and of Rome' lithe week
which has now Maim. 'I he chances are that, seven days
hence, the "Iwgiuning of the erd," to lay Liu least, will
have arrived ; or else he tint,, of war must I aye turned with
a veligesoce.--Doily Telegraph, Monday, Aug 59
'the Carla Journals publish ti telligenee from Metz armorial.
log that the King of Prussia has removet General Steinmetr
from his mot on aCeolkof it the great fosses suffered by his
army, and that as no general c,iments to Lake General &chi-
me z's place, hie at my has been incorpJrated with that of the
Crown Prince.

In the face of the awful contingencies await Ire their metro.
polls, t e Parisians are (says the Musical S,andard) causing
the theatres to ml iAer to the aid Id the defender& of the
• &Old. A sps clef representation is to t eke place at the
Opera Comnine, the proceeds of which are to be appliel for
the purpose named.
'1 ate gl oi to I,ave Nancy. It is melancholy to he obliged
to witness the disillusion of a high-emoted and gallant pro-
pte, exposed to the slings and arrows •.f outrageous for-
tune,' in a cotitct precipitated stat 111Vit.11, at all events,
by the direct act of their chosen ruler."—T4 mei Correspon-
dent.