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

WHO'S DEAD !

SUCH A SIGHT!

n The hosts of the Soc. ; rat rnAtiona's are on the Mcrae e.
They woull odistittre a large army. I doubt if there is a
paper in Germary which c want claim the rt• rvices of sone
gm Henan ~r other wi h the white braeeard and red cross
they avail themselves cot Vie tight of c du,ne,o's, I hear, and
live at free ythrtent Tarr., h • Mall flahl de Providence
or Proven., hr re 'Nancy!, which is a sight by itself. Stich an
everlasting table d Adte, where Grand Dukes, Rini Hereditary
Princes and Princer—Dnrchisuchts and Hoheits—take pot-
luck with dicers of the Staff and of all arms, and where the
resources of the kitchen rival the feat of the wid.,w's cruse of
oil The authorities have, de grace, given a bee, p7exer to
the proprietor to go out to the villages and draw whatever
can be got but tre coupe de filet do not bring In much, and
French poultry and th,ep ate animated hy the hest po•sible
spirit, and take revenge,, the conquerors by making them-
selves as hard and indigestible as possible when they have to
yield to deathay."—Correspondent of The T:tne,l,

A PLACE OF SAFETY.

I have been greatly stru,k by 'phenomenon of tht erpectad
siege of Pole, wh ch mould not have anticipated ( writes a
c, rrespondi nr . Yon would probably have thought that
when Prussian shells by thmsands were to be firing oh ,ut
and likely to net fire to houses, to say nothing of the numbers
to be killed by the splinters, all families with no special duty
10 lie-p them in the capit I. and havirg the means to get
away, wool I leave But so far is this In to being the cue,
that the ratlways and high Coals are eocumtored with the
luggage of people living within the circle of twenty miles
is und Parts who are coming Into the capital for refuge
They have shut up and dismantled their o'untry houses for
fear of the Uhlans, but they have a profound faith is the
P,rtilications of Paris, and think themselves in security
within its walls. Talk after this of senoing women and
children away ! Why. I heard a colonel of the Mobile
National Guard say this very morning to a friend in a su-
burban railway station, "I am sending my wife and children
to Paris for safety."

A CORRESPONDENT'S BILLET.

The Spode' Correspondent of The Times with the Crown
Princ, 'a army writes r—aly billet is "Chez Franc Is, 6.,icler,
kit, 16, Gr. ode Rae "—a bright-wd intelligent ',mug
Frenchman, with Rh andante blonde wife, both in estate of
mortal fear Her father has been carried tif already to drive
a cart ever no ha for • Prussian noj in, end she faro Of she
si It not see him again, and thht her husband mat he bon e
cif neat. Poor people!'Cc West pits boll% nionsienr, quit
MIL fait la guerre, n'est-ce pa.? Et cent eons qui soutfroos !
Mob Dieu, comma ions rtiffrons!" The me U SOM•11 beluga
up a pAage, tee btef which made it, • salad, arid. cop of
c‘ Mal, and A bottle of country wine, which adds a terror
to thirst. The aerate° h of the rudest crockery and Iron spoons
sod occult, but there are clean napkins on the deal table
Innocent of a cloth, and therein A reedy civility AO kind...
which are a since to the beef, and alicoat remove the onions
out of the salad. She had to lodge two i fllcers and thltte
men in their little place the night before, and now it is
marked "FOr Foithinder," ant, as an ad lit ion al protection,
Is pu: up, " Keine Tab.. Ich babe brine Cigarren ;" for the
quartermaster is like Fortune, and two. his whirl as be
lists, sod now I am up In a sal- n, and anon lam down inn
cellar. There were no stabler ; the horses were tired to

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death, and so, leading them about the streets, at last my
friend and I !mentos., out a lane in which there was a emelt
of stable, and to the wonderment of the dim:sited proprietor,
who was standing at the corner, we to. it Immediate pos-
session, and futened up the beasts. which the good man at
once provided with hey and a mouthful of corn.