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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03

Log)KaG THDI tr!

The Gattlois states that a citizen zealous for the public
weal, and. above nil, a friend of justice, to k the trouble to
tans a census of three streets In his own arrondide ',Lent
lib °hied was to increase ice strength of the Faris canines'
and to relieve soul, husbands and lathe.. belonging to the
National Guard alto hut been incorporated into the war
companies. He knurl 63 men who were not enrolled either
an sedentartes, mobiles, or regulars. Thinly-four of them
were unmarried. ai ti ho reported them at the Mayoralty.
They will, therefore, be calltd on for active service, and will
enable so many htarried men to rehitn the sedentary
National Guards. The Gahleie recommt nde others to follow
the citizen's example, espetriatly mothers, as the result would
be that husbands would he able to remain at their homes. It
believes that If these recreanta were hunted up they would
locus a divisional 10,000 or 12,000 men.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03

TRIPE AND COW HEELS

READY EVERY

THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY

NIGHT, AT SIX O'CLOCX.

LAMP, CHANDELIER, & GAS FITTING
kANUFAcTORY,
• CASTLE-STREET, DUDLEY.

JAMES AI\TYOI\T
RESPECTFULLY returns thanks for past
favors' since commencing business. is above, and
wishes to call the attention of Parties Furnishing to the
desirability of imipectiog his Stock, which is both choice
awl varied, conibtoed with moderate charges.
VISITORS TO DUDLEY, STEP IN

The Trade supplied with Gas Brain, lre., &a.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03

FATAL FfbiLY

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A shocking affair haiipenexp on &Imlay lac! at the
house of Mr. Amoore, farmer, of l;icomh, .. village
about six miles from filaidetonti. A boy named Jesse
Frick], II years old, as on a vlsit to his aster, a ser-
vant in Mr. Amy employ. and while the family
were at church t ause boy, Charles Fuller, took up
an empty on fn at was standing M th- Lail and began
firing off caps. Ile iron took op another gun, and, not
knowing it was printed it at the boy Fridd and
tired. 'The shot entered his hack, and he fell to the
ground. The poor boy expir-ii in about three hours,
after suffering great agony. Ft..ier, who is described
as a very well-disposed lad, underwent an examination
before the magistrates on the following day, but was
remanded in crier to await medical evidence.
A fatal accident has also occurred to Mr. Edward
Loyd, wine merchant, of Stoke on-Trent, on Saturday
night. He was in his dressing-room with two friends,
when he took a new revolver from a drawer, and re-
marking, "See what I have bought to pri•tect my
wife," handed the weapon to his friends for inspection,
holding it by the muzzle end. One of them took it in
his hand, and immediately one of the barrels dis-
charged, and the bullet entered Mr. Lloyd's right
breast. Surgical assistance was at once called in, but
the position of the bullet could not be ascertained,
and the unfortunate gentleman lies in a very precarious
condition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03

HINVER.

CAUGHT AT LAM—At the Wolverhampton Petty Sew.
skim, on Monday last, before Sidney Cartwright and R.
H. Briscoe, Esqrs., a man who glees his name as Robert
Wood, pork butcher, Church-lane, Wolverhampton. was
charged with stealing • quantity of wearing apparel, the
property of George Caswell. of the Seven Stars, Seisdon,
near Wolverhampton ; which charge he pleads d guilty to.
—He was then charged with stealing five bags of poles
toes on the night of the 17th alt, front • bury in a field
near Rtourton, Kinver, the property of Mr. James Ttb.
betts, farmer. Prosecutor stated that he missed about 5
bags of potatoes from a bury in hit field ou the morning
of the 15th tilt. He sent for Sergeant Baldwin, and they
traced fo it marks to the pxtatoe bury, anl the tracks of
o dog. They then traced a pony and trap from the field
in the direction of Wolverhampton. When they came
the next day they found the potato.. Wan.eu saw the
Sergeant compare prisoner's shoes with the foot marks in
his field, alit also the marks of the trap 'sheets, and they
exactly corresponded.—Prisoner was then charged with
stealing a puny, of the value of £lB, on the night of the
1541 Mt, the property of the Rev. C. Amphlett, Four
Ashes Hall, Euvifie. Thomas Child. depoeed that be
was servant to Mr. Amphlett. On the night of the 11th
tilt Lie saw hie master'a pony sale in the field near the
Itch. Ile missed it on the Thursday morning. After.
wards Mr. Amphlett gave information to Sergeant Bald.
win, and the latter hank witneel to a publtc-lionse at
Compton, near Wolverhampton, and showed hint a peny
whicu be identified as hie reaater's proi erty.—Prissiner
was next charged with stealing ti pots of potatoes ou the
night of the 15th ult, from a bury of Mr. George Ni,.
bett, of Cookley ; and then charged with stealing one set
of h.rneas, of tLe 'aloe of .ti 2 10s, on the night of the
15th alt, at the Six Ashes, Boblongton, the property ol
JJhn Brin.f.,rd ; and further charged with mewling four
pots of damenn3 and ens scuttle basket on the 23rd Sep.
tember lest, at the lehling Tree Farm, the property of
Ldward Lea. if Chednesley Corbett. He was committed
on all six charges to the next StAford Seseions, there
Lining four out, r chargc3 that ,4,l4witi an,i P.C. Haycock
could beer proved op. rust Lint, a , for steaiing 4 bags
,4 potato,. the ',MIA of the 11th Octoter, at Ivories
11,1,, the property of Mre P.m.., of Whittiegton, eta,
vetoing one horse rug, the preperty id Mr. W. Small.
arid one overcoat. the property of William Brown. at
Cookley, en the 13th October. end one pot of carrot+, the
property of the Cookiey Iron Company, on the 15th nit
tie is the person that stole about four bag: if potatoes
from a bury of Mr. Henry Shutt, of the Heath (late, at
Swurbridge, on the 21st October, and on the 2n,lNovem•
tier last.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-12-03

THE EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE AND

SEDAN.

Among the moat recently published of the Imperial
papers are telegrams from the ex-Emperor from Metz.
In one he arks the Empress to eend a bracelet for the
wife of the Prefect; in another he annul. the Ern.
prosier; appointment of General Grandehamp, ad hr g
that she had no right to nominate a general to the
army. The communication of the ex-Empreee to her
mother on the fatal 4th September woo as follows :- --
To We. la Conttrese de Monti jo, Madrid —Faris, 4th dept.,
1870. ileneral Wimpff.m, who had taken command h ter
SlacMahon had been wounded, hu capitulated, and the Em-
peror has been made prisoner. Alone and without command
he has suhmltted to that which he could not avert. All day
he was under fire. Courage, dear Mother; if France will,
she can defend herself. I will do my duty—Your unhappy
daughter, EUGENIE