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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

THE TRADE SUPPLIED.

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nington, Hesbary, Oldbury, Careless Green, The Lye,
Clent,Belbroughton, Fairfield, The Lickey,Bromegrove,
Iteddttell,and the surruundingdistrict.

CAR, CAB, AND POSTING ESTABLISIIIISNT.

MRS. A. BROWN, in returning thanks to
the Public for the support she hoe received la
the shove Business, begs to announce that she has trans-
ferred the Business to her 800 Thou.es Brown, on whewo
behalf she would solicit. continuance of past favours.

THOMAS BROWN,

In succeeding to the above Business, begs to inform
the Gentry and I'ubli generally, that be can supply them
with
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

KIN VER.

APFILIATION.—At the Words ley Police Court, OD Mom
Joy lost, before Messrs. F. Evers and H. Smith, Ueorge
Oakley was summoned by Mary Ann Trickey to show
cause why he should not support her illegitimate child,
of whom she alleged he wan the father. Mr. Addison
appeared for complainant, and Mr. Barbary for the de-
fence. After hearing the evidence, the tench ordered
lefeadaat to pay 2t per week and testa.

REVISION ji 'THE 'LIST OF VOTElti. The Revising
Barrister for West Staffordshire (Robert Sawyer, Keg ),
held his Court at the White Hart Inn, Kinser, on Them
:lay feet. Mr. Jordan (of the film of Rogers and Jur.
:lan, Solicitors, Kiuver), appeared. for the Liberals, and
Br. A. P. Price, of Stourbridee, for the Conservatives.
the undo five new claims for the parish of
Kinver, all of which were allowed. The Conservatives
made one new claim for Rinser, and eight for the parishes
of Upper Arley, Bobbington, and Bovine, which were
allowed. Two of the latter were already on the register
for Kinser. One objection was made by the Liberals, and
sustained. No objection was seat in by the Conserv,
Lives. Altogether (excepting duplicates) there were seven
Liberals and ten Conservatives struck off the register,
and eleven Liberals and eleven Conservatives put on ;
thus showing a gain of three to the Liberal party on the
revision for the whole district.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

WHAT BISMARCK CANNOT I/O.

The Berlin corn spondert of the Cokttne Gazette ridiculer
the notion of the Emperor Napoleon's restoration, which has,
In fact, been repudiated by the Ilintsteri4 journal,. It is
possible that alter the entry of the Prussians into Paris the
former authorities will resume their functions, as in Rheims
It is also possible that the Omstituent Assembly may be ap-
pealed t, but from this to Napolron's return!, a ett Me which
cannot be shortened by newspaper notices, subtle lege] deduc-
tions, or the Situation established at great expense in London.
Bismarck, as some one remarked is a political circle, Is very
pews dal, but he c umot roe all to life the dead m. of Sedan,
and, it was added, he would probably refrain to do to if he
could.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

UNRULY LYONS.

The Pate, rommenttng upon a proposition put forth by
the Salta PfOtic, that Lyons should be selected as the provi-
sional capital of France during the Investment of Pavis, TIT
cognises the claims of that city as superior to those f other
Lir/xis, but orjects that the violence of a portion id the popu-
lation renders it unsafe to plAce the Government of the
country within their control "Of all the towns of France,"
says the Petrie, •• Ly OTIS Is the only em, that has ventured to
raise the red dig and in which for ten days the well illip-ised
citizens have been unable to suppress a cot/Immo whbili
seems to be de3irous of introducing terronsoi into the
Governmental system. Not only were the magistrates whys
held Ake on September 4 thrown into prison, kept in so
tarp connueinent, and threatened with still greater seventies,
but also the PrelePsent by the Government of the Republic
was for a long time unable to procure recognition of his
authority, and he was continually watched by delegate. of
the commune, which paid no attention to ha authority or
his decisions.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

A SORTIE FROM METZ.

SAAI3I3RUCK, Wednesday Evening.

A strong column of French Infantry attempted
a sortie yeaterilay with cavalry sod artillery,
under cover of the tire of Forts Quenlen sue
I3ottes, occupied La tirange and Golonthy, and
advanced as far as Are i.e queney. The Prus-
sian tioops, with artillery, were here in force
and drove back the French with loss. They
burnt La Orange and Colinuby. Several villa-
ges are burning from the French and Prussia
;ire. The Prussian loss was small, including 100
prisoners. Tile French carried off their dead.
Falkenstein is advancing with a large army
upon Lyons. The siege guns from Strasburg
.ire going to Paris. A cavalry brigade lilts
gone.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

THE SURRENDER OF TOUL.

The Daily IV,trs putillshca a long telegram from s cony.
spoodent who has visited Tool since Its surrender, from
Which CO take the following

The firing continued all Friday with active but
very ineffective reply from the garrison. In the even.
jig, the town being on fire in twenty.three placed., the
pressure of the inhabitants upon the commandant in-
doced him to hoist white flag., and offer to capitulate.
The offer was immediately accepted by Colonel Mam
teuffel, commanding the siege corps, and the town wee
entered the same evening by the victors at seven. The
conditions were precisely those of Sedan. A council
of the municipality, held on Friday, decided not to
favour surrender, but the pressure of individuals fear-
leg useless destruction, completely overwhelmed the
boob- -rent determination of the military and civil
authorities. The garrison Was ridiculously weak—
sixty cuiraFeiers, a hundred line, forty gendarmes,
and two thousand raw Mobiles ; aiming them
not one regular artillerist; Comtnendant, Major Huck,
an old cavalry man. I went to Tout on the fleet
spectnin train that approached the town after the
surrender. Many houses are destroye I. The eon.
dotion of things is worse than Sedan, not as bad as
Baz-ill.e. The Gothic chapel of St. Gengonlph, A.D.
814, is almost ruined. The very imposing Bye entitle
Cathedral of Se. ?density, built as early as 292. hasonly
a window arch demolished, and its outside battered by
a score ef shells. There are few wounded, no sick,
and much order in TouL Italy two battalions of 90th
infantry remain as garrison. The prisoners of the
native Mobile :nerd were released under parole not tc
serve again this war. The town and environs have a
pictureeoue appearance, built much in old German '
style. Five hundred of the Mobiles had been trained
during the siege to servo the guns. They did the I
artillery work, but in repulsing the assault of the Pith
all the male inhabitants that could procure arms
rut [ciphted.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

THE GERMANS IN FRANCE.

The Times publiehed the follewing letter on Wednes-
day morning :

An article Its the Pal Gazette, dated September 13,
heeded" The Behaviour of the German Troops in Yrance,"
has been placed in our hands by the Prussian suthorities
hero, with an appeal to on on our honour to state whether the
allegations it contains as to the outrages on women and the
spoliation of property committed by t`..e Pruodans are true
charges. In common honour we have nothing to do but to
tell the truth in reply to such • requent. We have no Irish
to aide with either party. One or other of or has teen at
Forbach, Spiehereu, Woerth, Gravolotte, Donny, Baz:Illes,
Carignan, Courcelles, and Sedan, and we are lICW
before Metz We only mention these names of places to
show that we have, to some extent, seen a lair share of the
war, and we feel hound lotion the moat unqualified eon-
tradi,tion to the statements of the writer in the Pall Mall
(roz,lte We have found want, suffering, and misery enough
wherever we have toned, bet we have never 3et met. or
even heard of, a single 'oatence of personal violence offered to
the peasantry, a single instance of outrage towards women,
or a single instance in which a farmhouse him been robbed of
more than Its stray fowls and fruit. Amid all the horrors
which ham Men going on around us we talk among mutelyen
of the kindness, forbearance, and singular honesty with
which, considering all the circumstaimee, the EllMilll3. have
behaved towards the psople and property of the towns aid
districts through which they have passed. One particular
especially called to our attention le the writer's statement
that several Prussian officers boasted to a representative "of
the British Society for the Relief of the Sick and WonnOed, '
of having violated French women. We cannot think
Which was most disgraceful, for Prussian officers to
make such Nast or for an Eettliahmin to listen to it ;
hat the reit:mobility refits with tine writer. We feel
bound In honour as English gentlemen, aid as we are inked
here to state our experience, to repel thts whole narrative as
totally at variance with all we have seen and heard, and to
deny it as a national calumny; and to this statement v e be 4
to append our names tii the Minute mute of truth.
N. A. Wool,. ARTHUR 0 I EACR.
M. 0. MACLAINE. ERNEST MALT,
Before Metz, Sept. 23.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

PH(ENIX FIRE OFFICE.

ER. GEORGE PERRY, SOLICITOR,
1.11.. Agent for Stein bridge, begs to remind the Pub-
he tied the lIHENIX was for many yesi• the imply Fire
Office that kept • FIRE ENGINE in the town, and to
inform them that it still keeps one there.
For the ke3s of the Engine Home, apply at the Talbot
Hotel, or to Wm. Joni a, Blitelmosith, N0v41.1.04644, the
engineer; and for 'I rem of Intense% epply to the
Agent.

DANCING, DEPOUTMENT, AID CALISTIIINIC

EXERCISES.

MADEMOISELLE SILVESTRE,
(FROM commi),

lIAN the honour to inform her Pupils, the
1 G. Hoy, Sibool, and la habitant. of Stourbridia
nod Holey, that her Clue. a for the above aesomplibh-
inents re.absemble at the Limon HALL, oak SeTtrit•
Day, OCTOBKR hth, et Three o'clock.
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TI(iN CLASH for Ladiehriamerhates, ow SATVIIDAT
Errstsos at tArrrow-Velock, for the practise of all dm
FASHIONABLY DANCKIS

SILVESTiIIt attends Schools and Families
for Le,gon• in her Superior rind Gracefal Calisthenic
I.:serapes.
Privnte Leesons given by appintment.
Adder.,— _ _

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THE QUEEN'S BUILDING SOCIETY
BRIERLEY-HILL BR! NCH.

Heart °thee :-44, Waterloo Street, Strosingkrutt.
MONEY promptly advanced on approved
Freehold nod teneehold Bemellies.

Five per cent. interest allowed on Deposits, with Booms
additions.

Pio•peetos awl further informatioa ems be obtaleed
from

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SOLICIToR
Mr. J. \VALI Eli CLULOW, Brierley Hill.

THE ILLUSTRATED Ai IDI AM)
N EA'S.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

REPORT of an ATTEMPT at SUICIDE
BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

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The Pree., published at Vienna, gives the following ex-
tra.rdinary piece al corm iiandence from Cassel:—
. .

"The Prussian Government has issued the sternest
prohibition against the roe ipt at tho Telegraph Office
of a report of the circumstances which I shall now
relate to you from authentic sources. In spite of all
attempts at concealment, yesterday the news spread
here jibe wildfire that Ntpoleon had, on the Nth,
made an attempt at suicide. The detailsof the affair, ,
as communicated by the officer on guard, are as
follows : Napoleon, for two days, exhibited a strange
elevation of spirits, which, tip to this, had not been
peiceptible in him. He received during the last few
dors several despatches and letter, from Paris and
Hastings, spoke extremely little, and for the two days
left his room only once. This was about flee o'clock
in the evening. He had given orders that all despatches
which arrived should be brought to him immediately,
wherever he IVIM Two, which Lad just come from
Holdings and Brussels, were accordingly taken to him
in the puk. lie read them, and grew visibly rale.
He then returned to the castle, and shut himself up in
his room. After they had seen or heard nothing of
him for two hours, be immediate attendants began to
be alarmed. About half .past nine they resolved, 011 the
pretext of having something important to coma-
muoicate, to ask for admission into bit room.
Prince Murat undertook the task; hut to his
repeated knocks and calls no answer was returned.
After half on hour they broke open the door,
and found Napoleon lying en the sofa in • deep
faint Two physicians were immediately fetcheol
and they succeeded, after the lapse of an hour, in brings
'jog Napoleon to himself. Everythii g here points to an
attempt at suicide. to which, of course, the officials will
' not agree. Toe Governor of Cassel mode bit appear'
I since at a slit' Liter hour in the castle, which was in a
state of the greatest confusion. The Governor did not
leave till undoing, and has sent a long aoc ;unt of the
matter to the bead quarters. The whole population of
I • wad weed out to-f3ty to Wilheltushiihe to tee.:s.:iopo-
Mon. Ile, however, 'in consequence of severe illness'
kept his room." The Pr, Jo, evidently, and it would
appear with rewon, •lisbelieves the whole story. It
remoras that, after Sedan, there is scarcely any bad
news which could affect the Emperor to sev,rely.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

MO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. THO..
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upon the premises of Mr. Plum, who is giving up Stud-
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Auctioneer's Residence : Fire Ways, Cradley Heath.

CLEARING OUT SALE AT THE CROSS INN,
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Sale at Eleven o'clock in the Morning.

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BUILDING SITES AT THE HEATH.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

MURDER NEAR GRIMSBY.

Tha villae of Why, six miles from Orimshy, was the
snail, on Friday night, of the following .ad tragedy:—
William Morrie, a ehepherd, in the employ a Mr.
Edward Smith, a farmer, entertained a feeling of anis
mosity against a fellow servant named Hicks, the latter
being accueed of taking the shepherd's oilcake to feed
his horses with. Mortis was a reputed "telltale," and
his fellow latoureus, to serve him out, composed a
song in which they derided his failings. This appears
to have irritated the man, who was naturally bad-
tempered, and he hail threatened to shoot them it they
did not desist. On Friday night as Hicks was return-
ing home, he had to pass Hot-ills cottage, at the mo-
ment of passing which he was deliberately shot by
M me, who had been lyiug in wait for him at his bed-
room window with a bobsled gun, which he discharged
point blank, at a distance of a few yards only, into
Hicks's face, blowing off the lower jaw and inflicting
other frightful injuries on the head, face, and neck.
The poor fellow lingered in great agony for a few
hours, and expired on Saturday night. Morris after
the murder exhibited the greateat indifference, and on
hie wife saying "You have done it, what shall you do
now?" he replied "I don't know; done." Ile woe
apprehended the came night, and the gun was found
reloaded in his chamber. Prbones has ten children, is
forty-five years of age, and bore the reputation of a
good servant, although ponsessing a very violent tem-
per. The deceased was only eighteen years of age.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

NOTICE TO OUR READERS.

On and after the let October, the
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The ONerrer has now been established nearly seven
years, and has • Large and RAPIDLY INCREASING
CIRCULATION, and is, consequently, one of the best
Advertising Medial:as in the district.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

THE TORPEDOES At; Al N.

Intelligence has been received at HaraLurg et a :other
dreadful torpedo accident th it has ocearred at Cuxhaven, by
which several more valuable lives have bean lost. It appears
that the Steamer .11 cuenfelde had retained from the uu oh
of the Elbe with a ct uzielerable number of torpedoes on
bsard, which she had been sent out to remove and convey to
the military depot at Cathaven. Before the had ti.au to
laud them, several officers of the Lauderehr, balonging to
the roast defence division, came on board to Mater& them,
and probrirly incautiously handled them, for they esploded
with a tremendous crash, and the vessel was blown up
•nd literally shattered to pieces, and Bunk in shoal
water, the funnel alone Indicating the potation of
the wreck. The captain and tour of the crew were killed on
the spot, as were aim the four cancers who came on Do trd to
examine there dangerous mg Ma of war, which have caused
more itiJury to the ti.rminis at hrernerhaven, Ktel, and now
at Cuxhaven, than to the enemy; though it is but fair to
suppose that a knowledge if their being placed out along the
coast may have prevented the Icetich blockading squadron
from meting sty atterupt at landing on German soil. Tne
only survivors are the engineer, the boatswain, and a boy.
Thts sad event caused a deep excitement among the seafaring
population here nod at Altona, as it was supposed, bete re
the particulars were known, that all vessels coming In from
sea were exposed to a similar catastrophe, which, however,
is net the case, as &UM tee above description It will be ceeu
that the accidi-ut no clout:does:erred from want of duet:within
In handling the torpedoes.

KNOWISG MIR OWN NINO !

According to the French official report of the negotiations
at iereFro. Quit Bismarck is apparently resolved to lIhI
it out upon his 'moment line it it lasts all the winter (remark
the Do It may be presumed that he, and Ills
master, and his people mean what they any. "Eta Wort On
Mains" is a familiar German proverb, and it is very Ilko:y to
be completely realised in this case. General Mlereslawitl, the
Polish R-sil Republican, assured the people of Touts that the
Oermahs "would be compelled to go home at the end of the
autumn, under penalty of abeolute rule." But this daahlug Re-
publican Free LAI cols not a man apt ciall) vernal ksblotor.cieia.
tine precision of judgment, and we should be sorry to think
that France had no more solid ground for maintaining her
resistance than the assurance that " urgent private stfairs "
will infallibly call all the Germans homc before the actinism
ends. If the Germans have given proof of anything in, this
struggle, tiny bare proved that they 'scow their owe minds
and their own capacities. They never tailed of on easy
military promenade to Paris. From the proclamation oi the
King on the opening of the war, dean to Inc latest circu:ar of
Count hisinart k. there has been no disposition shown to
undervalue the strength of the enemy, or the difficulties of
undortaktug.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

LATES'I"IELEGRAMS.

FRANCE.
THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
ROUEN, Thursday.
A courier from Rai.; reporis Viet the positions
provionsly 1,4113.1 Lioeu ro-taken.

EP-NNON,Ina ay.

hus tven cracnaLd by the Prue-
Biter!.

FOREIGN NEWS

NW YORK.

Thursday.

Gold closed, IIP. Exchange Bonds
U.S. 112-1,.

• NEW YORK, Thursday.

Mtniral Farragut's funeral takes place to-
morrow. There will II! ft partial snspen,ion of
bwiness.
The Damn les. won the race of 20 milem to
wi.viward. The I'ambrid came in eighth.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

MARSHAL BAzAINE IN METZ.

T 1 is Berlin correspondent of the Co!epic Gazette statea en
truttworthy authority that. few days ago an officer went as
a porlementgire to Marshal Bank. to urge upon him the
cesnitlon of the murderone and utterly useless sklrmishing
by the outposts. This was immediately agreed to, and the
general position was then discassed. 0 +gable declared
roundly that he was endeavouring tonere the army and the
fortress for the Emperor, and knee nothing of the Rimblic.
Another correspondent says the Marshal recently asked torn
supply of new papers, as he had learnt nothing of the ontu r
world ft a fortnight. All the English, Belgium, and
German papers to be found at Llead4l darters were accord-
ingly sent to hint Dysentery and typhus prevail among the
garrison, and there is such a want of discipline that the
Marshal may be Induced to agree to a capitulation libels at-
hewed free egress with all the honewin of war, on condition of
not taking up arms within three months.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-01

BRIERLEY HILL.

THE WeeK.—Thig annual Wake has been held daring
the week. Monday was the principal day, and a large
concourse of people was assembled in the town. There
were the usual number of swing hosts, shooting galleries,
peep shows, steam horse., dm Case's marionette show,
and Purchase's waxwork exhibition, were also there, and
hoth were patronised by a grest nnmber of persons day.
ing the day.