The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

waggons heavily laden were seen to leave palace
and proceed towards the Itailway by the 1. travise.
Every one believed that the treasure list left for
Vienna, but such was not the case. During the night
it was brought back to the palace, where it was de-
posited in a secret cellar and the entrance bricked up.
More than a hundred persons wire in the sect t, and
among them several workmen. Tie w onlil
bare been considered a legithrate pize by the
Pruesians, as iv proved by the f' the arsenals
at Darmstadt, and yet not one traitor Watt found
amongst the persons cogniardd of what had taken
place.

A SING ULAR COINCIDENCE.—The Elinburgh
workmen's lifeboat, stationed at Port Logan, N.H.,
saved on the 17th instant the crow, consisting of fifteen
peris els, from the barque Stratlth rdn, of Glasgow. On
the both 4.f December last year, when the lifeboat was
being exLibited in Glasgow, on the way to its station,
the wife 44 the captain of the Sfrathleran, accomp flied
by her children, went to see the limit, and put an offer.
log into the sunscriptbm box. Exactly ‘me yt at- after,
on the 16th December, 12467, the captain's vowel was
wrecked, and on the following morning (the 17th) he
and his men were providentially resened by the very
boat which his wife had contribute Ito support. •

• •
HARD TO KILL !—An iittempt at murder has
been made at St. Blaise de Buis, France. A workman
amed Verdoya, a Piedrnontese, called on F widow
named Guerin, and, after a few minutes' converaa thin,
rushed on her and inflicted several wounds with a
pnignard ; then, thinking her dead, lie cam:maned
searching the home for money. Severa! times he re-
turned to the woman; she, however, held her breath
and allowed herself hi be turned over VI if she were
dead. Verdoya before leaving, dragged her to a sell
about ten feet ifeep, and threw her down ; she, how.
ever, succeeded in keeping herself on the surface .d
the water, and, when she thought h- was go to a di,
tones-, clambered to the top by the chain, and tiearly
reached a noghbonea house wheu she fainted. her
groans were, h.wever, heard, and assis'aite arriv.d.
The man was afterwards arrested at his own Imuse.
Hopes arc-entertained that the pour woman may
recover.

TILE VALI: kt OF PRESENCE OF MIND ! —Pre-
sence of mimi, on the part of an net,, es& at the
Lyceum l'heatre, is Lond. in. in a probability) 1644
a serious loss of life on ttatorday night. Luring the
performance of the pantomime tl.er.l Landeslwough
writes), a crash, followed dy sun, nt Itt tie. as as heard
'behind the scenes, and the next whoa., three or four
actresses ran across the stage, Ferran ii 'Fire !"—one
of them taking a header int., a eta a box. lu an
instatit the whole of the audience, with hardly an
exception in to their feet and, shouting *iliac,
attempted t, Miss Furtarilo, without an instant's
hesitation, advanced to the footlights and implored the
audience tnt re.urne thin hr stats. ller calmness
partially checked the stampede, and Rave time to the
manager and others connected with the theatre to
come forward, when after s time Confidence was
restored.

DEATII OF AN AFRICAN KING. —Fakni.the
chief of the Amapenda Latin, southward of Natig. is
dead. He had ever been a staunch ally and friend of
the British Government. He died subilenly on the
lffith of October in the act of taking snuff, but he was
bowed down with age, and had been ill for five days,
a cold having fastened itself upon his lungs. It is said
that one of hi,, sons killed him, Faisal not being aide to
die a natural death, being too big a chief. His third
eon, Uncagelio, in now chief. Great slaughter is
anticipated. Three men have already been sacrificed
on the charge of having bewitched him. Ile sent to
the chiefs on the 2ffih saying that he was dying, and
on their arrival on Wednesday he was, dead. It raimid
three days (so the Kaffirs say) on account of his death.
Mr. Jenkins is on his way to Natal, but two expresa
messengers have been sent after him, requesting him
to return, as his presence would no doubt save ninny
lives from being sacrificed, a Kaffir imperstition being
that no great chief can die alone. No milk fa allowed
to be eaten for four slays by the men, and three days
for the women. All 'slanting suspended for four days,
All the ma's rings (escomd cut off. He is to be laded
in his cattle kraal.
To FRENCH PENNY-A-LINERS !—The state-
ment which went the round of the prea wane wells
ago that Madame Frigard, the Fontainebleau
Murderess, bad .been confined of twins in the Fontaine-
bleau prison, turned out to be one of those circumstan-
tial canards with which the French papers teem more
than ever since Draconian- laws were enacted against
" false new," (writes the Paris correspondent of the
Dedg Sews). These laws are only pat in force against
political news, and there is a class of writers who ex-
ercise their ingenuity with very great MCC,,s in the
invention •if sensational stories about well-known
persona Hardly any fact, not actionable, which the
French journals now-a-days give, can be relied uplon,
and a great many of them are written with a view
to laying the foundation of the new ".copy" by the
contradictions which they will prows ce On the
Principle, however, of ass big is Non, there is a certain
amount of reassemble presumption that a second
story ,if Madame Frigarcre aecuaehconenl may be true.
The Draft publishes a Mehm letter of Dec. 28, which
says:— .

The woman Frigard 1,911 confined eta daughter at eight
yesterday evening. She had a had time. The infant was
born almost stilled, and the doctor was obliged to use strong
friction to keep It alive. The woman did not evince the
slightest (en lerness for the chill, em did she oak to see It.
She chore the name. 4d Loinse-l'aulio, autl by these names
it war reinatered at the Nt.drie In penitence of a intuit-
teriql demslon the child will not lie suckled by the ne.ther,
and ha i bccn [MIA to the 31elun Hospital.

INCNEASING TASYN FOR FANCY POCLTRY.—If
the sane sensational prices are not now given for fanny
Poultry that were pecasionally • 'obtained a few year,;
shire, there is at any rate no falling off in the taste.
for breeding them. The published ststisties' of the
itingley- Hall Poultry Show at Birmingham Agar •
that 1111./re pens were exhibited this year than ware
ever exhibitysl before, tleingli ins compared .with laat
year there was a slight falling off in the ntunher of
HA sold- by •rtaction--.-4"gi jiellS baying been 1.14•1 in
ISfid for £1.408 1n.., ngninst :113 lions sold this year fOr
1:1,103 1.4 s Sid. No less than •.1.676 I% Avis were exhibited
this year. at Bingley iL.II, tne larg•st 'sandier aver
exhibited before having 1. ii2t.ii.l9, iii IS6O. Cochin
Chinas nombered 1; I dal; im, 32 ' • game,. no 2 ;
•23,1; •, BratirillPootras, 192.;
Spanish, hi ;i 4 rri•veen ; .11, 471 'falays, 141;
and other distinct breeds; 111, B, tidos theft, them were
107 &who, 43 gt*,:e, 4ii turkeys, mid 565 pigeons. The
higlie,t 811111 kiVell Wisll t1:1, 11/r 18 SILIIIi/111 cock. rel,
the property of Moe 131;,:g r, which won the silver
Cu',. _ _

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'Tr NErEit TOLD 'nrs t.wr.—The attempted
murder or two persons, 'followed by suicide, has just
token place at Poitiers, Femme. A baker's man,
named Dulsiis, had become secretly attached to his
toaster's daughter, named Daman!, without, however,
ever haviog made known his passion to the young
woman or lier father. She lately became engaged to
marry, and Was Standing with her intended in a room
it home, when Dubois fired 'at them through the
window with a gun loaded to the muzzle with projec-
t lies ; fortunately the couple were only each slightly
wounded-- the young MAIL in the wrist and the young
woman iu the shoulder. Dubois, thinking he had
succeeded in his project, then went into a cellar and
blew out his own brains.

A (10011 CITRISTMAS-BOX !—The non-corn-
inissioned officers and men of the 43rd Light Infantry,
who were entitled to the Banda and Kirwee prize-
money, received their first instalment on the 24th of
Dec., at Aldershot—a private's share amounting to
1%10, and a sergeant's to 1.:100. About 120 nowcom-
roialoned officers and men received the above
morinta, and in the afternoon rif the same day eighty
si the recipients went on furlough.
INARFUL EXPLOMION OF A 13,0LER.---The terri-
ble explosion which took place at Faveraham wa.s not
the only one which took place on 6sturslay. About
noon a boiler wed in a steam corn mill at Barradey
and carried ruin, death, or injury, to every.
thing within its influence. The boiler itself was blown
60 or 70 yards, and fell with a fearful crash on the
roofs of two shops in the main street, carrying away
In its pmgress the roof of a cottage and demolishing an
inn. The fireman was killed instantly, and a man at
work in one of the shops on which the boil, fell is
not expected to recover. Mome women and ehildren
also were seriously scalded. The windows throughout
the neighbourhood were broken, anti the lamage to
property is immense.

A Prgztw. AY TS:TAR:PARTY—An a matter of
curirwity we (Panama Star) present on? readers the
following specimen of the form in whi h despatches
via the Cable are sent to this rile of the Atlantic.
It will lie seen that the recipient of the despatches
has quite a problem
.presented for solution when he
iv reecra them.HereAs the specimen alluded
" Joseph gene home." Slim' ay holdl with thirty-five brav-
o/v(1 two guns went attack Irvoil held by Pepsis met six thus-
sud well porci who opened artiliery lire derperate
light t.rfil m ea haldi retired fight roc-wed rotondo
tatted two hours half }tailgate utterly coated 1.4 foe, hon-••
dred arty hided nine hitudrel primners no outlet wenuded
1 010111 Ida t.O il.llWired killed tun t.”
"One division French left Rome for l'ivita red soon follow •
await thaw attlu Italy biome animated but general di-arm- •
lig needed to restore confidence French call it couture:ice
ton issues flora haldl claims American citizenship mari-h
goes to me him vignevans. eraitlini commands army olem.
rations quarters Trim nugent kremlin ltatherattaie may
I%lartio acquitted mooch"
v..dIRAP WAY o ADVEItyISING.—A
man of kinigaberg has just sent a case of his aromatic
cheese to the second Prussian Chamber, with a petition
that the House will subject his cheese to an examina-
tion, and then declare its opinion whether his cheese is
not able to: compete with all other cheeses iu the
world. The absurdity of the thing is that the forms
of the house require that a member should be ap-
voluted to repeat on this an on every other petition.
There is probably n i
ot a newspaper n Germany in
which those cheeses will not be mentioned, and the
advertisement will time be a pratuitons one. —lt .
may also be noticed that an Ohio paper contaiss An
advertisement of as. enterpridiug tradesmen, who, at
tile enl of it announces .N 1 ;cistern of the Ges;sel
elpplied with:p..la at cost, if they agree to mention
the fact to their congregations."
A 3IONEY-LENDINO CLUB.—A Loudon toper
Lao the following

We frequently beer of the enormous percentages wrung
hy nemeylenvil, g Jews out of their spendthr,ft vidinis; bet
the I emit oft nonney•lending cluh *wog come work rig men
v. Weil Ilea jest wine to our knowledge leaves anytlieg in
tie "bloed sit king " lno Irtharto ra.,eled far he'ty,l. Ike
reoersflons of the society spreud OTC( 30 weeks, dnrna which
period Pauli member paid 4.1. ver week As 'twit it the
treasurer reeeivel tile bub.crife.,,no .! ,clay lie
ourrove.ded by eager horrowere, end the nitere,t chore.'
1.11180 mihrtunal e Ind ivnluels may be learned wet n. we slate
til4t a. Hi id of the 30 w e,..ks the iuttreot at the 1.53.
Mooll',l fl 1:4 1111.1. So that th ! non.bot rower rewired'
fir In 17,0 Ow pal metit of wh:ch 'Wirt mu spreed Over 33
week, v 0 itself,. LI lba. 1411

• A FEN lAN HOAX AT LI.VERroOL. The //ices-
yo! Meecary of Mo iday contained a statement in its
I.lll.lhlilary of LOPS to the effeet.tbat an attempt had
Iccii made to blow up her Majesty's ship Den/gut
I,y means of a torpedo. It was steted that boats had
been observed hoVering about the ship, and "that on
I Friday night attention was tettractati by the susweions
movements of a boat near to the Donegal's assobarsar,
owl that a torpedo was fettmd is suet a:po,ition that
the ship wou:d have come in contact with it on swing-
ing at the next flow of the tide. The dangerous
implement was safely removed, and no doubt such a