The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

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Lord Brougham's home, so well known to visitors in
the South of France, has been sold to count Bismarck.
A Mr. Hen has started a paper in lowa. He
say.s he hi pesl•y hard scratching to make a living for himself
and his little chickens.
Mr. Ernest Benedict, son of the distinguished com-
poser, has lately lost his wife iii ehnilslhteil. Inc was only
tw clay-five. The child has survived.
heat here," says a Florence letter. "is intense;
a en iod is blowing like a sow.. and nights ti fire have been
prevalent for the last fortnight."
The culrutta Enplishman says that a man named
Shoenath, who was latey arrested in Meywar, confessed that
in the course of three years he had sold 101 girls.
The Princess of Wales was " church.' " on Monday
at the Chapel Royal, st. James's. The Bishop of London
officiated. The Prince and Princess attended alnn.st alone,
and the service was one of extreme simplicity.
! It is becoming quite the fashion in Paris for persons
following in a funeral procession to light their pipes and
cigars. It was noticed the other day as being a very singular
mark of respect that there was not one person smoking
the whole of a funeral procession.
The latest travelling novelty is a trip to Sweden.
from London direct in forty-eight hours, allowing a tour of
three days in Sweden, and returning to London within the
week. . _ • • ---

An impertinent editor in Alabama wants to know •
when we •• Intend to pay • the. debt of nature.' " We are
inclined to think that when Nature gets her dues from hire, ,
it will be by an execution."—A o.ericaiL Paper.
At the annual.facs which have just taken place at
Brussels a military drama was performed, in which the
storming of Magdala by the British troops, and the capture
of Theodore, were represented.
" It is said, although we cannot credit the report,
that there arepore than 15,000 linithers and sisters connected
with • tatter Ignatius's ' order of St. Benedict, and that
' Father Ignatius 'has recovered possession of Vs monastery
at Norwich."—ilock.
An action for libel against the proprietors of the
Examiner, a paper published Hi Belfast, has re-
sulted, at the assizes there, in a verdict 1.,1 rial damages slid
MA. The plaintiff was a Mr. James Macready Bryan, who
gave an amateur dramatic performance for a local charity.
It was alleged in the journal named that lie " 4lecamped "
with the proceeds. Damages had been laid at l'l,ooo.
The heat in Denmark is described an most intense.
The wheat and rye are good, but all other crops :Ire failures.
The prospects of the cattle trade are indifferent.
On Saturday, at the Lancaster Assizes, a wornan,6o
years of age keeper of a grocer's shop at Southport, brought
an action for breach of promise of marriage against a fanner
of about the same age. named Cropper, who had got married
to another person in Jauntily last. Several witnessses were
called to prove the promise of marriage, anal the intimate
terms on which they lived ; but nobody 110.100e11 to any
promise having been overheard later than ten years ago. The
jury, however, found a verdict for the plaintiff, and gave
damages £35.
Numerous cases of death f ram sunstroke are re.
ported from various parts of the kingdom.
A serious Sot took place in the low part of New-
castle •.n Monday night. It arose out of the police appre-
hending an Irishman. An attack was made upon the police,
eight at whom were seriously injured. Six of the i ioters
were afterwards apprehended.
Jean Baskoff, the very original Russian in La
Vie Pariiiirlair, has offered a novel reason in favour rat a
nobility. Ile says .—" I love the nobility because they hold a
great principle or axiom with a blind obedience, at the same
time they know nothing about it
A correspondent of a London contemporary suggests
ritether the occasional appearance of mosquitoes in this
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