The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

"GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME."

The Military Tribunal at Besanyon has just tried •
man named Damien for desertion and theft- The
accused enlisted voluntarily at the age of 17, hot de-
serted two months after, and committed other offences.
Brought before the court at Lyons, be was condemned
at the age of 1.4 to five years' imprisonment, military
degredation, and surveillance for life by the police.
The Emperor afterwards committed the sentence to
five years' confinement. lini conduct at the prison
Wal4 RO exemplary that he was released at the end of
three years, and incorporated in the 20th of the line in
garrison at hons-le-Saulnier. Unfortunately, in spite
of excellent behaviour, his antecedents became known,
and he was shunned and taunted by his comrades.
Having been taken ill, he was obliged to go to hospi-
tal for some days, and while there one of the Sisters of
Charity having reproached him with his past .onduct
he resolved to again desert. lie put his deternanation
into execution that same night, going off in the hospi- ,
tal dam— the foundation for the charge of theft--aod
walked to Bourg, a distance of 65 kilometres (40
miles). Thence lie subsequently escaped to Geneva,
and, being • clever young man, turned his literary
talents to account, and in time became an editor of
the Figaro Suisse. At last, feeling a yearning to see
France and his relatives again, he returned, but was
recognized and arrested at Cuba.. The Court acquitted
him on the charge of theft, but sentenced hiin n. three
years' hard labour, the minimum punishment, the
offence being the second one.

THE stIAM rth.HT.
•
Shortly before two o'clock the light began. The enemy—
that is, the attacking party -hail nnis-col their Divisions
strongly on the hid, where their artillery of pagilioll was
statimied on the summit ot the ridge. The forts were
liarnile“ for offensive purposes, for they were conceded as
captured and their guns were all turned the other way. The
strugele began by the advance ot a powerful hotly of
sk.rmishere in line against II lies, who were too strong for
the garris..o outpests, a blob, after Noland( ROMP thickets
and hedges to give time lor their imprimis within the liner
ti assemide to their aid, were at last driven hack a short
lint-
Thk in.wevo r, was the only triumph 14 the poor
•nly tnrolighioit the dily, all.l it woe of the very briefest
duration. Alter the first Alarm lnnnl spread, the whole lines
at Hilsea bristled with thomoin.ls of troops. by awl
olown, far and near, the line of lire spread, and
The following letter from Sir U. Murchison ham soon from 011 t 14 quiet nooks and little shady
been published, and was received with much pleasure ehimps of trees, where no one dreamt that guns
I y the foiblic isy =king, the artillory liegan to roar As it did so
the attack ieg. force repho d hi torn. and the gllll6 became
I have Jest received a letter from Dr. Kirk, at lAnsitiar, more anii more vehement as the r.lles ceaneol. For a'me
dated Mebritary eth, In which 1 e senounces the ;ans.,' of the time it teemed, in spite of all progrenime, as tithe essailants
Arab messenoer, Teniuki. so ,ongespe.•teil, who has brought would have the heat of it, tor their umis dominated every
with him de,pato lies and letters iv.. in lie Living-tone him- part of the lilies Ainl their lire was omick anti %.1/“.011t I, 110 t
self. the folloiviniz la a vary brief abstract oi Dr. Kirk's only from all the ride.. but from the park-like clomps of
long letter, whi h .13 be real beta, the It yrial Geo:rapidest trees tsiii.th hem in the i•retts Milo village of Wymering
Society at their text nieetiiei inn tie 27th inst., beowe hich Hot env, a new defender cans WM the scene. and from lie
time I Dust the despatches themselves will have reached sea I.enhe the danger of the assailants, irp the irmrow
England. The information now received completely confirms creek over which the tide was now at its full, came the Stork
the ao3ount of the emote taken by fir. Uvingstone round the and Pane!, annimais towing the large launch,. and mute:
southerin end of Lake !irises, which wan brought home by the of the rev ruble, Gladiator, Victory, Duke of Wellington,
Livanotone Search Esp,.ith too It appears that ,our great Royal Oak, and Pallet, each earning a rithol gun at the
traveller proceeded ma'am ords at a liong distance to the met howA, and each with well arnied crews. The firP Mach they
rof the Lege end in enema of time arrived at Lohisa, fir. instantly poured into the right Whig of the enroll, at novo,
mei ly a thickly•lnbabited town, but now almost de,rted, decided matters. A rather hasty retreat, ti.erefore,
In throe elevated lands, c.overeo with humid forests and was made from the space In front of the lines haat
destitute of game, the party suffered much from hunger ; to the railway, the ridges of which they lined, hold-