The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The Queen of Hanover is travelling about Germany
with her nephew, the 'Russian Grand Duke Nicholas.
Ny-aff,staff i
ec9nsiderst;he railway close to his cottage
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On Monday morning an acccident happened at
Warwick, which resulted in the death of Julia Williams, a
child fifteen months old. The child was being nursed by its
brother, slat! eleven years old, who was sitting on the shafts
of one of a number of vehicles. Another child got into a
phaeton, the shafts of which had been placed upright, and
whilst playing accidentally knocked down one of the shafts,
which struck the deceased on the head, and part of the iron
penetrated the skull
Why are curds like the Opposite House? Because
they are over the Whey.—Punch.
A somewhat serious railway accident, arising from
a dense fog, occurred on Monday night, an the London and
North-Western line near Oldbury. Two goods DMus came
Into collision near the ohiletry station ; a truniber of trucks
were destroyed, RIO the line was blocked for several hours.
There has, however, been no loss of lit a, arid only one person
was injured.
The "oyster riots " at Newhaven threaten to become
as famous arid formidable as the "potato riots" at Cork.
At the well-known fishing village on the Frith of Forth the
crews of u number of English smacks lately commenced to
" dredge "the oyster scalps; but the fishermen, jealous of
their "caller no" preserves, made a determined attack on
the intruders, who were fain to b,:at a retreat to Grantor]
Harbour, where they remain in a state of semi-blockade. A
large police force, who entered the village for the purpose of
arresting the ringlemlers, were hprominously routed by a
'nolo of women and boys.
According to the North Wales Chronicle, a late
number of the 141,11 (the Day, published at Dolgally,
contains the following circular issued by a Welsh Reform
Association having its head quarters at Liverpool ,—"Cantion.
—Be it known to the electors of Anglesea, Carnarvon,
Denbigh, Merioneth, Cardigan, and all the plains and hills of
Wales, that a • Book of remembrance' is being prepared to
record the name of every dissenter who shall vote for a
Tory ; and that persons will be appointed in every neigh-
bourhood to escort every one of such over the stiles and
through the gates, from chapel to chunch, with the following
recommendation As you conseler that the Established
Church is the best for others, it should suffice you.'"
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Captain Hart of Bunach, near Man, when out with
two friends on Saturday, was accidentally shot in the face.
He was coming round a hill when some birds rose, at which
one of his friends, who had not °legalist his approach, tired.
The captain was struck by three pieces of lead in the face,
one of them taking effect in the ball of the eye.
On Monday, at the Cholmondely Schools' cricket
and foot ball ground Highgate, one of the scholars, named
White, was playing at football, when he received a severe
kick from another scholar, which broke his leg.
A British commission, understood to be under
government patronage, are to visit the oyster beds of France
and report thereon. The cultivation of the oyster has
during the last few years occupied considerable attention in
France, and an oyster exhibition" has been held in the Bois
de Boulogne. The consumption of the oyster has greatly
increased in France, because eaten by a class of people who
formerly never indulged In such luxuries. Then again the
railway distributes this delicacy all over the country. Thus
it is that the common large French oyster, which the lelnglish
epicure would not care to eat. Is now selling in Paris for al
soul, or Is. M. per dozen. Five years ago the name oysters
were sold 111 Paris at eal. per &am