The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1869-09-25 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  LIIITISH AND FOREIGN.  The South Lnndon Press states that Mr. Spurgeon is rather Beaus') unselL Prime Arthur's reception in the North American colonies harbeen a most cordial and enthusiastic one. - - •  A farmer named Reilly has been murdered at Trim, In the county of Meath, and it is feared that the crime is agrainut in its character. The point if the Roseg (Piz-Roseg), in HauteEti.polit,e, on which roi one had hitherto been able to place his foot, was recently ascended without accident by Dr. Gun-burg, of Bonn Wilmington, North Carolina, in order to mourn the death et its late p.puloir lamplighter, put crape on the lampposts. The Emperor of the French has just purchased an estate mar Li mieaux fir £42,000. The Sporting Gozettc hears, in addition to Lord Rosebery's, ot the probable break-up of another racing stud. The Choir announces that the Prince of Wales has given a prize of £5 for bagpipe playing, to be competed for at all annual Highland gathering. Apropos of the marvellous expertness in his trade of the Loudon thief, a gentleman in the metropolis has broken the key of his safe, and cannot get at his vvlnatiles, lie has beta &ivßed to advertise for a burglar, and treat him like a geutleniau. A shoemaker in the Faubourg do Temple in Paris, cl Red his shop at five o'clock the other ' atternoon, and affixed the tollowing announcement to his shutters lased ! The proprießr has gone to see La Chatte Blanche at the Gaffe." Dancing must be a decidedly jolly busiress in Louisville, Ky , fir the papers say that " no leis than live persons have beer, shot or cut at balls in that city within the previous 'few day s dolls, going as merrily in these saloons of pleasure ass 11/11C7 al bell. :iinne tine is endeavouring to frighten New York by the ge loghal Oiscovery that 17,321 years hence Manhattan Island will ''cave in." A Ditch Jewi,-h paper reports that a Jewish lady in her hoodretith year a, cent', visited the Ainste, dam EshildMini, accompanied by her grandson, who was himself a grandfather. She inspected a sewing-machine and threaded a needle without the aid of spectacles. It is stated that Marshal Prim, before leaving Paris, attended a mass in pursitatice of a vow which he made in ease his in,urrection of last year should be successful. Ile celebrated the winterise, yof the revolt religiously. It was not suspected that he was such a good Catholic. On Tuesday at ternoon the Court Theatre, at Dresden was discovered to bean fi,e, and in a very short time was totally destroyed. The Museum containing the celebrated collection of pictures solidus the theatre, and for a time was in danger of destruction, but happily by the exertion, of the firemen the flames were confined to the theatre, and the Sltiseurn saved. The Lord justice Clerk of Scotland (Mr. Patton) has been missing since Monday InOrilitg. lie weld to his estate at Glenalmond, Perthshire, on Saturday last, and on ‘londay slanting went out before hn-akf oat for a walk, and has not since returned. 15 is feared that he may hive accidentally fallen RAO the Almond River, which hi in tt.iod, and neon drowned. The river was dragged on Tuesday, and about 200 persons went over the nim.rs in search of him. The Proeurativ cd for the county has gone to Gimletmond to institute inquiries. Amongst the foreign hstlies at Baden-Baden chignons are quite gene out, and supplanted by thii k rows of plaited hair, hanging down to the nape of the neck. ntl, metes high-heeled boots and straps are de rigueur now amongst the aims de Id crew.