The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-09-03 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  The following specimen of the pit dialect might serve the L'inreate for an epic poem : —"An folk wad nabbit let folk like fo.k as wed l as folk wail like to hke folk, folk wail like folk as wed as fryer folk liket folk sin folk was folk. '  Prince Kinsky, some time ago, having caused a march to be made for pearls In that part of the river Watta (near lloradowitz, Bohemia) which runs through hie estates, thlrty.oue line and valuable pearls base been Pallid, and a great number of lira beauty and value.  A celebrated Russian countess has decidedly got • clue to the art of winning at roulette ; she is to be seen every day, and from morning to night, sea,ed at the BadenBaden table, where she wins fabulous sums of money. It Was receutlt stated in the New York papers that a daughter of ix-President Tyler had married • Federal soldier who had taken refuge in that grntleman'a house When wounded Mrs Tyler now gives thy statement an emphatic contradiction.  It ix reported that Con tit Nifty, a Hungarian nobleman of untold wealth, will shortly anlve in England to ho wilted to a young peeress of great beauty.  - - A respite haa been granted in the case of the clrivict, Mary II art., who Iva. convicted of the murder of her jiteelloae child. and left for execution at the teat erasion of the Central Criminal Court, it. L mdon.  A custom now prevails in Austria of fixing on tombstones, In • glazed frame, a pLotographfc likeness of the person 1)1ns beneath. In Chicago, it is proposed to employ females as conductors for s reef mu s  At the Salford intermediate 'sessions, held on Monday, the chairmen, referring to the calend4r, said them were seventy prisoners, of whom thirty-one could neither read nor write. Only three of the whole were well educated, and this, said the chairman, "was a most lamentab a State of things P fie "was afraid that we should have to come to a compulsory system to make the people who could afford it give aeeducation to their children suited to their condition in lift."  In consequence of the great sexrcity of water in Burnley, several of the mills have stopped, and the people have been cautioned by the authorities against all excessive use of the element.  The Straits rilleB reports the seizure of an English vessel by Chinese pirates, the murder of her officers, and her being set on fire. Some of the crew were picked up by another vasseL it is added that many ships which are en,., heard of, and are supposed to have foundered at ice, may probably have perished in this more terrible manner.  ''here 114 a talk ;f reproducing Punch in New York and selling It cheaply there, and aim of re priutiug many of the beat articlee from the Euglinh daLy papera and taming them in a cheatu-r form.  A very painful case of hydrophobia, a malady the common existence of which has been lately disputed, is reported from Hendon.lliddlsx. A young man, the son of a farmer, WAS bit as far back as February last, and a few days since he felt the premonitory sysiems (1 dmeute. After a week's illness he died, having suffered overpowering agonies.