The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-11-30 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

HOME, 70REIGN, AND COLONIAL  EXTRAORDINARY PRICES FOR FOWLS.—The high 'trims given for fowls daring the mania bout the Cochin China breed are not entirely things of the past. At the sale of Lady Homesdale's poultry, which was held at Linton Palk, Maidstone, last week, 114 Dorking fowls realised over £4OO. The birds were sold singly, and the hest specimens commanded extreme prices. One well-known exhibitor at the poultry-shows save twenty-eight guilleas for a single cock and £3O for two hens. Several of the chickens of the present year produced above £lO each. The fowls were distributed over all parts of the country, some purchasers coming from Scotland, others from Somerset. The great merit of Lady litimesdale's birds is their extreme size, comhined with beauty of nlumw_re. Many of the hens of this breed weigh over 101.13, each, and the cocks have been known to reach 151 b.  FINANCIAL RESULTS OF THE FRENCTI DEMstrioN.—SpeAkin; of the financial results of the Exhibition, the Figaro says _ .  The definite accounts have I ot yet been made up, but there appears to he a certainly of there being a clear gain of three millions of fran,s, w rib sum Is to be divided equally between the State, the city of Paris, and the Guarantee Society. As the subscription of this last was twelve millions, the profit is somewhat over eight per cent. Each railway company having set down Italians° for 300,000 L, will be entitled to 25,0001., and each member of the Comroiselon having guaranteed 25,0000. can claim about 2,0000. Hint neither the companies nor the subs,' hers will consent to take the money, an they had no Idea of a speculation itt advancing the capital. Will the State and the city act in like manner Probably.  • NMTTING LIKS: ECONOMY' !—The United &r. rice (laze(le says : The Rajai Oak and Prince Comeort, when off Lisbon, and not flora than fifty mitre from the port, were ordered by snoods " pr,,ceed to CibraPar, complete coals, give leave, and rejoin toe Admiral alkithon without unnecessary delay." There was a head wial, at the time, and the Rayal Oak had to use five out of her six toilers and then could only make six knits. At one time she was hurnit g five tons of coal an hour and scarcely making three knots. In order to reach i;i,raltar to obtain 301 tons of cola the Rayal Oak expended 251 toil. in addition, and the Prince Can.roal 185. No less than £38738. was the cost of that little amusement, or anti log the cost of the voyage back, £776 53,  - Non FELLOW !--An inquest has been held at Willis, Perceval, and Co.'s banking-house, Lombard-street, London, on the body of Mr. Woodcock, :wed forty-six years. From the evidence of a clerk in the bank, it appeared that the deceased was Peo id elirk. He was always considered to be somewhat eccentric. About a month ago, a new junior clerk being taken, he became very excited, and asked the witness whether the firm were not going to send him nosy. There were no grounds, however, for any such apprehension. On Saturday last he was very excited in his manner, and was no restless, that he left his books and went out to walk on London bridge. He slept that night as usual at the hank. On Sunday morning, a little after nine ii'clock, he sent ftw a cup of tea, and immediately afterwards he was found lying on the floor of his bedroom with a  -1/'  wan., ,mommamosem shot through his head, and a pistol by his side near his right hand. He was quite dead. Another pistol, the cap of which had been snapped, was found in the room. Mr. Frederick Woodcock, a solicitor, residiug at Glocester, said that the deceased, who was his cousin, got into pecuniary difficulties a few piers ago, and he was so much affected by them that it waa one time s question whether he should not be put into an asylum. He was in debt £5OO. His friends assisted him, and he became more calm. His accounts were quite correct, so far as the bank was concerned. Mr. T. Lloyd said that he was called in and found the deceased lying dead in a pool of blood near the bed. room window. A pistol bullet had entered the head in front of the right ear, and had passed out three inches over the left ear. The wound was selfibifficted. The jury n turned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind.  ......