The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-10-12 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS,  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  Stv-lianting has commenced in the deer forest of Comm One _ _  A magnificent vulture wee shot a few days back in the forest of Bt. Germain.  The Empresa and Prince Imperial will, says the Toulonnaix, pan a month or the ensuing winter at Nice.  A young Ifus.ian prince, of fourteen, at school at Neuti..hatel, ran IMPV with a troop of ..... untelianks to Solent,' Bring brought back by the police he again but WM arrinte I at Vienne future, by the gendarmery arid taken back to Neufchatel. Love for a darteruse was the cause.  Mr. Miall ham been formally adopted aa the candidate of the athanced Ltherala at Bradford.  , Tbe Messager du If idi states that the recent storm has ,tone immense ilsinare to the chestnut clop. In some cantons more than half the crop has been destroyed. In that of Joyenso the damage is estimated at 800,0001. In another more than 3,000 trees were broken or nprowed, and In a third 2,500. There is a report that Baron von Bend will pay a visit to this country towards the close of the month.  On Saturday, &ming the private practice of some members of the Blackburn 112,11 e Volunteers at the An ley range, an old matt named Peter ll•worth, a target msrker, vvaa aee.dentally shot through the thigh by Private Titley The sceldent appears to have been caused through his own negligence.  A nuraemaid at Antwerp has nearly fallen vict,m to the fury of one of her youthful charves—a hw of eisht. She had ,ecaaion to reprimand hi to when he flew into a rage and staldted her in the thigh with a pen knife. The wombat is serious, though not dangerous.  A young rnan, named Lebel, belonging to Amiens, was bathipe at Caymix a day or two back. The sea was very rough at the time, and as he was almut to return to the shore a larger wave than usual overtook and dashed him newest Ms shinely beach with so much force as to cams. his death instantaneously.  A soldier f the Scots Greys was Pet upon by some hills,ns and severely beaten and wounded in Dublin on Sunday night. When he reached the barracks his clothes were tont and one of his hands much injured.  An enterprising sportsm-m in the metropolis has started the London Bsttilng Gazete.  The other niOht. a g:i;:h aged seventeen, in service at Birmingham, committed suicide by taking arsenic, because she had received notice to leave her place.  A day or two ago three oil ladies took tea together at the village of Gamber, near Karnsley, whose united ages smimnted to 272 years, or ao average of 90 years and 8 mouths each.  Ordera have been issued by the Police Commissioners to the effect that all the e....stairlea in the airdrop°Man f..rce shag learn the collate( drill For this purpose a certain number of colistahlts fnim each division will be told off .every daT to attend at One of the military barracks. A workman in a factory at Elbeuf (Seine-Infeller.) has just died poisoned by verdigris from a cloth used in wiping the copper of his machinery. The poisonhad adhered to his flop rs, and he had absorbed it in:taking %snuff, • . , .  Serjeant Brett, killed at 3fancheste.r. during the: Fenian Wank on the prison van, is claimed by an Irish paper as • native of that country, fie entered a cavalry regiment front the King's County, according to this statement, and on his discharge Mined the Mang:beater pollce.• M. Tillers, whole pa.sing the vacation a foci leagues' from Kris, itNistated to lie preparing a. great speeches-011 e pit Oiltal, on lie general slate of Europe, and the other treatigg. pi the financial condition of the country. Thk,keerfit de Bcautort has laid brfore—th• French council oLhealth of the army a new artificial arttpulaled, legt of supirioriponstimetion, which has been atitlitcd inkthr ofhosl Pattern of the future., . ,  • . . A cel,hroted oriental scholar, professor at the Universis,yeif fiottinuen. latrine declined to take the oath of fealty tot he Kii. of