The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-01-19 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

USABLE ESCAPE. --An accident occurred on Monday on the Nottingham branch of the Great Northern railway. It appears that as the driver of the 9.40. a.m. train from Grantham approached the Botteeford Station, he noticed a waggon and team, in charge of a young lad, in the act of crossing the line. The whistle Was immediately opened, but before the youth, who made every effort, could extricate the horses from their dangerous position, the train was upon them, and the engine striking the leader, cut it almost to pieces, the hoofs of the horse striking and bending the iron steps of the carriage, ouch was the force of the collision. Fortunately the train kept the rails, or the consequences would doubtless have been much worse. The boy escaped unhurt. A QUESTION 1401 ANSWERED !—The "Army and Navy Gazette" says : A correspondent tells us that, having to go into the barrack rooms of a cavalry corps at an early hour during the late frost, he found the men with pieces of candle stuck into bottles, endeavouring to remove the protection to their throats which God had given them, but which the Horse Guards had taken away The following remarks were distinctly heard by him, coupled, of course, with the expletives usually expressive of had humour I say, 11,11, why don't the Princo have to do this here? He's in the 10:h Masers " Auswer—"lllest if I know ! Why don't the Duke have to dock his Newstate frill? that ain't regulation." We hope we are not unduly irreverent in reporting there remarks. MURDERING THE WRONG ALAN !—The Court of Assize, sitting at Grenoble, has just sentenced to twenty years' hard labour a mountebank named Stenegre, for the murder of one Rappelin, at a village fair in the neighbourhood. There had been a quarrel in the course of the day, and at night Stenegre, who had been badly beaten, went in search of his antagonist ; he did not find him, but falling in with Rappelin, who wore the same kind of dress, he used hie knife upon him with fatal effect. SUGGESTIVE FACIS !—The report of the coroners of the city and county of New York, for the year ending December 31, presents a body of suggestive I facts. There were 71 homicides. and infanticides; there were 61 suicides; 12 of the deaths of suicides were by 1 hanging, 12 by shooting, 10 by cutting the throat, 4 by drowning, 7 by taking laudanum, S by taking Ravis green; one man jumped into a brew vat. Of the suicides, 25 were Germans, 8 Irishmen, 2 Frenchmen, and 13 Americans. There were, beside homicides and suicides, 950 deaths by violence in New York during the year; 170 men, 29 women, and 38 children were droa lied. 24 persons were burned to death in burning buildings, and 42 persons were burned to death by explosions and other causes. There were 235 fatal cases of sunstroke; there were 170 deaths from falls ; Oil persons were run over and killed by street cars, steam cars, and other vehicles; 11 persons were killed by overdoses of laudanum. There was but one cage of starvation. One man was strangled by a pieceof meat and another (mica bile (lieu 1 by a "waterfall" bail. CRt'