The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-11-09 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

COME.s,s of the gasetters, c.irpeuters, met lnicklayers, and their special claims as good workmen, so that if we want a joh well done we can know where to send for a good workman IL P. to dolt !"  A frightful affair took place at Bolton, on Monday. Mr. Haien, paper manufacturer, one of the town councillors for the borough, was attending to a machine in his works, when his clothes were entangled with a strap, he was drawn into the machinery, and killed instantly.  "To N. E. n:—We are in greatest grief at your absence. Dear COViIIO, write a line to say you are well, or owns home directly. All shall be forgotten and forgiven, if it were a hundred times more. No one snows or shall know of it but ourselves. Poor mama is distracted : we are both il :do not cruelly prolong our suspense."—Advertise !lust in Daily 7'il4graph.  The Memortal d' Aix relates that on a train arriving in that town with 160 sheep for the market, the entmals, which had been 48 hours without food, were turned out into a damp meadow They fed greedily, and the disorder called the butts speedily developed itself, ami 59 swelled up and died in a very short time. The meat having been examined and found unfit for food, was buried.  The Siècle urges that the commutation of the capital sentence in the case of four of the five condemned Fenian' at Manchester would be an act of humanity and good policy.  - .• The Saturday Itcritur describes Mr. Disraelt's speech as Ott audacious ttavesty of history, altogether ill she style of the worst parts of “Coningshy" and "SybiL" Re had a malicious pleasure in seeing how far he could try it on.  "N F. I implore a line, in the name of long. tried, true, and proved affection. This, the date of toy great and bitter trial, it would he more than a kindness. I have long been very ill. Had but my letter reached yon how different all might have been ! I have prayed we might meet. Let poor C. know there is a letter for her at the Vine bourne post-office. Ever your own, A. It, —Novem!,er the ! Ist."—Advertisement in London Timer.  £8,231,177 ! That is the amount of working. mess's savings which the Post-office Savings' Banks had deposited its the Funds last year No less than £2,053,312 wws deposited in the banks during that year. The steadiness which the habit of saving has acquired amomrst the noonr classes since these banks were established is clearly attested by the fact that the deposits in Government securities increase at the rate of niece than million a year.  Sir John Pakinitton was present ;it the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast, he other night, and responded to the toast of "tier Majesty's Ministers." Adverting to the trades out. rages which had attracted so much attention, he observed that those revelations had struck deep into the public mind, and tended greatly to injure our national character and in.o.sperity, and as we valued that character and prosperity, these spots must be eradicated. •  -• Mr. Skey, the eminent surgeon, Iloes not confess himself beaten sport the University boat race question. Ile still persists in his statement that boat raoingis often carried to excess, but his scant acquaintance with the prs etieal part of the subject, with the improved system iilke I 'line, and the way in which races are lost and won, ratitsr weakens the force of his remarks.  The Crensot works, we are told, have scoured an order for eighty locomotives for Itossia The price tanned as that at which the contract was taken, Is £s6 per ton. It was necessary, in order to obtain the contract, to pay down a eatitionnetnent of £32,000, and the locomotives are to be delivered at Riga before half the purchase money is paid over In other words, Russia reywr,ii long credit. The plague is reported to have broken out in the I delta of the Euphrates, and to have attacked Kerbels and Bagdad.  A colour-serjeant of the 32nd Regiment of Foot, at present stationed at Colchester, committed suicide on Mousey by shooting himself with his rifle. It is reported that he had hi en in a desponding state for some days, in consequence of a difficulty which stood in the may of his marrying a girl to whom he was engaged. It is noticed DA a singular fact that three men, famous in the science of astronomy, have tiled withla the space of ten days. Their names are, Sir James South, Lord Wrottesley, and the Lad of Itosse. Mr. Justice Lush has just given ATI important deridon on the item County Court Act. It is that the filth section of it came into force directly the Act was passed, and that, therefore, plaintiffs suing in the higher court, for debts under twenty pounds cannot recover their costs. The Duke de Luynes has sent 50,0010 francs to the Univers for the Pope. "A desperate hater of the Papacy • has sent Ohl, to the Courrier Francais for Garibaldi, and his " wife " lfct, and a farthing and a half. She hates only half as desperately AP her" glide man." In the Hotel des Invalides in Paris there are at present only 1 138 pensioners—officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers. The admiasimoi otminish considerably ; every year: In 1862 they were nearly 5,000.