The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

SHOCKING TAUGZDE

A FARMER AND HIS WIPE SHOT BY THEIR SON.
On Tuesday night last an outrage of almost un-
anuaslea &trusty sea peepetnited at Us village of Fisher-
ton, about six muse south-west et Newark, in the Grotty
of Nottingham, the victims being a respectable cottager
mined Samuel Parker, 60 years of age, and his wife Eliza-
beth, who is in her 76th year. The facts are briefly as fol-
lows aged :—The couple have a son, nand Richard Thomas,
about 30 years of age, a married man, who has for some
tins been separated from hie wife. and has therefore lived
at home with his parents, carrying re • small butcher's
badness on his own account. On Monday last he went
by speaSl tania to Sheffield, promising to return the lama
night, se hie father wished him to assist in Millie( moms
sirs. It appears he did return to Newark on Monday night,
and remained there until the half-peat 4 train to Fieltertoa
on Tsaday afternoon. He had then best drinking hard at
the cricket-field, and, it is stated, wee refused a ticket by the
clerk, but another person obtained one for him. On reaching
ham his father found fault with him for not returning ac-
ccedisg to promise, and high words ensued, sloth iota led
the son to threaten his father with blows, and a met of
chess took place round the home. The father took Wage
in she stable, and the mother. seeing Richard take a goaded
double-barrel gun from the shelf, ran oat of the home and
called in alarm to the okl gentleman to keep out of the way,
se Tom bad got the gun. The sum instant Richard delibe-
rately levelled the gun at his mother's heed, &Mg 11711
• pane ideas in the window as he stood in the room. 1:
poor creators fell frightfully wonoded, and the father errs-
tired to the stable-door to see what was the matter. The
inhuman son then took aim at him, and lodged the
greeter part of the contests of the second barrel is
his face and chest. The second shot paned through
the adjoining pans of lam Aasistmos being at hand,
the unfortunate couple were takes into the house and
• surgeon was sent for. It was thought that Mrs. Parker
could not survive many hours, and some of the Mote in Mr.
Parker's head ware in such dangerous positions that it was
very doubtful what might be the result in a few hours,
although his wounds were less dangerous than those sus-
tained by his wife. Richard ran oat of the house without
his bat towards the River Trout, which is only a few yards
distant, *OM glut rowed up in a comm. About half
an hour dteahlkine, to writ iMptvisweisd by Polkeroonstable
leaning over • gas near the river side. Os being
c with &hooting his father sod mother, be said he
had it, bat it was aa accidest. He at first resisted very
violeatly. but was compelled to to superior farce. On
the way to Southwell he asked whether he should
be hung, and said if he wore he abould die on the scaffold
Mrs deg. At half peat I *Week yesterday both victims
were alive, but them 1,11.1 scarcely the shadow of a hope
that Mrs. Parker could recover, and Mr. Parker's I:sedition
woe szessdingly precarious. The greatest excitement pre-
vail. throughout the locality, and it is now reported that
both are dead.

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TEL LATE DR. CARMICHAEL—The foundation-
noes of the new Carmichael School of Medicine in Dublin
was laid on Tuesday by the Lord Lieutenant. The
building, which it to he most complete in every way,
is to be erected out of a fund bequeathed for that pur-
pose by the late Surgeon Carmichael. The ceremony of
laying the foundatireenee took place in premier of seedy
all the eminent member of the medical profession resident
in Dublin and a large aseemblese of the general public. An
address was read to the Lord Lieutenant, in which were
mated the circumstances attending the foandatiou of the
!lichened School of Medicine,y in which the late Sergen
Carnahan,' took a distiogaisbed put. Having traced its
remarkable minese, both in point of practical unhinges and
in the number of clever men it produced, the address went on
to state that almost the last act of Mr. Carmichaer life
was to bequeath the sum of 10,0001. to rebuild the Rich-
mond Hospital School of Medicine, either on the old site or
elsewhere. This bequest was cootiogent on the demise of
Mrs. Carmichael, who, however. some months since, with •
noble generosity, intimated to the proprietors of the school
that it was her intention to piece her husban's bequest at
their immediate disposal, although by doing so she
denied herself of a very considerable income. His ex-
cellency made an eloquent speech, In which, after slinks(
to the memorable professional achievements of the late
Surgeon Carmichael and his high personal qualities,
he went on to say that his observations would be boom-
pine if they made Do " merinos of her who had the most
istesest in the fame of her husband, and who is doing more
than all others to extend and perpetuate it, who, showing
• wiser as well as a nobler love than the Owns Queen of
old, has not sought to raise over bin cold ninnies her
mausoleum in the dumb marble or lifeless statuary, but is
snout to ones him, though deed, still to speak in precious
senior to suffering humanity, still to live in the thanks
and blesaiags of rescued multitudes." Surgeon Carmichael
wee • distinguished member of the unitarian body, which.
although not large is Dublin is very iallneetiaL
Tux HOME or THE ORGAN GRINDERS. —J wit as
the valleys of Savoy supply white mice men, and Luna
produces image-carriers, so does Chiavari yield he special
product, the organ-grinder. Other town, in their ambi-
tions, have attempted the " industry," but they have egre-
giously failed, and Chiavari remains as dietiective in its
product as Spitalfields for in shawls, or Delwin for its
ohne. Whether there may he some peculiarity in the
biceps of the Chienriaa, or some deer development which
imparts power to his performance, I know not. lam
famed to owe that I have failed to discover to what &-
nineteen or from what quality this engines is deriv-
able ; but there is the fact, warranted and confirmed by a
statistical retorts, that but for Cbiavari we should have no
barrelorgans. " Never imagine," said a wise prelate,
" that you will root popery out of England till you destroy
Oxford. If you want to get rid of the crone, you must
pall down the rookery." The words of wisdom flashed
suddenly across my mod as I walked acmes the silent
piazza at midnight ; sod I exclaimed, " 1-es' here is the
true remedy for the evil. With two hours of • gunboat
and four small Armstrongp the thing is don ; batter down
Chianti, and Babbsge will bless you with his last breath.
Pull down the rookery, sod crush the young
rooks in the rides. Smash the cradle and the
babe within it, and you need not fear the man !"
There is a
_end justice in the noception that is highly
elevating. There is something eminently fine in moans
Chinni, like the Cities of the Plain, a monument over its
own iniquity. Leave not one stone upon soother of it, and
there will be in our home and stillness is our streets.
No more shall the black-bearded tormentor terrorise over
Baker-street, or lord it en the Edgware-road. Commander
Snort, of the Sneezes., will in • brief forenoon emancipate
not only Europe and America, but the dweller beyond
Jordan an the inhabitant of the diggings by Beedigo. Lay
Chiavari in ashes, and you will no longer need Inspector D,
nor ask aid from the head-onion. Here Is what the age
espendly worships, a remedy cumbining niespnees with
efficiency. It may be rid that we have no more right to
destroy Chianti than Kagosinin but that question is at
lean debatable. Are not the headaches of tens of thou-
sands of more avail than the head of on ! What becomes
of that noble principle, the greatest happiness of the
Carnumber? The Indians, too, might object : true,
ey are neither Americans nor French. They come
into the category of slates that may be bullied. The
countries which have an extended seaboard and weak naval
armloads are like people with& large glass frontage and no
shutters, There is noting to provost us shyly • stone at
the Italian window as we pass up to Constantineple, even
though we run away afterwsrde. I repeat, therefore, the
pima is fessible.—Blechners Magazine to Apra.