The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

and divide

e raised by

amount of capital and loan authorised to 1
two companies is £56,916,780. The aggregate length of
railway' already constructed by the two companies, and in
operation, is 1,0384

FATAL MATERNAL GRIEF.—A few months ago B. young
lad, aged sixteen, the only son of Sophia Martin, residing
_ _ _ _
at Caroline-place, Bayswat

committed

est of mo-

wives and

had been former
there, besides being exceedingly temperate in her habit
gave herself up to inconsolable sorrow, which she drownei
in:unlimited indulgence of drink, for which she pawned and
sold every article she could put her hand on, even to her

very bed, and ultimately her drunken habits drove from
his home her husband, who bore an excellent character.
Last Thursday she was seen returning home at night, ir
her usual drunken state, and was not afterwards see
until Sunday, when, her non-appearance alarming her
neighbours, the landlady, accompanied by the pot-t_
the Black Lion, went into the room, and upon entering it
was hoiror-stricken at beholding the lifeless and emaciated
corpse stretched across the naked bedstead, the room
denuded of every other article of furniture, and without
the slightest particle of food. Mr. Gardiner, surgeon,
was called in, who pronounced life some time extinct,
from, as he imagined, apoplexy, produced by drink.
KIRRIEMUIR.—A very strange duel is said to have

acts seen

taken place here lately betwixt a _
grocer, relative to a dickey. The greengrocer maintained
that the fop wore a little shirt, and questioned if he had a
long one. After high words about the matter, the men
of honour agreed to retire to a convenient place and settle
the dispute like gentlemen. Both met at the appointed
place, accompanied by seconds. The " gent" was armed
with a small pop pistol ; the grocer with an old firelock,
which had been in the service of Queen Anne. The
seconds, who were weavers, were armed each with a
beam-pin, for the purpose of keeping order. The ground
(sixty yards) was measured off. The combatants took
their places, triggers were drawn ; but, lo ! the " gent"
had primed without loading, and the grocer had loaded
without priming. A cap crack and a loud snap con-
stituted the part to be performed by the votaries of Friar
Bacon. The grocer, however, with an oath, pulled out a
powder-horn from his pocket to prime; but the " gent"
having no wish for a second round. took to his heels ; but
his opponent was not satisfied. He took the beam-pin
from his second—gave hot pursuit—threw the beam-pin
after his flying enemy, exclaiming, at the same time,
" Take that, Johnny Cope ;" but Johnny's legs bore him
as safe from the field as the " grey mare Meg" bore Tam
o' Shanter from the witches of Alloway.—Brecisin Ad-
vertiser.

SLAVE SELLING IN ENGLAND.--SOllll3 six months ago
a boy, about 61 years of age, suddenly disappeared from
the village of Heckington, near Seaford. Every step
that could be devised was taken by the disconsolate
parents to discover the retreat of their lost child, but in
vain. Time rolled on, and, evez y search and inquiry
proving fruitless, the parents at Is
boy must have been drowned, and
to despair of ever seeing him ag
few days ago a letter was, received, stating
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licquished themse

H oweve
hat if sc

one would-be at the York Police-office last Saturday a
gentleman would attend and deliver up the long-lost boy.
The mother went to York, and the boy was consigned to
her care by a clergyman of the neighbourhood. It turned
out that in the character of a sweep the boy begged at the
clergyman's door, and, the clergyman expostulating with
him for begging, the boy replied that his master took all
that was earned, and sent him out to beg for his food.
The good man, melted by this statement, questioned the
lad, and was told that he had been stolen from Hecki
six months ago by a sweep (whose name is known)
this sweep bad sold him to another, and that he ha
sold three times over. Tho boy's relation was so artless
that the clergyman took him in, fed, washed, and clothed
him, and set about a plan for restoring him to his parents,
the result of which was that he was handed to his overjoyed
mother last Saturday. It is stated that a keen search is
being kept up for the sweep who kidnapped the boy.—
Stamford Mercury.

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