The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

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to other is three years old, and weighs
e weight. They are of Irish parentage.

LONGEVITY--One of those fine old specimens of " a
healthier age," named Violet Harkness, at present residing
at Cleator, and whose venerable head has been whitened bI
the snows of one hundred and two winters, turned out int°,
the harvest field one day last week, and cut no less than 11
stooks of grain, which, at three half-yenee a stook, amounteu
to Is..9d.—WAitehaven Herald. •
A WELCOME INTRUDER.—On Friday-night last, abovs

seven o'clock, as , &veer, iNether by-street, LOnfr
town, was, assi uy his wife, busy serving custorner.6.4l
their shop, to their great surprise something came flying
a loud whirr through the shop and into a back room.
Baxter immediately followed the self-invited guest, and dis-
covered it to be a good plump well-grown partridge. It la
supposed that the partridge had been chased by a hawk, 11.
was attracted by the light from the candle burning in FP"
—Carlisle Patriot.
CURIOUS RACF

Mr. Baxtf

—On Thursday last, at a tavern in thist
k-side was bet between a coal merchant
nd a race was to decide the ownership °
•-•.5...5. The preliminaries were these, that we
should be allowed a yard at start, and that they
toss for choice of. ground. The bricksetter won the
toss, apd immediately took up the chimney, and went to the
top ; and as his antagonist, the coal merchant, did not choose,
him, it was decided by the company present that
Preston Chronicle.

.own", a sovereigt:

bricksetter

to foil

the bricksetter had won the race

STRANGE PHENOMENON

—Within the last four or five
months a rather strange phenomenon has occurred in the
Severn, close to the little harbour of Lydney, where a largl
sand-bank, of very many acres in extent, which interfere
with the navigation of that side of the river, suddenly disert
peared, leaving the river deep enough for ships of the large
burden, as it was some forty years before. This immense
.
body of sand does not appear to have merely shifted to soeiv
other part of the channel, but has been entirely swept atoll
it is thought, by the violent storms and rain in January ell
Fsbruary.—Wilts Standard.

BILL SWINDLERS.—We have had sent to us this week, $
circular from an apparently new firm of dealers in fictitiool
bills, calling themselves T. and W. Thornton, Free School'
street, Dock-head, London, who very kindly offer temporarY
assistance to persons in want of money, and at the same tiro
tender their assistance in the sale of goods for ready money'
Of course, there are not many persons who need to be tolot
that, if their goods, their money, or their bills, get into the
hands of these people, there is very little chance that the)"
will see them again,—except, indeed, in the case of thqe
own hills, which will no doubt come back for payment. 1/‘
find from another circular, that the old firm of bill-traffielv
ers, originally established by John Kinnear, and carried 0
by other parties since he had the misfortune to be tone'
ported, is now called " A. and T. Smith, Albany-road, Lotr
don ."—Manchester Guardia
A SOARING ARTIS

...—On Wednesday last, much alar,";
and curiosity were excited in the neighbourhood of t";
Strand, and hundreds of persons were attracted to the a!ed
nue that leads to Hungerford Market and its vicinity, gazilla
with fear and wonder upon an adventurous wight, who bs,
contrived to mount into the belfry of St. Martin's churel
and had lowered himself by means of a single rope, faster' e;
from above, into the very narrow space between the two ant,
facing Pall-mall and the Strand ; and there he remained at e
height of at least 150 feet from the ground, upwards of tbre
hours, making sketches, with as much composure and aPPO
rent unconcern as it he had been using a crayon in Ilia ow
atelier.

SUDDEN DEATH IN THE DONCASTER BETTING BOOggii
—On Wednesday evening last, Mr. William Tomlinson: °
this town, an individual well known on the turf, was pla9lll
at hazard, in the upper betting room at Doncaster, and he
just won £l5, and was again shaking the dice, when his 8'
was observed to move slowly and feebly. He threw secenj
and,immediately turning to a friend, said he was ill, a°,o
requested to be taken down stairs. This was done, anti Vt
or three chairs were placed together for him to lie upon ;es',
he expired in two or three minutes. His friend then ,
mined the deceased's pockets, and, finding the £l5, wiTpPre
it up in paper, and (somewhat indiscreetly) replaced it 1P tu.,
deceased's waistcoat pocket. As might be expected, the it/
port of Mr. Tomlinson's death soon attracted a crowd
persons round his body ; and some dexterous thief contrive,''
to abstract the £l5 from his pocket, and the deceased
" Macintosh" coat, with which booty he escaped undetected'
—Manchester Guardian
CURIOUS CAS

OF BURGLARY.—About twoo'clock OO
,„ a female servant to the house of Mr. K. ",„;
Ao. J, Cecil Terrace, Greenheys, was alarmed,4
hearing, as she thought, some person coming up stairs.
immediately called out " Who is there ?" and, in a inornetc,
afterwards, a loud crash was heard on the staircase, 8011,/
the lobby at the bottom, as if some heavy bodies had fan,,,"
down stairs. This noise alarmed the family ; and aso n 2,
Mr. Slack's sprung out of bed, and went down stairs.
his way in I'o he was conscious of some hurried movement ceil'
parties the sitting room below ; but before he could Of
that room, they had succeeded in making their escape oilt"
the window, which stood open. When alight was procure 4
it was found that the unbidden visitors, after packing UP :
the property they could lay their hands upon, had been Pr
fd
paring to enjoy themselves, for three chairs bad been placi`jv
at the table, and a whisky bottle, with three glasses pailierr
filled, were standing upon it. It would seem that, in ord„
to enjoy their carouse in security, they had placed chairs 11';
the landing of the stairs in such a manner, that if any of tho
family had been alarmed, and had attempted to come dewy
stairs, they would be sure to fall over the chairs, and there
give warning to the topers, and enable them to provide fqr
their own safety. But the wicked are often taken in tbeilo
own snare ; and so it proved on this occasion, for one of 1,0
robbers who had gone up stairs, and had been alarmed by 1.1,14
calling out of the servant, had evidently tumbled over onthe
the chairs in making his retreat, and rolled headlong to
es
bottom, together with the chair, which was broken to Plec,:e
by the fall. This had caused the loud noise that alarmed I,R 0
family, and which was considerably increased by the fall 01
poker with which the man had no doubt armed himself wile,
he went up stairs. Although-a number of articles had been
packed up in a table-cloth, and even the chimney-glass taken
down, ready for removal, nothing had been actually to is
away. From the appearance of the premises, no doubt he
entertained that one of the robbers hail been concealed in tag
house prior to the family retiring to rest, and had aftervalroo
admitted his accomplices at the cellar window, which the
properly secured the preceding evening, and none of h' at
fastenings had been broken or forced. It is quite clear
the robbers were no novices in their profession ; for, altbougo
Mr. Slack had an excellent little house-dog, it never 038 it
any noise during the night, and, after the robbers had fie,% r,
was found shut up in one of the cellars, in a state of stuto
having evidently been drugged by some means ; and that ho
also the case with a dog belonging to Mr. Drummond, -.0.
resides at the next door. We understand, that several .10„
stances of parties endeavouring to secrete themselves
houses, during the evening, have recontly been detected;
it therefore behoves all' parties to be on their guard agalPo,
that mode of committing robberies.—Manchester Guare"

Friday morning
Slack