The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL gTANDIII%

AN AGED REAPER.--Betty. Muckalt, of Lindale-in-
Cartme!, widow, aged 83 years, has regularly attended
'the harvest this season on the Castle Head Estate, the
property of Robert Wright, Esq., and reaped and tied up
10, 11, and as far as 13 hattocks of 10 sheaves to the hat-
tock, per day—in all she reaped 81 hattocks.
A few days since a young gentleman was practising the
discharge of fire-arms on the high road near Surrey, when
the first ball he fired missed the mark, and lodged in the

elbow of a groom on the opposite side of the road. The
bones of the arm were completely smashed, and amputa-
tion had to be resorted to. _ _

On Sunday week the alarm previously excited by the
partial sinking of the centre arch of Blackfrian-bridge,
London, was considerably increased by a further decline
of the same arch having evidently taken place towards
the Middlesex shore. It is believed that, should any
further sinking occur, the authorities will direct the
closing of the bridge. _ _

EXTRAORDINARY SIGFIT.—OR the morning of Monday
se'nnight, about five o'clock, the travellers on the road
between Greenwich and Woolwich were astonished by

Seeing the highway actually covered with millions and
millions of young frogs or tadpoles, similar to the-flight
of locusts which invade and devastate whole countries at

a sweep.—Maidstone Journal.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—SORIO two or three months
ago as Locke, porter, of Gloucester, was cutting a corn
on one of his feet, he accidentally passed his knife too
deeply, and caused the corn to bleed. The leg subse-
quently mortified, and Locke, who is an old man, after
had his limb amputated last Satur-

suffering grea

THE MUSSEL TRADE
the b

—During the last three weeks

arcross have been reap-

jog a rich harve4, by supplying mussels for the London
market. From 20 to 30 tons are sent off every evening,
and for these the men are remunerated at the rate of ls.

rakes them a handsome return for
s are retailed in London at one

penny per quart
ROBERT ON

Owen'

" EXHIBITION OF 1851."—Robert
s opinion of this unfortunate world has not im-
He says, in a letter to a contemporary—" The
d in all the districts into which

proved

world, as i
it has bee
and folly.

rtificially divided, is a compound of misery

It everywhere exhibits absurd farces, incon-
nedies, and cruel tragedies." He then asks,

.s, "Why the most, a'tive

)e adopted upon r

1 principles

R ELECT

tis a medical

'ood, he witn,

sed a very remarkable phenome-
fectly dark, not a star being visi-
ill of electric fire, apparently as

circumference o
t, fell from the 1

c light

A WARNING TO RATE-PAYFRS.—An old. woman in a
parish near Caine, who had been receiving parish relief
for forty years, has just been discovered to have hoarded
up £175 in cash, which she kept concealed in her room.
On further inquiry it was found that she also possessed
£4OO in the savings-banks. _ _ _ _

The Bishop of Oxford, Mr. Page Wood, M.P., and
Mr. Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P., have consented to
act as adjudicators of a prize of one hundred guineas for
the best Essay on the Laws respecting the Protection of
Women, offered by the Society for Improving and En-
forcing the Laws for the Protection of Women. . .

A poor Hindostanee, a hawker of tracts, committed sui.:
cide at Wincanton, in Somersetshire, last week, because
his wife had absconded with another man, while they were
at Bristol. taking with her about £4 in money, and 1.000
tracts. He obtained the use of a knife to cut his food,
and with it cut his throat.

A blacksmith, from Ryehope, having mortgaged some
property for the sum of £l5O, took the cash down to
Sunderland, where he commenced to drink and rick about
in cabs for a whole day, until he entirely lost himself and
fell asleep. When he awoke he found himself in a low
public-house, and all his riches had taken wings and
flown away. _

At the Birmingham police court, on Friday, a boy
named Henry Smith, only twelve years of age, was
charged for the fourth time with having been found
drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. It ap-
peared that he was in the habit of boasting of the quan-
tity of liquor that he could drink with impunity, and his
father stated that every means had been vainly tried to
reform him. _ _

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
son, very dull (
on Monday

,—Sophia Quibbs, an aged per-
bad a narrow escape from death
ossing the railway to go to the

She wa

Catholic Chapel, when, on account of her affliction, she
did not hear a coal train coming up. She was struck by
the engine, and pitched on her back between the rails.
The men who saw her cried " Lie still," and 33 waggons
passed over her without doing the least injury to her, ex-
cept slightly grazing one of her ankles.—Shields Gazette.