The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

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material damage

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A correspondent
states that the tide that morning
height, overflowing the Marine.
the houses fronting the harbour.

writing fror

k. Christmas party in Birmin
fireside, on Wednesday evening

zham, whilst enjoying

themsel VE

denly felt the floor shake as with an earthquake.. In a
moment it gave way, and men, women, children, tables,
saucepans, and the whole domestic cuisine were precipi-
tated into the cellar beneath. Fortunately, no lives were

A STOCK EXCHANGE JOKE.
the defaulting clerk of Mr. Syn.

—On Wednesday, Katz,
1, returned £4,000 of the

lof a failure caused to a worthy r
"the Stock Exchange cannot refrain their
ce a Mr. Boots stopped. but I

a by his clerk the wags
short
ince honourably

all his engagements, on which the wags, coupling
;11 him, say, "It is only the enactment of a panto-
mime of Puss in Boots a little before Christmas."—Rail-

way Jour
ATTEmt

TO MURDER A FAMILY.—On Thursday week,
,xcitement was caused amongst the inhabitants of
A woman, named Ann Evans, the wife of Thos.
r, about eight o'clock in the morning,

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Dudley

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ened a knife, and afterwards to run up stairs. This ei-
cited the child's curiosity, and she immediately went to
her father's workshop, adjoining the house, and told him
what she had seen. On entering, he beheld a fearful
scene, for upon the face of one of the children, only two
years old, was a pillow, evidently placed there to stifle its
cries, and the mother was cutting the throat of the unfor-
tunate child. Upon seeing her husband, she flew at him
with a knife, but fortunately she missed him. In a closet
she had locked up another child, six years old, so that
there is little doubt she intended to murder the whole of
her children ; and had it not been for the arrival of her
husband, two at least of them would have been deprived

SUPERSTITION AND QUACKERY.—An extraordinary
,oprnent of the existence of superstition and quackery
As Just taken place in the course of the proceedings of
an inquest held on the body of a child at East Dean,
Gloucestershire. It seems that the children of a shoe-
maker, named Haynes, were playing together, when one of
them, aged four years, named Louisa, put the tongs into
the fire, heated them, and then wantonly seized her
younger sister, Emma, with them by the neck, thereby
inflicting two very severe burns. The children were left
iu the care of an elder brother, who did not, perceive the
intentions of his mischievous sister until too late to prevent
them. Flour, linseed oil, and limewater were applied to
the burns, and for four days the child's wounds were
healing in a satisfactory manner, when, by the advice of
some old women in the neighbourhood, the parents of the
child suffered a Sirs. Milling, living near, to apply an oint-
ment spread upon cabbage leaves to the wounds, in lien
of the previous application of linseed oil, &c. This had
`he effect of creating considerable local inflammation ;
'l, after two days, the cabbage leaves were removed and
`tier quack:doctress was allowed to practice upon the
-ufferer. This second woman, whose name iy Jane
~an, and who professed to have cured many people by
mys-
terious
'eapplciheaatrimon of ,
the salve, which she (Yeman) applied, at the same time
muttering the following charm, as she called it, in a pecu-
I liar dialect :
gotan ointmenth e
r sister. anAd
In Bradley, pronouncing
to a
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