The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

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AWFUL IYEATII'OF A FARMER WHILE SHOOTING.—
An inquest was taken on Friday evening, by Mr. W.
Carter, the Surrey Coroner, in a small cottage at Chep-
stead, near Reigate, on the body of Mr. James Sharman,
aged 25, a farmer. The deceased was out on his estate,
with two dogs, on Thursday; he levelled his double bar-
relled gun, and fired at a covey of partridges. The report
was heard by a shepherd's bov, who went to the field, and
saw the deceased lying face downwards. with a dog by his
side,, and the gun under his body. He had died from
apoplexy.
STEAM-BOAT RACING.—A BLOW-UP.—On Thursday
afternoon last, two steam tugs, the Ranger and the Con-
quest, went out of the Tyne to run a race from Shields
bar to the buoy at Sunderland pier. They bad got placed,
when a fearful discharge of steam, and a great noise from
the Ranger, indicated that something was wrong. The
other boats ran to her assistance, and found that the
pressure that had been put on had occasioned one of the
tubes of the boiler to give way. One of the crew who
had got scalded jumped overboard, and was with some
difficulty rescued. He was nearly drowned. The other

men esCaped comparatively unhurt

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FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL-
WAY.-A lamentable accident, terminating fatally, hap-
pened on Wednesday, at the Broxbourne station of the
Eastern Counties Railway, to a .passenger named James

Grass, stated to be a tavern-keeper at Brandon, in Suffolk.
It seems that he was a passenger by the Norwich up-train,
and wishing to' alight at Lea-bridge where that train did
stop, he got out for the purpose of taking his seat in the
last up Hertford train, which called at the station at which
he desired to stop, and which, as usual, had, been shunted
into &siding, in order to allow the Norwich train to pass
on. On leaving the tsain, he suddenly stepped behind
the screen of the up-platform. On the Norwich train
leaving, the Hertford train proceeded to shunt out of the
side, and in doing so, caught the unfortunate man, and
squeezed him fearfully against the platform.. Early medi-
cal aid was rendered him, but his internal injuries were too
frightful for him to recover, and in an hour or so hP expired.

CAUTION TO PERSONS HANDLING DEAD BODIES--
About a fortnight ago, a young man named Minton, died
in Peterborough ; he had led a dissipated life, and con-
sequently was in a very emaciated state. Mr. English,
carpenter, on putting his arms round the dead body to
place it in the coffin (which lie had been making), felt
some matter ooze from the corpse upon one of his hands :
he did not take particular notice of the circumstance at
the, time, but a few days after he experienced an acute
pain in the hand and arm, and he perceived a swelling
where there had been a blister on his wrist. Being in
London he went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and had
the swelling cut ,• it, however, gradually got worse, and he
became quite delirious. On his return home, Dr. Walker
and Mr. Southern were called in, and they pronounced
the disease to have arisen from the matter which oozed
out of the corpse. The flesh about the affected part was
cut away, and he is now recovering. Fears were at one
time entertained that it would end fatally.—Lincohe

Mercury.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE NEAR LANARK.—On the
evening of Tuesday last a man named John Armstrong,
while walking with his wife on the south bank of the
Clyde, in the vicinity of Lanark, was seized with a suici-
dal frenzy, and immediately thereafter plunged into the
river at a place known by the name of Mary Dick's Hole,
which was here very deep. His poor_ wife, who was far

advanced in a state of pregnancy, rushed into the water
with the view of rescuing him, but both sank and were
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