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

why then,

said one of the poor old creature
yes, we're obliged to it. We'd rather do that ilia
We should always be thinking about it. I'm
winter the rent we owed was always in my head,
tnt to bed, and when I got up. I was afraid we
r rub it off." One of the parties is an old

smiling to

They have been working toge-
her seven years. The widow was in better circums;ances.
Her husband was a farmer in Yorkshire, and her father
was a very large farmer in the same county. The maiden
woman was formerly in service; now she is afflicted with

iron post near the bridge. Dancy at the moment,wUs
leaping the post, and Horgan called out to him, " Over
it." Collins immediately began abusing Horgan, who
ultimately gave Collins a box on the ear, and, while doing
so, Alfred Dancy came behind him, struck him a blow in
',lie lumbago, and is able only to work at her needle. To- the face, and pulling out a brass-barrelled pistol threatened
day she is washing, and she will be ill for two or three to shoot him. Horgan replied that he did not like a dis-
days afterwards. The two of them have for thirty hours turbance on a Sunday, or that he would well chastise
been without food. Always during winter they are very them, not imagining for a moment that the pistol was
badly off—they have scarcely any food at all; their prin- loaded, and again left them and joined his friends. By
cipal nourishment at that time is oatmeal. They have this time they had reached the top of Brown's-row, nearly
frequently pawned everything they had that the pawn- opposite the house of Mr. Brown, who is a magistrate for
must et, , brokers would lend anything upon. In the summer they the city, where they stopped, the two boys being then
Up to the present time, providentially, not the slightest get as many things as they can out of pawn again, and only two or three yards behind them. Collins then pulled
accident has occurred, and it is hoped that the increased they sit up night and day toiling to pay their winter's out a life-preserver, and flourished it threateningly at
diligence of the railway company will prevent such. We rent-score. They say that those who get their living by them, upon which William Braund cried out, " Very
heard of several losses in the parish of Reedham ; one needlework must, they are convinced, do the same as they well, Collins, I will tell your mother of your conduct, and
grazier had twenty-five sheep drowned, and another ten do; they are satisfied there are thousands in London who she will give it you for having such a thing as that."
sheep, several stacks washed away, and the sheaves float- starve, get into debt, and pledge regularly every winter, Collins again replied abusively, and flourished the life-
ing on the water. All the flock-masters for miles around and then slave night and day in the summer to pay their preserver. Braund rushed at him, and a struggle ensued,
have had to send their beasts and sheep to graze on the debts and redeem their clothes again. This is the indus- during which they both fell to the ground. The boy
high lands, or to take them into their farm-yards and trim's needle-woman's regular life. They can say of their Dancy, in the meanwhile, again pulled out the pistol, and
home sheds. In several parishes in the same district some own knowledge. They have heard numbers say so. This declared that he would shoot William Braund ; and that
thousand acres of young wheats are under water, and in • summer they have paid off as much as £7 of the back he would shoot Horgan also, if he interfered with him.
... a towns-meeting to rent, and in order to do this they have worked regularly Horgan, however, tried to prevent his getting at Braund,
the parishes of Buckenham, Blundell, and Mutford, for
ns of remedying the injurious effects for six months eighteen and twenty hours a-day, Sunday but evadingHorg.an,Dancy took deliberate aim at Braund,
miles in different directions, ricks of wheat, oats, hay,
'ye arrangements and over-crowd- and week day. They have often sat, the two of them, and shot him. The ball entering the young man's chest,
&c., are to be seen standing in the midst of the rising
he poor of this town." and worked from daylight at three o'clock in the morn- the. bloodspouted out of his mouth, and he fell to the
waters, now full four feet in depth, which cannot be re-
Ellis Jones was found dead a few ing. They have got up at two to do their own little do- ground. The murderer took to instant flight, but was
moved or even approached only by a boat. Cottages and
Jr, at Carnarvon, with several eater- mestic work, so that they began work immediately it was speedily overtaken, and conveyed to the Bedminster
dwellings of larger size, with barns filled with thrashed
indicated that a deadly strife had taken
day, daylight, and they have worked on, frequently with one police-station :cm his way to which be said, in the most
The affair seems mysterious. and unthrashed corn ; granaries and malthouses entirely
the whole till cup of tea, through eleven at ni-
ght. indifferent manner, " I suppose I. shall be scragged."
surrounded, the inmates imprisoned, and forced to live in
ce the death, at Malvern, on Mon-
their upper apartments. Gardens, where floods were hey
neverburn n candle but when they have work to do, The unfortunate young man, Braund. was conveyed to
is Fraser Tytler, the well-knownd he never have a fire, even in the Gen.eral Hospital, but was dead before he reached it.
never before known to reach, are now inundated to the y can't afford it ; and t .
Div his death a literary pension the depths of winter. And after all this toil, suffering, and At the inquest, a verdict of " Wilful murder" was depth of several feet, washing away the soil, potatoes from
re-
their pits, and destroying all that is planted therein. t privation, their reward is twopence halfpenny a-day I 5 Wined.

years and the widow 54