The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

SUICIDE AT CHESTER CASTLE.—About nine o'clock
yesterday morning week, Thos. White, a private soldier
in the 6th Infantry, now stationed at Chester Castle,
committed suicide by cutting his throat. The unhappy
man was a native of Ireland, about 40 years of age, 17 of
which he had served in the regiment; he was much ad-
dicted to drink, and was under punishment for having
been intoxicated.

CAUTION TO MOTHERS.—On Thursday last, an inquest
was held in Leeds, on the body of John Little, aged 14
days. The deceased being rather unwell, his fattier, on
Monday evening last, obtained a pennyworth of Godfrey's
cordial, at a druggist's shop. The same evening he mixed
five or six drops of the medicine with some warm water
and sugar, and his wife administered it to the child. This
in a short time produced heavy sleep, and the parents be-
coming alarmed. the father went and obtained the at-
tendance of Mr. Bell, surgeon, between four and five
o'clock on the followit,g morning, but his efforts were un-
availing, and the child died the same evening.
RETRIBUTION—A gentleman, one of the members of
an opulent wholesale firm, lately saw goods. sold by his
partners on credit, marked up in the shop of the pur-
chaser, who kept a " cheap shop," considerably below the
cost price. He therefore walked home and desired his
wife to go and purchase the goods at the price at which
they were ticketed, and have them sent home. On their
arrival, the porter who carried them had the pleasure to
see the gentleman himself, Who, instead of payment, said,
"That will do, tell your master the hill shall be set against
his account with the firm of F- and Co." Having
thus got possession of his property at some 20 per cent.
below the price at which lie was creditor for it, he next
exerted the kw, by making the party a bankrupt for the
balance ! —Bi istol Journal

PROHIBITION OF " SMOKE."—A bill to prohibit the
nuisance of smoke from furnacf s or manufactories was,
some time ago, brought into the House of Commons by
Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. W. Beckett, and Lord Francis
Egerton, and is now reprinted, a: amended by the com-
mittee of the whole house. The number of clauses is 24.
Occupiers of furnaces are required, under certain penal-
ties, to prevent the issue of " opaque" smoke for more
than a certain length of time in 24 hours ; that is to say,
from any chin.ney from which is emitted the smoke of
one furnace only, for a longer net iod in the whole than 12
minutes in every three consecutive hours ; and from every
chimney from which is emitted the smoke of too furnaces,
for a longer period in the whole than 24 minutes in every
three consecutive hours, and so on in proportion; 48
minutes in every three consecutive hours being the maxi-
mum. " Opaque" smoke is defined by clause 2 to be
Brooke not transparent at the point of its exit from the
chimney.
THUNDER STORM.—A very terrific thunder storm oc-
curred in the West Biding of York on Monday. At
Longwood, near Huddersfield, the damage done was con-
siderable, the furniture in several houses being much
injured. At Barnsley the electric fluid struck a barn and
fired it, and several sheep and horses were killed. At a
house in Shrewsbury-road, Sheffield, the lightning de-
scended by the bell wire, and entered the dining-room,
blackening and rending the wall by the fire-place, burning
a picture and frame and the frame of a mirror, and shiver-
ing the mirror into a thousand fragments : a female ser-
vant was struck blind, and so continues. In a house near
Swinton a mantel-piece was torn from its place and hurled
with terrific violence against the opposite wall, where,
having made a deep indentation, it remained. One of the
tall chimneys at the manufactory of Mr. Makin, of Atter-
cliffe, was so deeply cut into, that it is expected a con-
siderable portion of it must be taken down. Much damage
was done also at Otley, flarrowgate, and other places.
SODA-WATER MAD.—A few days ago a seaman, named
Raphael Brown, was paid off from his ship, receiving £37.
Soon afterwards, when about to start in a steamer for the
north, he received a letter from his father, stating that his It
sister had gone cut of her mind. This preyed upon him
so much that he became insane himself, the chief indica-
tion of his disorder being a propensity to drink immode-
rately of soda-water. He quitted the steamer, leaving
his clothes on board. He went to the Ship Inn, where
his demands for soda-water astonished everybody. Be-
tween Saturday night and Monday afternoon he consumed
the enormous quantity of 120 bottles. He afterwards
went to another public-house, where he drank thirty-five
bottles, and began to talk so irrationally, calling for a
knife to cut his throat, that an officer was sent for. The
latter, by promising him more soda-water, got him away.
after a further consumption of fifteen bottles. He was
conveyed to the station-house, whence he was sent to the
Workhouse. On his way thitlier he insisted upon enter-
ing a ginger-beer and mineral-water manufactory, where
he despatched seven bottles of soda-water and ginger-
beer in three minutes, and called for more; but the pro-
prietor, fearing the man would burst, declined opening
him a further supply.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week a small
party of friends left Glasgow for the purpose of visiting
the Palls of Clyde, among whom were Mr. Walter Bax-
ter and his lady. After having seen the two lower falls
the party separated, one portion proceeding upwards to
visit the Bonnington fall, while Mr. and Mrs. Baxter and
a friend remained behind. They seated themselves on the
bank of the river, waiting the return of their friends, when
Mrs. Baxter expressed a desire to see " Wallace's Cave,"
which was below, and in the immediate vicinity. She ac-
cordingly went to the spot, accompanied by the friend
already alluded to, and, having surveyed the locality, re-
quested that he would call her husband to participate in
the sight. Leaving Mrs: Baxter seated by the river's
brink, the gentleman retired a few paces to call her hus-
band, and on his return found that, in the very brief in-
terval which had elapsed, Mrs. Baxter had disappeared.
Whether the unfortunate lady had fainted and toppled
from the rock, or whether she had risen and approached
too near the brink, and fallen into the flood, will never
now be known, for the only trace left behind was her
handkerchief lying upon the rocky seat which she had
occupied when her friend proceeded to call her husband.
Every available means were employed to recover the body,
and it was found only at two o'clock on Monday morning.
Mrs. Rutter had only been nine months a wife.