The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-01-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

GLEANINGS.  The family of Harriet Lane last week presented stokes with. an illuminated address as a mark of their gratitude for his services in assisting in the discovery of the Whitechapel murder. George Fordham, lying at Leicester under sentence of death for the murder of John Smith, at Leicester Borough Asylum, on August 26th, has been respited. The Academy states that Messrs. Macmillan have recently issued the thirty-first thousand of Mr. Green's Short History of the English People, with corrections and alterations. A singular death took place last week at Lincoln. A grocer named Picker, who keeps fowls, was feeding them,' when a bantam cock spurred him in the left thumb. Mortification set in, and all efforts to save the unfortunate man's life proved unavailing. The Malabar, Indian troopship, which arrived in Portsmouth harbour with the 107th Regiment from Bombay, brought home the scrip of the Suoz Canal shares recently purchased from the Khedive by the English Government. It is enclosed in bur strong boxes, and on the arrival of the Malabar an official of the Treasury was in attendance to take charge of it. Last week a meeting of the Executive Committee of the fund lately raised in the city of London for the relief of the sufferers by the recent disastrous inundations andlfloods throughout the country,was held, in the Mansion-house for the despatch of business. The Lord Mayor p Ipsided, and the hon. secretary stated that the `fund amounted to L 17,550. '  _ A. little boy, nine years of age, was brought up at the Hammersmith Police-court charged with throwing a stone, to the common danger. The missile had struck another lad in the eye, and completely destroyed the sight. The delinquent, who had already been chastised by his father, was now fined 10s. and 2s. costs, with the alternative of seven days' imprisaament. At the Bourne, Lincolnshire, Petty Sessions, the Rev. Ralph Lyonel Tolleir ache, rector of South Wytham, and Granville Tollemache, his son, were charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding a foxhound belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale. It appeared that the rector last year claimed compensation from Lord Lonsdale, who is master of the Cottesmoor hounds, for alleged damage done by foxhounds, but his claim was disallowed. On Dec. 3rd aloshound ran across *the rectory field, and the son shot it from a billiard room. The defendants were fined £5 each, besides costs and ti es damage. An occurrence took place on Saturday night which resulted in the death of a man under the following circumstances. Shortly before ten o'clock a labourer, named Miles O'Connor, living at 108, Brinksway, Stockport, went into Mr. Donaldson's tobacconist shop, Wellington Road South, and pure hosed some tobacco, Mr. Donaldson's custom being to present his customers at this season of the year with a new year's gift, O'Connor received a box of lights from the son of the proprietor, and went out. He returned agam shortly afterwards and made another purchase, but not receiving a gratuity the second time he created a disturbance, and was ordered by the young ,man  out of the shop, but refused to go, upon which he was ejected. He came in again, and a scuffle ensued. Bernard Canning, an elderly man, living in Egerton's Court, Thomas-street, Heaton. Lane, was in conversation with Air. Donaldson in his ,front parlour, and hearing the disturbance he entered the shop. Observing the son and O'Con. nor stru6gling together, he went between, and the latter dealt him a blow on the left breast. Canning did not say a word. He walked out of the shop, and had not gone above seven yards when he staggered and fell. Medical assist-ice was sent for, and on Mr. Hudson, surgeon, arriving on the spot he pronounced life extinct. FORMATION Or