The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-05-31 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE SIXTEEN FEMALE TRADE UNIONISTS SENT TO PILISON.—Mr. C. Holloway, of Woodstock, writes as follows to the Times respecting this case: , I am chairman of the Oxford district of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, and at Ascott, Oxfordshire, in my district, there has been for more than three weeks a lock-out of the farm labourers, and considerable excitement has prevailed in consequence. Mr. Hambridge, a farmer there, has brought some workmen from other vii loges to do the work of his former men, and several of the women- of the parish, whose husbands are out of work, assembled on the 12th inst , and meeting Mr. Hambridge's men as they were going to 'work. tried to induce them to leave kis employ. Mr. Hambridge took the matter up and caused 17 of the women to appear on Thursday before the magistrates at Chirping Norton. in this county, and the in ,gistrotes have sent 16 of these poor women to prison, seven of them for ten days' hard labour and nine for seven days' hard labour. The witnesses swore that some of the women had sticks in their hands, and said that the men would not be allowed to go to work. The women denied this altogether. Anyhow, it was not attempted to be proved that any physical force was made use of. The wcmen are very respectable in the class to which they belong, and there was great excitement in the town of Chipping Norte,' on the decision of the magistrates being made known, and a crowd soon assembled, and I had considerable difficulty in restraining their anger. I fear that if Iliad not been present some violence would have been committed. The people were astonished and bewildered at the sentences passed on such a number of poor women for what appeared to them no offence hatever. The women themselves had no idea that such a law existed as was now brought to bear on them with such tenible force. I attended the magistrates' meeting in the capacity I hold to watch the ca.,e, and never in my life was I more shocked than to see these 16 pot' w amen dragged off to prison, and some of them with i at their breasts."  Seven men have just been arrested near Lurgan Ireland, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of James Dl'Donough in February last. The Newcastle police have just been cautioned, by the coroner of that town, against the practice of supposing that every person found incapable in the streets is under the influence of drink. Mary Inn Tweedy, a widow, who had been locked up on the supposition that she was drunk, was proved to have died in the cells from effusion on the brain, produced by natural causes. William Hornby, a collier, was killed at Raghole colliery, near Rochdale, on Monday, by a huge stone, two yards long, falling upon his head and breast from the roof.  TUE DEAN OF CARLISLE ON TEE POSITION OF Womix.—On Sunday afternoon the Dean of Carlisle, preaching in the Cathedral, said that many of the Jews believed ;that women had not souls, and treated them accordingly. Every religion except Christianity degraded women, but Christianity put her on a level with her husband, her sons, and her father. It had given her a beautiful position in the Temple of God exactly adapted to her physical and. natural characteristics, and when a Christian woman fulfilled her duty in that position she Aisne like a star in the firmament. They ought to be satisfied with this Christian adornment and the beauty of Christian women, and should not attempt to thrust them out of that position into positions for which God never intended them.