The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-08-05 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

LORD COTRTRNAY'S BANKRUPTCY. At the Bankruptcy Court. on Saturday, Lord Courtenay, heir to the Earl Devon, attended for his public examination. The debts are not less than £823,000. The case was adjourned with a view to an arrangement.  persons have been sentenced to death at the criminal sessions of Bombay. One is Private Patrick Robinson' of her Majesty's 411th regiment, for the murder of a ltheel at Asseerghur ; ar.d the other a Mussulman, for the murder of a woman in Bombay. Charlotte Day was again examined at Cambridge on Monday, on the charge of poisoning her husband. Professor Liveing said that the slight trace of arsenic found could not have been produced in the process of testing. The prisoner was again remanded.  About 100 members of the Drake family met at the Brandreth House the other day, and listened to two long reports from Dr. Beckwith, of Philadelphia, who has been searching for evidence to prove that the American Drakes are the rightful heirs of Sir Francis Drake, who left property valued at 125,000,000 dollars.  A young Pennsylvanian who made arrangements to marry against the wishes of some of his relatives, was recently taken from his bed at dead of night by masked men, carried to the woods, and being tied to a tree' naked, was beaten with heavy whips until nearly dead. Two of the perpetrators of the outrage have been arrested. The largest obelisk ever known to have been cut from the granite quarries in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen has just been hewn from the Stirlinghall quarry. It measures 25 feet in length, and weighs 16 tons, and is worth, in its rough state, upwards of E2OO sterling. It is a beautiful piece of red granite, entirely free from flaws. Three English tourists—Mr. and Miss Walker and .Mr. Gardiner—succeeded in making the ascent of the Matterhorn on the 22nd ult. Miss Walker is the first of her sex who has had the courage to grapple with the great difficulties experienced in reaching the summit of this mountain, which is • 13,8450 feet high. •  We ( Echo) understand that the Government will shortly pay over in full, with interest, the reserves —in the case of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company of about £2o,ooo—which were retained at the time of purchase with a view to meet any outstanding or unfulfilled obligations belonging to the telegraph companies. The Act to repeal the Ecclesiastical Tities Act has been printed. The repeal shall not, nor shall anything in this Act contained, be deemed in any way to authorise or sanction the conferring, or attempting to confer, any rank, title, or precedence, authority or jurisdiction, on any person m or out of the realm, other than the sovereign thereof. For many years past there has been a Fradual extinction in Carlisle of handloom weaving, a business which within the memory of men living was beyond all comparison the most important in that district. The last few days have contributed to help the decline—one firm, who formerly employed thousands of people in weaving, having altogether relinquished that branch of trade. An enthusiastic Scotchman proposes that his countrymen should "get up" a national subscription to the Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise. As the Duke of Argyll is willing to sell his beautiful estate of Roseneath, he hints that it ought to be purchased for the young couple, who no doubt, would appreciate the gilt very much, considering that it has been valued at about £lBO