The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-08-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE MOORS.—There are various accounts from the moors in the immediate neighbourhood, and indeed throughout the two counties of Cumberland and Westmorland; but it is generally reported that the birds are strong on the wing, and difficult to cover—presenting a marked contrast to the weak and delicate birds which showed themselves a year or two ago, when, in some places, whole coveys were destroyed by disease. Where the disease was most fatal, although the breeding season has been most favourable on the whole, the birds have not been quite so numerous as some of the more enthusiastic sportsmen could have desired. Owing to this circumstance, coupled with the fact that the birds are unusually strong and swift, the bags have not been so good as was anticipated, and many of the best shots on the 12th failed to bring down more than two-thirds of what are considered to be really good bags. During the breeding season, warm, sunny weather prevailed, which continued without interruption for some time afterwards, and the birds were thus enabled to gather strength quickly. The excellent feeding, too, has been most favourable to the growth of the birds, and most of them are plump and healthy. On Bowes Moor, on the 12th, Mr. Chapman bagged 36 brace, R. C. Musgrave, Esq., 33 brace, and Capt. Gandy, 26 brace. Capt. Jackson and Mr. Cockbain were successful at Slate Quarries, Stainmoor. In many places, however, none but the best shots have made anything out; still the sport is exciting, and during the season it is anticipated that sportsmen will be fully employed. The inquest on the body of Margaret Crow, the old woman who was killed by her husband at Gateshead, was held on Saturday, and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter.  he was dying,iie requested the cure to be sent to him. The cure came and administered the consolations of religion through a hole in the window. Lombard had been bitten six months ago, but had not had the wound cauterised." MURDEROUS ATTACK OF AN ENGLISH BARRISTER IN Seam—The Times has published an account by Mr. Henry Jencken, an English barrister, of the extraordinary treatment he has received from a fanatical mob at Lorca, in Spain. Mr. Jencken was walking one evening in the public promenade, when he was met by a woman leading a child by the hand. He bade the woman "good evening," according to the common usage of the country, when she suddenly turned round and raised cry of alarm. Mr. Jencken, who had moved on, soon found himself persued by three men, who attacked him Nh long knives, and one of whom hurled a stone Wiis head, which brought him on his knees. Upon his struggling to rise he was beset by a mob, by whom he was most savagely mauled and belaboured, and from whose hands he was only rescued, when beaten within an ace of his life, by the intervention of some " volunteers of freedom." who, after tying his hands behind him so tightly as to cause the blood to gush from the wounds in his arms and hands, conveyed him through the midst of an infuriated multitude before the alcalde. That magistrate, and other gentlemen to whom Mr. Jencken was known, succeeded in bringing the mob to their senses, arrested the chief offenders, and sent for a carriage, in which the half-murdered gentleman was driven to a friend's house and conmaned to the surgeon's care, Mr. Jencken states that there Was, on the part of some persons whose ill-will he had in the exercise of his professional duties, been compelled to provoke, a "deliberate design on his life," and that the population of Lorca acted less on their own impulse than on de liberate suggestion. Mr. Jencken had been denounced to them as a child-stealer—a Tio del Shin, ' or greasemonger—whom they suspected of" catching and butchering young children for the purpose of using the fat of their entrails to grease the telegraph wires."