The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-06-06 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

REMINISCENCES OF THS PAST.  January 19th, 1767.—This day the Post Boy, who carried the mails from Bradford to Rochdale, was with his horse frozen to death on the road.. January 20th.-. One Patrick Redmond having been condemned at Cork, Ireland, to be hanged for a street robbery, he was accordingly executed, and hung upwards of 28 minutes, when the mob carried off the body to a place appointed, where he was, after five or six hours, actually recovered by a surgeon, who made the incision in his windpipe called bronohotomy, which produced the desired effect. The poor fellow has since received his pardon, and a genteel collection has been made for him. February 14.—Fourteen convicts from Durham, Newcastle, and Morpeth were put on board the " Jenny," Capt. Blagden, bound for Virginia, at which time ten young artificers shipped themselves for America. One of them, we hear, who formerly belonged to Newcastle, has enlisted 4-Ito 46 different regiments, has been whipped out of 19, sentenced to be shot six times, but reprieved each time, confined in 73 different gaols, has appeared under the character of Quack Doctor in seven diherent kingdoms, and is now only in the 82nd year of his age. February 16th.—John Storey, a blacksmith at Bedford having courted the daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Elliott, widow, near Haggerstone, going one day to her house to ask for his sweetheart, , found none but the old woman, who told him her ' daughter was not at home, but asked him why he courted her daughter, who could not bring him above £2O, and if he would please her she would help him to one of £5OO, on which he replied that he would ever with gratitude acknowledge the favour. Then I am the person (says she) U you'll accept of the offer ; on which a bargain was struck immediately, and on Tuesday night they were married at Kills, The bridegroom is only 18 years of age end the bride 64. age, of the peace were exhibited at Hicks'shall by a noble lord aqainst a woman, for threatening to stab his lordship and set fire to his house. The court ordered her to find security or to be committed. She found security. March 24th.—The following extraordinary affair happened at Ferrybridge :—The wife of Thos. Benson, of that place, being suddenly taken ill, she to all appearance expired, and continued without any symptoms of life the whole day and night, and every proper requisite was ordered for the funeral; but the husband, hoping for some consolation in his distress by some money which he had reason to believe she had secreted from him in her lifetime, began to search for it, and feund £7 10e. in crown-pieces concealed in an old box. But upon his attempting t,o take it away, he was surprised by his wife, who had just then recovered, met him and terribly frightened him. She continued in seemingly good health till next day at neon when she actually expired. May 4th.—Francis German was hung this morning, pursuant to his sentence, for the murder of Thomas Griffiths. While he was hanging, a young woman with a wen upon her neck, came and asked that it may be rubbed with the dead man's hand. She was accordingly lifted up and her wish complied with, from a superstitious motion that it would effect a cure. May 18th.—A poor housekeeper in Edinburgh being deficient in his rent, was seised upon by his landlord, his goods sold while he was away from home, and the door locked against him when he returned. The neighbours filled with pity for their friend, and with rage for his oppressor assembled about the landlord's house, broke open the door, brought out everything movable into the street, set fire to the pile, and burnt the whole to ashes, not sparing money, notes, nor even the poor bird that hung in the cage, having execrated all the cursed thingsbelonging to so merciless wretch. May 519tb.—At the annual feast of a City Company held this day, it has always been usual to have green pea.; which were this year with such  difficulty obtained that sixteen quarts cost sixteen guineas. Two intinerant preachers, one a tailor the others dyer, quarrelled in Moorilelis about their religion; and the mob taking the dyer's part, the poor tailor was holdled in a most inhuman manner, and would certainly have been killed but for the interposition of some gentlemen passing by.