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Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1894-04-06 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TELE LETTER. BOX. I.lu kwrioss.  Pi o'o KEYS —I should be glad if STELLA could tell me of Koine met.1...1 of testormy the whiteneiwyo piano key. which liton bi,coreo ilistolourecl and yellow.— ; II V  Ursa roe Want —Wil! Srr fLA or some roader be -o Food oo to-11 the of s t un- ft r warts.—T.J.  N4wciin  Pauynxv Poe'lCK Noon Insaperieneei " wil 1.4 tbet urning tee i. 4 star sof lavender is one of nrin I.ol,,ar.trob •unthtria 14 peel mint a sick TOOlo, or rn:c.ht 114,1 .e.OW-d ribbon which can be bought ef env ... NV lIIT aurw.r to "Sarah I'." lirne for prfil.rn,l as follows :—Cover &bran p ek of litne ciii eold water and let it slack : then oiler,. the ,sulsist‘ney 5.1 creem aid stir into it a to•clapflil iii'  • Too Mrmn.—Sydney Smith says, regardg the unnecessary consumption of food : "According to iy computation, I have eaten and drunk, Letw een my tenth and seventieth year, forty-four horse wagon loads more than was god for me."  A Fonora's ToasT.—The proprietor of a forge, not remarkable for correctness of language, but who by the honest industry had realised a comfortable independence, being called on at a social meeting for a toast, gave, "Success to forgery." IN a trial where it was attempted to get a murderer off on a plea of insanity, an old physician, ho was a witness, was asked "Where shall the line be drawn between mental and moral insanity?" "Well," deliberately ansii ered the old doctor— "well, I think the line should usually be drawn round the neck l"  A LITTLE girl in school being asked the other day by a member of the Board of Education, "who make our laws? answered, "Congress. "And bow is Congress divided? asked the gentlemen. The little girl hesitated, but finally said: "Into civilized, half-civilized, and savage, sir. "Very good, said the gentleman; "but! do not see why you should have hesitated in your reply.  "An, Adolphus, dear, said an wsthetie young lady to her beau, as they entered the parlour, " Doesn't this remind you of an interior in the days of Louis XV. ? "I beg your pardon, responded the matter-of-fact Adolphns, "but, really, you know, the days of Louis XV., you know, were rather before my time, you know. SPEAKING of old Utiles, Colenel Drawem nays: "When I was in the surveyor's office I was of very little use in drawing the maps, but when it came to drawing the salaries, I never used to take a back scat for any of the boys." A KNOWING lisoome.—Regent-street, London, was regularly patrolled by a beggar who asked alms of no passers-by except old ladies. To these he addressed himself thus: "Oh, young lady, have pity on a poor beggar F' He was singularly successful in his appeals. In reply to an inquiry, he explained his success thus " You see, sir, my plan pleases all the ladies. Sonic of 'ern believe me, and are pleased with the compliment ; other's see its all a sham, and they are tickled by the joke; EP yo': see I get something from all of 'em." •
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-01-09 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

SKIPTON EMIGRANT ON FARMING IN CANADA. _ _ _  ..... Mr. F. G. Robinson, an old Skiptonian, writes from the Weeleyan Theological College, Montreal, Canada: In your issue of Noventber 28th, I was pleased to see a quotation from the Canadian Gazette, in reference ti young Englishmen paying premiums in order to be taught farming out here. I think the Benwell murder should teach the English people a valtiablq, lesson, namely to avoid all premium agents. When I came out to Canada almost three years ago by the S Lake Ontario, there were two or three young men on board, who told me that they were plying large sums of money in order to be taught farming. I have travelled hundreds of miles over Ontario, and made the strictest enquiriem about labour, &c., and I find in almost all parts, the difficulty is to gi t young men at all, no matter how much you are willing to pay. To illustrate this I will give you an instant*. For two summers I lived with a farmer in Ontario. When the harvest time came he travelled miles looking for a man who was willing to hire. After considerable trouble he found one. Well, the man worked all right for two days, until another farmer came along and offered to pay him much higher wages, and the man left. My friend could not find another man mid was in great danger of having some of his crop spoiled by the sun and I am not ashamed to confess that I left my studies and turned out into the field as farm labourer. I will give you another instance of the scarcity of hired labour in Canada. Several of the Orphan Homes in England send out scores of children every year, to be adopted by the farmers, Ste. When a farmer makes application for one he has to promise to send the b4y or girl, as the case may be, to school so many months in the year, and provide clothes and board, and in a great many cases at the age of 21 the farmer has to pay the young man S2OO, which equals about £4O English, after having taught him farming. I can speak with confidence on this point as in my capacity. as a minister I have had to till up forms of application to be sent to the different homes for these children. Now what does this prove? It proves that if a respectable young man wishes to learn farming, if he is willing to work, and be taught, he need not pay a copper to any agent but come out, and he will have no difficulty in finding employment. I hope that you will through your valuable paper warn the young men against premium agents. P.S.—I am informed that there are two institutions in Canada, one near Bellville, and the other near Woodstock, where a young man can go and be taught the art of farming, receive a liberal education, and instruction in veterinary surgery, &c., and I am told that charge made is no many hours work each day."
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-03-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

PARLIAMENT.  Another surprise was prepared for the House of Commons on Friday in the form of an amendment to Mr. Smith's motion on the teport of the Special Commission, of which Mr. Jennings, the Tory Member for Stockport, gave notice. It condemns the conduct of those who are responsible for the accusation of complicity in murder brought against Members of the House, based mainly on forged letters, and declared by the Commission to be disproved.—ln the House of Lords on Monday, the Statute Law Revision Bill was read a third time after the Lotd Chancellor had, at the request of Earl Fortescue, made scrim explanation on the subject of the bill. The Comity Councils Associati.m Expenses Bill was passed through Committee, and a return was ordered of the sale of benefices under the Lord Chancellor's Augmentation Acts—in the Commons the new member for Stamford, Mr. H. C. Cust, took his seat. The motion of Mr. W. H. Smith for resuming the  DEBATE ON THE PARNELL COMMISSION was objected to by the Liberal members because notice of it had not been given. Some discussion followed, in which Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt took part, but the Speaker overruled the objection, and the motion was agreed to. together with a motion for the suspension of the twelve o'clock rule. Mr. Sexton then resumed the debate on the report of the Parnell Commissioners. He complained that the report was biassed, and went on to deal with the various findings of the Commissioners from his own point of view. Mr. Howorth followed, saying that although opposed to the appointment of the Commission he should vote for Mr. Smith's resolution. Mr. Gourley and Mr. S. Gedgc continued the debate. Mr. Balfour, who room late in the evening, spoke in reply to Mr. Sexton, and was followed by Sir Vs illiam Harcourt. The House then came to  THE nivniroN, with the following result :—For Mr. Gladstone' amendment, :14;8; against, 339: majority for the Government. 71.—1 n the HOURO of Lords on Tueglay the Earl of Milltown reintroduced his mea.sure providing for the HORPORAL PUNISHMENT or BURGLARS . .  who with malice aforethought provided themselves with firearms for the purpose of carrying out their designs. The Master of the Rolls opposed the second reading on the ground that the law as it stood was sufficient to punish the armed burglar without resorting to flogging. Ile moved that the bill be read is seem,' time that day six months. Lord Bramwell supported the bill, and after speeches by Lord Hersehell, Lord Norton, and Lord Coleridge, only 17 voted for the amendment, the motion for the second reading being carried by a n.ajority of 47. The House adjourned at five minutes past seven o'clock.— In the Commons it was elicited from the Chancellor of the Exchequer during question time that  will not be introduced before Easter. Three bills were introduced and read a first time. The debate on the Report of the Parnell Commission took  AN
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-03-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

CLEARING THE COURT.  A woman, aged sixty, and weighing list. Mb. entered the Mayor's Court at Gainesville, Texas, on Saturday, and by way of protest against the imposition of a tine upon her husband, knocked down first of all a policeman, then the city attorney, and finally the mayor. She then thrashed them all three, and drove them out of the court, of which she retained possession for three hours. The victims of her violence are much disfigured about the face.  A SCHOONER which arrived in the Mersey on Saturday night f(iundered off Egremont. No survivors have been traced, and there is no doubt that the crew went down with the ve..el.  DuiHsu a iwarrel at Manchester on Saturday night, a Frenchman named tiorbie fatally stabbed his son-inlaw, a young man named Ilampson, a slipper maker, who with his wife was visiting Sorbie at his house in Fennel-street.  AN explosion occurred on Friday in a furniture factory at Evansville, Indiana. Three boys were burned to cinders, and an engineer was fatally injured. Two workmen have been killed and several others injured by a premature explosion in a quarry at Newark, near Jersey. THE Bishop of Ripon opened the thirtieth house established by the Bradford Coffee Tavern Company on Saturday. afternoon.  A BOILER in a workshop situated near Range-lane, Halifax, exploded on Saturday evening, killing a man named Arthur James Frobisher, and injuring several other isirsons. THE Claimant has turned up again, this time as a candidate for Parliamentary honours at Stoke. But at a meeting which he held on Saturday the electors &dined to take him seriously. AHNEMANN, the Nottingham dentist, who shot Judge Bristow° with a revolver and narrrowly escaped killing him, was on Saturday, at the Notts Assizes, sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. A Tonorro telegram reports a fatal fire in a house in Parry Sound. Two girls, aged 16 and 5 respect i ely, and a youth, aged 18, were burnt to death. A MOTION against Imperial Federation has been carried unanimously in the Quebec House of Assembly. The mover of the resolution (Mr. David) said his was more in favour of annexation to the United States than of Imperial Federation. AT the Ventral Criminal Court Jessie Bevan, who was found guilty of poisoning her infant child by administering laudanum, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. _ _  r THOMASNeaI (69), a blacksmith, was on Saturday found guilty of the murder of his wife, who was only twenty-four years of age, at Islington, and was sentenced to death.  guointso AnnounamatO.  THOMAS JAMES ELLIS, FURNISHING IRONMONGER, ARCADE, COLNX,  Invites special attenticn to his extensive and choice ssortment of Fenders, Fire Irons, Fire Brasses, Ask Pans7Top Bars, Lamps, Pans, Kettles, Tin Goods, Shovels, Cutlery, Trunks; Brushes in great variety; Wrought Iron Slow Combustion Coal Savers, Leather Soles for Soling and Heeling your own Bouts and Shoes; and Furnishing Ironmongery in endless variety, including the " Nkw REGULATION Doe Muzzr.g."  Do not fail to see our Workiug-Man's Gas Oven at 28e. Ctrje  :4.'7,7 ,
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-06-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

ONYX/5, THURSDAY EVENING. With the Queen in Scotland, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their family in Denmark, the condition of the London season seems worse than ever. It is not expected that the Queen will come south before the beginWng of July, while the Prince and Princess of Wales will probably go for a yachting cruise on the Osborne when they return to England. Neither Of the Drawing-Rooms gave much of a fillip to gaiety in general, and the plan of cramming both into one week was distinctly prejudicial. Prince George's new title is not a very happy choice, for the Dukes of York have usually been unfortunate in one way or another. The Duke of York, brother of Edward V., was murdered in the Tower. The Duke of York who was the seconi son of James 1., succeeded to the throne as Charles 1., and was brought to the block. The Duke of York who was the younger brother of Charles 11., succeeded to the throne, but was driven from it at the Revolution, and died in exile. The Duke of York who was the second son of George 111., • led the nufortunate Walcheren expedition, and, as Commander-in-Chief, allowed Mary An Clarke to sell commissions for her benefit. He, by the way, was not only Duke of York, but of Albany, aud. Bishop of Osnaburg. Royal personages aro very busy just now. The Duke of Edinburgh is writing music for a graad opera to the libretto of Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania, to be produced at the Coburg Theatre. The Queen Natalie of Servia is engaged on a play, based on personal experience, to be called "Mother." It will be produced on the French stage when finished. ril(, Princess Louise ia at work on a bust of the Queen, which will be exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago next year. The announcement that Captain Osborne has resigned his commission is the last act in the great pearl drama which need come to the knowledge of the public. It is understood that Captain Osbonie's determination to leave the service was quite contrary to the desires of his superior and. brother officers. If Mr. Gladstone has both spoken and  written ranch—too much, some say—he will perhaps be made responsible for all that ie written about him. It is estimated that at least • 250 books and pamphlets have been written concerning him and his work. Ag&nst this, as regara books, he can place comparatively little in quantity, from " Church and State" down to " Homer," published at the same time a, Lord Beaconsfiell's " Endymion." But, as regards pamphlets and magazine articles and other ephemeral literature, beOnning in 1840 with " Ch-arch Principles considered in their results," down to the present time, both in quantity and quality they have been simply oveelvh.elming. The most famous was the "Vatican Decrees in their bearing on civil allegiance." of which 110,000 copies were sold in the first year, and which struck such a blow at the stronghold of Roman Catholicism as it has not yet recovered. The publication of his speeches in a collected edition has, however, • only just now been completed.
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-06-10 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

YOUNGEST CHILD- ON HIS KNEE.  Witness saw blood on the finger of prisoner's right hand. She asked him where Eliza was, and he said witness would find her if she would go and look for her. Witness said "tell me where she is and I'll go and find her." Witness stood staring at him and he said "Thou can't believe me, that's 'Liza's blood" (pointing to the finger of his right hand). Witness then took her shawl and went to the bottom of the street. She there met a Mr. Metcalfe who said there was a woman lying dead. Witness went with Metcalfe and she met P.C. White who also went along with Metcalfe. Deceased was lying in the old lane leading to Barnoldswick quite dead, with her head in the state seen by the jury. In her left htnd deceased had some hair the same colour as the prisoner's whiskers.—By the foreman: We had no more than two pints of beer before deceased and her husband left the house. Mrs. Booth came for me before I heard that he had murdered his wife.— By a juror: Prisoner enquired twice for hliza. John Booth, a twister, living at Wesley-place, Earby, deposed to seeing prisoner about 20 p.m. on Saturday in witness's house. He came in and drank a glass of beer that was on the table. He never spoke but went out. Shortly afterwards be came in again, and going up to the table said "HAVE YOU NO DRINK?  Witness replied "No, I've 20., have you a penny ?>' Prisoner said "No, I haven't a penny, but I shall have one when I come back." Prisoner then went out and witness did not see him again until between two and three o'clock. When he came in again he threw a 2s. piece on to the table, which bounced on to the floor, and said "Fetch a gallon of beer; let me have as much drink as I can get before they fetch me, I've killed my wife." Witness asked prisoner where the was and he replied "this child (meaning Katie) knows; Katie where's thi' mammy?" The child did not seem to take any notice of him, and those in the house did  not think he had done it. Prisoner then said "You can't believe me?" Witness answered "What have you done at her ? " He replied "Who clicked at th' knife and then I punched her in th"yed." They talked on and off again, and prisoner repeated that they thought he had not done it, but added "I have," and pulling his neck handkerchief off, remarked "Jack, take this handkerchief and keep it for my sake." Witness took it and put it in his pocket, after which prisoner said "Fetch some beer, let me have as mtich as I can get." They continued to talk until the policeman came in, and Cudworth at once held his hands out, saying to the officer "I've done the deed." P.C. White then handcuffed prisoner, who asked for one hand to be loose. Prisoner's little boy came rushing in, and said "Father, what have you killed my mother for?" Prisoner cro2sed his hands on his breast, and said "You know what I killed her for; I'm not sorry." Prisoner had not been in any place to get drink, and while he did not seem to be drunk he
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-06-10 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

PRISONER FURTHER REMANDED.  The accused was again brought before Mr. J. B. Dewhurst and Rev. L. B. Morris, at the Skipton Police-station on Wednesday forenoon, when be still maintained that same self-possessed demeanour which characterised his first appearance before the magistrates. Ellen Pylon, who said she was deceased's brother's wife, was called, and she deposecl to prisoner and his wife coming home from the mill at 12-30 on Saturday. Witness lodged with them, and they came home on very comfortable terms. Between coming home and two o'clock they said they would go and buy Katie a pair of clogs, cud prisoner went out of the house first and deceased followed him. In about 10 minutes prisoner returned and asked, "Where's Liza." Witness replied, "She went out with you to buy a pair of clogs." He went out but came back a second time saying "Hasn't who cowed in yet?" Witness said "No," and he went out again. He next returned to the house of Mrs. Booth, who ran to witness saying "Moses says he's kilted 'Liza." Witness then ran out and in answer to a question from her prisoner remarked "If tba'll go and look tha'll find her." Witness took her shawl and met a Mr. Metcalfe who told her a woman was lying dead on the road. Witness next met P.C. White and told him what she had heard. White hurried to the spot by himself, but when he arrived she was quite dead. Witness went up to deceased, placed her hands in hers and found in the deceased woman's Isf e hand some of prisoner's whiskers.—Supt. Crawshaw : Did nothing take place in Mrs. Booth's before you ran out? —Witness: Yes sir, he said "If thou doesn't believe me that's her blood."—Prisoner : There was  NO BLOOD AT ALL, it was my finger nail that was cut.—Rev.. L. D. Morris: Did prisoner tell you he had murdered her?— No sir, he said "If thou can't believe me that's her blood." He has been a very quiet man up to just lately.—P.O. White deposed to receiving information on Saturday afternoon about 3-25 that a woman was lying dead up the 'Old Lane. He went to the place and found the deceased lying near the top of the lane. Her forehead was all smashed in, there was ?. cut on her chin, and a large quantity of blood lay on the ground about her head. Witness afterwards apprehended Cudworth. when he noticed blood on the right hand fingers and on the palm of his left hand. Witness afterwards charged him with causing the death of his wife but he made no reply. Witness afterwards received a clasp knife (produced) from Ralph Pawson.—Supt. Crawshaw : Th.) -knife was found within two feet of the body.—Rev. L. B. Morris: There was a cut on the face ?—Supt. Crawshaw : Yes sir, but the doctor says there were several cuts, but one might be an incised wound.—Prisoner (to the constable) : Did I say to you in Booth's house "I have done the deed, I'LL
Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-01-22 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

LONDON LETTER.  [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDRN LONDON, THURSDAY EVISNI.NC; , How difficult is it to try and express the great general sympathy felt by one and all on every side with the Royal Family. Never, I should say, has such sympathy been showit before. When the Prince of Wales years age fought the great battle with typhoid fever there was consternation and grief felt b, everyone, but there is an item in this Ca.e which makes it particularly sad. Just about to make a popular marriage, the Duke of Clarence had never before been such a favourite with the public. This deplorable calamity is precisely of the sort that gee home straight to the English race. Fathers and mothers feel what it would be to have an eldest son taken away in the pride of 1 fe, and their sympathy with the Prince and Princess of 'Wales will be especially deep. Nor will there be any lack of feeling for the Royal lady whose dearest grandson was to have perpetuated her line. Not less sincerely will the peeple of these isles sympathise wieh the rest of the Ry.ll Family. The Duk. 's amiability aud geod nature had endeared him to one and all. But it is, perhaps; to tee Princess May that the national mind aed heart will chiefly go out in spontaneous pi7-y and profound sympathy. The bereaved father and mother have other children cat whom to emcentrate their affections; the Queen has many grandchildren; but the Princess May has lost all that makes Itfe. sweet. At the time when Prince Albert Victor was raised to the Peerage some regret was expressed that another title than that of Clarence had not been found for him. The lamentable event which has plunged all England into mourning cannot fail to recall the ill-fated associations of the name. It is a melancholy fact that no Duke of Clarence has transmitted the title to his descendants. Lionel Plantagenet, the first, had no son. Thomas Plantagenet, the second, fell at the battle of Beaugo, and left no issue. The third, the "false, fleeting, perjured Clarence" of Shakespeare, was murdered and 'attainted ; and therefore the title remained obscured until it was revived for the third son of George 111, afterwards William IV, who also died childless. It will be long, we doubt not, before a title with such a chain of melancholy memories attaching to it will be again revived. The reference to the death of the Duke of Clarence in the gneeu's Speech at the °peeing of the session will at once be followed by a motion for an address of condolence to the Royal Family. This will be moved in the  Ho-use of Lords by the Marquis of Salisbury, and in the House of Commons by Mr. Balfour. It is expected that the motion in the Commons will be seconded by Mr. Gladstone. On learning of the death of Cardinal Manning the Pope exclaimed, "Alas 1 a bright light of the church has gone oat." He always consulted his eminence before issuing encyclicals, and it is not too mach to say that the Cardinal has exercised a considerable i afluence  over the pontificate of Leo.