The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-05-16 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

ATEREPOWT IN THE CHANNEL-Ur. Charles Stewart, F.R.A.S., writes from Alton —"A: waterspout was seen last week by the passengers on bead the steamship Havre, whi e crossing from the Channel Islands to Southampton. When about 25 miles north by east of Alderney a heavy dark cloud advanced from north by west in the direction of the ship. It in fell heavily from the nimbus oa the under side of the cloud, and just ab 'vs the nimbus, which I estimaied to be about a mile in height, the waterspout, in the form of an inverted cone, suddenly formed and increased from the base downwards, to the extent of about one fourth of the distance of the base from the sea. If ray estimate were ight, the height of the cone must have been from 400 to 500 yards, and the diameter of its bitse nearly 160 yards. At the distance of 100 yards from the ship, and immediately under the cone the rain fell very heavily ~ver a space of about 30 yards, ruffling and darkening the surface of the water. As the ship's course was nearly in an opposite direction to that of the cloud, the phenomenon was not visible for more than three and a half minutes." . A LINCOLNSIIIROC DI VOHCi Cam—Sir James Flannen, on Saturday, tried the suit of Was, v. Wass. It was a wife's petition for a judicial separation, on the ground of her husband's cruelty. The parties were married at Holy Trinity Church, Hull, in 1868. The respondent was an extensive farmer at Worlaby Hall Farm, in Lincolnshire, and the pet.tioner was the daughter of a neighbouring farmer. According to the evidence of Mrs. Wass, her husband treated her with kindness and affection until 1872, in which year he became addicted to habits of intemperance, and after that he treated her badly, frequently using threats and bad language. On the day of the final separation, the witness and her husband were at tea, when a conversation arose about her brother's marriage. It was very trivial—merely as to the day on which it was to take place. The respondent jumped up, seized hold of a whip, and struck her three times,  inflicting serious inclines. A servant who had lived. with the parties spoke to the respondent striking his wife, and Dr. Tilley said that he attended her for the injuries she received. His lordship granted a decree of judicial separation. MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A Winn.—A man named Samuel]. Havett, a blacksmith, was charged before Mr. Pafteson, at Woolwich Police Court, on Saturday, with stabbing his wife. At two o'clock in the morning, Police-constable Radley heard cries of "Murder," and saw a woman with scarcely any clothing upon her, smothered in blood, running down Chapel street, Woolwich. She told him that her husband had tried to murder her, that he had seized her by the back of the head and raised a knife to her throat, when she put up her hands to protect herself and was stabbed by him twice on the arm. She took him (witness) to 29, Chapelostreet, where he saw the prisoner anti charged him with attempting to kill his wife when he said that she had ran against the knife, but he expressed a wish directly afterwards that he bad buried the knife in her heart. At the police ,station he took the knife from his pocket and gave it to Inspector Phillips, saying, "This is what did it." The wife was present in court, but did not wish to prosecute, saying that she had provoked him to act as he did. The prisoner also said that his wife gave him great provocation, though he denied using the knife with any intention to wound her. He said that he was eating some bread and cheese with the knife, and that the injuries on his wife's arm were accidentally inflicted. When be wanted to punish her he said he used his hands and not a knife. As the injured woman refused to Prusezute, Mr. Patteson took bail for the prisoner's appearance in a week's time.