Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-12-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

COMPOUND. a demulcent anodyne expectorant for Coughs and Cold.. Sold by Chemista, Bid., le. Id.; poet 3d. - •  _ AN Irishman once said to another : "And ye have taken the teetotal pledge, have ye r Indade I have, and am not ashamed of it, either." "And did not Paul tell timothy ta take a little wine for his stomach's sake "So he did; but my name is not Timothy, and there is nothing the matter with my stomach." AT Manchester, Benjamin Johnson, pupil teacher, has been remanded on a charge of attempting to murder his father, mother, and brother. He had been a teacher in a school in Manchester, but over.study brought on mental disease, and he was compelled to give up his situation. Since October he has been at home at Flixton, near Manchester. The other day he came down stairs while the family were at breakfast and commenced to fire from two revolvers. Before he was disarmed he had shot his mother in the hip and seriously injured her, and shot his father and younger brother in the back. All three are under medical care. He was examined by a doctor some time ago, but though at the time his mind was affected, there was no indication of homicidal mania.  AT an inquest at Egham into the circumstances attending the death of Daniel Heading, the driver of the Windsor mail, who was killed in a collision at Runnymede, a verdict of " Manslaughter " has been r..turned against the driver of the cart which ran into that which Heading was driving, and the former was committed for trial.  A REWARD of 300 francs is offered for the detection of the authors of three threatening letters of: an Anarchist tendency sent to a citizen of Basle, Switzerland.  ACCORDING to advices from Zulfikar, General Komaroff and Major Holdich have completed the marking out of the boundary as far as Chaman-iBald.  Da. Wools WESTCOTT has held an inquest at the Holborn Town-hall, on the body of William Lynch, aged three weeks. Ann Lynch, the mother, stated that when she awoke in the morning the infant was dead. Dr. W. R. Gould, Lamb's Conduit-street, said he was called in, and found the body cold and the hands clenched. The child was suffocated. The bed was narrow, and the baby had been placed against the wall. The coroner remarked that over 100 children a year lost their lives in that way. The Germans made it a criminal act for parents to have infants in bed with them. A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.  TIM Chief of the Damaras, a tribe inhabiting the dour:, ry near Walwich Bay, being apprehensive that the riermans will annex their territory, are about to , send s deputation to England, to point out that the Dam iras acknowledged the authority of the Queen so long ago as 1876. They have asked the aid of the Abm iglues Protection Society in the effort they are now about to make to induce the British Government to fulfil its promises to them. WILLIAM HARRISON, described as having worked at a tinfoil factory, has been remanded at the Clerkenwell Police-court, on a charge of attempting to murder his wife by beating her on the head with a „brick, in Highgate brickfields, on Sunday night. FRANK ARTHIMI WRirtsy, telegraph clerk, of Cradley, has been committed to the assizes for trial for stealing postal orders, the property of the Postmaster. General, and also for forgery. The prisoner sold two postal orders to a tradesman, which were posted in the prisoner's presence, to be sent to a London newspaper office. The letter did not reach its destination, and subsequently it was ascertained that one order had been cashed at Birmingham, and that the prisoner had forged the order.