The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1877-04-27 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

CHARGE OF POISONING AGAINST A SERVANT.  At the Manchester Polioestiourt;on Monday, Martha Barber, domestic servant employed by Mr. T. 11. French, accountcnt, 2, (Vey place, Dorset street, I Huhn*, was charged on remand with having attempted to potion Mrs. Eliza French by administering to her , three doses of medicine, in which was mixed a certain poison—red precipitate—with intent to murder. Mr. Smith (Smith and Boyer, solicitors) appeared for the prosecution. Mrs. Eliza French, the prosecute:, for whose attendance the ease had been adjourned, stated that the prisoner had been in her service about a month. On Wednesday, the 11th April, she sent the prisoner to Mr. Rix, her doctor, for another bottle of medicine, she having been ill for some time. The prisoner was away about an hour and a half, and minas beck with a bottle of medicine. She raid Mr. Rix had told her she was to compel witness to take the medicine three t.mes is day, and also that witness was to keep her bed. She further said the doctor had stated that if witness did not !eke the medicine she would die, and that she was 'not to mind " if she was sick. Um prisoner said, " I don't think you will get out of this house alive," and also "The doctor has told me you will not get better." When she came in, she did not come immediately to witners's room, but went into the kitchen. There was no one else in the house. The prisoner shook the medicine well up, and gave witness a dose in a wine glass lice the one produced. Witness noticed that. a eediment was left at the bottom of the glass, which she had never seen in the medicine she had had previously. As the colour of the medicine was not like what she had previously, she remarked to the prisoner that the colour was strmige, but she said that it had been mixed by the doctor and was ill right. This medicine was muddy, with a red sKilinent. at the bottom, whereai that which she had had efore was clear. Half an hour after taking the medicine she felt sick and prostrate. In the afternoon the prisoner gave witness another dose, again shaking the bottle, and she experienced the same symptoms, but aggravated. The next In, ruing witnesherself took a small dose of the medicine, and after that her limbs were rigid and she felt very weak. She took no more, and on the following morning sent the bottle away. Cross-examined by the p-isoner : The bottle was not enclosed in paper and sealed up top and bottom The paper had been torn off. Witness had had no quarrel with the prisoner, nor mulct ehe assign 505150 for the prisoner's action,. The prisoner gave notice to leave on the 12th Instant. Some other evidence was given, and the prisoner wan committed for trial at. the ionizes. In reply to the beneh, she said, "I am not guilty; I never touched the bottle that day, and am innocent."  AN,lty FAkMERS 505.—A London correspondent writes,--The opening of Columb.a Marker as a great provision depot, in which American meat is to be the pi‘e? tie resislallee, has seriously roused the ire of the farmers and butchers attending the London markets, who now tind themselves between two stools, by either of which they may come to the sround, vie., the cattle plague on the one side and dead meat importations on the other. lam told that the value of land in Texas, which Is one of the best cattle raising districts in the United States, is quadrupled in value since the American beef saltation came about. Toe PRINeEss or SaKVI A.-Mr, Francis Dowlina writes from Odesea:—" The Princess Nathalie of ,ervia has two sisters, both younger than herself, and till within two weeks had an only brother, aced IT. Having no parents, and having quarrelled with hi, other relatives, he lived here in the paternal home with a private tutor. He had not too !ouch either of intelligence or education, but he tried to improve the latter by taking easy lessons at horn- from visiting masters. Withi• the last tew weeks he contracted a malady of which he died. The Keshko family is, therefore, now extinct In the male line. In consequence of this the income of each of the three sisters is ino creased from 15,000 to 30,000 roubles a-year."