The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-08-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE RECENT CASE OF POISONING AT CASTLETOWN. —This case has assumed a more serious that the aspect than was suspected at first, but notwithstanding authorities have taken every step no clue las been found to the parties who put the deleterious drug into the pump. It now appears that it was arsenic that was found in the bread and in the water. A portion of the bread, some of the water from the well, and the bag were sent to Dr. Brett, Liverpool, for his opinion, and he declares that they contain arsenic. It is the opinion of the jury that the baker, and his family, and not the soldiers, were intended as the victims of this diabolical act.-21fanx paper.  A MAN AND HORSE KILLED p c .BYEs.—On Wednesday week a horse belonging to tua farmerrt in Cambridgeshire, having strayed from nis garden adjoining, kicked down a hive of bees which instantly attacked him with great fierceness. A shepherd, who happened to be in a house adjoining, went to the rescue of the tortured animal, when he, too, was attacked, and stung in every exposed part of his body, notwithstanding every appliance, such as wet clothes, &c., was employed to drive away his assailants. The poor fellow died whilst being conveyed home, and within ten minutes of the attack, and has left several children to lament his untimely end. The horse died the next evening. MURDER OF A CONSTABLE BY A ROBBER:—OII Sunday night, the 28th ultimo, James M'Faddon, a rural policeman, while stationed at Kessingland, near Exeter, observed some men approaching the farmyard of Mrs. Button, and, suspecting them, concealed himself in a fence. Four broke into the barn, while the fifth watched. The four came out laden with sacks of corn, when he accosted them and recognised one of them as Wm. Howell. This man on being challenged, raised a gun to his shoulder, and taking deliberate aim, shot him in the thigh. He crawled to the farm-house and gave the alarm. On the following morning the spiv_ toms became serious, and his deposition was taken. He died the same evening. At the inquest a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Howell, who was apprehended, and stands for trial. No clue to the rest of the gang has been obtained. MILKING OF Cows.--A <<Small Tenant Farmer" has forwarded to us the following communication upon this subject :—" Having read some of the recent works published on agriculture; and respecting the management of dairy cows, I was induced to try the milking of a cow three times a day, viz., morning, mid-day, and night ; and I find that it has answered better hitherto, this dry hot weather, than under the old system of milking twice a day. More milk is obtained; and the cream on tl,e mid-day's milking is twice as thick as on the morning's milk, and three times as thick as on that milked at night. Some of my neighbours, who have been farmers all their lives, prognosticate that my cow will be ruined, and that next year she will fall off to nothing ; but taking a common sense view of the thing, and as it is sanctioned by "w the Agriculturil Society, I shall go on with it. My looks well enough at present."—Stafford Advertiser.