Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-10-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MI7RDER OF A SWEETHEART.—In Ffynnongroew, on the banks of the Dee, between Mostyn and Ithyl, a person of the name of Hughes keeps a shop, and his sister, a young girl of personal attractions, resides with him. Little over a year ago, he took into his employ an assistant from Merionethshire, who has since courted the girl. One night last week, the assistant left the shop before closing time, and Hughes, after putting the shutters up for the night, went to see a friend towards Mostyn. In the interval his sister was left alone in the house, and during Hugh( s's absence the assistant returned. A rupture took place between them, and the assistant vowed such terrible things that the affrighted girl rushed out of the house. Her lover, who had got possession of a razor and a knife, followed her into the street. A terrific struggle took place between them in the street, during which the assistant had his finger cut off. The female appears to have shown great presence of mind and physical strength, for she managed to wrest the razor from the grasp of her assailant, and throw it over the adjoining wall. The man then released his hold of her, and went over the wall in search of the razor. By this time the screams of the girl had aroused the neighbours, and she fled for safety to the Crown Inn. The man stated that he only intended putting an end to his own life, and he appears to have been allowed to take his departure.  BMLIE NICHOL JARVIE I How MANY PARALLELS COULD BE POUND ?—lf a wandering scoundrel commits an aggregate murder, the whole London press pauses to theorise upon it, and duly record the lurid affair. No distance diminishes the interest of the event; it may be seen in the Sandyford case in Glasgow. All England was daily informed of its progress. A day or two ago the Glasgow Daily Herald reported a case more unusual than a murder, and far more wholesome to recount. Mr Robert Brown, a baker in Hutchinson town, Glasgow, many years ago met with misfortune in business. A very small dividend was all that accrued to his creditors. After a lapse of many years, prudence, toil, thrift, and patience, enabled the upright tradesman to amass 0,500. A great many piles of rolls had to be baked before that sum accrued in profit. It must have been a great temptation to keep it The honest Robert Brown carried it to his old creditors and paid each in full. The Glasgow Herald justly calls the attention of the public to such a scarce and honourable ease. According to the general code of commercial morals, the composition the defalcating baker paid left him entirely free from further obligation. "Nobody" says the Herald "would have thought much the worse of him had be troubled his mind no more about the matter. We have seeu commercial magnates after having been • white-washed' become oracles on 'Change and elders of the kirk. This upright baker was either of duller apprehension or of more susceptible conscience. That a man should voluntarily surrender from a feeling of right a sum of £1,500 which he might have kpt securely in his own pocket, must appear madness to traders whose first law is that all is fair in trade whiCii IS not criminal." Here is a Case rarer thin munb r, and better worthy of a paragraph. Probably there ire many nad rs with a taste for unusual events in the moral world who may find this narrative quite as picturesque.