The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-06-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GIRL IV TRANCE 77.  A London correspondent writes Is fol. tows of the girl now lying in a trance at the London Hospital This case, which p-3rezles the lectors and sets medicine altogether at defiance, has occupied the whole of the medical authorities for the last few weeks. The patient lies still and motionless open the Teed. She eats nothing, neither doss she drink, her lips being hermetically closed. Her eyes are close shut, but when the lids are raised the brightness of the pupil is almost dazzling. The intelligence, toe with which the eye seems t 3 look at you, as if ingeiring the rearein of this strange visitation—perplexed and terrified, but neither dim nor vague—ii mysterious in the extreme. The pulse meanwhile beats with formidable power, although no symptom of breathing is visible. As the doctors- acknowledge their own incompetency to decide upon a case of this kind, they are compelled to leave it in the hands of icature—their own great master, to whose will they are compelled to bow foe a solution of the terrible enigmas which now and, then set their science at nought. The symptoms described by the nurse to th, visitors who, by permieeion of the anthorities, are allowed to see the poor girl, are weird and terrible as a nightmare. The patient bad already been in the hospital for about a week, when the ward in which she slept was aroused by her frantic cries for help. The agony with which ..he had been suddenly seized in every limb was so intense that she felt she mast be dying. Before the doctor could. be summoned, she rose in' the bed, uttered one lung piercing scream, and fell suddenly backwards with extended arms stiff and motionless, so she has ever since remained. Everymeaus known .‘o science hay been employed to restore her to con,iousncse' but without avail. Galvanism, electricity. mrning—have all proved useless, and the doctors a, fain to own themselves beaten."  .ns nromiey, Kent, John Savage, has been anarget,' on remand with attempting to murder Alfred Itoyep, 12y stabbing hi., on Bromley Common, on Whit- ' Idionday.  The Athenceum hears that at the next general election Mr. George Routledge, the publisher, will probably be a candidate for the suffrages of a North-3ro constituency. On the breaking up of the Afghan expedition Lien- ! tenant-General Donald Steward C.B. is to be entrusted with the supreme civil and military charge cf the new frontisr line. The Electrician says that the British Electric Light , Company have arranged to light up the camp of the ' 3;cl Northamptonshire Volunteers at the end of the present month. The Bishop of Bath and Wens has collated the Rev. Prebendary Church, principal of the Theological College at Wells, to the canonry in his gift vacant by the death of Canon Beadon. Holloway Prison, London, is about to be considerably enlarged. The foundations are already laid for I extending one of the wings. It is proposed to build 100 additional cells for male prisoners. The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Coroners (England) Bill has determined to recommend that in future medical men shall be disqualified from holding the office of coroner. Seven houses on the slope of thc Arise, near Aasta, I in Switzerland, have been swept away by an avalanche, all their occupants being, fortunately, at the time at mass in a neighbouring church. The London Carctte announces that the Queen has aprointed Messrs. John Worrel ihrrington, John Glasgow Grant, and Allen Belfield to be members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbadoes. The delegates of the International Literary Congress have presented to the Lady Mayoress a magnificent bouquet "as a token of grateful recognition of the hospitality given to the delegates by the Lord Mayor.