The Potteries Examiner : — 1873-07-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GENERAL NEWS.  On Sunday a man walking along the rock tops near Marsden, three miles from South Shields, fell over, and was killed on the spot. It is said that Prince Arthur has gone to Copenhagen, with the intention of soliciting the band of Princess Thyris, of Denmark. The publisherand proprietor of the Liverpool Leader were on Thursday committed for trial for a criminal libel on the directors of the Liverpool Civil Service Association, Bail was allowed. _ _ _  At Broughty Ferry, near Dundee, on Saturday, while a passenger train WRS standing at the station, an excursion train from Dundee dashed into it. No lives were lost, but a large number of the passengers were injured, some of them rather severely. The death of Mr. Charles Pease is announced by the Alliance News. Mr. Pease was one of the vice-presidents of the United Kingdom Alliance, and a contributor of .£l,OOO to the guarantee fund. He had long been a generous supporter of the Alliance. A wretched woman, named Eliza Yeulatt, was charged at Manchester, with having drowned her little girl, four years of age, and, at the same time, with having attempted the life of her son, a boy two years older. The statement made by the unhappy creature when taken into custody was such as to indicate mania. At Monk's Farm, Coggeshall, twn sisters named Kate and Mary Denniss lived with their brother, and on Saturday morning about ten o'clock the sisters were playing with each other in the house, when Mary said to her sister, "I will shoot you ;" and at once seised the gun and shot her sister, killing her instantly. A passenger train from Glasgow ran into some mineral wagons a little above Port Glasgow, on the Caledonian line, about four o'clock on Monday. Two gentlemen, en route for the Coast, have died in Port Glasgow from the effects of the injuries, and about thirty people have sustained wounds more or less severe. _ _ .  James Jenkins, a Ipensioner, and Henry Paul, a miner, have been charged by Superintendent Chipp with the wilful murder of Juo. Bessex, a labourer of Stanton, in the Forest of Dean. Paul was discharged, and then gave evidence against Jenkins, who administered the fatal blow, and who the justices committed for manslaughter at the ensuing assizes. In the Court of Sessions, on Tuesday,William Robert Bald, a corn broker in Glasgow, sued the Caledonian Railway Company for damages for injuries sustained by him at the Kirtlebridge accident last October. The jury, after hearing evidence in the case, gave a verdict for the pursuer, assessing the damages at £3,500. The pursuer claimed £12,500. _  s At the Glamorgan assizes, on Monday,before Mr.Justic° Grove, Charles Doran, a fireman, was indicted for the wilful murder of James Mannor, at Dowhtis, in April last. After the evidence connecting the prisoner with the crime, it was eontended that he received sufficient provocation to reduce the crime from murder to manslaughter, and he was therefore sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. At the Derbyshire Assizes, on Tuesday, Benjamin Hudson, a collier, only four-and.twenty years of age, was found guilty of the murder of his wife by smashing her skull with a hedge-stake, and was sentenced to death. The pair had lived a very unhappy life, the conduct of the deceased having been anything but circumspect, and for this reason the Jury appended to their verdict a recommendation to mercy. A FOAL WITH ONE EYE AND NO NOSTRILS:The body of a very curious foal has just been sent to Mr. A. Franklin, animal preserver, 100 Suffolk-street, Birmingham. It has no nostrils and only one eye, and that one being in the centre of the forehead. The foal lived only a few hours, and the carcase, which has been sent to Mr. Suffolk for preservation, belongs to Mr. Jones, of Rowley Regis.