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The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-11-12 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

AND THEIR GRIEVANCES. To the Editor.  Sir,—Will you allow as a miner, to make a few remarks on the above subject? In the first place, with your your permission, I will refer to the late trial in the County Court at Newport. It appea:s that some men and the master they worked for could not agree as to the amount of work they had to do, so they left work and took proceedings against their masters at the above-named Court. When the case comes on for hearing, the Judge tells the men and their advocate that, they, the men, are an ingenious lot; there is always a lot of trouble u 'tll them; and he must dismiss the case. Now, sir that is a decision I believe to be unfair, and, from this and other cases I have seen and heard of, I believe we shall never get much good at county courts nor magistrates' meetings. I nil, therefore suggest that when therein another gcievance of this kind, where masters take advantage of their moo, that they take their case officially to the district council, and that council give them orders to come out and do no more work til the master is shifted straight away from the pit; and then I believe that we should no want to trouble and put about his Honour at Newport any more. The colliery proprietors would soon settle the grievances and put a stop to the oppression that is put upon the miner by the chartermaster, for the colliery proprietors know that out of twenty men they can choose nineteen chartermasters, but out of 100 chartermasters they cannot choose five who can get minerals enough to pay for the candles they burn. It is an easy thing for a man to go from a working man to be elms termaste_., but it se almost murder to put a chartemas,er to work for his living and get it by the sweat of his brow. I should like to see the amount of work they would do in a fortnight. I believe that the furnaces and the pit banks would not be filled with coal and stone like they are at present, bet I fancy that the poor sexton's back would ache in less tl.an a week, for nine out of every ten would sooner die than work for their own without they thought of the awful doom that awaits them, for the good old Book says "Cursed is he who oppresses the poor," and that is a nut for them to 'crack some flay Or other. In conclusion, let me say a word to the non-union men of our district—conic boldly forward, and Min our rook, and not join the raxXs of those that push you into the earth ! Why do you stand aloof from the ranks of the new national union? It is by union that your hours were shortened and your wages raised; and if your wages have been lowered since it has been your nen-union men that have been the cause of it to a great extent, for the masters would never have attempted to have reduced the wages of miners so much as they have if you had stuck to your union. So let me beg of you to come and join at once, and by your doing so you will oblige yourself and
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-04-27 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

CHARGE OF POISONING AGAINST A SERVANT. - -  At the Manchester Police-court, on Monday, Martha Barber, domeetie servant employed by Mr. T. 11. French, accountant, 2, Offley place, Dorset street Hulme, was charged on remand with having attempted to poison Mrs. Eliza Frenoh by administering to hoe three doses of inedioine, in which was mixed a certain poison—red precipitate—with intent to murder. Mr. Smith (Smith and Beyer, solicitors) appeared for the prosecution. Mrs. Eliza French, the prosecutrix, 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 came back with a bottle of inedicine. She said Mr. Rix had told her she was to compel witness to take the medicine three trues a day, and also that witness wee to keep her bed. She further said the doctor had stated that if witness did not take the medicine she would die, and that she was "not to mind" if she was sick. lite prisoner said, "I don't think you will get out of this house alive," and also "The dootor has told me you will not get better." When she came la, she did not coats immediately to witness'e room, but went into the kitchen. There was no one else in the holm. The prisoner ehook-the medicine well up, and gave witness a dose in a wine glass line the one produced. Witness noticed that a sediment was left at the bottom , of the glass, which she had never seen in the medicine she had bad previously. As the colour of the medicine was not like what she had previously, she remarked to the prisoner that the colour was strange, but she said that it had been mixed by the doctor and was all right. This medicine was muddy, with a red sediment at the bottom, whores% that which she had had hefore 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 witnes, herself 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 prisoner The bottle was not enclosed in paper and sealed up top and bottom. The paper had been torn off. Wi,nese had had no quarrel with the prieoner, nor could she assign a ca,ive Inc the prisoner's actions. The prisoner gave notice to leave on toe 12th instant. Some other evidence was given, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the assize.. In reply to he bench, she :eddy "I am not guilty; I never touched the bottle that day, and aim innocent."  AURY FiRMERS
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-06-22 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE ALLEGED WIFE MURDER IN THE  AUSTRIAN TYROL.  BOTZEN, AUSTRIAN TYROL, JULIO 18.—The trial of Henri de Tonrville, on the charge of having murdered his wife, Madeline de Tonrville, an Englishwoman, by throwing her down a precipice in the Stelvio Pass, on the 18th June, 1876, commenced in the Court-house of this town to-day. Count Melchiori was the presiding judge. The Court was crowded. Twenty witnesses, including Miss Scott, from London, and six experts, have been summoned by the public prosecutor to give evidence. The president ordered the reading of a , number of documents in connection with ' the case. The defence has demanded the calling of further witnesses, particularly John Tumor and Sarah Chappinson, from London. After the jury had been duly sworn, Herr Markbrecker, the prisoner's counsel, objected to the printed form of indictment against his client being communicated to the jurymen, contrary to the principle of oral proceedings followed in the Austrian Criminal Courts. The President allowed the objection. Herr Markbrecker then demanded that Frank and Eliza Thompson should not be represented by counsel at the trial, inasmuch as they had suffered no legal wrong, and in the event of a conviction would claim deceased's property. The Public Prosecutor objected to this, and the Court decided in their favour.  A further diminution in the extent of the small. pox epidemic in London was reported at the meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on Saturday. The workmen engaged in the nail trade is Bristol have received a fortnight's notice of a reduction of 3d. per thousand on all kinds of horse nails.  The Archbishop of Dublin has admitted Mr. Maurice Ilewson, a deaf and dumb gentleman, to the office of catechist for the deaf and dumb in Dublin.  TB. Price, recently a provision dealer, who is charged with fatally shooting a young woman in Crown street, Liverpool, surrendered to the police on Saturday night. At a mass meeting of colliers, atWigan, onMonday, it was resolved' to continue on strike unless the present lock.out be referred to arbitration. Mr. Burt, M.P., supports this motion.  Nearly 10,000 of the Metropolitan volunteers were under arms cut Saturday undergoing their annual official inspections or taking part in the brigade field days ordered by the Government. The Dublin Mail says the Attorney-General has appointed Mr. C. H. Tandy, Q.C.. Crown Prose. rotor for the County of Tipperary, in the room of Mr. O'Hara, who has resigned; and Mr. Ryland to be Crown Prosecutor for Wexford. The financial year of the Mersey Dock Board terminates •on the 10th of this mouth, and the Linerpool Courier believes that the revenue for the year, considerably exceeding a million sterling, will reach the largest figure ever attained in the history of the estate.  There was a general parade on Sunday morning of the Metropolitan Corps of Commissionaires. After the inspection by Lord Mark Herr the men were marched into Westminster Hall and briefly addressed by his lordship and by Captain Walter. The number on parade was 530. Sr. JAMEg'S
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-03-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

HOUSE OF COMMONS-WEDITESDAY.  Sir John Lubbock moved the second reading of the Ancient Monuments Bill, which provides for the appointment of a Commission to take measures for obtaining possession, by agreement or compulsion, of any ancient monuments or antiquarian relics which may be liable to injury. Lord F. Hervey moved, as an amendment, that the bill should be read that day six months. He condemned the vague but extreme powers proposed to be conferred on the Commission. After considerable debate, the Chancellor of the Exchequer mid he was not prepared to stand in the way of proceeding with the bill, but if it were read a second time the Government would have to watch it closely, and not lose control over the expenditure, as the money was to be provided by the Treasury. On a division, the second reading was carried by 211 votes against 163, and the bill having been read a second time was referred to a Select Committee. . .  bulary, said he went to the Fountain Inn, in Wol- I verhampton, on the morning of the first of December, and there found Humphries in bed, and arrested I him; he afterwards apprehended Price, who denied complicity in the affair, at Salford. He went to the house where Allman had lodged, and found the I clothes produced; in the pocket of the jacket he ' found some fur. When he showed the clothes to Allman he denied that they belonged to him. Deputy Chief Constable °swell, examined, said he went to the scene of the affray about five o'clock on the morning of the Itit of December. As soon I as it was light he searched and found some pieces of I fiesh with shot in it. He also found a dog straying I about which had been identified. He received Allman into custody at Castleford, in Yorkshire. The accused then said when he was charged, I was not there." 011 the road home Allman said, "Have you got Owen and Brummy t" In defence, Allman said he never had anv intention to shoot Morrison; he let the gain off at the night dog. The other prisoners said, they bid nothing to do with the affray. The learned judge told the jury that or far as the present charge applied to Price and I iumphries it would be straining the law to find them guilty of shooting Morrison. Although they might be there, he thought it would be too much to say that they were there prepared to shoot the keeper. As to Allman, there did not seem to be any doubt as to his being there, and the only question to consider would be as to his intent in discharging the gun. As they were aware, the most serious count was that of shooting at Morrison with intent to murder him. They must decide that point on the evidence before them.  Allman was found guilty on the fourth count, which charged him with shooting at Morrison with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The other prisoners were acquitted on this charge, and were then arraigned upon a charge of night poaching, being at the time armed. To this they pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Allman was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.  .
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-06-15 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE GREAT SILVER QUESTION. The interesting parliamentary return which has just been issued in connection with the supply of silver shows, at all events, that even if the Nevada mines run out the world may confidently expect the loss to be mule good from other sources. Mr. Graham, our consul at Lima, takes a very optimist view of the future of Peru as a silver-producing country. In former times it supplied enormous quantities of the metal, the estimated value of the total produce of one district alone between 1630 and 1849 being nearly five hundred millions of dollars. Owing to the great depth attained by the shafts, and the remote position of the principal mines, the industry has f allen into stagnation during recent years. It is now proposed to obviate both inconveniences by connecting the silver bearing territory with Lima by light lines of railway, and to run a tunnel under some of the chief workings, in order to tap the whole body of ore at a low depth. This method was employed with perfect success in the case of the famous Suns tunnel at Nevada, and it is at present being experimented with under Treasure Hill by the Eberhardt Company. In the thirty years between 1790 and 1820, more than a hundred million ounces of silver were smelted in the seven assaying works of the Peruvian Government, and very much the same rate of production had been going on for a long time previously. Judging from experience at other places, it would therefore seem quite possible that Peru will once more take rank as a great silver supplying country when the richest lodes have been out by a tunnel and the mines are connected with the capital by railways or reasonably good roads. Bolivia and Chili appear to be almost equally rich in the precious commodity. Mr. Drummond Hay, our Consul General at Valparaiso, reports that the mines of Caracoles in Bolivia, which only commenced regular working in 1871, are now apuually producing nearly 5,000,000 ounces, valued at about six millions of dollars. There are also four other districts in Bolivia which jointly turn out 500,000 dollars of silver per month, although worked, we believe, in very unscientific fashion. Chili as yet produces no more than 5,500,000 dollars worth per annum, but this quantity will probably be increased as further explorations are made. Altogether, there seems no reason to fear any immediate falling-off in the supply of silver, even when the famous Comstock lode is scooped."  The historic castle and state of Ceallaly, granted to Baron NVarkworth and Clavering by Henry 111., were sold lad week to Major Browne, of Lesbury, for £140,000, Asparagus ends, it seems, are to have a commercial value. It has been discovered that these ends, after the edible portion has been eaten, can be made into the finest paper, and manufactories for the purpose have been started in France. The collection of asparagus ends may, therefore, be expected to become one of the many humbler yet remunerative industries. MURDER OF o
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-06-15 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

EARLY BIRD.--DOLliel Mallen, of Spring Bank, was brought up in custody charged with being drunk on licensed premises at Lane Head, —About nine o'elock on Sunday morning two police officers visited the Brown Jug, at Lane Head, kept by a man named Brown, and there found the prisoner in a state of intoxication--so drunk, in fact, was the man, that they had to , carry him to the police station.—Having been previously convicted, prisoner was fined 20s. and costs.—lt is expected that proceedings will be tzaten against the landlord of the house for an offence against his license.  A "Radical Club and Association" has just been formed at Southwark. The club takes for its motto Mr. Gladstone's definition at Birmingham Radical: a man whore in earnest."  A thunde.tonn occurred in Louden on Monday night, but was not severe except in the sonthern suburbs. A welcome rain followed the storm, and continued throughout the greater part of the night.  A woman named Ann Furney, the wife of a miner, against whom a prosecution for perjury had been directed by the local magistrates, on Monday drowned herself in the canal at Mugswinford.  The Government have offered £5OO reward for the discovery of the murderer of Mr. Young, of Flarristown, Castlerea, County Mayo, and mo has been subscribed at a local meeting for tie same purpose.  Advices from Panama state that the mason tha rebel vessel Huascar was attacked by hosMajesty's ships Shah and Amethyst was that also had interfered with English mail ataamers, and, forcibly taken coal from an English barque. Major Adeane Barlow 4 having escaped from Egyptian bondage, is, says May file, now on the high seas, and times himself to arrive at the Vitoria Docks in the Agra this week. Ile is to meet his London friends at the Old Wanderers' Club, and tell the story of his perils and hairbreadth escapes.  Henry de Trouville, who was - charged with murdering his wife by throwing her down a precipice in the Austrian Tyrol, and whose case was investigated some months ago at Bow street Police Court, will be put upon his trial on the , 18th inst. at Botzen, the highest point in the , Brenner route between Germany and Italy. At the last meeting of the "Whitby Board of Guardians Mr. Beeforth, the guardian for Sneeton, announced that an old woman, named Featherstone, who had died at Lombard Hill, in the Union, and who had received Is. 6d. per week out of the common fund until her death, turned out to ho worth £l4O, which she had saVed up, and bequeathed to her family. ' The promoters of the Sheerness-on-Sea Extension Railway Company having failed to furnish by the Ist inst. the necessary proofs that they had contracted for the purchase of all the lands required for the proposed railway and works, the period within which a certificate could be granted by the Board of Trade has elapsed, and the application cannot further be proceeded with.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1893-02-17 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ITLESS.  She was a fair-looking woman of middle age, and her look expressed childlike innocence and perfect confidence. "Is this Mrs. Thompson ?" "Certainly, sir. I presume you are the judge of this eourt ?" "I am." "Well, lam real glad of it. It would have been very embarrassing to come out here and find you gone. I hope you will give my husband his just deserts." "Where is he?" - She looked over the audience, and directly her eyes fell upon a hatchet-faced man with a black eye and his head bound up. "Come here, Henry I" she called, with a snap of her finger, and he came forward with the look of a man who expected to be kicked on the shins. " Here's the wretch !" she said, as she turned to the court. 'Yes, I see, but he is not under arrest." "Then I want him arrested instanter! I have stood his abuiß just as long as I oan, and now his doom is sealed. Issue a warrant charging him with 14 different crimes." "Judge, ,1 I should like to speak to you," remarked the husband. "You keep still, or I'll make it worse for you," commanded the wife. "Judge, I—!" She made a pass at his ear and he dodged, and swallowed the rest of the sentence. "Now then," said the woman to the court, "I want to say that this man deserves the gallows. It would take me a year to tell you bow he has abused, insulted, and degraded me for a year past." "Judge, can I speak ?" he asked. "You can." "No, he can't," exclaimed the woman. "He can speak, madam. In fact, he is here as a witness against you." "I am that. Judge, there stands the worst-tempered woman who ever wore No. 7 shoe 3." "He lies! He lies !" Hush, woman! Mr. Thompson, did she strike you last night?" "She did. She gave me this black eye, and out my scalp in three places. I do most solemnly swear that she als made several attempts to murder me." " Ola laileury, what an awful liar! Take that back, or I'll be—!" She got in two cuffs on his head before Bijah clkuld pull her off, and when order had been restored his Honour observed, "Mrs. Thompson, you seem to be a bad-tempered woman." "Ole! Ah, Judge, how can you say that ?" she sweetly asked. "And in this case I find you guilty." "No, no, no! Yon couldn't possibly sympathise with such a wretch." "And I shall fine you 10 or sand you up for thirty days." "I—l shall faint !" "You must do as you think best about that. The case is closed." She ' started to faint and fall, but wheu she found herself in Bijah's arms she braced up, cuffed her husband once more for the sake of old times, and was walked off with her fingers searching over the janitor's bald pate in search of something to tighten on.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1903-05-29 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

INTERNATIONAL JEALOUSY PROMPTS US TO AN INSANE RIVALRY WITH OTHER NATIONS.  About four centuries ago Spain took it into her l'ad to indulge in voyages of discovery, and in wars ,1 aggression. She discovered America, and ransilver mines, and gold mines, and acquired Lianiius wealth and a vast empire. But how did du all these fine things? She sent Pizarro to Peru, and Cortes to Mexico, with several thousands ei he vilest pirates and buccaneers that ever crossed No honest man could read their doings withal! a groan of indignation or a blush of shame. merciless, cut-throat fiends were guilty of ing, and murder, and torture, and slave hunting, every form of cruelty, and they called it war. ,\,,i Spain accepted the responsibility of all they did, 1-1 the sake of the plunder they acquired, and the ii J the countries they had ravaged and desolated FJ bow vast empire. But God reckoned with her in pea shoe, and made her pay sweetly for her folly und sin. 11% vaulting ambition overleaped hued, and her fozi/al -upire melted away like snow.  Our fathers must needs follow this evil example, theneh all history teaches us that it has been a ,tly failure from the beginning. The fate of irauh, and Nebuchadnezzar, and Darius, and Alexrencr, and Car, and Napoleon, and every other bliodthirsty conqueror did not deter them.  They discovered Newfoudland and Labrador, mid tchen they found neither gold nor silver in these uortfiless possessions, they sailed away, and left them alone till somebody else had exploited them, imd made them worth picking up.  Then we took to wars of aggression. We drove the thud' and the Portuguese out of the majority of si East Indian possessions, we captured ever so irdny of the West Indian Islands, we held the Channel ds to annoy France, and Gibraltar to worry and Heligoland to overlook the German ports icAl we seized Aden to enable us to control the Red cez.  (tl. only excuse for all this devilment is that "if so du not steal all these territories somebody else We flatter ourselves that God has ordained n) he the biggest thieves in the world, and that if • will only live up to our professions the Almighty r,i;l suspend a few of his natural laws for our benefit, and lie " will pull us through somehow."  Now I am not going to ask you whether all these I ullying, thieving acts of aggression are right, or ju-t. of equitable. I am not even going to ask you the Carpenter of Nazareth says about them. are a Jingo or an Imperialist his opinion will net matter mud ti to you, for you are guided not by p ciple, illit hy expediency. But I want to know if Ve- crazy, aggre,,ive policy pays. Is your game h the candle The tune will come when you will exhau,ted your resources, both in men and ieeney, ad then what is to hinder some other inter',amnia' buccaneer or highwayman coming and eating you up ? It would be poetic justice, "for whetsand a man soweth, that shall he also reap."  A