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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-05-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OCCUITOLICO.  DUBLIN, Monday Morning. In the streets of Dublin to-day the signs are apparent that public feeling has been deeply stirred by the event of Saturday. The shops are entirely closed, and all have their shutters up. There is hardly a single establishment which has not a bunch of crape tied with black ribbon hanging outside. There is but one topic of conversation, and nothing is heard without an expression of horror from persons of every condition. The Freeman's Journal appears in mourning, and in its leading article 'condemns the crime as a blow struck at the heart of the country. The men arrested yesterday turn out to be tramps, who can gibe a satisfactory account of their proceedingß. Up to the present the assassins have not been arrested. Toe police have hitherto entirely failed to obtain the slightest clue to the miscreants. The driver of the car, on which the murderers effected their escape, has not yet been discovertd. It is not even known whether the vehicle used was a hackney cab or a private one. Several small pieces of cloth were picked up on the scene of the crime, but these promote no clue whatever, as they had all been ascertained to belong to the garments of the twu victims. In each place that a stab was given a small piece of cloth appears to have been out away, which leads to the conclusion that the weapon used must have had a double edge. LONDON, Monday afternoon. Lady Cavendish, accompanied by Lady Louisa Gerton, and Maj sr Lyttleton left St. Pancras otation at noon to-day for Chatsworth, Derby, the set of the Duke of Devonshire. Admiral Egerton was at the station, and saw her ladyship off. All the party were dressed in deep mourning. Lady Cavendish wept as she entered the train, and several of the lady bystanders were moved to tears. The servants of the household proceeded to Chatsworth last night.  Lord Frederick Cavendish, the brother of Lord Ilartington, was the second surviving son of the Duke of Devonshire, and was born in 1836. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambrido, was private secretary to Lora Granville from 1859 to 1864. and to Mr Gladstone from July, 1872 to August, 1873. From August, 1873, to February 1874 he was a Lord of the Treasury, and in April, 1880, he was appointed General Secretary to the Treasury, which post he vacated for the poet of Irish Secretary, to which he was appointed on Thursday let. d Mr Thomas Henry Burke, Under Seretary, was born in 1829, and, was the second son of the late Wm. Burke, Esq., of F-!ockLangan, County Galway. Mr Burke, who was unmarried, was brother to Lieut.Col. Theobald H. Burke, late 17th Royal Irish. He was heir presumptive to the baronetcy of which Sir John Lionel Burke, of Glinik, County Galway, is the holder. The inquest on the bodies of the late Chief Secretary and Mr Burke was concluded on Monday, when the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some persons unknown. The Cork Corporation voted £lOO as an addition to the reward the Government will offer, and the members subscribed a similar sum.  • I
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-05-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHAS. S. PARNELL. "JOHN DILLON. " MICHAEL DAVITT."  MR A. M. SULLIVAN ON THE TRAGEDY.  Mr Sullivan, ;ho appears to labour under much distress of mind, on being pressed to give an expression .of his views, said— There is one uonsideration which makes me ready to do so, although I am not now in politics. I feel that every Irishman whose words may in any way influence the minds of his countrymen is bound to speak out, and swell the outcry of national indignation. Do you have reason to anticipate anything of this kind? —Not altogether of this kind, but I know that there was reason to think some of the recently released leaders were menaced with danger. Then you also regard this deed as done by men hoetile to the Laud League 77Cer tainly ; every man in Ireland who knows anything of what bike been going on understands what has happened very well. This deed is the work of men who rejoiced coercion and the conflict of hatred, strife, ' and bloodshed, for it played their game. They did not want the, land luestion, nor the arrears question, nor any other question settled ; and the moment they saw a policy of oonoilliation at hand they felt it muit be stopped by some fearful deed that would render reconciliation impossible. Do you mean the Fenians ?—There are I Fenians and Fenians. There are now several eeotione of that body, some of them men whose horror at the crime will be heartfelt and outspoken, but there are others of a different doctrine. The latter have bitterly bitterly hated and opposed the Land League i movement, and of late they worked in upon I it. and used it, or rather acted in its name since the ill-advised suppression of the real I Land League. Do you think, then, that these men corn- j ranted the crime ?—I never like to fasten I particular crime on any one. What I, know is that at the very time the English public were so angrily excited against , Devitt and Parnell, these gentlemen—one of: them certrunly—was under secret menace of his life for daring to lead the people away from secret societies. There is no mistake about it; his awful crime is a stroke designed against the Land League leaders. It was deliberately planned to pre: vent any reapproachment between Mr Gladstone and the Irish party and. to procure a return of Coercion. What do you think will be its effect ? The courage and boldness with which Parnell, Devitt, and Dillon have met it, and the utter atrocity:of the deed, will be found to cause a strong reaction against the I criminals and their designs. They have I overshot the mark, it is nay belief, and I hope that, on the one hand, neither the Government nor the English people will play the part expected of them by the murderere, and, °pith° other baud, that the Irish leaders and the Irish people will make it a matter of national honour to efface the stain which this base and cowardly butchery has affixed. upon the fair name of our country.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-02-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SIR WILFRID LAWSON ON THE  LIQUOR TRAFFIC.  Speaking at an enthusiastic temperance meeting at Chester on Monday night, Sir Wilfrid Lawson said he once beard a groat statesman describe what he thought of the evil which the drink trefao caused in this country. He said that by their drinking habits the people of this oeuntry brought upon themselves the accumulated horrors of war, • eetilence and famine' and the man who said that was the Prime Minister of England, Mr Gladstone; and had it got any hotter since? Some persons interested in the experiment aecertaiced that in the fortnight closing with the old year and beginning with the new no le ,is than 407 persons had suffered most grievously through the system; 144 were cages of homicide and murder, and taking away of life, all caused by this drink. The same thing wenld occur again, because like causes produced like effecie. In England we got our gaols, police, and workhouses ready for the victims of drunkenness, but we never thought of looking at the cause of drunhenuess, which was the drink the people consumed. (Hear, bear.) The Church of England Temperance Society was among cue of the many agencies doing a good work for temperance. It was a society composed of total abstainers and total non. abetainere. (Loud laughter.) They ought to succeed if anybody aid, because one section says, Come and do as we and the other says, "Do as we don't." (Hoara of laughter.) Despite all these efforts nobody would say that they were satisfied that the thing had been properly got under. Sometimes there wet e a few millions more spent in drink yearly and sometimes a few millions leap, but last year he thought the people of England spent 120 millions in intoxicating drinks. We heard a great deal about robbing a poor man of his beer (laughter) --as if the publican gave him his beer. (Renewed. latszhter.) He never heard of publicans giving people beer except at eh:item times—(otters aLit langhterl—and ' even then be had a very shrewd suspicion that somebody paid for it. (Renewed , laughter.) In conclusion, Sir Wilfrid said that this and other great meetings on the subject were sending up a message to the kliaistry that they could not auy longer evade this question, and if they strengilicaned the hands of Mr Gladstone against the great vested interest to be fought they would be successful. If they were persistent in their demand, the day could not he far distant when their demand should be granted, and then high and low, rich and poor throughout this country would have a chance of saying that they would no longer be the slaves of one great vested interest, but that they should be allowed an opportunity of sweeping away this legalised temptation, and in this great country of England giving a fair chance to the agencies of civilisation, of Christianity, and of freedom. (Loud and continued cheers.)  A new Town Hail, estimated to cost £lOO,OOO, was opened at Paisley on Monday. ADvioa TO
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-07-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

PAEKES.—" The proportions are flb. dot+ meal to two or three quarts of water, according to the hest of the day and the work and thirst; it should be well boiled, and then an ounce or one and a half outioes of breed sugar added. If you find it thicker than yea like, add three quarts of water. Before drinking it shake up the oatmeal well through the liquid. In summer drink this; cold; in winter hot. You will fied it gok only quenond thirst, but *ill give you more strength cied endurance than any °thee drink. If you cannot boil it you Can take iC little oatnieal mixed wiih cold water ang sugar, bet the; is not so good; always boll ig if you can. q at i any time Yeu have to tile a very long clay, if sin niftiest, and Canni4 stop for meals, increase the oatmeal to il or even fib., and the water to three quark if you are likely to be very thirsty. If yo cannot get oatmeal, wheat-our will do, b not quite no well." Those *ho tried this re-" cipe last year tonna that they could g through more werk than when using bee and were stronger and healthier at the di of the harvest. Cold tea and skim milk also found to be better tlp,n beer, but gt. equal to the oatmeal drink. ' . THE Powxs or Cosigniscs.--Thom Wynne, a notorious robbpr, one eveni broke into the house of a retired lin endrapel and having murdered the husband an wife, carried away propertf to the a,moun of £2,500, and, to prevent detection, saileg, with his wife and four children, to Virginia. The two old people not appearing in thqi neighbourhood the next list as usual, ang the doors remaining looked, the neighbouri were alarmed, sent for a constable, ang bursting open the clods, fomid there welt* ing in blood, and the hold° pillaged. A poor man who begged his nriail was talc e/ up on suspicion, and although nothin more than circumstantial evidenee appear A against him he was condemned. ' executed before the deer I . t e house, and hie body hung in adios £t riolloway . Meanwhile Wynne, the murderer, was i a foreign land, where he prospered an increased in riches. After residing twenty years in Virginia, he resolved te visit England before his death, and then re. turn to deposit his onee iu a foreign grave. During his stay in Londoe he went one day into a goldsmith's shop in Cheapside te purchase some plate, that he intended ta take home with him; while the plate wad being weighed, an uproar took place in the street, occasioned by a gentleman's running off from certain bailiffs, who were conducting him to prison for debt. Upon this, Wynne also ran into the street, and hearing somebody behind him crying out, "Stop him—stop him l" his conscience instantly awoke—he stopped and exclaimed—' I amn the man." " You the man," cried the people, "what man?" "The man," replied Wynne, "that committed a murder in Honey-1^ no twenty years ago, for which • 'ii • v hanged wrongfully." Upon thie ,4e A ~e was instantly carried before a 'cc •,-, committed to Newgate, tried and L,.,..,..-4ined, and executed before the house Where he had perpetrated the horrid deed! )
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-02-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANOTHEII ALLAMED MISCAHRIAGE OF JUSTICE. A sad accident occurred on Friday after- —Another alleged case of miscarriage of noon near Salcombe, Devon. Three fisher- justice is creating some excitement in the men and a boy wore nearing shore, when village of Wbiteparish, in Wilts. A man their boat was swamped by a heavy sea. FUr named Pesree was two months taco sentenced an hour they struggled, occasionally getting to six months' imprisonment for night on the keel of the capsized boat, but being poachiug on Mr Barieg's estate, and for as often washed off. One of the men named woundiug a keeper. Avother man has now Ash, a strong swimmer, twice swam towards admitted that he was guilty of the crime, and the shore, but the breakers were so high that that Pearce is innocent. An important be dared not attempt landing. One by one phase in the case is that suspicion first they dropped off exhausted and were attached to the now self-accused man, who drowned, their struggles being watched from then denied all knowledge of the matter, and the shore by the sou of one of the men, who his statement was confirmed by his invalid was impotent to help. The boy was ulti- mother, who said he was in bed at the time mately rescued, hut his recovery is doubtful, of the assault. Pears° has, however, Each of the deceased leaves a widow and throughout persisted in his innocence. A large family. memorial Las been prepared for presentsPatrick Egan has telegraphed from Paris tion to the Home Secretary. his acceptance of the proffered nomination Mrs Pay haa been committed for trial, on of the Roman Catholic clergy of County the verdict of a coroner's jury, tor the Meath to supply the vacancy for the repre- murder of the child Georgina Moore at aentation of she county. 163.1ir1g.  A fire broke out last Saturday at the We,leyan Boys' Hain% Gravesend. It weed however, speedily extinguished, but little 1 , damage being done. Three orthe boys in ' the institute have been arrested in connection with the fire. , The P.cv. Dr. Rohertnon. minister of New I Greyfriars pariah, Edinburgh, died on 1 ITuesley morning at Cannes, at the age of 70. He was the originator of the first ragged school in Edinbnrgh. BAIA or • WIFE MR 10s.—At the ClerkenIwell Police Court on Tuesday a charwoman , named Mathews was charged with assault- ' i ing and Lesting Edward Stacey, a chair. 1 maker, of Stlbbington.street, Clarendon, square.—Stacey said that he formerly lodged I with the defendant, and eines he had left her 1 house she had repeatedly annoyed and insulted him. On Sunday night the defendant , and her eon and Me wife came to his house and assaulted laini.—TlA defendant oallid i 1 as a witness her son's wife, who swore that , her father had sold her mother, Mrs Pearse, I to Stacey for 10a, and that they had since I i I been living together as man and wife.—Mr • I Hosack bound over the defendant in her own recognisance* to keep the peace for r I three mouths.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1877-02-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HOME FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN.—On Tuesday week, the Rev. T. B. Stephenson, 8.A., of London, addressed a meeting in the Northterrace Wesleyan Chapel, with the special object of interesting the public in the Children's Home, of which he is the founder and principal. The institution was traced from its origin—seven years ago—when a small cottage was large enough to house the rescued children, to the present time, when there are homes in London, Melton-next-Gravesend, Edgworth, near Bolton, Hamilton, Ontario, and Canada, which shelter 400 in course of training, and give a home to former inmates who are out of work and invalided for a while. Many instances of Divine providence and care were related, reminding us very forcibly of "The Lord's dealings with George Muller, of Bristol." The most pathetic parts of Mr Stephenson's address, however, were the short and simple biographies of some of the little ones. One was the daughter of a man who murdered his wife, and was hanged for the crime. Another who applied for admission was known as "Captain Boss " a London slang name, equivalent to "one who excels in squinting"—told how that his father was dead, and his mother married again to a drunkard, who had reduced her to his own level, and ill-treated her, and how when he interfered to protect his mother he had been "whacked" and kicked out of the house, to which he dared not return, and that for seven weeks he had been picking up a living anyhow in the streets, and sleeping at night in an old cast-away mackerel box. The truth of this story wasifully confirmed by one who, when inquiring into it, called at the step-father's house, the door of which was opened by the lad's sister, who was not half clothed, while within the visitor found a lad literally naked, his last rag having been stripped from him and sold by his mother to get drink. The farmer in Canada who took Capt. Boss after he had been trained for a while in England gave him, after twelve months' service, the following character :—" He could not wish for a better boy he had never lied; and if he were , told to do a thing it would be done as well in his (the master's) absence as if he were present." 1 These and the other facts narrated pleaded eloquently with the sympathetic audience, and added force and weight to the question in the song which Mr Stephenson sang, "This I did for thee, what hest thou done for Me." The collection was between £l5 Os 6d and many pro- , mises of help in various ways were also volunteered. Should any of our readers wish to know more about this institution, which is, as was specially stated, open to all children of all classes at all ages from 6 months to 16 years, from anywhere, the only conditions being that they are needy and helpless and that there is room in the, houses, W. B. Brayshay, Esq.. J.P., will, we believe, furnish it.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1877-02-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR  DURHAM.  -About eight o'clock on Sunday morning, the dead body of an unknown man was found in a field at Cassop, a colliery near Durham. The body was ( apparently that of a labourer, about 38 years of 1 age. It was lying about five yards from the foot- , path through the field, and there was a cut over the left eye, but not of a very serious character. The lips were blue and livid, and very much 1 swollen, and blood was oozisg from the- month. 11 The village constable, George Proud, had the body conveyed to the Cassop Inn; and subsequently two persons, named Peter O'Neil and Isaac Wray, made a statement whieh is detailed in the evidence below :—On Monday morning, an inquest on the body was formally opened yMr Crofton Maynard, coroner, at Mr Cook's Inn, Cassop. Evidence having been given as to the finding of the body, Peter Neil, miner, Cassop, said: I and Isaac Wray were at Newcastle Pantomime on Saturday night last, and we came to Durham by the last train, reaching Durham a few minutes to 12 o'clock. As we got to the top of Old Elvet,Durham, it struck 12 o'clock. We walked by way of Shincliffe to Cassop, and went down the waggon-way. When we got to Cassop Moor Old Engine we stopped to look at the place where the old engine used to be. Whilst looking we hears the voices of some men. There appeared to be four or five of them. We , went up the waggou-way, and on getting to tire I second gate we heard a man say, "Get up, you to which another voice replied, " Oh, dear me Let me be; let me be." The man who first spoke then said," I told you to stop, you —, and you would not." The other man then gave a heavy groan, and said again, "Oh, let me be !" We then went still further on to the other gate, and got opposite the finger-post, where Wray struck a fusee to light his pipe, and I looked at my watch. It was then exactly half-past , one o'clock on Sunday morning. We still heard the noise of quarrelling going on, but we went straight on home. These men were "tackling" the other men about 30 yards from the waggon way, and about 40 yards from where the deceased was found. After hearing the men say, "Get up, you ," we heard distinct thuds, as if he was striking with his fist or foot at the other man. As far as we could judge, there appeared to be four or five men; but there appeared to be only one" going into" the man, who was crying out. We did not go near to see them, as we thought we would only get hurt ourselves. After we went away we did not think anything more about it until we heard of a man being found dead at the place next morning; when we at once came to the conclusion that he was the same man. It was my opinion that the man was being ill-used.—lsaac Wray, miner, gave corroborative evidence.—Mr Maynard adjourned the inquest until Friday morning at ten o'clock, a postmortem examination of the body, by order of the coroner, to be made in the meantime.