The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-04-28 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BRUTAL WIFE MURDERS.  At an inquest held at Naseby, on Batal.lay, as to the death of a woman named Bland, who was found in her bedroom with her head nearly severed from her bop, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her husband, who is in custody. Catherine Heyes, f Birkenhead, the pc), r woman who, because she did not go for beer when her husband told her, was pulled out of bed and brutally kinked and jumped upon by the man who should have been her guardian and champion, died Ott haturday of her injuries. The charge against her husband will thus assume a more serious form.  THE Rammotrs or Mamas AND Me.—MASters have ceased for the most part to be learned in the details of the handicraft upon which their business reputation depends. A want of knowledge has been the natural prelude to a want of sympathy. Middle men of all sorts have been introduced, from the manager down to the leading hand, and a gulf has been dug which divides the employers from the employed. Tee former have advanced a claim that never would have been listened to in the days of George U., that they might employ whom they liked to do any work they chase to assign to them; the latter have urged the equally absurd demand that all who have passed a certain apprenticeship should have the same rate of wages. At present everything is in a state of the utmost confusion. That the proper remedy is to be found in the enactment of reasonable laws there can be no doubt, but the difficulty is to find a sound basis for legislation. The conditions have so completely changed that it is impossible to revive old 'statutes, but the history of their working and the theory upon which they were based are essential elements in the institution of a permanent code to take their place. We can conceive of no nobler occupation for the leisured classes of this country than to inquire ' into the working of the ancient guilds, which did such good service in their time, and to frame a series of statutes that might help to save our native industries from losing the reputation of honest workmanship Trades unions have a distinct duty to perform in protecting skilled labour from the encroachments of untaught workmen who are employed by masters who have no re:4lin] for their reputation. Masters have an equally clear duty towards their apprentices. The whole community have a right to demand that their lives shall be held as of more importance than the profits of contractors, whether they, be builders of ships or bridges, and that their want of regard to the most ordinary honesty shall be visited upon their own heads. ROLLDWAY'S PILLS AND Ottruf B.:fr.—Rheumatism and Gaut.—Tnese purifying and soothing remedies deserve the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout, sciatica, or other painful affections of the muscles, nerves, or joints. The Ointment should be applied after the affected parts have been patiently fermented with warm water, when the unguent should be diligently rubbed upon the adjacent skin, unless the friction causes pain. Holloway's Pills should be simultaneously taken to diminish pain, reduce Inflammation, and purify the blood. This treatment abates the Violence, lessens the frequency of gout, rheumatism, and all spasmodic diseases which spring from hereditary predisposition. or from any accidental weakness of constitution. The Ointment checks the local malady, while the Pills restore vital power.