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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1900-05-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MOM. .  Lizzie Powell, the manageress of the hotel, also gave evidence. She spoke to having several times asked the def:ndant to leave the premises. Mr. Fee=ley: Subsequently, I think, you made a statement to the Superintendent, in the presence of the defendant, as to what had taken place?—Tea, I did. And did the defendant say anything u to that?—Yes; he said, " It's all right," Hugh Burge, the "Boots" at the Woodside Hotel, said that %lien he was called to the emoi.eroom 1:e found two or three of the girls had hold of MeCracken,trying to get hinf through the door. He knew there was some sort of a torhzr, but he didn't know what it was about. However, he got bold of wbeever IL was, and pulled him through into the passage. While.% handed him his coat and hat, but be threw them on the floor. Continuing, witness said, I as!•:ed him to go land sit down. I said, 'lt's no use making a fad of yourself in the passage here.' Then he went into the ladies' coffee-room, .and while he was sitting down I tried to coax him to go out; but he wouldn't have it. I Came away for a minute, and while I was gone he opened the window and went on to the lawn. He couldn't look over the wall—he wasn't big enough—so he started jumping up and waving his handkerchief. He kept shouting, 'Police,' Murder,' ' Fire engines,' and one thing and another." Mr. Fearnley• Shortly afterwards the policeman came on the scene P--Yee. Then what did the defendant say?-11e pot hie hand on nay ahoulder, and said, "I give this man in Charge for trying to strangle me," but, of. course, the policeman couldn't see that!' • Whit did the constable eley?—lie asked what was up, and I said, "Thin fellow bus has got something the matter with bins, ant you'd better get lsim•etiteide.',.. Police-Constable Canine said that when hi arrived, the defendant seemed to be in a very excited condition. When witness told him he could not arrest "Boots,' he said be would go up to the Town Ball and report him.  Superintendent Bennett said he was iu the police office when the defendant conic. When he heard McCracken.%) story, lie sent down td the hotel, and Mise Powell, Miss Green, and "Boots" came up. In the presence of the defendant, Miss Powell made a statement similar to the one she had made in court that day, and McCracken said, " That is quite right." Mr. Fearnley: Ile was in a very excited condition!' .  The Superintendent: Very much CO. And you had trouble in getting him ti leave the place?—A very great deal of troublet In answer to the magistrates, the Superintendent mini McCracken had been ilk the precincts of the court that morning. The c hairman : We find this caae protect, and think it is a very serious offence. A licensee has quite enough to put up with. without incidents of this kind. Ad Mr. McCracken has not appeared we impose tie ' full penalty of ..R5, to be levied by distress, or the alternative of one months imprison. ment. _
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-11-01 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

HEATHER ; &C., &O. a  "Ant 3t stopped ebort, never to go aga;n, When the old man died." Popular Sony.  •hat now we are never going to ... you unless I see you lodged in a This was uttered with strong I at Maurice seemed to literally collapse orce gaze of Westwood. Then, with ,on, he drew himself together; and with lihood, but very poorly assumed, he said: Westwood, do not talk in enigmas. What 7ou want with me?" For some years," replied the other in a short biting way, your miserable heel has been upon my head. The plodding, the weariness, the thought, the anrziety has been mine. Yours—the ease, the laziness, and the lusuiy Through me you dragged yourself horn your native dunghill, and reposed on soft velvets. You became an ass fed upon ortolans—a dunce amidst gems. True, you in your way worked. You vere quiek at finding gold, but it required a master mind to show you how to utilise it. I have submitted loag, and patiently. I have submitted because I had mv own plans to work out. They have failed: Lot do you, contemptible little Ti.ietch that you are! do you think that you are to fly with the spoil, and I am to be left penniless, and worse—aye, a million times worse—to be left with the impress of your heel still stinging me. I always promised myself that yorr Buffeting should wipe that sting out. 1 aln:tys 1.-veil with the firm determination of one day flioging you back into the mire from Wiich you sprang." The glare ii Westwood's eye grew more cleadlo. His face appeoached nearer to the other. His breath seemeil to scorch Maurice's face.  "Don't look like that," said the kilter, drawing back; "be reasonable. my dear fellow." Alas for Mr. Caalin's fine airs and pretty little affect :Cons and tionchalape., ; they had all vanished now. Be was as pale, trembling, cringing, despicable a ninny as ever breathed. "My ---," he oiled, as he quail xl before the burning, light of Westwood's eyes; "you frightea me whri you look like th;.t. Don't thick." he cried, with a fatal courage bred of fear, " that I cannot get help." ITo rose; his every limb quivered. "If I touch this cord--" "Ii you touch that cord the tra;n will stop, and the guard will entar the carriage. I shall tell bun to take care of you. I shall tell him that you are a murderer and a thief. I shall tell him that the wife of John Darford demands your arrest." "The wife of John Darfoid !" the other gasped, looking still more terriled. Then, in a ghostly whisper, "Does she still live?" "She is now called Mrs. Mertoa—Colonel Merton's wife. That is what I should do were you to touch that commouication. Lilt you won't touch it, for I will not let you. We arc alone. The.o is not a soul to help you. The hour of my reveage has come." The engine shrieked dismally. The night seemed to grow blacker and blacker. The carriage swayed from side to side. Maurice was paralyzed with fear. He c'uag tightly to a little leathef box he held in his ode hand. 'This be 7:: Westwood eyed greedily.  CH MY (TR.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1869-10-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

VIM 2,146,01)0. The progrese of the society, therefore, was Very remarkable and interesting He then proceeded to explain the beariti,f the Bible had at the political history of tuitions, and said that seventeen or eighteen years ago the Bible was kicked out of Austria, and any attempt to establish it was pot dow' n and the operations ..f the different depots of the Bible Societies was put a stop to, and they Were ordered and put beyond the frontiers, butt since tied; time that empire has been greatly humiliated in its power, and its. former prejudices are ii' w givite.; place to enlightenment. The Bible SI jcity haS now gained a footing in that country, and t hey were din .4 waciisice work, no fewer that ioo,ooo Bibles having beci. disposed irdurin g the past year. Then there was Italy, where ton years ago individuals were murdered for reading the Bible in Florence, and other places. But now the matter was altered, and instead ot the persecutions formerly practiced, Bibles were following immediately in the footsteps of Garibaldi. The path of freedom had been opened, and depots for the wile of tiod's Word had been opened from one end to the ether of the whole empire, 28,Oisi copies of the Bible had been distributed last year in that country. The country of Spain, which had been in peculiar political eircnmstances for the past twelve months, and out of which he hoped she would get a speedy deliverance, had now been opened for the work of Christianity, although only one year bad passed since it had been made free. for the work of this society, no fewer than 300,000 copies of the gospel had been printed in that language and circulated through the country. (Applause). Depots had been opened in sixty of the principal cities in Spain, and a great number of the inhabitants, of that county are now receiving the truth. The work of the society was still going on in France, 113,000 copies having been circulated last year, making a •total of more than 5,500,a5t ppies that hail been distributed in that country by this society. In Belgium, also, the work had been progressing, and many had found the truthof the gospel. The cower of the bible was thus making itself felt alt over the faro f, the earth, and the heathen world had found a considerable benelit by the society, which had made rapid strides in the countries of India, Chilla, and several other of the large countries where heathenism was once in its glory. The speaker gave some interesting remarks on the work done in Madagascar, and other places, after which he made an earnest appeal that a renewed effort might he set on foot in Barrow, awl that several collectors should volunteer to labour in the interests of the society. The Rev. Mr. Sommer proposed that the ' gentlemen forming the committee of the Barrow ' Auxilliary be re-elected, for the coming year, and that the secretary and treasurer also be reelected. The motion was seconded and carried. A • vote of thanks was awarded to the chairman, ; and a collection was made on behalf of the • society. The doxology was then sung and the proceedings terminated.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-08-17 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-09-11 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

WOMAN.  About ten o'clock on Saturday morning a woman, named Amelia Farmer, gave important information that she had been a fellow lodger with the deceased, and had known her for come considerable time. She stated that the deceased woman was Annie Chapman, the widow of a veterinary surgeon, who had died at Windsor about eighteen months ago. She was ' accordingly taken to the mortuary at half-past eleven 1 o'clock, and immediately recoenised her frieud, apparently being touched at the dreadful spectacle. ~.ater on she made °statement of what she knew of the history of the murdered woman. Annie Chap- . man had for a long time been separated from her husband, a veterinary surgeon at Winclser, by mutual agreement, and had beeu :lowed 10s, a week by him for her maintenance. The money had been sent by Post (Mee order, made payable at the Commercialstreet Post Office, and had always come regularly. About eighteen months ago the instalments suddenly ceased, and, upon inquiry being made, it was found that the husband had died. Annie Cipipmau had two children, but where they were she could not say. The deceased had a mother and sister, who were living in the neighbourhood of Brampton or Fulham. Farmer had been in the habit of writing letters for her f!ieed, but could not remember the exact address of the mother or sister, but thought it was near the Brompton Hespital. Last Monday Chapman had intimated her intention of communicating with her sister, saying, "If I can get a pair of boots from my sister I shall go hop picking." Another relation, a ' brother-in-law et tee deceased, lived somewhere in or near Oxford-slreet. Fenner asserted that her murdered frieed was appareutiy a sober, steady-going ! sort of woman, and one who seldom took any drink. For some time past she had been living occasionally with a in in named Ted Stnnley, who had been in the militia, but was now working at some neighbouring brewery. Ted Stonley was a good tampered mar, rather tall, about sft. 10iu., fair, and of florid complexion. Ke was the last man in the world to have •ielaarelled with Chipman. eor would 'he have injured her in any way. At the beginning of the week the deceased had been rather severely knocked about in the breast and face by another woman of the locality, through jealousy in connection with Ted Stouley, and had been obliged to go to the casual ward. As a regular meet's of liveliho.A.she had not been in the habit of frequenting the streets, but had made antimacassars for sale. Sometimes she would buy flowers or matches, with which to pick up a living. Farmer was perfectly certain that on Friday night the murdered woman had worn three rings, which were not genuine, but were imitations, otherwise she wouid not have troubled to go out and find mommy for her lodgings. The police, on the statemeut of Farmer, made a vigilant search for the mother, sister, and brother-in-law, but without success. A man named Chapman, from Oxford. street, was found, but proved to be no relation.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-05-10 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A FAIMER.—At the Newcastle Police Court, on Tuesday, James Noble charged with having violently aasaulted Win. Pic ing Alder, farmer, residing at Ponteland. Mr Wal appeared for the prosecution.—lt appeared that on 16th of last month the defendant was driving a cart in the Bigg Market, and nearly threw sev persons down with his cart. The prosecutor, with assistance of a friend of his, a farmer, got hold of horse's head and advised the defendant to be .eyere!/  careful in driving. The defendant then took a, of coal and threw it at him, striking him so tevei on the head that he was in consequence confined bed bed several days. His hearing was affected, Rua / nerves wire greatly shaken. As the defendant did ' appear at court, a warrant was issued for his P' hension.  Science must take a back sent when a cross-eyed VOW= begins to beat a carpet with her left hand.—New Pork Erpreu. A doctor to his son—" JAnny, wouldn't you like to be a doctor?" "No father." "Why not, my son P" "Why, father, I coulda't even kill a fly."  "No Fishin hero" is the common sign that meets the eye of the sportsman—aud there is more truth in the statement than would at fi.st appeal.—New Haven Register.  The Jury that held an inquest over the body of • matt frozen to death, brought in a verdict, "That the thermometer was guilty of murder in the tenth degree— below zero."— Whilekall Instructor measuring our City map—" It is half a mile from the academy for Boys, to the seminary for Girls.' Innocent strident, thoughtfully, "It doesn't seem so far,"—Morrir Avaloae.  That was a clever Oakland boy, who, when te was given two dollars to dig up his aunt's garden, hid a two oent piece in it, and then told all the boys in the neighbourhood. The next morning the ground was pulver,ed two feet deep.—Siin Pronciaro Post.  " Well Pacebe, (colourei) do you attend church ?" " Lor' yes, =isms, couldn't live if I'se didn't go to meetina." Do you have good times there?" "I guess we does, we have' tracted ineetin goin' on arid last night our minister ' vited persons to de altar, when three came fow'rd, and we thought th it first rate cousideth.' do hard times."  That wat a mean trick in the fellow last night at the theatre, who flung a bouquet with a airing attached to it, to the leaddig lady end hauled it up again as she smilingly stooped over to pick it up. It caused her niOrtifiClltioll. and the price of a new corset. —Court Journal.  HATE IT —New Trustee : Well, Mr Syntax, you have a very fair school here." Mr S.— Yea sir, the school i.e well enough but the curriculum Ii defective." New T.—" What, the curriculum defective? We must see the architect at ouee about it, and have it laised a few feet higher."
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-12-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

MEMORIAL CHAPEL ANNIVERSARY.  The anniversary services in connection with the Hebbran Memorial Chapel. Benham, were celebrated on Sunday and Monday last. On Sunday morning, Mr T. Carrick, of Cur. endue, preached an esruest and able temperance sermon, eelectics tot his tent the latter part of the second verse of the sth chapter of Isainli -" And he looked that it should bring forth gripes and it brought forth wild grapes " In this passage were set torth two things—God's elpectation sod His disappointmeet. In the grit plcce:. the preacher showed the reasonableness of God's exp ation, pointing out the many privileges and favours theprajay ad, and asked what they had given to God for all that he had given to them. There were many things in this country which were very grimes to God, but he would oily specially treat of -He of them, viz . the wild grape of drunkenness. What was the state of things in this respect at the present time. While they were is that house of raver there were tens of thousands of poor, miser ible creator(' who presented a sight more miserable and horrible than could he presented in any ether country under the sun. A while ago. while travelling with a Greek gentleman, he was told by that gentleman he ws,. particularly struck with he great amount of wealth and lazare and the great amount of squalor and misery which they had in this country. It was simply a fact that there were 185, 00 places in thii country in which intoxicating drinks were sold 17 or IS hours every day. Not only that, hut on the Lord's Diy, when all other places of businesa were closed, the public-hoax was open. Yet the publicans were licensed by law, and backed up by the Government of the country, and called goad fellows because they made so mach reireen, for the country. What a sight was prerrepted to them especially in their large towns. He could take them to st:eets ma tiewcastle, where they would see nes and woos, a with blackened eyes, with bleeding faces, and witn bodies covered with bruises; and let them stand there be. tween ten and teehreo'clock at night, and they would see huodreds of wretched cad niiseralk sea sad women, creeping and crawling into miserable dens, perhaps some of them to die. There were deeds of darkness, deeds of horror, and sights of misery, wreteliedite.s. end rain presenting them'eves to the e'r of Almighty God, such av count hardly be (nand in any other conntry on the face of the whole earth Daring the pest twelvemonths there hail been more cruelty and ntrocity co:11mM.! in ibis country than that committed in the whole of Bulgaria, which caused so much agitation in this laud. In Bulgaria. it was enemy against enemy, tutu Torii against the Bulgarian while in this country it sass Man killing his own wife' mother killing her own child; it ass a son murdering his father or his brother, said all that
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-01-20 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE ORIGIN OF TITHES. (T. the Editor of the Alstcnt Herald) 110111111 Lille ago a letter appeared ii ;OUT paper asking for Warranties as to the origin of tithes. I could not at that Mae reply. bet hoped rase one ware able night do se. I will any andealoar to do so as briedy u I can, and anyone  who sty wish for farther Mformatme I will be glad to estrespond with them. The history of the system shows :  1. net there is no scriptural authority for the impolitic's. 2. That the Jews of the present day have nen.. 3. That for the first 300 years swirly, tithes or eadowomeats of aey kind were unknown in the Christian Church. 4. That the trot fond was for the ale of the poor, sad mu dietribated by demons and elders. 6. The bishop then got the management and bops to devote a portion to the support of poor ministers. 6. That then all ministers were paid out of this peer's fund, and large amounts being needn. Wrath' of the income were recommended with promises and threats if less was given. 7. That about the year 1000, the pool fund was determined in fixed proportion*, namely i—One quarter to the poor, one varier to the repair and bailding of religiose edifices ; one quarter to the ministers; one quarter to the bishop; who at this Lime provided for the ministers. 8. That when the ministers no longer lived with the bishops in monasteries, he., the division wu made—oil third to the poor; one third for repair, he., of buildings; one third for ministers. S. That ministers were supported in ecclesiastical abbeys, he.. and the poor more general; in lay abbeys, he., and to either of these dames the people contributed as they those, generally preferring the lay abbeys. 10. That in 1180 Pope Alumna IIL forbade the people to make appropriation without the consent of the bishop in whose diocese they lived, and in 1200 Pope Innocent 111., enforced by tenure that payment be made by each one is his own parish. 11. That anti 1274 tithes were only hee•will offerings. Is this year, the council of Lyons directed it to be no longer lawful to pay tithes when they pleased, bat only_to mother church ; and in 1566, Pius IV. at the council of Trent, confirmed tithes aides by divine right. 12. That in 1600, after forty years of censures and excommuniudions, the right of prescription was set up an all now went to the clergy. The same history applies to tithes in 'England. la 795 Offa. King of Marcia, caused tithes in his own dominions to be due by right, which before were only free-will offerings, in return to the Pope for his pardon of the murder of Ethelbert, King of the East Angles; and in 851 the clergy persuaded Ethelwolf to extend this to the whole of the kingdom, though the poor were still supported, and the option mite the place of payment remained. -Pope Ineoeenfe decree, sent to King Jehn, ordered every man to pny tithes to those who administered spiritual help in his own parish, and by setting up ecclesiastical courts, and thundering his interdicts, he frightened both king and people into acquiescence. An act of Henry