The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-10-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning, a boy named Patrick Grogan was killed at the Crook.street crossing on the London and North-Western Line, Bolton. _ . _  Mr Richard Young, whow as on Friday se'nnight elected Sheriff of London, died on Sunday night. He represented Cambridgeshire as a Liberal from 1865 to 1868, when he was defeated by Mr. Brand. About five o'clock on Sunday morning, a collision occurred between trains on the Great Western Railway at Slough Junction. While a goods tram was being shunted across the line an up goods train ran into it smashing several wagons. Mr. Bruce, in answer to a correspondent, writes to assure him that no member of the Cabinet has any desire to advance Popery or to injure Protestantism—their only aim is to mete out evenhanded justice to all. At a special meeting of members of the Manchester City Council held on Monday, a requisition was presented to Mr. Alderman Booth to albw himself to be nominated as Mayor for the ensuing year. Mr. Alderman Booth intimated his compliance with the requisition. The mail train which left Nottingham for London at 6-25 on Monday morning met with an alarming accident near Loughborough. A portion of the line gave way, and the carriages were thrown off the rails. 'two horsedealers from Nottingham were severely hurt, but the other passengers escaped with a severe shaking. Late on Thursday night, a tenant farmer, named Conway, when returning home from New Pallas, county Limerick, was set upon and beaten in such a frightful manner about the head that he died in great agony on Saturday. No motive is given for the murder, nor have any arrests taken place. Mr. Sims Reeves has been singing with immense sucres recently at Newcastle and Glasgow. In the latter city the eminent tenor was received with thunders of applause, and sang as splendidly as ever. He fully maintained his right to rank as the most accomplished tenor living; and we hope he may long vindicate his claim to that enviable distinction.  The London Mirror records an altogeher unprecedented list of bequests and donations to various charitable institutions in one single week. It comprises one of £1,400, 17 of £l,OOO each, 5 of £5OO each, 6 of £3OO each, 4tof £250 each, 22 of £2OO each, 5 of £l5O each, 27 of £lOO each, 23 of £5O each, and 4 of £25 each, besides several smaller sums, amounting in all to about £33,000. COURAGEOUS DESTRUCTION OF A MAD Doo.—A few days ago, at Barton, near Preston, Mr. Stephen Thompson saw a dog, evidently in a fierce state of madness, enter his yard and attack his own dog, which was chained to his kennel, and which was severely bitten. Mr. Thompson went up to the brutes when they were fighting, and seizing the mad dog by the tail and the nape of the neck carried him across the yard and threw him into a stable, instantly shutting the door. He then obtained a gun and shot the animal from outside ths window.  A female, who, as nearly as we can at this moment recollect, is named Laura D. Fair Gorden, is running for the Legislature somewhere in the Olin Joan um country, and a contemporary shallowly remarks that we shall soon have a woman seeking election to the Presidency. Victoria C. Woodhull already strives for that distinction, but as the Constitution expressly stipulates that the President shall be thirty-five years of age, it is extremely improbable that any lady in whom the womanly instinct is strong will ever confess to being quail. lied.—San Francisco News Letter.  An inquest was held at West Kent Hospital,' on Saturday, on the body of William Butler, aged 43, an engineer. The deceased bad been employed at Tovil Straw Mills, and on the previous Wednesday, while attending to the machinery, was caught up by a turn shaft, which was moving at the rate of 170 revolutions per minute, round which he was hurled no less than 12 times. The poor fellow was literally torn to pieces; his arms were both broken at the shoulders and fearfully hacked about; his legs were both crushed and broken, the right one in two places, and five ribs were smashed in. The body presented a sad spectacle. A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.