The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-06-06 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

BRAVO! M' LADY.  The supporters of woman suffrage have pubfished tbe speech made by Miss Cobbe at the public meeting in St. Ueorge'a Hall, on May 13th, and also a powerfully written " Letter to the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., from a Lady in the Gallery." Mr. Bright made many illogical remarks, but there was one which was peculiarly unfo.rtunate. He said a member had told him that wherever he went "all the best women seem to be against this measure." Whereupon the writer of the letter asks, with pardonable indignation, " Did you inform him that your own daughter, Helen Bright Clarke, is working and speaking before large audiences on behalf of the enfranchisement of her sex? or that your own sisters, Mrs. MacLaren, wife of the member for Edinburgh, and Mrs. Lucau, have given it their constant and hearty support? or that the daughter of your old friend Charles Sturge is a strenuous advocate of this measure 1 If there are any better women than these, they have not happened to cross my path. You might have told that honourable member that there is hardly a women engaged in any work for the good of her sex or mankind, from Frances Power Cobbe and Mary Carpenter to Josephine Butler, who does not believe that this rueasare is necessary. It has also received the warm approval of such women as Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Somerville, Mrs. Grote, and Florence Nightingale. Who and where are the 'best women' who oppose it 7"  Three men were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the river Ouse, at lork. The sad accident occurred whilst the parties were changing places. An inquest has been held, and a verdict of "accidentally drewned " returned.  • A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by a coroner's jury against Benjamin Harris, an engine fitter, of Gloucester, in respect to the death of Frederick Pugh, of Dudley, in Dean Forest, arising out of a locomotive accident, Harris being the driier. Several persons were injured and extensive damage was done at 'St. George's Hospital, London, on Saturday, by the sudden bursting of a large water tank placed at the top of the building, the great weight breaking through the roof and flooding the wards below. There has not been for many a month such a flare up in London as on Friday night. All Paddington and Bayswater was suffused with rose colour while the great Pantechnicon near the Great Western station was blazing. It was a grand sight, and such as not often seen in the west end. Conflagrations of that extensive character are usually .confined to the city and the east end. James Bellis, boot and shoe manufacturer, has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy. The prisoner filed a petition, his liabilities amounting to several hundred pounds, and his assets to £2. While he had houses and money he failed three times within a few years, and never paid a penny. The judge said the prisoner was an old man, or a more severe senteace would have been passed. hobert Jones' farmer, Flintshire, has been committed for trial for the murder of his wife. It appeared that the prisoner, who had occasionally accused his wife of impropriety, returned home late on Friday night, May 19th, from Hollywell market. His wife was afterwards heard screaming and moaning, and on Sunday morning she died. The medical men 'examined were of opinion that death resulted from rupture of the liver and internal effusion of blood, caused by violence. A fire broke out in the clock tower of Canterbury Cathedral on Friday night. It seems that workmen were engaged in cleaning the works of the clock with beuzoline, which became ignited, and set fire to the wooden framework. The flames raged fiercely for some time but were at length gut under. The timbers were much damaged. A local tradesman (Mr. Trenanell) was severely burned in his attempts to extinguish the fire:.  At the- Dudley police court, on Friday, a youth named Barzillai Skelding was charged with cruelly ill-treating a horse at the Cinderhill Colliery, by wrapping a whip around its tongue and pulling it out. It was stated that the prisoner pulled the horse along the pit 100 yards by its tongue. The magistrates characterised the offence as abominable, and sentenced defendant to 14 days' imprisonment, ordering him to pay .£5 and costs, in default two months' imprisonment, for damages.