The Sun. — 1867-11-20 (London, England)

ASSAULT UPON A RELIEVING OFFICER.—Timothy Purcell, a labouring man, aged 36 years, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Mr. George Harris relieving officer of the Poplar Union.  The complainant was engaged in the administration of relief to the poor in his office in the stoneyard of the Poplar Union, and the prisoner was among the numerous distressed applicants. Ile demanded bread loudly, and was requested to stand aside until his turn came. He said he would do --- murder if he did not have relief directly. Mr. Harris said he must leave the office and come again with better feelings and better temper, on which be struck the relieving officer and swore at him. The prisoner was then given into custody. The prisoner in defence said he was very sorry— he was drinking last night and did not know what he did. He had an aged mother to keep. Mr. Paget said the law did not invest Lim with sufficient power to punish savage and unprovoked assaults of this kind. He ought perhaps to commit the prisoner for trial, and then perhaps the prisoner would be adequately punished. The barman had behaved very properly, Ile sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment, and hard labour. The prisoner, in ,defence, said he and his family bad been two days and two nights without grub, and that Mr. Harris refused to give him some bread. The poor were scandalously treated in Poplar, and Mr. Harris laid hold of poor people and knocked them about.  Mr. Harris said the prisoner had been relieved several times, and would have been relieved if he had waited in his regular turn. The pressure was great, and the distress among the poor increasing. He denied indignantly the charge of cruelty. He never illused a poor man or woman in his life, and he attended with consideration and care to all applicants for relief. Mr. Charles Butler, returning officer:confirmed the statement of his colleague ; and Mr. Jeffreys, an assistant, gave evidence in corroboration. and ho ought to have known better. Mr. Paget said the prisoner and his family had been relieved, He was determined to protect the officers of the Union in the discharge of their duties. He sentenced the prisoner to one mouth's imprisonment and hard labour.  [ADvßaTlSExtENT.l—Dygpepsia(lndigestion), Constipation, De bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and live) complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerates by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Be Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, suet as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver coinplaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache,nlusea and sickness, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. Wo quote a few :—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has conflned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meat. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timbei merchant, of Frimley Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia deafness Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness. asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, withou' authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attawed.— In tins at ls. ltd.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 63.; 5 lbs., lls.; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40:3.—BARitY DU BAaltY and Co., No. 77, itegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and, 289, Uztord-stroot•- 880 Strand; and 611 grooera knd oliemiefi