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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-04-26 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

NOVEL BARGAIN.  At the public auction which took place a few days ago within a certain distance of the highest market town in England, the holder of the sale saw fit to supply to the attenders of the sale a" wee drap of the crater" gratis, the potent beverage no doubt being only intended for likely purchasers. But as is always the case at proceedings of this nature, there was a congregation of " loafers " who, having nothing better to do, thought they would do the holder of the sale a favour (?) and help to drink up the liquor. The quantity, however, must have been too large, or the quality too good, for before long three of them were lying side by side on the road perfectly helpless. An agent for a manure company being present, he offered to buy the lot as carcases. The holder of the sale considering that he had the best right to the apparently dead " animals," accordingly instructed the auctioneer to "proceed with the auction," as the nigger said, and after a "spirited competition" the above-mentioned agent beeame the purchaser for 23e. That gentleman accordiLgly began to secure his purchase, and amidst the laughter of the bystanders took the nearest one by the coat collar and dragged him on to the side of the road, coolly remarking "that he had 106 in that one at any rate." The burlesque ended by the three drunken men being dragged on to the roadside to "rest in peace,' after affording a farce for the others present.—Cor.  Dr Newman has left England for Rome.  The onokoo has been heard in Londonu Woods. General Garibaldi leaves Rome for Albans on the 27th inst.  The Duke of Argyll has returned to London from the Continent.  Two women have been seriously injared in the Limerick rioting. ' The weather throughout France continues to be extraordinary for the season. Several Gatling guns are to 1).2. sent out for the use of the troops in Afghanistan. Ten wayfarers have been overwhelmned by an avalanche in the Gothard Pass. The foundatiou stone of a new lAeral Cie" has been laid at Staleybridge. Mr George Hadfield the former Liberal M.P. for Shoffield has diel, aged 91.  A row Masonic Hall, erected by the Freemasons o: Ipswich, has been dedicated. Mr William Alliogham will retire in Jane from :he editorship o: Frasers ilapazine. The trotting titallion Woodford Mambrino died lest week, tia, Sc. Louis.  The first shipment of live hogs for Europe from Baltimore took place March 29th. Ann Webster, the last descendant of John Banyan, died lately aged 84 years. The death is announced of the Rev Dr Malcolm, the founder of the American Tract Society. A brother of the murderer Troppmann is about to be tried at Colmar on a charge of coining. Sir John Pender, M.P., has completed an inspection of the Cyprus and Malta telegraph stations. The annual graduation ceremonial took place on Wednesday at St. Andrew's University.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1879-10-04 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

AMON FOR LIBEL.  A special applieation was made on Tuesday afternoon to Mr Justine Bower, sitting in Chambers, for an injunction to restrain Mr George Purkess, publisher, of 286. Strand, from publishing a oertain pamphlet entitled "The Easton Square Mystery; Extraordinary Statement made by Hannah Dobbs," on the ground that the said pamphlet contained libels on the plaintiff, Mr Siwerin Baatendorff, ot 4, Euston Square, Mr J. J. Sims, barrister, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Edmund Thomas appeared for the defendant.  i . The plaintiff, n his affidavit, made oath that his name wag Siwerin Bastendorff, and that he was a manufacturer of fancy work in bamboo at 4, Easton Square, Loudon. He had purchased and read the pamphlet in question. When he bought the pamphlet at defendant's shop, he noticed a large advertisement of the pamphlet and a portrait of Hannah Dobbs conspicuously placed in derendant's front window. There were also portraits of himself and his wife (Mr and Mrs Baatendorff.) He believed the names mentioned in the pamphlet were intended to apply to him and his family. The mffidavit goes on to deny the statement in the pamphlet that Ur Bastendorff made the acquaintance of Hannah Dobbs, and carried on an immoral intercourse with be. Her believed the charges in the pamphlet, referring to the pawning of various articles of jewellery, to be wholly untrue. The gold necklet mentioned Mrs Bastendorff now had in her possession, and there was no entry of it having been pawned with Mr Gill, of Hampstead Road. He believed the false statements oontained in the said pamphlet respecting the pawning of articles belonging to himself and his wife, and false statements or suggestions respecting Mr Giles and Mr 13, ookee, were calculated to do him injury to his credit and business. The allegations respecting Mr Finlay, who was stated to have disappeared from 4, Easton Square, with the reference to immoral connection between Mr—and Miss —, were wholly untrue, and without any foundation in fact. The whole of the statements with reference to the murder of a little boy were entirely untrue. The whole of the suggestions in the pamphlet that he was concerned in the murder of Miss Hacker were wholly untrue. He had oommenoed an action for libel against the defendant. After this affidavit had been read, the case was adjourned for eight days, the defendant undertaking in the meantime not to issue any more of the pamphlets.  FATAL FALL FROM k Cum—A sad accident on. curred at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, on Monday, re. inking in the death of a clergyman, the Rev Mr Mackenzie, who had been staying at Bournemouth. He went in the excursion steamer from Bournemouth to Alum Bay, and while walking along the edge of the oliffs facing the Solent he had the mi.. fortune to fall over. He was picked up at the bottom soon afterwards quite dead. He had fallen from a height of nearly 6001 t.  A , Rsmotous
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-01-17 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

PEOPLE I HAVE PASSED ON THE JOURNEY OF LIFE. (By the Author of the Autobiography of A Beggar Boy.)  both money and clothing to poor people, and that was done when his credit had gone down to zero. I have an idea that he had been brought up sharp without previous notice by his guardian, and by that means thrown upon his own resources. The last time I saw him was in one of the front rooms of the Hall Gate, itk which place he was a prisoner for debt. From the window of this apartment, he had the pleasure of seeing that part of every day life of such of the liezhamitea as strolled about the lidarket Place and lounged at the lazy corners? When I parted with him in this elevated situation he was as cheerful and light hearted as when he was a free man. Peace be with him; he was a child of circumstances, not unlike the writer. I have some reminiscences in connection with the Grange "Loannin." I knew the little solitary thatched cottage about mid-way between the Grange and Low Warden. I knew, too, the man who resided is that cottage, and who was its only inmate. He was a tailor to trade, but not having had a taste for "whipping the cat," he took to a profession of a more artistic character, which was that of quilting counterpanes. In this line, he earned tame, and somebody must have supposed the he obtained something of a more substantial character. There are not many people now who were personally acquainted with Joe the Quilter, but I had known him before he moved to the Grange Lane. I was also sogie little acquainted with a relation of Joe's, who resided at Wall. This was a poor, honest, hard working man, who had a family to support by his industry. Many of your readers will have heard that "Joe" was brutally murdered, but few will now remember that his cousin, Herdman, was taken tip upon suspicion of having been the murderer, and that he was subjected to a rigid judicial examination. And though it was clear that he knew nothing about the case more than that of the common report, the poor fellow was obliged to remove to Hexham, in which place he resided in a room in the old Golden Lieu, on the Battle Hill, but his removal from Wall did not free him from the stispiCion of guilt. There was another man taken up for this murder with whom I was acquainted. This person was a native of Hawick, and Was a stocking weaver, but owing to ill health he was obliged to change the character of his employment. When I knew him he was travelling with hosiery. He was a steady, honest, inoffensive into, and much respected by all who knew him. Like Her-linen, he was, liberated after having undergone the process of a severe examination, and like lierdman the stigma produced by the suspicion of guilt clung to him in such a manner that he was obliged to leave the district. The tail of Priestpopple has undergone more changes than one since the Hawick stocking .weaver made his Hezham home in a little ' isolated thatched cottage which stood back from the toad at the Jobler s Stile.  THE MYSTERIOUS _MURDER
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-09 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

RAYDON BRIDGE.  HAYDON HOuNDS.—ANNUAL Puppy SlloW.,—The annual puppy show in connection with the above hounds took place at the Kennels, Haydon Bridge, on Wednesday morning last, two prizes being given by the Master of the hunt, Major A. J. Blackett Ord, for the best walked puppies. There were six entries, and of these five were forward for the inspection of the judges—Mr Chas. Blackett Ord, Whitfield Hall, and Mr Michael Wright, Charlton, Bellingham. The first prize (a handsome goblet) was awarded to Dairymaid— Bertha, by Dancer, walked by Mr Maughan of East Whamley, and the second (also a goblet) to Drayman—Bertha, by Dancer„ brother to the first prize winner, walked by Mr T. Carr Chesterwood. The other puppies present were—Careless, walked by Mr T. Lambert, Elrington Hall, which was commended on account of her extreme youth, being only ten months old, and shown against other puppies eighteen months old; Danger, walked by Mr Wm. Alexander, jun., Woodley Field, llexham ; and Ranter, walked by Mr John Routledge, of the Kennels, Ilaydon Bridge. Amongst the members of the hunt*present were—Mr W. Langhorn, East Mill Hills; Mr Thomas Lambert, Elrington Hall; Mr M. Thompson, Moss Kennels; Mr Hindinarsh, Allervra.sh Mill; Mr Dickinson, Chesterwood; &c. After the show, the hounds were thrown off at the Star plantation at Elrington, and soon found a fox, which broke away to the west, and out at the high end of Threepwood Wood. Reynard was apparently stopped by some person': out shooting, as he ran down the cover again to the Star plantation, but once more he made tracks for Threepwood Wood, thence to Cowing's Park, on to Woodman's Fell, and from there down by Langley Gate on to Deanraw Fell. Here two foxes were viewed and the hounds became divided, and the first fox that was raised it is believed found a safe retreat in Harsondale Cleugh. They sought the hillside back again, but could find nothing more and thus closed an excellent run. There was a fair 'field, about ten horsemen being present. This pack contains 15 couples of hounds, well adapted for hunting their district, which, since the amalgamation of this hunt with the Hexhamshire and Shiley Hunt, is a somewhat extensive one. Last season they had a , splendid run of some 56 miles' and no doubt this year , the hounds will show equally good sport. The hounds meet for cub hunting at Newbiggin House, Blanchland, on Friday, 15th inst. A concert in connection with the Hayden Bridge Band was given here on Saturday evening last. There will be a harvest festival in the Parish Church on the 14th inst.  Patrick Shelley, a cabinet maker, hasbeen committed for trial by the Bolton magistrates on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. The two had been living apart, and the prisoner, after questioning the woman as to where she had been lodging, threatened to " stick " her. Some time afterwards he stabbed her below the right breast, and the wound would probably have been a fatal one but for the obstacle offered to the knife by the strength of the stays the woman was wearing.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-01-31 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SECOND DAY.-WEDNESDAY. THE DEFENCE. PRISONER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.  The trial was resumed on Wednesday morning. On being placed in the dock, the accused appeared flushed, and throughout the day wore a more wearied appearance than she did on the opening day. When formally charged she coloured very much, and in a low voice replied—" I spoke thetruth tothe coroner; I am innocent." She continued more or lees flushed during the whole of the speech for the defence, to which she listened with intense interest. She signed her name to the statement she made without the slightest hesitation. . Evidence having been given by Dr Montgomery, P.C. Ferguson, Inspector Liddle, and Supt. Thabron, similar to that given at the inquest, Mr Granger said these were the whole of the witnesses' to be called. The prisoner was then formally charged with the . murder, and the Magistrate having given her the usual caution, asked her if she wished to say anything. The prisoner replied: I spoke the truth to the coroner. lam innocent. ' The Clerk: Do you wish to call any witness? The Prisoner: No. Mr Baty then addressed the Bench for the defence. He said they had now arrived at that stage of these proceedings when it devolved upon the Magistrate to consider what .course to pursue with this case in future. For his part te thanked his worship for the careful and impartial mariner in which he had heard the evidence. Mr Granger in opening the case for the prosecution, said he hoped to lay before his worship aprima facie ease, so as to enable him to commit the prisoner to take h .1. trial at the assizes; that prima facie case he (Mr Baty) submitted had not been shown, It was not necessary to show simply aprima facie case against anyone, but the prosecution must show that the prima facie case was, as Mr Granger admitted this was composed of presumptive evidence, deductions and inferences as to throw a strong pr ssumption of guilt upon the prisoner, With regard to this murder having been committed for the purpose of robbery or from sudden anger he would dismiss it in a few words. The situation of Belmount was lonely, and there was a public road running from Stanhope to Blanchlang and Edmond. I byers, and the premiers of this loft were almost on a level with the moor and there was a gate loading from the moor within a few yards of the door of the left, where there are two sheep folds with high waSs round them, and also a stackyard immediately a joining the door, There was, therefore' free amen and opportunity for concealment, and the old man's second statement was evidently an attempt to bolster up the previous statement, and to show that up to that time th-re was no stranger upon these premises. If any stranger had gone on to that farm, It must have been without the intention of tom. milting the murder or robbery, beanse the old man said that very rarely was that door Amt. As the young man went out for the parpose of going to elandyford, he had evidently taken it into his head, in some moment of impulse—probably wanting a stick or something—to go into that room; and if
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-02-14 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

GOVERNESS:. PRINTS IN ERE BNOW,". &C., &O. CHAPTER XLIII—THE Brune E When the morning broke, and the birds stir among the trees in the woods of Masser, hares and rabbits to peep out their brown 1 the middy undergrowth, a hurried foot stealthily along beneath the green arca& where Sir George's body lay. He was a hunted man this new.com desperate. He had been a clerk, and t rob his master, and the police were cic track. But-he knew the woodetif-Masi had lain hidden there for days, and no hungry, almost penniless, he was about early drawn to make his escape. Suddenlyoas be half-ran, ha f-tramr came to the spot where Sir George lay amid his own terror, he stopped at this The white face, and the half-open ey . the sky, were terrible enough to make moments at least, forget his fear. B and opened Sir George's waistcoat to were stilL As he did so, the clink of his ears. The penniless, starving ma sound. A second gl nee convince( George was dead, and a second thong as well make the best we of the r fallen in his way. So he took Sir Georges gold wi hands. He took also the dead r pocket book, and his outer coat, a, down the winding paths of the v fled before. And all the day passed, and no ( near. The sun rose and shone, a and the sun went down, add the and still Sir George lay there ale one, in fact, who dared to make him. He had gone out, and lef was he accountable to ? Thus, argued, and thus for two days in the woods. But on the thi, A young keeper going his nun,. ing had his attention attract& agitation of his dog. He turn see what was disturbing ,he in. came upon Sir Georg- lying d Robbed and murdered. Ph; who heard the tate. Everyth George's person was gone; a which he had destroyed his There was a hunted man wl hunted man very naturally w „ try round was searched, ane many feet, but no clue was , man cad two days' start, a; them, and of the gold he ha So when Elay,ward and reached Massim, this tale them. Hayward was utter and overwhelmed with gri George. All the way hom, promising himself how b, comfort-and console his George's dark secret. H tale of murder, felt dot hoArt. He went up alone to t decked room where the in state. Sir George w unclosed, and the stern stern and handsome et' But he was not unto and kissed the cold brot friend. Then „in heart gin to pray. (../ ! co agony that had wrnm had gone out to die • of the wesring rem pointment and pain. Before they &trill, the boy, young Jim lad showed very hI there was a sense c - already guessed du name. He was a eyes, and as Hay. with I- anghty and looked at his dear eyes turned away But Hayward haggard, drawn grave. In that truth of the sad the day was or, marriage, and claimed to be t After the oat who had come George's last claration of Mendoza, ane he left Mae fortune that large forum. "dear 'rien, sum of mei also the gm always to With ant at each ott always be, were thii Spanish r a fortun, was the those pr it would such a E DO one Mr Tre vited t, was al At f borritt was o Sir G of, tl youn B‘lll' hair his Sir we th, Ur re SI  ”wl
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-16 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  SHOCKING OUTRAGES.  Mr Parnell did not attend the land -meeting at Roscommon on Sunday, as he was expected to do. Telegraphing to the meeting, Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P., says:—" Action of Government makes me the more regret I cannot be at the meeting in my native country. Mr Parnell told you not to trust to Ministerial friendship. The Ministry have proved the wisdom of the counsel. Mr Forster has capitulated to the landlords. They promised redress. They have already inaugurated svercion. Rely on yourselves alone, and maintain, strengthen, and extend your constitutional combination against landlordism." We regret to have to record a number of further outrages. A Dublin telegram says that a farmer named Browne, at Williamstown, County Cork, has had his ears cut off, and has since been fired at. His house was attacked at midnight, and had to be barricaded. Brown occupies a farm from which a Mrs Horne had been evicted. A shot was tired into the house of a farmer named McNamara, near Ennis, on Saturday night, hut happily no one was Wares'. The outrage is believed to be 'due to some remarks which McNamara made about the Land League. A large rick of hay, belonging to a man normal Madden, at Athenry, was burnt on } ruby night. Madden had been stealthily grazing his cattle on a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. At Letterfrack, Mr Kendal's herd found three of his cattle killed, and four of , them terribly mutilated. The cause of the oatrage is I attributed to the fact that he did service for a landlord. On Sunday, a grave was found dug in the grounds 'ofMr T. Lambert, Aggard, near Craughwell. Mr Lambert, who is a landowner and a magistrate, held some civil decrees against tenants for rent arrears. , On Monday night a house near Balla, on the land which was tilled by the Land League, was burnt to the ground. No reason can be assigned. I Two more arrests have been made on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Lord Montmorres. The names of the prisoners are Patrick Heffernan and William Spencer. Mr Dillon, M.P.., presiding at the weekly meeting of the Executive of the Irish Land League, heligou Tuesday, in Dublin, condemned the prihciples set forth in Archbishop McCabe's pastoral, and denied that there was foundation for the assertion contained therein, that the Land League was in any way responsible for the murders that had been committed in Ireland. It was rumoured in Dublin on Tuesday that the Royal Irish constabulary had put forward a requisition for 67,000 additional rounds of buckshot cartridges from the Ordnance Store Department of Dublin. It is also said that • the military authorities' have fears of disturbances in the west, and all barracks are to be prepared for additional trotms. The 77th Regiment is to leave the Currag,h shortly for Castlebar, and it is stated that detachments will also be sent to Westport, Galway, and Oughterard.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-05-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

AMERICAN ITEMS. A WEsrants paper, alluding to the 'statue og Shakespeare in the Central-park, New York, saypi " That's right.; such talent as William's ought to -6e encouraged." THE longest sentence on record was pronounc.ed by a western judge. He sentenced a murderer to? imprismunent for life, and afterwards added two inure years to the sentence because the prisoner called him no gentleman. nro tramps stopped at the house of a lone widow, and one went into beg. Very soon he came out with a black eye. "Well, did you get anything, Jack ? " "Yes," growled the sufferer, ' got the widow's might." Owr of tha most preposterous things possible' would be a man, on board a rocking ship, in a gale of wind, with the fever and ague, trying to shave himself with a bent razor. We don't believe %would be a smooth job. A PENNSYLVANIA editor alluded to "an eminent fellow-citizen" as "a noble old burgher, proudly loving his native State," but the neat little compliment was transformed by the compositor into "a nobby old burglar, prowling around in a naked state." A BRUNSWICK, Me., delltig has an office OWE a hatter named Toot/later. _ _ _ . .  ONE brand of Cincinnati whiakey la warranted to contain 437 fights to the barrel This year is .Leap year, when the girls will take the boys out sleighing, pay all the bills, &e. "Summit in the second degree" is what they call it in Itansas when a woman hangs herself and the rope breaks. • "WHERE do you hail from?" asked a Yankee of a stranger. " Where do you rain from?" was the counter question. " Rain!" said the Yankee, "I don't rain from anywhere." " Neither do I hail," said the stranger; "so just see if you can't acquire a competency by minding your own business." tz the little bits ov things that fret and /orry us; we ken dodge an elephant, but we kan't a y. A NEW Mexican telegraph operator, whose wires blew down, fixed matters by scalping the first squaw that came along of her hoopskirts, and using that for wire.  ANEW Yonar wedding cake weighed forty pounds. It was in the form of a three-storey house, with sugar bride and groom coming out of the front door. _  A NEW YORK young lady was sweeping the streets with a trail two yards long, a young man stepped upon it, partly tearing it from the dress. She turned slowly upon him, and said, "Sir, you are a rowdy." He retorted, "Madame, you are a dowdy." "Ifl were a man I would thrash you. This is insufferable,", said the lady, gathering up her calico, and turning away. "That is true," he replied, "whether your remark applies to yourself, your dress, or the weather."  writes to a:ak, "If there is a bird besides the ostrich big enough for a man to ride? " We would ask John if he ever saw amen on a skylark.