The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-09-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TESTIMONIAL OF ESTEEM.—On the 19th August last, the members of the Allen Heads (Durham) Loyal Miners Society held their anniversary meeting. After a procession, and listening to a sermon at the church, they adjourned to the inn, where an excellent dinner was provided. The members, to the number of upwards of three hundred, sat down, and took the opportunity of presenting a handsome timepiece to Joseph Helmer, Esq., who had for about ten months been the resident surgeon of the district. Although this promising young gentleman had been the professional adviser of the neighbourhood for so brief a period, he gained the warmest admiration of every inhabitant for his medical skill and persevering attention. Whether as a surgeon, friend, or sympathising adviser, his heart and hand were always at the immediate call of the afflicted either in body or mind ; and when it is known that nearly the whole of the inhabitants are amongst the working classes, we need not sar that the most disinterested motives elicited this kind solicitude. The timepiece, of the value of 30 guineas, bore the following inscription :—" Presented to Joseph Helmer, Esq., M.R.C.S., by the inhabitants of Allen Heads and its vicinity, as a token of gratitude and respect for his kindness, humanity, and unremitting professional attention to them during a season of unparalleled sickness. August, 1842." After the presentation, Mr. Helmer made a most feeling acknowledgment—but his characteristic humility and sensitive feelings prevented him giving utterance to all the sentiments which the occasion naturally called forth.  RATHER TOO SooN.—A singular circumstance happened at Todmorden a few days ago. A young man from the neighbourhood of Halifax, in the pursuit of his daily avocations, had got a card-tooth stuck into his knee. The part became swollen to an alarming extent, and he was brought to a celebrated surgeon at Todmorden in a rather dangerous state. After being treated in the usual manner for some time, the swelling and apparent mortification extended up the thigh in a frightful manner. On Sunday, the 21st ult., the Surgeon, in the depth of his wisdom, declared that at the very farthest the man could not survive the following morn!Alft; His friends accordingly came to pay their last visit. !;l sweetheart also came in bitter anguish, and obtained the Promise of a lock of hair, to keep as a memento of his ardent love. His parents, overwhelmed with grief and sorrow, awaited in sadness the awful event. And such firm reliance was placed on the doctor's word, that the joiners (Messrs. bourhood) orsfall, of coffin-making notoriety in that neighmorning, were directed to have the last dress ready in the hours small, The had therefore to deny themselves of the themselves ~ tillotted to repose, in order to accommodate take him to the emergency. The hearse was ordered to and with it the ._?aae of his fathers. The morning came, everything was ieuaud'ers' punctuality—the coffin was, made— His hour was not y 5! But no ! the man refused to die ! ! nounced him bettere. ere' The surgeon visited him—proe immediately called lustily for beef, broth, ,SLc•, and, to the fast recovering, of his parents, sweetheart, and friends, is ng, and will shortly again be in Halifax. His father has 'cheerfully paid the joiners, and has ROW, therefore, on sale a wooden box for holding a dead man. HORRID MURDER AT QTIADRA, t