Widnes Examiner. — 1881-01-08 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MOTHER STABBED TO DEATH—EarIy on S4:irclay , less than 48 hour* w 'morning a quarrel took place in* a hovel known as the London papers of the 19th told us ho Rookery, in Calton, lasgow, between some members of the before, a large Australian emigrant ship, the Hydaspes, was G cut in two by the Centurion a home-bound steamer, same family. Early in the morning some of them left, - . . ' w ' both cargo and ship being lost. e Ifad two nights leaving the mother sort two sons' in the house. In the fore- f . before- • -the Channel, the h '-• o toff clearing-- e e horn sounding noon cries of murder were heard, and shortly after l Alex. - -.- . . • every minute or two, the captain remaining on deck each Henderson, twenty=rour years of age, told a neighbour that night. his mother was lying in the honse.stabbed... This rlighbour "We don't know," said he, "but any moment we • wont to the house, and found the old woman lying in a pool mai have to i• um •P.", During one of these nights a homeof blood, having received no fewer than, thirteen stab d war steamer rushe screaming past within a very few yards; il in the breast and shoulders, and thl and this was or nearest approach to a collision. Withie in the head- Archibald • dll • I g motion, the Fern I'b smooth but gra tea y inereas n gen ears Henderson, the other son, seventeen years of age, was lyeng us steadily 'onwards, passing one by one well-known land-, in bed laughing, and threatened to putout anyone who dared marks--the Isle of •Wight, Start Point, the coaat of Devon, to say that he had done anything to his mother. The and now that of Cornwall—until the grand old country is poor woman was removed to 'the Infirmary, where she died testi° sight; and the only visible sign of her nearness is the on Saturday night. Both of the sons have been appre- tow-lyingk fc an o b clouds along her coast. Ere the first hended. week is over, the passengers, with one or two exceptions, are .„ STARTING CATvLs.---At the Lancaster Petty Sessions, on co pelted t pay "black mail" to the demon f • o sea-sickness, ' gaturday, Robert Aldren, jun., a matster, of Siterton, was - 211- o some lightly, others heavily indeed. Headache, giddiness, charged with cruelty to six oxen and three heifers. It was " all-bverishness," complete loss of appetite, physical and proved that the cattle had been tarried out into an exposed mental prostratiow—but why should I detail the horrors ? field facing Morecambe Bay and allowed to remain a con- Unless, however, serious organic disease exists the attack, Unle ' siderable time. A policeman described the field as a corn- sooner or.later, . passes off, leaving the stomach Lid liver in plete puddle, without a spot fit for cattle to lie down. There't found • a healthier condition than ithem. Medicine of any was scarcely any pasturage, and the hedges had been clipped kind appears worthless during the attack; a preparatory bare by the cattle. One of the oxen was found in such a arse might' perhepsfatigue ' starved state that when hay was taken to it the animal was c and° emotional exhaustion previous be useful. In most cases the to embarkation form the 'too weak to eat, and it died. It was stated that they were nice worst possible preparation for a malady which 1 • Ile 11 thriving cattle when put into the field, and that they were attacks the di estiv c y g e and nervous system and induces, in "nothing but bone 7_ . when ordered out. A veterinary our- m ' ' most cases intense mental depression The most remedial geon attributed death to inflammation of the lungs, caused ain this m • gent iserable ailment is a "ministering angel"— by want of proper food and exposure. Ile said he never saw tich Wretched thimils in his life, and it was a wonder to Lim twife or child, and the only medicine of any virtue is a mixS ure o those rare and precious cordials, patient faith, lively that all were not 'dead. The bench fined defendant £2 and hope, nf and u • atli• , ng sympathy. Gradually appetite returns, coats for each animal—total, £26 Si. 6d. with a healthier liver, the aspect of the whole moral horizon A