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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1882-05-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1882. MACIVERIAN BURLESQUE.  Tan nation is mourning for the atrocious murder of two guileless men who were slaughtered simply for serving their country. Parliament has to deal, coniequent on that awful crime, with a state of things serious to the last degree of mournfulness. The situation is so tragic, the issues at stake are so momentous, that it might be thought that even the tongue of the professional jester would be silenced, even if the tear did not come to his eye and there did not form in his soul so resolution to do what little he could to bring about a better state of things. Yet this is the time Mr. David Maclver, M.P. for Birkenhead, callously selects to perpetrate the most execrable joke a politician could be guilty of. On Thursday evening—poor Lord Frederick Cavendish had only been buried a few hours, and Mr. Gladstone had been so prostrated by the terrible ordeal he had gone through that he had to depute to Sir William Harcourt the responsible task of explaining the new Coercion Bill—he gave notice that he would, on an early day, ask the Home Secretary if his attention had been called to a pamphlet entitled the " Midlothiasi Cauipaigu," which contained these words :—" When it came to this.—that a great gaol in the heart of the metropolis was broken open under circumstances which drew the attention of the English people to the state of Ireland, and when in Manchester policemen were murdered in the execution of their duty, at once the whole country became alive to the Irish questions, and the question of the Irish Church revived. It came within the range of practical politics. I myself took it up and proposed resolutions to the House of Commons, declaring the view of the House that the Irish Church ought no longer to exist as an establishment," and " whether Her Majesty's Government, having regard to recent events, cannot see its way to pat a stop to the farther circulation of those of Mr. Gladstone's speeches which are an encouragement to crime and outrage." Yet, the man who can indulge in such ghastly burlesque, and mere impertinent II trifling, at a time like the present is the same man who comes down to his con- 1  stituents and rebukes the Liberals because, so he says, they place country before party and did their best to embarass the late patriotic (?) Government. It is possible that his impudent question will be treated with contempt, but it will, perhaps, be well if he is told that the statesman who declines to read the signs of the times and to act on them, even when they take the form of murders and outrages, is unfit to hold the reigns of power, and that to so lead and act on the signs of the times is not an encouragement to crime and outrage but the reverse. The policy of Mr. Gladstone is to remove the first causes of murders and outrages, and, at the same time, to punish murderers and oatragers, not allowing the first ceases to palliate their offences; and any other policy would be childish, contemptible, and unworthy of him.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-02-27 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

HEM MARRIED, AND AFTERWARDS. However long we may be spared, many of us do come to what we had to ' come to—a day "so fall of gladness and so full of pain "—a day only second in importance to the day of birth—in a word, to our wedding-day. If ever one is to pray, if ever one is to feel grave and anxious, if ever one is to shrink from vain show and vain babble, surely , it is just on the occasion of two human beings binding themselves to one another, for better and for worse, till death part them. The two people most concerned, especially the bridegroom, are on such a day willing enough to shrink from vain show and vain babble, but their friends and relatives insist on trotting them out and making them show their paces. Indeed, for a man of Ally and nervous temperament to be marred without chloroform is a very painful operation. He may be a strong man, but he feels like Samson when, for the sake of a woman whom he loved, he allowed his eyes to ' be put out, and heard the Philistines calling upon him to make sport for them. On such occasions the bride is generally collected and calm. She understands every detail of what is to be done as if she had been frequently married. Indeed, when I am in doubt about the superiority of women to man, I am always reassured by comparing a bride and bridegroom at the wedding ceremony. There stmds the bride as collected and calm as if she were going through an everyday occurrence, while the bridegroom is as nervous as if he were about to be sentenced for murder. He support her, indeed! Certainly at the wedding ceremony she is, so to speak, twice the man that he is. Suppose now, the young people have gone through the ceremony, the breakfast, and all the rest of it, if not with great eclat, at least without making fools of themselves. Then hand-in-hand through Eden they take their solitary way. They begin the honeymoon—that month after marriage,when there ought to be nothing but tenderness and pleasure. But even the honeymoon may be spoiled if too much prolonged, or if the happy couple, instead of taking things easy and enjoying themselves according to their own sweet wills, rush into the excitement of '• sight-seeing " every church, picture-gallery, and waterfall in Europe. A bridegroom took his wife on a tour to Switzerland for the honeymoon, and when there induced her to attempt with him the ascent of the highest peaks. The lady who at home had never ascended a hill higher than a church, was much alarmed, and had to be cerried by the guides with her eyes blindfolded, so as not to witness the horrors of the passage. The bridegroom walked close to her, expostulating respecting her fears. He spoke in "honeymoon whispers," but the rarefaction of the air was such that every word was audible. "You told me, Leonora, that you always felt happy, no matter where you were, so long as you were in my company. Then why are you not happy now ?" "Yes, Charles, I did," replied she, sobbing hysterically, "but I never meant above the snow-line." —From The Woman's World.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-04-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

KICKING THE POLICE.—Two brOtherP, eighteen or twenty years of age, named Mark and Michael Matthews. of Brook-street, were charged with , being drunk and disorderly and also with assault. leg P.C. 14 (Wright).—P.C. Wright stated that he was passing along Arthur.street on Saturday night when he heard screams of" murder and "Police." He turned into Brook-street from whenoe the screams proceeded and there saw one Of the prisoners fighting with another man. He seized hold of him and stopped the fight. lhe other man went away and witness asked the prisoner would he go into the house. Prisoner replied " Well, tel go then.. But on being loosed he up with his fist and struck witness in the eye. The two closed, but the officer fell undermost and the prisoner corn. menced kicking him. At that time the other brother name up and the policeman not knowing he was brother to the prisoner called on him "no lend a hand." "I said the second, at the same time dealing the witness a heavy WOW under the ear. For the next twenty minutes the two brothers kept the officer on the ground and kicked him up and down the street. When he tried to blow his whistle they snatched it off his chain. At one time they got him by the throat and had not the mother in-law of one of the brothers helped the witness he might have had his head kicked in. As it was, added witness.he was nuance he could hardly bide. The mother-is-law was called for the defence, and toid how the row commenced. " Mike " was sitting In her kitchen reading a paper when a Mrs. Burns came to the door and asked if her daughter was in. She was told her daughter was sot, but she broke open the doer and threatened to search the house. She made a rush at" kline,,,drove him against the the cupboard door, and it took them sometime before they could shove her out. " Johnnie "Burns next came to the door, and shouted "Are you there, ' Mike Matthews. Come out you son of a b—, and I will take it out of you for hitting my mother." Mark Matthews took up the quarrel, and the two were fighting when the officer appeared. Mark never struck at the officer, but Burns struck him over witness's shoulder.— Mr. Preston (to officer): You have no doubt it was the prisoners who assaulted you. The Officer : No doubt, whatever, because I had hold of Matthews . at the time he kicked me on the ribs, and just as I asked the other prisoner, not knowing ' he) was the other's brother, to assist me, he said "Yes, I'll assist you," and landed me under the ear It was this woman loosed them from me when they were choking me on the floor—Mr. Preston, addressing the two brothers, Said : 1 havens doubt you have committed a serious assault on this officer when he was duly performing his duty. I cannot pass it over lightly, because officers must be protected when pioperly performing their duty. I must d.scountenance kicking especially. You kicked this officer so that he feels the effects of it now severely. You must each go to goal for six Weekca with hard labour.  A
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-06-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  A terribie tragedy occurred on Sunday imorning in a cottage about half a mile from Kilkenny, occupied by an elderly *moan named Mary Morrissey and her daughter Bridget, aged about 30. At about ,eight o'clock an ex-army man named William Butler presented himself at the cottage, and after firing four revolver shots at the daughter turned the weapon on lrs.alorrissey, who fell dead at the first shot. The murderer took refuge in his cottage, and was not dislodged for some hours. Be• shot at and wounded two policemen before surrendering.  The Board -of 'Lade- ReCurns for May ' *bow a decrease of .28,344,418 in imports and .25,853,671 in exports as compared with a year before Raw cotton imports fell ofi to the extent of .22,464,936 and the exports of yarns and textile fabrics were .22,916,368 ies.s. In manufactures of iron RIIU steel and Other metals there was a decline of .21,264452 The returns for five months show that the total imports are .228,355,830 laud exports £12,166,144 less than in the corxesponding period of last year.  Mr. John Redmond. who was the principal speaker at the Convention meeting 4u connection with the National Irish Leasue, on Monday, said the Irish National Wiovement was not a Catholic movepwnt, though it was not in conflict with *he interesto of the Catholic religion. Those N-ho would seek to turn it simply into a Catholic movement would be repudiating poine of the proudest pages of national kistorv. _ _ _  S • • •  Mr. Heaton-Armstrong. M.P., and seveTal members of his family had an mien!viable experience while motoring from London to Suffolk. The rear part of the car 'suddenly burst into flames, and the ladies, Who occupied the back seats, had a narrow !escape. The car was almost wholly destroyed, damage being done to the extent /lot about X5OO.  • • • •  Statistics issued by the Home Office, dealing with the output and employment of Imines and quarries, show that the total Output of minerals was 282,104,141 tons, and the number of persons employed 972,220.  • • • • Addreoing the fortieth annual Cooperative Congress, at Newport Mon.) on 'Monday, Mr. T. W. Allen, who presided, referred to the unemployed problem, and declared that Tariff Reform WM no remedy. Co-operators were on the side of Free Trade. frhe co-operative business had reached the  clothes thl  Lves  whitening &c.  shelves,  /  /  \\\\\\\\\lll 1I 11)a/hi/hid/ ea 0 9V Cr 081  ENSURES A SMILING WIF AND A BRIGHT HOME .  The help of helps for all quick hou c wk. In the laundry it so7tens thr helps the soap, bleaches white brightens up colours and ke rubbing.  Carbosil the water for greasy pots id pans, washing up dishes and ttlery. Carbosil in the bucket for , floors, scrubbing tables, &c. Carbosil waste water to teanse and purify sinks and drains. Carbosil is a powder containing soap Liar stronger, handier and efficient than the old. Ined lump soda.  ////////11 111 1' \ \\ \\ *cf. & Id.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-11-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

NOTES ON BOOKS. "The Red Stain." BY Sir William Mammy, Bart. Published-by Ward Lock and Co., Ltd. Prices. This is a story of mystery and traged.Y, and net until nearly the end of the book does the reader learn why the missing guest did not turn up. The Villain of the piece, Captain Grendon, is boldanddaring, and thoroughly unscrupulous, not &tot:Ming shori even of murder in his Aorta to carry out his nefarious schemes. But in spite of his cleverness, he is in the end outwitted, and the heroine whom he has forcible abducted is teistored to her friends and her young lover. The interest of the sten' centres round the mysterious disappear_ance of Mr. Tyne Miller. who is engaged to the heroine, and was due at a dinner at Standerton Court, the residence of his fiancee'. parents, two or three days previous to the wedding. The guests wete all assembled except the bridegroom elect and his great friend Captain Grendon. Eventually the latter turns up, but disclaims all knowiedge of Vyne Miller, and, the meal over, joins in a searchAsarts to the abbey, but with no result. Nothing ban be heard of the missing man, and the matter would have been relegated to the list of insoluble mysteries had it not been for certain mysterious happenings at the abbey which eventually lead to the discovery of the missing mail, and the body of the man who had been murdered in mistake for him. Both Tyne Miller and Grcindon are well known as racing and betting men, and they each have a pest which they do not care to remember; but Tyne Miller never descends to such depths as his friend has done, and the thook of-discovering that friend's duplicity and the events that tucceed it, awaken' him to a sense of his errors. He resigns' all pretensions to the hand of the heroine, who was being forced by her parents to marry him, and retires in favour of the younger and better Man,- to Whom her heart I has long been given. We have in this story the usual unsuccessful efforts of the police to discover the murderer, and perhaps no one is more surprised than the expert detective at the ultimate denouement. There is an air of the improbable in the missing man taking lodgings in a neighbouring village, and relying on the shaving off of his beard to prevent recognition, but fortune favoured him, and he does not seem to have been- brought into contact with any one who knew him sufficiently well to recognise him. In Admiral Sir Owen Sudworth, father of our heroine, we have the typical hearty, liot-tempered :eauire; and in his second wife the calm, calculating, unfeeling woman of the world, who would sell her step-daughter for money and position. and unhesitatiney condemn her to a loveless marriage. The friends who tell the story all play' their part and the interist is well kept up from start to  'A Fish Oat of.-Waknr."- By L F. Men• trovor. Pxtblished by John Murray.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1892-06-08 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WIFE.  William Durham, of Moon-street, was charged. at the Police Court, yesterday, on remand, with assaulting James Morgan, a gas maker, residing at , 27, Bolt-hill; and further with threatening hie wife. —Mr. H. B. Moore appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cecil Holden for the prisoner.—Morgau deposed that since the order for the separation of Durham and his wife the latier had lodged with her two little children at his house. On Saturday evening at about ten minutes past eight prosecutor was going along Hindertou-road towards Birkenhead when he AAA' Durham following him. On getting up to prosecolor Durham struck him behind the ear, knocking him to the ground. Prosecutor rose and WAS straok again in the same place and again felled to the ground. A third time be was struck across the nose, which bled very much. He was then on the ground with Durham on top when two men, who happened to be wending near, released him. Prisoners wife deposed that she went in fear of her life and but for the children she would leave the town. She was up at the bedroom window on Saturday night at about ten o'clock, when her husband was hanging about outside, and he piolted up a stone and threatened to crick her skuil with it. She didn't wish to imprison her husband but she must do something with him for she was afraid of being murdered. P.C. 87 (Lees) depos4 that he was called to Holt lull, and he found the prisoner using abusive and indecent language to his wife and to Morgan. He get prisoner to leave. Later, he was waiting about the house both back and front and at midnight witness arrested prisoner wuilet laying in a field opposite the premises. Mrs', Morgan and Superintendent Clarke also gave evi2.nce. For the defence Mr. Holden submitted that there could be no conviction because prisoner had been brought there in an illegal manner. He quoted from Stone's Manual, that an arrest by • police-constable for assault after an interval of two hours, there being no continued pursuit, could not be upheld. Mr. Moore contended that the arrest was quite legal as the prison.r was a disorderly persou, having according to the officer's evidence used filthy and obscene language. Mr. Preston hail that the officer was quite justified in arresting the prisoner having seen the evidence of prisoner's assault in Morgan'a face.—Mr. Holden,proceeding with his defence, said he had no witnesses to call and could only urge the query, was it likely that his client would knock another man down three times with no provocation at all. The prisoner denied the !tumult and also the threatening language. He alleged that Morgan used some epithets to him and struck him in the chest when he retaliated in aelf-defence.—Mr. Preston said that under the circumstances (the charge of threatening the wife having only been made against the prisoner that morning) he would only deal with the case as one of assault, and he found that proved. It was a very serious assault and with no justification as far as hem:mid see. Prisoner must go to jail for six wean, with hard labour.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1892-06-18 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SHOCIISO DISCOVERY AT NEW BRIGHTON.  CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH BY A DOMESTIC  SERVANT.  Mary Alioe Miller, aged 21, domestic servant, of New Brighton, was brought before Alderman James Smith and Mr. W. Heap, at Wallasey Polioe Court, Yesterday morning, charged with conoealiog the birth of her illegitimate child on the 27th May. Supt. Hindley said he only purposed calling saffioient evidence to justify a remand that morning. William Albert Knowles, milk dealer, 53, Viotoriaroad. New Brighton, said the prisoner had been in his employ as domestic servant for about two months. At about 8 o'clock on Thursday night, from something that was said to him by his wife, he went up to the servant's bedroom. There was a very bad smell, which appeared to him to oome from a box belonging to the prisoner. The box was looked. He at onoe saw the prisoner and asked what it was that smelled so bad in her box. She replied, "There is nothing." He asked her to open her box; she replied, "I will to-morrow." He then said, "If you do not open it I will fetch a policeman and burst it open." She refused to open the box, and he at once made a communication to Sergeant Skitt. About half-anhour afterwards he returned with Sergeant Skitt and saw the box opened by the sergeant. There was no °had in the box, but there was an offensive swell from the box. Ho then went down stairs with the sergeant into the dining-room and saw a bundle behind the door, which the sergeant took possession of. The prisoner was not then in the room. Sergeant Skitt said from a statement made to him on Thursday night by the last witness, he went to 53, Victoria-road. New Brighten, and there saw the prisoner in the parlour. She oommenoed crying. He asked what she was crying for, and she made no reply. He then said, "Mr. Knowles informs me that there is something smells badly in your box, and lam come to see what it ill." She replied, "It is not in the box now." He asked where it was, and she said it was in the sitting-room. He then went to the sitting-room and found a bundle behind the door. On opening the bundle he found the dead body of a child. He then went to the prisoner, who gave him the key of her box, and then said to him, "I have not murdered it." He went and unlocked the box and found it smelled very badly. The body was then replaced in the box and taken to the New Brighton police station. After cautioning prisoner and telling her the box contained the body of a child, she replied, "Yes, it is my child, but ; have not murdered it." At the police station, the prisoner said, "It is three weeks to-morrow night since I put it in." When formally charged with concealment of birth she made no reply. Prisoner was then remanded until Tuesday next.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1900-11-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

LECTURES ON CONDITIONAL. IMMORTAUTY  Meeting, were held under the auspices of the Conditional Immortality Mission, in the Billiard Hall, Grove-road, Rock Ferry, on the evenings of Tuesday, Wednesday, and , Thursday, when the President of the Mission, Mr. John B. Narrie, of Edinburgh, delivered three lectures, with the object of counteracting the teaching of Modern Spiritualism, and other ideas of popular theology on the nature and destiny of mankind. The subjects treated were as follows:—On Tues- 1 day evening, "Is the Bible a safe guide to obtain Immortality p"; on Wednesday evenlog, "Does the Bible teach Inherent, or Concithonal and on Thursday I evening, "What does the Bible teach about the state end condition of the Dead." On Tuesday the Lecturer gave an able and interesting lecture, shewing the reasonableness• of the Creator of all things, giving a revelation of his mind and will, to those who were created to have dominion over the world he had made. The Bible was that revelation. Be dealt at some length with prophecy in regard to the great nationa of antiquity, and its remarkable fulfilment. Be also dealt with the high morality of the Bible—its wonderful circulation and power among the foremost nations of the earth, in spite of its foes outside and inside the Church, and concluded by showing its inerrancy in guiding mankind to immortality through him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Lfe. On Wednesday, Mt. Norrie dealt with the creation of man, and the simple statements in the Bcok of Genesis concerning man's nature, and the fall of man, through a belief of the serpent's lie. "Ye shall not surely die," but become as gods, etc. was the only statement in scripture which assumed the inherent immortality of man, and was made by him who the Saviour said was "a liar and a murderer from the beginning, who abode not in the truth." Such I an authority ought to make Christians at least suspicious, directly opposed OA it was on the other hand to the action of the creator in placing the Cherubim to guard the way of the tree of life—lest the man, "in sin." should put forth his hand and at of the tree of life, and live for ever; therefore God drove out the man. In this significant act, God, in His tenderest mercy, prevented the possibility of His creature man from living for ever in-sin. On Thursday, Mr. Norris chewed the universe/ testimony of the scriptures that man, as man, during death was asleep and wholly uneonscious, and there would be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and of the nujuat. The righteous having their salvation at the return of the Lord, when the mortal puts on immortality, incorruptibility, power, and glory, and the wicked perish for ever, after judgment in the second death, from whick there will be no resurrection. The inclement weather interfered with the attendance, but those present gave marked and earnest attention to the. lectures, and a . . .  `ltllbTrrqu-esTione-wene;iieT;iiiieT3rfosi of the meetings.