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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-08-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE ROUPELL CASE. FURTHER DISCLOSURES.—Mr Taylor, a law-stationer, writing to the Times, says :—" The report which appeared in your columns of this case is nothing in comparison with that which will ultimately meet the public eye, as I have only recently heard from indisputable authority—in fact, from those who engrossed a portion of no less than 38 duplicate deeds of the Roupell property for a large firm of law stationers in the heart ot the city of London, who were employed by Mr Wm. Roupell, in precisely the same way as those engrossed by Messrs Powell, of Westminster. I should advise this city firm, in order to further the ends of justice, at once to state how, when, and where they procured those old stamps, and whether from their own stock or otherwise."  SCENE AT THE SEssloNs.—Recorder (to prisoner) : 'How do you lire ?" Prisoner: " I ain't particular, as the oyster said when they asked whether he'd be roasted or fried." Recorder: "We don't want to hear what the oyster said. What do you follow ?" Prisoner: "Anything that comes in my way, as the locomotive said when he ran over a man." Recorder: " Don't care anything about the locomotive. What is your business ?" Prisoner: "That's various, as the cat said when she stole the chicken." Recorder: "That comes nearer to your line, I suppose ?" Prisoner: "Altogether in my line, as the rope said when choking the pirate." Recorder: "If I hear any more absurd comparisons, I will give you twelve months." Prisoner: "I'm done, as the beefsteak said to the cook."  On Monday morning, Mr James Pack, a well-known agriculturist, at Tudely, Kent, committed suicide by shooting himself. From the appearance the body presented it was evident the deceased had put the muzzle of the gun into his mouth, the shot passing out at the back of the neck, and the head being frightfully shattered. The deceased was greatly respected in the neighbourhood, where he bad lived for a long number of years, and also by the farmers he was in the habit of meeting throughout the county. The only cause mentioned as being at all likely to have led to his destroying himself, is the fact that he has been very much annoyed lately by a person living in the locality, who has used opprobrioui epithets towards him when they have met in public; but it can hardly be supposed that this would have led him to commit such an act. A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-02-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL—There has been a-serious falling off in the export trade from Liverpool I during the year. The value of the exports from Liverpool in 1860 was £84,844,117, whilst last year it was only £51,809,82.1, showing a decrease of £13,134.593. There was a decrease of £9,840,815 to the Unitep St%tes alone.  On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, Mrs. I lannali Ward, aged 46 years, wife of Mr. Christopher Ward, of Artic-parade, Great Horton, in the borough of Bradford, was found dead in her husband's house, she having committed suicide by cutting her throat wiik a razor. The cause of her act of self-destruction ii it present inexplicabig.  A miserable case of suffocation occurred at Cardiff on Monday. A whole family, consisting of a father and mother, and two children, perished by inhaling carbonic gas. The room they inhabited was warmed by a stove, and as there was no ventilation, it is sup. posed that carbonic gas was generated, by which they were deprived of life.  Another Savings Bank defalcation, to the amount of £400,-is reported. The defaulter, William Knowles, a schoolmaster, was secretary to the Tattenhall (Cheshire) Savings Bank, and had been so highly respected that a public testimonial was presented to him at Christmas. He has, however, been examined before the Chester magistrates, and has been found to be £4OO back in his savings bank accounts.  On Monday, an accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at the Wheal Friendship Mine, near Tavistock. Four miaers—John Crocker, his two sons, and another man were working in the 170fathom level, when a portion of the ground gave way, burying the poor fellows beneath a ponderous mass of earth and rock. The elder Croaker was killed. The remaining three are so much injured as to render their recovery hopeless.— Western Morning News.  _ The" cotton difficulty" has become clamorous in a new quarter. The manufacturers of Manchester and Glasgow, of Lyons and St. Etienne, have long been crying out, and a plaintive echo reaches us from Genoa. In that city the cotton manufacture is so extensive as to employ some 25,000 hands, and the scarcity of the raw material has so seriously affected it that several large manufacturers have already suspended operations. A meeting was lately held to consider the means of alleviating the evil, when a committee was appointed to report on the subject.  On Sunday week, a mandate from the Bishop of Tarbes was read in all the churches of his diocese, declaring it to be true that a young girl, named Bernadette Soubirous, had seen the Virgin Mary in a grotto at Lourdes, in 1858. lie undertakes to say, from his episcopal chair, that the exact number of times that the Virgin miraculously appeared in the grotto was 28, and that she wore yellow roses in her shoes ! He, therefore, charges all the faithful in his diocese to believe in the miracle of Loudres, as a true and genuine miracle, and nothing doubts that his judgment in this matter will be confirmed by the Pope.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-04-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY AND ROMANTIC AFFAIR. —At the Thames Police Court, •on Monday last. Ann Fraser, a very prepossessing young lady, who appeared much affected, and labouring under great agitation, VMS brought before Mr Woolrych, charged with attempting to commit self-destruction. . It appeared front the evidence of Police -sergeant Thos. Arnold, No. 82 K, that last night, about nine o'clock, the prisoner was in conversation with her lover, Mr Fearnley, jun., the son of Mr Fearnley, solicitor, of Broad-street, Ratcliff, and some words took place. The young lady accused her inamorate with being the worse for liquor, and that he ought to be ashamed of himself. Mr Fearnley denied the soft impeachment, on which the young lady said she would commit suicide and drown herself. Her lover said, " Do, if you are foolish enough." Unfortunately at that time they were on the bridge over the Regent's Canal, in the Mile-endroad, and she jumped upon the parapet and plunged into the water. Her lover immediately plunged into the water after her, and after she had once gone down he dived after her, brought her up, and gallantly supported her in his arms and swam towards the bank. He was soon assisted, and both were saved and taken to the Gunmaker's Arms. Mr Joseph Smith, solicitor, said he appeared on behalf of Mr Fearnley, the son of a very old and respectable solicitor, and the young lady. They had formed an attachment to each other. The act of the young lady was committed in a moment of excitement, and she was very sorry for what she had done. Mr Woolrych remanded the prisoner.  airrk—There need now be no hesitation as to what is the most suitable and acceptable present to make our Children and young Friends, seeing we can procure at several Shops in Town those truly exquisite Sweets called " Wotherspoon's Victoria Lozenges" in packets from One penny to one shilling and fOliipenee each, and in a variety of Flavours suitable to all tastes, It is worthy of remark that these new Lozenges are entirely free from Colouring matter, and nestle hy Patent Self-acting machinery which renders them independent of manipulation in the process of manufacture, and are therefore suited to the most fastidiour Test
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-10-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MELANCHOLY INTERRUPTION OF A WEDDING. —An inquiry was held by Mr Walthew, the deputycoroner, at the Lord Liverpool Tavern, Milehend, late on Friday night last, on Richard Thompson, aged 50 years, who expired suddenly on the Wednesday previous, owing to the excitement consequent on the intended marriage of his daughter.—Miss Eliza Thompson said her marriage was fixed to take place on the morning in question, and that when she attired herself in her wedding dress she went into the parlour to show herself to her father, lie seemed to become greatly excited, and almost immediately fell on the floor. She screamed for help, and Mr Church, to whom she was about to be married, ran in and lifted him on to a chair, and Dr. Taiuton was sent for. Witness immediately put off the marriage, as her father appeared to be in a dying state, and he died in four hours.—Mr D. Church gave similar evidence.—Dr. Taintou said deceased died from effusion on the brain, produced no doubt by the excitement consequent on seeing his daughter in her bridal dress, as described.—The Coroner said that the circumstances of the death of the deceased were peculiarly affecting, lie had lately presided in a somewhat similar but more painful case at Tottenham, in which the parent of the bride hanged himself in a moment of insanity, I brought about by excitement, on the evening before the. marriage. The daughter, however, did not display the good feeling evinced by the parties in the present case, because she caused the tnarriage to be proceeded with, and she was, at the ibstance of the jury, obliged to attend attired as she was in her wedding dress to give evidence as to the cause of her father's suicide. Verdict—" That Richard Thompson died from apoplexy from excitement."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-04-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—OiI di t that the wife of a Yorkshire Baronet, eminent for her; personal attractions, has very recently left her husband's house, in this county, under the protection of a young gentleman for whom she formed a passionate attachment whilst he was being entertained as a guest by her husband. The Bironet was formerly an officer in the army, and the lady is the daughter of a clergyman.  It was stated a few days ego that two gentlemen had disappeared from Worcester in a very mysterious manlier. They were known to have left Worcester, but no trace could be obtained of them. There was no reason to believe that they had committed suicide, and the anxiety of their friends became intense. All surmises, however, were set at rest by the discovery of the bodies in the Severn,at two different points.  Woollen Rags, which have always been looked on as useless, have at last been reduced to the service of the paper-maker. At Garrett Mills, Tooting, old coats, trousers, blankets, &c., hitherto fit for little else than manure, are by some secret process bleached and transmuted into a white fibrous pulp, which is freely bought up by the papermakets at the rate of £25 a ton, and excellent printing paper suitable for newspapers made out of it.  The production of crinoline is going on at a flourishing rate in:Sheffield. One firm alone sends out no less than twenty tons weekly of the delicate material, whilst the total weekly " make" of the cutlery capital amounts to no less than 10 tons. This rate of manufacture has been maintained throughout the whole of the past winter, and promises to increase as the summer advances. Already enough crinoline has been manufactured at Sheffield: to encircle the globe again and again.  AN
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-08-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CANINE SAGIACITY.—The Journal de Charleron mentions ths following instance of canine sagacity: —" A gentleman of that town, very fond of angling, always took his dog with him when he went to enjoy a few hours' amusement on the banks of the Sambre, and his four-legged companion seems to take no little interest in the sport. One day last week, when the gentleman was angling for perch, a large pike took the bait, and dashed across the stream with such rapidity that the top of the rod came off, and was soon far beyond the fisherman's reach. The dog, seeing what had happened, instantly plunged into the water, soon came back with the part of the rod in his mouth, and the fish still attached to it, and thus enabled his master to secure the prize."  A tragic occurrence has taken place at Chobhatn. Two sons of aMr Bittlestone, naturalist, of Hornsby-road, London, went on the 24th ult. to fish, intending to proceed by the South-Western railway. They were last seen alive at an inn at Chobliam, where they had ordinary refreshment. The brothers were 23 and 36 years of age aespectively, and the elder had, unknown to any one, taken pistols with him. It is supposed that in a fit of insanity he had shot his brother and afterwards himself. The bodies were found on Friday night last, in an advanced stage of decomposition. The inquest on the bodies has resulted in an open verdict as to the elder, and a verdict of.felo de .ce as to the younger. The father expressed his conviction that they had committed suicide, but he could suggest no cause for such a rash act, and the affair, he said, was at present altogether inexplicable to hint.  On Tuesday last, as the Dowager Lady Buxton, with Lady Buxton and several children, were driving from North Repp's-hall to Cromer, the horses took fright and ran away at a furious pace. The road passes through a field, and the gates are both unusually high, and made of oak. The horses, however, jumped clear over the first gate, and actually took the carriage right through it, dashing the gate to pieces, but scarcely injuring the vehicle. They rushed on towards the second gate, but:the coachman by a violent effort succeeded in turning them into the field, which most fortunately had been recently ploughed, and they were at length stopped without doing any further damage.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-08-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT  SHEFFIELD. An attempt at murder and self-destruction transpired in Sheffield on Monday afternoon last. The principal actor is Harvey Teesdale, comedian, and the intended victim his wife. The parties reside in Blindlane, and for some time past appear to have been living unhappily together, mutual recriminations respecting each other's conjugal fidelity being of frequent occurrence. The neighbours say that both were faulty, and that each contributed their quota to the cause of domestic bickerings and strife. A little before four o'clock on Monday afternoon Teesdale went to his house, in company with a man. On arriving on the steps of the house, it is said, he turned suddenly round and struck his companion a blow in the face with his fist, which sent him rolling into the street. He then rushed into the house, fastened the door on the inside, and directly afterwards the report of a pistol was heard. This alarmed the neighbours and passers by, and a rush was made by several persons towards the door and the windows of the dwelling, which resisted their efforts to force for a few momenta. Happily they soon gave way, and the house was entered by various persons, among whom was Mr Linley. tobacconist, Bowstreet. The wife was discoverediwith her face covered with blood. and Teesdale with his head lying back on the sofa, in the act of drawing a razor across his own throat. He was immediately seized, and prevented from carrying out his suicidal design. The police were quickly on the spot, and as the prisoner had only inflicted a slight gash on the throat, he was at once conveyed to the Town Hall in a cab. The unfortunate woman's face was sadly disfigured, especially on the right side, but the pistol could only have contained powder, or she must have been killed instantaneously. She was removed to the Sheffield Infirmary, where she now lies, and we believe there is every hope of her ultimate recovery. It is said that the prisoner stated that only on Monday morning he had gone down on his knees to his wife, and begged her to give up her present course of life, and leave the neighbourhood in which she was living, and that she replied that all she wanted was to be away from him. This he assigns is the cause of the act with which he now stands charged. He also said that he had been obliged to give up four theatrical engagements lately through her conduct, and that she was training up his two girls to be as bad as herself. The act was evidently a premeditated one if the above statement be correct.—Sheffield Independent.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-05-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DREADFUL MUIRDER AT WORCESTER.  There is every reason to believe that a dreadful murder has been perpetrated in the vicinity of the city of Worcester. A young man, named Timothy Grundy, aged about twenty-seven, the son of a black- 1 smith, living in the TYthing, has lately been released from the County Lunatic Asylum as cured of his insanity, and as of sound mind. His conduct, however, since has been somewhat eccentric, and, on Tuesday week, from threats which he held out of committing suicide, be was taken into custody, when a phial of laudanum was found in his possession. Ile was taken before the Magistrates, who liberated him, on condition of his appearing again before them on Wednesday. It seems that, on Tuesday evening, he and a young woman named Emily Jones, living in Spa-place, with whom he had kept company for some time, were seen walking together in the vicinity of the Shrub Hill railway station, and during the evening, between six and ten o'clock, they remained at the Gun publichouse, New Town. While there they seemed to have a slight quarrel, and the woman expressed her intention of going home, when he induced her o stay a little longer, and they ultimately left together about a quarter past ten. About one o'clock they entered the hut of a night watchman, near the railway bridge at New Town, where a viaduct is in course of construction, and there they remained till four in the morning. They then took their departure as if for a walk across the fields in the direction of Perry Wood, and nothing further transpired till Grundy returned home about nine o'clock on Wednesday morning. His boots and stockings were wet, and he then deliberately stated that he had murdered the girl. In consequence of this he was again taken into custody, and WAS ordered by the Stipendiary Magistrate to be detained for inquiry to be made. The girl did not return, and her friends began to fear that some ifi had befallen her. Search was made in the fields, and about eleven o'clock her body was discovered in a pond near Perry Wood. She was quite dead, and there were marks of blows on her left temple. The body was removed to the Gun Inn. The affair has created a great amount of sensation, and numbers of people visited the pond during , the day.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-10-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A LADY.—An inquest was held at Datchet, near Windsor, on Saturday last, by George A. Charsley, Esq., deputy-coroner for Bucks, on the body of Mrs Margaret Watson, the wife of a gentleman residing near Tottenham. Colonel Thomas Sissmore said deceased was his sister-in-law, and both were on a visit to Mr Fowler, of Southley House, Datchet, the father of the deceased. She had been been on a visit to her father's about three weeks, on account of her health. Could not say if her mind was affected. She was a married lady, and her husband lived near Tottenham. On Wednesday night, a little before eleven o'clock, she retired to her room, and on the following morning, at eight o'clock, the servant came to tell him that she could not get into the bedroom of the deceased. lie.got the gardener to enter the room by a ladder placed against the bed-room window. Deceased was not to be found. Afterwards discovered footsteps below the bed-room window, and a broken branch of a tree, which convinced him that de. ceased had escaped by the window. After searching with ethers about the grounds and shrubbery, and finding no trace of her, witness sent a man in a punt to search the water, in which deceased was shortly afterwards discovered, in her night-clothes, mid brought to shore. Deceased was about fifty-eight years old; the two windows in her bed-room were about fifteen feet from the ground, and very small. Ile could assign no cause for her committing suicide. Louisa Littman examined the body of deceased, and found no marks of violence of any kind. Deceased was eccentric in ' manner, and witness considered she was not in a sound state of mind at all times. The jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict of "Faund drowned, but by what means she came into the water there was no evidence to show."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1862-08-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ANCIENT AND MODERN GLASS.—A complete and conclusive analysis of the glass found at Pompeii and Herculaneum, manufactured anterior to A.D. 79, has been made by M. Bontemps, of Paris, and communicated to the Academy of Science. M. Bonteunps has received a great number of specimens of glass from Pompeii, all of which he pronounces to have been not blown, but cast and rolled. An amusing case has been tried at the Sheriffs' Court. A German widow employed a countryman to look out for a husband for her daughter, and promised, as he alleged, to give him £l5 if he succeeded. He was successful; a suitor was found, the daughter was married, and the grateful mother paid him £5 on account, but afterwards refused to pay any more, and the husband-provider consequently brought his action to recover the balance. The judge pointed out that the English law (lid not recognise contracts of this kind, and the verdict was given for the widow..  The great umbrella question at the Exhibition has been followed by the great stick question. A gentleman had got into the picture gallery with his walking stick in his hand; but he had not gone many yards till it was observed, and he was asked to give it up. lie deo urred to this, and in consequence lie was seized and forcibly ejected. lie now made his complaint to the magistrate, but that functionary decided that the attendant was only discharging his duty, and, therefore, the case against him was dismissed.  Another domestic tragedy took place on Thursday, in the City-road, where the wife of a cabinetmaker murdered her child, fifteen months' old, and then attempted to commit suicide by cutting her own throat. She is not dead, but sho lies at home in a precarious condition, being unable to be moved to the hospital. In this case there seems little doubt but that the poor woman was insane, as she was frequently heard to express a fear that the murdered child would come to want.  RUMOURED MARRIAGE OF 'THE PRINCE OF WALEs.—We are enabled to state that the marriage of the Prince of Wales will take place some time next year. At the present moment, no positive arrangements have been made, and we are aware that nothing will be positively made known in regard to the Prince's choice until his return to England from Germany. The probability is, that the Princess Alexandrina of Denmark will be the future Princess of Wales. The Princess Alexandrina is in her eighteenth year, having been born in December, 1844. She is the eldest daughter of His Royal Highness Christian, Prince of Denmark, who is the son of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg•Gluksburg, successor to the throne of Denmark on the death of the present Ring, Frederick