Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-12-28 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SAVAGE ASSAULT. —A farmer named lieslp was brought up am I.l,wry ou Monday, charged with having eeriously aseauitsd another farmer named o.oennell, Wt.ile die. Puling about come land Healip struck O'Connell on the temple with • stone. inflicting a wound two inches long and one deep, and knocking him down insensible. O'Cennell wee also kicked and beaten about in a savage manner, and in the witness-box swore that Hedip would have taken his life but for a timely rescue. Ileslip was sent to prison for a month. A DESPERATE REHEDIr.—At the Birmingham Police. court on Monday, George Robe:ham, a commercial traveller, we: charged with attemptMg to commit suicide by cult:us his throat wi,h a ran r. Tee accused said that he ha ' had toothache for a month, and during the whole of that time he had not had a single night's sleep. He could not, he added, stand it any longer. The magietr ate discharge him with a caution. PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEniclNE.—Jamell F. ands Teemed lives in Pont mwynydd, near Pontypool. Monmoothahire. He is n”v 23 yeara of age, living with hie mother, a widow, Some 11 years aci, then a mere boy, his went to work in the coaep t as a miner, in order to ,saist his mother in rearing her tam' yat little children. Soon, however, th litt e fellow broke down in h alth ; hut the neces.it ies of the temily seemed to requ re it, and he continued to toil in be mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indig..ation, an Beootsing symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form that the boy was unable to lie in bed. Working through the day, and resting as best he could in an arm-chair during the night, naturally undermined his conatitution. Year by year hie health grew worse and worse, no il at last rheumatism came with all its drea .f ul agony. One joint aft rr another became swell, n and inflamed, so that he was obliged to stop work. In this sad plight the now young man was confined to the house for two long years, suffering all that mortal could endure. One physician eau' another was C died mom to trer.t his comp Lint, but with no benefit. for the Door fellow continued to grow worse and worse. Hoping to find some means of relief, a consultet on of doctors wee held, when it was decided that an organic disease of the heal t existed in an incurable form. and that medical aid could not afford relief. He was given up to die. Tnese years of expensive medical treatment had exhausted the little savings of the mother, and they had no money to buy even the necessaries of life. But a fond mother never gives up in despair. Thera was one spark of hope left. Someone had told her of &remedy that had, cured so many cases—even when as hopeless as this one seemed to be— and the mother's love went out for her dear boy. But how to get the medicine was the question. Their money was irentely gone. The boy had a new pair of trousers that he had been too ill to wear, and the mother mooned within herself, "If the boy is to die he will not need them, so I may as well pledge them for medicine with an effort to save his life." Strange as it may appear, the bottles of medicine procured at the chemist's shop in Pontypool with the money obtained from toe pawnbrokers effected a cure in this hopeless case, which had been pronounced as incurable. But it is only just to say that if the chemist had known of the wants of the family the medicine could have been obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now nearly two years since this took place, and young James Francis Thomas has been work. ing n the coal pit underground ever since earning extra pay for over-work, which he is able to perfcrm. Of course he never had organic disease of the heart, as was supposed. The palpitation, rheumatism. and asthma were mere symptoms co the real disease, which was dyepepsia, or indigestion,f or which the remedy wa. e.pe ally ad .pt d. Those who wish to communicate with this young wen can write to le,m at the above ail trees, and he will vouch for the cer ative properties of Seigere Syrup, the article that ffect4 this most miraculous cure. The followin ; letter is from a chemist, who thought time facts should be made known :—" James Francis Themes, of Pentnewyny dd. near Pontypool, aged 23, colder, was for nine years, unable ti de any work tor three years, never ley down in bed for nine years, ha i to al, ep in a steeping po.iu,e, was trested by nearly all the doctors for miles rouud. WOO generally stated his cornpnint to be rheumatism and heart disease of a chrouic n .tore, and beyond all power to cure. When hope had nearly died out he wee persuaded to try Seigel's Syrup and, to the delight of his relatives and aetinishment of his neighbours, after taking half a bottle he could lay down in bed. A tar taking one bottle he went to work. He has now t.ken two bottles, and on with the third, and is quite well and strong. His mother is in raptures, and can talk nothing else but the marvellouil aura and withal 010 to snake It known."