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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-01-20 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

OOO. The appointment of the Rev Edward White Beet. son, D.D., Canon residentiary and Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, to the newly-fonaded Bishoprit of Truro, is gazetted. _ _ _  Presbyteriin  FAlittb!ugli,  - , It is noted as a remarkable fact that in St. Relies'. Pariah, Jersey, with a population of nearly 30,000 souls, there was not one case of death registered from the 2nd to the 10th instant. Charles Creeson Watt, aged 28, stockbroker, residing with is brother in South Portland Street, Glasgow, committed suicide on Saturday night by cutting his throat with a razor. He had recently returned from Australia, and had been drinking heavily. _ _ .  I hear, says the London correspondent of the Scotsman, that the Khedive has sold the slaves of his late disgraced Finance Minister to certain speculators from Constantinople, and by this tittle they are disposed of among Tarltish seraglios. I learn that 300 human beings were thus sold:  At a special meeting -of the Harwich Town Council it has been resolved to carry out a plan of drainage in the boroagh at a cost of £13,000. The matter has been under consideration during the past two years. -  The medical staff of Dorset Coanty Hospital have latterly discountenanced as far as possible the use of alcoholic stimulants as medicines, and at the annual meeting—Lord Digby in the chair—it was reported that the wines and spirit consumed daring the past year had cost only £4B, as against £143 in the previous year. Appeals from the inferior courts assigned to the Queen's Bench Divison of the High Court of Justice will be taken in that Division on Wednesday, and Saturdays; those assigned to the Common Pleas Division will be taken in that division on Mondays and Thursdays; and those assigned to the Exchequer Division will be taken in that division on Tuesdays and Fridays. -  Judgment for £lO5, by consent of the defendants, representing the London and Soath-Western Railway Company, has been certified for by Mr. Justice Field and a special jury, at the suit of a gentleman residing at Kew. The plaintiff'. case was that he had been treated with gross indignity by offloiala of the line on the suspicion—subsequently admitted to be erroneous—that he had attempted to travel without a proper ticket. Turner's well-known picture of the" Slave Ship" has been sold in New York for £2,000, a third of what its lets owner paid for the painting. The same sale included a number of pictures recently on view at a loan collection in the Metropolitan Museum, and amongst them a valuable work of microsoopio dimensions by Meissonier, "Soldiers playing at cards," which fetched £2,3oo.—Graphic. The American papers by the last mail record among the victims of the railway disaster at Ashtabula Mr Bliss, author of" Hold the Fort" and other hymns, rendered popular in this country by the singing of Mr Sankey. Mr Moody, in a letter from Chicago, appeals to the;Sanday.sohool children of America for subscriptions to erect a monument to Mr Bliss. Mrs Bliss was also killed. IMPORTANT RIGHT Or
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-08-04 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

PENSITH LAMMAS HIIING. This hiring was opened in Sandgate on Tuesday, but very few servants offered themselves for hire. Smelliest' was slow, owing to the high wages asked. FATAL ACCIDIIWT AT PINILITH —OO Tuesday after. nOO% last a fatal accident occurred in Burrowpita, Pen Nth. Whilst an old man named William Rowena, the town crier, was coming out of the Ship Inn tap-room he was knocked down by a passing cart, one 'wheel of which ran across his chest. He was taken home and put to bed. He never rallied, and died early next morning. An inquest was held at the King's Arms Inn on Wednesday evening before Mr W. W. Lomb, jun. The jury returned • verdict of 'Accidental death." _  SIIICIDIC BY • PSNEITH TIUDIUMAIc.-00 Tuesday afternoon last, Mr W. W. Lamb, deputy-coroner, held an inquest at the Crown Assembly Boom, Penrith, touching the death of Mr Edward Brown, who was found in his bedroom az the previous day with a wouud in his throat. Miss Mary Wilson, sister-io•law of the deceased, detailed the circumstances. It appeared that the unfortunate man has for some time been suffering from illness, but there was nothing in his appearanceoroonduottoindioste that he meditated suicide. On Sunday last deceased remained at home all day, and on Molting morning about eleven o'clock he had not left his room when his wife bad occasion to absent herself for aboat five minutes. On her return a horrible sight presented Seel,. The deceased was lying upon the Boor with • deep incised wound in the throat, from which blood was flowing freely upon two pillows. .An opes razor, covered with blood, was by his side; but notwithstanding the terrible nature of the wound be was still alive and 001110i001. Des Jackson and Robertson were immediately meat for; and on their arrival the wound was sewed op. lie was greatly exhausted from loss of blood, but about one o'clock be appeared to be a little better. Halfan-hour afterwards he grew worse, the doctor was again sent for, but although every effort was made to save hie life he died about two o'clock. The jui7 returned a verdict to tbe effect that the dement committed saki& daring temporary insanity. The sad event bag tensed great sensation in Penrith.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-07-07 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

SUNDERLAND.-.John Forster, a young man bsdon.cing to Eleghil! Colliery, who has for some time acted as a life assuranos agent in Sunderland, oommitted suicide by shooting himself late on Friday night. Ile lodged I with Mrs Mowbray, at No. 70, Ward Street. and courted a daughter 01 Mr Miohael Sheet, of 17, Booth Street, Millfield. A quarrel took plane between them, however, and the girl refused to have anything more to do with him. The disappointed lover theta. upon bought a pistol, and planting himself before the house of the young woman, shot himself in the left side. The report of the pistol called the attention of the neighbours to him, and he was carried into Shoe', house, when Dr Hope was called in to attend upon him. Forster remarked to the doctor that he had done it himself, and asked for something to pat him out of pain, as he did not want to live. The doctor having ordered his removal to the Infirmary, he was taken there in a cab, but died shortly afterwards, about one o'clock on Saturday morning. A Sancrinonions fiwurnuta.—At the Bolton Police Court on Saturday, I coloured man named John Anderson, described as a bookaeller, was charged with obtaining three gold Albert chains and two silver lever watches, of the value of £lB 103, from Mr James Preston, jeweller, Newport Street, by false pretences. On the same day he obtained the goods, prisoner eloped with a servant girl, though he had a wife (an English woman) living at Newcastle. lie was a man of gentlemanly appearance and of good address, and occasionally lectured in the town on teetotalism. He professed to be a devout Christian, and a local tradesman employed him to travel for orders for Bibles and other books. Before taking his departure he swindled a number or people of sums amounting to £l2O He was sp. prehended at Bradford on Thursday, whilst addressing an audience on teetotalism. On being escorted to the look•up at Bolton he was hooted by a large crowd. Prisoner admieteci the offence, and was committed to the Sessions for trial.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-11-17 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

FAXRIE HORRORS. ••  Pitifuhtales (says the Calcairn Leader) are reported from the famine districts. At Goa, a woman reduced to despair threw her three boys int 6 a river and plunged in after them. A witness of the scene exerted himself to save their lives, but succeeded only in rescuing one of the children. The two others with their mother were swept away by the stream and drowned. At Madura, another woman in a state of equal destitution cut the throat of her children, a boy and a girl, and would have cut her own had she not swooned away. Her husband had died a short time before, and her little ones on the point of starvation had helped themselves to food where they could find it. The humilia— tion preyed upon her mind, already affected by privation, and she chose the horror of murder and suicide in preference to the meanness of theft. She has been menteneedao transportation for life, but her sentence will doubtless be mitigated. From North Malabar comes a story yet more distressing than these. This time the chief actor was a man. The father of a family, with his wife and an infant, had died of cholera and were buried by the prisoner without assistance from any one. There still survived a little girl, eight years of age, and an infant only three months old—the former prostrate with cholera in a deserted shop by the raadside. The ...r fellow, himself exhausted by hunger, went a..nt begging for food for his helpless charge. There was none to be had. In sheer desperation he flung the babe down a well. For this crime he was necessarily condemned to transportation for life, but on the earnest recommendation of Mr J. W. Reid, the merciful judge, who tried him the Governor in Council has remitted the sentence and pardoned the offender.
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-08-02 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE OF LOVERS.  On the morning of the 25th the Deputy Cosier (Mr. Henry Hollingshead) held a long inquiry at the ting John's Head Tavern, Lansdowne-mad, Taplewbill, Bromley, respecting the circumstances attending the deaths of James William Thompson, aged Veers, and that of his swe•theart, Catherine Charlotte Varkinson, aged 19 years, whose dead bodies were found • few days previous in a pond in the town, leaving no doubt that they committed suicide together. After the evidence of Henry Thompson, of 9, John's-place, Henrietta-road, 13resmiley, father of the deceased young man, who stated that his son was a commercial clerk, and that he had been in a low and desponding state of mind for some days past. James Gregory, a labourer, reading at 27, Smith's-place, Bromley, stated that on Tuesday morning, the :.2nd, he was passing through a brickfield at Bromley, when be saw the bodies of both the deceased persons floating in a pond. They were quite dead, and appeared to have been so some time. Near the pond he found a hat, in which wee the following letter, addressed to Mr. James Parkinson, Southside-road, Bromley : Dear Mr. Parkinson,—You have tried hard for a long time to part your daughter Catherine from me, but you have failed in turning her mind from me. Knowing that you would not give your consent to our marriage, we have been determined not to part from each other, and our bodies will be found in this pond. We have both committed suicide together.—Yours, JAMES Wm. Titostrsox. July 22, 1879. Mr. James Pal kiuson, in answer to the coroner, said that the decease,' young man had asked his consent for the hand of his daughter, but, as he was out of work, he did not think he was capable of keeping a wife, and he refused. This appeared to greatly upset both the deceased's minds, and his daughter said that unless eht. had Thompson she wculd not have anyone else. •On Monday evening the deceased female, unknown to him, suddenly disappeared from his house, and ho never afterwards saw her alive. After some further evidence the jury returned a verdict that thu deceased persons committed Suicide together while in a state of Unsound Mind.
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-08-02 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

COLESHILL PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY.  Before J. Darlingtrin, Esq.,. R. F. T. Croat%ll, Eeq.,  and the Hon. C. h. Adderley).  James Smith, late of Hampton-in-Arden, labourer was charged with shooting game on the 21st of December, 477, on land at Meriden, occupied by Thomas Bayliss. As the defendant disputed the distance spoken to by a witnesv in the case, it was adjourned, in order that mea,uremente might be made, Smith being bound over in the sum of £5, to , appear OD the 6th Aug. George Hill Topp, of Wood End, Fillongley, farmer, was summoned by Samuel Brethertoe, Inspector of Nuisances, for having a ditch so foul on hie premises adjoiring the road es to be el nuisance and injurious to health. He pleaded not guilty ; and it appearing that the work of abatement was in progress, he Was ordered to pay costs, lie., without a conviction. Two assault eases had been entered—Charles Britt, of Marston Green, defendant, and William Thomas Incles, of Bickenhill, complainant; and Redmond Fleming, of Middleton, defendant, and Peter Fleming, of Wishaw, complainant. Both parties wished to settle their differences out of Court; it was allowed to be so arranged in the first instance (the complainant and defendant appearing); but in the second, the Bench ordered the attendance of the Flemings at the next Petty Se•sions. John Woodfisld and Thomas Turner, labourers, were charged with unlawfully taking game, on land at wter Orton, in the occupation of the Midland Railway Company. Both pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to fourteen days hard labour each, and to be bound over themselves in £lO each, and two sureies of £5 each, or one in £lO, for their go id behaviour for twelve months ; the offence being at night. Joseph Potter, of Birmingham, was committed , for a months' hard labour, for stealing a time duck, value Is. 9d., the property of Edward Smart, of the Clock Inn, Biekenhiil, on Sunday, the 13th  July. Amadine Smith, remanded for attempting to commit suicide in the canal, at Minwortb, on the 12th July, was discharged. An extension of 14119 was granted to Mr. Bnden, of the Buli's Head Rote', Meriden, on the oceaßion of the annual arehEry meeting at the Forest Hall there, namely, one hour on Wednesday the 6th August, and two hours on Friday, the Bth. The Bench expressed their sympathy with J. Shaw Esq., magistrates' clerk, on the death of his eldest FlOll, Lieut. Shaw, who had till reorntly assisted his father at thie court in his official capacity.
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-05-31 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE EXTENSIVE CHARGES OF BURGLARY.  Two young men, named James Clark and Warner Smith, have been re-examined before Mr. Flowers at Bow-street on ten charges of burglary. The prisoners were originally charged with breaking into the shop of Mr. R. Hainton, tobacconist, of the Raleigh Stores, Wardour-street, and stealing a large quantity of the stock, consisting of pipes, silver cigar-holders, &c. Evidence was now given relative to other burglaries committed between the 9th and 15th May, at the shops of different tradesmen, including that of Mr. Bush, bookseller, of Charing-cross, from which albums and books, to the value of £l3, were stolen; the shop of Mr. Herring, 16, Wells-street, Oxfordstrect, tobacconist, £2O worth of goods; from another tobacconist, 8, St. Martin's-lane, about £6O worth of goods; and other things of similar value and description from Mr. Lindley's, news-rooms, 6, Catherine. ti eet, Strand, exc. A large proportion of the stolen property was found at the lodgings of one of the prisoners (Clark's), in New Church-court, Strand, by the police officer John Allison, who produced 60 skeleton keys besides other keys, also found at the lodgings. Two of the skeleton keys fitted the housedoor and an upper room at Mr. Lindley's, and two parts of the house were entered and robbed. The fruiterer's shop of Mr. Hayes, next to the Vaudeville Theatre, was also robbed of about £l5 worth of "Turkish delights," figs, &c., 17 boxes of which were found at the lodgings, besides hats stolen from Mr. Collins's, tools of all kinds, and an endless variety of other articles. The prisoners, who had been apprehended by Bennett and Allison, were both committed for trial on ten charges of burglary.  Suicin7.An old man named Mayne, who was s shareholder in the West of England and South Wales Bank, has committed suicide at Exeter by hanging himself. He had invested the savings of a lifetime in 30 shares of the bank, and was about to retire and live on the interest when the bank stopped. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-08-09 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

REMARKABLE MURDER TRIAL.  MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A WIDOW.  On the Ist inst. Mr. James Francis Bird, the Deputy Borough Coroner, opened a painful inquiry at tbe Running Horse Tavern, Hayling-road, Sutton, respecting the deaths of Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Swanborough, aged 47 years, and that of her daughter, Emily Charlotte Swanborough, aged nearly five years. The mother, after murdering her child, committed suicide by drowning herself in a pond called the Black River in the town. The inquiry created a considerable amount of interest, and the inquest-room was densely crowded. James Spreadhury, a greengrocer and fruiterer, residing at No. 276, Lingham-street, deposed that the deceased female, Mrs. Swanboreugh, WiLS his sister, and the dead child was her daughter. She was the widow of a cabinet-maker, but since his death, three years ago, witness had been supporting her and her child, and they had been living at his house. Since her husband's death she had been greatly deranged in her mind, and would sometimes go to the churchyard where he was buried, and remain crying on his grave all day. The following letter had been written by the deceased in pencil, and was found in her dress-pocket :—" This act I have carried out myself. My poor husband is dead, and I could not live any /pager without him; so I made up my mind to drown7mily, and then commit self-destruction. I left home on Saturday morning, the 26th ult., and after going and seeing the grave I became deranged in my mind; and while coming home something seemed to whisper in my ear to jump in the Black River, and I took hold of the child and we both jumped in the water together. May God have mercy_ upon our souls, and forgive me for the crime I have committed.—Yours, SUSAN ELIZABETH SWANBOuoucHz." The jury returned a verdict that the mother committed Suicide, after drowning the deceased child, while in a state of Unsound Blind.
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-08-09 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE ADELPHI THEATRE DISPUTE.  The theatrical case of Gatti r. Webster came before Vie-Chancellor Bacon in the let inst., Sir Henry Jackson, Q.C., and Mr. J. T. Crossley appearing for the plaintiffs, Messrs. A. and S. Gatti and others; and Mr. Hemming, Q.C., and Mr. E. B. Mitchell for the defendant, Mr. Benjamin Webster. Application was made for a foreclosure order, putting the plaintiffs in possession of the theatre, which they have for some time occupied as lessees, and it was supported by the Chief Clerk's certificate, made under Order xv. of the new rules directing preliminary accounts. The defendant's counsel argued that neither the order nor the certificate could have the effect of preoluding him from defending the action on its merits, and claimed to have a good reply to the claim of the plaintiffs if the cause were allowed to come on for hearing in the ordinary course. The Vice-Chancellor field that the order referred to, which was a most careful provision in its way, had not the effect claimed for it by the plaintiffs, and that the order having been made before any of the pleading had been delivered, could not be - ---- ; allowed to prejudice the defendant in the case set up The case of Chick v. Macauliffe, which has been I by his defence. The cause would therefore be set before the public on many occasions.i ..since Noveipher down for hearing n Michaelmas sittings, and in the last, and as may be remembered was an action brought meantime there. would be a receiver, the appointment against the defendant, a gentleman holding a high of whom could not be objected to by either side. position in the Bengal Civil Service, and in which he was charged, in addition to the breach of promise of • Q .-UICIDE IN WHITE!! Al.L.—Orl the Ist inst. Mr. ruairiage, with having personated a brother member ' Langhain, the deputy-coroner for Westminster, was of one of his clubs in London, has at length been informed of the suicide of Mr. William New, by brought to a close, by an order made by consent in hanging, which occurred at his residence, 8, Whitethe Common Pleas Division of the High Court of hall-place. Nothing unusual had been noticed in his Justice, dismissing the action out of court. Last month manner of late to acccunt for the rash act. Mr. G. Bathurst Norman, the solicitor acting on bea.. 1 T half of Mr. Macauliffe, obtained process from the
The Atherstone Times. — 1879-07-26 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A FARAER'S DAUGHTER.  On Wednesday Mr. Coroner Poole held an inquiry at Priucethorpe, near Rugby, on the body of Annie Clayton Sharratt (17), wh ) drowned herself in a horse pond on Monday. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. Jo'ln Sharratt, farmer, of Loigton, near Rugoley. Two years ago Mr. Sharratt married a second time, and domestic differences arose. About six months since the cleceasA went into Rugeley twice a week for music lessons, and frequently visited some former neigh• boors, who were Roman Cathoics, and were the indirect melt s of her subsequent secession to Roman Ca holicism. Her father, a staunch Protestant, told her that unless she desisted from going to the Roman Catholic Church his house would be no longer her home. She declined to recant, left home, and lived with her grandmother. In du y she answered an advertisement respecting a nurse, and entered the service of Mr liar lman stained glass mann`acturer, of S dihull, in that capacity. On the sth inst. she went with Mr. Hardman s , family to temporary apartments at the farmhouse r attached to Princethorpe Roman C Abolic Pr.ory, but gave notice to leave at the end of the month. On Monday morning, as Mr. Hardman was about to leave for Birmingham, she was missea, and on search being made her bo ly was found in a pond in the rick yard, about two feet deep, with the eyes bandaged andj a seven poun I weight attached to the neck by a pocke°lla.ndkerchief. A letter cliucted to her aunt living at Loagton was found in a clothes drawer written in pepcil. It was to the effct that she was very unhappy, and feared she might be temple I to become again a Protestant, and so chose suicide as being the least sinful course.—The jury returned a vadi A of " and that there was no evidence to show the state of the deceased's mind at the time.