The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1882-09-09 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SELLING A WM.—Whether the fashion of selling is said to be a most serious one, left the court in company with a sister from the convent, one's wife was Introduced from Smithfield to China or A fire broke out on Sunday afternoon in Mount On Tuesday morning a shocking death took place in a from China to Smithfield is not known with certainty. Pleasant, East-road, London, which completely destroyed soft water butt in Long-street. Think. About six in : In a China paper we read that a husband sold his wife the premises at No 6, and did considerable damage to a the morning a master Carrier, named Richard Wilson, the other day for 130 dollars. It was a sale of affection. number of adjoining workshops. The whole of the pro. on awaking fou rd that his wife had got out of bed. and The man loved the wife, and she loved the man. The Percy is owned by Mr. Edwards, builder. Early on thinking she must have gone down stairs he went down husband stipulated, however, for payment by instalSunday morning a fire occurred in the coach manufactory and into the yard, where he found her head foremost in ments, and on the deed of transfer being presented to of J. Buchan-in and Co., North street, Glasgow. The a small water butt quite dead. She had been dead some him he naturally refused to sign it till he had received flames were discovered in the top flat used as a workshop, time. It is not known at what time she had got out of all the money. There was an awkward legal hitch: the the contents of which were destroyed, and the vainaele bed and gone into the yard. She had been low in spirits wife belonged to him till he signed the deed. Acting on stock of carriages in the fiats beneath were greatly for some time, was 31 years of age, and was highly legal advice, the buyer and wife saw one only way out of damaged. The total less is about £8 000. respncted. it. There is no action for specific performance in China. At the Manchester City Police Court on Tuesday morn. A tneetlng of the General Committee of the Inter- They drugged the husband, and, inking his hands and ing. Ann Johnson, living at Cnorlton-oreleredlock, was national Fisheries Exhibition was held on Thursday in the feet, stamped the document. The happy pair had scarcely charged before Mr. J. A Railton and Mr. H. J. Leppoo Haymarket, Lonlon, the Eire ef Dade presiding. Settee°. sat down to their wedding breakfa•rt when the motherdewith stabbing a coloured woman named Susannah Brown. tory progress was reported, and the tender a Messrs. law, accompanied by a mandarin, arrived, and they It appeared that the previous mid-night the prisoner Pete Brothers, Pimlico, for the erection of the exhibition were both hurried off to separate dungeons, As in asked the prosecutrix, who resides In the same house, to buildings, WAS accepted. Tee committee intimated an England, these sad cases bring their own bitter ends. repay her a shilling she had lent her. Brown could not additional special prize of £6OO to be given for the best The wife took opium and died, while the buyer cornpay the money, and the prisoner thereupon threw her lifeboat. The Marquis of Exeter stated that the Japanese mitted suicide, and the husband is a widower and has down and stabbed her with a table knife on the fore- Government Intended being exhibitors, and his lordship lost his 130 dollars. After these misfortunes he will head, inflicting a severe wound. Her nose was also badly offered a speolal prize for the best system of insurance probably do the same.—Pall Mall Gazette. out, and a piece of her upper lip, about an inch long, was for fishermen.