The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

JOHN PHILLIPS. We have also received the following letter from Mr. Coulson, the general secretary of the Operative Bticklayers' Society: Operative 13ricklayea Society, Executive CosaCU, General Office, 25, Hatfield-street, London, SE., Sept. 25, 1876. Messrs. Doulton and Co.,—We are informed by the bricklayers employed on your works that you have put plasterers to do the fixing of terracotta in brickwork, which being contrary to the custom of the trade, and being bricklayers' work, we, therefore, hope you will allow the bricklayers to set .4e terra eons with their ordinary work. (Signed) E. Cox:moat, Gen. Sec. Mr. Coulson called on Monday at the office on the works, to see if some arrangement could be made, when he Raw Mr. Henry I) 'triton who assured him that we are quite willing and anxious that bricklayers should continue to be employed in setting the terracotta, hut that for some portions of the work requiring peculiar skill, it is necess try to employ experts, and that he should not discharge the two men whom he had known for some years as specially qualified for this work ; nor could he give any undertaking, as suggested by Mr. Coulson that they should not as) be employed, if necessary, at the buildings on the Albert Embankment, for the more elaborate portions of the work. Mr. Coulson said he would bring the matter before the executive council of Operative Blicklayers' Society the same evening, and give us an answer. Meanwhile the work is stopped, and the buildings are picketed. Up to this tune (noon Wednesday), we have is answer from Mr. Coulson, but we hear that he WAS in communicition yesterday with the men on picket. As we think the principle insisted on by the Bricklayers' Irade Union not only involves an interference with the freedom of the workman, but interposes difficulties in the intr iduction of improvements, we have ventured to trouble you with this statemeot of facts.—We are sir, yours faithfully, DOULTA and CO. Lambeth Pottery, London, 27th September.  Tadley Hall Farm, Ripley, near Derby, occupied by Mr. Stone, was the scene of an alarming stick fire, on Monday, making—the third incendiary stack fire in thatdistrict within the past three weeks. The farmers and others in the neighbourhood are becoming much alarmed. Mr. Stone's son had a very narrow escape of his life whilst endeavouring to save a portion of one of the burning stacks. On Saturday morning a suicide of a very distressing character took place at Bradford, Mr. W. H. Coulson, a young gentleman about j _ars of age, a sub-lieutenant in the 3rd West York rifle corps, shot himself through the head with a revolver, and was found de td 11 the bedroom of the house where he lodged. Mr. Coulson occupied the position of junior c shier in a firm of 9ilk manufacturers, and had recently been under medical treatment. Edward Howard was charged, on Monday, at the police coda, Dale-street. Liverpool, with shooting Mary Ellen Monally. She had been drinking in a public-house with a young man named Jones, about half-past nine o'clock, when prisoner entered, and said that he would punish her. He went away at the time, but but returned with a pistol, with which he shot the woman in the arm. When taken into cust !dy he said that he had fired the pistol, , but that he had not intended.ko kill the women.