Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-04-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SITICIDE OF A STOCKTON GEN FLE• MAN.—An inquest was held on Saturday evening before Mr J.J. Thorvey, coroner, at Hull, on the body of H enry Garthorne, aged 68 year ~ who had destroy ed his own life by cutting his throat the same ruornimt. The deceased had formerly been a farmer on his own estate at Norton, near Stockton-on• Tees, and having ben in ill-health and depressed spirits, he went to Hull for a change of air and scene. He had bean staying at the house of a relative, Mr Charles Henry Garthorne, a No. 1, Dorchester Terrace, It yerley Road, for nearly a mouth, and under the medical care of Dr Craven he had greatly improved in health and spirits. On Friday night he retired to rest about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, and it was remarked that he had been unsually lively and playful with the children. Next morning, one of Mr Garthorue's little boys went into the bedroom where " Uncle Henry" had slept, and on seeing him lying on the fluor, at once pave an alarm. Wheat discovered, however, the poor old gentleman was quite dead, and had been so for three or four hours. He was lying on his side, with only his night-dress on, and a raz ,r, with which he Lad inflicted a terrible wound in his throat, and clenched in his right baud. —Dr Craven deposed to having daily visited, the deceased, who was suffering from& kind of m -lancholia, and he had observed no symi..toms which led Lim to apprehend strioide.—The jury returned • verdict to the affect that decased had committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.  MIDDLESBROUGH CO OPERATIVE SOCIETY, LIMITED —The thirty-second quarterly meeting of this society was held in Bructe's Queen Hotel, on Saturday evening. Mr While presided, and there was a large number of members present. The following brief but gratifying report was submitted by the committee:—"lt is again our pleasant duty to lay before you another quarter's transactions, which we trust will meet with your approval, as every balance shot shows an increase in number of members and of business done. '; he profits also are satisfactory, and enable your committee to again recommend a dividend of 2s in the pound to members, and Is in the pound to non-members, on their purchases respectively. Ninety new members have entered the society during the quarter, while 54 have withdrawn—making the present number 845." The general statement of accounts showed £4,644 9s 9id invested by membe s; interest due thereon, £46; owing for goods, £1,254 18a; profit, £738 13s 3d. The assets consist of goods in stock. £3,278 7s 2id; buildings, fixed stock, .fse., £8,229 lOs ; cash in hand, £176 18e id. The quarter's profit of £738 138 3d was disposed of as follows :—Dividend of 2s in the pound to members on purchases (£7,193 15s) £719 7s 66; do. to non-members on £B3B 15s, at Is per pound, £l9 5s fid. The members of committee who retired were—Messrs W. Rowlands, J. Wrightson, and J. Morteq. Mr Rowlands declined to stand for re-election. The following members were then nominated, and on the vote being taken, the first three were declared elected ; Masers J. Wrightson, 49 votes; W. Thomas, 40; J. Morton, 30; G. Marshall, 28; W. Robinson, 20; W. Callighan, 16. The Chairman then submitted a proposal from the committee to open a branch store at North Ormesby. There were already fifty members, besides some non-members, who cAmil every week from North Ormesby to the Newport-road Store for their good, and the committellwconsidered the time had some for extending their operations in that direotion. The proposal was cordially entertained by the meeting, and the matter remitted to the committee of management. A vote of thanks to the eommitteeland the.ehairman terminated the pro. seeding's. I