The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-08-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ROMAN TIC SUICIDE.  Mr. George Collier held an inquest on Friday at Poplar on the body of Henry Thomas Hall, aged 20. an artificial flower maker.—Mary Jane Curling, 8, Woodlandstreet. East Greenwich, said she last saw deceased attire on Saturday morning, when he said to witness—" I don't care whether lam hanged or drowned." He was keeping corurany with a young woman named Esther Griggs, who wrote the letter produced on the pravious Thursday and in consequence of taat lettsr he bad seemed very much depressed and strange, although he was of solier habits, and was so when he made the above remar e to witness. He had been engaged to the young woman for nine months. Witness's hu-band told hr that deceased had said he should make away with himself after he had received the letter. The letter wee as follows : " Harry, I write these few lines to tell you that I don't wish to keep comp day with you, only to treat me as a friend. I have wrote, so you know what to do, and you can have the bex or the money, and the money I owe you I will nay next month.—From yo..r aff) c• tionate friend, E. GRIGGS "—William Atkins said he saw the deceased on S durday, when he Was on Appleby's Jetty by the riverside, and he saw him jump off the Wharf int ) the jetty. Deceased put up his Meade once, and witness could see no more of him. Witnees ran round, but could see nothing of him. His hat and coat were on the jetty. Deceased did not attempt to save himself, and no was near him at the time There was a letter in his coat pocket, and it was as follows :—Harry Hall, 8, Woodland-street, Greenwich.—l write these few lines to let you know the reason for it, I have got no work, and now I have lost one who is my all, so now I do not care what becomes of me. So I have done this. Tell Either I wish her well. and I forgive her as I exin.ct to be forgiven. Good-bye, and God bless you all.—Esther Griggs, living at the Allen Arms, Allen-road. Stoke Newington, said the letter produced was ire her handwriting, and as deceased had been out of work for two months she thought it best to break off the engexement. It was not through any fault of his that he had been out of work, but through slackness in business. He was of sober habits. She owed him 3s.—The Jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.  Off for the aummer—The ulster. The health question—How are yon? The King of Greece-o.eomarzarine. Sydney Smith described Hallam as having his mouth 'full of rahleage and contradiction.' A Warwickshire paper repeet4 the forowing notice:— ` The attention of advertisero is particularly directed to the limited rhargea and edvantagra to he derived from advertising under the following hes& I' No won', er Luminary lost the lest rare in which be PM engaged. The sporting reporter declares that when nearing the poet he chenved hie legs. He does not Ray if he stopped to do no, or how long a time the changing con. nomad, hut anyhow the proceeding in enough to -cumin+ for hie defeat, eenscially as his opponent wan not onlY running well on the turf, but also we are told, running within himself.  Itl not cheep butter. hut oleomarzarine that ehoold he protected. Cheap butter i strong enough to take care of itself.  Paddy Maid a tooriat to an Trish jerwav, are you a Home Roler. No begorra, anawered Pat. rye had too much of home rule from me wife to he a frini of it. Re bad made a hearty meal at a reataorant, and ftetthig up, he Paid to the watar—d declare if I hayn't forgotten my non.. The waitcr fired un' and hurled big word at him for full three minutes hefore peuainc for breath. When a chance ranee the strange,. continued—But I have a five round not here in my waistcoat pocket. The waiter couldn't mile to BIM his life.  Maria, said Mr. Jones, who had been trying his hand at spring poetry, rye written a sonnet Have you. dear, paid Mario, sweetly, as she nihhlecl the piste pencil she was boldly g for Willie ; why do you rail it a sonnet? Oh. apawesed ;roues, loftily, because it will rhyme FO nicely with bmnet. Maria thought she detected a latent sarcasm. You might have said hat, she murmured demurely. Why hat? asked Jones with in•erest Tt would rhyme so nf rely with flat, nurred Mr. Jones. A silence that misht have bren felt ensued. Australis has an editor 91 yea-s old. Ile attributes his long life and excellent health to the fact that he never pxne-ted to please everybody, and never tried tn. A short time ego in a village an itinerant band was Playing a slow, mournful air, when suddenly they changed their note, and with all their might struck sin, • See the Conquering Hero Cornea I' The rennin looked round in purpriee for the (wise, hilt they could see nothing exeent a distiller's dray with a runcheon of whiskey on it. ' Madam,' be began, as be lifted his hot at the front door. 'I ATII soliciting for home charities. We have hundreds of poor, ragged, and vicious children, like those at your gate, and our &lent Sir, those are my children,' she interrupted ; and the way that front door slammed his te..s jared every hair on lei a head. A