The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1876-01-08 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. too lively, and said that he would endeavour to be On the 30th Dec., a singular attempt at suicide dull that evening, as his subject was not a political was merle by a person named Isaac House, aged one. He then proceeded to quote statistics, proving years, residing at No. 1.6, the Grove, Stockwell gm" that Oxford WE'S undeserving of the censure that had 1 London. It appears that he was formerly engagrde been passed upon it by Mr. Cave, as a particularly 1 a large brewery in the neighbourhood of Stockwell, unhealthy place, as, on the contrary, the fact was, that and as his duties were somewhat difficult his brain be. of fifty towns of about the sante size, the death-rate of came overtaxed. About nine o'clock he went to IA Oxford was considerably the lowest of them ail.— Mr. A. bedroom, and having procured a toy cannon, he loao,i W. Hall. M.P., characterised the purchase of the Suez it with powder. Having placed it on the right ii,. .1 Canal shares as a master stroke of policy, which bore corner of the dressing table, he procured a match. ard upon it the mark of the patriot-band, as well as that , then stooped down and placed his mouth over tie of the statesman, and showed that our rulers valued muzzle, and with his right hand fired thecannon. 31, our Indian empire, and were determined to keep House, hearing a heavy fall after the report, rushed the road to it open, which object they bad secured upstairs, and found her husband bleeding pr,,fu°Y. in a way the English people approved, without del,y, Assiatanee was procured, and the would-be sui"id" "ha without shuttling, while the rest of the world thooght ininiedia.ely removed to St. Thomas's Hospit,l, s 1. about it. He also r.-ferred to the Agricultural Hold- attended by the hospital officials, who found the r,,,,, ings Bill and the Artisans' Dwellings Bill, maintaining and other portions of the mouth frightfully laceralvdi that the action of the Government on those questims but as the bleeding could not be stopped, little hopes would conduce to the benefit of the people.—Mr. ! are entertained of his recovery. Cartwright responded for the county members, and For having refused to obey the orders of the !vaster in allusion to the riuez Canal purchase, agrerd ,ith of the Peter Stuart, of Liverpool, eight seamen eel Mr. Harcourt that no prudent politician would venture sentenced last week by the Falmouth magic' rat. to to offer a confident opinion upon it. twelve months', four to ten weeks', and one to not i weeks' imprisonment. -The oldest of the Italian Eltramontane journals, The remains of the late Viscount de Ve,ei were the Arnionia, published at Florence, has just ceased to terred the other day, in the fatally vault at Abbe:, I,i' exist. cgurchyard. The funeral was attended by neari '.• Mrs. Goodenough, the widow of the late Comm° the gentry of the Queen's County and surr.ural,; dore, has arrived in England accompanied by her two i counties' orphan boys. 1 It was stat,l, at a temperance meeting held at Coe A Ilre broke out on Monday at the Howe Bridge 1 sett s few days ago, that there was more drunkeir C?tton Spinning Company's Mill, Atherton. The ' ness in the county of Durham than in any mi.er mill, which was four stories high and entwined 4000 1 county in En2l .nd, and that, during the last twelvs spindles, was totally destroyed. The damage (X 35,000 months, one in every forty of the population had bee° is covered be insurance. convicted • , mtoxication.