Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-11-11 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

MASTER PLUMBER'S DIVORCE.  In the Probate and Divorce Division on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Barnes, a petition was presented by a master-plumber named Withington, praying for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of the misconduct of his wife with the co-respondent. —Mr. C. Gill appeared for the petitioner. He said the parties were married in 1880, but the union proved an unhappy one from the beginning, owing to the respondent giving way to the excessive use of stimulants. The petitioner was a master-plumber, residing in Manchester; but,owing to the intemperate habits of the respondent, he had to leave there, and he removed for a time into the country. He subsequently returned to Manchester and took up his abode in Alston-street. On one occasion while residing there he returned home and found the respondent lying on the P,oor intoxicated, and owing to her conduct he had again to remove. After that the respondent stayed out all night, and as the explanation she gave for so doing was far from satisfactory it was arranged that they should separate, he undertaking to allow the respondent 355. a week. That was in 1886, but in 1887 there was a reconciliation, and for a time the respondent's conduct was better. He took her to Switzerland, and there was an improvement in her conduct ; but in 1890 the respondent again took to drink and they again separated, but before the deed of separation was signed the peti',inner again forgave the respondent, and they then came to London. In 1892 there was a final separation, and the respondent went to reside at Epirus' place, in the suburbs of London, in the house of a Mrs. Tilley. Here the respondent made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, a butcher, and with Lim the misconduct was alleged.—Mr. William Withing,ton said lie was the petitioner, and was married to the respondent on August 15th, , 1830, at St. Margaret's, Whalley Range. At that time he had a shop in Moss-lane, Manchester. The day after their marriage the respondent appeared to be very stranze and low-spirited. She went out that morning about 10. and did not return unlit about 10 at night. He asked her for an explanation of her conduct,and she said she had only been out for a walk, and that their marriage had been a mist ike. They lived in Moss-lane until 1882. Ha found out she was pawning the things and Spent the money in drink. The petitioner then went through the details of their former separation. In August, 1892, they came to live in London, where the final separation took place. He made her an allowance. She went to live at Epirus - road, and afterwards she removed to Harvestmere-road, in the house of a Mrs. Lyne. A watch was kept on her while she was living in the Epirus-road, and she was seen to go to public-houses. Ile had seen a man in the respondent's apartments in Epirus-road. At Harvestmere he saw the co-respondent there after 12 at night. He then consulted a solicitor. He afterwards saw Mrs. Tilley, and fiorn what he learned from her these proceedings were commenced.---Mr. Pooles, who' appeared for the respondent, said he did not (lefend, but he asked that a small allowance might ba made to the responclent.—Mr. Gill said the petitioner was not disposed to give respondent anything, as she had so often acted very badly.— Mr. Nuttall, Chorlton-road, Manchester, said he had known respondent and the petitioner. Respondent's fat her was a painter and decorator in Manchester, and t as in comfortable circumstances.—His Lordship declined to make any order.—The decree nisi was made, and the husband was given the custody of the children.  At Lommatzsch, in Saxony, a woman of 64 has received 10 blows with a stick by order of the Burgomaster, and in the presence of a doctor, for habitual drunkenness.  Joshua Barstow, the only living printer who ever worked at case with Horace Greeley, is 85, but still picks up type at night in a newspaper office at Norwich, Connecticut. A correspondent at Paris reports the death of M. Ferdinand Bonheur, a cousin of Rosa Bonheur, at the age of 56. Like most members of the Bonheur family he was an artist. A workman in the power house of the Indianapolis Electric Light Company has been killed while oiling the dynamo. He inachertently touched the brushes with both hands, and a current of 2,500 volts passed through his body.  Captain von Meyerinck, the principal accused in the recent trial of gamblers and usurers at Hanover, who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and five years' deprivation of civil rights, has committed suicide in prison by hanging himself.  A despatch from Kasan announces that, in consequence of an explosion in a benzine oil store in that city, eight large adjoining warehouses have been completely burned. Many persons are said to have perished in the conflagration, but the precise number is not stated.  Many of the banks in the country districts ot New South Wales have been visited by robbers lately, and the terrible tragedy at the bank at Carcoar, where three persons were murdered, has been followed by a daring attempt at a branch bank at Wickham, near Newcastle. In this instance the clerk in charge was gagged and bound, but the thieves were disturbed before they could open the safes, and nothing was stolen.  _ The death of Miss Susanna Beever, of Coniston, One of the most intimate of Mr. Ruskin's small circle of friends there, is announced. She was 87, and had spent nearly all her life at Coniston in works of friendliness and charity among the dales. folk. Soon after Mr. Ruskin settled at Coniston, in 1873, she made the book of extracts from "Modern Painters" which is now known as "Zrondes Agrestes." The Westmoreland Gazette, in making the announcement of the death, statts that the only lines that Mr. lluskin has writt-n since "PrEeterita" took the form of a letter to Mi.sB Beaver, a few days before she died, to assure her of his constant regard. She retained to the end the spirit and wit which had made her a delightful companion.