The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-04-14 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

NOTES AND COMMENTS.  also  The figures ia the ballot among the I%Torthumber • id miners as to whether the salaries of Messrs. Burt an Fenwick, M.P.'s, should be no longer paid out of the funds of the Miners' Union are as fullows :—For continuing payment of the salaries, 4,591; against, 4,229 ; majority fir payment, 292 ; total number of votes, 8,820. On the last occasion the number of Totes in favour was 3,387, against, 4806, or a majoray against of 1,419. This time 8 820 votes in all have been recorded, or an increase. of 627 Notes over the total number in S ptEmber Ateerding to the result of the ballot decided on Saturday, 1,204 more have Toted in favour of continuing the salaries, aad 57,7 fewer for the negative titati was the case during the last ballot.  The honour of attending most regularly and 1 aliduously to their duties as members of the ward of Guardians during the past year, is fairly (hided between Mr. C. Harrison, Mr. W. Waite, ;id Mc. Swindlehurst. While the two first named gentlemen have attended the whole of the Board meetings during the year, Mr. Swindlelturst ha, only missed two. He, however, is the only one iTho has attended the whole of the committee meetings, Mr. Harrison and Mr. Waite each missing one. The ratepayers take particular notice Of the attendances at the several meetings during the year, and with many this goes a great way in influencing their votes on election day. No one can dispute Mr. Grad well being entitled to hold Ihe "pewter pot" for the year, as he has attended 22 Board meetings out of 64, and 6 committee meetings out of 27 !  The discovery of the body of Hugh Todd in the Devonshire Dock on Friday morning, and the in. quest which followed, possess some noteworthy characteristics of their own. The Barrow docl.s  and channel have given up so many dead that such a discovery unhappily carnot be described as a rare occu ence, and the ch cumstance in consequence loses much of its horrifying effect on the public mind. In the present case, however, we have the ghastly fact revealed that the body has been in the Dock since the 24th of January last. On that date while search was being made to recover the body of another man who had been reported missing, a cap was found floating in the water and on enquiry t was found that it belonged to Todd who was then found to be missing. The search party :hen prosecuted their search for both bodies an,o the body of one of the missing men were recovered but that of Hugh Todd could not be found and after several days' dragging operations it was concluded that the body was not there and the search was abandoned. The discovery on Friday, however, proves that the conclusion was an erroneous one, and the great lengl h of time during which the body had been in the water caused the body to be much decomposed. In the opinion of the Coroner the deceased had beyond doubt committed suicide, basing his opinion on the fact as disclosed, by the evidence that the occurrence took place in the daytime, that deceased had been in a depressed state of mind, and on the circumstances of the case generally. 'lhe jury, however, would not go the length of committing themselves to that opinion, and redorded a verdict of "Found drowned."  The following story comes from Moscow. Last Monday a beautiful young woman rented a room at the house of a tradesman of the town. Half an hour later a detachment of police, led by an officer of the gendarmeri, arrived at the premises and tried to force open the door of the new lodger's loom, which was fastened securely. Whilst the police were thus engaged the girl jumped out of the window, which was on the third floor, and fell into the court yard below mortally injured. The trunk in her room was found to contaiu six dy eamite shells, allege I to have been destined for the CZAR'S assassination. The girl was identified as daughter of an official in South Russia.