Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-08-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDISR.—A verdict of wilful niurder woe returned by a coroner's jury at Porton, near Goeport, against the wife of William Glove, boatswain of the Orontes troopship, who, in a moment of great mental excitement, killed' her infant daughter, aged six months, by throwing it down a closet. The coroner stated that thg women was suffering from Mania arising from her Snaffiliky 'to feed the child in the usual way. The ieUilked Win cbininitted for trial at the mimes. LAUNCH OF A STHRI, Conentrc..-.- The steel corvette Olsoputre, 2377 tom, was launched from the yard of 'Meeks, John Rider and 00, on the Clyde. The ceremony of naming the vessel was performed by Mrs. to dc Rides. There wan a large assemblage at the launch, whicli,epeesed off most aucceesfully. The Oleopatro is the fourth corvette turned out for the Genernment by the firm during the present year. VkIyIiNLPTON'S ViusvAlGE Pentirrise Prue V V during the lest 40 years have proved their value to Diseeme of the Head, Chest, Liver, Kidneys, and Digestive Organs. They are a direct Purifier of the Blood, and in all Skin Coniplaints one of the beet Medicines known. Sold by G. Wilma-ion is Son,. 3, Crane court, Fleet-street, and may be had of °helmets, end Medicine Vendors. Sent free to any . . part of fferireseglorn on rename of 8,14, or 33 demos  POOR JACK! (Prom the "Daily Teleraph.") According to the old ditty, "there's a meet little cherub that sits up aloft to watch o'er the life of poor Jack ;" but at the present time the recording angel in queetion is to be found in the bodily presence of the Regietrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, who sends cut • yearly return from the Board of Trade showing to what casualties Jack's life is liable. The tables for 1877 have just been neued, and they are very interesting a. indicating from what eourcee the English tailor', chief danger comes, besides incidentally vindicating him from a popular misappre- • heneion which is almost a calutuny. The return to which we refer is of the number of deaths in the British merchant service in 1877, with ogee, ratings, and calms of death, and the comparison is with two previous years. The total deaths last year were 4181 against 4151 in 1876, and 4076 in 1875. Thie slight though steady increase may not mean that the mortality is greater so much as that the masters of vessels are becoming more careful in their returns, or that the aggregate number of acumen employed is always growing. We do not believe that it arise. from lees skilful seamanship, from more reckless living, or from a deterioration in the clam and character of merchant vessels, for the evidence le all the other way. The professional training of officer, improves year by year; so does the moral of the sailors, and the wore dims of vessels have disappeared. It is to be noted, however, that the entire increase of mortality this year is usdor the head of accidental deaths, mainly by drowning. Of the whole number, three-fourths are from that painfully characteristic cause, the drowning not alwaye resulting from wrecks. The other cause, of death are chiefly diseesee—murder, suicide, and "unknown" being very rare. The British sailor, on the whole, is not homicidsl, and he is too much in close contact with real peril to seek relief by ,elf-destruction from ideal dangers, no too many lendemen do. But it is to be observed of the diseases that most are of the inevitable and unpreventable order—that is, are those of strange climates, uader novel conditions, aggravated by frequent exposure. Out of not quite 1000 death, from disease last year 800 were from fever., pulmonary complaints, and cholera with dysentery. Most of the others were from diseases of the brain and heart. The deaths from indulgence in vice were only 31 out of the total 4181, to that the sailor'e worst ems are not re-1 spensible for much. It would be unfair to withhold sympathy from him under thme circumstances. His life is one of painful hardship and a daily battle with danger in every conceivable guise; but he does rot aggravate the risk by his own misdeeds to the extent that ignorant calumniators would make out. Let us hope that scienos will by and by do eomething to relieve him of those greater risks from hostile elements which he is least able to parry, but which show him least mercy.  Torn