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Glasgow Courier. — 1863-09-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SEDMON.—About midnight on Saturday a man —a stranger to the locality—was seen standing alone on the pathway of Cahir Bridge, and the curiosity of the constabulary patrol was aroused, if not their suspicions. At first it was thought the stranger intended to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, and they watched him, but there he remained, and it seemed as if he were waiting for some other person. The police determined to learn more of the mysterious personage, and their inquiries led ultimately to a search being made. In his pocket were several papers. One purported to be a proposal written by Father Lonergan, of this county—the priest who attended the Slievenamon gathering of "mannikin traitors"—offering to organise a similar meeting on the top of Knockmeldown Mountain. There were other places which, for aught the constabulary could make of them, might have been traced in "cipher." Who was the stranger? Of this we are certain that it was not the gallant General Gill; for since the Slievenanom exposure, and the mistaken virulence and dangerous character of the "oratory" upon the majestic mountain, the Tipperary Advocate is seized with terror—the very type seems uneasy in its columns, and partakes of the editorial tremor. Perhaps it was Kickham. A few days before he left Clonmel by train, and proceeded in the direction of Cahir, in company with one of our local "patriots." Whoever it may have been, it appears he was invested with a programme, setting forth this fact that another effort was to be made to kindle the little hidden spark of sedition into a flame. A Northern contemporary gives the South and West of Ireland credit for the possession of no fewer than eight thousand rebels. Unfortunately we have no means of contradicting this assertion. On the contrary, we fear that., in point of numbers, the disaffected may be reckoned by thousands. —Cionmel Chronicle.
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-11-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN LONDON.—THREE PERSONS POUND POISONED IN A CAB.—A cabman named James Parker was plying for hire near the Great Eastern Railway Station at Shoreditch on Saturday evening about half-past eight, when he was hailed by a respectably dressed man, who got into his cab in company with a woman between thirty and forty years old, and two little girls of the ages of seven and four respectively. The man directed the cabman to drivel to the Royal Oak, Westbourne Grove, . Bayswater, taking the city on his way. When they reached the middle of Bishopsgate Street the man got out and procured a pint of halfand-half from a public-house, of which the occupants of the cab partook. They then drove on as far as Furnival's Inn, Holborn, when the man got out once more, paid the cabman his fare, and walked away. The cabman drove op to Westbourne Grove, as he had been directed by the man, and stopped at the Royal Oak Tavern. On opening the door of the cab he was horrified to find the woman and the two children lying apparently dead on the straw. A surgeon was sent for Immediately, who pronounced life to be extinct in all three cases. The cabman then drove with his terrible load to St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. From a cursory examination made at the hospital the poor victims seem to have been poisoned by prussic acid This possibly was administered to them in the beer which they drank in Bishopsgate Street. The woman appears from her dress to be a respectable shopkeeper's or mechanic's wife. The cabman describes the man as being dressed in black:, slightly built, about thirty-five years of age, 5. ft in. in height, of a dark complexion, with black hair. beard, whiskers, and moustache. He says he could identify him again if he saw him. Whilst the police were engaged in endeavouring to apprehend the supposed murderer, information was received at the police station that a man answering the description given by the cab-driver had been found dead in bed at a coffee-house in Southwark, and that he had committed suicide by taking laudanum. The deceased said he came from Wales when he entered the coffee-shop. On his person was found ss. 110., two phials, labelled poison, and a comb and knife. The cabman was as soon as possible taken to the coffee-house; but he at once that the deceased was not the man who rode m his cab. The bodies of the woman and two children have not been identified. The police are on the alert in various directions, but no clue has yet been diecovered to the murderer.
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-11-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.  On Tuesday morning, a man named Andrew Bogie, a brassfounder, residing in Dabbie'a Loan, Glasgow, had a narrow escape from being murdered by his own wife. It appears that Mrs Bogie has been for some months past exhibiting symptoms of mental derangement. On Monday night she and her husband seem to have gone to bed as usual, without any quarrel or anything transpiring between them to account for what after: wards occurred. About three o'clock in the morning, Mrs Bogie got out of bed, and having possessed herself of a penknife, stabbed her husband in the neck, about an inch below the left ear. Bogie got up and went into the house of a neighbour named Lyon, who at once ran off for a surgeon. A short distance from the house Lyon met a policeman, and directed his attention to what had occurred. The constable proceeded towards the house, and found that Mrs Bogie had thrown herself over the window from a height of four stories, and was lying severely injured on the pavement, with the knife she had just made use of clasped to bet bosom. By direction of the surgeon the husband and wife were removed to the Infirmary, where they now remain. Bogie, it was found, had made a very narrow escape, the wound in his neck having gone within a hairsbreadth or two of the jugular vein. As it was, he had lost a great deal of blood, and was greatly exhausted. On Tuesday night, however, he was considered to be in a fair way of recovery. The unhappy woman was found, on examination, to have received a fracture of the shinbone, and a fracture of the hip-joint. There was also a cut three or four inches long on her instep. Her case is considered dangerous. When the occurrence took place, Bogie's children, four in number, were asleep in the house, one of them lying in its father's arms at the moment when he was stabbed.
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-12-31 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

YORKSHIRE. —Another, making the twelfth, incendiary fire on the Yorkshire welds occurred at Huggate on Wednesday night. The fire broke out upon the wold farm of Mr. Horsley, but wenn to have beeu found out early, and the destruction only included one corn-stack. The fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary, who is at large. The great number of incendiary fires of late has caused an extraordinary number of applicants for insurance, and the Sun-office has met the demand by raising its rate from ss. to one guinea per cent, for farm produce. Other offices are expected to follow suit. On Thursday an inquest was held upon the body of Miss Sophia Clance, aged 40, who had ,resided with her sister in Alma-street, New North-road, and who committed suicide by hanging herself. The deceased was evidently labouring under religious mania. The coroner's officer produced a sheet of paper on which deceased just previous to her death had written a long religious statement, commencing, "Oh, Lord, I believe ; help thou my unbelief. They shall come to thee in weeping and supplication, and all for sin." The jury returned a verdict that "The deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind." The SheXeld Independent states that a Case has just been made known at Parkgate, near Rotherham, having some resemblance to the Flushing Lunacy case. A girl has been kept shut up by her father and stepmother for at least fourteen years, the neighbours say, and they have not seen her since she was fourteen years of age. Police-sergeant Home went to the house and saw the girl. She was wrapped round with a few rags, and her features were distorted. She had been confined in a small cupboard, which he was shown. It was in a lamentably filthy condition. The case was brought before the Board of Guardians by Mr. Oxley, of Parkgate, and an investigation was ordered to be made. The father is in comfortable circumstances, and could well have afforded to support his daughter properly.
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-02-05 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STIRLING. —Salmon fishing commenced on Monday. The take, although moderate, was as good as might have been expected from the flooded state of the streams and adverse weather. An old woman, named Margaret Brown, died in the Dundee Poorhouse on Thursday, at the age of 102 years. Up to within a month or two of her death she retained her faculties almost unimpaired. The Lord Advocate delivered his inaugural address as President of the Associated Societies of the 'University in Queen Street Hall, Edinbtirgh, on Monday night, There was a large and brilliant assemblage, the hall being quite filled, Mary Doherty, living in Covenant Close, High Street, Edinburgh, has been sent to prison for 60 dare, on a charge of attempting to commit suicide on Friday night by throwing herself from the window of a house in Burnett's- Close. Selkirk New Parish Church was opened for public worship on Sunday. The building, which is neat and comfortable, is seated for 1,100 persons, and has been erected at a cost of upwards of £4OOO. At the Perth Infirmary meeting, Mr Smythe of Methven, one of the trustees. under the will of the late Gen. M. Belahes, announced that that gentleman had bequeathed the munificent sum of £lOOO to the county and city of Perth Infirmary. Two well-known residents of Coupar-Angue, brothers. Jas. M`Laren and Alex. M`Laren, Eeqs. of' Buckhill—the latter chief Commissioner for the burgh of Coupar-Angus—died, the former about six o'clock on Saturday morning, and the latter about 11 o'clock forenoon. Late on Thursday night, a man named G. Davidson, who followed the occupation of a tailor, and belonged originally to Didkeith, died at Craigend Colliery, in the neighbourhOrid of Falkirk, under circumstances which leave little doubt that his death has been accelerated by destitution and exposure. Notwithstanding the severe-gales the atmosphere has been comparatively mild for the season. There arc to be seen several snowdrops in flower plots in full blootn, and in a garden in Queen's Terrace, Ayr, there is a pear tree in full blossom. The mavis and the lark are now Oohoring in the spring with their song. Among the bills declared, on Wednesday and Thursday to have complied with the standing ordere of both Houses of Parliament were those of the Caledonian Railway Company, to widen and improve the Lesinahagow branches' and make other alteratidtis, arid raise £120,000; the Esk Valley Extension Railway, for new lines, and to raise £95,000; Banff, Portsoy, and Strathisla, for extension to Portgordon, and to raise £110,000; Formartine and Buchan, to abandon extension to Fraaerburgh and substitute another line ; the -Banff, Maodutf, and Tariff, for an extension to the harbour of Macduff, and to raise Z6OOO • the Glasgow and South-Western, to raise £286,000, to connect Glasgow and Paisley and Paisley and Renfrew, and to use t' -r and May bole Itailway i the &Holm* a, Re wa for--a line to Dtnionriline by au trelialOulittio4  The as Pre
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-04-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

WADDINGTON.  THE RECENT SUICIDE IN PARIS. The correspondent of the Daily News writes :—The name of the Englishman whose suicide I alluded to was Longford Brooke. He was not a baronet, as had been rumoured. He lived at No. 69, Rue St Anne. In his lodgings was found a holograph will—that is a will in his own hand-writing, but not attested—by which he left all his property, which is said to be very large, to Madame Madeleine Brohan, the eminent actress of the Theatre Frangais ; and in case of her refusal to accept it, then to the orphan charity of the Imperial Prince. The suicide occurred on Sunday, and Mr Brooke was buried on Wednesday at Montmartre. The French papers, who, besides dubbing him a baronet, suppress his name and give only initials, say that Madame Madeleine Brohan has already sofused to accept the large fortune which was at her disposal. I am very incredulous about the whole story. Ido not doubt that an Englishman, lately an offioer in the army, did commit suicide on Saturday last, and I am satisfied that a testaincntary palter purported to leave his property to Madame Madeleine Brohan ; but as to the "large fortune," I think it unlikely to have been possessed by an Englishman living on a "eat" in the Rue St Anne. More unlikely sttll does it seem to me that a French actress would refuse a thumping sum of money from any sentimental considei ation whatever. In all probability the will is not worth the paper on which it is written. A French holograph will by an English subject is invalid for want of the at.testation by two witnesses required by Lord Langdale s Act, unless it can he proved that the testator was' domiciled." in Paris. It is very unlikely that such proof can exist in the preient case. Mere residence, howeyel long, does not change the domicile of origin. An English officer having property in England would certainly not lose his English domicile by the fact of residence in the Rue St Anne. There must be at the very least, proof that he quitted England without 571 Multi lIS ?.( • deundi, and many eminent French lawyers are of opinion that even such proof will not do, and that nothing short of a special imperial authorisation can enable a I foreigner to have a French domicile. At all eveul.s, and admitting Mr Brooke to have been domiciled In France, the holograph will would he invalid a$ I'ol phtfi in England,
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-04-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY—The 42d quarterly general meeting of the shareholders took place at the Norfolk Street offices on the 31st March, Viscount Ranelagh in the chair, when is very satisfactory report of the society's business 14 as presented by the executive committee. The receipts for the first two quarters of the 11th financial year, ending Michaelmas, 1863, were £31,560 15s, being an increase of £209 15s 10d over the corresponding period last year. The total receipts to Lady-day, 1863, were £656,953 8s 3d; withdrawals, £190,440 14s lid; and total sale of land £323,024 12s 4d. The total number of £5O shares issued was 19,120, or £956,000. Houses and ground rents had been sold by allotment at Oldford Roman Road, Camberwell, and Tunbridge Wells. The Woodhouse Mansion, Wanstead, with about four acres of land, had been disposed of to the Society for the Protection of Young Females. Three new estate,. had been acquired in South Hants, East Kent, and East Suffolk, at Southampton, Ramsgate, and Ipswich. The roads and drainage on the estates at Roehampton, Putney Heath, Colchester, Wan. stead and Tunbridge Wells, were in active progress. Owing to the opening of the underground railway, and the extension of the metropolitan lines, land on the society's suburban estates was in demand, and a considerable increase in building operations this year was expected by the committee. The report further announces the election of Captain Jervis, M.P., as a member of the board. LEEDS, Sattualay.—A murder and attempted suicide took place this morning. John Gair, a pensioner, aged 50, had been living with a woman named Alice, surname unknown. A quarrel had taken place between them on Friday night, through the woman Alice sitting on another man's knee, in which position Gair saw her. They went to bed about four this morning. At six o'clock a Mrs M‘Manus, who, with her husband and a little boy, slept in the same room with Gair and Alice, heard a noise, and on looking towards the couch occupied ht he Gairs, she saw some blood against the wall. She aroused her husband, who endeavoured to take the razor from Gair' whose throat was cut in the struggle. The death of the woman is supposed to have been instantaneous. Gair is not expected to recover. lie has been removed to the infirmary.  a candidate to represent 3 one of the members. At the Chester Assizes Morley, of Morley & Tettley, tamed £2OO damages from Mr spinner of the same place, for a awarded £3OO, but as the damages £2OO, that amount William Charlton, das executed , , Carlisle last April, left three children, and one was born after the sad event. An old lady living in the neighbourhoOd of Morpeth, feeling compassion for his innocent children, has left to the eldest son property which will come - him The Royal Infirmary
Glasgow Courier. — 1863-06-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE CIVIL S XXV ICE. —CUStOrafl. —Mr W. Jamieson, has been appointed an out-door officer, Glasgow; and Mr A. Lyle an out-door officer, Greenock. Excise Branch—Mr G. Purton, officer, Paisley, fourth division, has been appointed to Paisley, second division; Mr G. Field. officer, Hatfield ride, to Paisley, fourth division; Mr J. Rostock, officer, Alloa,lonrth tUviMon, to Derby, thud division; and Mr J. Guilin°, officer, Somerset ride, to Alloa, fourth division. An adjourned meeting of the North British Railway Company was held on Thursday, to consider three bills before Parliament affecting the interests of the Company, namely, the Edinburgh and Perth via Dunfermline Bill, the Northumberland Railways Bill, and the Wandsbeck Railway Bill. Mr Hodg. son, M.P., chairman, presided. An amendment proposed by Major Hall, that the company do not carry out the small branches in the direction of Leith and Granton, was lost, and that of the Chairman, approviugof the several bills, was carried. —ln the forenoon a meeting of shareholders opposed to ,er extension of the line, or amalgamation, was _iii the Waterloo Hotel, Edintuir&h. The meeting was thinly attended, and the proceedings were condoled in private.  Anohteralytb, three miles north-east of Myth, which Is only separated from Airlie Castle by the river Ma; ha. been purchased by private bargain for the Nam of £13,500 by the Earl of Airlie. The Queen has appointed the Rev. Walter Gregor, minister of Maccluff, in the Presbytery of Turriff, to he minister of the church and parish of Pitaligo, in , the Presbytery of Deer, and county of Aberdeen. On Friday afternoon, James Low, carrier between IPerth and the Bridge of Earn, met his death while ;endeavouring to atop a horse with a cart which had ,run away on the Edinburgh Road, about a mile distant from the Bridge of Kern. Htnertv.—We understand the lawsuit hitherto pending between the architect and the contractor of the monument to the late Duke of Richmond has been compromised, and the erection will be immediately proceeded with. A woman residing at Loohee swallowed twopenoeworth of vitriol on Saturday night, with the intention of destroying her life, and though she still survives, no hopes are entertained of her recovery. She had been 111 a desponding state of mind, in consequence of her husband having deserted her. On Friday morning, a man named Buchan, residing at St Combs, near Frsserburgh, went out to sea in a boat, and deliberately threw himself into the Water, where he was drowned. So determined was he to commit suicide that he had a stone tied about bis neck in ease that he should be rescued. His body was recovered shortly after. Taz
Glasgow Courier. — 1848-05-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  Cant/xis, Eaßesay.—We learn that, on Saturday. last, Mr. Cross conducted the first engine along the Campine branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The line, we believe, will be opened for traffic in a week or two. From the state of health of the Rev. Mr. Moffat, Port. Glasgow, a meeting of his congregation was held in the parish church there, to choose an assistant during his proposed absence of some months—David Gilkison, Esq. of Glenhuntly, in the chair. It was stated that Mr. Moffat would contribute £26 towards procuring an able assistant; and if the congregation paid £l4 additional, they would make up £4O for the half year. This proposition was put to the meeting, and a committee of four was appointed to, confer with the session in the matter. The continued indisposition or the reveread gettieman is theIIOUTCO of mach regret to his people and friends. Attempts at Suseide.—On Saturday forenoon, a girl of indifferent reputation, named Malony, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing • quantity of sugar of lead. Dr. Easton was in immediate attendance, and by the application of the proper remedies saved the girl's life.—The same afternoon, a young girl of about 17 years of age, also attempted suicide by having taken twopence worth of laudanum. In this, as in the former case, the patient was rescued by the ready attendance of the surgeon. The poor girl had made the attempt from having been controlled by her relations in some love affair.  Moots of Drunkonneas.—About half-past three o'clock on Sunday morning, a man, apparently much the worse of liquor, was found lying in Gallowgate Street, from which he was removed to the Police-office. It was found that he had a severe cut on the head, and was accordingly visited by the surgeon, who sent him promptly to the Infirmary. Here, however, the man soon after died. Deceased was dressed in the garb of a labourer.. .  Sissected Murder at Ardromos.—The body of a seaman, name WWilliam, belonging to the sloop Mary, of Brodiek, was found on WeOnesday last in Ardrossan harbour. There having been certain appearances on the body exciting a suspicion that his death was not the result of accident, an investigation was made into the circumstances by the authorities. In consequence of the investigation, William WKenzio master of the sloop, and John Little, seaman, were, on Thursday morning, apprehended in Stranraer, and taken to Kilmarnock, to be thew examined by the Sheriff, on a charge of murder, comakiabed en the deceased. It appears that the Mary had sailed from Ardrossan for Stranraer on Friday evening or Saturday morning last, with guano, but was detained on the voyage by contrary winds. The friends of the deceased had no suspicion that anything was wrong until the body was discovered as above stated.
Glasgow Courier. — 1848-11-04 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

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