The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1873-03-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

CII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE CASE.  • •nach of promise case was on the 28th nit the case, said the -din 186,!, she "r at Skip'fend An interesting  tried at the Oxford amt. _  Mr. Hill, Q.U., in opening plaintiff was Miss Ellen Hall; wak residing with her widowed man. ton-on-Stour, in Warwickshire. The ca ant, Mr. Taylor, was the son of a farmer residing near Skipton-on-Stour, and was in 1868 living at a distallCO of seven or eight miles from the plaintiff, Towards the end of autumn, 1868, the parties became acquainted with one another. It would be found that in January, 1q69, or early in that year, the defendant's offer of marriage was accepted, and he thought it would be found the parties went on seeing one another pretty continually from that time up till April, 1869. He need not trouble them with any previous letter, but he would draw attention to three or four letters, couched in the warm language, he wee told, they usually were. (Laughter.) He then read the following : • Ever dearest Nellie, —I know I ought to have written to you before this, but I did not know how to begin; lam wretchedly miserable. I never had anything to make me unhappy before. I now indeed feel myself an insulated being, a lonely wanderer over the face of nature. Ah, Nellie, you will never think anything of me again.. INearest Nellie, the more I think of you the more I love you. I should like very much to come on Sunday, and then we can talk it over. Will you, dear, u rite and say if I may come? I say again, I shou:d liY2 to come much, very much. I had only about two minutes to write it in—the postman was fast on the start. tlon't know what I have wrote. dear Nellie.— Your sincere admirer. JO.El•II TATLOI:. April 21, 1861. The learned counsel then produced a piece of music on which the defendant had written the name of the plaintiff as his future wife, calling her "Mrs. Joseph Taylor," and proceeded to read other letters of a similar character to that already read. At length the defendant broke the suit off in spite of all remonstrances; and upon this ground the learned counsel asked for exemplary damages.—A consultation having taken place, Mr. Huddleaton announced that a settlement had been arrived at. He was most auxioue thot not a single word should be uttered reflecting in any way on the propriety of conduct of the plaintiff. Unfortunately, fickleness was not confined to men, and the defendant had changed his mind. He still respected her, but he had transferred his affection to another ivhom he admired The learned counsel then consented to a verdict for the plaintiff—damages X20(.0.  A FATAL MISTAKE:Ott Sunday night, Mr. Meredith. one of the HMlley union surgeons, at Netherton, died from laudanum poisoning. He : in his sitting wont and suddenly called for itssistonce. His son, who is also a surgeon. found symptoms of poisoning, and after sending for other medical aid, applied the usual remedies, but without avail. There is no reason to suppose that the deceased committed suicide. Mr. Meredith was in the habit, it is said, of carrying a hall-pint bottle of brandy and :cater about with him, and as the bottle ; he drank from was a half-piot, the probability is ' that he took op the wrong bottle by mistake. A CONTEMPLATED lEi%ll TION IN HYDE 11,11t1i,4  viauk Erwl.ett. until its lh 1., N.lll^ I X :O. '. I i „ .. • ~,h,.,, Luca, blue, and 1'011:lath, r, troll. t I:. 01,11. !*, E .. • • . • o h.. ~ .„1. ja.„_ UM' buttecl's, 11 ~, A. , ~„.,, ~,,,,,. ~ ,j,,,,, , 1 ~, 1., „ „ ~.,r, ,te.,,. 11... urn or Mn-. !lime