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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-01-20 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

VARIETIES.  "You men tin) a covet-us get," said a conceited young lady. What is the greatest stand ever made for civilisatio 113—The ink-stand. The wickedest liar is he who lies for an object; the greatest liar is he who lies without one. With what poet ought a man disfigured by fire to be familiar ...Probably he has red Burns. Truth is an inevitable gem, but it frequently requires much digging to get at it. Good news for husbands—Ladies wear their dresses longer than they used. Men often confess small faults in order to insinuate that they have no great ones. If you lose an opportunity, your opponent may find it. Statistics of suicide in Paris shows a majority of married men. A dogma is defined as an opinion laid down with a snarl.  To know how to listen is a great art; it is to know how to gain instruction from every one. Silent "tongues and sounds" are to be found in codfish. Why is the human windpipe like the Pope's anathema? Because it is a neck's communication (an excommunication). What is the difference between music and gambling? In music you meet with "A sharp," but in gambling with a sharper. Dutchmen are the fittest men for pallbearers; they always feel at home when near bier. A crusty old bachelor says that Adam's wife was called Eve because, when she appeared, man's day of happiness was drawing to a close. Why was Herod's wife like a Fenian organisation? Because she had a -head sent her (Head Centre.) When the Siamese twins travel they refuse to pay two fares, and will not consent to split the difference. A drunkard, leaning against a church railing, replied, in answer to a question from the sexton that he didn't exactly belong to that church, though he had a leaning that way. Ah, dear doctor, how is my wife to-day? The doctor shook his head, and said, "You must prepare for the worst." "What 1" said the husband, "do you think she is likely to get over it ?" Tom wrote to John, from the country, that he was constantly employed in "breaking colts." John wrote in reply, that all he had to say about it was—" save the pieces." A clerk in a music store was lately overpowered by a fastidious young lady who wanted to purchase "Mr. Hood's—a—song of the —a—gentleman's under-garment 1" . The clerk is still alive.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-04-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  IN LONDON.  Another murder and attempted suicide was committed in London on Tuesday morning. It appears that a man named Richard Whitley, with his wife Mary Whitley and seven children, the eldest being a son seventeen years of age, have for some time past occupied the front attic at No. 8, Feathers-court, Drurylane. Between six and seven o'clock on Tuesday morning .a man named Richard Maddison, who lives at No. 5, on the opposite side of the court, heard cries of " murder " from one of the houses, of which at first he did not, however, take much notice, as it was a matter of very frequent occurrence. As, however, the screams continued, though much fainter, and some women, also attracted by the cries, gathered about the door, Maddison looked out from his window, and then the women told him that Whitley haa cut his wife's throat. He immediately ran down, and just then a police constable came up, and the two men went into the passage together, where they found a woman, who afterwards turned out to be Mrs. Whitley, lying head formost downstairs with her head on the third stair from the bottom. Maddison and the policeman lifted her up off the stairs, and laid her along the passage, when they found she was quite dead. The body was conveyed to the vestry-house of the parish, that being the most convenient .place. In the meantime one of the little girls came downstairs and said her father was upstairs and and killed himself, upon which some of the officers went upstairs and found the body of the man lying covered with blood? with his head against the door. On lifting him up there was found underneath him a large bladed clasp-knife covered with blood. The woman's body, on being examined by the medical men, exhibited no _ appearance of a struggle or of a violent death. The murderer, on being discovered, was gasping but totally unconscious, and he was removed at once to the hospital, where he at present remains with very small hope of recovery. A later report says that the murderer and his victim lived with their seven children in one room, not more than twelve feet square, the eldest son lying on the foot of the bed whereon his mother and father slept, and the other children lying on the floor. The son Thomas went out to work at his usual time, leaving his father and mother in bed together, and of course the lad himself knew no more of what occurred; but one of the children, a gir between seven and eight years old, states, upon being interrogated, that her father stabbed her i mother as she lay n bed, and after she jumped up and ran to the window and screamed "Murder," and then she ran out of the room and he cut his own throat. The children hay been sent to the Strand Workhouse. It appears that the unhappy couple have been in the constant habit of quarelling, and the son states that on Saturday night last his father threatened to kill his mother. They were not drunk, neither on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday night. Later intelligence informs us that the murderer died from his self-inflicted wounds on Wednesday night.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-06-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDR IN C AMBRIDGESHIRE.—A case of most deliberate murder and suicide occurred on Tuesday morning at Swavesey, a popolous village on the borders of Cainbridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and next to St. Ives, between Cambridge and that place on the Great Eastern Railway, and, as may be supposed, a great deal of excitement prevails in the neighbourhood in consequence. Inquiries on the spot show that there were resident at Swaversey Mr. Dodson, a harness maker, and occupying a small quantity of land, ' his wife.( one of the deceased, and, it is feared, ' the perprettater of this -"double crime), and se.yerdl. children. The whole of the; family, including an apprentice, breakfasted together at seven o'clock in the morning, after the meal, at which nothing unusual occurred, concluded, Mr. Dodson took his way into the field and the apprentice proceeded to his work. &bout nine o'clock the apprentice had occasion to visit the back yard, and was then horrified at finding the bodies of Mrs. Dobson and the youngest child (the latter about four years of age) suspended from a beam in a cow-shed close upon the house. The alarm_was raised, Mr. Dodson, the neighbourers, and medical assistance, were all summoned and assembled in haste, but both Mrs. Dobson and the child were dead, and had evidently' been so for some time, according to the opinions of Dr. Daniels. There is every fear that Mrs. Dodson first destroyed the child and then her own life. There are sundry rumours afloat as to the instigating motives .of this double crime, but the whiile of the, attendant circumstances will-be inquifed into .at the inqueSt. It is said Mrs. Uodson had taken much'io heart the facts of her husband 'having lost several beasts by the cattle plague. of its first having apßeared in the homestead of her husband, and spread-thence to those in the neighbourhood.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-06-16 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

VARIETIES.  He.must be a strong general who can storm and carry a fortress. The dress of a frivolous flirt, however abundant, is next to nothing. Why is matrimony like wash-leather ?—B ecause it often polishes a spoon. Why is a pig the most provident of animals ?—Because he always carries a spare rib or two about him. Why is Shylock a most difficult character to perform ?—Because it is almost an impossibility to do a Jew.:  - -Why is little Prince Albert Victor like two of the delights of out-door life in toe weather? —Becaus e he's the sun and air of England. A..schoolboy being asked by his teacher how he should flog him, replied, "If you please, sir, I should like to have it upon the Italian system ot penmanship, the heavy strokes upwards, and the down ones In a case recently heard in the Court of Queen's Bench, a witness stated that he had taken his sweetheart out for a ride, but she had paid half the expenses. The chief justice remarked that this was courtship on the joint-stock principle. I think, said Mrs. Partington, getting up from the breakfast-table, I will take a tower, or go upon a discursion. The bill says, if 1 collect rightly, that a party is to go to a very plural spot, and to mistake of a cold collection. I hope it won't be so cold as ours for the poor last Sunday. Dr. Tomkins, who is a materialist, showed one of his friends a surgical instrument ornamented with a handle carved in bone. By the by, said he, do you know what that handle is made of ?-0f ivory F—No, you are wrong there, said the doctor, with t ears in his eyes, that handle is the thigh-bone of my poor aunt! A minister's wife says—The first time Patook my eldest boy to church, when he was two years and a laalf old, I 'managed, with caresses and frowns, and candy, to lospp him very still till the sermon was half done. By this time his patience was exhausted, and he climbed to his feet, and stood on the seat, looking at the preacher (Ohs father) quite intently. Then, as if he had hit upon a certain relief for his troubles, he pilled me by the chin to attract my attention, and exclaimed, in a distinct voice, Mamma, make papa say A reporter who had been entertaing his fri ends hurriedly scribbled down the account of a sad occurrence which had happened in the neighbourhood, and the following paragraph appeared in the paper the next day :—"Yesterday morning, at four o'clock p.m., a small man named Jones or Smith, with a heel in the hole of trousers, committed arsenic by swallowing a dose of suicide. The verdict of the inquest returned a jury that the deceased came to the fact in accordance with his death. He left a child and six small wives to lament the end of his unfortu. nate loss. In death we are in the midst of life.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-08-18 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A man named George Moyce, 40 years of age carryins. on the business of a shoemaker, at 9, Wellington-street, Bethnal-green London, on Tuesday night made a brutal attempt to murder his wife, and afterwards succeeded in taking his own life by cutting his throat with a razor. About half-past nine o'clock the unfortunate woman, Ann Moyce, rushed into the street, covered with blood, and pointing to a frightful gash in her throat, said to some neighbours who were standing "Look what my husband has done." Immediately after she became insensible. Police-constable John Pales, 99 H, who was on duty in the immediate neighbourhood, had the poor man conveyed to the London Hospital, and entered the house, where he found Moyce with his throat cut in such a fearful manner as could leave not the slightest hope of his recovery. On being conveyed to the hospital Mr. Greenaway, the house surgeon discovered that the windpipe had been completely severed, and stated that the man could not survive many hours, and that the wounds were such as could easily have been inflicted by himself. The wound in the woman's throat was not so serious, and every hope is entertained of her ultimate re-covery. In addition to the wound in her throat, her hands are lacerated in such a manner as to lead to the supposition that she had struggled hard to defend herself against her husband. Information was conveyed to the Beem o...green Police-station, and the acting inspector, Serjeant Dillon, placed a constable in charge of the house pending the investigation. Moyce has left six young children—the eldest of whom is under twelve years of age—who have been taken charge of by the parochial authorities. Up to Vie present time no cause has been assigned for the outrage the woman being as yet unable to speak. Moyee'died at half-past twelve o'clock, but his wife is progressing satisfactorily.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-08-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE CONVICT BURROWS.—The efforts to obtain a commutation of the sentence passed upon the murderer Burrowshave so far proved unsuccessful. In a letter dated Saturday, Mr. Walpole states that "he has not felt it to be consistent with his public duty to a dvise Her Majesty to interfere with the due course of law ;" but another memorial has been forwarded to London, urging the right hon. gentleman to re-consider the case. About three o'clock on Sunday morning a man named William Taylor, lodging in Harperstreet, Leeds; rose from bed and commenced walking about the house while asleep. Unfortunately, he fell from the top of the stairs to the bottom, and when taken up he was seen to be severely injured. He was consequently removed to the infirmary, where it was found he had fractured his spine, and he died in about an hour. On Monday a frightful accident occurred at the Belly Paper Mills, about a mile from the city of Durham. A young girl named Ellen Dunning, aged 15 years, who had been employed at the mills, went into the " dusting " room to show a companion a new machine which had recently been erected. The young woman cautioned her not to go near the machine, but this caution was disregarded, and some portion of her wearing apparel being caught in the machinery she was instantly drawn in and cut to pieces. A SHOCKING SUICIDE has just taken place near Derby. A domestic servant, named Emily Harrison, having found access to the line where it is intersected by a level crossing placed herself, for the purpose it is believed, longitudinally upon the rails, and was literally cut to pieces by a passing train. It is, however, supposed that several trains had passed before the catastrophe was discovered. The unfortunate woman, who was 44 years of age, had enigmatically announced her intention to destroy herself on account of the misconduct of her sister. HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Preventible Diseases. —Many are the maladies which silently work their way into the human system through miasma, noxious vapours, and deteriorated air, which could all be dispossessed by a few doses of these admirable Pills. The vitiated gases enter the lungs as we breathe, and there contaminate the blood, which will convey the poisonous particles throughout the body, unless some purifier, such as these Pills, be taken to cleanse it. Holloway's Pills expel all harmful matters from the circulation, and cleanse the solids, likewise from all treacherous impurities. Is not the whole body formed from the blood, and the blood only I How necessary, then, does it become to all who value health to employ occasionally some means of purification.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-07-21 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LONDON.—On Monday, Mr. C. St. Clair Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, held an inquiry relative to the death of William Mold, who committed suicide after having attempted the life of a young woman with whom he had cohabited, the attempted murder and suicide being committed almost in the presence of deceasod's wife, and at his residence. Elizabeth Havidley Mold, the wife of the deceased man, said—l live at 26, King. street. The deceased Nras my husband, he was 51 years of age and a public house broker. He had several times threatened to destroy himself, and generally had poison by him. .He sometimes threatened to du so owing to pecuniary pressures. He has been in a lunatic asylumn. I have been married to him three years, and previous to that time he had twice attempted suicide with laudanum. On one occasion he took too much. He was not of sober habits. In 1854 he received an injury which affected his brain. He was at times delirious. His affairs were in a confused state, which affected him, and on Thursday last he said he should not live throughout the day. 1 said, "I don't believe you, you have said it so often." He replied, "you will find it out." After ten, he lay down, and a young woman being in the room he attempted to poison her. She screamed out, and said deceased had tried to force vitriol into her mouth, 1 rushed into the room and I saw my husband lying on the bed. The young woman was also on the bed, both being dressed. All my husband could say was Water, water!" I gave him some, from which he drank, and he never spoke afterwards. It seemed from the doctor's evidence that it was not vitriol, but cyanide of potassium, which the deceased took, and which he endeavoured to pour down the young woman's throat. The account given by the latter was extraordinary. It turned out that, though she had lived with Mold before his marriage, she still resided in the same house with him and his wife and her illegitimate child five years old, of which he was the father. The jury found that the deceased was insane.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-04-07 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday an inquest was held at Charles-terrace, Victoria Park, London, on the body of Frederick Johns, a tinsmith, aged 69 years. The body of deceased was found on Good Friday floating in Duckett's Canal, near Victoria 'Park, with some stones in his pockets, and the following letter addressed to his wife :—" March 18, 1866. Airs. Johns,—When you receive this I shall be no more. You are the cause of all my misery. I shall never trouble you again. The act have committed will deprive you of all benefit from either club or insarance. You being the Cause of all, I hope God will forgive me. F. JouNs."—"43, Southwark-bridge-road.—l have not tasted food since Saturday morning, and What I have had has always been begrudged. Just a few tears the old —is gone, thank God " Sarah Johns, 43, Southwark-bridgeroad, deposed that on the morning of the 18th March she last saw the deceased alive. He then went out, witness thinking that he was going to get shaved. Theme had been no quarrel, but he had used some strong words about a pin which was left in a pillow having run into his hand. They had been latterly in great straits; as they had only 3s. a week from a club, and he earned only 2s. or 3s. a week. Witness made shirts at 4td. each, and could not get many to make, even at that price. Deceased was suffering from ill-health, but he was too proud to think of the workhouse. He would sooner starve than go near it. At one time he drank heavily, but since he lost his business he had not the means to get intoxicated.—Mr. iihil Davey, m.R.C.S., said that deceased had dicd from drowning. He had been in the water 10 or 15 days. The stones in his pocket must have caused him to sink immediately on jumping into the water.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind." LORD BANELAGII BOUND OVER TO KEEP THE PEACE —lt seems that the Brighton volunteer gathering did not pass over in quite so amicable a manner as had been believed. There was a real fight—between Lord Banelagh and Captain Norton, of the Dragoon Guards. The matter became public because Captain Norton has summoned Lord Banehigh for an assault, and the case was heard in the Brighton police-court on Thursday. Great Lalueety was expressed at the hearing that not:Ling but the facts of the assault should be brought out, and accordingly we only learn that Lord Ranelagh met Captain Norton on the Esplanade and called burn a series of bad names, at the same time shaking his fist in the F.aptain's face. Blows followed, but which got Ito worst we are not told. There seems to liave been some talk of a subsequent hostile Teeting, but Captain Norton's legal adviser lerY properly insisted on civil remedies only. -`,,ll_,tile court on Thursday Lord Hanelagh was c Ul,lant. said he was not afraid of Captain fo t-N and hoped the captain would not be rum, u over. He was ordered to find securities to ice') the peace for six months, did so at ee, and walked off amidst marks of approval 'ropi sympthising bystanders. R. Lowe
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-08-19 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ULVERSTON SAILOR.-On blind to his its faults. They had to thank him 'which is well worth observing. The first oce,a- Mr. M. Waddington: Is it customary to ug. 30th.-Sale of Bricks, at Barrow, Fridayforenoon a seaman, named Isaac Seward, for this. The great beauties and charm which sion of the kind was the celebration of the ter- lift beams of that weight with ropes of that •dall, at 5 p.m. committed suicide on board the schooner, John Scott drew from mediaeval life, the history of centenary of Shakespeare; and lam happy to description. v.ETING S, &c., Williams, Captain Iddon, while on a passage the feudal times, and the way in which he say we have among us a gentleman who acted '.-Barrow Building Society's from Barrow to Glasgow. From the particulars pictured the i character of his countrtmen, had aas secretary at that celebration, on the birth-day Winless : Yns. at 6-30 o'clock. Three ascertained it would appear that deceased had great effect n forming our nation at character. of that great man. Some time ago, we celeCoroner : Did you examine the rope bait-SO p.m. been in a desponding state, and when leaving Those who took an interest in these matters, fore you began to lift the girder? brated the centenary of Burns, and I hope we y Gourock, in the Firth, requested the Captain to and who had read the proceedings at other towns may be spared to pay a similar honour to the Witness: Yes, we examined it, and ob7ERTISERS. allow him to go below and write a letter. He within the past week must have seen that the memory of Tom Moore. (Cheers.) These are served no flaw in it. was accordingly permitted, greatest men of the day-all classes, all parties, men whom we should not forget, and the names Coroner: How long has it been in use? THE "BARROW directed him to a drawer in which was deposited and the captain and all creeds-were taking part in honour of of such, whether alive or dead, ought not to be Witness: About five or six months.