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The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-08-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

WWI., temperance principles, to speak Vie truth, ,v ich ought always to be spoken. Mrs. Hopper hail horn imhibing pretty heartily in the con. t,mts of a rum bottle, which was kept in the house in case of neres,ity, though that rase of ummesity never ii wued.  A+ before odd, she spoke rather hastily—in fact, Bill Brookes I,il to request her to speak up. Though slightly off, nded at his dearness, she repeated her questiou— " Who, in tb.. liaise of thunder, is there?” He heird it this time, did Mr. Brookes. lie consulted about it. it Was certainly not a proper way to us Are. him.  .I.le-11-, ..you're a bit of a caution, you are. D,C4 you be aware of who you are a speaking to? I have called to tAch y..ur husband. There's nosed, done! And rouse .he aeheral up, au I he quick about it." The h.mi 01 Mrs. Bopper withdrew. " Gool gracious a use, Hopper!" she said, though Bill Brookes could not hear what she was talkiag about. " There's I.,:eu a murder, or suicide, or something, an' Bull Brook.'s as come to fetch you." Mrs. Boas, poured this into the unwilling ears of brave Mr. Bopper, standing the while hugging the bed post, stud ,urveyiug the majestic proportions of valiant Mr. Bopper. "Bother and nonsense!" said Mr. Bopper, trying to speak "It's some tale or other made up. I stint a going to turn suit of my bed to-night. Sty as how I'm gone out," and Ise jumped upright in bed, and punched the pillow in joy at his idea. Mrs. Bopper went to the window. " hopper stint in. He's gone out, and he wont be home again for a week." " Aint calmly enquired Mr. Brookes. " Come, I think that is whit of a craininer. You just tell hint as how he as got to come immegeately. It's noose saying as how he and in, because I knows he is in." " Then 1 know I aint in. I'm gone out fort week !" came out from the bps of the brave and valiant Mr. Bobber. "Come, yo,s tom, down, like a brave bobby as you be," said Mr. Brookes, though it may be conbased that the term "brave" was somewhat out of place. " But if I come, will you go along with me queried the policeman. "I don't mind," said Bill ; "only look sharp." Waiting patiently for about half on hour, Bill was joined by the courageous policeman. (To Le coittinitecl.)
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-12-02 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ROBBERY.—William Shelton, collier, was charged with stealing three deal boards 21 feet km, the property of Misses Marsh-Cauld well, on the 2fith Inst.—Sergeant Mammy said that about half-past four oath' day named he Wai on duty at Lindlry, in company with two other officers, and he met the prisoner coming across the fields from Lindley farm with three board' on his shoulder. Pi isoner told him that the bailiff gave the haunts to him. This the bailiff denied. The bailiff listing given evidence, the Bench committed the prisoner to Staffor..l for a month.  SURRENDER FOR BIOAMY —Thomas E. Renant was charged with bigamy. Charles Taylor, detective officer of the London police, gave evidence to the effect that prisoner came to Soniercewn police station on the 17th inst., and said he desired to give himself up for having committed bigamy. He stated that he came from Stoke.on-Tnait, where he bad been is barman. He furnished to the police particulars concerning his two marriages. He was taken before a magistrate at Clerkpnwell police court, nod by them ordered to be taken before the Potteries magistrates.—He was now remanded for a week.  STEELING TIMBE:I —John Sullivan,la young man, hailing from Hereford, with a considerable share of impudence, was brought up for refusing to do the regu. tar amount of work allotted to casuals at the Stoke Workhease.—Pri.ner woo admitrol on Friday last, and on the Saturday was set to stone breaking, which tie refused to do. They than gave him oakum, but he Song it out ot the cell window.—Mr. Ashworth : Yon cannot expect that toe parish coo afford to keep a great strong young man like you :•—Prisoner Don't want 'em.—Well, as you don't like work in the 'Union, we will send you tn Staff.rd for 28 Jays with hard labour. --Prisoner Oh, very well.—Prisoner laughed as if pleased with his long journey around the treadmill. THE DISHONEST IdERVANT.—Ann Wy.in, On remand, who was charged last week with having stolen some clothes, the property of Mr. Skerratt, at Tunstall, was again placed in the dock.—lt will be remembered that the prisoner, on being taken to Stafford, attempted suicide at the Hanley Station by throwing herself in front of a railway train—Mrs. Skerratt gave sittlar evidence to that of lastweek, aunt Mr. A-hworth sent the girl to Stafford with hard labour for a mouth.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-05-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SEAMEN DROWNED.—The screw steamer Maria Louisa (Captain James Murray) belonging to Aberdeen, arrived in the Tyne on Thursday, from tiarrucha. The captain landed at South Shlelds the clothes and effects of the mate and five seamen belonging to the steamer who had been drowned. The steamer picked up the direlect barque Chariton, of Marseilles, the mate and six seamen being put on board. Tire barque suddmily foundered, drowning the following of the steamer's crew : Mate, Wm. D`Donald ; boats rain, Geo. Thompson ; conk, Geo. Anderson; seamen, John Anderson and Alexander M`Guffie ; fireman, John Leslie, all belonging to Aberdeen. . . .  A BRAVE Wougmax.—We have much pleasure in recording an act of courag.eons self-control and presence of mind which may be compared with advantage to the hononrs von by deeds of daring on the field of battle. Two workmen were engaged fixing a lightning conductor on the summit of the steeple at Ville.snrOurthe, in Belgium. To accomplish this somewhat difficult and delicate task it was necessary that one of the workmen should stand on the shoulders of his corn. ',anion. While in this position, a violent gust of wind made him spill some molten lead, which fell on the hand end forearm of his friend. Notwithstanding the sudden intensity of the pain thus inflicted, the victim of this accident had tie courage to remain motionless whim the lead burnt its a•ay into his flesh. He knew that the slightest movement might suffice to ptycipitate hi. companion front a height of 70ft, into tit strset be low, and he bravely endured the pain rather than imperil the life of his fellow-worker. M. A. Harms, slater, at Anthisne. in the hero of this brave deed, and his name is worthy of public record.—Bailder. Sutorms.—Lientenant.Colonsl Stewart, Paymaster te the Royal Artillery, committed suicide on Tuesday evening at Dover. The deceased was under or.lers to proceed to Devonport with the 3rd Briga le, which left in the Assistance, but obtained permission to make the journey by rail. Recently he had seemed very much depressed, and on Tuesday evening the servant went to call him for dinner, but she found the door looked. Colonel Brendon gained admission to the room, when it was found that the decease I hail cut his throat. Upon the table weee letters addressed to his wife, in one of which he soil, "My beloved wife, I cannot bear the agony of mind any longer, and in the midst of all your confusion and distress, I must leave you and my beloved daughters. 1 an, a degraded sinner, hut you are all innocence, and know nothing of my sin. Mercy, mercy, mercy may I ask from the Lord and all—DosALTS
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-12-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SYLLOGISM.— A. sailor is not a sailor when he ii ivlmard ; a nailer is not a sailor when he is a-shore; lad he must be either ashore or aboard; therefore a sailor in not a sailor.  CB DI NS is very close," it was observed "he will squabble about a single farthing." " Well," remarked Sharp, "1 have always thought the less OW squabbles about the better." IT is said that blacksmiths and machinists are more or less given to ric,a, and that carpenters will when they can get a chance and think the operation will pay, l'aurrsson " Can you multiply together con. crete counters ?" The class are uncertain. Professor: " What will be the product of five apples multiplied by six potatoes r Fresh. (triumphantly): " Hash." A cony weak tenor in Dublin, singing feebly, caused ono of the" gods" to shout loan acquaintance across the gallery. " Corner. what noise is that ?" " UMW," said Gurney, " I believe it's the gas whistlin' in the pipe!" A winow, intending to succeed her husband in 1101111•011101 it Of all lintel, nxisertises that " the  liT:ter ;idle kept by the widow' of the former land. lord, Mr. Brown, who died b.( summer on a new and improved plan:' MANY mid varied are the female charms that  conquer no. Here we find a woman whose strength, Jibe Samson's, is in her hair; a second holds your affections by her teeth ; and a third is a Cinderelfa, who wins hearts by her pretty little foot. THE clergyman in a certain town having, as cuoma is, published the bands of matrimony between two persons, he was followed by the clerk's reading the hymn beginning with, these words: "Deluded souls that dn.am of heaven!' _ .  ..... AN Irish reporter, in describing tease of what be called " Atteauptcid suicide," said, 'The poor wretho put a ball through his breast, but failed in his suicidal purpose, although his wound proved mortal the nest morning." A taTTLK boy once called out to his father, who bad mounted his horse for a journey : "Good-b; , paps ; I love you thirty miles long." A little sister quickly added : "flood-bye, dear papa: you will never ride to the end of my love." AT a concert. "You have excellent critical taste, and 6e0,11 to delight in good music. Tell me, my friend,why have you never mastered some instrument?' "Alas, my dear fellow, my ear is too delicately strung! I shrink freni the horrible prospect of hearing myself practise." I F every man would sum tip his own case as impartially as he does that of his neighbour, he would be very likely to COMO to the conclusion that he knows enough of others to be certain that he has enemies, and enough of hiniself to be an certain that,he deserves them. N iNDOMITABLR
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-08-09 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

GERMAN HEROINE. at Richmond the Castle llot el was completely wrecked, „„d ,e„ jiving ...loser, but since his death, three years ago witness so far Ins glass was concerned, and at the Orleana at hts house. Since her h'usband's -1,41.1 k site had been greatly deranged in her mind, A gamekeeper, living in a solitary house neat , Club, more than a thousand pounds' wottl. of damage ital would sometimes go to the churchyard where he Welheim left his daughter at home by herself te , was chine. Even more serious, how-, r, than this a,, tait led, and remain crying on his grave all day. prepare the dinner one Sunday, while he and thv mischief is the injury which so severe a storin has Itm following letter had been written by the deceased rest of his family went to church. They had not MO scatty ow .ia.d to the crops. Tine unfortunate di pencil, and was found in her dress.poeket :—"The been gone long when an old man, apparently hall farmers really deserve very much sympatny. tict I hove carried out myself. My poor husband is dead with cold, solicited charity at the house, and iv.. dead, and I could not live any longer without him; the young woman, out of compassion, let him in, and Tho Indian brewers have lately achieved a great t '''' I m"de up my mind to drown Emily, and then went into the kitchen to prepare him some soup. victory, with. it is to be hoped they will use with. , niece and after commit self-destruction. I left home a few days Through a window, which communicated from tht kitchen with the room in which she left him, she moderation. Upon the strong going and seeing tine grave I be"""""e"ati" °` i came deranged in my mind; and while e.,ming home perceived that he had dropped the beard he wore his Excel.eney tine Commander-in-Chief, and with something seemed to whisper in my car to jump in when he entered ; that he now appeared a robust the full concurrence of the Military Department, 1 I the Block River' and I took bold of the child and we man ; and that he was pacing the chamber with a ladian beer only is to he supplied to all garrisons both jumped in the water together. May God have poignard in his hand. Finding no mode of escape, Ism Peshawur to ,to inclusive, as well as to mercy upon our souls, and for the crime I have comshearmed herself with a chopper in one hand and all hill stations in the Punjaub and North-west Pro- wilted —Yours, N . rollrs, SUSAN ELIZABETII SWANI:OItOUGIL." the boiling soup in the other, and entering the room vinces ; and three fourths Indian beer and one-fourth Ile Jury returned a verdict that the mother cone. where he Was first threw the sonp in his face, and English toall other stations as far sodth as Cawnpore, matted suicide, after drowning the deceased child, ' 'itAlio,- - this m---- - ---- --- - •
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-04-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

THE DUTCH.  The Shanghai Sirs Pao publishes a letter /roma correspondent giving an account of the kidnapping 4 coolies for the Dutch possessions in the Straits mat the cruel treatment they suffer. The editor is-treat he at first disbelieved the charges, but having made enquiries Which convinced him of their truth, he determined to print the letter. The writer says dui certain persons are in the habit of advancing wages and passage money to coolies red chipping them from , Hong Kong or Macao, nominally for Singapore. Oa arriving at the Straits the coolies aro not allowed to Ions!, and are immediatei, trinahipped on to another vessel for l'enang. At Penang the,- aro cold for ' seventy or eighty dollars apiece, andare curried at Ito the Dutch Possession.. Though they are gumhoned by the foreign officials whether they are goiat lof their free will, the kidnappers cozen them into saying that they are. If anyone fade out the We 1, for which he is destined and objecte to proceed, heti detained on peotence of the advances made to him. Thecoolies are employed in the Dutch islands to clue andlplant tobacco. It is said that each man on hia arrival in tattooed on the cheek, but this is more them one 11C01 believe. However, once arrived they leaver released. No letters are allowed to be trims, flatted. If any one tenders his ransom it is as accepted. When sick they have no inedi:al attend l once. For dress they have only cocoa-nut hark for food one pound of rice in the hied, and three sou to buy salt fish daily. When a mall dm, his body it cut in four and is buried under a banana tree Is manure it. On account of the heat and unhealthinem of the climate nearly half die the first year. Mini are killed by the cruelty of the evermore, and some are driven to commit suicide. The tot d number d I deaths that have occurred since the trade began is more than ten thousand, and no ono has ever hwel known to escape. When this trule V:43 I,llllllllolCia a certain man of Sinning, near Canton, was appoistid to take charge of the coolies, receiving five dollars o head per annum. He has made an immense fartune, but iunurnerable deaths lie at hi. dryer. Nfte. bers of the unfortunate wretches applied to the writer for help when he was in the imintry, but he Auld do nothing ter them. lie can only pray the ',...lhinese and foreign officials to keep watch for kid. 1 mappers, and punish them severely. He also legs the I gentry to petal in the authorities to appoint offiams acquainted with the Cantonese, Swats., and !lake Haledi to board every ship clearing for Singspore. and question ksich emigrant, separdtely, and release ill who have hoes kidnapped or deceived into going.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-04-19 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

TRAGEDY.  The &airman publishes the following particulars 1 of the shocking occurrence near Peebles :—" Early on Friday forenoon the inhabitants of the district surrounding Peebles were shocked by the intelligence, which panted from home to house, of a melancholy occurrence that hid tali& place near the county town I —namely, the murder of four children by theit mother, and the suicide of the unhappy woman heyml!. The scene of the tragedy is a level crossing cm Ithi Fpelinburgh Railway, aboit a mile and a half from Peebles known an Winkatou, where the cottage has, i for he last six or seven months, been occunied by 1 George Murray, who wee employed as a surfeit-ern= m the railway, and whose wife attended during the day to the opening and cloning of the gates. Oa Friday morning Murray left his home an usual fot his work at Pomathorn, starting between Mx and 'even o'clock, and not intending, as Lie practice was he retina till the evening. At the emttage all had , e well—at least It is presumed .o—tilt half-past s.ed ht o'clock, when the first train for Edinburgh the train °finials then observing Mrs. Murray, 'clean and tidy, as ehe always was, standing near km door. got long aPzirwards, however, a fanner driving up to the gates found he could get no one to eispoud to his falls, and being accustomed to yery different treatment when paming along this road, he It once surmised that there must be something amiss. Pock*/ at the cottage door he ascertaimd that it , feig bolted; and some surfacemen who were in the neighbourhood being then communicated with, it rfis further discovered that all the windows had been .Me fast. In these eircumstenees rt pane of glass wee broken, and I glimpse obtained of the interior; Out more than this the party did not cock; the worei '' - .iispicious e - confirmed, and a
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-05-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EATENED CRISIS IN THE NVELSR COAL TRADE.  _ One of the most important meetings of coalmastwel ' o. dlonmouthshire and South Wales held during WI last few years took pisce a few days ago at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, the chairman being Mr. Edwaxd Jones, Overtage. The discussions, which were pro. longed, had reference to the question at issue between employers and employed, as to the proposed modifiesnon of the sliding wale of wages. Some time sines the masters intimated their desire that there should be an alteration made in the constitution of the scale, La order to permit of wages being reduced below this , present minimum rate if necessary. As a matter of form, six months' notice to discontinue the sliding scale, the result of the great strike of OM, was gives, This period expires next month, and the colliers at several large meetings have opposed the propoaition of the masters, who decided to let the notice run, snd to declare a reduction of wages of 10 per cent, at the end of .lurt- This may cause a strike of great magnitude, as, notwithstanding general depression. Oa colliers appear determined to take a tutu stand.  HOCK Ar  A shocking discovery was made in Velvet. street, Burslsm, on Wednesday, leading at once to the belief that an old womin, a widow, named Margaret Wade. had committed suicide under very peculiar and painful circumstances. It seems the aged widow was the witc of a pensioner, who had also followed the trade of a shoe, makt.r. About six weeks ago. however, he died, and since his death the old woman has resided by herself at 14. Velvet-street, her two sons having left her. retusiug to live with her, it is said, in consequence of her drunken conduct. On Wednesday the nub tppy old woman was discovered lying dead in the yard at the back of her house. I A handkerchief was attached to a thin cord and tightly drawn around her neck, which, combitt d with the horrible apparance of the head, showed that death must have been mused by strangulation. It is stated that deceased's flee was I familiar to the frequenters of the Police Court.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-05-24 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

INQIINST.  On Wednesday, Mr. Hooper, coroner, held an inquest at Stonnal, upon the bodies of James Freeman and Sarah his wife, both of whom resided in a small farmhouse at Shenstone. The evidence showed that Freeman was jealous of his wi•e, and that of late they had lived very unhappily together. On several occasions he himl threatened to shoot her, and last Saturday he told a farm labourer with shorn he was working that he would not only shoot his wife but also a man named Boot, whom he thought was on too intimate terms with his wife. Na notice, however, we.; taken of what was then considered to be an Ale threat. On Monday morning two shots were heard fired in Freeman's house, and when an entry was made a shocking scene resented itself. Mrs. Freeman was sitting in a choir with the front part of her head blown off, and Freeman was sitting opposite to her with a gunshot wound through his head. Upon the table was found a letter addressed to Freeman's son, and also a statement in which Freeman attributed the crime to jealousy. The jury found Freeman guilty of the murder of his wife, and that he afterwards committed suicide.  MEMORIAL TO THE Lyre AltunDEAeoN Moomt.— A handsome stained glass window, by Messrs. Ward Hughes, of London, has been placed in Christ Church, Blakenall, to the memory of the late Archdeacon Moore, by .1. B. Ilealey. Esq., of The Bids, Illeswich. The subject of the window is the mmmission of Christ to the Apostles. Freedom from Cough. and a comfor'able night's refresh. 1,, sleep by Dr. La:oak's Pulmonie Waters—Mr. John Pearson, 67, York-street, Wolverhampton. writes 1 hag no sleep for Bre week. till I tried Dr. luemk's Wafers, met I have I. el such relict to the cough that 1 could not have Asthma, Consumption. Colds. Bronchitis, meism, and at, Nervous Complaints are Instantly d and rapidly cured by Dr. lacook's Wafer., whieh taste pleasantly. Of all Druggi.ta at Is. 10. and 2.. ad. per Ws.
The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-12-20 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

FRENCHMAN.  Dr. Diplock has held an inquiry at Shepherd's Bush, as to the death of Ran Francois Marie Edmond Hyacinthe Anne Noubel ste Clauzel, a Frenchman, forty years of age, who lota been residing at I, renistone Danielle, Shepherd's Bush Common. The deceased was variously described as a professor of the French langumTe and literature, a Communist, and "agent to foreign Governments." The payment for his lodgings had for some time been in arrear, but his London friends had promised to defray any debts he niight incur, and being a man who made himself very agreeable, he woe treated with great forbearance. Not making his appearance as usual, Mr. Barnard, the landlord, wrote to M. Vouchon, of Finsbury Gardens, an intimate friend, and on his way to poet the letter saw police-constable Tallin, at the nearest tired point, and requested him to break into the room. This was afterwards done, and the deceased was found hamming by a piece of stout cord to the top step of a small ladder placed in his bedroom, the flesh being nearly cut through to the windpipe. Ile was then dead. A piece of paper was found in the room bearing the following communication :—" December 6, 1679.- :My dear Friends,--I die voluntarily. Du not seek the canoe of my death, fis I LIM in such misery. I have acknowledged iill x rungs that I have ever done, but every night, for the last month, a vision has followed me, coming fours the land of pardon and forgetfulness. There were two—a woman and a child (pretty near a young lady). They beckoned me with outstretched arms towards them. I run—they reti eat, sniiling, and still extending their arms. I cannot refuse the appeal so oft, n made me, lint they being in the land of spirits arid of pardon, to join them I must die. I die with theirnames, and one other on my lips. May (toil protect her here. I sincerely thank Mr. and Mrs. 8., and others, for what they have done. They have done inure than they of and more than they were told to do." It aplic:.red that deceased was about XSO in debt, end had left the MS. of a French and English dictionary in his room. The jury found that he committed suicide in an unsound state of mind.