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The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-07-28 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE LATE SCENE AT BOARD OF  GUARDIANS.  The Grocer contains the following article on the Comm at a recent meeting of the Wolverhampton  NOT Co BE PUT Dowse—What the reporters de. scribe as 'no extraordinary scene" occurred the other day at the meeting of the Wolverhampton Board of Guardians. Complaint was made that some starch and arroavroot sent in by the contractor, Mr. Wedge. were not equal to sample, and the goods were re. turned. Mr. Wedge is a gentleman of an enterprising spirit, and objects altogether to this kind of treat. ment. He attended at the meeting of the Board. and said he could prove that the goods were quite tonal to sample. We regret to say that after thas the di. enesion on the oubject became rather warm, and some , personalities were indulged in. Mr. Wedge asked if It was right for tailors and iromnasters to judge of the quality of starch or arrowroot. They had I indulged in personalities behind his hack, and talked of that which they knew nothing about. It was then moved by one of the Guardia., who did not I appear to relish the plain speaking of Mr. Wedge, I that the contractor should leave the room t while , another speaker, aghast at the audacity of soda candid otatements, exclaimad•' Here is aCtnardian insulted !" The impressive spectacle of a "Guardian insulted " did not deter Mr. Wedge from saying, appropriately ' enough, "Herein a tradesman and an honest man, with a reputation at stake, insulted !" As it pro. greened, the discussion became even more stormy, and the personalities of amore pronounced character. Eventrially, Mr. Wedge. after having thoroughly vin. , dictated his position, left the room and we have no , doubt that in future the Wolverhampton Guartlion+ recognising the sort of moo they have to deal with. will be careful how they make disparaging statements as to the quality of goods supplied to them by their contractor. It seems to us that Mr. Wedge behaved like a man of spirit. We all know how, when noon'. Min class of gentlemen are invested with a little brief authority, and attain parochial dignities, they like to I show their power, mid not uncommonly chow their ignorance. In order that it may do no harm, such ignorance ought to be promptly exposed.  The Warrington Guardian reports the death of John Ackert,ly, at Penketh, aged 91 years, who had served in the same ship as Lord Nelson.  A portion of the town of Garrey, near Cherbourg, has been burned down. 100 houses are destroyed, and 400 of the inhabitants are rendered homeboo. Mr. C. B. Shaw, of Bath. commited suicide on Friday. by placing himself under a train runnirg from Broad-street station, in the City of Lon& n, to the Alexandra Palace.  imeoriere, the Sioux Indians are said to have lost 400 men. amongst whom I was Sitting Bull, the chief of the tribe.  Sir Albert Sassoon has transferred his commission for the equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales for Bombay to Mr. Boehm, in consequence of the death of Mr. Noble. The statue will cost 42,000.  A.nr
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-05-19 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE  AT RUARDEAN. On Wednesday, an inquest was held at the Jovial Colliers, Ruardean, before Mr. Carta., the I district coroner, on view of the body of John I Hale, a youth 17 years of age, who committed I suicide on the Bth instant, under circumstances I detailed below in evidence. _ _  Elizabeth Joe w. first eallod and said, I am a widow, arid live next door .to .the deceased, I  knew hint very well, he was about 17 years of age, and a collier. On the 18th of May I eon him sitting in the garden on a stone. He appeared to be in hie usual health, although he has not been very well. I dent know what complaint he had been suffering from. I spoke to him that morning, and at about half-past nine the woman came with milk, he said to his sister, who was at the time going out, and was rather deaf, make baste, as he should want to go to work. She wont on and deceaeed came and took the milk from the woman into the house. He noun quiet and steady young man. I never saw anything particular about him, only that he would look very bad at any one. A. Hale, mother of deceased, said deceased was in his 18th year. I saw him last alive on the morning of the 18th inst. About five minutee past seven o'clock, I got up and left him in bed. He had something the matter with his head, and that it seemed to stifle his head up; he was in pain with it. Last week he had the tooth ache as well as the pain I had just mentioned. He was not in the habit of attending church or chapel, I am sorry to say, because he could not make himself tidy. I never knew anything to make his mind uneasy after the death of his father, which took place about five monthe ago ; he seemed to feel that very much. He and his brother maintained  Ablah Matthews said I knew deceased very well. On the Bth inst., about one o'clock, in consequence of an outcry which was made. I went to the house of the deceased's mother, and found the deceased hanging to a cord from the rafters. I and a labouring man went, and at once out the cord, but he was quite dead. There was a small stool not far from where the deceased was hanging. I believe his feet were on or very near the ground. I never knew anything particular about his  Aft befog addressed by the Coroner, the jury returned a verdict that death arose from suffocation from hanging, the result of being at the time in a state of unsound mind.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-11-10 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

SHIPPING DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE. Reports were received in Liverpool on Monday of a terrific cyclone having passed over Calcutta and the vicinity on Saturday. Great damage to shipping has resulted. The fine Liverpool ship, Prince Waldemar, 1658 tons, which left Liverpool on the 22nd July for Calcutta, was caught by the hurrieme and driven on shore at Sande Head, at the mouth of the Calcutta Seer. She became a total wreck, and only four out of a crew of thirty hands were raved. The captain's wife and his two children were on board. The names of the survivors have not yet been received. The Prince Waldemar was a new colonial-built ship, and this wee her first voyage. She was owned by Reams. Moran, Galloway, and Goof Liverpool. Reports of serious damage to chipping generally have been received. The steamer Moulmein lost her funnel and foretuset. The British Statesman, from Liverpool, had her fore and main mast. and niimn topmasts carried away and her bulwarks considerably damaged. The Soottish Chieftain lost her fore and main topmasts and her wizen topgallant inlet. The Liverpool ship Gbaccepore wee totally dismasted about 200 miles, muth of amigor. A later despatch from Calcutta reports the ship Canon Harrison totally dlsmasted, the Lady °davits partially dismaated and with albino and bulwarks damaged, and the Repels with topgallant masts gone. A telegram from Chittagong state, that the Tidal wave Comma, and Edourd and George were all  The ifeS'i -Ita—dra—n sad Peel& Steamship Company's eteamship Weet Indian, wbieh left Liverpool on Sunday for Barbadoes, Se. came into eollision yeeterr day morning off Holyhead with the outward-hound Slip Delia O. Yates, front Liverpool toMatansas. The latter vemel was no eaverely damaged that she mall ehortly afterwards. The Crew were taken off by the West Indian and landed at Holyhead. The ateamer eustabad oomparatively slight damage, only her upper bow plates being injured.  A model of D. Rutherford'. plo for rabbit the Vanguard is now on view In the Central R.hangs Art Gallery, NewosetkvoniTyne, Robert Carey, labourer, was, on Monday, °barged on remand before the Norwich magistrates with wounding hl. wife in the throat with razor, end with attempting to eimumit suicide. He wee oommitted for iris!.  SmALL-ros IN
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-04-14 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT LEAMINGTON. Thomas Addison Whittingham:a gentlentan living at Leamington, shot his wife last week with a dounte-barrelled gun, and afterwards shct himself through the head, death being instantanam,. The lady was shot as she was climbing over the garden widl out of the reach of her husband. Deceased had been depressed in spirits, and had been drinking heavily. - - •  On April 7th, an niqueot wae opened at Leamington on the body of Mr. Whittingbam. The only occupanta of the house were Mr. and Mrs. Whittingham nod. servant. The wife hod no idea of his intending to do her harm until she saw him with the gun in his hands. A number of theta have been extracted from her back, but many still rennin), nod it is feared tome are lodged In, vital part, aa the cherge partly metered theloine As Mrs. Whittingham, whoa she was shot, fell over into an adjoining yawl, it is pre/tinted decamed thought she had berm killed He then went to his bedroom, and the wervant beard him say, "I thought it would mate to this." and as she passed hint eke begged him not to do her harm. lie was ,eon in the street carrying the gun two hours before the oceurrence,and bad been wandering about the house all night, and drinking, to which he woe addicted. Deceased was in receipt of four hundred a year, and had lived much abroad. They had been married eight years. The coroner then adjourned the inquiry, which was concluded on Saturday. It won nhown that deceased had lived unheppily with his wife, who was much younger, and to whom he had been married eight years. Two years ego, when living at Stafford, they eeparated, and be allowed her ten shillings weekly. lie then threatened Ire, life, clench her. and behaved like • raving madman. He repeatedly complained of severe pains in his head, on which he received a eevere blow when returning from Australia, where he mode his fortune during the gold fever and lost his first wife and only child. The wife returned after three nronthe abeam., but they were of other brief periods separated prior to tieeir removal to Lesmingtou, eight mouths ogo At Leamington detested acquired intemp.rste habits, complained of hie bead, and his wife and her sitter considered him deranged at timee. His will. made two years ago, left all his property to his sister, and his wife was not mentioned. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-06-09 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

HAMPTON. Mr. Clemles Getting, agent, whew.. appointed An inquest wan held on Saturday, before Wt.. W. by Conference to convey to the men the result H. Phillip., Borough Coroner, on the body of George Btocknall, who hung toned! freer the ceiling of loonof the consideration of their rose, delivered an of the ed, id her sticions were mewled on excellent address. He had. he said, been author- on Theerday.—Elirs Grant, a neighbour m Med by the National Union bring a message to deceas Tharsda from tsahela.. that t esp he shuttem a deceased'.l them—vie—that they shonld remit. their work ho.e —.Ye not been opened. an upu se soon . posnible at the reduction. He remarked rho door rho rr,,,r h.ogior,d pon cod..ls t ,21 that it was very unpleasant and bitter to them to been seen about 12 o'clock the some day, and he did do no at a reduction on their present wages. bet not then appear " quite himself." The night before he believed that the terms that the masters had he seemed all right. Deceased was oftco drinking. come loin offering them a sliding scale to rule but she never raw him do anything to lead h. i• to their vra,ges according totbe markets, would make ...Pecse thet kin. mind waa deranged.—Mary Ann amends for their prenent coadition, and greatly Bue see L.11,.:1 soiree..4 the dnennved, mid ehoeooefita benefit them in the Bream. in cone anon he ad- j tr00p0"`Z.V.17.4.1., go'm.'his week. He hoot beeu eeoploymuent no Nisei the men to mere firmly units, so that in the Thorneyeroft a, owing to his drunken habits, and he:d future they might reeist Jiny unjustified sm-I said that unless he not reinstated he .uld not live, robe had been employee by the firm for many.yeare. The Chairman read the following proposition, Deceased hod frequently been violent oboe 111/1 wife framed by the District Council,— died suddenly, a few months back.—A verdict of "Suicide whilst in • state of temporary imanity" That thin Canned recommendthe men to oommence work next week on the mertmat term. slut leave the en,returned. matter to the (keit.' Boned si to what course shaff • be taken. Weeton, the ix:dear., accomplished, on MonLy, After it had been before the audience a long the feat of welking fiftv.five notion in twelve hours, t while amojority Wan muatered, and it was pureed, at Brighton. He beg. at 9 a.m., and finished at j to the dissatisfaction of many who to the loot ad- 9 p.m., walking the last mile in II minutes 18 vecated the injustice of the reduction. mecondt.  AMALGAMATED Assocualox OF. .
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-03-03 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

VICTDE 01.-A -WARWICIE TOWN COUNCILLOR.  On Monday afternoon, Mr. W. Moore, coroner, for the borough of Warwick, held an impost at the Crown Hotel, in that town, on the body of Mr. Thomas limo, one of the members of the Town Council, a guardian of the poor, and a member of the Assessment Himmittee, who committed suicide by drowning. The principal wanes.. was Mr. T. Kemp, who stated that the deceased wee hie father, and that he had been very depressed sine° the death ,of his wife in January lest. The purchase of • pieced property, celled the Marble Yard, seemed to prey on bis mind cogent doll, because he thought that he had given too much for it. Frequently he bad said of late " I should have been happy if I had not one here. !shall never be well again." Witmai had tried to cheer him, but his efforta were not successful. On Friday afternoon deceased left the home at three o'clock, and as he did not return at six, a search was made, and the following letter diyovered in hie handwriting :—" My very desr friends,—My trouble is greater than lam able to bear. May God, In His mercy, forgive me all my sins, for Christ's sake, who died for sinners. I am grieved to take ; my heart aches for all of you. Inn distreseed even to death. My dear Tom, I love you more than Ime express. Yon have been a good and dutiful son. May God bless you now and to di eternity. I hope mr.Gtiod will forgive me lee Mt reus 641.' Kent-." n= weeyour u6no. Yeantof age. In Ini2 ht, stlifere4 very much from nentul depression, and at his own rat:post was I"meceuely placed under restraint. Eleven years aore he shio suffered very much from despondency.— , Hr. Bally, ourgeon, saki he signed the certificate as ' to the condition of deceased in 1872, and considered he wss r.bio lea recurrence of mental deproosion yt any lime—A letter was read from Miss Kemp, ef Brood-street, stating that deceased called upon her oullnandiy, and said ho did not think he could lire. —rhe body WAS found in the bath in the river Avon, St. Nicholas's MethOW, on Saturday afternoon, by a Prmeni named Green, who Ins rowing down the river Coo boat. The body was in about five feet of water, and the deceased's hat. coat, and umbrella ‘,.." Placed on ascot by tbe aide of the water.— een ml other wittiest.. nerve annined, and the jury found that deceased drowned himself while 1a an on, 'end state of mind. „ar.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-10-20 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

STUP.W.P.—An inquest was held on Monday evening, at University College Hospitat, relative to the death of Itattuji Parana' Deed, aged 21, a young Hindu, who was undying at ratgentry College for nistrioulation at the London University. He had given way to despondency and shot himself. The bullet pasted through the mouth Into the vertebre., injuring the spinal cord. The coroner said it wae strange to what extent suicides copied each other. There had been three similar oases of students at the University College thie year, and in Central Middlesne no less than We. It appeared as though the ;grain of study end "cram • sus too , much for the young men. The jury returned a yet. I diet of suicide while of unsound mind. lEDMUND SPEN36o.—After 15711 we may Bay that the Elizabethan literature rapidly attained to its full ' breadth, and depth, end force; the writers multiplied, their power rose. Spouses first book, "The Shop herd's Calendar," aesoriated with this date the promise that one of thou great poets, who are rarely born Into the world, W./ about to speak the beet thought of his country. And he did. Spenser's great poem, the "Farris, Queen," is not, as some tube it to be, a work 'of bright imagination seldom touching earth, a lovely pile of castles in the air; he dealt in it, after his own manner, with the vital concerns of England in hie lime; religious, social, and ; his point of view , being that of an Elizabethan Puritan, eerneet as him 'successor, Milton, Inn later day. He was, indeed, in !more senses than one, the Elizabethan Milton. Milton 'rat afterwards in a Worthy muse whet Dryden called him, "The poetical eon of Spencer; Milton," Dryden added, "he. eonfessed to me that Spenser was his ; original. oat of thi• sympathy with Spenser came 'Milton'. emphatic reference to him in the " Areopa. 'idea " as "the sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or I Aquinas."—Prut "Ce4rell's Library ~fEesoli.A Litcro• tare," edited by Prefeecor Henry Morley.  ASSAULT ON :Ain'
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-04-21 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SHOOTING. On Saturday, at the Liverpool county magistrates court, a young man named George Oldham, of respectable appearance, was charged with attempting to murder Richard Hitchutough, a bricklayer, at (lemon, near Liverpool. The far s, as stated by the prosecutor, were that he was walking along the road with a young woman named Jones, when they were passed by the prisoner. They heard a shot fired, and the prisoner shortly afterwards posed them again, whereupon the prosecutor mid good night." No reply was made by the prisoner, and soon afterwards another shot was fired, the bullet whiseing past Hitohmough. The prisoner having turned no in, mine up to the prosecutor and said, "I have three charges lef i t," n reply to which Hitolunnugh took up a etone and mid, ttl don't can if you h 'ye five." The prisoner then ran away, and the promoutor, inf °Bowing him, heard a third shot, and felt a "twitch" at his waistcoat, in which he found a round hole, apparently from a bullet. The prisoner got away, but the prmemtor and his companion afterwards met him, and a struggle took place between the two men for the pasession of the revolver, which was scoured by Hitchmough, and was found to have three chambers loaded and three empty. The prisoner was afterward. apprehended, and was under the influence of drink. Ile .w said he remembered nothing of the affair. He was remanded.  The death of the Maharajah of Putliala has .me as a great surprise to those who recently visited him In India in the suite of the Prince of Wales. The midnightfrfc that he gave to the Prince of Wolee was one of the most splendid entertainments in his Royal Highness's tour. From what is to be gathered from those who accompanied the Prince. no one seen, to have been aware that the Maharajah was in delicate health. 800 POISONING IN TIIR LONDON Srerass.—The dog poisoning in the suburbs of London shows no sign. of abatement; but, on the other hand, the poisoners have extended their field of operations. During last week many valuable animals in Hounslow fell clothes It I. unssfe to let dogs roam shout, even in the owners' grounds, end in several eases the animals had not been ten yards away from the houee. The rewards new offered amount in the aggregate to £350, so that should any individual be lucky enough to discover the peeps rotors ho will be a considerable gainer. The Liverpool coroner on Saturday held an inquest on the body of Prances Anne Jones, a girl of 13. Iler mother, who is o widow, scolded her lest weak for having burnt a table•clo•10 with a Noniron, and she was afterwards discovered suspended by the neck from the bwl. The suicide WM of a most determined theranter, the girl having to throw the whole weight of her body forward to effect her des'gn. A verdict was ' returned that tne deceased had committed euicide by strangulation, but there wis no evidence to indiatte her state of mind at the time. •  A Chu Ponostat En E.kTlati
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-07-07 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

ISL. was .E7,4iii4,:i95. Theo. of in.nwint ensues emounied to £t.77:tatt out-relief coet and the maintenance of lunatics in asyltAis its-t 9,073. A bill bat been meted which haa beat introduced by Sir Charles Adderley and Mr. E. Starbops, to emend the laws regulating tise supply of gas by the Pliumix Gaslight and Ooke Company, the London Gaslight Company, and the Surrey Gee C Ormloyers Compary, and tu grant further powers to ..nose coup pardee.  r NOMA: Attrica or Loan Rl...tutu—A Lcdon cotri swept.. writm :-1 hear that Lord Russell, baying refused to allow Vis.unt Amberley's children tube trained by the Scotch utor to whoa: their seep:Seal father entrusted them began,e of he tyropathg in religious views, hus yet decided to pay that gentle., the yearly salary bequeathed toiler by Lord Atuberley. wi,hout requiring any sersioss in return. Scepticism has proved financially suoces.fLi in thla 1.10004 for the annual stipend is, I believe, ith A G6Ol-1M Ans.'s, --At Liverpool, on Theeday,William Bennet*, a gaoler, iv. charged with wanking John Grace, who stated that on the Isth • le was arrested for drunkenness and on being taken to Bridewell Brunet struck him several time, and broke his jaw with a key Another gaoler stated that the pollerrnan wbo apprehended ,:reser bad struck him I. the BridewelL and the cue wee adjourned for this San's attendance.  ELOPi itior BrKlll.. A young tom :aimed John Idle has committed suicide et liampstead .Ibout • week ago, the deceassdk wife elved with. man named Robert Dheckle. Idle shot 'Amp& on the rD,Dt side of the chest the semad rib belog fractured ot.d the long perforated but before doikg this he wrote tie following note I, John Idle, do hereby give tticri that Eibert Sheckle. conamooly called Grim 000 d or.y,hee Draken my haart. I laic not time to ear more 3.7 a.m."  Dr. Lunge, who hes mod ably filled thp of of President of the itieweatitle-tspon-Tyne Chemical Society. hes been appointed to a Professor', chair in the Polytechnic School of Zortoh.  They are now organiting at Prague an exhihon of newepaper