The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-10-13 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE BY A BOY.-I.A MOst extraordinary soil melancholy suicide wasoommitted in Bristol on Thursday afternoon by a boy named James Callahan, who hanged himself by his scarf, from a book fixed in the ceiling of his master's cellar. The rail lad, who was only 15 years old, was in the employ of Mr. Meyer, jeweller and silversmith, and on Thursday afternoon he was sent down into the cellar to clean aoniu knives and forks. As he was much longer than usual, Mr. Meyer, about half•past four o'clock, went alo•n to see what he was doing, and on entering the cellar was horrified to see the body a lb. boy auspendad from a hook in the ceiling. Ile at once cut the CJIp44I down, and gave an alarm, and Mr. Edgeworth, surgeon, who was immediately sent for, was speedily in attendance, and he pronounced life to be extinct. As above stated, Callahan was hanging by his cravat, which was passed under hie neck and behind his ears, and tlieu attached to the hook. No cause can be assigned for the rash act, for the boy was of an unusually lively and merry disposition, and he had by his activity, willing. new, and cheerfulnew gained the esteem of his waiter. Nothing had occurred daring the day to disturb him, and he was in ordinary health &DU spirits. It is mggeared that the death was an accidental one, it being conjectured that he was playing at "hanging." and was unable to extricatchiniself from the fatal  1311EadeAsT : A SCCCEMPUL EXPieimgex.LTbe Cm/ Service Oicettc bulb. following nate areeeef few aimple articles of food which can boast io many valuable and important dietary properties as cocoa. While acting on the nerves ails gentle stimulant, it provided the body with some of the purest elements of nutrition, and at the same time corneal" and invigorates the action of aim digestive organs. These benencial adieus depend in a great measure upon the manner of its preparation, but of late years such close attention has been given to the growth and treatment of coops that there is no difficulty in securing it with every useful quality fully dee•loped. The singular nieces. which Mr. Nops attained by hie hoinceopathie preparation of cocoa ham bean 'impulsed by any experimentalist. Far awl wide the reputation of Epps's cocoa has spread by tho simple force of its own extraordinary merit". Medical men of all shades of opinion have agreed in recommending It as the safest and most beneficial article of diet for persons of weak constitutions. This superiority of a particular mode of preparation over all others is • remarkable proof of the great results to be obt•ine d from little causes. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of iligestion and nutrition, and by a careful applioation of the hue properties ot wellaelected cocoa, Ili. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with • delicately flavoured beverage which may save no many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strung enough to resist every tendency to diastase. Hundreds of subtle maladies are heating around its ready to attack wherever there is • weak point. We may escape many • fatal shaft by keeping overselves well fortified with a pure blood and a properly nouriebed frame.  Lolt1) RANCLAGII AND Tut Can OF MADAME It WHIG —Lord Ranelagh has addressed a letter to the members of the South Middlesex Rifle Corps on the subject of the recent trial. lie says it has been his misfortune to be singled out of a great number of gentlemen who, fonthe idlest of curiosities, strolled occasionally in Madame Rachel's shop, and he wishes to affirm most solemnly that the insinuations which have been thrown out that her ostensible trade was a cloak or adjunct to one even less reputable, bore no shadow of foundation as fat as he was concerned. On one occasion of his going there he has • recollection, though a very indistinct one, of being annoyed at the vulgarity of Maelsinie Rachel in mentioning his name to an "odd-looking female muftiod up in veils," but whose person and name did not remain in his memory. He first heard of Mrs. Borrodaile's claim against him ten months since, when he received a letter from Messrs. Lowe and Lewis, making a detuand on him for some 1:17() on her behalf. And this is all Lord Rinelagh knows of the matter. He afterwards received lire. 1 do's will and silly letters, and °acne in contact with her by chance, and for the first time, in the ratios of the solicitor to whose hoods he had placed her fictitious claim. He then found her to be a most unoonscicemble storyteller, for she began at once to talk of their previous interviews. Lord Ranelagh is very emphatic in his condemnation of Madame Read, end he suggests that her probable ignorance of his real name, when she first meditated the imposture, may seoeunt for the production of the letters addressed to the mysterious William. Lord Renelagh asks the volitsitsters tor their opinion on his conduct, and he thinks that a declare. tion of their confideuee in him, and of • desire to remain under his command, will have placed matters, as between him and them, on a satisfactory footing. Tax