Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-11-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A FRENCH GENTLIIBIAN.—M. Paulin. the 800 of a men who made a fortune by the illustration (the French Illustrated News, of which he was the founder). committed suicide on Thursday week at his residence, No. 3, Rue Grange Batehere. After starting in life with an income of upwards of £3 000 a year. he ruined himself by gam• bling at the Bourse and the German gaming tables At Homburg and Baden-Baden he frequently plated the maximum and broke the bank. Hs was often heard to say that when he was thoroughly "cleaned out" he would kill himself. He fulfilled the threat by enveloping his head in linen soaked in enormous quantities of chloroform.  'Nobody ever lost anything by love,' said a sanelooking man. That's not true,' said a lady who heard the remark, 'for I once lost three night's sleep.'  A good matrimonial firm is said to be one that eonsists of three.quarters wife and one•quarter husband.  In fashionable ladies' slang nowadays, when a man is a little the worse for liquor, they say he is 'on a Grecian bend.' The man who failed in his efforts to beat a drum in the 'march of time,' is said to be getting in readiness to try his hand on the 'horn of plenty.'  _ A young physician asking permission of a lass to kiss her, she replied, 'No, air; I never like a doctor's bill stuck in my face '  FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWaY.—A MAN'S HHAD CUT Or P —On Friday night last, a dreadful accident occurred on the Caledonian Railway near Carlisle, remitting in the death of a man named Matthew Kennedy, a platepla)er, in the employ of the Company. It appears that deceased was slightly deaf, and as he was at work on the line near Carlisle, an engine came along the same rails behind, and failing to hear the alarm which was sounded by the driver, he was knocked down, and the wheels of the engine passed over his neck, severing his head from his body. Deceased was about thirty years of age, and unmarried. A brutal murder has just been committed near Swansea. It appears that an old man named John Morgan resided by himself in a small cottage near Velindre, nine miles from Swansea. A di,pute seems to have arisen on one or two occasions between deceased and some other men who were anxious to get possession of the cottage, but deceased always positively refused to give up possession or to leave the house. He was last seen alive on Saturday afternoon week, and, being missed from his customary occupation, some neighbours went to his cottage. The door being locked it was broken open, and the deceased was found dead on the ground, death having unquestionably resulted from a gunshot wound in the head. An accident of an exceedingly painful nature occurred late on Thursday afternoon week to • boy named Dick, ten years of age. William Dick, the father of the boy, is gamekeeper to Dr. Dewar, of Dunfermline, and has charge of the game on the estate of Craigluscar, a short distance to the north of Dunfermline. On Thursday afternoon he WAS out along with his son on Craigluacar Hill engaged ferreting and shooting rabbits. When the accident took place the boy was lying near a rabbit's burrow, and the father, who was only four or five yards distant, noticing a wounded rabbit rising and running off, he fired without observing his boy, and the shot entered the lad's head. Death was almost instantaneous. The father was rendered almost insensible. Loss OF A