Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-10-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SALINE—and use no other. The only safe antidote in .Fevers, Eruptive Affections, Sea or Bilious Sickness, Small-pox and Head-ache; having peculiar and exclusive merits. Use no etnntitute. See perpettial injunction against imitators; also the unanimous judgment before the Lords Justices Bramwell, Brett, and Cotton, 22nd Jan., 1878, in Lamplough's favour. 113, Holborn-hill, London.  GEORGE RIVEIIS, a men in the employ of the Midland Hallway Company, was crossing the rails at A,churth, which is the main line junction for Tewkesbury, when he was knocked down by a Bristol train and kilird instantaneously, his body being shockingly mangle!. He leaves a widow and six children. .  A 7 MUSICAL FESTIVAL was recently intwigurated at 1-4. le cr's Church, Brighton, under the aspires of a rece.ttly-10, reed ch Irch choir association. The church was crowded in every pat, and the Bishop of Chichester delivered an address.  THE ANNUAL Provincial Grand Lodge of the Province of Durham lore mason% has been held at Darlington. The tirand Master of the province, the Marquis of Londonderry, opened the lodge in due form. Ile was supported by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master (Sir Iledworth Williamson) and others. tiIIABHAM, coroner, Goole, has held an inquest on the body of Isaac Bronyee, who committed stickle in a very determined manner. Brunyee, who was so inmate of the workhouse, had been very despondent. Ito thrust a stick under his necktie anal deliberate'y twisted it round until he was strangled. When found he was lying on his lace quite dead. He had before tried to destroy himself. Verdict, "Suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind."  OWING to the alarming spread of the scarlet fever epidemic at Accrington, the health committee have unanimously decided to again close the schools eta recent meeting, when it was stunted that since the commencement of the epidemic more than 500 cases hurl been reported, anti the deaths were between DO awl 100. 'the schools were closed three weeks in consequence of the epidemic in August and September, and the mope-lug of them is said to have spread the disease. AT linanFonn an inquest has been held on the hotly of Agnes Whittaker, aged 19,a married woman, but separated from her husband, who was killed by falling down stairs. During the day she had been drinking consi•lerably wills private in the 79th Highlanders, named John Smith, just returned from Egypt. He mat assisting her upstairs, when he trod on her dress, and she fell backwards and fractured her skull. Smith wan rendered insensible. Verdict, " Accidental death." A SALMON FISHRRY ASSIUT, of considerable interest to mill-owners has been heard at Exeter by Earl Devon and other justices at the Devonshire Quarter Sessions. An owner having • mill on the Bray, a tributary of the Tare, which runs through Chittlehampton, placed during low-water planks on the crown of a weir, which enabled him to accumulate water sufficient for a time te work the mill. The c••nservators thereupon prosecuted the defendant for obstructing passage of saimon, and he was fined £5. Objection was taken to tine conviction on two grounds—lirst, because the water would not, in the ordinary course of things, have accumulated sufficiently to run over the weir on this particular day, but would have escaped through the will sluice, and therefore there could not have been any possible obstruction of salmon, inasmuch as on this occasion they could cover have re lobed the weir. The other point was, that inasmuch as it was the practice to place these planks on the weir previous to the passing of th • Act, the miller could not be convicted, as he had not really altered the structure. The Court allowed the appeal, and quashed the conviction.  A PlVicrioN has been heard by Mr. Justice North in the matter of a company called L Vilette and l'antin Land Company. It is a French company, with a large quantity of land in Fr.ince. It was orlered to he wound up in Novemler, 1871, and the winding up has promoted up to the present time, and considerable liabiliths have been discharged. It has still land worth £2:,,t100 to be sold, and its liquidator wishes to proceed with ihe liquidation. But a few days ago he saw an advertisement that this company, along with several others, would be struck off the Joint Stok lleglder as not having earlier! on business according to the Limited Liabidty Acts. The liquidator petitioned that the company might be restore I to the register. Mr. Jusdce North granted the applhation, there being no mention is the Act of a company in the position of this company. The Act, he odd, was no doubt meant to apply to comp vie havi3 greased altogether to have an existence. .. . .  0 AT the ounty Quarter Sessions, Newport (Mon.) lidward James Smith, who for many years was the chief booking-clerk at the Newport Station on the G eat Westem Railway, was indicted for embezzling carious large stuns of money belonging to his employers. A se. steenatic fraud had been carried on for several months, And when large defalcations stood in his acconnts, and the periodical visit of the district auditor seas at listed, the prisoner left his wife sad family and ales., did to South Africa in company wills a Isliss Cooke, barmaid of one of the leading hotels in the towns. Ile was ordered to be imprisoned for eighteen months.  A SCHEME is being prornulgated in Lancashire to compete with the Lancashire and Yorkshire from Lie Is to Liverpool. It is ti be styled the Lane.tehire and York.hire Railway and Tramway Company, and preliminary surveys are now being made. The route to Liverpool from York-hire will be con.iderably shortened by the proposed new railway. A number of prominent Lancashire gentlemen are raid to be connected with the actume.