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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-04-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TUE HEAT IN NUSTRALIA.—We have all been complaining of the excessive heat during the present season in Brisbane. h may, however, be a comfort to some among us to know that other people have been worse off titan ourselves. A freed from Condatnine informs us that during last month the hernicitneter never fell under 111-h degrees Fahrenheit for a whole week, and MI several occasions rose to 108 degrees. , The comet was visible every evening immediately after . sunset. • and was increasing in apparent size.—North _ _  i)t re lined ',I of ak n on 1 of own  pect went  -teit the  I.'ll' L.  • instro/itm, Feb. 16 A. strange case came before the Clerkenwell pollee magistrates. on Monday. A young man, named Samuel Young, was charged with murder. On Saturday morning the body of a young girl, named Matilda Coward, was found in the New River, at Stoke Newington. her patents say th it she had no cause for committing suicide ; but a witness states that at halfpast nine o'clock on Friday night he met her in the street, crying. Young was seen between two and three o'clock in the morning of Saturday coming from the direction of the New River. He was in a half-drunken state, and told the policeman who questioned him that he had been in the New River, an t had had a tu,sle there. This at present is all the evidence against him or in support of the charge, but he was remanded. - Another batch of twenty-four cockfighters has been brought to justice through the instrumentality of the Society for the Preventim of Cruelty to Animals. The scene of operations in this instance was in Cheshire, and the event appears to have been a sort of international " affair, to test the relative merits of Irish and English birds. Amongst the patrons of this brutal pastime was Mr E. C. Walker, a magistrate of the ancient city of Chester; many country gentlemen, evidently admirers of the so-called old English sports; a tolerable sprinkling of military officers ; and a good aro!) of yeomen, farmers, and publicans. The whole of he defendmrs were brought, before the county magierites on Tuesday, at tiie ',iibey Arms, Tarviii. 'fhey II 1,1,,r1- • u, • 'ere caught, in fact, redin penalties ranging from _ • • •.• • ..•••' or the alternative of one
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-06-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DEATH IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. —On Thursday week, at Knottingly Station, near Pontefract, the dead body of a young man was discovered in one of the carriages of the train front Leeds to Knottingley. ' The body was identified as that of Allred Collins, a commercial traveller, in the employ of Messrs. Rushworth and Co., druggists, Leeds. Drs. Byeater and Braim were speedily in attendance, and examined the body. They thought deceased had been dead about ten minutes. There was no external marks of violence. A case of ilrugs and a brown umbrella were found in the railway carria,e. A prosecution of three girls, for annoying the St. Mary's Hospital at Brighton, which has become so notorious in connection with the case of Constance Kent, brought out some details of the iuterior economy of that establishtnent. Miss Greame gave evidence in support of the charge against the girls, two of whom had been inmates of the hospital; and, in cross-examination, she stated that she was in the habit of confining refractory girls in a room by themselves. Two of the offenders wee bound over to keep the peace; the third girl was discharged. DELIBERATE Sulu! DE.—A suicide, attended by a singular circumstance, was made by a working dyer, on the Ainy Bridge over the Saline, at Lyons, a few nights back. He first placed his hat, containing a note with his name and address, on the ground, and then having attached one end of a rope to a beam of the bridge, slipped a noose at the other end around his neck, and jumped from the parapet. The running knot tightened around the throat and effected strangulation, but the rope broke frinn the shock, and the man fell into the water. The knot had, however, compressed the windpipe, and the water not being able to enter the lungs, the body remained floating on the surface until picked up the following morning at the Quai des Etroits.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-08-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE BY A NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY Srarms MAstma —Out Friday last, Mr Robinson, the masterjof the statieu on the North Eastern Railway, at Sherhorn. near Nlalforil octioo, committed suicide by hanging himself. Deveasvd, who was about thirtyfive years nil a4e, and hail been a considerable period iii the service of the company, was at his post and attending his dirties on Friday morning, when, without assigning any [teases, he l!ft, and some time after was found hanging by the neck in a field at some distance. Before committing the rash act it would appear that he divested himself of his coat, waistcoat, and watch, as these were found at least a handred yards from the spot at which he war 11:111g1,1 : and then, tying one end of his silk scarf in a tree an 1 the other round his neck, jumped from 'eerie rallies.; which he had ascended for his object. His fall therice would be about two feet, and he must la rve died instately. inasmuch as his neck was broken. No reason is kinown for the cuununission of the act, and it is therefore presumed to have been incited by temporary insanity. PRAYING lIIM DEAD —A correspondent of the Ght.Tow rictut'd says :—" In the times of little liberality, when some men thought they did God service by persecnting those who did not exactly receive their creed, nor worship God in their way, a certain great man in Scotland grievously persecuted his tenauts because they had religious meetings in private houses out of the order of the Estalaishment, though he never molested them when they spent their money in the alehouse. A holy, simple woman, one of those people, went out one morning to the house of the great persecutor, and desired to speak with him The servant desired to know her message, and he would deliver it, for she could not be admitted. She told him she could deliver her message to none but his master ; and it was a matter of gre it importance, and concerned himself intimately and alone. The servant having delivered this message, and stated that the woman appeared to have sin Ailing on her mind, his worship condescended to see her. • What is yontr business with me?' said he, in a Ifaughty, overbearing tone. To which she answered, 'Sir, we are a Mantle o' pair folk at—, whir are strivin to sairve God accarditi to our ain conscience, awl to get our sauls say'! ; ye persecute us, and I am come to beg ye to let us Wane; and gin ye dinna, we'll pray ye dead.' This rhetoric was irresistible. His lordship did not know what influence such.people might have in heaven ; he did not like to put such prayers to the proof, wisely took the old woman's advice, and e'en tel them alarm."
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-06-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TIIE NIGHTINGALE IN YORKSHIRE.—It is reported that a nightingale is now nightly singing in the woods about Hatfield Hall. From Barnsley we hear that two are to be heard near Houghton, two at Park Springs, Cawthorne, and one at Dodworth Bottom. Cockchafers and caterpillars are making sad havoc teis year. They have stripped trees of their leaves in the Bois de Bologna and Saint Maur. The hills from Champigny to Sucy, which supply the Parisians annually with so many thousands of viands worth of excellent apples, pears, cherries, and plums, will produce but little, thanks to the caterpillars. It is calculated that there were formerly 10,000 birds' nests in every square league of cultivated land in France. Each nest is supposed to contain on an average tour young ones, which the old birds feed with 60 caterpillars a day. The old birds were supposed to eat 00, making P2O caterpillars a day altogether. This multiplied by 10.000 nests will give 1,200,000 caterpillars destroyed every day. in a square league of a well-planted country. The description in the New York papers of the late review at Washington are sufficiently en thusiastic. The New York Tribune says of one Major Geary and his steed:—" How he sat his horse to-day I —a tall, shining black horse, whose neck was clothed with thunder, whose tail was carried like a banner, whose step bespoke the ride of Lucifer—a kingdom for that horse were not so bad a bargain l" On Monday afternoon a shocking suicide took place in a first-class carriage of a train proceeding from Victoria Station to the Crystal Palace. As the train was passing through the tunnel close to the station a lady aud gentleman, seated in a first-class carriage, were startled by hearing a report a of a fog signal, and on the train emerging to the light they discovered that a respectably-dressed young man, who happened to be in the same compartment with them, had shot himself, and was quite dead. lie appeared to be a foreigner. A return just issued shows the progress of importation in wine and in tea. According to this, in the year 1800 7,358,189 gallons of wine were imported, the amount of duty received thereon being £1.171,105; in 184,1, 11,416,531 gallons were imported, yielding duty to the amount of 1:1,319,261. With regard to tca,76,859.42.81b. were imported in 1860, and £5,444,157 was paid aa duty upon it. In 1801 the imports amounted to 88,037 0991 b., and the duty to £1,431,867. By this it will be seen that the reduction of duties has iavolved a much larger loss of revenue in the case of tea than in the ease of wine.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-12-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TERRIBLE J. ,„ RAGEDY.—One of the most terrible tragedies that ever shocked a coininunity occurred about four miles east of Little Falls some time : between Sunday and Tuesday last week, in the family of Daniel Walrailt. Mrs Walradt and her daughter Josephine, a girl about twelve years of age, were found foully murdered—their throats cut from ear to ear— and Walradt in a position which pointed at hint conclusively as the perpetrator of the deed and the agent of his own destruction. The suspicions of the neighbours were first aroused by the apparent desertion of the premises, and late on Tuesday afternoon Charles Van Valkenburga, a neighbour of the parties in question, whose dwelling is but a few rods distant, proceeded to the house to make investigations. Ile found the doors locked and the windows barred. Procuring a ladder, he gained access by a window in the second storey. Upon entering the sleeping apartment of the family— for it would appear that they occupied the same room— the beds were found to have been occupied, but in no more than the usual state of disorder. Several drops of blood upon the floor were the only evidence of what must have been the commencement of the fearful tragedy. Descending by the back stairs to the diningrood', a spectacle more wildly awful than words can picture was presented to view Behind the stove, and directly against the stairway door, lay the dead body of the girl Jovphine—a long gash from ear to ear showing where her young lifeblood oozed away; beyond, and in the middle of the room, lay the mother—the same ghastly wounds upon her neck, and which had done such fearful execution. The dark and clotted blood with which the floor was deluged contrasted strangely with the long night robes and the pallid features of the dead. The faces were calm and beautiful in their repose, having no trace of the deep and desperate conflict of the emotions. Passing quickly from so sickening a scene, we hurry through the kitchen, the woodhouse, up the back stairs to tha woodhouse chamber, and we are face to face with the dead—the perpetrator of so hideous a critne. Upon his back, and at the end of a work bench, lay the body of Daniel Wa'radt—murderer and suicide. A gun was fastened to one of the standards of the bench, with a string leading from the trigger grasped tightly in his hand. The fearful wounds in the head, where the murderous lead had passed through the temple, tearing out and scattering the brain, bore their own evidence of the manner of his death. No cause other titan that of temporary insanity can be assigned for this fearful deed. Mr Walradt had always borne an honest and upright character in the community in which he lived, was known as a kind and loving husband, an affectionate father, and a good citizen. From the evidence before the jury it would seem that he had some difficulty concerning a farm he had purchased, and this had tended to produce melancholy; but it was not regarded as anything serious by his family or friends.—Utica• Herald, Nov, 30th.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-09-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING MURDER TN WOLVERHAMPTON.— We have to record the violent death, in Wolverhampton. of a respectable young woman at the hand of her acknowledged suitor, with likewise an attempt at suicide on the part of the murderer. At about four o'clock on Saturday, Emma Silleto, aged fifteen, and servant at the Queen's Arms, was near to the back door of Mr Josiah Fisher, when she saw Miss Segar, the deceased, at work, but crying, and the prisoner, Chas. Christopher Robins .11, was near her. The impression left on Silleto's mind was that they had been quarrelling. At a little before six Silleto heard a gun fired in Mr Isaiah Fisher's house, and in a few minute' one of Mr Isaiah Fisher's children ran in from the garden which separated the two houses, and cried out "Charles has shot Harriet I" Silleto ran across the garden, and saw Robinson come down stairs and enter the back kitchen. On looking through the window of the back kitchen she saw him standing without his coat, in front of a small mirror that was hanging against the wall. Whilst looking into the mirror he held a razor in his right hand, and cut three gashes in his throat. She raised an alarm, and when the neighbours came in they found him standing in a leaning posture, outside the back kitchen, his eyes glaring, and his clothes extensively stained with blood that had been and was still flowing from wounds in his throat. An attempt was made to secure him, when he became very violent, and tried hard to throw open the wounds described. With some difficulty he was overpowered, and his hands fastened behind him. Whilst this was going on, neighbours had entered the back kitchen, and had had their horror intensified at seeing Miss Segar lying lifeless on the floor. Death had been occasioned by a hideous cut in the throat, which, passing through the windpipe and all the arteries, extended right to the spine. She was surrounded with blood and upon her head being raised, the last breath of life seemed to depart. There is reason to fear that these threats were vented when Robinson was suffering from a description of delirium tremens In a few days it is expected that the prisoner will be sufficiently recovered to appear in the dock charged with the wilful murder of Harriet Segar.  "The greatest wonder of the day" in London is a "baby actress," aged two years and ten days, who cln recite and act a whole scene from Shakspere's  _ play of "King John." A specimen of the male gorilla. 6ft. 9in. high, shot by M. du Chant during his present expedition in tropical Western Africa, has been placed in oar national museum. With it are specimens of adult female and young gorilias.—Melbourne Argqs.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-03-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER. OF A NEPHEW, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS.  church.  On Saturday morning intense excitement was created throughout the neighbourhood of Haekney and Dalst in consequence of a rumour that a dreadful tragedy had taken place in a villain the Nightingale-road, Hackney. Upon instituting inquiries, the following, says the Star, were ascertained to be the facts :—Some time past a gasfitter and bell-hanger, named Henry Carmichael, has been engaged in fitting up a row of newly-built houses called Nightingale Villas, and situated in the Nightingale-road, Hackney. The man and his family, consisting of his wife and nephew, were allosved by the landlord to live in No. 3of the villas. The villa in question was a large empty house. It is stated that for some time past the wretched woman, Elizabeth Carmichael, who murdered her unfortunate nephew, has been sulject to hot of religious fanaticism. She was in consequence very desponding, and, as her husband expresses it, often "sulked.' On Friday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, the husband got up and left his wife, Elizabeth Carmichael, aged forty one years, and her nephew, a boy named Henry Joseph Smith, aged ten years, lying on a bed which had been laid in a corner of the first floor hack room. He went down stairs, lit the fire, and prepared breakfast. Ile then brought his wife and her nephew their breakfast upstairs. Much to his surprise, he found the door locked. Ile knocked, but received no answer. Ile thought (he stated) that his wife was sulking. The husband then went to attend to his bell-hanging in the other houses until dinner-time, and he then brought his wife up sonic dinner, but upon knocking he again received no answer. Atitea time he again brought up her tea, but his knocks elic4ed no remark front his wife. At half-past seven o'clock in the evening, he for the fourth time went to his wile's room, and no notice being taken of his knocks, he said, "I tell you what it is, I'll have no more of your sulking. If you do not open the door or answer, 11l send tor the police and have the door burst in." He then burst open the door with his shoulder, and was horrified on discovering the dead body of the boy lying across the bed, with his head thrown hack, and a fearful gash in his throat. Ile then turned to his wife and " Aunt, aunt, what have you done ?" She gave a moan, and pointed at the dead body of her nephew. There was a dreadful cut aeross her throat, severing the windpipe. Dr Charles Welsh, of the Landon- road, Clapton, was instantly sent for. Upon the police arriving Inspector Morris, of the N division, had her removed to the German Hospital. On Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock, she was partly sensible, but unable to speak When asked if she wished to make any statement, she wrote the word, " No." Her death is expected.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-05-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

POETRY AND PROSE.—" See, nurse!" exclaimed papa, as a smile irradiated the face of his infant, "an angel is whispering to it !" " No, sir," replied nurse, `• it is only the wind on its little stomach." ;rhe vote for public education this year is to he £693,078 for Great Britain, and £325,59:1 for Ireland—an increase of D 1,813 in the latter vote, and a decrease of .£19,326 in the former. ' '  _ An inquest was lield in London on Saturday last on the body of Frederick Townsend, a gentleman 28 years of age, who had committed suicide. It appeared that he had been rejected by a young lady, and that his mind had been disturbed in consequence.  At the recent annual meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, the receipts were reported at £141.399 15s 3d, and the expenditure at £145,788 Os 91, including nearly £4,000 interest on money borrowed to carry on the service of the year. The Marquis of Westminster has become honourably prominent among those who recognise a landlord's duty to those who live on his estates. All the labourers cottages at Motcombe have been rebuilt, generally in pairs, at a cost of about £375 a pair. SIGNS OF RAlN.—When the odour of flowers is unusually perceptible, rain may be expected, as the air when damp conveys the odour more effectively than when dry. Damp air being also a better conductor of sound than dry, the sound of mills, railway trains, distant bells, Ste., may be heard more plainly just before rain. WEALTH OF THE ITALIAN CHURCHES The Unite Dalian,: states, on what it considers good authority, that in the churches of the Italian secular clergy there are more than 500,000 pounds weight of silver, and 20,000 of gold; in the churches of the regular orders, 800,000 pounds of silver, and 8 000 of gold; in the church of Loretto, 7,000 pounds of silver, aud 4,000 of gold; in that of St. Dominic, at Soriano, in Calabria, 5,000 pounds of silver, and 1,500 of gold. The value of the precious stones amounts to above 20 I millions of francs.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-06-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SAO CASE OF SUICIDE.—An old man, aged sixty-five years, named Benjamin Gregory, was found hanged in his room in York-street, Stockton, on Sunday last. An inquest was held before John Settle, Esq., coroner, on Monday, and the following particulars were given in evidence :—Deceased was a joiner, and lived alone in a hired room. For a considerable time he had been in bad health and out of employment, and had seen better circumstances. A day or two before he committed the deed he had received a sovereign, and 19s 10d were found in the room by the officer. It had been noticed by his acquaintances that his manner had been mach changed of late, and he had complained of poverty having formerly b.-en in a more respectable position. On Sand iy morning the persons living in the house had suspicion that something was not right, and acquainted Sergeant Smith, who went to the house, and found the door locked, with the key inside. He broke the door open, and found deceased hanging by a cord from a nail in the wall. He was cold and stiff, and had been dead for twenty-four hours. A person in a room below heard a noise over-head on Saturday morning, as of a chair falling, and in the room, near where the body was hanging, a stool was found knocked over. It was supposed he had stood upon the stool, and having fastened the cord, had kicked the stool away. His feet were about a foot from the ground. He appeared to have been in bed, which had been lain in, and had no clothing on but his shirt. Some provisions were found in the house. Considerable excitement was shown in the immediate neighbourhood where he was found, the deceased having seen better days. The jury returned the verdict--" Deceased killed himself by hanging, while in a state of temporary insanity."