Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-01-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VORACIOUS MAN-EATF.R.--The following extract from a letter fro% an engineer at Chintagoonta, about sixty miles beyond Cuddapah on the road to Nundyal, merits the attention of Sit ikatries —" We are touch annoyed by a man eater, about eleven miles off under the hills, and the effect has been to raise the price of bamboos, charcoal, and wood. I happened to be yesterday in the tillage where it committed its last depredation. I found a force 100 strong, composed of the young men of the adjoining villages—they assemble every morning at about 9 a.m., and march with tomtoms ahead and astern, armed with spears and matchlocks, into the jungle near the village, carrying food to men who are posted in trees near each place where, any one has been killed. As may be expected, since they took these precautions they have seen nothing of him, as he has gaietly gone to another village. They told me that the tiger has killed more than two hundred people; a great many close to the village."—Madras Times, Dec. 2nd.  THE CONSERVATIVE Pass.—The John Bull says !—We regret to learn that the Imperial Review has discontinued its publication. It was • •lgorous and useful Conservative nogan, and had among its staff Lord Colchester, Mr Cecil Raikes, M.P., Dr Fraser, the Rev. Mr Fagan, and other good writers. That it could not keep admit affords another shameful illustration of the apathy of the Conservatives in supporting their own press, to which cause a very able London correspondent of an American paper attributed Mr Dfsrael's defeat atthe elections. The Liberals know the power iif the press, and their support is liberal. The Conservatives do not, but, complaining of being "over-papered," take in, not their own organs, but those of the enemy, go see what the other side say. We did not think High Churchmen were such offenders in this matter. and their fault was rather the other way, of reading nothing on the opposite slip; but the death in one year of the Christian Reniernbraneer, Ecclesiologist, and Ec. elesiastic would Deem that they too neglected the press. An entire reorganisation of the Conservative preen in London and the provinces is imperatively demanded-, if the Conservative party is to hold its own. A FRENCH SUlClDE.—Galignani gives the following incident, which will probably tax the credulity of some readers A determined suieide has just taken ' place at Grenoble (Isere) Three evenings back a man presented himself at the hospital with his face horribly disfigured by a gunshot wound ; the flesh hung iu strips down to the breast, and the lower jaws were shattered. A surgeon occupied three hours in re. moving the fractured bone and sewing up the lacerated flesh. The man supported the painful operation without uttering a cry or for • moment losing his presence of mind. He was even able to write down replies to questions put to him, •nd in that manner stated that he had discharged the contents of a gun beneath his chin, but not being killed, had come from St. Martin d'Uriage, a distance of five miles, to the hospital to get his wounds dressed. The motive which he alleged for the act was embarassed pecuniary affairs. He was put to bed, but during the following night his ideas of suicide returned, and he attempted to hang himself with • handkerchief from the bed rail: he was, however. discovered in time and prevented, but not to be outdone he then threw himself on the Boor and broke his peek.