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The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-11-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

INDIAN CONJURERS.  Ignoramus," writing to the 71 ntes from Arabi-side on the Slade case, says—" While the ' wise men and the sorcerers ' of the west are nn their trial before Mr. Flowers, will you allow one who his seen soniethitht of the magicians of the East to relate his experiences ? I was in command of the Fort of Attock, on the Indus, in 1861. One evening, when at !Imes with the officers of my little g inison, native' was introduced. professing to be whet we would call a ' conjuror.' Having spread on the bare floor of the messroom a cloth of linen about a yard square, he placed at two opposite corners copies of the Koran. He then recited a prayer, to whom I know not, and, having thrown on the cloth three or four figures in paper cut out from a Journal des Modes, commenced playing a tune on some reed instrument. The figures rose and danced in time with the music. I was allowed to examine the figures, and found them to be stiffened with a little guns and cardboard. The dance ceased and recommenced with the music, and we could discover no sensible communication between the ' magician ' and his figures. Our dinner was over, but the t ibleeloth still covered the table. He put a rupee at one corner and my signet ring at the other. He repeated his prayer, played on his instrument, and my ring, with a vibratory motion keeping time to the music, moved along the diagonal until it reached the rupee, which it clawed—l can describe it by no other word—and brought back with it to its own corner. We did our best to discover how this was done. The conjuror, a wretched-looking creature, declined to sell his secret, although I offered considerable sums. I returned to England and propounded the problem to a well-known member of the fratern ty, but in vain."  A shocking case of suicide occurred at Drayton, near Kidderminster, on Monday. A boy raised an alarm that a woman had thrown herself into a pool, and a man named Henry Skinner, a blacksmith, hastened with drags to get her out. To his horror he discovered when he did so that it was his own wife. Life was extinct.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

PEER.—The Daily Telegraph says—" We regret to learn that information was received on Monday in London to the effect that Lord Ribblesdale had committed suicide in Switzerland. His lordship was born in 1828, and succeeded his father in 1832. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the royal horse guards in 1849, retiring as a lieutenant. He was a magistrate and deputylientenant of the West Riding. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Hon. Thomas Lister, who was born in 1854. The deceased per was stepson to Lord Russell, and was a Liberal in politics." The Sydney correspondent of the Western Morning News sends information of the capture of the Britisa ship Dancing Wave, by the natives of Florida Islands, one of the Solomon group, the vessel having been looted and the crew murdered and eaten by the savages. One man escaped to an adjoining isiand and gave information to a barque which set sail in chase of the Dancing Wave, ultimately overtaking her by the time the horrible deeds had been committed. Another ship's crow had been treat: d in a similar manner, but details had not been received. The Sandy schooner, manned by men-of-war's men, has been sent to the spot. Great excitement prevails in Sydney. At the Manchester city police-c.nirt, on Monday, Michael [tooth and John Malian were charged on remand with having murderously assaulted Peter Tuohy on the 19th inst. It was alleged that a disturbance, which collected a crowd, the prosecutor being amongst the number, was going on in Booth's house. The prisoners rushed out—and Booth struck Tuohy a terrible blow on the head, the medical evidence going to show that the prosecutor is still in a mitical condition. Mr. Rickards said a more frenzied or barbarous proceeding could hardly be imagined, and this was only one of the cases which were a disgrace to this part of the country. The prisoners were committed for trial at the assizes. -  ,
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-04-15 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE TRADE OF BARROW.  The improvement in any one branch of trade irvariably acts advantageously upon all its surroundings. This is a well admitted fact throughout the universe, and such being the case, of course any advance in the business of smaller lecalities are the more felt and appreciated by the community immediately concerned. The advantages possessed by the port of Barrow for the importation of timber are so great, that large purchasers are thus early in the season commencing operations, and from the transactions already effected and on the tapia, there seems every reas in for looking to a considerable addition in this class of trade. Placed as we are in an excellent maritime position, with dock dues the lowest that offer every inducement for a young and growing business, there is every probability that Barrow will in time become known as one of the first entrepots for the purchase and sale of that which is necess try for almost every class of trade wherein the requisites—an increasiag p )pulation and trading community— are concerned. Not only does the amplitude, facilities, and low charges of our docks render it most advantageous to all concerned to support the timber market here, but the extensive and excell nt railway facilities for its carriage o all inland towns also point to Barrow as being convenient and economical in every point of view ; and as the trade becomes more and and more vigorous, so will conveniences of every kind be multiplied. This forerunner of an improvement in one breech of trade may therefore be looked upon as only the precursor of all other local operations improving, more particularly thht for which the Furnes district—and Barrow particularly—is world famed, viz., the iron trade. Timber is largely consumed in all the multifarious rainificatiitas necessary to trade and commerce, and with a business of this kind growing op in our midst, we nail our fl .g to the in .Bt—de 11119 Er sure Um.  MELANCHOLY sUICIDE AT
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-11-25 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

TRAGEDY IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Mr. Isidore, a Greek Catho'ic of Constantinople, who has had a hairdresser's eh )p for ladies fur many years in this Grand Rue, close to the church of Ste Marie, was, says the Lee Int Herald, the vic'im of an attempted mur or on Thursday night, 26,h Octob..r, and the a' s tasin immeliataly afterwards teal away his own life. M. Isidore had had with him for the past seven years an assistant, a young man belonging to a Greek family of "'ataxia in whcm h) hod every cunfi. tones. S 'rile days ago the hairdresser perceived i7llications ab iut the desk in which ha kept his cash to convince him that attempts had b.aeli in scla ta force it open, and he ch ogid his assistan3t with the offence. Tha latter at first. denied the charge, but eventually ad uitted that, id a m meat of temptation, he had endeavoured t get at tha cash. tie craved pardon, which A. Isidore ' oncadel, hut woul d not go further than this, nd c nitinue t i kaa p the assistant in his service PS he WaS implored to dd. Isidore paid hi a his wages and discharge] him. On Thursday evening a little before eight o'clock, as M. IA ire was leaving his shop, he was met by his ex: ssieant, who, on his repeating his refusal to t .ke him back i. t ) his $e .vice drew a revolver and fired two shots at M. Isidore, oils ball traversing his shoulder from side t sde rvni the other lodging in one-of his arms. M. hickso fell on the pavemnt, and ths assassin then tuned the pistol upon himself, and, placing it under his chin, fired, the bJI p issing through his head and causing almo:t inst ottaneous claath. M. Isidore, though severely wounded, and having sustained a sharp shock to the nervous system, is nut considered to be in actual danger. The ball lodged in the are has been extracted. The suicide was named Kyriaco, and was oniy 23 years of age.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-06-07 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OF ABDUL AZIZ.  It is officially announced•that the ex-Sultan • Abdul Aziz committed suicide on Sunday morning, by opening the veins of his arm with a pair of scissors.  The deceased was born on the 9th February, 1830, and was consequently in his 47th year. Re was brother of the late Sultan, Abdul Medjid, and succeeded- to the throne at the death of the latter on June 25, 1861, in virtue of the Turkish. law, by which the crown devolves, not upon the eldest son of the Sovereign, but upon the eldest male of the Imperial family. When deposed on the 30th May he had ruled over the c tuntry for nearly fifteen years. Abdul Aziz began to reign by promising important reforms, especially with the national finances. As an earnest of his intentions be. reduced the civil list, cut down the expenses of the Court, and declared that he would have but one wife. He at the same time pronounced that all Turkish subjects, without oistinction of religion, will be equal before the law. How these promises have been fulfilled is known to all the world. In 1887 be paid a visit to the Emperor of the French, in Paris, and then tame across to this country as the gue4 of the Queen. When he left, after a stay which extended from the 12th to the 23rd of July, he was said to have been profoundly impressed by what he had seen. The next year be established a Council of State, and opened it in a speech in favour of progress and reform, -Soon afterwards the Cretan insurrection, which had for some time been a source of trouble to his Government, was finally suppressed. Before this and after,.loan upon loan was contracted, until at the end of last year the nominal amount of the foreign debt reached the sum of £184,981,783. Yet the first foreign loan only dates back to the year 1854. It is now known that although the country has long been in a state of financial embarrassment the deposed Sultan hoarded treasure to an immense amount in his Palace, and that he c.mtinued to spend extravagant ,sums in the gratificition of his luxutiant pleasures and his despotic caprice, while a troublesome insurrection was draining the resources of the Empire, and jeopardising its place in Europe. '1 he news of his death is scarcely likely to awaken either eympathy or sorrow.  The accession of the new Sultan at Constantinople has been celebrated all the week at Port Said, Suez, Cairo, and Alexandria. Salutes have been fired several times daily, and illuminations have taken place at night. The sudden and peaceful success of the Softas has surprised and pleased all partite in Egypt save one. Murad Pacha is an old enemy of the Khedive, whose plan % and prospects, and those of the hereditary prince, are sensibly affected by this unexpected turn in Eastern affairs. The royal yacht Mahroussa is under sailing orders for Constantinople, but whether the Khedive will personally present his homage to the new Sultan or send eherif Pach is not yet known. With the fate of previous Viceroys before his eyes, tha Khedive may prefer to risk the consequences of non-appearance rather than his life.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-10-18 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

DOWN I WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. ,_____ in several places. Cries if murder attracted s home was neither fanciful nor impracticable. The -supplied to the captain of one of defendant's • time and labours of the inmates might be so directed p.m.la.m ia.m. a.m. a.m.4a.m. a.m. la.m. a.m. a.m a.m.1.... p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m., the police, and the man was taken' into cis - ships whilst in Liverpool. It appeared that as to make such an. institwion almost self-support- London, Euston..dep. 9 0, .... .... .... 5 151.... 7 1519 0 1010 11 012 0 .... 9 0 ... Cody. Whilst the charge was beiug preferred other goods to the amount of £lO 143. had ing. In London, Liverpool, and Manchester, large Birmingham .... ••••• • • • • „ 1030 ....1....4.... 7 25 ..., 8 5011 01.14041230 2 10 .... 1030 ~.. ..., ~,, at the station, and when the prisoner was aboet been supplied to the ship a few days after laundries are profitable investments, and the refol4- Liverpool Lime-st , 1255 ....1.... '6 0,9 30 .... iO5O 130 2 0,3 50 425 .... 1235 ... to be searched, he attempted to commit suicide „ Exchange-st ~ • •• • • •• • • 6 2519 0 .... 1030 1 25 2 4514 10 4 15 .... _.._ ._. ......... .... ....i. those sued for, but these had been paid for matory refuges all make a large income by this • 6 10(9 50 It 0 1 25 2 35 4 '25 4 50 by stabbing him-elf in the breast. He wile by the captain and allowed in his account ; source of female industry. Here, then, was the L&N W , 1 01.... taken to the general hospital, where his wounds and it also appeared, from the evidence of the labour, and the market, too, was at hand. The " •• ' • •' • • •• • • Preston were dressed. The woman and girl are in a defendant, which was given by affidavit under institution would also have other industries at very serious condition. He was brought be. the new rules, that this latter sum was the work, especially the domestic work of cleaning, a.m 'a.m. a.m. a.m.ia.m. a mep.m.m.m.ip.m. p.m. p.m. .... a.m.iamela.m. p.m. p.m fore the magistrates and r lia traded. only sum mentioned in such account. It was cooking, baking., &c. .The system .of granting a Carnforth ~Depart 440 .... 8 109 50112 0 .... 1 304 05 06 6 7 3() .... 440 .... (9 45 .... 7 5 license, as in reformatories might mite advantage F. &M. Jena.) „ .... ...., .... 9 531.... .... 1 35' l5 5 .... ... 40 47 ~_ 7 3 • contended, on behalf of the defendant, that be adopted. The object of paper VIVI to bring Silverdale.. ...... „ .... .... 820 tO 01.... i.... ... 4 105 12, .... 740 .... ... • ....19 55 .... 7 4
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-06-06 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SUICIDE OP ABDUL AZIZ.  It is officially announced that the ex-Sultan Abdul Aziz committed suicide on Sunday morning, by opening the veins of his arm with a pair of scissors.  • The deceased was born on the 9th February, 1830, and was consequently in his 47th year. He was brother of the late Sultan, Abdul Medjid, and succeeded to the throne at the death cf the latter on June 25, 1861, in virtue of the Turkish law, by which the crown devolves, not upon the eldest son of the Sovereign, but upon the eldest male of the Imperial family. When deposed on the 30th May he had ruled over the country for nearly fifteen years. Abdul A ziz began to reign by promising important reforms, especially with the national finances. As an earnest of his intentions be reduced the civil list, cut down the expenses of the Court, and declared that he would have but one wife. He at the same time pronounced that all Turkish subjects, without distinction of religion, will be equal before the law. How these promises have been fulfilled is known to all the world. In 1867 he. paid a visit to the Emperor of the French, in Paris, and then came across.to this country as the guest of the Queen. When he left, after a stay which extended from the 12th to the 23rd of July, he was said to have been profoundly impressed by what he had seen. The next year he established a Council of State, and opened it in a speech in favour of progress and reform. Soon afterwards the Cretan insurrect!)n, which had for some time been a source of trouble to his Government, was finally suppressed. Before this and after, loan upon loan was contracted, until at the end of last year the nominal amount of the foreign debt reached the sum of £184,981,7A3. Yet the first foreign loan only dates back to the year 1854 It is now known that although the country has long been in a state of financial embarrassment the deposed Sultan hoarded treasure to an immense amount in his Palace, and that he continued to spend extravagant sums in the gratification of his luxutiant pleasures and his despotic caprice, while a troublesome insurrection was draining the resources of the Empire, and jeopardising its place in Europe. The news of his death is scarcely likely to awaken either sympathy or sorrow.  The accession of the new Sultan at Constantinople has been celebrated all the week at Port Said, Suez, Cairo, and Alexandria. Salutes have been fired several times daily, and illuminations have taken place at night. The sudden and peaceful success of the Soffits has surprised and pleased all parties in Egypt save one. Murad Pacha is an old enemy of the Khedive, whose plans and prospects, and those of the hereditary prince, are sensibly affected by this unexpected turn in Eastern affairs. The royal yacht Mahroussa is under sailing orders for Constantinople, but whether the Khedive will personally present his homage to the new Sultan or send Cherif Pach is not yet known. With the fate of previous Viceroys before his eyes, the Khedive riray prefer to risk the consequences of non-appearance rather than his life.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-04-12 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT URSIVICK.  Mr. John Poole. district coroner, held an inquest at the General Burgo ne Inn, Urswick, on Saturday, upon the body of Thomas Ashburner, who committed suirdde by hanging himself on the previous day. The first witness examined was Ann Ashburnar, who said: I am the wife of Richard As,,urner, Urswick, butcher. The deceased was my father-in-law. He was 75 years of age, and was a labourer by trade. On Friday afternoon, the 7th inst., at about three o'clock. I had to go into the barn. 1 there saw the deceased. He was suspended by a rope from the beam, having fastened the rope around his neck. I went and called my br,ther-in-law, Thomas Robinson, who came immediately. I had seen the deceased about an hour before. He had been in his usual health lately, and I had not seen any differance in him. There was nothing whz.tever to lead me to suppose that he would have committed any act of the kind. I never heard him use any expression leading me to think he would do such an act, and I did not know there was any lowness of spirits about him. lam aware of no cause for it.  Thomas Robinson said: I live in Urswick, and am a miner. About three o'clock, on Friday, my sister sent for me. I went into the barn at Richard Ashburner's, and found the deceased hanging by the neck from a beans to which he had attached a rope. He appeared to have gone up a 1 idder Which was standing there. It was a cart rope that he used. He had put it round the beam and twice round his neck. He appeared to have then stepped off the ladder. He was quite dead when I found him. I cut him down. He was not cold. I had seen him the night before. I had never observed anything peculiar about him, and I know of no cause for the act  The coroner reviewed the evidence, after which the jury returned a verdict that deceased hung himself when in an unsound state of mind.  Thomas Woodbridge, one of the five men injured in the explosion in Dean Lane Pit, Bedminster, last week, died on Sunddy, in Bristol Hospital Twelve youths were brought before the Nottingham magistrates on Saturday, and sentenced each to one month's imprisonmeot, for placing obstructions on the Midland Railway at Coldwick Junction.  Mrs. Kershaw, the farmer from whose farm the impure milk came which caused the alarming outbreak of typhoid in Eagley and Bolton, has died from the effects of the epidemic. This is the tw.mtieth death traceable to the impure milk.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-04-12 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ADVT.  A pleasure boat was capsized in Tralee harbour on Sunday night, and of a party of five three were drowned, one being a foreign captain, and the two others being Mr. Moffat and Mr. Jenkins, of Cork.  A great -confltgration took place at Fever;ham-, near Cambridge, on Sunday. destroying a lar2e quantity of agricultural produce, and severely burning several men, who had to be taken to the hospital.. _ _ _ _  An explosion of coal gas took place on Saturday, on board the screw-steamer Cambridgeshire, of Wisbeach, in Shields Harbour. Thomas Kegho, second mate, and Richard Pill, steward, were severely burnt. The steamer is not much damaged. On Saturday, at the inquest on the body of William Shuttleworth, who was killed on the Midland Railway, near Saltaire station, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind, brought on by excessive drinking. There were only two prisoners for trial at the Westmorland quarter sessions, held at Appleby. Joseph Burrow, aged 38, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing a watch and chain; and Hannah Wilkinson, aged 41, was sent to gaol for twelve months for stealing a dress. On Saturday morning, William Davidson, a pilot, who was lately discharged for improper conduct, stabbed Mr. F. Downs, the pilot master at Sunderland, in the back, with a long narrow knife. The man was pursued along the pier promenade, and, on being closely pressed, he stabbed himself twice in the chest, and jumped into the sea. He was, however, rescued alive. The official arrangements for the ensuing volunteer review at Tring on Easter Monday have been is-ued. The total force which will be present will I be about 10,000 of all ranks, consisting of two divisions, which comprise regiments from Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Herta, and Bucks besides the metropolitan corps. The 33rd Lancashire is attached to the second division.
The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-09-30 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEITH.  Notwithstanding the utmost endeavours on the part of Sergeant Broadbridge, of the Croydon police, to trace the identity of a gentleinan who was found dead in the Brighton-road, Caterham, every effort has proved abortive. The deceased was found at 2.30 on Wednesday morning last, by a police-aonstable, lying at the side of the road quite dead with a bullet wound in his temple, from which blooti was still flowing. Between his legs lay his umbrella and a small single barrelled pistol recently discharged, and in one of his pockets were some caps and gunpowder, indicating the probability that the deceased committed suicide. The body was at once conveyed to the Caterhana Junction Hotel to await an inquest, which was opened by Mr. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, at the above hotel on urday evening. James Knight, a constable, said tit he discovered the dead body of the deceased at 31f-past two on Wednesday morning lying at the side of the path in Brightonroad, Coulston, but he could not form an opinion as to how long be had been dead. He appeared to have shot himself in the face above the left eye, with a pistol which lay at his feet, and which had been evidently recently discharged. Witness believed it to be a case of suicide. Sergeant Broadbridge said the deceased was a man between sixty and seventy years of age, and sft. 51in. in height, with grey hair and whiskers. He was nearly bald, and wore a brown wig. Deceased was dressed in a dust walking coat, grey tweed under coat, fancy silk vest, brown tweed trousers, white shirt, collar, stockings, and handkerchief marked "J. S." Deceased wore a truss, and in his pockets were found a gold watch, No. 10,862, made by Gordon, of Bromley, and gold chain, a pair of tortoiseshell spectacles, pocket knife, and other articles, together with £1 ss. 9d. in money. The inquiry was adjourned for further evidence. Since the holding of the inquest, Sergeant Broadbridge has had the body inclosed in an elm coffin with a pane of glass at the head, to enable persons to see the body without inconvenience, and it now lies at the Caterham Junction Hotel awaiting identification.