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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-08-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GEMS OF THOUGHT.  _.____  Friendliness and smiles act on the heart like spirits of nitre on water, making it colder when it is cold, and warmer when it is warm.  The parted and loving heart opens to the distant one, as those fl,wers which expand in the rays of the sun will enfold their blossoms even on the days when clouds come bet w en.  Th., Ey,...-ITpright women must have a peculiar theory about the lightning of the eyes, by which they distinguish the yellow glare of hell from the pure flashes of heaven.  The hypocrite stretches out his arms warmly to clasp some one in the closest embrace, but only, like the heated Moloch, that he may burn him to ashes. Communion with nature, when the passions of the soul are excited, writes a verse of peace round the inner storm-bell.  We are all, like Milton's Adam, looking upon our first night as the last day, and the setting of the BUD as the setting of the world. - - .  A. poor mall is generally happy as long as he is lying down; aud, fortunately, he stands but about half his life-time.  --- --He who is good, but wears a habitual frown upon his face, is like one who has an excellent dwelling-house but sets up a death's head before it. The hidden cistern of the soul may fill fast with sweet tears, wlfile the windows through whieh it looks are undimmed by a drop of moisture. It is he who was born rich, not he who has made himself rich, that oftenest commits suicide; on the other hand, it is not the poor man, but he who has become poor, that kills himself, We would rather be the gardener who watches and protects an a:oe for tilimn years, until at last it opens to him the heaven of its blossom, than the indolent aristocrat who is hastily called to look at the opened heaven.  Splemlour.—Love changes all into splendour, even tears and the grave; and before us life, like the de. cliiiiui sun of the longest day of the north sea, touches only with its rim the passing earth, and rises again, like morning, in the etch of heaven.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-03-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTE. PTED M URI) ER AND SUICIDE.—On Wednebda week a moat dreadful affair took place at Twizel. man named William Pattersen, carter, who several we- ks ago attempted self-destruction by taking laudanum, came upon a man in his employment, named John La b, who was preparing food for the horses, and with crowbar dealt a severe blow on his skull. While his victim lay on the ground, the wretched man deliberate' drew a razor and inflicted a most ghastly wound in :nub's throat, cutting him almost from ear to ear. I a then inflicted a similar wound in his own throat. oth parties were afterwards taken care of by the police We understand that, owing to a difficulty in getting surgical aid, Lamb's wounds, up till Thursday inor •tag, remained undressed. Little hopes are entertain., of the recovery of Lamb Mr Willoby, clerk to he Justices, the Rev. the Vicar, and Dr. Kirkwoo. went on Thursday to take the depositions in the case. On Thursday afternoon, Patterson was brought o the Dispensary in this town in charge of Policerna McKenzie, and placed under the care of Mr Fiuker, s rgeon. We understand that Lamb was unable to 1- removed, and up till Thursday afternoon he continue. unconscious.— Berwick Aar( rt ser. Loss of, THE CA LEDDN IA LONDoN AND Lam S Eastait.---Intelligenee was received on Monday last of the total loss of the London and Leith steamshi Caledonia, Captain Gast, one of the fleet of the Gen cal Steam Navigation Company, off Tiamborough lead, on the Yorkshire coast. The unfortunate stea ner left St. Katherine Wharf at eight o'clock on Satur ay morning for Granton Pier. .She had her usual nu tier of ptssengers on board for the season of the year, and was loaded with a cargo of merchandise ml vario s descriptions. According io the telegrams that hay, been received announcing her fate, it would seem th t she had made rather tedious progress. and in the s mrse of Sunday afternoon went ashore at Flambor ugh Head. The wind is stated to have been blowing strong from the southeast, which would be nearly ri lit on the headland. Providentially the whole of the Cr w and passengers were saved in the boats, but all effort failed in getting the ship off, and the latest telegrat announces that the steamer had gone to pieces, a d the shore was strewn with portions of wreck a d cargo. Numbers of boatmen and ethers were en„aged in picking up what was cast from the wreck. The Caledonia was a large wooden built paddlewhee steamer, and had been many years employed lon the a ation. Her commander has been some time engaged in the trade. The cargo is insured. hut the company hear their own risk, having a reserve fund tti meet such exigencies. A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-07-29 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT MANCHESTER.— On Tuesday morning a .shocking muider and suicide were committed in a house in Junction-street, Great Ancoats, Manchester. The occupiers of the house were James Gilbert, a pavior and well sinker, and his wife and five children. About six o'cloek in the morning, a policeman named Whitehead heard cries of murder issuing from Junction-street, and on going in that direction met one of the girls of the family, who exclaimed'Come, policeman, come, father has stabbed my mother.' On entering the house the policeman saw at the top of the stairs Elicit Gilbert, the wife of the murderer, with her throat cut from ear to ear. The stairs were covered with blood, and the unfortunate woman only survived a few minutes The officer proceeded up stairs, aid there he found the husband sitting on the aide of a bed with his throat cut, and • stream of blood flowing from the wound. His face was distorted, and he died soon afterwards. Mr Holmes, surgeon, arrived soon afterwards, but was too late to render nay service. Eliza Cosgrove, a neighbour, had arrived before the policeman, hnt the murderer threatened to take her life if* she interfered, and silo left the house to obtain assistance. The deceased woman had been di inking for a week past, and this is said to have led t i the dreadful tragedy. The husband had been heard to say he would hang himself or cut somebody's throat. The husband was about fifty years old, and the wife alma forty, They had five children, the two eldest of which had left the house owing to their father's threats. The three other children were in the house at 'he time of the niorder. An inquest was held at noon on Tuesday. The verdict against James Gilbert was one of 'Wilful murder,' and that he afterwards committed suicide, being in an unsound state of mind.' AN
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-12-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BALLOON ACCIDENT.—DUring the fetes at- ' t- 'dint on the opening of the section of railway from ieuze to Arricourt (Meurthe), a few days since, the b others Godard made an ascent in their balloon, but it had not risen higher than about 400 metres when it b rat. M. Jules Godard was at the tune performing s me gymnastic exercises with the trapeze below the c r, which was coining to the ground with frightful ✓ pidity. He hastily cli obed up, and when it came ithin a few feet of the ground jumped out, but ttufort nately broke his leg in two places. A most horrible suicide was the subject of a coroner's inquiry, in London, on Saturday last. A . . . .  otnan named Sarah Olten, living in Montpelier•place, Irornpton, was ahOut to be delivered ot a child, when le got out of bed, walked to the dressiug-table, and ut her throat with a raz ir before the surgeon who was 1 the room could prevent her. The child was subseuently born, and is now alive; but the mother died . , .  rout the rff,cts of the wound in her throat. She dehired that she had done the deed because she could tot bear the pain she was suffering. The jury found a rerdict of "Temporary insanity." THE REWARD FOR THE CONVICTION OF klirt.mitt.7The Home Secretary has decided that the  ialanan Yfattliews is entit!ed to the who e of the reward  C.(K) for giving information which led to the eonietion of Muller for Vie murder of Mr Briggs, The  nun has .been ordered to be paid to .inn in. a  • few days. In the meanwhile, unfortunately for him, he has been arrested for a debt of CO by one of his numerous small creditors, whose aggregate claims amount to £560. Though the present claimant only demands £3O, the others will probably lodge detainers against him, and a vesting order will be immediately obtained for the assignees to receive the whole of the money payable to him from the Government. He will thus not only enjoy no benefit whatever from what has been called the "blood money," but before he can regain his liberty he will have to go through the Court of Bankruptcy for the remaining £260. AN
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-06-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RACE. —" It has been calculated," says the Presse, " that the human race now c.niprises. in round numbers. 1,000,000,000 of persons, sreeSing 3,064 languages, and professing 1,100 forms of r) ligion. The average duration of human life is estimate I at 33 years and six months. A quarter of the children born die before their seventh year, and one-half before their seventeenth. Out of the 1,000 000.000 persons living, 3:3,000,000 die each year, 91 000 each day, 3,7311 each hour, each minute, and comyquently one every se L These 33,000,000 deaths are counterbalanced by 41,500,000 births, the excess being the annual increase of the human race. It has been remarked that births and deaths are more frequent in tho night than ditrimthe day Calculating one marriago for every 120 persons of both sexes and of all ages. 03,300,000 are celebrated annually. AT I'EM EI`ED M URDER AT BRIG wroN.—At Brighton, on Friday. Caroline Boyd, a stylishly-dressed young W0111:111. was charged with cutting and wounding her lito.hand, Michael Boyd, with a razor. It appears that the parties have been married about eight months. About two o'clock on Friday morning, the landlord of the house, arnuied by a noise, went to the bedroom of the prisoner, when he found Boyd lying on the bed weltering in blood. The prisoner said that her husband had put his razor under his " to do for her," in the Light ; that he quarrelled with her and struck her ; and that, in self-defence, she cut him with the razor ; aiding that she meant to murder him, and then commit suicide. The man, who is suffering from an incised over tho loft ear, was in so dangerous a condition that he was unable to attend the police court, and the prisoner was remanded. T E GAMBLING II ELLS OF GE it MA NY.— These places are turning out their usual number of victims. The following cases have occurred within the past few months in connection with Homburg and Wiesbaden alone :—A bookkeeper in a Frankfort banking-house, after having lost at the play every farthing lie possessed, Cut his throat it) the baths, at Homburg, last November. In the beginning of March a young Frenchman after playing away his last franc, committed suicide )y cutting open the bloodvesels at his pulse, and allowing himself to bleed hi death. On the 2nd of May a man front Kreuznach, who had lost  all his money at the gambling table of Wiesbaden, hung himself in an inn in Mayence. Ile left a wife and ten children lehind. In kirtoft, a village near Homburg, the body of a gambler was discovered in a pond. On the 17th of May the body of a coufectllgner's apprentice was found in the river Maine. Before falling in the water he had shot himself with a pistol through the head. Ile left a letter behind slating that his losses in Homburg had driven him to suicide. On the 22inl of May a waiter, twenty-one years old, living in Frank.  ort, %•ho had lost all his savings at Homburg, drowned ihnself in the Maine.  EXTESsIVE CAME Box
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-06-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDAL MANIA.—No small sensation has been occasioned in the fashionable watering-place of Cheltenham by the fact that within the past month no less than six persons have committed suicide in the town. The last case is that of a commercial traveller, named James Gardner, who for many years has occupied a confidential position with a wellknown firm of Cheltenham brewers—Messrs. Gardiner The deceased was only thirty-six years of age, and had lately been suffering from erysipelas. On Tuesday afternoon he retired to his bed room to lie down, and subsequently on some members of his family calling him they found the door locked. Not obtaining any answer to their calls, the door was burst open, when Mr Gardner was foetid lying dead in a pool of blood, having cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor, which was found lying by his side. The deceased had evidently placed himself before the looking-glass when he committed the act, as it was bespattered with blood. It is only consistent with the British propensity for sport and athletic effort that so many wagers should be recorded in connection with feats of pedestrianism. Thus we are told that on the 2-Ith July, 1750, a man upwards of forty years of age, fora wager of fifty guineas, ran from Shoreditch to the eighth mile stone beyond Edmmiton in fifty minutes, having been allowed an hour for performing the exploit. In 1743. one of the Gloucestershire militiu undertook, for a wager of £3OO, to walk from London to Bristol in twenty hours. This he accomplished in nineteen hours and thirty-five minutes, havieg quitted London at midnight, and arrived at Bristol the following evening. In the same year, a shepherd ran onMouiely Hurst, fifteen miles in one hour and twenty eight minutes, having engaged to do so ill an hour and a half. And in July, 1809, was completed the famous pedestrian feat of Captain Barclay, who won £3,i'oo on a wager that he would walk a thousand miles iii a thousand successive hours. The eaptain's entry into Newmarket, after the accomplishment of his undertaking, was heralded by a peal of bells. Numerous other pedestrian bets of a similar char toter to Barelaa's have subsequently been made, and are familiar to all readers of sporting literature. lIORRIELE
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-01-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE ,OF A )7017N(1 WOMAN. Dr. B. You give it up ? Why, then, tell bier to marry a curate Davies, coroner for the borough of Birmingliatn, held without influence ' an inquest on Tuesday week last, on the body of a young woman named Eimna Knight. 'llene), Mitchell, landlord of the Nelson 11,11, Deritend, said that the deceased, who was a single woman, twenty-three years of age, bad been in his service as a domestic servant for the last six months. Ile had had doubts for some little time past as to whether she was not pregnant, and• the girl had been questiened um the pint by his wife. about three or four w,eks •-thce. Deceased, however, denied the fact. On Sund.ty morning, when he called her at half-past eight o'clock, she replied tli LE she was coming. Finding she did not get up, witness, in about a quarter of an hour, went up and called het'agoti. and she replied ini,tantly, " Yes, air." - Witness said, " Are you going to get up to.d.ty "" and deceased re. plied, •• I will be down in a minute." 'Fen minutes or so afterwards witness's wife went to call her again. and, getting no reply, tried the dem-, which she found was fastened on the inside. In the course of five minutes witness, fancying that teonething was wrong, broke open the door in the presence of tw., ,i,ighbours, and finding that the deceased had cut her throat, he sent for a surgeon and a policeman. She was -quite ;lead, and there was a great qu intity el blood aroued her. A small raz,ir, the propel ty of his wife, was found in the deceased's bed covered with blood. It appeared from the toeuli‘al evidence that the ulecea-ed, who was eight months' gone in pregvancy. had VA -oiled herself before cuttilig her Hirt; it.--.l'lle jory returtied a verdict that the deseau.ed committed suicide while in : all unsound state of mind.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-01-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE RAPPAHANNOCK.—Mr William Rural)le, chief inspector of machinery afloat at Sheerness, was _ . . .  taken before the magistrates at Sittingbourne on Friday, under a warrant, for having aided and assisted in fitting out the Rappahannock, and for a breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act. He was remanded till January 26th, bail having been demanded and given in X1,1)00. MURDER AND SUICIDE AT IPsWIOH.—OR Thursday morning week, a shoemaker, named James Godding, who lived in Albert l Street, Ipswich—one of  the. poorest _parts of the town' —muicle;ed one of his  children and thou cut his own throat. At about half past eight in the morning, Godding's next door neighhour, named Norrok, was alarmed hy hearing Godding's wife scream out, and on running to his door bhe cried out to him, "For God's sake, Mr Norfolk, come in; my . .  husband has killed himself and the dear child." Norfolk  ran upstairs, and fonnd the bodies of Godding and his little daughter, Eiallied', about six years of age, lying on the hoar weltering in their blood, which flowed from wounds in the throat of each. Although scarcely more than a minute could have elapsed since the . . . . . _ .  commission of the act, both were dead At:the knee of the father lay a.shoemaker's knife covered with blood, . . . .  and evidently the instrument which had been used: The unhappy father appears to have first cut the throat of his child, who was completely a cripple, having the use of neither arms nor legs, and was besides imbecile and unable to speak, and then to have inflicted a frightful gash in his own. An inquest was held upon the bodies in the afternoon, by the coroner for the borough, at which evidence was given which went to show that the deceased man had for years been in an indifferent state of health, and had been in a desponding state of mind. The inquiry was adjourned for further evidence.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-04-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

LEAVES.—It is not generally known that the leaves of geraniums are an excellent application for cuts, where the skin is rubbed off, and . . . „  oiler wounds of that kind. One or two leaves must be  bruised and applied on linen to the part, and the wound  • • • Will become cicatrised in a very short time.—Amerieim Piper.  A frightful crime was perpetrated at Canterbury, on Sunday night. A builder's labourer shot  at his- eweetheart, and afterwards committed suicide,  by cutting his throat and shooting himself. The girl was only slightly wounded, though the pistol was discharged right in her face. It is supposed the bullet had dropped out.  A contribution to Shaksperian literature is about to appear from the pen of Dr Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, who has written a  volume exemplifying Shakspeare.'s knowledge and use of the Bible, by citations of parallel passages, showing that the poet's ideas and .sentiments, as well as his  phraseology, were constantly derived from Scripture.  A serious riot took place among the colliers of Monkwearmouth on Saturday, in consequence of an attack made by some of their body on the houses of one or two blacklegs.' A small force of police was on the field, and acted with great determination. A few of the policemen were hurt, but they laid about them  with their batons, and, after thirty colliers were placed hors de combat, the rest fled.  Four steel paddle steamers, very fast vessels, are reported to be building at Liverpool for the Confederate merchant service. They are intended to run the blockade. One of them Was tried .a few days ago,  and averaged in her speed lb to 16 knots an. hoUr. Their names have a truly American ring. One is the Badger, another the Fox, another Let her B, another Let her Rip.  John Sherwood, alias "Snaffling Jack," was convicted on Monday, at the York Assizes, of the acts of incendiarisrn on the Yorkshire %Voids, which created such wide-spread alarm four or five months ago. Iris admissions proved that he had been actuated by intense hostility to the farmers whose stacks he so wantonly destroyed; and the Judge marked his sense of the gravity of the crime by sentencing the prisoner to penal servitude for fifteen years.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1864-07-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AND ROBBERY IN WALK. —On Toursday morning week a man called at the tollgate, situate about a mile from the village of Llanow, Carmarthenshire. occupied by an aged couple named Davis. aged respectively above 71) years (the old man having been paralvsed for many years), awl asked permission to rest, which was at once granted. He shortly afterwards left, but soon returned, and while the old lady WAR engaged in preparing breakfast he heard her husband fall, and hastened to his assistance.  While stooping to raise him she received a violent blow from the ruffian, which rendered her senseless. However, after some time, she partially recovered her senses, and gave an alarm. The poor old man was found in a deplorable state from the effects of fearful wounds received on the head, end in a state of utter ins,,.oisibility. The contents of the toll money box were found to be stolen. amounting to £3l7s Several persons saw a man answering the description given by the ohf woman. and the police spare n:, exertion in  . their endeavours to capture him. A smith% hammer, weighing about two pounds, was found in the house, covered with blood and human hair, it being no doubt the instrument employed. The medical men give no hope of the recovery of the old man.—Bristol Post. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE —An inquest_wag  held on Monday evening last. at the Saracen-A Head Tavern, Camomile-street, London, on the body of Edward Henry llawkins, aged 24. He had been a corporal in the Ist Battalion of Cold.tream Guards, but he had been reduced to the ranks because ot  neglect of duty, consequent upon some disappointment about a young woman. This young woman, Mary Ann Statters, gave evidence. On Sunday week they had a quarrel. arising from jealousy, and she wrote t him saying she would never walk with him again. Afterwards they met by appointment on Friday last. He then threatened to kid her, and drew a knife across her throat, but did not cut her. She promised to forgive him if he would not be so cruel, and they then agreed to commit suicide together. Accordingly, they engaged a room at the Saracen's Head, and then went out, and at a chemist's in the city he bought some poison They returned to their room, and dividing the poison, he put one piece into his mouth and she did the same with the other, lie swallowed his and fell, but she "vomited it out," and taking a pillow from the bed placed it under his head. The noise of his fall caused the people of the house to come, but Hawkins died before anything could he done for him. The jury re. turned a verdict of unsound mind, and, in accordance with their request, the young woman Statters was severely repriman led by the coroner.