The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-10-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ICI DX.— A painful sensation was produced on Sunday throughout the city of Bristol, in eonseqnence of its becoming known that a man lied been found dead mul in a mutilated state on the road which follows the river Avon, underneath St. Vincent's Rock, ard that from the circumstances connected with the death there was reason to fear that the poor fellow bad committed suicide. Persons who hare visited Clifton must he familiar with the two lofty piers, %Well, rising on the sides of the cliffs to a height of some 250 feet above the water level, arc destined to form the support of the suspension bridge by which it is intended to connect Clifton Downs with the wo.all. of Leigh. It is upon a rope strained between these that Blondin proposes to cross the Avon, and it was from the parapet of mie of them—that on the Cilonoester mido of the river—that the wretched man, erbium death we are shout to describe, was precipitated to the ground. The fatal occurrence was not witnessed from the commencement by any one. A man who was proceeding down the river in a tug boat saw a man in the act of faUing, and gave information to a person who was walking by the towing path on the river side. This person communicated with the 'who., and poliee.constable 261 of the Clifton division of police hastened to the snot, and found the holy of the wretched man lying in • pool of blood and presenting a shocking spectacle. The skull was frightfully fractured, and the limbs torn and broken, and life was, of course, wholly extinct. At • abort distance from the body lay • brown bowler hat, which upon its being taken imp and examined by the constable gave a clue to the indentity of the deceased. In it was a ticket inscribed "John Crocker, shoemaker, ha., 34, Hill.street, St. Paul's, Bristol." The officer having procured assistance removed the body to the General Draper, an adjacent tavern, after which he communicated with the family at the addresa indicated, and ascertained that Mr. Crocker had been mined from the morning. Some of his neighbours proceeded to the Clifton Flotwells to indentify the body, and the city coroner, J. B. Orindon, Esq., having been communicated with, he issued his warrant for an Inquest,, which was held on Monday in the club-room in the tavern above named. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been unwell for a long time, and had been under several medical men, and that amongst other ailments he had been subject to fits. There was nothing surprising in his being at the place from which he fell, as it was rather a favourite walk with him. On the morning of Sunday be got out of bed whilst his wife vas asleep, dressed himself, and went out unobserved, and be was seen going in the direction of Clifton. There was no evidence to show with any certainty whether he had jumped over, or whether while he was sitting on the railing he was seised with one of his fits, and the jnry accordingly returned an open verlict to the effect that lie was killed through falling from thr cliff, with' out in any way stocifying the mode in which the fall was prodnoed. The deceased him left a widow and six children, the youngest of them being • mere infant.  But few incidents have ever transpired that will tend more to cheapen both Silk and Tea than the malting of the new port of Ilankou in the heart of China, for it affects, without any trans-shipment, a direct columnnication from the best tea producing districts, to the Docks in London, entirely obviating the old difficulty and coat of long porterage', and separate transit over 500 miles inland to Shaman.. Horennan it Co. have not been slow in taking advvintage of this privilege, as their Tea Inspectors now not only select the parcels which have undergone so sophistication, but also see Lie tea on ship board clam to the plate of prodnetion. llorniman's Pure Tees are of the choicest growths, • and the same description as tba Bleak and Green sorts usually sold, lint without the usual hluiali or intensely black facing. Their Green is of a natural olive hue, not qlnish. Sold in Packs* and by Antimind Agents only, as adveribsd is Ibis paper.