Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-07-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SORROW'S LIST CURE.  There are few point@ of identity in the sorrowful Stories of the two women who committed suicide in Durham, last week (remarks the Daily Net.), beyond the fact that each had come to the conviction thee the only refuge for the troubles that beset her was to be found in the rushing waters of the Wear. The poor servant, Mary Kellet, though described as " • Very fine girl," had scarcely attained to full womanhoed When, with trembling hand anti eyesight dim .With tears, she eat down one night to pen the ,mournful farewell. 'You moat not break your 'heart over me, mother dear, as you have more besides me ; " adding," I have not seen much of the world, but I winh to soe less." The few blurred and hurried lines were subscribed, "From a helpleu girl." That was all, but in another brief note to • friend which she appears not to have had the courage to forward, since it was found in the pocket of her dee,, after death, some gleam of light seems to be thrown upon the state of her mind by a vague reference to "one that has brought me to it." Soon after six o'clock on the following morning, some persons at a distance On the iiver bank observed the figure of • woman standing is one of the recenes on the Prebend's Bridge. It was this poor girl of 18. There was • moment of hesitation; • frenzied glance at the moving stream; then, as if unable to bear the sight of the dread depth, yet firm in her desperate resolve, she bound her handkerchief round her eyes, and took the fatal leap into the river, 70 feet below. Assistance was quickly at hand, but it was too late; Mary Keller., when her body was discovered, was beyond the reach of human sympathy. Widely different in Its details, but not less sad, is the tale of Isabella Cosgrove's lamentable end. She was a poor widow, who at 31 years of age had necessarily seen more of life than had fallen to Mary Helloes experience; and she, too, had found little that seemed to her to render existence worth a further struggle. She had, it seems, a little boy, for whom she had probably done ter beat; but she had been seized with some obscure affection of the brain, arising, it is said, from the sudden abock of witnessing the murder of Superintendent Scott, who was shot dead in the etreet in Durham about a twelvemonth ago. Dismissed from the infirmary, Isabella Cosgrove had drifted into the workhouse, and had been beard to complain of being associated there with epileptic patients whose fits were a terror to her. More tine once she had been known to say that she "would rather die " than go heck to the workhouse. It was evidently under the Influence of some such feeling that she rushed  wisp akoold be againet vussiy. down to the river's bank and there, like her None but direct villains are capable of wilful ingrati- , unhappy counterpart, found at length "surcease of tude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he ' sorrow." Isabella Cosgrove also wrote her farewell. bath done more than another deserves, while the other It was in these words "Dear Aunt—l write these think, he bath received less than be deserves, few lines to you to let you know that I have a good A NUMBER of reindeer have been imported from bed and • pair of blankets at Mrs. Smith's down Norway, and turned out on a forest in the North of the paper-shop yard and I am done with it If Seotlaud, in the hope that they may become acclirea- It is sold it will get Tom a good working suit. I tised. hope God will bless and spare your life for his TIFIB inmortance. of the fishing induetry. to the sake : for I have done all wrong. I hope he will nation may be gathered from the factsthat it annually ; turn out well. Good night, dear Tom, and be a good gives employment to wine 45,000 men and boys, and ; boy for your own sake. I will do anything rather that the value of tale landed amounts to £4,000,000. I than go to the workhouse any more. lam just out Tea largest organ in the world, intended for Sydney. of my mind for going. I have got what I won't get Town Hall, has been erected at Islingten. It is 60ft, shot of. Good night.. The obscure hints of faults high, covers 200 square feet of ground, has 126 stops ! committed were charitably and justly disregarded by and five rows of keys (manuals), anal •is blown- by a the jury, who came ton verdict of "Suicide while gas engine. It has cost £15,000, and has taken three temporarily insane." It is sad to reflect that in years to build. I Durham, where these two tragic episodes have Tee Monastery of Melk, in Austria, has just cola- Oesurred within the last few days, there is doubtless brated the 800th anniversary of ita foundation. I,mtiny a kind-hearted person who would gladly have Woven are at last permitted to practise medicine aided and comforted with advice thee' two poor for. in Canada, and the first to receive a licence is Miss fern creatures. But unhappily the world knows but Mitchell, of Kingston, a graduate Of Queen's Univer- , little of what goes on In its midst. sity. As the State of Nebraska—a State liner—was " Noremo would ever !nduce me to order a band to steaming up the Clyde, a poor old woman, who was play on a Sunday." The reply of General Sir Leicester on her way home to Ireland, unaccountably eons- Smy Oh who commands the Southern District, to a mined suicide by hanging herself. i letter on the subject. "But," adds he, "where playRARE', le has the supply of strawberries been so ' ing is absolutely voluntary, then I must say I see no abundant in l'aris. Pottles of the fruit are sold at military objection to it. I have often been delighted such an infinitesimal rate that the poorest of the to witness the evident enjoyment of vast numbers of citirens in the Faubourg St. Antoine can afford a hard-working people, their wives, and children when dessert almost as luscious aa that of Dives and listening to the bands on Sunday afternoons in the Greens in the Champ-Elysees, public parka of London.*  MEXOBANDtiId 101/315