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Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DOUBLY FATAL OCCURRENCE AND DEATH OP A BRA.VE MAN.—On Friday morning a man named Sewell went down an old well at St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of clearing it out. He had not taken the precaution to lower a lighted candle in the first instance, to ascertain if the air of the shaft was in a proper condition and the result was that he became insensible shortly after reaching the bottom. A brave man, named John Tyler, a labourer volunteered to rescue him, and was lowered into the well. He reached the insensible man, raised him up, and gave the signal to wind up the rope. He had almost reached the mouth of the well with his burthen when—to the horror of the spectators—the rope broke, and both men fell a distance of 120 feet to the bottom of the pit. Twenty hours elapsed before safe access was got to the bottom of the well, and then both men were quite dead. Tyler has left a widow and two infant children.  The annual meeting of the Conservative Registration Association was held at Bolton on Wednesday. The report on the result of, the general election to the borough and county of Lancashire was read. It showed that the Conservatives polled 15 mole votes in 1865 than they had done in 3861; and. tho Radicals 63 fewer. Mr. Sowler, Q.C., seconded the motion for the adoption of tht,, report, in a speech of considerable length. With veod to the Reform Bill, he said that if the House passed such a measure, it would commit actual ,suicide. It was said that the bill would not be introduced until after Easter, but he questioned very much if the present Ministry would be in existence_ at Easter. The Jamaica affair might not 'pais unnoticed. The Government had taken measures Against Governor Eyre which were most unjust, and which the people of this country would not sanction, There would no doubt be a ferocious and'unwan rantable attack on the Irish Church and on the universities. His impression was that the Conservatives would more than hold their own in these contests.  Yon x
Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GRIMM AT LIVERPOOL.— Aristides Batty, a Greek gentleman—formetly of Constantinople, and recently connected with the house of Carafx & Co., at Liverpool, committed suicide on Friday in that town, by shooting himself through the head with a.pistol, in Parliament Fields, a large piece of unoccupied ground near the Prince's Park. It is said that a quarrel with an e2nploye of one of the local theatres was the immediate cause of this lamentable occurrence. The body of the unfortunate young gentleman, who was only twenty-two years of age,, was discovered early in the morning by some Working men. One half of the head was shot away, and the pistol used had evidently been loaded to the muzzle, as it was found near the body, with a barrel burst.'  The Rev. Joseph Hall, of Itnookholt, near Sevenoaks, has published a statement showing the unfair operations of the Endowment Minute on his schools. It appears that the li%ing is worth only £l4O per annum. Mr. Hall, through the kindness of an individual, was enabled to open a school in 1857 with an endowment of £5O, without which it would have been hardly possible to carry it on. Under the new Minute the result has been that he is subjected to what he calls an "Ecclesiastical income-tax" of £2O to make up for the withdrawal of the Government grant. We fear that Mr. Hall's case is not an isolated one. We could tell of many such. In one parish we know that the Charity Commissioners some years ago diverted moneys lilt for charitable purposes to purposes of education, which is now regarded as endowment under the new minute. Mr. Hall suggests that the new Parliament should reconsider the whole question of the Revised Code, and settle it once for all instead of putting forth a new version with variations from year to year, and points to the resignation of the secretary as most desirable.  Several session cases have been disposed of in the Central Criminal Court. George Crane was charged with causing the death of the woman with whom he cohabited in Southwark. He had kicked and beaten her so that she died. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years penal servitude. George Ringwood was charged with killing his wife at Paddington. Irritated by the taunts and abuse of the woman, he had stabbed her, ' and she died almost instantly. He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy, and the judge sentenced him to fifteen months' imprisonment. Elia Fermi was charged with stabbing Mr. George Dornbusch, in Gresham House. The defence of insanity was set up, but the jury found the prisoner guilty of intending to do grievous bodily harm. Ho was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. A boy named Harding aged 18, was put on his trial for attempting to murder an illegitimate child of which he was the father. The principal witness against bins was the mother, also very young, with whom he had cohabited for eighteen months. He was found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years. • THE CHURCH or
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-15 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DREADFUL SUIINUE BY A SOLDIER IN TI!1: CASTLE.-On Monday morning a private of the 74th llighlanders was fo.und dead in one of the washing-houses of the castle, with a gunshot wound in his head. Inquiry was at 0140 e made into the circumstances, and it was ascertained that loss had risen from bed about a quarter past six, and taking his own rifle and a conirade's ammunition pouch, had carried them to one of the e3ok-houses where he loaded the gun, lie then went to the wash-house, and discharged the rifle at his head, the ball entering under the chin, and coming out at the back of the head. Death must have been instantaneous. loss bore a very good character, and was an easy natured man, and a great favourite with his comrades. No cause can be assigned for the suicide. loss was visited in the barracks on Sunday by his mother and brother, and was then observed to converse earnestly with the latter. The unfortunate occurrence was on Monday reported to the Procurator-Fiscal, by whose order a po:t-mortelit CNIIIIIjII36OO made.  DENT' cImoNomETER, WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER to the Queen the Prince of Wales, and the late Prince Consort, and; Maker of the Great Clock for the Houses of Parliament, INVITES attention to the superior workmanship and elegance of design of his extensive stock of Watches and drawing room Clocks. Ladies' Gold Foreign Watches ... 7 Guineas. Gentlemen's ditto ... 10 ~ Ladies' or Gentlemen's Gold English Lever ditto ... ... 16 Gentlemen's Gold Compensation Balance ditto ... • 40 Silver ditto ditto 25 ~ Marine Chronometers ... 35 Gold and Silver Pocket Chronometers Astronomical, Turret and Bracket Clocks of every description. An elegant assortment of London made Fine Gold Albert and Guard Chains, &c. DENT, 61, Strand (adjoining Coutts' Bank,) 34 and 35, Royal Exchange; and at the Clock and Marine Compass Factory, Somerset Wharf, Strand, London.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-10-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

TERRIBLE TRACIEDY.—From %Taroslaw, on the Wolga, there conies a tragical social drama. , Mr. K., one of the richest landholders in the government of Tijul, was walk-; ing with a friend, 'whedsuddenly, without apparent provocation, Count It. sprang upon him, and struck him violently in the face. They fought next day, and the Count fell deal with a bullet in his breast. tie had lived in great retirement with his wife and two daughters in the castle adjacent to an estate of Mr. K.'s. The latter, a very handsome man, applied himself to the seduction of the Couant's eldest daughter, and, having succeeded, abandened her after a time in order to seduce her sister. The elder girl, furious with her lover, confessed all to her father, and hence the duel. The most romantic part of the affair is to come. Miss de It., in despair at her father's death, of which she accused herself as the cause, in her turn challenged her faithless lover; and when he refused to fight a woman she put on man's clothes and struck him in the pudic cafe. To avoid scandal, Mr. K. thought it advisable to fly from the woman he had injured, and he set out on a journey. It is said that Miss de It. has sworn to pursue and overtake him; and, judging from her previous conduct, she may well have the courage and energy to keep her word.  On Sunday afternoon a shocking tragedy was discovered at Old Windsor. Five children of a lean named Cook, formerly a hairdresser at Eton, were found to have been poisoned. Nothing having beep seen of the childivn for two or three days, a forcible entry was made into the house, where a frightful scene presented itself. Three of the 'children were found lying dead side by side. Of the two others, one has since expired. The fifth, whose throat was also cut, still survives, and was immediately removed to the Windsor Infirmary ; but slight hopes, however, of its recovery are entertained. The murderer. their own father, who has recently lost his wife, after perpetrating the awful dead, attempted suicide by cutting his own throat, but did not succeed in severing the jugular vein. The sad event has cast a deep gloom over Windsor and its neighbourhood, where the family were well known,
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-06-09 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MOORS AND FORESTS OF PERTHSHIRE.  The prospects of sportsmen for the ensuing season continue to be of the most satisfactory nature. On the principal moors the hatching season among grouse is now nearly over, and numbers of the early-hatched broods will be immediately on wing. The late stormy, cold weather proved destructive to considerable numbers of newly-hatched grouse, and the birds suffered on the higher grounds from the want of water, owing to the beds of the hill burns being dry from the excessive drought. Rain fell heavily, however, all day on Sunday, and the weather has been more genial since. Notwithstanding the various drawbacks, grouse are numerous on the shooting grounds, and the young broods number from seven to ten birds each, and in some cases are large and well grown for this season. In all the preserves pheasants are pretty numerous, "and the hatching season well advanced. Partridges, wild ducks, hares, and all other kinds of game are rife and in good condition. The fawning season has commenced in the forests, and there is a prospect of a large stock of fawns. Pasturage is abundant in the glens, and the deer numerous, strong, and healthy.—The crop of this season's grouse is very abundant on most of the moors in Banffshire and Aberdeenshire, but the storms ot last week have been much against them, as a great many of the coveys are yet tender and young. The deer appear to be forward in condition. Some stags in Glenavon have already as many as nine points, and by the beginning of August the sportsman will find abundance of employment for the rifle.  Mr John Crawfurd Kerr, writer, Glasgow, is appointed Keeper of the Record of Sasines of Dumbartonshire.  On Sunday forenoon, the Rev. Gilbert Johnston, late Minister of Free Church, Govan, officiated in Govan Parish Church. _ _  Early on Saturday morning, a married woman named Berrie, residing in Rose Street, expired from the effects of a quantity of laudanum she had swallowed the previous evening. Deceased had been indulging to excess in liquor for some time past. . On Friday morning, about three o'clock, James M 'Auslan, a labourer, 28 years of age, and unmarried, committed suicide in the house of his aunt, with whom he lived, at 21, Incle Street, Paisley. The deceased is stated to have been labouring under "delirium tremens" when he committed the deed. The fine new saloon steamer Eagle, built by Messrs Connel & Co., which made her first trip to Rothesay on Saturday afternoon last,made her first return trip to Glasgow on Monday morning.—The new saloon steamer Chancellor took the station on Monday between Glasgow and Arrochar. She seems a comfortable and swift boat.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-03-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

RIFICE TO SHAKESPEARE..--It is suggested that the Nvorkobart in honour of Shakespeare should be a% Monumental Brass, and that the most active and ;conspicuous gentleman of the Commemoration Comthittee should furnish the material.—Punch.  The Queen has commissioned Mr. Perry to exc, • cute for her a Bust of Shakespeare, out of a fragment of lierne's Oak. The Prince of Wales has ordered a similar bust to be made from another fragment of this time-famous tree.  -The adjourned examination of William Weekly Ball, the man charged with having murdered a woman at Ringstead, Northamptonshire, fourteen years ago, was concluded on Thursday. A good deal of evidence was given against him, and he was committed for trial.  Mr. W. Clements, a Dissenting minister of Halstead, Essex, has joined the communion of the Church .of England. Mr. Clements has for more than thirty yeirs maintained the position of minister to a large congregation of Baptists. He is now contemplating admission to holy orders. William Roupell, the great forger, is, we understand, an inmate of the Convict Prison at Portsea, and is, at times, engaged about work in the dockyard, and also in levelling the old fortifications surrounding the town of Portsea, Which are being demolished by the Government. Amongst the 'voters who polled at the recent Brighton election was General Sir Arthur Clifton, of Barton, near Nottingham. Though 92 years of age, the, gallant veteran walked to the poll and gave his vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.  A fine strong and lively salmon, between two and three feet in length, is now in one of the ponds at the Regent's-park Zoological Gardens, having been brought there through the perseverance of Dr. Buckland.  Lankester held an inquest last week on an infant poisoned by a lozenge containing the forty.. eighth part of a grain of morphia, which had been given it for a cough. The coroner, as a warning, related the case of an infant's death having been caused by the 180th part of a grain. A suit for twopence, the smallest on record in a county court, occurred recently at Farnham. It was for paint knocked off a door by a boy flinging stones. The judge said to the boy, "Have you got twopence?" "Yes sir ?" "Then pay it into court." Twopence was handed up, and the plaintiff, who sought to recover the twopence, had to pay the costs, 3s. A determined act of suicide was committed on Wednesday at Doncaster, by William Groom, a labourer, who threw himself under the wheels of the engine of an express train, which passed over his neck, severing his head from his body. Deceased was believed to be affected in his mind. -  An expiosiOn took place at a colliery near Mold, - . „. , irk Wales, on Tuesday morning, of a rather serious , character. One man was killed and four others very severely, injured. Singular to state, the banksrean standing at the pit mouth was blown over the engine-house by the rush of gas from the pit.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-06-23 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ENGLISH LINES. Great Eastern Great Northern Great Western.  ...,,, . ~,,.... Lancashire and Yorkshire 39,213 34,170 London and North-Weatern 103,931 94,014 London and South-Western London and Brighton Manchester, Sheffield, &c 17,172 14,521 Midland North Eastern South Eastern  The death is recorded of Mrs Harris, at North Street, Braunton, Irorth Devon, aged 101 years and four months. The Gazette of Moscow says that 36 Catholic priests of the province of Grodno have embraced the Greek religion. We learn, says the Panama Star, that a proposition has lately been made to connect the whole ot the West India Islands by telegraph with the main land at Cayenne, in French Guiana, and at Key West, near Florida, if aguarantee of 6 per cent, on the outlay can be obtained. The cost is estimated at 300,000 f. The Shipping Gazette says—A maritime war between England and Germany, and no other contemplated, which means the despatch of one squadron to the Baltic and anuther to the Adriatic, the blockade, in the space of a few days, of every Prussian and Austrian port, and the removal, in an equally brief space of time, of every armed German vessel from the seas. A murder and a suicide have been committed in one family in France, owing to a child having eaten two strawberries. The daughter of aM. Renaux was about to go for the first time to communion, but the same morning eat two strawberries from a dish of the fruit. This prevented the ceremony, so strict is the Roman Catholic religion thereon. Her parents reproached her in severe language, and much terrified, she left her 'Anne in the night, and went to a farm adjoining the school she attended. Her mother, finding she had gone, thought she had committed suicide, and drowned herself in the Marne. The tragedy had not yet ended, for Madame Renaux's brother-in-law, who had already given signs of mental derangement, on hearing of his sister's disAppearanee, took a loaded gun with which he shot dead a servant man, and afterwards blew out his own brains.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-04-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE GOVERNMENT DEF. EAT..—The. Morning. Post says :—" The majority. against the County Franchise Bill on Wednesday consisted almost exclusively .of Conservative members, the only exceptions _being4 Mr. W. B. Beaumont, Lord Elcho, Mr. Finlay,' Sir W. Hayter, Mr. J. Mackie, and the Hon. W. H. B. Portman; and of these -perhaps not all can be said to retain even the appellation of Liberal." • On Saturday morning, a man named Bishop, who has for some years been in the employ of Messrs. W. & F. Dawson, printers and stationers of Bath, shot his wife with a- pistol in Cheap Street, one of the principal thoroughfares of the city. Immediately after committing the act, Bishop ran .to the central police station and gave himself into custody. The prisoner is said to have always borne a good character, but almost from the time of his marriage— some eighteen months since—has been subject to most provoking proceedings on the part of his wife. The woman was taken 'to the Bath United Hospital, when it was discovered that the injuries she had received are not likely to prove fatal. A' few months since, Bishop attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. The decision arrived at by the House of Commons on Monday upon the Government Annuities •Bill must be held to indicate, a deep distrust of Mr. Gladstone as a guide in political economy.. -The bill was referred to a select committee; -and :Sir Minto Farquhar, .at whose , instance this - was doe, dechired his resolution to make the cOmmittee• reality—a committee of inquiry, that is, into thel whole, subject of the bill, not merely into its Particular clauses. The Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated his intention of resisting this, so that a pretty fight upon the point looms in the future. We suppose .we shall hear_ nothing more of the subject for a long time. It, is virtually shelved; and such, then, is the end of .the great piece de resistance of the session ! We express no opinion on its merits ; but if it is -a good bill, Government should have been able to carry, or at . least to defend, it. .The general' 'domestic policy Of Government has long been contemptible. Their • foreign policy is shown to be all humbug; and it seems very much as if their finance. was following it. Even the Post-office Savings Banks, though a boon, perhaps, to one part of the public, art a decided nuisance to another. They have largely added to the irregularities and delays which marked our postal deliveries before they were established, The department is desperately-.overworked, and the public monstrously annoyed by this piece of dilettanti philanthropy—Press. .
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-06-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A most dreadful Occurrence has been disclosed in Liverpool. At a small house in Johnson Place lodged Joseph Henderson (a dock labourer), his wife, a daughter about six years old, and an infant boy of nine months. Henderson's wife some months ago manifested symptoms of insanity and was for a little time confined in the lunatic ward of the West Derby Union, but she afterwards became more quiet and rational, and was dismissed. On Sunday, however, she seemed rather unsettled in her mind, and her husband, who became very uneasy, after first consulting a priest, went to the parish surgeon and requested him to visit his wife. ghe surgeon did not come. The woman remained pretty quiet until Tuesday night, when after the family had been for some time lying on their bed of rags and straw, the infant (which was in the husband's arms) began to cry. Henderson passed the child over to his wife in order that she might suckle it, when.the child gave a sharp scream, and Henderson found that its throat had been cut. Full of excitementand horror he jumped up, and laid the infant, upon the table, but he had scarcely done so when he, saw his wife seize the little girl and plunge a knife into her throat. He rushed to the bed, and tried to snatch the girl from her maniac mother, when the latter inflicted a dreadful gash on her own throat and expired almost immediately. The infant died also soon afterwards. Some hopes are entertained of the recovery of the girl. On visiting the house on Wednesday morning a sickening spectacle was pregented, the table (on which the child had been laid), the floor, and the rags and straw which formed the bedclothes of the family, being saturated with blood. It is stated that Henderson's wife was in the habit of occasionally drinking to excess.  The Marquis of Tweeddale has arrived at Claridge's-hotel from Scotland. A list is published of ten successful competitors for appointments-in the Public Works Department in India. Three were Scotchmen ; the rest Irishmen.
Glasgow Courier. — 1864-12-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FROM LOVE.—A most atrocious and cold blooded murder WAS committed .on ' Saturday night at the village of Shirley, about two miles from Southampton followed immediately by the attempted suicide of the assassin. The murderer's name is Broomfield, a butler in a gentleman's family in London, and his victim was Mrs. Frederick Colburn, now resident at Shirley. It appears that the parties formerly lived together in a family at Alresford, as butkr and lady's- maid. Contrary to his wishes and desires, the latter married from that situation, and. Broomfield subsequently left and went to London, where lie has also since married. On Saturday afternoon he came down from London by the three o'clock train, and went over at once to the deceased's house at Shirley, where he was invift to take tea. After tea Mr. Colburn said to his wife that they had better go out and do their marketing, as it was Satu:day evening' on which Broomfield said, " Well, don't go out and leave mo here alone, but if you go your wife had better stop here with me." This wits objected to, and they went out together, leaving Broomfield alone. After they had been back a little while Mrs. Colburn was about to get supper, and her husband left the room for a few moments, when Broomfield immediately pulled out a revolver and fired at the poor woman, who ran to the back door and there fell dead. He then fired two of the barrels at himself, and ran after her, falling on her at the back door. He was subsequently brought into the Royal South Hants Infirmary, Southampton, where he has received medical asaistance, and it has been found that one of the shots passed under his lungs, and the first apparently passed off from the chest without doing any serious injury. He is not expected. to recover. Broomfield himself says that he came down from London to get her to go away to America with him, which she refused to do. The murder must have been deliberately planned in case of Mrs. Colburn's refusal to accede to his, request, as he brought the revolver down with him from -London, having, it is said, purchased it at a shop in Oxford. Street. Two shots were found in two of the barrels of the revolver after - the affair. Broomfield was asked why he committed the dreadful deed, and he stated that it was from love. No one, he said, knew what he had suffered during the last nine months.