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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-03-20 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

HALTWHISTLE BAND OF HOPE. The fifteenth monthly meeting of this society WEIS held in the Church Schools, Fair Hill, on Wednesday evening last. The Rev J. S. White occupied the chair. The company having sung a melody, Mr Smith engaged in prayer; after which the chairman delivered a very appropriate address. During his remarks he said that we should avoid all smoking and chewing of tobacco, and all snuffing, as well as alcoholic drinks, and ought to be determined that our leisure time should not be wasted. In conclusion' he wished the Band of Hope every success, and said he would be happy to assist in any way at some future time. The following programme was then rendered in an excellent manner :  Selection - - Band  Reading—Clara's sixpence and what came of it.... Mr J. Davidson Glee—Never Mind Choir Dialogne--Vanity punished Masters J. Lee, G. Little, D. T. Ridley, J. P. Bell, E. Thompson and H. Pattinson Address Mr R. Richardson Glee—Never say fail Choir Selection • Band —lt may be stated that the choir was under the able leadership of Mr W. M. Smith, who has for some time been teaching them the Tonic Sol-fa system of singing, and this was their first appearance beforepublic. The dialogue, which was of an interesting nature, contained a very useful lesson, and was gone through in a most efficient style. The address by Mr Richardson was his " maiden " one, in the course of which he related the story of David and Goliath, and referred to the giants that have to be fought at the present time, the greatest of which he said was intemperance.—Previous to the meeting the Drum and Fife Band met at the Bank Top and proceeded to the School-room playing a quickstep. The meeting was a decided success, there being a very large attendance of members and friends, and all seemed highly pleased with the evening's entertainment. At the close eight new members were admitted. At the Rural Sanitary Authority'smeeting on Thursday, a plan of a dwelling house, to be built at West End, Haltwhistle, was submitted to the Authority by Mr Robt. T. Liddell, Hall Meadows, and approved. ' suicide b A pitman named Stack committed cutting his throat on Friday night at New Herrington.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-06-26 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

WEST-ERN editor, in acknowledging the gift of a peck of onions from a subscriber, says: "It is such kindnesses as these that bring tears to our eyes." IT is the custom in the United States for married clergymen to give to their wives all the wedding fees which they receive. Art American paper says: "The sheep in Colorado have long wool, in which dust accumulates during summer. Then when grass has gone to seed the wind carries the seed into the meshes of the fleece. In winter the rain falls, the dust is turned to mud, in which grass grows, and then thousands of sheep may be seen travelling about in verdure clad, with their feed upon their backs." Tag English Grenadier Guards are described as ordinary-sized young men with light hair, blue eyes and very rosy cheeks. They are said to resemble young curates dressed up in bobtailed red coats. A KENTUCKY paper says that a meeting of the Legislature of that State sent up the following to the clerk: " Leave is asked to bring in A Bil to altar the time for the Legislater to meet. Refurtvid to the comity on Religen."  AN exchange paper says: "Seven runaway bridal parties recently arrived at a Kentucky hotel, eine after another, on the same day; and seven enraged papas were about two hours behindhand in every instance." That would make forty-nine enraged  PaPaa• Two cousins, named Crickett, were married last week in Jefferson County, Kentucky. We are opposed to such cricket-matches.  A FOOLISH beau threatened to commit suicide it a certain young lady wouldn't marry him, and told her of it to her face. "Oh, well," said she, "after you shall have given me that proof of your affection, I will believe that your love was genuine." SOME one tells of an Ohio tavern keeper, appointed collector of internal revenue, who got one day, in an envelope addressed to him officially a $5OO greenback, with a slip of paper, on which was written Conscience money." Ile put the bill in his pocketbook, without debate, simply remarking: "I always did suspect that barkeeper." Tam cattle in Kern Sliver Valley are afflicted with sore eyes. The malady is caused by optic overexertion in endeavouring to see from one blade of grass to another. The farmers of that region are now furnishing each cow with a pair of Mullers's spectacles of high magnifying power. This not only assists them in discerning their food, but it is said to add a grave dignity to their personal appearance. A CROWD of people in North Carolina who turned out in a rain-storm to see the first train of cars pass in that region, put down their umbrellas and kept very still so as not to scare the iron-horse from ths track.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-01-17 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

ELLXINATION OF THE ACCJSBD.  Another stage in the legal investigation into the charge of manier preferred against Jane Barron was reached on Wednesday. The period for which the unfortunate woman was remanded, on the day after her arrest, had then expired, and it became necessary once more to bring her before a justice of the peace. Accordingly, a court was had on Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock in the Superintendent's Room of the , Stanhope Police Office, and V. Rippon, Esq., was the magistrate in attendance. About half-a-wizen of the townspeople were permitted to witness the proceedings, which, it was well-known, would be but formal. Sergeant Rutherford brought Barron from her cell to the superintendent's room, and Supt. Thubron then said: I wish to ask for a further remand of this person, Jane Barron, who is charged with the murder of Rebt. Snowball, by striking him with a hammer. I apply that she may be remanded until the 21st inst., in order that she may be present at the coroner's inquest. Mr Itippon asked the prisoner if she had anything to say against this course being taken, but received no reply; and, after a pause, he told her that she would be remanded until the day named, the 21st January. He further added that lie supposed she would have to be produced before the coroner. Supt. Thubron replied that she would certainly have to appear at the adjourned inquest, as she had been bound over by the coroner. The prisoner was then taken back to her cell. During the time occupied by the proceedings, Barron did not speak a single word, and she seemed scarcely to understand the drift of what was going on round about her. In fact, she was unmistakeably in a state , of profound dejection, and when told to return to her cell she obeyed with a heavy, mechanical air painful to witness. She KM dressed in a neatly-made gown ; of brownish stuff, a small black and white checked , shawl, and a hat trimmed with gay purple and white ' ribbons.  —Ou Friday night, • gamekeeper named Eli Ride, 32 years of age, in the employ of Col Harrison, committed suicide by hanging himself with a cow-tie attached to a sycamore tree, near to his house. & small faithful spaniel dog was found crouching at his feet.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-08-21 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER BY  SOLDIERS.  At the N‘rwich Guildhall on Saturday-, Staff-sergeant Alexander Henry' Brown and Private Win. Davies, of the Army Hospital Corps, and Private 11. Pritchard. and Win. Sally, of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, were charged on remand with attempting to kill and murder John Smith, a private in the 2.17 th Regiment of foot. at Norwich Cavalry Barracks on the 3nl inst. The allegations against the accused arc that while Smith, who has died since the 3rd inst., was lying ill, they placed burning sulphur in his room stopping up all the air-passages, and thus endeavoured to stifle him.— Private Heap, of the Inniskillhig Dragoons, stated on the night of the 3rd inst., he heard cries of "Murder." He got out of bed and went to the window of his ward in the infirmary at the Norwich Barracks, from which ho could see into Smith's room in the infectious ward. He saw deceased lying on his bed and three men standing close by, but who they were and what they did he could not tell. He, however, saw into of them, with what appeared to be a sheet in his hand, also another with what seemed tube a pillow. After staying at the window for sonic time he was told by Sally to go to bed. But afterwards he returned to his point of view, and thea saw two lights burning very much like sulphur.—Heap was examined to show that he thought he had at one time joined the 12th Lancers, and had made upon oath a false declaration in doing so.—Other soldiers in the infirmary were called to support this evidence, and to show that the window of the infectiousward was closed when the lights were buruing.—The prisoners were further remanded for a week.  A young man named William March, a miner residing at liampsterley colliery, committed suicide by hanging himself at the colliery on Saturday night. Tile
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-09 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

RYTON.  A pleasant game between the above named football clubs was played on the seal at Hexham, on Saturday last, and resulted in a victory for the home team, after a keenly-contested match, by a try to nothing. The game was played in two "quarters" and two "twenties." Partly owing to the loose play of the Hexham forwards, who were unequal to their opponents in passing the ball, the ball was principally kept in Hexham territory, though the visitors, through the excellent play of the backs of the home team, were unable to score. In the first quarter the Hexham were obliged to touch down in self defence, but in the second, the forwards carrying the ball well forward, a try was obtained by Maughan. Oliver and Stowell played well for the Rytonians. Teams :—ltyton : T. Bagnail, beck; J. Bagnall, Stobart, and F. Oliver, halfbacks; H. Stowell, and J. Glass, quarter-backs; T. Maughan, T. Bell, J. Richardson, J. Rutter, Joseph Wallace It. Bennett, P. Spicer, G. Walker, and J. Euglass, forwards. Hexham: A. Michael, back: N. Cooke and W. Pattinson, hall-backs; R. W. Catherall and Cl. Brown, quarter-backs; It. Shanks, D. Lowe, E. Harrison, M. Killeen, T. E. Ellsworth, J. Rebson, J. Ainsley, Powell, H. Robson, and Cl. Maughan, forwards.  The bodies of two newly born children have been found in a bundle in a field at Dalton-in-Furness. This makes the sixth discovery of this kind at Dalton within a short period.  An explosion of fire damp occurred on Monday at Stonelaw Pit, Ruthorglen, near Glasgow. Three men were badly burnt. Mary Broadley was found dead at Port Glasgow on Sunday, the body bearing marks of violent usage. Her husband has b:wn arrested.  A gentleman named Lucas was found dead in the Southport and Manchester express on Monday. Heart. dkosse is supposed to have been the cause. John W. Tharloe has committed suicide at. Cottingham, near Hull, by putting his head through his pocket handkerchief, which he hung over the bedroom door, and then suspending himself. Death must have been very slow, and deceased could easily have freed himself.  At the Bury County Police Court, on Monday, a young man named Robert Heywood was committed to prison for twa months for assaulting Willaim Nuttall, a labourer. The assault was one of a very aggravated character, and the punishment is strangely incommensurate with the offence. Without any provocation beyond a rebuke for his impudent behaviour, the prisoner made a running kick at Hutton and broke oue. of his ankles. The aasault was committed in the middle of July, and the prosecutor wan even now compelled to use crutches.  SUDDEN DEATH OF A CHEMIST'S ASSISTANT Al' •
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-07-24 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

PROPERTY SALE.--On Tuesday, Mr Wm. Carrick, auctioneer, Haltwhistle, offered for sale at the house of Mrs Demaine' Little Corby, a small estate, called Bank Head, consisting of dwelling house, &c., and 28 acres of arable land, th i property of the late Mr Charles Wannop, Brampton. There was a large company present. Mr Tiffin, Allenwood, commenced with a bid of £5OO. After some spirited bidding lietween Mr W. Demain, Mr Robinson (Warwick Bridge), Mr Laidler, (North Rigg 11111, Lanercost), and Mr W. Clubs (Ctuiarenton, Irthington), the amount reached £1,155, Mr Robinsoi- being the last bidder. There being no further offers the property was withdrawn. Subsequently Mr Robinson for himself and brothers, increased his offer, and a sale was effected.—Messrs Carrick, Lee, and Sons were the solicitors.  sun the harvest will be early. Barley is a fine crop, but a good deal of it is getting laid with the heavy and continued nor. Turnips are looking splendid. The only drawback is that the wet prevents the land from being properly cleaned. Potatoes: There has been nothing like such a show for years. Mostly Scotch Champions are planted, and if they keep clear of fii...ease must be a plentiful crop.  William Ord, miner, was on Monday killed by a fall of roof at the Park Pit mines, neer Guisborongh. A woman named Jane Shotton, 37 years of age, living in Lower East Street, Middlesborough, committed suicide by taking poison on *outlay. An increase of £20,780 is reported in the receipts of the North-Eastern Railway for the week ending the 17th inst., the increase in the preceding week having been £15,484. -  _ A young man named Trenhold, was shot dead on Saturday near Redruth. He was getting over a hedge With a gun in his hand, when he supped' ana fell, and gun went off lodging the entireAtgte 'in his chest.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-07-24 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

THE RISCA COLLIERY EXPLOSION.  The work of Saturday was mainly devoted to bringing up bodies of hems, which was rendered imperative by sanitary considerations. The mournful work of searching for human bodies however, was not intermitted,and some 15 have been brought up, the identificatiosz being accompanied by the usual harrowing scenes. The road to the up.mst shaft has been reached, thus enabling exploration to be made in a northward direction. The ventilation is remarkably good, and it is thought a. considerable number of bodies will be found in the working about to re-opened. The inquest was opened on Saturday afternoon, but after formal evidence of identification had been taken it was adjourned to August 17th. Subsequently a further meeting was held at the Primitive Methedist Chapel, Noith Rica, when it was detereaued to form a local committee to receive subscriptions in aid of the sufferers. A meeting with a similar object was also held at Newport, the Mayor (Mr Henry Russell Evans) presiding. Mr A. M .P., sent in a cheque for £lOO, and others promised contributions. Thirteen bodies were recovered on Monday, some of them so dreadfully mutilated as to be beyond recognition. The company are anxious that the work of recovering the bodies shall be proceeded with ti@orously. The workings are being gradually ventilated; but the gas is difficult to remove, and the falls are numerous. From the returns made it appears that the number of killed is :—Married men leaving widows, 78; single men and widowers, 42; total killed, 120. 302 relations were dependent upon th ose killed. . The Lord Mayor of London has received nearly £2,000 in aid of the Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers.  Another bac h a Swede and Danish emigrants poseed through Newcastle on Sunday en route for New York.  Sunday school centenary celebrations were held at Walker and Cramlington on Saturday.  Sir Matthew Wt.; Ridley, Batt, M.P., has taksu 25 shares in the Blyth Fish Buying Company, Limited.  A book canvasser, named James Smith, committed suicide by hanging in a lodging-house at Blyth, on Sunday. A new church, St. Simon's near South Shields, was consecrated and opened on Tuesdhy for Divine service by the Bishop of the Diocese, the Right Rev 3. B. Lightfoot, D.D.  The regular period of drill preparatory to the annual review was commenced by the Northumberland Rue-says on Monday, under the command of their colonel, the Earl of Raven.su-orth.  , Information has reached this country that an order for five more meu-of -war to prepare for the Pacific waa despatched by the Russian Admiralty to Cronstadt last Tuesday. All the cruisers of the Moscow fleet, six in 'number, will be formed into a special squadron under the command of Captain Count Grippenberg. Grippenberg is considered the cleverest Russian officer afloat. Among his fellow-officers his dash and fearlessness have obtained for him the title of the " Rooski Nelson," the "Russian Nelson." '
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-07-31 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

FAIRS.  ALNWICK JULY FAIR, July 26.—This fair was attended with the drawback of most unfavourable weather. Lambs were a shbrt supply, and commanded increased prices, the advance being conildered fully is 6d per head. Bred lambs were from 29s to 32s per head, and half-bred ditto from 21s to 265. There were not many lots of cattle in good condition; what there were sold quickly, but inferior lots met with a poor sale. Shorthorns sold as Under :—Two-year-old steers, £l3 to £l4 each; ditto heifers, £l2 to £l4 each; li-year old steers, £8 to £lO each; ditto heifers, £lO 16s to £ll each. Half-bred Irish beasts, £9 to £ll each. Cows, £l2 to £l3 each. Of wool there was a good deal sold. All hogg (per stone) was 308 to lie; half-and-half, 28s to 30a; and all-ewe wool, 26s to 278.  James Reginald Nash, a student of St John's College, Cambridge, was sentenced to onemouth's imprisonment, at Cambridge assizes, on Monday, for perjury. Three men were on Monday drowned by the capsizing of a boat which left Castle Town, Isle of Matt, for Port Erin.  --- - -- - ---Mr Moore, the Warwick borough coroner, held an inquest on Monday, on Mr John Roberts Nunn, aged 49, surgeon of Her Majesty's prison at Warwick. 'rhe evidence showed that deceased took a quantity of prussic acid, and died almost instantly. Verdicts " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity." A young Swim doctor, accompanied by a friend and two guides set out some days ago, intending to ascend the Wetterhorn. Nothing has been heard of them sinceb and it is feared that the whole party have perished. A landslip occured on the mountain the day the tourists started, and it is supposed the unfortunate men were hurled down the precipice.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-05-01 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HOWBURN.  A sad case of attempted suicide occurred at Howburn, between Whitchester, and Haltwhistle, on Wednesday morning. The person who made an atterept upon her own life was a married woman, named Mary Ann Walton, the wife of a pitman, about .50 years of age, and who has a family, all of whom are grown up with the exception of two. She appears not to have enjoyed her usual health and spirits for some short time past, and when her husband left home, at six o'clock in the morning on the day in question, to go to his daily , labour, she was engaged as usual carrying outlier house- ' hold duties. When her husband left the house the woman was left alone with her two youngest children, and about seven o'clock she had gone into the pantry and locked the door, and attempted to take away her own life by cutting her throat with a large carving knife. The first evidence of this was seen in the streams of blood which began to pour through beneath the pantry door. The two children observing this ran to the nearest neighbour's house, and sought assistance. The door was broken open, and the poor woman found I lYing in a pool of her own blood with a large gaah on the right side of her neck, the instrument with whioh the deed had been done—a carving kuife—lying close by bespotted with gore. Happily, however, neither the jugular vein nor the wind-pipe was injured, and the woman was still alive. Dr Spiers was immediately sent for, and was soon in attendance, accompanied by his assistant, Dr Meehan. The poor woman was laid on to a long settle in the kitchen and the wound sewn up and dressed. On Wednesday night she was lying in a precarious condition. Our latest information says that the poor woman is still very weak, and in great danger.
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-10-02 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

GENERALI:NEWS.  Alderman McArthur, M.P., was on Wednesday elected Lord Mayor of London.  There was married at Gateshead, the othes dly a couple whose uuited ages were 162.  'rho workmen of Coxlodge Colliery have ceased work became their wages have been reduced 3d per ton.  Several pita belonging to the Earl of Durham have been laid idle in consequence of the union men refusing to go down in the same cages with the non-union men. The Union Company's steamer Pretoria, which is bringing back Sir Bartle Frere, is e`spected to arrive in Plymouth on Sunday or Monday next.  Miss Florence Mary Offin' daughter of Mr T. Offin, of Rayleigh, Chelmsford, committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol in a field a short distance from her father's residence:  The Bishop of Liverpool, after preaching to an overcrowded working-class congregation at St. Martin's-in-the-Pields, Liverpool, on Sunday night, was hooted by a North-end Irish mob as he drove home, and missiles were thrown at his carriage. Glanders has broken out in a very severe form on the farm of Mr Thompson, Lutton Marsh, Lincolnshhe. Six horses worth £3OO have already been •slaughtered. and it is feared eight others will have to be destroyed.  According to an official document recently issued the sum remitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the year ending the 31st March last, by sundry persons for conscience sake amounted to £5,801 19s 4d. In the preceding year the amount was £6,732 les 3d. On Tuesday, at an inquest at Upchurch, Sitting bourne, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Lewis, one of the Peculiar People, for having neglected to summon medical aid to his child, which, after wasting seven days, died. Accord. Mg to the practice of the sect, the elders had anointed the infant and prayed over it, Joseph Phippen, a prisoner in Bristol gaol, has met with his death in an extraordinary manner. The bed en which he was sleeping in his cell was supported on two blocks of stone, and falling out in his sleep he struck his chin against one of these so violently that he broke his neck, and death was instantaneous. A