Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-08-17 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ROOSS-411011•11 CASTRO."  The Queen has been gracioaaly pleased to give ordere for the appointment of Vioe•Adroirai ,eoffery "rhomes Phipps floroby, Cornmainbm-m• oust of her illajeaty'a naval forces in the Mediter• raueau, to be anordinary member of the military !Ninon of the second class or Knights Commanders if thy moat honourable Order of the Bath.  - . Mr P. J. Smyth, M.P., has announced that he will not seek to election for County Westmeath. In LOO present state of Irish opinion thn hon. member says be prefers not to be classed amongst the par. .iamentary representatives of his country. Toe Press association is officially informed that .ter Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct ..hat Mr John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., be sworn a .nember of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council. The Quoen ilas been pleased to confer the .ionour of knigtithool ou Mr James Salmon, M.D., luspector•Gensral of Hospitals. . .  Representatives of employers and employed in the wrought-nail trade met on Tuesday afternoon is the hachange, Birmingham, with the view of settling the present dispute, whereby some 25,000 operative are on etrike. After considerable die uussion, the meeting terminated without arriving at any result. Soule one has found out that the season a woman arnica throw a etone as straight as a man is because oer collar bone is differently chapel to the collar one of the stronger sex. This is a matter to winch the attention of the Woman's Rights Atm ..eatten s .ouid be directed withot.t. delay. If ever women are to ho in all respects the equals of men, .redistribution of collar bones is &primary neon. dt 7.—Jody. The first statuary meeting of the creditors of James Ashworth, of Burslem, Colliery Proprietor, gas held on Friday the 9th instant, at the Norte Stafford Hotel, Stoke•nimn-Trent, when a neatement of affairs was presented by Mr James Board• roan, the receiver, showing liabilities 516,532, ant aiweis £3,429. Liquidation by arrangement wan re..olved upon, and Mr James Boardman, of Id Market Street, Mauch.ster, accountant, was ap. pointed trustee; Masers Barnwell, Pennington, and Brad-haw, of Balton, to reginer the resolutions, SUICIDE THROUGH Loin.—A woman named ! Finuh, about thirty years of age, residiog at Standish, has cumulated suicide under distressing mrcutionancee tine had been keeping compent witn a young man in the village, but a quarrel took place, and Bentham, her loser, threatened to leave the dietrict. High words took place on Sunday and shortly after an interview between them the woman is said to have taken come vitriol, having previously tried to dispose of her life by drinking iodine. Medical help was sent for, but the woman died on Tuesday morning. It ie maid that Bentham has since left the neighbourhood for Australia. A Coroner's jury at Noah have committed for trial, on the charge of man:laughter, a woman named Fincent, whose child has died from etarvation. ,The priiioner's hu:band, whole abroad, Rent her large souse of money which she spent with a inert named Meals, systematically neglecting her children, who were so ravenously hungry that they fought with the fowls for the refuse in the atreet. —At Cardiff another woman, named Catharine Gregory, has been committed for trial for neglect.. mg her infant, which, though six months old, only weighed 6lbs.