The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1880-01-17 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

BALL.—We have no doubt that those of our leaders who remember and attended the eelebrfitel Coleshill balls of bygone days will be glad to leain that a revival has taken place by the brethren of the Mullen Lodge, No. 1782, and that a numerone party assembled on Ihursday last, at the Swan Hotel (where the Lodge is held) to celebrate their first Masonic ball, under the sanction and patronage of the Right Hon. and Right Worshipful Brother Lord Leigh, Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire, and the Very Worshipful Brother Lieut.-Col. Machen, Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire. Dancing commenced at half-past eight to the strains of Messrs. Svnyer and Gilmer's b6nd ; ane., through the kind concesslon of the local magistrates in granting an extension of time to the host, Brother Edwin Watson, until five o'clock the following mornink, a well-assorted programme was gone through with evident success. The ball was  opened by the Yv orshipf Master, Brother H. Bourne, and the principal officers of the Lodge, who undertook the stewardship and management. The assembly room was tastefully decorated with Masonic emblems, and the brethren appeared in the full Masonic coktume of their several degrees. A recherch6 banquet was served in the drawing-room at twelve o'clock, in the usual style so well-known to be provided by the host and hostess of the Swan Hotel. We hear that the proceeds of the ball will be devoted to the Masonic Charities; and as we have had, and are likely to have similar assemblies, Masonic and otherwise, in the immediate neirhbourhood this season, we think that the Machen Lodge may be justly proud of the extensive patronage they have received on this their first ball, and we sincerely hope it will be the forerunner of an annual affair.  &nom AT SMALL ElEArll.—About half-past ten o'clock on the morning of the 6th inst., a suicide Of a very dstermined nature was committed by a widow of independent means, named Sarah Ann Gould, residing at 116, Muntz-streot, Small Elea.h. Deceased, who was 61 years of age, had been living with her nephew, Mr. Farmer, for the last six months, during which time she had been in rather bad health. That morning she assisted Mrs. Farmer in hanging out some clothes to dry. She subsequently told tier niece that she felt tired and would take a little repose. Mrs. Farmer, who was engaged outside the house, shortly afterwards ,found her aunt hanging from a nail on the stair-foot door. Deceased had taken a clothes line which she had fastened to a nail in the wall, passing it over a nail in the stairs door, and at the end of the line made a slip-knot, which she had reached by the aid of a table standing near. Mr. Kettle, surgeon, Coventry Road, was at once summoned, and that gentleman on his arrival, pronounced life extinct. An inquest was held on Wednesday evening, at the Small Arms Inn, Small Heath,when it was deposed that the deceased owned property in the borough, and-her sole occupation was the collection of her rents. Relatives of hers had suffered from insanity, and had been confined in an asylum. This apparently pressed upon her mind, and she hanged herself behind the stairs door with a cloth es line, as above stated.—A verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind was returned,—Deceased, who was a native of Coleshill wasinterred here on Monday last.