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The Cotton Factory Times. — 1897-11-05 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The story opens in the Cheetham Arms, 'Parton, where Geoffrey Bradshaw, bead keeper at Turton Hall, accidentally overhears two men making light of the good name of his daughter, Katie Bradshaw. Going home, be makes known what he has heard to Katie, and because she will not reveal her marriage, and the name of her husband, tarns her out of doors. Katie is about to become a mother, and going through Turton Wood, finds a body on the grass which she thinks is that of her husband. Believing that her father has killed him, she is about to commit suicide on the railway close by Sough tunnel, but is rescued in the nick of time by Tom Riley, a collier. Tom takes the girl home, and tells his mother he intends to shield her in her trouble. At the inquest, it turns out that the man dead in the wood was not Katie's husband, Arthur Lascelles, but his brother. Katie, however, is insane, and cannot give evidence. The verdict of the jury is one of suicide, and Tom Riley is mystified. He endeavours to obtain information respecting the brothers from a lawyer who attended the inquest on their behalf, but fails. Tom Riley's mother dies soon after the birth of Katie's child, but his widowed sister, Mrs. Duckworth, coming home from America, consents to take the place of Mrs. Riley. Then Katie, not liking Mrs. Duckworth, runs away, being still insane, and Mrs. Duckworth, tempted by the offer of a pound a week from the family lawyer of the Lascelles family, also goes away, taking the infant with her. The second part of the story opens when Katie Duckworth—Mrs. Duckworth having passed off the child as her own—is 19 years old, and a weaver in • Darwen mill. A lovely girl, sue might have had numbers of lovers, but she has shown little favour to any with the exception of a young mechanical engineer named Will Raiford. A casual visit from the old lawyer makes Mrs. Duckworth fancy that Katie is about to be taken away from her, and the theft of a BIM of money representing the wily woman's savings since she adopted Katie, makes the girl suspicious that there is some secret connected-with her own parentage. The thief is discovered, but Mrs. Duckworth will not prosecute, the guilty man having also taken a number of letters which would have revealed the secret of Katie's parentage. At this period of our story one of its most prominent characters comes on the scene—Moses Bennett, a weavers' overlooker, who has fallen in love with Katie, and has determined to win her. He finds in Mrs. Duckworth an old sweetheart, and with a view to have some hold on her, buys the cottage in which they live. At a picnic party at Turton Jungles Katie meets Lieutenant Egerton, who singles out the beautiful factory girl as his partner in several dances, thereby rousing the jealousy of Will Radford and the fury of Moses Bennett.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1897-06-25 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENT.  The opening scene of the story is laid at Maryland, in the vicinity of Beech Grove, Madam Delmar's fashionable seminary. Doris Brandon, the heroine of the story, has been taunted before the school by Madam Delmar, whose ward she is, with her dependence upon Madam, and Doris longs for release from her dreary prison, and freedom. Having been entrusted by Vivian Courtney, one of the school girls, to watch for her sweetheart, who is expected by train, she goes .to execute her errand, handing him a letter from Vivian expressing her disappointment at having had to return home, and to cancel her appointment to accompany him to a dance. Frederick Thornton consoles himself by talking romance to Doris (who tells him how she had been left as a baby on the steps of the Seminary), and succeeds in gaining her affection. With the mere idea of giving this beautiful, lovely girl a bright evening of innocent happiness, he impulsively offers to take her to the ball. Doris has to slip oat clandestinely from the seminary to avoid the notice of her guardian, and on returning after her first real taste of pleasure, she finds the gate closed. She knows madam will never let her enter the house again, and throws herself entirely on the protection of Frederick Thornton, who is now reckless through having compromised himself and Doris, and marries her the same night. Immediately after the ceremony, remorse overtakes him, and he promises to care tor her, but prays heaven he may never look on her face again. Finding he has married her without love, Doris takes in the whole situation, and on a leaf torn from her marriage register she writes her husband a note intimating her intention to take her life, and direct from the altar she goes to carry out her fell project. Frederick Thornton goes in search of his wife, and finds her just in time to prevent her committing suicide. Rightly conjecturing that her husband has not received her letter of farewell, she returns to the vestry and destroys it. The couple take the night train for Baltimore, en route for Thornton's home, and in the coarse of the journey the husband confesses that had it not been for his taking Doris to the fatal ball he would base married Vivian. After arrival at the hotel Thornton disappears, and Doris learns that he has deserted her. The fact is, however, that he has been knocked down by a horse in the street and sustained a serious fractnre of thelskull. His identity is easily established, and his mother nurses him through a fortnight of terrible suspense, during which time Doris is entirely ignorant of his whereabouts. The accident has entirely obliterated everything concerning Doris and his marriage from Thornton's memory, nothing is known of the circumstance to his relatives (whose address is also unknown to Doris), and Frederick Thornton and Vivian Courtney embrace each other as sweethearts on meeting, both ignorant of the fatal barrier that separates them.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1897-12-31 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EIGHT PER CENT CLAUSE.  A correspondent writes : One would have thought that after so recent an unsuccessful attempt by a number of employers to bring about a general reduction in wages in the weaving department, and which was only averted through the action of the Weavers' Amalgamation, we slniuld have heard the last, at least for some time, oi any combined action on the part of the employers to interfere with the weaving prices with a view to bringing about a redaction in wages. Every district within the area of the Amalgamation will now be in possesion of information that their general secretary has been notified, through the secretary of the Employers' Association, by a proposal for the annihila• tion of a portion of the sateen arrangetneat which at present governs the prices paid for these cloths, and which includes sateens, drills,rind drillette as well. Clause 1. would be affected under this proposal, which allows eight per cent up to and inelnd. jug 25 nicks over and above plain cloth prices, elt are made in place of low and high picks in Clause 6 of uniform list. This cla use has often been objected to by the employers, and will, if brought Mt° effect, do away to a great extent, if not entirely, with the extra percentage for nigh picks. The sateen hgreernem came into operation in 1886, but since the coming into force of the present uniform list in 1892, there has been endless of bother with the deductions and additions to the reed clause, mainly in reeds over 68, where there are three or inure ends in a dent. Tie reed and pick clauses are the mails clauses in the agreement, and if we loose these two the list will drop below plain cloth prices. One large emploree of sateen cloths who is now paying 33. d. under the list, has informed the Amalgamation officials that he has no desire te deviate from the present agreement, but while the employers in other districts are allowed to pay almost what they like, he would have to have an advantage which the list does not provide in order to compete with other makers in the same maricet. I have every reason to believe that the operatives—mainly those outside the weavers ludo:A—are to blame to a great extent for this tampering with the sateen list, preferring to weave them at a reduced rate rather than weave plain cloths. There is scarcely a district but what the officials have this difficulty to fight against in obtaining the proper price, and until the operatives abandon this syetem of making private arrangements with their employers there wilt continue to be this utlibhrig at the list, which is the cause of to much Motion between the employers and the operatives. What the weavers want to do is to identify themselves with the weavers' unions by becoming members, and thee strengthen their own position and at the same time assist their fellowmembers who have been contributing their share towards olitaiuing the alvantageri which oreatiisetion has accomplished for the teetile  Suicide of a Factory Hand at Burnley.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1885-01-16 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

BUCHANAN BURKE.  WERE' MEM ERRS IR PARLIAMENT EVER PAID ?—in primitive days, honourable members were paid by their constituents, and, besides the usual presents of a horse to ride to parliament, were entitled, by a statute of Edward IL. to four shillings a day if they represented a shire, and half that sum for a borough. The famous Andrew Marvel, member for Hull in 1661, is said to have been the last who received parliamentary wages. Occasionally the electors were able to strike an economical bargain. As an instance, we are told that "John Strange, the member for Dunwich in 1643, agreed with the prudent burgesses to take his wages in red herrings." We are further informed, that " in the same reign the citizens of York, being anxious that the dignity of that ancient corporation should be properly represented, unanimously agreed that their members should be allowed four shillings a day if they kept a house in London during the session, but only two shillings if they went to board.—Willie's Current Notes." . .  A Hssanr.ss WlFE.—Norton Wadsworth is one Of those men who are liable to give way to despondency. On such occasions he threatens to commit suicide. Not long since some thing went wrong, and he threatened to drown himself m the cistern. "Not in the-cistern. We are using that for drink. ing water," replied Mrs. Wadsworth, who has no nonsense ih her composition. "Yes, I'm going to drown myself in he cistern." "Very well," she responded, calmly; "get through with the rash act' SA soon as convenient, but take off those shoes first." "What for ?" "Because some man who has got some sense will be slipping into your shoes, and I don't want them spoiled. Water hardens shoes, and if he has corns the hard shoes will hurt them." Wadsworth, instead of taking a header and disappearing, shut the trap door of the cistern with such violence that the neighbours thought burglars , were blowing a safe open—Texas Siftings.  si HARD TIMES," a Wonderful Story of the Cotton Panic, Opens on page 3 of this issue. Read the Tale, and yea will never forget it.
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1885-07-10 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TRUE JOURNALIBT.—The new reporter came in covered with perspiration and dust, as the last forme went down to press. "Did it take you all day to do that waterworks detail ?" snarled the editor. " ! speak low," whispered the new "special" in the editor's ear. "Got on an Al suicide in the park defalcation, probably." Great Omar! and we've gone to press," gasped the editor. "The afternoon papers will get a beat on us to-morrow." " Not much!" chuckled the reporter. "I knew I couldn't get here in time for the last edition, so I just queered the find." " What do you mean ?" "Why I dragged the body into the bushes, and covered it no with grass and thity,•s. A bloodhound couldn't find it. To-morrow we develop the claim, and give 'em a two-column sensation." With tears in his eyes the editor arose and fell upon his subordinate's neck. "You are an honour to your profession," he sobbed. "11l see that your salary is increased half-a-crown a month. I will, by Jingo."  An instance of well-merited reward for persre verance and courage wan that of a commercial traveller who was expecting a large order from a country tradesman, but arrived in the town on fête-day. Finding the shop closed, he inquired as to the whereabouts of the proprietor, and ascer• taming that he was attending the fete, about a mile out of town, went thither after him. When he arrived th3re a balloon was just going to ascend, and to his dismay he saw his man stepping into the car. Plucking up courage however, he stepped forward and asked to be allowed to ascend. There was room, and he entered the car. In a few moments away went the balloon; and it was not until the little party was well above the tree-tops that the enterprising " commercial" turned towards his customer with the first remark—" And now, sir, what can Ido for you in calicoes ?" Catching the humour of the position, and not unwilling to reward such perseverance, the astonished tradesman gave his pursuer as large an order as he could manage, with the excusable proviso that in future he should on allowed to utnottwakaes hthi tmveepleasureu ju r to curnsta.nce to his brethren of the road. peace etion and ahe that cir  prase all hi hum. misg jug, firm'  rout of ti Bet , stair ing I  an, been all c swot the t up?:  hadi you will whs. and Rj lie i Eaull: PW But den(  lar int ele Ha his  ! Ii  "Jill
The Cotton Factory Times. — 1885-12-25 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

POCHL)ALI  SAD SETCIDE OP A RETIRED COTTON SPINNER.-011 Thursday evening week a very startling and painful sensation was created throughout the town by the said news that Mr. Thomas Ogden, a well.known cud highly respected gentleman of Rochdale, had committed euicide. Mr. Ogden had been retired from business as a cotton spinner for some time, end was at the time of hie death residing at 20, Kinotrest South. He had a large number of associates, and was exceedingly well known in the town, being much estemed by all who knew him. On the morning in question the deceased called at the Castle Inn, Manchester-road, and after being sapplied with a drink asked the landlord, Mr. ffilward Stott, if he had got a good razor he could lata him, as he wanted to shave himself that mornseg, The landlord answered in the affirmative, and hitched him a razor, which he gave to hint, and at fee same time alleeed that it was a new ono and had never been used. Mr. Ogden accepted the razor aud left the house, it being about ten minutes teem eight o'clock in the morning, and he proceeded in the direction of what is called the s Gullet." About six or seven minutes later the landlord's attention was drawn to a number of people running down the "Gullet." and he at once wont out to see what was the matter, and to his astonishment found it was Mr. Ogden, who only a few minutes previous had left his house, had rat his throat with the razor he lent him. Mr. Stott put his handkerchief to the wound to prevent it from bleeding so profusely. The deceased had inflicted a cut extending from ear to ear, and died in the course of a few minute, At the coroner's inquest held the same day, not the slightest evidence seuld be given as to why the deceased had corns itted the deed. The Coroner. Mr. Molesworth, - ,orarniug up to the jury, said: I myself hold the ; e on that no man would do a thing of this sort iilst he was in his sane mind—ehear, hear)—and t e fact of doing such is thing is sufficient evidence ine that he was of unsound mind at the time he mmitted the act. Therefore I direct you to iug in a verdict that he committed suicide whilst mporarily ines.ne. A verdict to thie effect was i mediately returned.
The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-08-26 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE BRAVO CASE.  The foreman of the jury writes from Upper Tooting as follows to the Daily News :—There is no doubt that Mr. Bravo was poisoned by tartar emetic. This being the ease, it appears to me that your numerous correspondents, who have "no doubt," and assume that he either committed suicide or killed himself inadvertently, have to account for the possession by him of tartar emetic, cf which there is not one little of evidence. Surely the opinion of the jury, who had the opportunity of hearing all the case, and of watching the demeanour cf the witnesses, is worthy of more credence than that of those who set up a theory which they cannot prove, and who seem to make use of your columns to give vent to their disappointment i that the verdict is not _n accordance with their own views.  "An Apprentice of Lincoln's Inn" has sent a letter to the Lally Telegraph, in vwhich he contends against the theory of Mr. Bravo's suicide. The writer thus summarises what he conceives to be the probabilities of the case. "If Mr. Bravo had been, as we are asked to believe, thoroughly miserable and unhappy in his domestic relations, he yet must have known perfectly well how to free himself from his troubles, and was a man of sufficient strength of • character to take, if necessary, very bold steps. Re or hvaev eo bttaaki taken d par ejeueddiicnigael fseerp ard eaitiilogne ef r; oemr hi he wcoiufeld, Could have forced upon her a separation by mutual consent; or he could simply have left her, gone back to his own parents, and thrown upon her the bility of taking her own course. What we arreeB- °Fiksid married life, he preferred to poison himself rather thanogo his way and leave his Wife to go hers; that, being ; and that, to believe is that, being wretchedly unhappy in his Pan 0.a barrister, and having about poaacquaintance with medicine, be deliberately ChoB b the most painful of ri ea dte hlyer committing mbit:ting suicide selfish man, who had never cared balelinpgosasitbhleormouegthhOlyde of committing meld° her money hf oer his twi wasfe andha capabled only because her affections were not sufficientty set ydnelariber upon him. People who can deal with inconsistencies or this kind can deal with anything, and Pre welcome, if they please, io believe everything that Mrs, Cox has at any time man a stated duzisg the QOUne Of the
The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-07-22 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

THE EARL OF DERBY ON THE EASTERN QUESTION.  Two important utterances on the Eastern question were made on. Friday by the Earl of Derby. The first was to a deputation of representatives from the Peace Society, the National Reform Union, and several pro. vincial Liberal Associations. A memorial was pre. sented, in which a hope was expressed that Government would observe a policy of strict neutrality, except when it may be able to interpose its friendly offices to , mitigate the horrors or to hasten the close of the con. filet; and Mr. Bright enforced the sentiment that the Government should not give support to the continued dominance of the Turks in that portion of Europe now disturbed. In reply, our Foreign Minister observed that, as regarded the material part of the memorial, the feeling of the memorialists was absolutely and entirely his own. He said the silence of the Govern. ment was only maintained so long as the negotiations were going on, and there was hope of the quarrel being settled by pacific measures. He justified the refusal of the Government to join in the Berlin Note on the grounds that it was felt that the particular plan proposed would not work, that a considerable body of the insurgents would not accept it, and that the compromise suggested would be likely to end in a general misunderstanding. The despatch of our fieet to Besika Bay was, he said, the result of steps taken at Constantinople in concert with other great Powers. His Lordship proceeded to remark that he thought it the most improbable thing in the world that, in consequence of anything now passing within the limits of the Turkish Empire, a general European war should ensue. He did not see the quarter from which the war was to come. France and Italy, from financial and other reasons, were utterly indisposed to take any step which would create a general quarrel; nobody supposed that England could want a European war; Austria, if only in the interest of her own security, would not desire to break the pause; and the Emperor of Russia was e, sincere lover of peace. The doctrine of absolute indifference was not one that this country had ever professed, and he observed that, if England were to be silent altogether on this subject, there would be one voice less on the side of peace. The Government had failed in their efforts to prevent the war breaking out, and they would now do all in their power to keep. it within certain limits. Referring to the action of this cotntry twenty years ago, Lord Derby said. although we undertook to gunrantee Turkey agamst foreign foes, we never undertook to guarantee it against suicide or natural death. At the impression of the Minister's speech, Mr Bright said his was that it would have avery salutary effect, and great confidence was expressed in the maintenance of peace.
The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-12-23 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A FACTORY HAND AT WARRINGTON.  On Thursday morning, Mr. Driffield, coroner, held an inquest at the Golden Ball, Townsend, Warrington, on the body of a married woman named Mary Lawton, the wife of a factory hand, residing at 70, Lythgoes-lane. It appeared that the deceased who had been in ill-health for some time, told her children that nobody knew but God what she had suffered, aud that she could not bear up any longer. Her eldest daughter, a girl of 17, asked her to bear up for the iake of the younger children, but she replied, " I cannot." Subsequently she was missed, and on the husband coming to his dinner, the children told him their mother had gone out but would not be long. At tea time however, she still failed to make her appearance, and about seven o'clock prior to going out to look for her, the husband went upstaira to shut a bedroom window, where he made the horrible discovery that his wif 3 was hanging from the top rail of the four post bedstead. He gave an alarm and had her cut down, but it was found that she had been dead several hours. It was alleged that the woman had been harrassed with county court summonses, and that she had had the bailiffs in the house, but the husband denied knowing anything about them. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed suicide while in state of temporary insanity.  DISCUSSION ON "MUSIC," The usual weekly meeting of the members of Bold. street Mutual Improvement Society was held on Monday evening, Mr. E. B. Bowser presiding. There was a large attendance, and several new members were Proposed and elected. The essayist for the evening Was Mr. J. M. Muir, the organist of Bold-street chapel wilt) read a paper on "Music," in which he advocated high class music as most suitable for religious worship. eh He deprecated the adherence to the congregational music whi characterised Methodism fifty or sixty years ago, and urged that music, like all other arts, 'plight to progress m what Ha failed to see any musical beauty were kuo; rciitted that ther" as e was real ma ical power in the Jubilee " Sankey's " hymns, but adsingers. An animated debate followed, in which Mr. Bennett's musical imitations formed a conspiouous and amusing feature. The kinson, R. Cooke, R. G. 11A• 4"air W Bennett, J. Panke rs were Messrs. W. Parston, E. Ford, S. Moss. the and the Chairintn. All of theeve.peakers urged good * Mr Blancbfiower, congregational singing as a necei3ity for successful and attraotiveworship, but differed as to the character of the music employed. Mr. Moss declaimed against florid music of the ancient and modern type, and stated that in country wishes where preaching was made secondary to musical ability, the ignorance of the rural population invariably manifested itself to a forcible degree. The discussion throughout was most interesting, and at the dose of the meetteg the claim 039=10 19; 04 0111401 449.49P1