The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-03-13 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MKT ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.  An extraordinary attempt to commit suicide has just been made at Bootle by a young woman named Bridget Ward, a native of Dublin. Attention was first directed te her late at night, when, after having ladled at a private house for water, she was seen to rub -smoothing between the palms of her hands, and immediately placing that something in her mouth, she appeared to be in games. Police-sergeant Dilworth, who shortly afterwards saw her, took her to the police-station, and there, in the semi - darkness, her face, hands, arms, dress, and her breath appeared to be in a blaze of light. On medical aid being summoned it was feund that the young woman had swallowed a quantity of phosphorus, and that bee condition was such se almost to preclude the hope of recovery. She resolutely refueed to give her name or to give the elightset information of nature calculated to lead to her identity. It has, however, been discovered that she has relatives in Liverpool, and that she is the young woman who caused • "scare" in Birkenhead not long ago by taking phosphorus in the greet after pelting with some men with whom she was acquainted. She NSA twice attempted suicide by phosphorus in Dublin. She has been in the gaol asylum there in coneequence of her conduct, she has attempted suicide in Manchester by precipitating herself from a window; then came her attempt on her life in Birkenhead, and now in Bootle. It is believed that her latest attempt will be succesdulbut that the unfortunate creature is insane ithere seems no room for doubt.  A NEM Darned Duakin, who had been warang tlas *rousts at Kneekric.kard to pay their rents, was tka other „ieu pursued by a body of &twilit one hundred women, who pelted him with stones. Duakin leek ratite in an old house, where he remained easietaled natal the women had passed and were out 0-. Alan extensive contractor at Bradford, named Jam as Drake, has attempted suicide by laying himself estrose tka rails of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Saihny vrb.&t a train was passing. His right arm was frig.ktfully shattered. am! on Drake being taken to Ss Bradford Infirmary it was amputated. The motive of the attempt is stated to be depression in trade mad &medic troubles.  nt the annual meeting of the Cherub Amociatiom in 140a40n, the eouacil urged that no Parliamentary sandideto should be supported who Nreedd not on conscientioas grounds.advoesto measures for the tee. serratlon of the primaries of the ftefortnntion. Lord °enamor* tendered lug reeimantion as one of the viee-preeidentN on account of hie dissatiojection with the action of tbe M 506041011 in the m.k.,hie ow,  Mr. F'rederick Adams, farmer, of l‘ortkilimey. near Abingdon, was found dead in a hedge fiance ea his from, the other lay, his right hand grinping a discharged gun, with which he had besn shaiting during the morning. His head was blown to pie‘oas and his hat, riddled vrith shot, had lodged on a neighbouring tree. It is supposed that he was getting through the hedge backwards, when the bigger was caught by a twig.  At Rotherham, John Wood has been main brought up on the charge of murdering John Coe, a labourer, and lifter a great many witnesses wars examined, showing Wood's conmiction with the de. ceased, he was committed to the Leeds Assizes for trial.  There is no longer any doubt about the death dem Abbe Debaize, who was entrusted by tho French Government with scientific mission in Central Africa. The courageous explorer siscounibed at LW on December 12. His loss is universally regretted.  The severe depression in trade is still felt in tho south Yorkshire districts. The Barnsley Building Society's annual report just issued, shows a deerfrar of over £6,800, as compared with 1878, and the number of shares is over 400 less than in the previous yeAr.  Mr. Joseph Livesey, of Preston, foundet of the temperance movement, attained his 86th year on Friday. He is still hale and hearty, though unable to get much out of doors. He received letters of congratulation from temperance ILSSOCiiktioll.9 in all parts el the country.  The Leicestershire papers contain advertisements of a number of the farms of the Duke of Rutland  'to be let,' and the county auctioneers have an un• usually large niunber of sales of agricultural pro• perty, with the ominous announcement SS to the proprietors" who are leaving the land." A Vienna correspondent states that the Czar is ill, and rumours are current of his abdication. The Czarowitch has received a threatening letter. General Loris Ilelikoff has divided the Russian capital into ninety districts. All persons without risible means of subsistence will be expelled.  A paper on " The Adaptation of Ocean Steamers t War Purposes" was read at the United Service Institution, on Friday, by Mr. Donald Currie. Mx. Currie contended that in time of war merchant gteamers of suitable speed and build would be most effective aids to the Royal Navy as cruisers, gunboats, transports, or despatch vessels.  The Chairman of the Shipping Committee of the Null Chamber of Commerce has received a communication from Franco announcing that a decision of the highest court now permits sole consignees of ships and their cargoe• the right of clearing vessels at the Custom House without the interventaon of • broker. The Chamber has long striven to obtain  Iler Majesty's Government have awarded a Wale. ular glass to Captain L. Borresen, of the Norwegian barque Mindel ; an aneroid barometer to Mr. Jorgensen, the mate ; and a Ruin of money to fear ,ellllll,ll of the vessel, for services in rescuing dui master and crow of the brigantine Gazelle, of Bits. ham, wrecked at sea on the 15th of February. The Time* Constantinople correspondent says that heartrending accounts come from the famine-stricken districts of Armenia. In Van alone, 52 persons, it is mid, have already died of starvation. Thousands .•f peemnts are endeavouring to emigrate to the neighbouring Persian provinces: but as the roads are covered with deep stow, many perish from cold and exhaustion on tho journey.  Atthe sitting of the Armagh grand jury for Armegh County, Margaret Savage applied for £OOO damages for the murder of her father, John Savage, during the Lurgan riots. The grand jury awarded £lOO. ,fames Wear claimed £lOO for injuries inflicted on dm night of July 1. The jury awarded £2a. James Hughes claimed £3OO for injurieu received because he refused to curie the Pope, and the jury awarded f. 25.  LAND ALLOTID TO LAROI7ItIRR.. The Earl of Jersey is setting apart a portion of his Wee at Middleton Stoney, near Bioeeter, for cultivation by tba labourers of the parish, in which there Ira already allotmenta The land ii let on mud advantage°. terms in plots of not more than one sere, and many of the inhnbitante are availing then, wive* of the opportunity of thus becoming peasant occupier.. A