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The Bee-Hive : — 1869-06-26 (London, England)

MURDER AND LYNCHING.  The Cincinnatti Commercial neperts that on the 27th ; ult., in the little village of Nevada, about four miles j from Perryville, a most villianous successful attempt at assassination was made. The victim, a young man named Harvey Young, from Pulaski County, had been attending school at Perryville, and boarding with a Mrs. Gray, a widow lady residing in Nevada. He is represented as a young man of quiet disposition, very studious and inoffensive. When found on the 28th ult. he was lying on the floor cif his room, covered with blood from several gaping and deadly wounds on the head. Two of these wounds, both on the right side of the head, and penetrating to the brain, were certainly made by the edge of an . axe, which was afterwards fouth near the house, very bloody. The ether members of the household, it would seem, knew nothing of the affair until the next morning, when, at a very, early hour, a man named John Penny, a very desperate character, and during the war a member of Grigsby's regiment of Rebel cavalry (Morgan's command) came to borrow a plough from the lady, when somehow the question arose whether or not Mr. Young was yet up. Mrs. Gray requested Penny to step to the door of his room and waken him. . Penny immediately returned from his errand, stating that Mrna aboutlpt. eracemlpaitrdi gbneli eg hbrtoe, ds and r ado ft ioanr m, Young was lying on the floor dead. On the 29th goinget dwdoimr eoecfnt ltyhree itdoer,ntihunmet obheoNrues ewv Nevada Mrs. Gray, where Young was still lying with scarcely directly into the roam of Young, and, ceizing Penny, who, ever since he committed the deed, has been assiduous in his attentions to .tha dying man, they took him out and hung him until dead. There was but one sentiment in that community as to who did the deed. Everyone, if anything was known, seemed to fear to take-the responsibility of bringing the charge against Penny. Now that Penny is -dead, the cata. logue of the ships in the second book of Iliad was not longer than that of the crimes laid to his charge, and the evidence of guilt imputed-to him in this case.  mouth Seic he onl a/Nal:l.T IL% u CilriyANoNnEt.—he 2Tlhe s t inst. coronerinto forth erly circumstances attending the death of John Payne, young man about 25 years of age. The deceasw as London, a passenger on board the ship Caldera, from a bound to Table Bay. Ile was very intemperate for a few days before the ship sailed, and during the voyage he continued to drink hard. One of the witnesses stated that the deceased. drank upwards of ten bottles of spirit during the week's voyage. On the previous morning a friend of the deceased was expostulating with him for drinking so freely, when he suddenly struck him several blows, rushed on to the deck, and springing on the bulwarks, plunged into the water. A boat was immediately lowered, and after searching for over an hour, his body was recovered about a mile and a half from the vessel. The ship put into Plymouth on the 21st inst. The jury returned as their verdict that the deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.  Much excitement has been occasioned at Potterne, near Devises, by the suicide of Mr. John Glass, a young man most respectably connected, but of wild and unsteady habits. He occupied a farm at Potterne, belonging to his mother, a widow, but she found so much difficulty in obtaining any rent from her son that she was driven to the alternative of serving him with a document requiring payment by a certain day. His dissolute habits had placed him in a position of pecuniary difficulty, and in order to meet his mother's demand he was compelled to instruct Mr. Combes, an auctioneer, at Devises, to dispose of his growing crops, and the sale was advertised to take place on the 16th inst. On the 11th inst. he was pressed by another creditor for money, and in the afternoon he went to his mother, and talked with her for some ten minutes, the conversation naturally having reference to the forthcoming sale. After a time he abruptly asked his mother "if she would like to see a dead man in her house," and remarked that she would see one shortly. Upon this he went into the kitchen, and took up his gun, which was loaded with powder and shot. lie then placed the butt-end upon the ground, and the barrel against his chest, reaching down with a stick-, pulled the trigger, when the gun exploded, and the whole contents were lodged in his chest, just above the heart, causing instantaneous death. The intense suffering of his poor mother cannot be described.  JUSTIFIABLE DismcssAr..—A late deputy of the Dar. field Main Colliery, named John Oughty, sued the manager at the Barnsley County Court for a stun of money for alleged wrongful dismissal. It turned out in evidence that the plaintiff on one occasion recently placed the lives of 400 men in danger by neglecting his proper duty of keeping the brattice work in the mine at a safe distance from the face of the coal. The magistrates at once found that the °dicer's dismissal was justifiable. _  UN'
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL., him, in the name of the other guests, teeny something -- --et)* °Yaiready bee • Great Warner-street, the .deputy coroner, Dr. Heade be fastened. to them. Ultimately the matter resolved a misfortune thanthat which has,b,s'u -On the 12th inst., what is believed to be an extra. brilliant and witty... "Pray, do so, Monsieur Dumas, 14 t -•-, -„, the old cry of the • • f • the whether ' • 'eke called the attention of the Jury to the question., itself into, e question as to the net was a stowed on the inconvenience. 1 ordinary attempt at suicide took place in St. Paul's., she said, when lie did not seem to lieten to her; "say vl , - t riespondi result/. t C • • •11 ha We trust that the • Sanitary Commission will we its fixed engine, contrary tolaw, The magistrates imposed wolf a little altered, and withr car . . lig About half-past ten o'clock a man, who appeared. like. something 'witty;- 'that is, year business; you are doing . directed t this matter. Th attention specially 0 is e over- a penalty of £5 and costs. hln Dew gem notice of according to the change a e iig enmstaaces. Besides,'. a tradesman out of work, was observed entering the, -so every day." "Ah," replied Dumas, "if you look i to sym ath* 'th'''' crowding of many poor dwellings is one among many appeal.. peopleget tired of always ligiey t P• Ise wi church. At twenty minutes to twelve the officials . upon the matter in that light, I am ready to do, set wan variety even ill had. thrust his within call were informed that a man . provided all the other guests gave us likewise a sped- causes of a mortality that renders a.corpseneuncommon '
The Penny Bee-Hive. — 1870-05-21 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT HOXTON.—Jarnes Irith''"e, 36, was brought up, on remand, charged Nl,attempting to murder Henrietta Corn ; he Bpiti"lBther charged with attempting to commit for de- Mr. Moore, of the Associated Institute rcing the Laws for the protection of Watched the case ou behalf of the society. • t 4 tne prisoner and the prosecutrix appeared to fhe ,suth affected when confionted with each other. 11ahero5ecutrix gave her evidence seated in the Itzent; Place. It was to the effect teat she had h"ing with the prisoner. On the 14th ult. the a(lbeen drinking with him. When they left !) 1, ,iltirtlitlio house, he wished her to go home with refused. They then went to another IC louse. He made the same request, which declined. They left, and were standing • f when the prisoner took something . hger pocket. He then put his arm round 1,15 C held 4 her head back, and cut her throat. that she remembered very little, except fl.'atie,,.t4iteu to the hospital, from which she had '4p give evidence. In reply to the magistrate Nlatrisoner said he had no question to ask. Policeet:e 41 N gave evidence with regard to the ),.011-I,l)„ted suicide. He saw the prisoner cut the 'lteCt's throat and run away. Witness pursued 11th0d found that he had made au attempt to 'Vaa OWII throat. After a struggle the razor 'lqtle447n from him. He said, " I meant to have her and myself too if I had time." Police. 'ttr-nt Burrows stated that, when in Dr. Griffith's Retqe;tl3, the prisoner said, We have been to. Ivith Ica Years. She left rue last night to live 41Irenother man." Mr. H. F. Baker, house. b4altetthv at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stated h,l wounds of the woman Were serious. She 41lee" a very nirrow escape of her life. When 11 111)081 for his defence, the prisoner said, "I 111 Y co aY I received great provocation." Ile 17,11ulitted for trial. 4e ab '4ItNIN G TO
The Bee-Hive. — 1873-04-26 (London, England)

OOO.  Ater the Rolemtiisatiott o'f-thelttiti:erae at Vienna, of the Arelututhess Gisela with iice Ir)opolti. of liaviria, the newly4ivdthied-'-vair left for Salzburg.  The wife of &nor Fignerag,::Pretfaht of the Spanish Wpablie, is dead ; 'vied inPii6n-Bequenee the Permanent Commission Ittisthen tut/Lamed, Bch r Margall being.apfiguted to Act pro impure as Prekiitent.  At effort is being made to raise 'a inYtttintial to the-late Sir James Brooke, Rajah 13Widlee of Strawak, who died nearly five years t go;'and of whom no merubritit exWts.  Mr. Jerome Mttroh, of Bath, has. expitegsed his willingness to come forward as it Liberal eiindidate for the rrese'uta,tiono of that city, prOvided that the paity is united in his dipport.  From'the Ist to the 19th inst. the Exobequer receipts amounted to £3,61,5,716. And the expenditure £7,219,186. The balance in the Bank WO nearly seven millions sterling.  Lord Houghton has opened a bazaar *at Wakefield, for the purpose-of collecting funds wherewith to restore the parish church. ,In his address he inferred that he was decidedly opposed to ecclesiastical restorations in general.  A Berlin paper announoea as eirtkin.that Count Munster is to be named GermaleAmbassador in London, and says that the rhitish Government has• 'expressed it satisfaotioil at the aPpointinent.  Mr. 'jay, the United States Ittinidee at Vienna, has instruotiblis to inqUiie iWthaThe alleged corrupt purchase of AmeriCan 'Ctimmissionerships at the Vienna Exhibition.  Fears are entertained that Earl Delemmr has destroyed his life by drowning, he having disappeared from his hotel at Cambridge, after having written a letter staling his purpose of suicide, and inclicatingAhe spot where his body would be found. The water has been searched in that 'vicinity, but at present without effect.  Lord John Ludford Chichester, 'lto for several years represented Delfnt in Parliament, died suddenly on Tuesday evening, having been seized with a fit of paralysis while bitting at dinner.  In the Court of Common Pleas, a rnic4tik a new trial was inoVed for in the action inVittch Mr. Charles Reade, the well-known notelikt, obtained £2OO damages from the propekOrs of the Morning Advertiser for laid. .Tireir lordships took time to consider.  During the week ending last Saturday, 6,382 births and 3,833 deaths were registered. in London and twenty other large cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The inortality was at the rate of 27 deaths annually to over 1,000 persons estimated to be living.  At the Mansion-house on Wednesday, lidr. W. A. Roberts, stockbroker, WWI again 'amined on a charge of having uttered a 4 e for .E 11,500 With intent to defraud thilja ;a solidated Bank, and another remand ctiias grunted.
The Bee-Hive. — 1871-08-26 (London, England)

BALLOT BALLADS.-11.  TWIT PASS TOPIA BALLOT BILL.  Their pass your Ballot Bill, They make your voting free; You vote but as you will, Your Lords to that agree. • Your votes, yours, do you dagni ''ro all, is it not known, • - • ' Your own they're meant to seem, Da not to be your awn P Serfs of the soil are you ; England to you affords Leave but to think and, do • What seems right tolagr 1414 i, . • • You leaseless &mere ditra  To call your souls your own; Your Lords will take good care Your votes are not unknown. How could they ruin deal-. • q If you rebel—to you, And grind you 'neath their heel, Unless your votes they knew F• The Ballot makes you free; .; The power your Bill affords, 'Their slaves no more to be. Serfs, will this suit your 14* P  , No; you're but free in nano, 04p,rti ‘,44. You born serfs of the soil; " .01 That freedom you abould claim Must make their blood to boil.  Slurfteeltury )7cu serfs will sohooli,r,,,t Mill leach 'you' 'endure " -No lops of lordly rule— • No self-help for the poor. To you his titled grace Aims, but no right accords ; piss votes l—serfS, know your pliteo TOu'rn born to biequoy Lords. Qs% or Mt PP.OrLE.  An inquest has boon held at Xingsland, near Leominster' on the body of Miss Fanny Goss, 33, sister to the rector of that parish, who had committed suicide by witting a deep gash in her arm and bleeding to death on tiaturdayi last. The jury found that the deceased had, concealed the birth of her child, and that she afterwards committed suicide whiltt labouring under temporary insanity.  The first death this Reason by drowning of a visitor at Clacton occurred on Satinday. Renry °olden, of Lordship-lane; fike Newington, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Golden; had gone down tci'thir beach to bathe, and being unable to wim. haVitlff gone too far, out, was drowned, his friend being equally unable to go to his rescue:  Eriurity UK Fx sure MIMI for this distressing complaint is now made known in a Treatise (of 48 octavo pages) on Foreign and Native Herbal Preparations, published by Prof. O. Pilelpo Brown. The prescription was discovered by him in such a providential , manner that he cannot conscientiously refuse to make it. known, ais it has cured everybody who has used it for tits, never having failed In a single rase. The ingredients may be obtained from any chemist. Bent fres to any address on •application to Prof. 0, Phelps Biown, 2, Xing-thitiffiVOiretit•thrauu, Loudon.
The Bee-Hive. — 1871-11-04 (London, England)

THE RAILWAY PORTEES AND THEIR WAOLS.  The following petition has been signed by thn peterB otoployed on the Notth-llablern  WaY  "To tho rfonourablo Board of Diroctora of the  North-Eastern Ettilway Company. "May it please your Honourable Doily, tho petition of us, the ui4rsioned porters of .your branch of railway, .ktiewu .as the North Sloelds and Typeinont4 tumuli. We humbly beg lodvo to present to, 'you for your kind 'consideration the gi•eat, number of hours we rite iNti (114, viz., eighty hours pek wolf, including ltt(lily, and as this IA greatly in excess of tho workiitp; hours of any other body of wort men in tho north of England, we molt respectfully btg you vejli deem it Teat to grant uA our linu,ble request 14 follows, viz. --Au advanto on our present wages of 28. per wrLuk, aud ulfio to pay is for extra duty an, Sundays the same as allowed in other iltpartmento of your railway, and our hours to lie, sixty per week, and to be paid fox all (wartime sbovo " And your potitionors *ill ever praY." .  This petition.has boon sent, to Afr. Smith, Ir,...ierAt auporintendent, and was laid bolo.*tlu dittuchm s tit their mooting on Friday.  From April Ist to the 28th instantt, tho total reompts into the Exclisquov were £30,231,806, an increase of more then £1,100,000 upon the returns in, the corresponding period of last you. The expenditure has amounted to 4,;-12,281,2304 On Saturday last the balance in the Bank of Enema lv,tuk £BOl,OBl ; ia that of Ireland, X 202 o:s7  It is officially stated that a saving of more than 2,000,000 fr. will be effected annually lu the expenses of the Turkish Imperial Palaces. It has boon (folded to send junior commissaries to the provinces to visit the smolt Ti'Ryas, in order to study the wants of the population and the manner in whieh the ordere of the Turkish Government are executed.  A shocking tragedy . has be discovered a. short distance from. 13Q1t4trl. A man "rued Thoinaa Davis, fifty-twa years of age, strangled. his wife, and then committed suicide.
The Bee-Hive. — 1871-08-12 (London, England)

TIQN,. TO AMERICA.  if +0,1: hoep renthig in your paper of the th inst. a most elaborate account of all the advantages held out for emigrants to settle in America. Truly those Settlement Laws are benitieent in the extreme, but the whole truth has not been told. The writer has not told us of the fiscal system of the General Government. This system is ittcompatible with free citizenship. He says—" The plot of ground chosen belongs to the person to whom it is deeded, aml he has the° fttolo right to it.s disposal. He chooses his awn business, and minils it or neglects it without inlitkforence."  All this may be true of the land, and a most just and righteous law it is. But what about the produce thereof? If he requires clothing he has to pay so many more bushels of his produce for each suit than the natural market price, in order that a few manufacturers in the Eastern States may revel in wealth and extravagance g his expense. The same may be said of all that he has to purchase in the shape of a heavy tax upon his furniture, farming implements, groceries, Sze., &c. If he produces tobacco, sugar, or coffee, and takes it into the market for sale, he will find the interference of the Excise officer no small annoyance. Moreover this system of taxation shuts out the foreign buyer, who would otherwise supply all these articles of comfort and necessaries of a domestic consuraption at a fair price, and take in exchange all their superabundant produce. I, therefore, hold that there is a strange and suicidal inconsistency in the American system of free trade in land, and not free trade in the produce of the land. Let them do away with their hostile tariffs, and raise their taxes direct from profit only, and then, truly, they will become the leading nation of civilisation. Yours truly,  T.
The Bee-Hive. — 1870-09-03 (London, England)

RECENT TRAGEDY AT BATH.—MiSs Kate Prankard, the young lady who was shot at by her father (who, after shooting his eldest daughter (lead, then went upstairs anti committed suicide by drinking pruscic acid), has been lemoved from the house of the Rev. Mr. Way, whither she escaped, shot and bleeding, from her father's school room ; and she is now lying at the Bath Hospital, and hopes are now entertained of her ultimate recovery. The pistol with which the young ladies were shot, and which so mysteriously disappeared, has been found hidden in a secret compaitment of an old bureau in the late Mr. Prankard's bed-room. It was a five chambered revolver; and one of the barrels remained charged when found, thus confirming the evidence given at the coroner's inquest that four shots were fired. Seine conical bullets were also found in the bureau, the bullet found in the revolver being also of the same sort. The vessel or bottle which had contained the prussic acid with which the father had committed selfdestruction, it is a remarkable fact, has not yet been found, though the servant girl (Ellen Davis) posi:ively stated that about 'tell o'clock on the morning of the occurrence she noticed t a o small phials wrapped in white paper standing on the mantelpiece of her master's bed-room. bA white handkerchief was found in Mr. Prankard's pocket, perforated in five places, evidently by shot, the edges of the holes Icing slightly scorched. The theory is that the murderer, to conceal his object from his daughters, and avert their preventing him from carrying it out, held the handkerchief doubled up before the muzzle of the pistol. the bullets thus passing through it. Upwards of .£4OO, a large quantity of clothing, and some valuable plate„ were found in Mr. Prankard's bed room, and there were no indications of penury having at all contribuied as a Mae of to tenible a crime.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-04-28 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A DAUGDTER. At Csmerton, near Bath, a man has tern taken into sustody on intspleion of murdering his daughter. The prisoner, Charles Ii aim is a miner, 40 years of age. Emily Hale, the damaged, wae his daughter, aged between 15 and DI years. Too years ago the prisoner ; was sentenced to three months' hard labour for ; assaulting her, and lent month hewns again ituprisoned for neglecting to maintain her. On Ms liberation he became inmate of the same union in whirelt deceased had been placed. After staying there some time they left together on the 4th bet. On the same-day they visited a brother of the deceased, a collier boy to whom the prisoner slid he had been entipelled to bring the girl away f rom the workhouesicsaii at his will. Deceaeed complained of scanty clothing, and prisoner said he bad neither home, food, nor money, and that he did not know what to do with the got. The em gave them eixpence. A relative gave &termed shelter for the night. The prisoner took her away en the following morning, and at nine at night he wee seen with nor near a point on the Somerset Coal Canal where her body was found on the 19th, hearing wounds and other marks of violent. Screenoc in a female voice were heard at a later period of the evening, and prom after midnight the prisoner wee noticed by a pit enginetdriver returning from the direction from whosh the criea of distress proceeded. The prisoner, who maintains a etolid demeanour. is very deaf. W ben apprehended be had on hie person scrap of paper bearing bb name and ago, and it is thought that he Intended to commit suicide. The coroner bet qdjourned the inquiry for a post-raortm examination to be mad. During the fortnight that °lamed between the disappearance of the girl and the discovery of her body several persons asked him about her. and he said be had loot her at a hamlet a short distance from where the body waa found.