Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-09-02 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CRUEL HOAX.  A report from Liverpool statm that the other they the unally quiet submb of Fairfield was in a state of excitement owing to a number of practical jokes. The modns operandi consisted in advertising in the daily papers that certain inhabitants of the neighbourhood required the services of barmaids, distraint baliffs, light porters, and nursemaids. Others were stated to be desirous of purchasing monkeys, dogs, and to let villas as lodgin4 houses. A prominent local solicitor was supposed to be in great need of twenty monkeys, and was surprised by receiving a large number of calls front persons carrying monkeys under their coats. For several hours another gentleman was annoyed with a stream of men offering themselves as distraint bailiffs. At anoth, house gaily-dressed young ladi.s presented themselves for the situations of barmaid; winch they stated the occupant of the premises had advertised for in one of the daily papers. One of the largest houses in Elm-park was visitel by a number of persons applying for apartments at 12s. per week. One gentleman suffered more annoyance than his neighbours, for he was called on by 130 persons. In the evening the police cleared the neighbourhood of the hoaxed persons, who were not M a particularly amiable mood. The authors of the jokes are not known, and it will be to their interest to remain undiscovered, as condign vengeance is vowed against them.  A rAN IGAN, Thonaaa Reece, butcher, has been fined £5 for having in his poseeision the diselecd carcase of, now, which wre intended for human food.  LAST YEAH, suitors in county courts forfeited as much as £llO7 143.3 d. AT the Edmonton Petty Sessions five boys, between the ages of 10 and 14, mated Thomas Davis, Norman Al'lntosh, Thomas Dudley, Edward Dudley, and Amos Shetland, were charged with cruelly ill-treating and torturing a dog. John Warrender deposed to being ealed to the back of a house in West-green-road, Tottenham, where he now a dog with a stab in its head and with its legs broken by large stones thrown at it. A boy also ga,e evidence of seeing the boys throwing stones at the dog. MSlntrah was tined 10s. including costs, and : Davis ed., and the others discharged, as it was not clearly proved that they had thrown stones at the dog. A SHOCKING case of suicide has occurred at 11, Tricitysslrcet, Borough, London. It teems that about five ans. the son of a dairyman named William Wells was startled by 'staring a loud noise downstairs, and he found his father, an old man 60 years of age, suspended by the neck to the staircase by a rope and quite dead. A choir, upon which he had evidently stood, was lying on the floor a little distanca from him, as though kicked from under him just before he dropped, and it had no doubt caused the noise which gave the alarm. The muse of the deceased committing suicide is said to hare been flon,mtic trouble, and the loss of his wife.  A lltrica t'ESSEL, named the Merchant, of Schiedam, which has been off the coast near Berwick, has been seized by the coastguards at Boulmer, a village some ndles south of that place, and placed under detention, as she is suspected of smuggling,. On board the vessel were found various kinds of tobacco, cigars, spirits, "Dutch drops," out other dutiable goods. A Draw fountain has been unveiled in Lincoln's-inn-fields, under the auspices of the Metropolitan District Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, in memory of the late Mr. Philip Twells, formerly M.P. for the City of London. Several members of the family were present, and the ceremony was performed by Mrs. Twells, who, in a few appropriate words, declared the fountain open to the public. The fountain, which is of elegant design, is built of highly-polished granite, and its cost is estimated at about £lOOO. The architect is Mr. R. Keirle.  THomAa ITErEs ROPINSON, of Orrell Mount,described .4 Of independent means, was brought before the Wigan county magistrates, charged with shooting at two constables, with intent to murder, whilst attempting to apprehend hint under a warrant from the High Court of Chancery. Robinson, who was suffering from deliristra trt-mew, wee remanded.  11