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Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-03-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

AVENGING A WOMAN'S WRONGS.  The picturesque village of Castle Bromwich, near Birmingham, was on Sunday the scene of a disgraceful riot attended by considerable destruction of property and some slight injuries to person. For several days past the neighbourhood l,a been in • state of great excitement in consequence of the revelations made at an inquest held upon the body of a young woman named Mary Ann Turner, who had committed suicide, in consequence, as it was alleged, of the refusal of a man who had seduced her to redeem a promise to marry her. The indignation excited against the young man,whose name is William Bagnall, the son of a local brick and tile manufacturer, found exrression in threats which caused him a few days since to seek safety elsewhere. Since then his family have been practically boycotted by the neighbours, and groups of angry girls and lade have assembled about the boo-e with hostile demonstrations, which were only prevented from assuming a more serious character by the presence of the police. On Sunday a great number et people flocked into the village by road and rail from the surrounding district,and, as it was evident that a serious attack upon its inmates was contemplated, the protecting police force was increased to 18 men. This number sufficed to keep the mob at bay for some time, but at length the fence gave way at one point under the pressure of numbers, and the police had to draw the protecting cordon closer to the house. This left the back premises practically at the mercy of the mob, who then began to pelt both the house and the police with bricks and tiles taken from the brick-yard. The windows were soon demolished, aril the crowd, which must have numbered nearly 10,000 persons, proceeded to unroof and sack the sheds and outhouses. A horse and several fowls were let loose, brickmaking machinery was destroyed, and a cart and trap were broken up, s bonfire being inade of the wreckage. The mob for a lime got access to the house itself, where they did considerable dama,e before they were expelled ; but the police ultimately became masters of the situation, and the crowd dispersed at dusk. One of the inmates and several of the policemen were struck by missiles, but no one was seriously hurt.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-10-09 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE IN A BATH.  An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Union Offices, Poland-street, W., into the circumstances attending the death of Richard Holt, who for sonic years past practised as a medical man, and who lately returned from abroad. A gentleman named Rees gave evidence that when he saw the deceased some days ago he said he had a strange fancy, "and was afraid that he should be buried alive." Witness told him it would be very easy to avoid such a thing, for he could write a letter demanding a post-mortem examination. Having thanked the witness, the deceased went on to say that he had made a will settling his property on his adopted daughter. He suspected his landlady—who, the witness said,was a most respectable woman—and was also suspicious of one of his best friends. Witness said he could not find any trace of the will. He had been to the deceased's solicitors, but they knew nothing about it.—Mrs. Mary Anne Munnings stated that the deceased had lodged at her house for nearly three weeks. The other morning, he looked very strange, and said that during the whole of the night a policeman had been looking in at the window. He did not, he added, know why the policeman should want him, because he had never done any wrong. He left home after breakfast, and witness had not seen him since.—Alexander Pattison, manager of the Argyll Bathe, said the deceased came and asked to be provided with a warm bath. There was nothing unusual in his manner. The witness got the bath ready for him, and shut the bathroom door. Some time afterwards witness was informed that the deceased had called him. He went to the door of the bathroom, and, having pushed open the door, discovered the deceased lying in the bath with his throat cut. Life was then almost extinct. On the slab at the side of the bath there was a razor which must have belonged to the deceased, as none of these articles were kept on the establishment. A doctor who was called said ha found three incised wounds in deceased's throat. Death had resulted from hemorrhage. On the deceased's person was found a paper bearing the following "Gold watch and chain in trunk; new hat in hat-box; new cloth coat; three guineas in chest; beside chimney legacy of £2,000 torn to atoms, and Mr. Lowndes may be thanked for all this." Mr. Lowndes was a friend, of whom the deceased had become suspicious.—The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-02-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF A POPULAR ARTIST.  Joseph Aigner, an artist who had his day of celebrity as a pori mit painter, has committed suicide by hanging himself at his villa near Vienna. He was secretary of the Literary Concordia Club, so that iaisdeath has shocked a large circle of friends. Aigner, who was the son of a workman, was born in 1815, and he had already acquired collie fortune and reputation as a painter when the revolution of 1:7448 broke out. his popularity among artists got him elected commandant of tl:e insurgent Academy Legion, an honour which subsequently led to his being arrested by Prince Wind,schsratz's on'ers, tried by court-mat tied, and sentenced to death. He was pardoned at the intercession of a, me ladies ol the Austrian aristocracy, and some years later Prince Windischgiiitz sat to him for a pertrait. On that occasion the grin, fieldmarshal a-ked Aigner why he had been sentenced to be shot. "If your Highness has forgotten, I shall do well not to remind you," was the answer.  DIPLOMACY AND TRADE IN CHINA The Pekin correspondent of the North China Herald published in Shanehal, writes as follows: "There has been a very unero-y feeling among the Legations lately owing to rumours floating about of various Government contracts, and comb.nations of this and that nationality. There is but one idea in the brain of the foreign Ministers at present—that of preventing the traders and manufacturers of any nationality but their own from transacting business with the Chinese. It is said the French Plenipotentiary has no other mission to China than to force the Government to buy rails and railway gear from French factories; and the commercial leanings of se, eral of the other Legations have loi.g been notorious. It is said, but I cannot vouch for the truth of it, that one of the Minixters has stepped down from his seat of dignity and made a iemnnstrance to the TaiMn against the employment of any nationality but hi, own in new enterprises in China." The same journal, in concluding a leading article on the same subject, says : "To see the two great Republics on either side of the Atlantic and the great military Empire of Europe reduced to the 2,;ie of mendicants whining for Chinese bounty, their whole force concentrated in extorting contracts for war material and st.-el rails, is not flattering to our very superior civilisation."
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

REVENGE OF A JEALOUS HUSBAND. On Saturday it transpired that on the previous night a desperate attempt at murder a id suicide was made. As two men were passing thiou th Tyer-street, Vauxhall, they saw a man open a find-flow window, and, leaning his head out, deliberately draw a claspknife across his throat. The men raised an alarm, and, having gained an entrance, went to the roam. There they found a woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and the man with his head hanging out of the window with his throat fearfully cut. rt.• police having arrived, the maui, whose name is Sharpe, ‘Va.4 removed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it was found that his windpipe was almost Revered. The woman, Mrs. Sharpe, had a number of wounds about the face and head. besides having her hands severely lacerated. She was taken to the hospital, but was able to return home after her injuries had been attended to. She says that her husband, after returnaig home, accused her of infidelity, and, having written Rome words on an enveloia,, attaeked her with a knife, and in her attempt to save lieriseN her hands were cut. Her husband then put his head out of the window, and she remembered no more. The envelope was found, and on it were written the following words, "This is to say the man who has taken my wife is a stoak and share broker, King William-street, City, who is a married man. My tile is insured in the Prudential- The couple have been married about six years, and have lived very unhappily. From a statement made by the lady of the house, it appears that Sharpe is a deserter from the army. In the afternoon a man came to the house who told the landlady that he ,as going to get a warrant for Sharpe's arrest. When Sharpe came hone, she told him this, and shortly afterwards he attempted to murder his wife and commit suicide. A collier named Henry Knapp, residing at St. George, near Bristol. ha i made a desperate attempt to murder his wife. The man entertained feelings of lealorse, and frequently remarked that his wife wanted to poison him. The other morning at breakfast he said that poison was in his food, and picking up a knife he rushed at the woman, eat her in the cheek and stabbed her in the throat. Afterwards he tried to hang himself from a tree, lad was preventod and taken into custody.  ller ILt;est 1,1,11.1 I.lllLed tAe.:lrdS the erection of the National monument at Kingnora, Fife. hire, to King Alexander ILL of hetalaud.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SINGING AT WORK—Give us—oh, give us the man who sings at his work. Be his occupation what it may, he is"equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time—he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve m their spheres. Wondmue is the strengthof cheerfulness—altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. —Carlyle. GOLDEN Prinotec.—Half a pound of bread crumb!, quarter of a pound of suet, quarter of a pound of marmalade, quarter of a pound of sugar, four eggs. Put the bread crumbs into a basin ; met them with the suet, which should be finely minced, the marmalade and the sugar; stir all these ingredients well together,beall the eggs to a froth, it oisten the pudding with these, and when well mixed put it into a mould or buttered basin ; tie down withii floured cloth arid boil for two hours. When turned out strew a little fine sifted sugar over the top, and serve. THE wish that life were over is a sort of internal suicide, and whoever puts one drop of bitterness into the eup of another helps him to this end. Many deatlisoccur that we ascribe to some regularly-labelled disease, and mourn as bereavements, which are really due to men's neglect or unkindnees,or demoralising influence,which has gradually eaten away the powers, the happiness, the very springs of life. Many lives that wedeem precions,might be prolonged for many years by the simple fulfilment of our duty and expression of our love towards them, for good of every kind tends to life and N,ital power, while all evil and all distress tends to and hastens death. MENTAL FooD.--There are times when the mind, like the body, had best feed, gorge if you will, and leave the digestion of its food to the unconscious alchemy of nature. It is as tinwisetobe always saying to one's self, "lob) what pigeon-bole of my brain ought Ito put this fact, and what conclusion ought I to draw from it?" as to ask your teeth how they intend to chew, and your gastric-juice how it intends to convert your three courses and dessert into chyle. Whether on a Scotch moor or a tropic forest, it is vrell'at times to have full faith in Nature; to resign yourself to her as a child upon a holiday, and to lie still and let her speak. She knows best what to say. —Charles Kingsley.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-11-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. At the period of the retreat from Moscow, Napoleon had secured means to avoid falling alive into the hands of his enemies in case of accident. He had procured through his surgeon, Yvan, a sachet, which he wore round his neck during the time that the danger lasted. Some said this was opium ; others insisted that it was apreparatinn compoimded by the celebrated Cahanis, and the same with which Condoreet, the deputy, had destroyed himself. Whatever it was, Napoleon had preserved this sachet in one of the secret drawers of a travelling dressing-case, which he always took on his campaigns. That night at Fontainebleau, the third lifter the signing of the Act of Abdication,he bethought him that the moment to have reconxse to this terrible expedient had arrived. One of the valeta, whose bed was placed behind his half-opened door had heard him rise, and seen him stir something into a coffee-cup, drink it, and lie down aga.in. In a short time violent pains in the stomach and bowels forced from Napoleon the admission that he was dying. Then the man took upon himself to send for those who were most intimate with the Emperor. Yvan was not forgotten, and when he learned what had happened and heard Napoleon complain that the action of the poison was not sufficiently rapid, he lost his head and rushed away from Fontaineble.an. After a long swoon, followed by profuse perspiration, the pains ceased and the alarming symptoms disappeared, either because thedose had been insufficient, or because the poison had lost its effect through time. It is said that Napoleon, astonished to find himself still alive reflected for a few moments, and then exclaimed, "God does not will it to be," and yielding himself into the hands of Providence, who had just saved his life, resigned himself to his new destinies.—Napotom and Marie-Louise, 1810-4 a Memoir. By Mdme. La Ginerale Durand, first lady to the Emyrtss Mark-Louise.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-01-09 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXCITING RESCUE FROM DROWNING. There was an exciting scene on the Mersey the other day, when a young woman of respectable appealance attempted to commit suicide. Just after the ferry sterc.ner Siinflower had left New Brighton (Cheshire)f or the Liverpool side of the river the cry was raised, "Man overbo.. d." Something was seen drifting down the river, and the steamer's engines were reversed, while the steamtug Sea King also followed. Meanwhile Daniel Gow, one of the Sunflower's crew, jumped overboard to the drowning person—a woman—whom he lipt all. at until rescued by a boat from the tug. , The woman was taken to the receiving-house at Livergnol,when, she soon recovered. She gave her name as Annie Sullivan, residing in Egreinont, and stated that she did not care what became of her. She had been observed by passengers of the Sunflower walking about in a dejected state, looking very pale and hag. gard. A muff, containing a purse and a letter, was afterwards found on a seat of the upper deck. In the letter, which was addressed to "My dear friends all," she asked to be excused for the rash act ehe was about to take, but she haa been " driven to it by • woman who has treated me so mean than I am stung deeper than any knife can cut me." After rambling charges against the woman, she concluded —" I will try to pick up courage, but then again my courage fails, and I do not cane if I was at the bottom of the sea." She is about 25 years of age, and it is believed that she intended to sail to America by the steamship Nevada. There was great excitement among the passengers of the Sunflower, and so delighted were they with the gallant conduct of Gow that • subscription of 48e. waa raised for him in a few minutee.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-07-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

FIRST COMIT. (Before Mr. J. Floyer, chairman.) Edward Player, 41, labourer, was indicted for stealing a pick, or prong, the property of Sarah Hazel, at Dorchester, on May 15th. Mr. Willis prosecuted. The jury found that the prisoner was insane, and unable to P• lead The order of the Court was that prisoner should be detained during Her M.ajestj's pleasure. • Robert Dare, 36, blacksmith, pleaded guilty to stealing two fowls of the value of 55., the ptoperty of Charles Ellis, at Cattis. stock, on June 19th ; and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, and two years' police supervision.  Joseph Matterfuee, 19, labourer, pleaded guilty to an attempted rape on Selina Chubb at Symondsbury, on June 15th. Mr. Gnu. dry prosecuted. Prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.  James Gush, 56, shoemaker, was indicted 1 for attempting to hang himself on the 3rd lof June at Litton Cheney. He pleaded ' guilty. Mr. Foasett Lock appeared for the prosecution. Prisoner, who said, "1 won't do it again so long as ever I live," was ordered to come up for judgment when called upon. Bev jamin Cox, 39, labourer, was indicted for attempting to commit suicide at Sydling St. Nicholas on June 9th. Mr. (lundry prosecuted on behalf of Mr. Willes. Mr. W. El nest Good, surgeon at the prison, said when prisoner was brought to the gaol he was suffering from delirium tremens, and for about three days he was not accountable for his actions. The prosecution did not press the charge. The Jury found the prisoner "not guilty," and he was discharged with a caution, the Chairman advising him to keep from the drink. John Walter Johnson, 37, hawker, was indicted for obtaining by false representation from John Gowen, a quantity of mackerel, of the value of .E 7 Os. 6d., by forwarding from Bournemouth to Weymouth, addressed to Gowen, a telegram stating he was posting cash for the goods, he well knowing Hi, same to be false. Mr. Willea prosecuted. Prisoner pleaded guilty, but said he intended to pay. The jury found the prisoner guilty and he was sentenced to two months' hard labour.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-07-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAM. man,! our admiration. Can Irishmen be would not refuse to do a just thing to-day be because he might be asked to do an unjust stigmatised as idle, seeing that they follow the most laborious and poorly-paid employ, thing to-morrow. But it was an absurd ergument, tot the Irish were not lunatics or merits in the United Kingdom ? And if a man whose back is bent to the shovel or pickidiots. Their material interests and our axe, or who carries lexls full of bricks for material forces were a sufficient protection ten home; per day does aernetimee davalie °Salm°. aeParatinns in-4and was eaelesivelY over his work when the ganger's an exporting country. She exported about eye is off him, is there anything remarkable in that ? .C 20,000,000 worth annually, and of that we And if he dor+ sometimes get drunk and took 19i millions, and it was idle to suppose misbehave himsel may our own strictly that she would drive away her only customer f, moral lower orders cast the first stone ? especially when that customer possessed the N! the Irishman is rot a lazy man. Begin largest navy in the world—whereas Ireland o herr not a .ingle ship—and hed also all the the construction of a new railway, or a fortifications of the country under her control. bridge, or a canal, or anything else that involves downright hard toil, and straightway There was more than that. Ireland would a swarm of Irishmen will appear as if Ity have to raise a loan, and he wondered what magic, eager to earn an honest shilling or the Stock Exchanges of England and Amen. OR would sav to the security of Ireland in two by, the nioSe exhausting labour. Are conflict witii England (laughter). If Ireland the Irish a thriftless people ? Let the millions of pounds eteriing sent across from I ever contemplated separation from Englited, she would bring about what John e;tuart America by Irishmen and Irishwomen who have settled there to their less fortunate re. Mill had said would be a disaster to Ireland latives at home answer that question. It is and a disgrace to Eeflieltel• The assent of a well-known fant that if many of the small Ireland to separation would be an assent to Irish farmers err at all in respect of their national suicide, and the question, if ever it was raised, would only be settled by a* money, it is in the way of close-fisted penuriousness. appeal to the supreme arbitrament .of force. —Me. IT. Fowler.
Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-04-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF LORD SHAFTESBURY. The Earl of Shaftesbury committed suicide in London on Tuesday afternoon, by shooting himself with a revolver whilst riding in a cab in Regentstreet. He engaged a cab in the upper part of Regent. street shortly after 4 o'clock. and directed the cabman to drive down the street. The driver did so, and on reaching the lower end of the street wlllB told by the earl to return. This the man did, and when the upper end of the street was reached his lordship again directed the cab to be turned round, This was done several times, and when the cab was near Oxford-street, about half-past 4 o'clock, the driver heard a shot. He jumped down, and the earl, who was unknown to him, said "It's all right, cabman; drive on !" The man replied, "Yes, I know it's all right; but what is this?" pointing to a bullet bole in the front part of the cab, nea the glass panel, on the left side, and addingr "I value my life too much to drive on.' Lord Shaftesbury put in the rejoinder, "I didn't intend to shoot you." The driver intimated that he did not want "any of those games" in his cab, refused to take the deceased any further, and threatened to call a policeman. The earl then said, "Don't be so silly as that, drive me on and I will give you a fiver," but the driver replied, "I don't want any of your fivers ; your fivers won't satisfy my life." The deceased then put the revolver aside, and a police-constable appeared on the scene at the same time. Before, however, the officer had time to interfere thedecemedshot himself in the left temple. The cabman drove at once to the Middlesex Hospital, where the earl, who was still alive, was carried into the in-patients ward. The house surgeon was summoned, but Lord Shaftesbury was just breathing his last, and was beyond all surgical aid, the bullet having penetrated the brain. An intimation of the occurrence had been sent to the friends of the earl, and in a short time the Countess of Shaftesbury arrived, followed by his lordship's butler. The weapon used was a six-chambered revolver. The position of the first shot indicated that it had been fired accidentally, but the situation of the fatal wound showed that it was fired with a very deliberate aim. Lord Shaftesbury was born in June, 1811, and sat in the House of Commons for Hull from 1857 to 1859, and for Cricklade from the latter year to 1865. He married, in 1857, the only daughter of the Marquis of Donegal, and has left one son, born in 1869, and five daughters.