Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1861-06-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CAPTURE OF SHARKS ON TIIE IRISH COAST. —On Saturday last, some fishermen were engaged at their usual avocation outside Kinsale Harbour, when their nets were found to be ent.angled in something. After some trouble they succeeded in drawing them in, and, to their astonishment, discovered that two of those monsters of the deep known as basking sharks had their tails entangled in them. The animals made no struggle, having been, it is supposed, overcome by the fright, and ropes having been tied to their tails, they allowed themselves to be quietly towed ashore. They were measured, and one, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, was 28 feet long and the other 26. Two tons of blubber were taken from-each of them. It is supposed that a number of sharks must have been outside the harbour, as a revenue cutter afterwards met another about the same place. There being a harpoon on board, it was immediately prepared, and darted into the shark's side which at once started off at full speed. All the rope of the harpoon was soon run out, but the animal did not relax in its efforts to get away, and such was its strength and the violence of its struggles that it drew the vessel several miles out of its course, while the blood from the wound inflicted by the harpoon tinged the sea around it. Finally, the rope snapped, and the monster eslaped.— Cork Examiner. A WOMAN STABBED BY HER HUSBAND AT NaweASTLa.—Deeds of violence have, during the past three or four weeks, become alarmingly prevalent in Newcastle-on-Tyne; and nearly all of them have arisen through drink. Ten days ago a publican was knocked down and killed by a drunken man, and there have been several cases of attempted suicide. On Thursday a most fearful affair took place in a populous neighbourhood, close upon Grey-street, in that town, and it is probable that the victim of the drunken fury of the heal and will be dead by this time. It seems that a pedlar named Moffatt and his wife had been parted some time, and that the wife resided in Drury-lane with the youngest daughter. For the last eight or ten days Moffat had been drinking hard, and on Thursday afternoon he called to see his wife. About six o'clock in the evening he was seated on the steps on the landing of the room occupied by his wife, the woman having taken the room of a shoemaker named Rhodes. Moffatt's wife was sitting beside him. While so sitting Moffatt was observed to put his arms round his wife's neck, and while kissing Fer he plunged a knife into her neck. He then drew it out and thrust it into the wretched woman's neck again. He was repeating the deadly blows when his wile struggled with him and was cut in the arm. She then fell down four or five stairs. Her husband stood for a few minutes with the knife in his hand, but a crowd beginning to gather he made off. As before stated, the prospects of the poor woman's recovery are extremely slight. DEATH BY SWALLOWING ARTIFICIAL TEETH —On Thursday, the 9th inst., Peter Brennan, residing in Albany, while skylarking with a friend received a sudden blow which caused him to faint. On recovering, he discovered that he had swallowed his false teeth. There were four teeth, three at one end, and one at the other end, the plate having of course, books, whereby to fasten to the adjacent natural teeth. TI e entire length of the plate was fully two itiches. Ile applied to physicians for relief, but no relief could be given him, and he returned home. His respiration meantime had been uninterupted, but his stomach had become 80 irritated as to make it impossible to introduce anything even the' softest sponge, into it, every touch producing violent and bloody vomiting. The next morning it was found that emphysema of the head and neck had supervened. This is caused by air which had escaped from the trachia or bronchia into the cellular tissues of the body under the skin, inflating the parts to an enotmous extent. The unfortunate man was then suffering from imperfect respiration, and was unable to take anything but fluids. Brennan lingered on in this terrible condition, unable to eat, and reap ration growing more and more impeded, until, alter living thus six days, he died on Monday after. noon, as well of starvation as of suffocation, at five o'clock. A past martem examination was held, and the plate was found in the meat pie, immediately below and level with the top of the breast bone, lying transversely across, and its broken and sharp hook points having cut, on the right side, a gash an inch and a half long, and pierced the upper lobe of the right lung. producing an intense inflammation of the parts, and allowing what food he had taken to pass into the pleural cavity instead of into the stomach. On the left side the pipe was perforated, and the plate firmly imbedded in the substance of the throat. Extensive ulceration of the lungs and neighbouring parts had Su pervened.—Amerisan Paper,  house, same,