The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-01-12 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DRINK AND DEATII.—An Inquest was held on Setaeday at the London Hospital upon the body of Samuel Sherwood, aged 34. The wife deposed that the deceased was a tea cooper in the London Dock. He bad done no work eines, Christmas, having been drinking, Between three and four o'clock on the previous Wednesday he came home, and, having asked for some tea, which she gave him, laid on the bed. He then suddenly exclaimed, "Sarah, Sarah, for God's sake get a witness, as I have poisoned myself, and they may bang you for it." He then appeared to dose off into a quiet sleep. She took no notice of what he said, as he had often threatened the same thing when ln liquor. At seven o'clock a fellow workmen of deceased came, whom she told he was asleep, but at nine o'clock she was unable to arouse him, and becoming frightened at once sent for the doctor, who on arrival ordered his Immediate removal to the hospital. Mr. R. W. Burdett, house-surgeon, said the deceased was admitted at ten o'clock. and died half an hour after. An analysis of his stomach had been made, which proved death to be due from opiutn poisoning.—The Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst in a state of unsound mind.  : THE DUTCH AND THE GERMANS,- There are many incompatibilities between the Dutch and the Germane. ' That of mere physical cleanliness is expreseively marked by Philip de Comines as a feature of the 15th century. Whenever you cross the frontier and enter Cleve, you pass at once out of spotless purity into ' filth. In tble transit there are other symptoms of unfusibility between the Dutchman and the German. In 1 one day I had my luggage twice examined more !strictly than it had been throughout week, of travel' lingamong various nations. Having to go by railway ! from NJ tneguen to Maeetricht, I passed through &corner 1 of Cleve, and there was an examination on entering German territory, and another on returning to Dutch territory. Surely, if there were a good understanding between neighbours, this might be avoided. Among civilised communities, the Dutch are the most accomplished tradere, the Germane perhaps the clumsiest. In answer to this, perhaps you may point to the Germane who are settling in the English large towns— chiefly Manchester and Liverpool —and there making great fortunes, But thin phenomenon is accounted for by the fact that these enterprising spirits have no opportunity or the exercise of their ambition and enterprise among their sluggish neighbours at home. There Is a timidity that makes the German loth to cast his money on the waters if there is the slightest possibility that it may be lost there. He is ready to se-1, but not to buy. Perhaps some British travellers may have had experience of this tendency in the wine districts, as I have had. It takes the shape of persecution to invest in the native liquid. Last year, just on parting from a genial fellow.townsman, who is a great Oriental scholar—we met on the banks of the Rhine by one of the happy accidents that briguten the wandering life—l wan harassed for a couple of hours by one who reminded me of those frightful advertisements which propose to enlist young men of " indomit ilfie energy and perseverance'. in canvassing for the sale of anew and popular work. He was a gentleman with large eetatee, and sold his own wine to the consumer when he could. He brought his ledger with him to show the extent of his business. When I expressed myself satisfied with my present lot in giving a profit to a respectable wine merchant ter the saving of personal trouble, he endeavoured t convince me that such an arrangement was an Injustice to the producer. In the end, he expressed some antic...), about an Irish purchaser whom he had the satisfaction of largely supplying, but who did not yet appear to have fulfilled hie part of the transaction. The name and title was something like Sir Lucius OThlumery, of Castle Phlumery, but I bad not the god fortune to enjoy the acquaintance of that illustrious person. It occurred to me that if my tormentor paid his harassing attentions to many of the country. men of Sir Lucius, be m ght get a large stock of his commodity taken out of his hands without an equivalent being placed in them. And if such results should teach him ad others of his kind to abandon the practice of harassing natives of the tinited Kingdom at large, it would be a gracious and characteristic sei-vice, wherein Ireland might show a noble oblivion of the many wrongs .he has suffered at the hands 01 Britain.—Blackwoods Magazin.