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Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-04-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SUICIDE OF LORD LYTTELTON.  Lord Lyttleton, who has been suffering from depression of spirits for some time, threw himself over the staircase at his residence in Park-crescent, Regent's-park, London, and received such injuries as to cause death. At the inquest Thomas Barnes said he was an attendant upon the deceased. He was engaged from the institution at New House, Clanton. Ho commenced to attend deceased on the flOth of March last. His lordship was suffering train great depression of spirits, and Dr. Andrew Clark and Dr. Munro were in daily attendance. On Monday last deceased passed a very restless night. Ile slept from twelve to four o'clock, but after that seemed to filequently wake up. About eight o'clock in the morning witness began to shave the deceased, and when he had finished ono side of his face, his lordship asked him to stop for a time while he walked about the room. Witness acceded to tho request, and after his lordship had paced the room twice he soddenly darted to the bedroom door, opened it, and rushed out, palling it to after him. Witness immediately rushed after him, and was just in time to see deceased about two or three steps down the staircase. He had his bands on the handrail, and rolled his body over and fell to the bottom of the well of the staircase. Witness ran to deceased and lifted him up, and found him quite insensible. He died neat morning without having recovered consciousness. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  The Right Hon. George William Lyttelton, K.0.111.G., fourth Baron Lyttelton, Naas born in London on the 31st of March, 1817. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in the highest classical honours in 1838. He succeeded his father in 1837 • and he filled the office of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from January to July, 1848. In 1881-3 he acted as a member of the Public Schools Commission, and since then as a Royal Commissioner on Clerical Subseription, and on Middle Schools. He was chief of the Endowed Schools Commission from 1880 until the ' transference of the duties of that body to the Charity Commission in 1874. Lord Lyttelton took an active interest in colonial questions and in advocating the revival of the active powers of Convocation, and he was the promoter of tho Increase of the Episcopate Bill. His lordship was Lord-Lieutenant of Worcester and High Steward of Bowdley. He married, in 1839, the second daughter of Sir Richard Glynne, who died in 1857, leaving eight sons and three daughters. . .  He married secondly in 18h9 the widow of the late Mr. H. F. Mildmay, by whom he leaves issue three daturhters. His lordship's successor is his eldest son, the Hon. C. G. Lyttelton, who was horn jo 1842 and sat as M.P. for East Worcestershire in the Liberal interest from 1868 to 1874.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-11-18 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TRAGEDY IN CONSTANTINOPLE.  M. Isadore, a Greek Catholic of Constantinople, who has had a hairdresser's shop for lailies for many years ir. the Grand Rue, dose to the church of Ste. Marie was, says the Levant Herald, the victim of an attempted murder on Thursday night, 26th October, and the assassin immediately afterwards took away his own life. M. Isidore had had with him for the past seven years as assistant a young man belonging too Greek family of Tatmla, in whom he had every confidence. Some days ago the hairdresser perceived indications about the desk in which he kept his cash which convinced him that attempts had been made to force it open, and he charged his assistant with the offence. The latter at first denied the charge, but eventually admitted that, in a moment of temptation, he had endeavoured to get at the cash. He craved pardon, which M. Isidore conceded, but would not go further than this, and continue to keep the assistant in his service, as he was implored to do. Isidore paid him his wages and discharged him. On Thursday evening, a little before eight o'clock, as M. Isidore was leaving his shop, he was met by his en assistant, who, on his repeating his refusal to take him back again into his service, drew a revolver and fired two shots at H. Isidore, one ball traversing Isis shoulder from side to side and the other lodging in one of his arms. M. Isidore fell on the pavement, and the assassin then turned the pistol upon himself, and, placing it under his chin, fired, the ball passing through his head and causing almost instantaneous death. M. Isidore, though severely wounded, and having sustained a sharp Ohmic to the nervous system, is not considered to be in actual danger. The ball lodged in the arm has been extracted. The suicide was named Ryriaco, and was only 28 years of age.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1875-11-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXA.MINER" begs to announce that no expense has been spared in the getting up of the above, to make it worthy of acceptance; and its cheapness, he is certain, cannot fail to bring it within the resources of all classes.  The followlng is a list of the Right Reverend Prelates whose Portraits and Autographs mill appear _in the Group:  At the Liverpool Police Court, on Monday Edward John Barry, formerly a cashier in the service of Messrs Duncan Ewing and Co., timber merchants, was committed for trial on the charge of embezzling various sums of money belonging to his employers. The prisoner's defalcations are stated to amount in the aggregate to upwards of £22,000, and he confesses to having appropriated the money for the purpos? of covering losses sustained through speculations on the Stock Ex change. A- correspondent writes : The man MciVlanns wno was sentenced at the Commission Court, Dublin, a few week's since, to ten years penal servitude for the murder of his foster-mother in Ireland ten years ago, and whose real name is now ascertained to be Patrick Hall, strangled himself on Saturday morning last, in Kilmaiu ham Goal, Dublin, with his suspenders or belt, after being served with his breakfast. He appeared in the morning quiet,and resigned, but in less than half an half after he was fouud quite dead. The verdict of the coroners jury was " That the deceased Patrick Hall on the 30th ultimo committed suicide by strhngling himself with his belt, which he took off his waist." A fitting end, we mioht almost say, to the brutal murderer of his foster mother.  Archbishop Of Canterbury, Rt. Hon. and Most Rev. Arch. Tait D.D.,D.C.L. ... Right Hon. and Most Rev. William Thompson, D. D. ... Right Hon. and Right Rev. John Jackson, I).D. Bishop of Durham, ... Bight Rev. Charles Baring 1).1). Bishop of Winchester, ... Right hey'. Edward Harold Browne, D.D. Bishop of Bangor, .. Right Rev. James Colquhoun Campbell, D.D. Bishop of Bath and Wells, Rt. Hon. & Right Rev. Lord Arthur C. Hervoy, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, ... Right Rev. Hervey Goodwin, P. I). Bishop of Chester, Bight Rev. William Jacobson, D. D. Bishop of C'hichest,r, ... Right Rev. Richard Diumford, DD. Bishop of Ely, ... Right Rev. James Ru-e I Woofford, P. D. Bishop of Exeter, ... Right Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D. Bp. f Gloucester & Bristol, Right Rev. Charles Jhn E llicott DL). .. Right Rev. Jam: s Atlay, D.D. ... Right Rev. George Augustas Sewyn, P.O. ... Right Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. Bishou of Llandaff, ... Right Rev. Alfral O.livnnt. D.D. Rshop of Manchester ... Right Rev. James Fraser. D.l). Bishop of Norwich, ••• Hon. and Rignt Rev John Thomas Pelham, D.D. Right Rev. John Fielder, Mackarness, D.D. Bishop of Peterborough, Right Bev. William Connor .Magee, D.D. Bishop of Ripon. ... Right Rev. Robert Bickersteth, D.D. Bishop of Rochester, ... Right Rev. Thomas Legh Claughton,
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1875-12-18 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  " A.VAOLTON. A distressing murder and attempted suicide took place at Bolton, on Saturday morning. A woman named Sarah Tonga, aged 32 years, threw herself and her infant son David Tonge, aged 10 months, into a reservoir off Halliwell-road. The woman was got out alive,but the child was drowned Mrs Tonge was the widow of a spindle and fly maker, named Willie:Di- 'range, who died last January. They had six children, and about three Week's after her husband's death Mrs Touge was confined of a seventh. Having been left without any means, :she was compelled, with her three youngest childzn, to enter the workhouse. She remained there until six or seven weeks ago, when she came out, but in consequence of the illness of one of ,her Solis, she Was obliged te-return. On Tuesday 'las' t, however, sha once more left the house, and took a cottage in Bank Place, Raglanstreet, Halliwell, where four of her. children, the eldest being 16, went to reside with her..: She told a brother-in-law that:Aid:guardians hadtgreed to allow her 88.,a week, _apt:on Thursdaya:she went to the relieving Officeit rebirriaid, but di* not get anything.. She-A-le-On 'this as an atteMpt to force her back into the:workhouse again, and became very low-spirited. Next day her sister accompanied her to the relieving officer, but Instead of getting moneishe Only received a ticket for 6s. werth:cd food. Tilie-Went still further del)/ din mink=aild threateriatii make away with herself. On Saturday mctrnihPabont, quarter. toseven, she called on her brother-in-law at his work, having her infant son .with She. appeared t(i.be greatly excited, and repeated two or threl tales that "she would do it." Mr- Howcroft endeavoured to pacify her as well es-he uoild, and in a quarter of an hour she hadadit,hira; ; It afterwards- transpired that on evinj brother-in-laW Mrs Tonga went to tkgs mill yard of Mr John RPstron, in Gladstone-strek; and threw herself and child into a reservoir. A girl named Martha Ann Riley was passing through the yard directly ,afterwards, when she Saw the woman_ struggling in the "water. She at once raised an alarm, and a 'large black ;dog which is kept on the t'premises plunged into the lodge, and swam tOwardsltriTonge, who', dby this time began to cry for help. Two men amed Goodman and Walker, engine tenter and fir ater at the rnill,:ranito her rescue and got her oi and by the administrative& and restoratives s covered. Her first cry was for her child, ai men at-once ran back to the lodge, 'schen the saw' the body of the deceased floating on the wat( . was quickly recovered, but, life was found to extinct. .._  esse,  ••,/ n. .ebe:
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-12-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

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Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-07-28 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SUICIDE OF A BLUE-COAT Boy.—The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances leading to the suicide of the Blue-Coat boy, William Arthur Gibbs, aced 12 years. at Christ's Hospital was , opened in the library of the institution. The corn, A Sranorvo Caaw.—Advices from the Cape man), Mr. Walpole, Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Walter, of the I.9th of June state that the brig Nyverheid, and the Dean of Christ's Church, took their seats, and Captain Hoist, arrived at Table Bay on the 11th of a number of press gentlemen sought to gain admission, Puns from Calcutta. raiports having spoken on the 24th but were refused, and kept waiting outside the library of stay, in lat. 29 50 8, long 37 59 E. the Retriever whilst thecomruissioners deliberated onthecourse to be (schooner), from Mauritius, for Cape Town, sixty days I adopted, the shorthand writer who had been expressly out, flying signals of distress and starvation. The I engaged to take the notes being also excluded tomcaptain of the Retriever sent a boat to the Nyverheid, 1 poramly. Later on the latter gentleman was called in, and reported that he had lost one man overboard; I and shortly after Mr. Allcroft, the treasurer, and Mr. that he (oa?tain Hinach) and his crew, with the ! Gibbs, the father of the deceased, were also sumexception of the mate, were sick, his chronometers ' moned. The gentlemen of the press then made an bad run down, and the water and provisions were effort to obtain admission, but were informed that the exhausted. The Nyverheid supplied them with as inquiry would be strictly private all through, and much water and provisions as could be spared, and that no one whatever would be allowed in the room parted company; after setting the chronometers and except the witnesses. giving them the course for Natal, from which port
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-02-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DISTRESSING INQUIRY.  An inquest was held at the Board-room Mountstreet, Grosvenor-square, by Mr. Bedford, on the body of the late Countess Howe, who was killed by a fall from the window of her house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. After some formal evidence had been taken, Major-General Foley said that the deceased was his sister-in-law, and her name. Harriet Mary, widow of George Curzon, Earl Howe. Her age no believed, was between 30 and 40. He had seen her occasionally, but he did not think she WAS in illhealth, although she was very much depressed at the loss of her husband. It was generally understood that she'was in very low spirits, and she complained of inability to sleep. He last saw her on Sunday week, and she appeared in her usual state of depression. She had never been placed under restraint of any kind. Marian Davis, lady's-maid to the deceased, deposed that her ladyship was generally well in bodily health, though much depressed in spirits. By the Coroner: Deceased never alluded to self-destruction, but had said that life was a burthen to her. Witness last eaw her on Sunday night at half-past eleven in her bed-room, and heard her moving in the room the nett morning, about 8.15. About twenty minutes afterwards Lady Charlotte Stand's maid told witness of the fatal occurrence. Mary Ann Baker, maid to Lady Charlotte Blurt, said that upon going into the dining-room to arrange the curtains she saw deceased lying upon the leads outside. Mr. Frederick Butt stated that he was a surgeon, and that about 8.30 on Monday morning he was called to 10, Charles-street. He found the body of her ladyship lying upon the leads outside the dining-room, quite dead. He subsequently ascertained that the deceased had sustained a fracture of the skull and compound fracture of the jaw, from the effects of which she had died instantaneously. He examined the premises, and found the back window on the second storey open. The distance deceased fell would be about thirty feet. The coroner having summed up, the jury deliberated for n'few moments, and retereed a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-02-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WOMEN IN THE SLAVE STATEEL—The condition of women in these lands—even of white women, the wives and daughtersof the planters—was described by a native of the South as "alwaysadvancing towards Or! than  Jrientalism." They were, in act, little better th, the toys or the spoiled favourites of their husbands and their fathers. How could it be otherwise in a land where women, simply because they were black, or even in spite of their being white when they came of , servile race, were kept in such open and shameless j immorality by their tyrants that association were formed simply for the sake of increaslfig the number of slaves by the illicit connection of masters with their female eerie? The children of negresses by a white father were as much slaves as the children of negresses by a black father. Many masters sold their own offspring with as little compunction as they sold the offspring of slave and slave. There was a large class called J Quadroons, who were three-parts white to one black. j The women of this class had the fatal gift of beauty, and they were, with scarcely an exception, maintained by white admirers, without the slightest sense of responsibility or of human consideration. Highly edm. cated, accomplished, and graceful, these unhappy ' creatures were often fitted for the best society, but were kept jealously apart until it suited the pleasure or the interests of their lovers to marry, and to cast them off. "The Quadroom ladies," says Harriet Martineau, "are rarely or never known to form a second connection. Many commit suicide; more die broken-hearted." In New Orleans, these Quadroon connections were almost uni,,rsal. That the children of white fathers and coloured mothers were systematically sold in the slave market, and exported like any other cattle to States where the demand for them was active, was too notorious a fact for any one
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-11-10 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CLANDESTINE GAMING TABLE.—The Correctional Tribunal of Marseilles has just had before it a charge of keeping a gambling-house, brought by the police against hi. Henri de PosseL 50 years of age, belonging to a good family of the district. He had led an idle and irregular life, and was long connected with the turf. In /870 he had extensive transactions with the Government of National Defence to supple horses, by which he made a profit of 300,0001 r. He soon, however, dissipated it, and then opened an establishment which he called the " Oercle Tatteraire," but which, however, was nothing more than a clandestine gaming-table, to which young men were enticed and then fleeced by sharpers The accused had taken flight, but the tribunal condemned him by default to the maximum penalty, six months' imprisonment and 6000 fr. fine. Be Pastel was the uncle of Guerin, who committed suicide a few months ago at Monaco, after a heavy loss at play. RIR Trims SALT'S Wru..—The Leeds Mercury says that the will and two codicils of the late Sir Titus Salts Bart., of Crow Nest, and of Saltaire, near Bradford, has been proved. The personal estate is. sworn under £409,000. An endowment of .£30,000 is provided for the benefit of the sick and aged poor of Saltaire and neighbourhood. Legacies of £160,000 each are given to the testator's sons—the present baronet (Sir W. H. Salt) and Mr. Herbert Salt; a legacy of £BO,OOO is settled upon each of the teetatoes three daughters; and £lOO,OOO is bequeathed in trust for the purchase of real estate to form a permanent provision for the baronetcy. Subject to the payment of legacies and annuities, the whole of the personal estate is given to the testator's three eons—George, Edward, and Titus—who were engaged with him in the business carried on at Bellaire. A MEETING OF LIBERAL STUDENTS Of Edinburgh University has been held, at which it was agreed to bring forward the Marquis of Hartington as a candidate for the Lord Rectorship Lord Derby's period of office soon expires.
Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-04-14 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LIFE.—At the Dublin Commission Court, a woman named Whately was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for having killed her infant child, five months old, by seising it by the heels, swinging it round her head, and dashing its head against the ground.—The same punishment was awarded to Laurence Higgins, a dairyman, for having raised his wife's clothes and roasted her naked limbs at a large fire.—lt is reported that a woman, named Mary Gurnan, living near Ferbane, in King's County, was murdered, her head being battered in with a shovel. Threepersons, named Corcoran are arrested.— A man, named Patrick Brides, has died at Scotshouse, near Clones, from injuries received while returning from a fair. Brides had collected money , for the defence of a man, named McDonald, who was charged with another man, named Rielly,f or murder. Rielly's friends became annoyed, and a good deal of ill-feeling arose. Deceased, when found, could give no account of the injuries from which he aufforeo, and he died soon after wards.—ln the County Prison, Cavan, a warder named West attacked a fellow warder named O'By rue, and stabbed him twice in the stomach. He then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. O'Byrne is not dangerously injured, but it is feared West will die.—A police-constable named Doherty, while executing an ejectment order on a man named M•Laughlin, in Ireland, was shot by him. The ball took effect above the constable's lett eye, and he is not expected to survive. M•Laughlin is in custody. WHAT THE SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES Do—Prevented by the nature of things from producing very many scholars of a high order, the Scotch Universities, , says the Daily News, find their occupation in stimulating intellect, and in disseminating culture on a very wide scale. They offer opportunities, which are not neglected, to almost every class. Their degree examinations are much more severe than those through which the English passman, or at least the Oxford passman, travels to his RA. A Scotch pass degree is not to be won with out real work and accurate knowledge, but Scottish honours are not very often perhaps an object of ambition, and, within the last ten years, might be gained rather cheaply. Professorial lectures in Scotland are lectures indeed, pieces of actual literature, while tutorial lectures in England are often a mere string of disjointed and most uninteresting, though in substance possibly valuable, remarks. A Scotch University education, supplemented by life at Bonn and Berlin, is perhaps the soundest and best that a modern scholar can have, and it may be enjoyed at a much cheaper rate than four years at most English colleges. .•