The North Cumberland Reformer. — 1891-04-16 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

MELANCHOLY END.  Floating on the Seine,neur Clichy,have been found tightly bound together, the corpses of an old couple who had been living for many years in a house at the Ternes end of the long Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore. The man had been a commercial traveller in his better days, and was upwards of eighty years of age when he persuaded his companion, Madame de Fischer—who is said to have belonged to a wealthy Russian family, possessing large estates in the Caucasus—to die with him, as they were in a condition of the utmost destitution. Madame de Fischer, nee Markoff, is described as the widow of a personago who held the title of Marshal of the Nobility, and who expired about twenty years ago. She was sixty-two,and she took up her residence here shortly after the death of her husband. Madame de Fischer seems to have lost the whole of her fortune in speculations, and after 1885—in which year she became totally blind—her friends made her a small allowance, which would have sufficed for her needs had she not taken Metiver to live with her. Her paramour, spent her money as fast as she procured it, but his ascendency over her was se great that she could not shake hint off. Lately her relatives, disgusted at her liasion, threatened to stop the supplies altogether, and it was then that Metiver conceived the project of the double suicide. The couple quitted their abode on Sunday, Madame de Fischer leaving with a fellow lodger a note which she instructed him to open on the following day. It contained a message to be forwarded to her relations in Moscow, and ran thus: "Aunt died this morning. Send 500 f. for funeral."  The name of Mr. John Albert Bright has been substituted for that of the late Mr. Bradla ugh upon tie. Royal COMllliB3ioll on Vaccination. alajor General Sir Francis De Winton, who has lately arrived in this country from Mombasa, will not return to East Africa. Sir Francis, who for the last year has been chief officer of the British East Africa Company, has suffered somewhat in health, an intends to remaiu in England for some time. A Dorchester telegram states that Cu!. liambro, Conservative member for the Southern Division of Dorsetshire, is reported to be lying seriously ill in the South of France, where he went for the Rada Recess for the benefit of his health.  _ Lord Harris, Governor of Bombay, who is at present on a tour through the Southern Maliratta country, recently took part in a tiger hunt near Londa, in which six tigers were, shot by his Excel 'li,f ckets to view the State Apartments of Windsor Castle are henceforth to be issued from an office established in the building next the Winchester Tower.  A friend of the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum has promised a donation of £l,OOO towards the reduction of the mortgage, on condition that £3,000 more is raised before the 22nd inst., when the festival dinner is to be held. AL a itaueklAuu, me county nutst.trate tuts grantee a sUIIIIIIOII3 against Mr. Samuel Storey. M.P., charging him with having committed porjury at the local Police Court on March 7th, in his evidence against Superinteadent Burrell, whom he charge,' with having assaulted him at Newport Farm. The case has arisen out of the recent strike at Silkworth Colliery.