Widnes Examiner. — 1880-08-21 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDIA—A chocking murder is reported from Edenwood, a colliery village in Durham. . The victim is a young woman named Elixatath Holmes, and the murderer Win Brownies.. They had been courting acme time, but for some reason or other the young woman expressed her determination on Muddy to have nothirg imire to do with Itrownless, who in consequence waylaid her no Wsdimsdny morning and cut her throat Inc murderer afterward. attempted to Cornelia{ suicide, and wounded him. • self so seriously that little hope is entertained or his recovery flu lietArTle Or LAliall 'Towns —The Registrar Lieneral reports during tut week 6,007 births and 4,096 deaths in 23 large towns of the United Kingdom. 'the average rate ol mortality in these tmws was 25 annually per thousand. The rate was in London, 24; Edinburgh, 20; Wane, 20 I 35; Wolverhampton, 10; Bristol, IT ; Portsrenuth, 17; Bradford, Li; Hull, 23; Newcastle, 13; Sheffield, 24; Brighton, 24; Nottingham, 2rl m Norwich, 26; Birmingham, 26; Manchester, 24; Oldham, 27 Sunderland, XI; Liverpool, 28; Lards, 26 ; Leicester, 33; Salford, 38. TRAIN UP A CHILD," *o.—Two sons of Mr. Cuthh.rt Ritson, • magistrate residing at Ravenswoith Moose, Burnhon, and chairman of the liavenswortb Board of Bun, bane been charged before the SOlneript magistrates with threatening their father and with having assaulted a police -• The ' " ' '- • -•• sergeant. -,Je policeman was called in by Mr '<neon to protect hint from the violence of his two son, when they extinguished the lights and attacked the constable with a stick and a sword. The defendants were 'nod £5 each and costa, and were bound over in their own recogilizances to keeo the p.c. for three mouths. Scpcsts-rt-now AND DrAlll. AT Fargo.— A remarkable example of the tenaCity with which some people hold to shooed superstitions is repoTted front Orrell, near Wigan. The Clerk to Bre Poor Law Guardians stated at the Idst meeting of the Board that he knew a woman, the mother of eight children, who had deliberately takcn her children to house whore scarlet fever existed, it. the whet that it was the fate of all persons to have the disease, and that it  tempted th make these remarWhecodlsel nee-71101 c often- would be better 'for the membere of her fancily to have it Won la now directed to this long-neglected sulcject by means while they were young. It is not uncomino. u to hear of a .of lecturen no farmer,' clubs, and the StictiCe arid Art be. like superstition in regard to whooping cough. I partment I.re taken a wise Men irk additig the scientitic Pre TANNER isa divorced MAIL He explains ns y to my advice, is wile) persisted In contlnually principles of agriculture bothdr lilordaubjecta. The little Irldin..; to that event in the irellowleg language Lonscientific knowledge I po.eas baneding often saved mnde Doman.less purchase of manures and fe etuff, a suggested try stuffing I she (h cer.7l: to repleitlon new, alai I believe hetter,melliods of cultivation ; and !eery fo.cd, and, natura. consce.4 in lllcoold cm longer. I found at last that it was impossible for any agriculturist would do a service hy encouraging the young planting that she was tack. 1 men of bin district to atteud those proposed claw.," beincl to live on tern. of comfort with