Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-06-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VERY ROMANTIC.—A romantic affair, the consequence of one of those interruptions to which the course of true love is proverbially liable, has occurred near Limerick. On Saturday evening a young gentleman of high social position, and heir to • considerable fortune, attempted to commit suicide at his mother's house in the county Clare, not twenty miles from that city. Ile had become violently enamoured of one of his mother's female domestics, and proposed to make tier his wife. His family put a decided veto on the match, and, being yet a minor, the lover had to yield to the opposition. The disappointment preyed on his spirits. He became moody, and, it is said, sought relief in drinking. He several times threatened to commit suicide, and on the evening mentioned aimed a pistol at his breast and discharged it. His aim was unsteady, and the bullet only took effect in his left arm. Members of the family were at once upon the scene, and surgical aid was quickly procured. The wound proves not to be dangerous. and the patient is reported to be doing well, but he declares that he will not live unless he is per. mitted to unite his fortunes with the low-b rn damsel on whom he has fixed his affections. In face of the deadly resolutiou be has exhibited, it is believed the family will not per-ist in their opposition, and that the young gentleman will be permitted to gratify his wishes, and marry the damsel wh-o he comes of age. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN EAST YORKSHIRK —Sir Tatton Sykes, in addition to the numerous ehurches already erected, is about to build's new one at Fimber. For this purpose the old building, which possessed a fine Norman doorway, has been razed, and upon the site the excavitions for the walla of the new structure have been made In so doing it was shown that the church just destroyed was not the original one. but that a larger and earlier one had existed there— probably of Saxon date. Upon the floor of this earlier church was • large accumulation of burnt matter im pregnated to an extraordinary extent with lead, in some places the molten lead having predominated in the rubbish. There is no record, but it went(' seem that the first building had been destroyed by fire. A very interesting geological feature his also oc-ured. The foundations are dug to the chalk, and through the " feather" edge of an outlier of the purple or second post-glacial clay, which at thie elevation of 400 feet has escaped the Wold denudation, and which lame clay is 100 feet thick at Filey Brig. There is also a curious archaeological feature. At the western end both churches have stood upon a British tumulus. At a depth of flee feet below the level of the late tower, two urns—a "food vessel" and a "drinking cup"—two feet apart, with a fine flint axe, a large flake knife, and various chips of flint, with bones of the ox and hog, hut no human bones, were found. Run ing due south was a trench containing vast quantities of animal bones, particularly the teeth of the mt. In the tumulus were • bone pin and a very large tusk of the wild boar, and much charcoal.,  LIBERTY Ofi