The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-04-21 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

RISKS OF RAILWAY BERVANTB.—RaiIway servants are will decorate their silly heads with the lovely little exposed to so many risks that one risk more is perhaps bodies, which ought never to be seen except on the: scarcely worth their notice; yet it seems herd that, in wing. Unfortunately, too, such is the course of fashion, addition to being pelted from bridges with stones and I the negro women here are adoptingthte the u2Pcie, and I fear there is not much doubt that. h hummingbrickbats when in charge of trains, by boys whose! bird will soon be exterminated... lt is indeed a shame " extreme -youth" is considered by magistrates sufficientthe'' to destroy these littte beauties in ruthless manner excuse for any atrooty, they should also be pelted " with dangerous missiles hurled at them for amusement they are being destroyed at the present time. by pavenaers in pasting trains. Stung to bitterness A. CRUEL Joitz.-1-A practical joke of a very heartleis by an incident of this nature, ,the guard of a Great nature has just been perpetrated at Whitchurch. A Western gouda train writes to the B:rmiughaw Post butcher residing in that town is in the habit of going complaining that last week, as the train of which i to Crewe to stay two or three days at a time without be was in charge was running between West i expreqiing his intentions to his relatives, and he disapBromwich and Handsworth Junction, a young peared in this manner two days ago, and no notice was man, " respec, ‘bly dressed in a light suit,'' leaning, taken of it until the day following his disappearance, out of the window of a carriage in the 10 a.m. exAess , when a hat purporting to belong to the lots butcher, train from Paddington, threw a glass bottle at the I was found by the canal side with a statement in engineman of the goods train ea pamant, striking the writing pinned to it, saying that his life had fireman on the face, and inflicting so severe a wound become so unbearably wretched that he mold that he had to be taken to a doctor at Hockley, and no longer endure it, and that his body sent home by a passenger train. The guard hopes that would be found in the canal con'iguous to where the some person in the same compartment with the respect- hat was found. Ile also made provision on the scrap ably-dressed young man will have the goodness to give of paper for his relatives, and duly disposed of his such information as will enable the sufferer from his horse and trap. The friends of the man were at once playfulness to make a claim upon him for compensa- thrown into a state of great mental anxiety; the police tion. It is, however, unlikely that any one who wit- were informed of the occurrence, hundreds of people I messed the occurrenee will betray the offender, for the congregated at the canal side, and the waters were perbottle, before being used as'a projectile, w.s probably sistently dragged for several hours without avail. ennwien by iiimse f and his fellow-passengers, and the Some persons then expressed their opinion that the hat attempt to fracture the skull of the engine-driver of and paper had been put there as a "sell," and a couple the goods t rain ems a mere Sett of conviviality prompted 1 of relatives at once drove to Crewe to put their doubts by its contents,— Pall Mall Gaotte. at rest, and there they found the "suicide" comfortably installed with his friends.