Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-06-04 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BOY.—At the Manchester County Police Court, on Tueedday, Harry Ashby. • boy aged 13, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide. William Norton, bricklayer, 21, Buckley-street, Newton Heath, said that the prisoner had lived with him about twelve months. The prisoner's was dead. He wee a nervous, excitable boy, and on being subjected to excitement or passion, would often go into fits. On Sunday afternoon be should have gone to the Sunday school, but as he did not go witness sent him up' stairs, telling him he should not leave the house again that evening. A few minutes afterwards witness heard a peculiar noise, and on going to the prisoner's bedroom found him hanging by a handkerchief and leather strap from a hook in the wardrobe. His feet were several inches from the floor, and it appeared that he had fastened the scarf round his neck stood on a chsir, and then kicked the support away. When wltnes, lifted him down hewn Mack in the face and almost unconscious. On being asked what he had done it for, he said he "wire ashamed of himself." The lad was • good hand at learning, but witness had had a great deal of trouble with him, baying detected him in felonious acts.—lt was stated by the prisoner's schoolmaster that he was a smelt boy, having passed the third stand:ad. It had never been suspected that his mind was disturbed. Sir J-ILTI Mantel!, retnatkiug that it was a very embarrassing case, remanded the prisoner for • "gawk, and he should be placed under the 0 r pwo. pew. is the issuatios,  ODIRELLOWb' PROCESSION AT HYDE, On Sunday the members of the Clyde and Tboton District of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows had a procesaion round the district. can net at the Unitari ai Church, Flowery Field, Hyde, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. .1. K. Smith, and a collection; which amounted to a handsome sum, was made on behalf of the Widow and Orphans' Fund. The brethren assembled at the Navigation Hotel, Manchester road, Hyde, at intlf-past twelve o'clock, and after the procession had been formed, it proceeded along Mancoester-road and Newton-street to the church, led by the Poet District Masters, &mast Bassett, D .stun, J. E. Wild, Denton, Thoimis Wright, District Secretary, and others. These were followed by the Ashton Past District Masters and menthol' from Manchester. Afterwards came the Hyde Borough Band and the members of the Grand Masten' Council, awl the ordinary members of the society, marshalled by P.O.M. Eaas Oldham, Hyde (In arriving at the church the hymn "Father of Love' wee cuss, awl during the service the anthem "Ascribe unto the Lord,', :Ind the hymns" How sweet, how heavenly is the sight •' and ,' Come let us  The Rev. J. K Smith preached on the duty of providence, from the Epistle to Tonothy, sth chapter and Bth sera " But if any man provide not for his owe, especially for those of his own housthold, he hack denied the faith, and and is worse than an infidel." The word infidel simply meant unbeliever, and the first duty of a Christian man was to provide for all possible wants in his own home. The man who was wise would learn the principles of domestic economy, and they would teach oil the lines upon which he must act to prnido against sickness. They must not spend Alt to-day or they would have nothiuo for to-morrow. The wise mall would make a calm calculation ol all contingencies in the future mid make provision for taco, awl the wife of such a mar., would upend his hard earned waissa to make the most of a snail income. Therefore it was the bounden duty of a wife to learn the best possible methods of providing ways to make the most of what she had at her disposal, that everything should be for the comfort of her husband and the benefit of her children, and the general happiness of all whose affections were centred on the fireside hearth.