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The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-05-10 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE EVENING SERVICE.  In the eveaing a public serviee was held in Queen'smoad Chapel, which was crowded. The service was opened with the hymn "At even e'er the sun was set." The Rev. Carey Hood then offered prayer, and, after the second hymn, " Lord of mercy and of might," read as the first lesPon Psalm xlviii. The anthem '• How lovely is Zion," wa then sung, after which the Rev. J. Guinnessßogers rea I for the second lesson Matthew xii., from the 22nd verse, and Mark ix., from the 33rd verve, and afterwards offered prayer. The hymn " Before Jehovah's awful throne," having been sung, the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers preached from the words " He that is not with me is against me" (Matthew xii., v. 30), an eloquent and impressive sermon upon the claims of Cirid in the present day. In the ceursi" of his sermon he impiessed upon his hearers the solemn fact that there existed a line of division between them, everyone present being either for Christ or against Him, there being no tient al ground. He was sure that they could not bear the thought that they were against Christ ; but was Christ their Saviour ! was He their Lord ? were they for His sake acting against evil, awl doing God's will upon earth a it is ilone in heaven. In the present day there existed a lot of mere open rofeision. that would not stand the test of God's word, hitt what they wanted was a purpose and wholedieartedness in the things of If they would be Christ's they must give Him their all. Re concluded with an ernest appeal to the young people who were present, reminding them that they had youth, they had influence,they had a nameibut if these blessings were not given to Christ they were against Him. He prayed God that those of his hearers who had not, as yet, decided for Christ, might have no rest till they had done no, and when they came to be weighed in God's balances that they m;ght net be found wanting. A collection was made amounting to £33 10s. ed., and the hymn " Onward christian soldiers," brought the service to a close. The services were continued on Sunday and Tuesday.  EXTRACRDINARY SCENE AT A FrNERAL.—At ' Devenport on Saturday, when the body of Charles Williams, naval pensioner, who com• mit•ed suicide, was to be buried, a disgraceful scene took place outside the deceased's residence. ! An infuriated crowd, 1,000 strong, assembled in the street with the obieet of mobbing deceased's ' widow—a %team utth whom he had cohabited during his first wife's lifetime, and whom he married Within a fortnight of her decease. The police, remembering that a disturbance occurred at the wedding, appeared on Saturday in strong force, anti successfully repelled an attempt of the , crowd to reach Mrs. Willi .ms as she entered the coach. The people shouted and groaned all the way to the cemetery.  MlNNlNiaulmk
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-05-03 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A BOY. —A sad case of suicide occurred tit Warwick, on Tuesday morning, when a boy named Thomas Brown, aged 13 yeare, committed suicide by hanging. The unfortunate boy was found by a neighbour harg. ing'fi om a tree in the back garden. tie immediately cut the body down, but the boy only breathed twice afterwards. The same atternoou the Borough Coroner (Hr. F. B. Moore), held an inquest on the body at the Black Horse Inn. The evidence was to the effect that the deceased was usually of an active and cheerful disposition, but on Tuesday morning was observed to be in a rather dull and clepres,ed mood. After breakfast he went down the garden, and not long afterwards was found suspended by the neck from part of a clothes line attached to a pear tree. %%lien cut down he breathed twice only. Deceased, it was stated, told a schoolfellow about three weeks ago that lie should not be alive another twelve months, and that he should " hang himself it he could not be a soldier."—The jury returned a verdict that deceased hanged himself while in a state of unsouud mind. Pkiteker HEALTH restored without Medicine or expense. THE STOMACH, BLOOD, BRA IN, NERVES, LIVER, LUNGS, BREATH, AND SKIN restored by Da BARRY'S DELICIOUS REVALENTA ARABICA boo, Which cures habitual constipation, dyspepsia, indigestion, acidity, cough, asthma, bronchitis, c!nsumption, phlegm, diarrlicea, dysentery, liver complaints, flatulen ty, distension, Ineworrhuids, nervousness, biliousness, typhus and other fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, 1 heuicatisin, gout, eruptions, vitiation and poverty of the blood, hyateria, neuralgia, irritability,sleeplessness, low spirits,spleen, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility ; nausea and vomitin:, after eating, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, exhaustion, epilepsy, paralysis, atrophy, wasting diseases, feverish breath. 30 years' invariable success with adults and delicate children. 100,000 cures of cases considered hol elms. Four times as nourishing and sun, taining as meat, it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. We quote a few of the 100,00 Cures : Cure No. 49,432, of 50 years' indescribable agony from ! dyspepsia, nervoisness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting, by Du Barry's F,,,,a.--P4A RI&
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-10-18 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

DROWNED IN THE CANAL.—An inquest was held at the Freemason's Tavern, Freehold-street, on Saturday, before Dr. C. W. Iliffe, Coroner, as to the death of Harriet Bradbury, a widow, formerly reddiug in Freehold-street. —Charles Furlong, a weaver, of 6h. lie. Jordan-well, stated that he had known the deceased for many years. She was the widow of Samuel Bradbury, ribbon weaver, of Little South-street. She was 44 years of age. On the night of the 3rd October she went to witness's house, and lived there until the 9th. During that time she seemed very much depressed and low in spirits, but she never said anything about committing suicide. Seven or eight years ago eh o attempted to take her life by getting into the canal, but on that occasion she was rescued. Witness did not think the decease I was of sound mind. She hail no means of support, but lived on what witness and his wife could give her, and what she got from her relations.. She was a weaver by trade. After her husband's death she had to break up her home, but most of the things belonged to the landlord and could not be removed. She had been advised to go into the Workhouse, but she objected to apply to the Guardian.. On the n'ght of the 9th Octobar, about half-past six o'clock, she left witness's house, saying that she was going to see Mr. Arch, the relieving officer, but instead of doing that she seemed to have w ilked to the canal and command this act. Henry Strong, elastic weaver, living at Paradi-e, Foleshill, stated that on Friday morning, at about seven o'clock, he was walking along the towing path of the canal to his ' work. Near the top of Freehold-street he saw something in the water which he at first thought was a large dog. He then saw an umbrella leaning against the hedge, and on turning to the 1 water again ha saw that the object which had attracted his attention was the .)ody of s woman. Itn She appeared to be quite dead He went to the top of Freehold-street, and *yang Mr. Atkins at the bottom he beckoned him up with the umbrella, and they recovered the body.—The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased omitted suicide while in an unsound state of mind.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-03-29 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN.  PETTY SES,4IONS. —At this Court on Wednesday --before Messrs. Darwin Galton,andW.A. Onslow —George Boswell, of Studley. was summoned for using his cart on the highway at Wootton IVawen on the '22nd February lest, without having his name painted on the off-side.—Ordered to pay costs, 84. Win. Horton, of Lapnioith, was charged with having used his cart on the highway at Hockley Heath, on the 25th February, without having some one in care of it.—Fitiel ss. and cot. 12s. 6d. ; paid.--Macy Woodcock, of Lapivorthhill, was charged with attempting to commit suicide at the parish of Lapworth, on the 16th inst. It appeared that the defendant hail had some words with her mistress at the Boot Inn on the day named, which so exeired her that she ran and jumped into the canal. Through her counsel, Mr. DorFett, she expressed regret, and was discharged. ---II illaiir Neale, Biruaingliam,'was summoned for stealing watgrcres4, of the value of Is., the property of Stephen Hattin, at the parish of Lapworth, on Sunday, the 9th lost. -Ordered to pay Is., the value of the cress, a fine of Is., and costs 14s. 6.1., which lie paid.-Samuel Ball, of Knowlo, who hail taken out a summons against Edward Norris, of Lowstrinford, for assaulting him at Herrington on the 21st March, now SAC I the Bench to allow a settlement of the case out of court, which was done.-Elizabeth Plitirorlk, of Shirley, who hail taken out a summons against her husband, Job Whitworth, for as-aultintr her on the 18th inst. at the paridi of Tanworth, not haying appeared to proceed with the case a warrant was directed to is died.--Charlea Stockley and William Rawlings were charged with stealitig two sacks of has lime, of the value of 55., the property of MeBsm Greave4 and Co., of Wilincote, &e., on or about the Nth of July last, from a bird then lying at the parish of Lapworth.—The case was, after the evidence of a witors had been taken, adjourned to next petty sessions, owing to the absence of a material witness.--Aan rbillilard, of Lowstonford, for nut sending her daughter Elizabeth to school, was or lereil to pay a Sue of ss. The result brought on a tit while she was iu Court, and where she remained soul?, time.--Caroline Brown, of the same parish, was also charged with not sending her two children. William and Ernest Brown, 11 and 9 years oil to seheol.—Distuisaett with a caution.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-09-06 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

LLE S BOURNE.  DETERMECFD ATTEMPTF.D SUICIDE —Oa Tuesday last, a mit desperate and deter mined attempt to eammit cii jle wis made by a labourer named Gocrge Num), 1 ving at Wellesbourne. It app -ars t.,at Mason, who is a man of about 50 rat a of age, at d liv, s in a house by himself, attempted to &Ai oy his life by inflicting two desp wounds on the left arm, anceher wound on the ugh, arm, mid deep gashes on the calf of ea, h of his I. gs with a raz.ir. Several veins were sevsred, am] other injuries of a fearful nature inflicted. The unfortunate man was fund at ten clock at night by one of his is. ighbouts. II w is ti eii lying in a peol of blood on his bed in an exhanste I state. Medical aid was at once p•o• cured, and the wounds were dressed by Dr. Pitt, under whore care the man still remains. The reason assigned for the act is that a charge of indecently as-atilt in.,' a girl was about to be preferred against him.—The accused ens charged at the Shire Hall, Warwick, on We In. ad .y—befcre Mr. F. W. Arkwright with att. mptatig to commit suicide on the previous Stairdley, stationed at Welleshourae, stated that about ten o'clock on Tuesday night lie was info med that the aceused had attempted to commit suicide, He went to his house and found him lying on the bid, Dr. Pitt being engaged in sewing up his wounds. He noticed two wounds on the lett aim, and another wound on the rig) t arm. There were a1.,0 wounds on the calf of each of his legs. He saw a razor stain. d with blood on the table, and there was a quer& ty of blood on the floor. The accused was apparently in an exhausted state. He staye 1 with him for the remainder of the night. That morning he dinged him wth attempting to commit suicide. and he re plied "I suppose they must hang me."— The Mazis, rate then remanded the prisoner uutil to-day (Saturday).
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-09-06 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

OUTBREAK OF SMALL-PDX AT LEICESTER.—SmaII'pox has broken out at Leice,ter. A young man who visited London on Bank Holiday, w.is taken II on hi, return, and the disease has since spread. The authorities are exerting themselves to localise it. The Vaccination Acts are a dead letter in Leicester, most of the young children there being unvaccinated.  Mary Hogg committed suicide at Bolton on Tuesday. She had been sent home from service through ilines. During the absence of her 'areas she got out of bed, and, partially dressed, went to a hot water reservoir attached to a mill. She shouted to a man near, "You'll know where to find me if you want me," and threw herself into th, pm!. The body was afterwards recovered by dragging. A man named Edward Hart (34), has died at Sturminster Marshall, from injuries received in a somewhat singular manner. He was assisting in the hinging of a wedding peal at Winterbourne, Kingston, when he got his neck entangled iu the rope, and was suddenly lifted to a height of ne trly twenty reef, striking his head rig minst boson, and afterwards falling heavily to the floor of time belfry. Mrs. Alice Mary Dalrymple. the wife of Mr. Charles Dalrymple, M.P. for Butesh.re, who has been selected to conte-t Mid Lothian againAt Mr. Gladstone in the Conservative interest at the next general election, died at New Hailes, Musselburgh, Mid-lothian, on Tuesday, at the age of 32, after hay.ng given birth to a daughter on Sunday last. The deceased lady w,,s the second daughter of Sir Henry Hunter Blair, fourth baronet. and was married in April, 1874, to Mr. Charles Dab ymple.  The erection of a st !due of Burns on the Thames Embankment afferds a correspondent in .Noe s and Queried the opp irtunity for enquiring when the metropolis means to honour its own poets with memorials in brows and marble. Chaucer, Milton, Pope, and Gray were born in Landon ; yet there is no public statue to any of them. Statesmen and wari fors have statues innumerable; but the men of letters are poorly recognise! in this particular. Even Shakespeare his no memorial beyond a not very artistic reproduction of the ‘Vestininster Abbey cenotaph.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-06-14 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE NEAR BOLTON.  Another teirible domestic tragedy.took place at Farnworth, ne ir Bolton, on Sunday morning. A man named John Hoyle, formerly of the Bull's Head beerhous kft his wife about live months ago, through a disagreement. His conduct towards his wife had up to that time been somewhat strange, He turned on all the taps in the cellar, causing about £5O worth cif beer to be lost, and then absconded, taking with It in all the money he could find in the house. Ills wife obtained a protection order against him, as she thought he had gone to A trnrica. A few weeks ago he returned and resided with his father a short distance away. About two o'cicck on Sunday morning Mrs. Hoyle was awakened by healing someone trying to coax a dog, which she kept for ptotecVon in her bedroom, to leave the room. She spoke to the man, and her husband then said he had come to murder her, at the same t•me s: riking her with an axe. She iereamed, and got under the bed. Two servant., who were in an adjoining bedroom, trod to come to her assistance, bet found that Hoyle had fastened their door with a rope, which he had tied to the stair rail. By a great effort they forced the door opeu, and ran to the assistance of Mrs. Hoyle, who was still untler the bed, her husband trying to drag her out. Royle then attacked the setvants with the use, knocking one down, and cutting her severely. In the meantime Mrs. Hoyle esc ipod and concealed herself in another room The servants in the:r night dressics rushed out into Vie strea aud zli,med the 'ueiglibem hood. The policemen enticed the house, and searched fur Ito 3 le, finding him in a dying condition at the bottom tf some cellar steps. By his side WlB a broken bottle, supposed to have contained poison. lie died in a few minute,, and the body was r moved to the polies, station. The two women are in a precarious condition.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-06-28 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SUICIDE.  An inquest was held at High Beech, Essex, on Friday, on the body of Jane Margaret Gibbings, aged 19 years, who committed suicide under very rom.intic cirounamtanees.—Mrs. Mary Ann Gibbings, a widow, living at Nile Cottages, High Be-ch Road, said her daughter had been in service as a housemaid, but latterly had been staying with the witneqs. She had been keeping company with a young man, and had been very strange in her manner owing to a quarrel she had with him. On Wednesday morning her dead body was found in a wet. r tank attached to the premises. In her dre.B pocket was found the following extraordinary letier :—"Tuesday night. My dear mother, when you hear of my distressing end you will, I know, break your heart. When I got into bed, anal had bien there mom than half an hour when the Devil paid me is visit. He stood t ilking to me for some time, and told me that he had seen Cii: rley—my young man—with another young woman. I said to myself, 'Now what can I do? To think he, who I loved so much, should leave me for another.' All of a sudden I thought of the water-butt, and the more I tried to keep away from it the more the Devil tried to get me into the water. He said to me at last, *lf you jump in I will get Charley to bring you out.' My head is raving, and I feel on fire. I cannot say anything more. I have left my photograph in my box. Give it to Charley, and tell him that if it had not been for him I should not have killer! myself. I however did it for the best. Now, mother dear, what was the good of my living? I was miserable, and could not be happy without Charley. Good-bye, mother. Give kind love to all. Your loving danghter, JAve MARGARET veidict of "suicide while in a state of unsound mind" was returned.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-12-06 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SAIERDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1884.  APPALLING MURDERS AT BURY.  On Wednesday afternoon a woman named Ann Mason, wife of John n.L9011, bleacher, Miltonstreet, Bury, Lancashire, murdered her three children and then cominittet suicide. The horrible affair was discovered by the husband on going home to dinner. His wife had for about a week been suffering from melancholia, and had an idea that she was afflicted with an incurable complaint, but she hail shower no symptoms of being dangerous. On arriving home the husband found the doors of th • house bolted and all the window blinds drawn. The back room Wire forced, and the husband went up 4 iirs, where he saw a chocking sight. The bedroom floor was covered with blood, and his wife and three children lay dead with their throats cut. Mrs. Mason was "bout 37 years of age, and the children were Thomas (four years), Nellie (three years), and Gertrude (eight month-). All the children were in their nightgowns, but wearing also their stockings and clogs. A chamber vessel was filled with blood, aud it was evident the murder had been committed with great determination, each child's throat having in turn been held over the utensil, hue which the blood poured. Tire bodies were laid in a row on the floor under the window. The woman hail evidently then cut her own throat. Finger marks on the wall indicated that the boy hed struggled. The woman left a letter saying. " Dear John—You must forgive me for doing this. I have been a good wife to you. You me-t bury all of us with George. I caunot leave my chldren Ii) be knoaked about. Tire Lord will forgive me. I watched them die, and an happy. You have been a good liusbaud to me. Good-bye John. D not invite many to the funeral." Dr. Mellor, who had attend, d the woman, t 01l her on Mondiy she Was suffering from nothing of a serious nature.
The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-09-20 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

TERRIBLE FALL FROM A FACTORY ROOF.—On Wednesday, a youth, 18 years of age, named Raymond Bell, met with a frightful death at Attleborough. Itt. seems that deceased was at work at the roof of a ribban factory, when ha fell from a plank, his head coming into violent cmtact with some iron machinery beneath, a piece of which peuetrat.d his temples, causing frightful injuries. - -  A young lady naffied Miller has b..en admitt,,d into At magh Workhouse in a destitute condition. She states that she had been in Castle Island Convent, in County Kerry, and that she escaped from it and fell in a ith a gentleman who pro-nisei to marry her, but failed to do so. Her are she gives as nineteen, but she looks more. The Guardians vireeted her to ba brought beLre them at the next meeting,when she will be interrogated.  A singular but most determined suicide has occurred at the village of Cirville, Durham. William Humble (52), a moulder, requested his w fa to go out for a short time, and while she was away fotened a clothei-rore to the door of an upper room. He then allowed his body to slide down the stairs, and lay in that pAtion until he wee dead. On hie wife returning she was horrified to find him black in the face, and the cord tight round his neck.  The mineral springs at Canterbury, after having been neglected for half-a-century, are about to be re-opened. These springs rise wilhin a lew feet of each other; one is pure cbalybeate, and the other contains sulphur in combination with iron. They are each perfectly limpid when first drawn from the well, but after a short exposure to the atmosphere, the gas which holds the conetitueut parts in Elution ecapes.  Owing to information from Vienna that it was probable dynamite would be found concealed in the locomatives at the station at Skiernieviee, the police at the latter place caused five locomotives to be examined. The fires were extinguished, the coal unlcaned, and a geueral search made: but no explosives were found. All the officials in charge of the Imperial trains were required to swear allegiance to the Czar before teing allowed to enter upon their duties. It is stated, too, that at all the viaducts along the route to Skiernievice the soil to a [depth of three feet was cleared from around the supports, presumably as a precaution against dynamite.