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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-03-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE ELOPEMENT OF MRS VIVIAN WITH THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.  A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes Some further facts in connection with the elopetnent of the Hon. Mrs Vivian with the Marquis of Water. ford have become known. It seems that for some time past the lady's name has been mentioned in circles in connection with that of the partner of her flight, and that beedisappearance was not wholly unexpected. She left her home on Monday evening week, alleging th tt she intended to proceed to Brighton to see her mother, and would return the same evening. As, bow• ever, she failed to make her appearance, Captain Vivian proceeded to the Victoria station, and there aacertained that the Marquctis of Waterford and Mrs Vivian had the previous morning taken tickets for Paris, by way of Dover, accompanied by a friend. He followed them to the French capital, and fonnd the objet of his search at a well-known hotel. Mrs VlVifttl beard of her husband's arriva I, and locked herself up in an inner chamber. Captain Vivian, how.-ver, succeeded in obtaining assistance. awl burst open the doors He then ascertained that Mrs Vivian h id attempted to commit suicide by swallowing chloroform. The quantity taken *as not, however, aufficknt to cause more than partial insen-ibility. Captain Vivian is understood to have implored his wife to return for the sake of her children, of whom there are four, and, that she pereinp. torily refused, although her husband assured her that her escapade should be kept a profound secret. The lady, however, remained firm in her determination not to return to her home, but pleaded that ehe might he allowed to retain her youngest child. This request Captain Vivian declined to comply with. and relurned to Loudon without having encountered the Marquess of Waterford. The latter has. I understand, caused a communication to be made to Captain Vivian, that when the Judge Ordinary of the D,vorce Court shall have dissolved the legal ties which now prevent his marrying Mrs Vivian, he will, as a man of honour, make her the only compensation in his power. Meantime, Captain Vivian has left town, and will not return to his place in the House of Commons until his presence is required for the division on the second reading of the bill for dm abolition of the Irish Church [According to" Dod's Parliamentary Companion," Captain the Hon. John Cranch Walker Vivian, member for Truro, was born in 1818, and is the son of the first Lord Vivian. He has been twice married, first in 1840, to Louisa, only d tughter of the late Henry Woudgate, E-q , and, that lady having died in I:45; secondly, in 1881, to Pio,ence, daughter of the late Major Rowley, Bombay Cavalry, the lady who has deserted him. We learn front the same author.ty that John Henry De-la Poer Boresford, sth Margins of Waterford, was born in 1844, is a captain in the tat Lite Guards, and being an Irish peer, sits in the House of Lords as Baron Tyrone.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-04-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

WEATHER. —The remarkably warm weather of the previous part of the month has twee succeeded by odd penetrating ntwth-easterly winds, rade are doing much injury to early blossoming trees, and t unhealthy sod infi,m per.sons. Vegetation is very for ward and gross abundant. Corn is not doing well. an sloes not promise at preeent a cood harvest. Sower:4l.mq are getting anxious at the appertrmee of the fields, ari are using the harrow and rol as upon their whe.t Tue price of wheat is still receding in the markets, an imports continue in larg quantities. _  Weather-gauge (taken in this town) for ti week uniting Aprii 27 :  Thermnoi. 1 ' April , Rain norm night i Rar Wind. Atinnsp.nere 21 080 61 4S ,29 40 W. Mid.. 22 080 64 50 129 55 S. D,.. 2J 0 80, 66 5J 191,0 • S.W. Do. 24 0130. 60 50 ,29-6,1 S.W. • Do, 2, 0 80. 60 48 IA 7.1 .N.E. Do. 16 o 8... 4.9 48 2s 85 F.. Do. 21 081'l 61 46 In VSi B.E. Do. I  BOARD OF ODA RD I ANS• —:lhe Bonn! on ?oril-nesday was fully attended. A letter was read froi Mr Marshall Fowler, chairman of the Board since its inenceinent, wishing to he relieved from tilt. duties the Board. It was the general wish of the Gnat that he should again occupy the chair, and it was. re not to nominate a chairman for a fortnight. NI r Jolin Grey was again elected to the office of vice-cha: man. John Richardson was elected to the office of it eilical attendant for the new district in Middleshro', and Mr Betiley to a similar office in the southern division of the town. The inmates in the Union house this week were-60 men, 49 women, 48 boys, tiri girls, and IN children ; total, 240.  A VALUABLE Don.--A few days since, a gentleman was walking in one of the London parks with a young Newfoundland dog, and, in passing by the water, saw the legs of a boy struggling in it. The dog's attention was directed to them, and he immediately plunged into the water, took hold of the trousers, and tried to bring the drowning boy to lam!; but finding some difficulty in doing so, he dived, and sizing the clothes by the collar, wee to the surface with the buy, and brought him out. He was to all appearance dead, hut after an hour's attendance by a medical man, who used the usual uicsiis, he was resuscitated. It was ascertained that the foolish boy hail attempted suicide in consequence of being scolded by his parent for misconduct.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-07-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRIGHTON. Shortly after four o'clock on Thursday morning last, a waterman, named Marsh, was strolling on the beach to the western part of the town of Brighton, when his attention was attracted to a dark object lying just on ,he water's edge. On going there, he found it to be the body of a young woman, and attached to it was the body of an infant. A cord had been tied round the infant's neck, and passing under the woman's clothes, was fastened round her waist. Both bodies were quite dead, having apparently been in the water about two hours. In the course of the morning it was found that the woman was Mary Payne, the wife of a man who has lately gained a livelihood as an occasional waiter. They had resided at Farm-road, !love, Brighton. It appears that the husband was a person of intemperate habits, and that lately the wife and family had suffered great distress.  VACCINATION FROM THE HElFER.—Several medical men in Birmingham have determined, at all events for the next six months, to vaccinate from cow=pox matter that has never passed through the human body A circular has been sent to all the members of the profession in this town sod its suberhs, asking them to join in the movement. At the meeting held at Mr Greene's, of Friday Bridge, last week, to discuss the question, those present appeared to be unanimous in the belief that disease could not be pro. duced by vaccine lymoh, unless contaminated by blood, and they were quite satisfied with the lymph at present in circulation. But 88 a great deal of prejudice existed in the minds of a portion of the public against human vaccination, they considered it their duty. as members of a profession always labouring for the public welfare, to meet that prejudice by obtaining lymph from an undeniably pure source, and thus promote, as far as lies in their power, the more effectual eradication of that most terrible of all diseases, viz., stnall-pux. Coin. man icaled tu the Birmingham Post. AN
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-03-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

KLD.  About noon on Friday, a man nam-d Henry slyman, a grinder by trade. and living in L indsdowne Road, Sheffield, murdered his own child, a boy four years of age, by cut,in its throat. The man was employed at the Sycamot e A. wheel belonging to the Messrs. Rodgers, and ha* lately led a dissipated life. He is the father of five children, the oldest being about 11 yeats of age, and the youngest is still at the breast. For the past fortnight he has been drinking heavily, and his wife was contemplating going into the workhouse. He is said to hive been in a very desponding state of mind for some months, and since the death of his mother, which occurred about five weeks ago, be has several times tried to commit suicide. Mire than once he had said that he knew he should never live to see his children brought up. On Thursday he was out drinking all day, and rtid not return till between three Still four o'clock on Friday morning. He remained in bed till nearly noon, when his wife sent up the little boy II rrry with a mug of tea for him to drink. Shortly afterwards be rushed down stairs and into the street. As he passed his wife he told her to go upstairs. At first she tried to hold him, but he wrested himself from her goal), after dragging her with him a short distance, and all‘t then ran into the house crying he hat murdered my child.' On going upstairs she found het child laid on the bed bleeding and lifeless; there was a deep gash extending from the left sideof the neck across the throat, and severing the jugular vein and windpipe. Au alarm was given, and the murderer was taken into custody.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-03-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LONDON.  The inhabitants of the Rackwall and Poplar section of East London have lately "supped full with horrors " It is only a few weeks since a man murdered his wife and aged grandfather under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, and as the poiice are as yet only expecting to capture him, the case is continually stirring the goasips of the neighbourhood with rumours and expectation. While, then, this horrible affair may be said to be still before the public, another, still more horrible and mysterious, has happened. On Wednes day the neighbours of a widow woman named Browne. who for twenty years had maintained herself, and a daughter by keeping a small confectioner's shop, were ' surprised to observe the shutters closed all day. On Thursday. anent noon, access was gained to the house by a ladder, and the poor woman and her daughter were both found with their throats cut in so complete and trenchant a manner that their deaths must have been instantaneous. The only clue to the mystery was that some neighbours remembered seeing a man named Bradshaw pass near the house on Tuesday evening. This man had lodged with Mrs Browne, the murdered woman, and had left a f..rtnight before On being traced it was discovered that since he left Browne's he had hgen lodging with a woman, whom he called Mrs Bradshaw, at a house in Campbell row, Bow, where he also was found with his throat cut. The knife lie had use I was found to fit • sheath found beneath the body of Mrs Browne. The police, therefore, are spared the task of seeking for the perpetrator of this dreadful crime, but they might propably gat hold of Mrs Bradshaw and obtain from her some further int Jrmation touching the deceased man.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-12-03 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALWAYS THE SAME.  Much ii said as to the enormous costliness of the armaments id Europe, and it cannot be doubted that the immense sums annuatly extracted from the pockets of the people for the support of these establishments is one main c..inae of the p“verty and misery whiolt exist in all European countries. But there is smother atipert of i his questi,,n which is far leas considered than it should be, and that is, the incalculable moral mischiefe inflic!ed on society by large standing armies. The retort of British Military Piisons, just issued by Cmtain Ducaue, Inspector General, refers to the large amount of crime in the British army, and to the increase of offences to an extent of 20 per cent, in the past year. Tne newspapers have also lately contained repeated instances of suicides and homicides by British soldiers. The disgraceful immorality of garrison towns and camps, as Aldershot and the Curragh of Kildare, continues to be little, if at all diminished. On the Continent a similar state of things everywhere exists. The Pall Mall Gazette has just pubLshed a strikiug account ot loreigu arini,s, [ruin which it appears that crime and vice everywhere abound among these. And this is a natural and inevitable consequence of the ayetern. In France the annual conscription amounts to a ' minimum of 160,e00 men. Every young man over 21 is liable to this conscr ptiou. The actual army of France amounts to b 50,000 men, all of whom are prohibited from marriage, except in very peculiar cases. [deuce it is no wonder that " the one thought of the French soldier Is how to win ewe lambs from the fold," in other words, how to seduce as many young women as possible, and so bring misery and ruin into previously peaceful linuadields. The notorious condition of French garrison cities confirms the truth of the above charge. lii Prussia things are little if at all better, and the lueal tess of the provinces often narrate scandalous Mat nces of violence and profligacy, i even on the part of the officers of the army. Russian soldiers are a moat degraded class. Some years ago it was the custom to punish criminals in that country by making them private soldiers. Everywhere in Russia the ditt of the military barracks is so disgusting that the smell infects the whole neighbouthood in times of beat. The moral condition of the forces in other Continental States is also of a deplorable nature. Indeed,' it admits of no disproof that a standing army is neves. seedy a hotbed of every vice, and a curse to all people)!  A
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-11-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A COUNTY COURT REGIS'I'R AR.  Mr Frank Tibbit., the registrar of the Warwick County Court, and clerk to the Warwick bench of county magistrates, committed suicide shortly before mid-day on Saturday last, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver in his office, Church-street, Warwick. lie was found by his brother, Dr. Tibbite, who called upon him on business, laid on the floor in a pool of blood, with the revolver by his side, quite dead. Mr Briscoe, one of his clerks, had seen him a few iniuutes before, when he appeared in his usual health and spirits, aud,made arrangements for some business that was to come before the county magistrates at 12 o'clock. He had also attended to his official duties at a sitting of the county court the previous day, in the Shire Hall, where, in the morning, he disposed of a number of undefended eases, under the new Act, until the judge, Mr F. Maedale, took his seat on the bench. He remained in the court until the conclusion of the business, shortly before seven o'clock, when he appeared in his customary good health. Mr:Hesp, a solicitor at Warwick, saw hint on business about half an hour before he was found dead, and did not notice any difference in his manner or demeanour. A piece of paper was discovered on the table in his office, on which was written, in the deceased's handwriting, "My head reels, I cannot dietate with pen or word. May God have mercy on my soul." Mr Tibbits, who was about 45 years of age, and a bachelor, had been in practice as a solicitor for nearly 20 years, had for many years been clerk to the magistrates and registrar of the county, was in affluent circumstances, and very highly respected. No cause is assigned for the rash act, but it is confidently stated that it is in no way connected with his official appointments.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-10-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FIRE IN FRANCE.—The local journals of the Gironde speak of a terrible conflagration which raged for several days in that department; destroying nearly twenty square kilometres of pine forest between Pierroton and Canoley. The fire was first seen in the property of MM. Pereiro, and continued burning three days and two nights. Several houses became a prey to the flames, ani a sick woman is said t• have been burnt alive in her habitation The flames were at length evi guished by the energetic efforts of the population, aided by some emphves of the Southern Railway and a battalion ut the 31st id the line. A liu,sian prince has written a biography of the la«. Czar Nwh..tas, in which lie relates the toilowiog ante :ote The Emperor ordered a review, and, in spite of the entreai ies of his doctor, insisted on riding firth in the cod. Even when he was in the courtyard of his pa:ace, Dr Mandt renewed his supplications, and begged his majesty at least to throw a c:ork over him. The Czar retained deaf to every warning Sire, yiiu are ill ; it will be your death ;" and at last, 'Sire, it is suicide you ate about to corum.t " At this expostulation, Nicholas turned sharply*. and asked his physician by what author' y he ventured to scrutinise his thoughts. He hel i his review, gut a chill, and expired atter a short iliness.  PALATABLENEs, or DR. DE JoNGFI'S Cul, Liyi-e. OIL —Tile united opinion of all medical men who have tried it, and the expeiience of countless patients, concur in pr.,ving that Dr 4.., 8 Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil is infinitely more ea.sily taken thin any other kind. Dr. tiranvdle, F R states: " Being much more palatable than the Pale Oil, Dr. tlraivillcs patienti have themselves expressed • preference for lir. de Jonah s Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil." Dr. Joseph Kidd observes : " I have found by experience that Dr. de Jonah's oil a;rrees perfectly with many persons who were unable to use the se-called refined or white Cod Liver Oil from its sickly and undecided taste, which was not at all complained of in Dr. de Jonah's OiLL' Dr. Edgai Sheppard writes : "Dr. de Jongh's OIL has the rare excellence of being well b‘d.rie and assimilated by stomachs which re!tict the ordinary oils" Dr. W. Pearce remark: Anotner advantage of Dr. de Jonah ii Oil is the absence of that disagreeable and sickly taste, which is one of the e4aracteristics of the Pale Oil." Dr. de Jonah's LightBrown Cod Liver( oil is sold only in capsuled imperial half Mut.. 26 rid pinta, 46 tstl ; quarts, tss; labelled with his stamp and signature, without which none can possilby be genuine, by his sole consignees. Ansar. Ilatford. and t.t., 77, Strand, Lyndon, and respectab'e themistl.  eeo WAteen NT yEeaDrs, a. toT fm.risotinfitfhtronffit::. seven Applyto SANDERS at TROMPsoN, Wholesale Druggists, West Row, Stockton.
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-09-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOVEL CURS FOR JEALOUSY.  "The green-eyed monster," which Shakspere, through the medium of lago, has denominated jealousy, is at the root of many quarrels, and in some cases the primary cause of murderous deeds; and anybody who can suggest a remedy for the evil does well for his country. We have great pleasure in informing the public that we are in possession of a receipt which, at all events in one case, has proved to be effectual. A married couple living not • clay's march (room Leen Side, Nottingham, have for some time past lived rather unhappily together, in consequence of the wife having suspected her husband of being lather intimate with a certain young wo.nan working in the same factory. The life of the lacernaker—for that waa the "profession" which he followed—became anything but pleasant, as his wife was continually taunting him about the girl, though he strenuously denied the charges which she had brought against him. The poor fellow was so cut up that he scarcely knew what to do; so, finding a flat denial ineffective, he "altered the pattern." and put in another " warp," by apparently goiug mad and threatening to commit suicide. So one night at the beginning of the present week his wife again "pitched into him." when he turned round, went imp a passion, ulled off his hat and coat, and exclaimed, "I'm sick of this game; I'll go and drown myself." So saying, he slammed the door and ran up the Leen Side, over the Navigation Bridge, and along the canal side. flis wife thinking, from such strange conduct, that he whom she bad sworn to " love, honour, and obey," real'y meant destroying himself, followed him, crying and exclaiming, •• Don't be such a fool, Charley; I didn't mean what I said." The man contrived to pick up • brick-bat on the road, so that when his wife arrived a f,w yards from h m lie dashed it into the water and then iecreted himself' in the dark against the fence. The infuriated woman heard the splash, and thinking " dear Charley" would soon be drowned, plunged into the water, determined to get him out or be drowned with him. When she had "enjoyed" the cold bath a few seconds, Charley left his lair, and pulled his foolish wife out. We are unable to say what the good lady thutight when she discovered how she had been duped; but, at all events, she went quietly home, and has not since accused 'dear Charley" of unfaithfulness, and we believe they are now as happy as the day islong.—Nottinghunt Daily Journal.  RESIGNATION OF THE BlBllOiOF
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-02-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STOCKTON HE4,   HORRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A  GLOUCESTERSHIRE FARMER.  On Friday a farmer named John Page, residing on his own farm at Brockweir-common, near St. Brevial's, about ei4ht miles from Chepstow, cut his wife's throat, and afterwards hanged himself on one of his appletrees. The house in which the horrible crime was committed stands on Brockweir-common, about 100 yards from any other dwelling About six o'clock in the morning a young woman who lives in the nearest dwelling-house heard a great noise in Page's abode, and on going there she saw Page kneeling on his wife and in the act of cutting her throat. She asked him what he was doing, and he said if she did not go he would serve her the same. She at once went off for assistance, and on her return with the neighbours a horrible sight met their gaze. Mrs Page lay on the floor with her head nearly severed from her body, and a small knife with which the deed was perpetrated lay near. The knife had been forced just under the ear, and was literally jagged through the windpipe, and the room was deluged with blood. Search was made for the husband, and on an apple-tree close to the house he was found suspended and quite dead. He must have placed the rope the night before, as in the time that had elapsed when he was seen cutting his wife's throat and the time he was found suspended, he could not have made the preparations for his death, and a further evidence of his preparation is that he greased ' rope to make the noose slip. The deceased are it sixty years of age, and it is said Page was -ad in consequence of his wife having lent £lOO her children.  A