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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-10-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LONG WALK.—Several children living at the top of Turvin, near Blackstone Edge, and who are `•short timers" at Copley Mills, have a daily walk of 10 miles to and from their work.: The Rev. J. R. Stephens, formerly " a great gun" amongst the Chartists, refused to preach in his chapel, at Ashton-under-Lyne, on Sunday, because a policeman and a reporter were present to take notes of his sermon. The street-sweeping machines have been entirely abandoned in Manchester, and the old practice of cleansing the streets resorted to. The machines have not been found to answer. The creditors of Scott, Alison, and Co., Manchester, warehousemen, have agreed to wind up the affairs of the house, the liabilities being much smaller than expected, under £20,000, and the assets equal to about 10s. in the pound. The Chartists of Manchester have now for some time confined their public demonstrations to weekly meetings, on Sunday evenings, in the People's Institution, Heyrod-street. These are very thinly attended, and the proceedings are of a very tame description. The Oddfellows in the Prescot district had a gala day on Monday at the village of Rainhill. In the course of the proceedings, the Rev. J. B. Ingham had a handsome coffee urn, manufactured by our townsman, Mr. Mayer, presented to him. The Lancaster Guardian mentions a man in that neighbourhood, formerly a red-hot stickler for the "points" and physical force, but now of very moderate opinions, who, being asked the other day whether he was not a Chartist, said, " I was one, sir, but I have lately built two cottages." A young man, named John Ashmore, aged twenty-one years, who had been at work at a factory at Manchester, with a young girl named Isabella Hudson, for three years, committed suicide last week by taking arsenic, because the young woman refused to renew an engagement which had been broken off between them after a quarrel.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-10-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LONG WALK.—Several children living at the top of Turvin, near Blackstone Edge, and who are short timers" at Copley Mills, have a daily walk of 10 miles to and from their work.:  The Rev. J. R. Stephens, formerly " a great gun" amongst the Chartists, refused to preach in his chapel, at Ashton-under-Lyne, on Sunday, because a policeman and a reporter were present to take notes of his sermon. The street-sweeping machines have been entirely abandoned in Manchester, and the old practice of cleansing the streets resorted to. The machines have not been found to answer.  The creditors of Scott, Alison, and Co., Manchester, warehousemen, have agreed to wind up the affairs of the house, the liabilities being much smaller than expected, under £20,000, and the assets equal to about 10s. in the pound. The Chartists of Manchester have now for some time confined their public demonstrations to weekly meetings, on Sunday evenings, in the People's Institution, Heyrod-street. These are very thinly attended, and the proceedings are of a very tame description. The Oddfellows in the Prescot district had a gala day on Monday at the village of Rainhill. In the course of the proceedings, the Rev. J. B. Ingham had a handsome coffee urn, manufactured by our townsman, Mr. Mayer, presented to him. The Lancaster Guardian mentions a man in that neighbourhood, formerly a red-hot stickler for the " points" and physical force, but now of very moderate opinions, who, being asked the other day whether he was not a Chartist, said, " I was one, sir, but I have lately built two cottages." A young man, named John Ashmore, aged twenty-one years, who had been at work at a factory at Manchester, with a young girl named Isabella Hudson, for three years, committed suicide last week by taking arsenic, because the young woman refused to renew an engagement which had been broken off between them after a quarrel.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE AND ATIEMPT TO MURDER.—The neighbour' hood of Tottenham, near London, has been in a state of the most painful excitement since Wednesday evening, in consequence of a desperate attempt to murder two respectable women, mother and daughter, by a German named Carl Ragelaek, who afterwards destroyed himself. The unfortunate deceased, who is stated to be of highly respectable connexions in his own country, came to England some twelve months since with a recommendation to Mr. Broad, clerk in a bank in Lombard-street, and has since resided with that gentleman's family at Tottenham-hale. He is said to have had an attachment for Miss Broad, whose father, however, objected to their union, chiefly on account of the disparity of their age, the deceased being 35 years old and the young lady 20; added to which the deceased had on several occasions evinced symptoms of a disordered mind. About three months back he disappeared from home in an extraordinary manner, and nothing was heard of him for a considerable time, until at length he wrote from Liverpool to Mr. Broad, who went to that place and brought him back. On Wednesday, after having been in London during the day, he returned about eight o'clock in the evening to Tottenham, and had scarcely entered the house when screams and cries of " Murder" were heard, and immediately afterwards the two women, who were alone in the house, ran out bleeding from various wounds. Mr. Ryan, the railway station-master, having entered the place, found Carl Raegelaek lying dead in the parlour, and a dagger covered with blood lying beside him. It appeared that he had attacked Miss Broad with the dagger, inflicted a slight stab upon her body, and a more serious wound upon her hand, with which she had endeavoured to ward off the blow, and her mother on hastening to her assistance, hearing her cry out, was attacked, and received a rather severe stab in the chest. The two women then ran out, as already stated, and fell fainting in the road, and the deceased turning the weapon against himself plunged it nearly to the hilt into his abdomen five or six times, and terminated his existence in less than two minutes. Mrs. Broad and her daughter were placed under the care of Mr. May, a surgeon, who reported the next evening that they were progressing favourably. The deceased was conveyed to the White Hart, near the railway station, to await the inquest, and on stripping the body to place it in the coffin, a belt was found round the waist containing upwards of £lOO in German money, besides £7 17s. English in the pockets of his clothes. The dagger with which he committed the crime is eight or nine inches long, with black handle, apparently of foreign make, and it is stated that he had another instrument of the same kind, but more handsomely mounted, in his possession  Loss OF
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-07-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Thursday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, a female was observed in Queen-street carrying in her arms a young child. Her careless manner, and the mode in which she held the child, attracted the attention of several persons, and she was desired to cover it up and take better care of it. She soon afterwards threw the child down on some steps and ran away. A police-officer was called, who, on taking up the child, found it to be, as he supposed, in a state of insensibility, and conveyed it to the Northern Hospital ; but, on reaching the hospital, life was found to be extinct. The supposition was, that the woman referred to had destroyed her offspring, and an inquiry was made with a view to her discovery. About half-past ten o'clock a female was seen walking backwards and forwards on the landing-stage, apparently in a very excited state, and in a few minutes afterwards she plunged into the river. A boat was procured, and the unfortunate woman rescued. She was conveyed, in a state of insensibility, to the receiving-house, where, after the application of the usual remedies, she partially recovered. She talked in the most incoherent manner; and asked why she was not allowed  to drown herself? or if she could not have arsenic, which would release her from her sufferings in this world ? She said that she had murdered her child (alluding to the one taken to the hospital), and had destroyed another previously in a dark passage. After being repeatedly questioned, the distracted woman stated her name to be Mary Powell ; and this name corresponded with the name on a pawn-ticket found upon her. Every attention was paid to her at the receiving-house; hut she was not removed until Friday morning. In the meantime, inquiries werebeing made with a view to her identification. It now appears that she was an inmate of the Workhouse, and had been in the asylum there, but was discharged as cured two months ago. She is the wife of a clerk in town, who is said to have sadly ill-used her, and there is no doubt that she strangled the child (a girl about five years of age) carried to the Northern Hospital, for there is the mark of a rope around its neck, and the appearance of the lips and eyes indicate, too clearly, strangulation. She left the Workhouse on Thursday with her two children, and little doubt is felt that her statement is but too true, and that both have perished. The body of the second child has not yet been found ; the woman's statements varying as to the precise spot where the deed was committed.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GHOST STORY.—On Tuesday night last a strange contretemps was enacted at Birkenhead. A Scottish quarryman, named Harvey, residing at Gillhrook, having become intoxicated, stripped off his clothes beside a pit near Kenyon-terrace and lay down to sleep. An hour or two afterwards he was seen stalking along in his white shirt by two men who thought he was a ghost, and reported their vision to the police. Search being made, the clothes were found on the brink of the pit, suggesting thoughts of suicide. Grappling-irons being procured, the pit and others in the vicinity were perseveringly dragged ; but, like the fishermen of old, "they toiled all night and caught nothing." In the morning Sawney found himself in his own snug bed, but on getting up his clothes were gone. In due time, however, the mystery on both sides came to be explained, and the " cannie Scot" claimed and obtained at the police-office the garments of the supposed suicide.  BIRKENHEAD CommisstoNrus.—An adjourned and special meeting of this board was held on Tuesday evening, Mr. John Laird in the chair. The minutes of a joint committee of the road and improvement and of the finance committees were read, relatingto a completion of Canning. street, from which it appeared that a tender had been received from Mr. George Makin to do the work for £2,400, to be paid in township bonds, and that the amount should be considered as a set off against the £40,000 due by the commissioners to the dock trustees. The arrangement come to between the commissioners and the dock trustees was, that the former should have a lien upon the bonds for £40,000 now in the hands of the Royal Bank, and on which £15,000 had been advanced ; and that notice should be given to the bank to that effect. A long discussion took place in reference to this proposition. The motion was carried by a majority of two, including the chairman. The next part of the proceedings referred to the formation of Ilchester Wharf, on the shore of the Great Float; and it appeared that the tender of Mr. Makin, to construct it for £l9OO, had been accepted. A debate also arose on this ; but the motion was carried by a majority of ten to four. The new code of bye-laws for the regulation of the ferry and porters was read and adopted, and the Town,clerk instructed to take the necessary steps for their confirmation by the quarter sessions.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-03-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A strange tragedy was enacted in this town yesterday (Friday). Between eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon the inhabitants of Blenheim-square were alarmed by the report that Mrs. Widdop, wife of Joseph Widdop, gardener, who occupied the lodge at the top of Well Close-place, Blackman-lane, had been shot. On hearing the report Thomas Kay, cowkeeper, proceeded to Widdop's house, on entering which he found a man named Thomas Scott, a whitesmith, with a small pistol in his hand. Mr. Kay closed the door and went towards the window outside, but before he reached it be heard the report of a pistol. He then looked through de window and saw Scott fall on the floor. Before Mr. Kay got there Mrs. Widdop had fled from the house of her husband to that of Mrs. Wales, Bienheim-squree, and stated that she had been fired at by the man Scott. She was examined by a surgeon, who found that she had been wounded on the left side by a ball. The ball fell from her dress when she was examined. It had penetrated her clothes, and appeared to have come in contact with a bone of her stays. The skin beneath was broken, and it is supposed that she may have fractured, but no serious consequences are apprehended. Her fall, was found by Mr. Her assailant, after he was seen rieldenad er . b John Rhodes, collector, sitting on the house floor, bleed. ing from a pistol shot wound in his side. He was asked by Mr. Rhodes what he had been doing, but he made no reply. Wm. Hales, policeman, who was on the spot soon after the alarm was given, procured a coach and had Scott conveyed to the Infirmary, where he 110Vf lies under treatment.—Leeds intelligencer,  ~ •  325 ably fast  Goods w  received  e succeeded by the J(
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-03-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—A little girl, named Bennington, eleven years old, committed suicide last week at Cork by cutting her throat with a razor. Her father sent her up stairs for a candlestick, and as she did not return, he went to seek her, when he found her crouched under the bed. He drew her out, and, to his horror, he found that she bad marks of blood on her neck, and that her throat was cut. She died a few days after. The deceased's brother stated that he had seen his sister several times after her admission to the hospital, when she had s stated that she had tried to do it th - way,- d he  majorit  Ir. WILLIAMS  ng Prevention Bi  hundred feet in height, and extending to the extraordinary distance of about six miles. Quantities of talcose slate mixed with quartz, and small quantities of quartz gold were found at the base, and the beach was a mixture of gray and black sand, combined with fine scales of gold.  ,tices' clerks from co  E OF LORD  ELSD AY  Mining Compan3  .e preparing to wash the  act .ys, and that, s.. had put her finger into the wound to try to tear it wider. She also said that when her father sent her for the candlestick she took the razor and held it up before her face to .Y show him what she meant to do. He did not see it, of trade however-  ,quenceof  ho are waiting for  able top;  ordered to be laid c  .e of course  Her father was not in the habit of beating her. It appears that she had broken a looking-glass, which alarmed her very much.  HOUSE OF CC ght ui  Lord M
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHIP BUILDING ON THE CANAL.—The connection of the canal, by locks, with the dock estate, has been beneficial in more ways than was originally anticipated. Vessels from the Ellesmere, the Douglas, or any other canal joining our beautiful river may carry their cargo, without discharging, to Leeds, or any other place, or vice versa. Cargoes of coals are now sent alongside the ships in the docks, which not only saves the cartage but the breakage that formerly occurred. What, however, seems to be of some importance also, is that vessels built on the banks of the canal can be floated into the river Mersey ; indeed, a large schooner, suitable either for the river or coasting trade, is now building behind the borough gaol. She will be launched sideways into the water.  SUICIDE OF A YOUNG FaaeALE.—On Saturday an inquest was held at Cork on the body of a young woman, named Catherine James, a native of Liverpool, who threw herself into the north branch of the river from Lavitte's-quay on the previous Thursday evening and was drowned. It was stated that about three years ago the unfortunate yhung woman fell in love with a private soldier of the 90th Regiment, then stationed in Liverpool, named Charles Micklam. They were about to be married, having been called in the church of Stockport three times, but he refused to have the ceremony celebrated, stating that his parents, who lived in London, were averse to his doing so. He subsequently seduced her, and she has since followed him and lived with him. A witness deposed that as he was passing along the quay he saw two soldiers and two females. Deceased was one of the females. She struck one of the soldiers in the face and he attempted to kick her, but was prevented from doing so by his comrade. Deceased then said, " ars you going to give me up for this other girl ?" when the girl alluded to said, " There is your man ; I don't want to have any more to do with him." Deceased then put her arms round the soldier's waist and was walking with him, when the soldier said, "As you have kept company with —, I'll have nothing more to do with you." The jury found a verdict of felo de se.— Cork Constitution.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.  FRANCE.  A letter from Lyons, of the 3.1 instant, states that the sudden rising of the waters of the Rhone had caused considerable damage in that city. The lower quarters of the city and of La GuiHonore were complete ly flooded. The quay de Retz, from one end to the other, and the quay Bon Renenntre, from the bridge Lafayette to the bridge of the Hotel Dieu, are covered with water. All the warehouses on those two quays have been closed, and are only to be approached by boats. The waters have risen above the breakwat. r of the Tete d'Or, and have in consequence ovetflowed the low grounds in the neighbourhood. The Rhone has reached the same height as during the year 1840. Subsequent accounts state that the waters had begun to subside, and all further apprehension had ceased.  In consequence of the numerous suicides which have taken place in the army of Paris, Gete.ral Magnan, the Commander-in-Chief, has addressed to the troops a feeling exhortation against. this sinful and .cowardly proceeding, and quoted the laneaage of the Emperor ;rt ,;:.-drobation of it.— Paris Journal. A.Dltis.p.uj;kirrivoiNll,s: has aT,HidEre,DselSdClaPfiEeSite7toOFßAoSnSeE‘LoAfSt.h---e journals, in which. he states, with reference to the announcement that. a M. Salamanca had invented a flying apparatus, that before M. S.denianca was engaged on this invention he had made considerable progress with experiments with the same ohj.'ct ; and had now advanced so much with his machine. that lie hoped to be able to exhibit its effects in the course of the autumn. He adds that his invention has many advantages over .that of M. Salamanca, which, according to him, produces a ti otion afecting the stomach like seasickness, and also requires considerable muscular exertion; whereas, M. d'Arville can, lie says.. with case work • his wings by the feet with p«lals, and the motion is so easy that he can write and read in the air as if he were on land seated in a chair. lle pretends that he will be able to fly with as much speed as a pigeon.—Galignard's Messenger.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-07-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXCELLENT SHOT.—At Morrell Green, Takeley, Essex, a few days since, Wilkins, gamekeeper to W. F. Maitland, Esq., was challenged to shoot at and mark ninety-nine potatoes out of one hundred thrown up,for a wager of a sovereign. The potatoes were tossed straight up into the air as high as a person could reasonably throw with great exertion. 'Wilkins hit ninety-eight, and thirty tunes he marked two potatoes each time. He performed this clever undertaking with a double-barrelled gun. Much to the surprise of the congregation attending divine service in the parish church of Stepney, the doors of the sacred building were found closed on Sunday afternoon last. A notice which was posted last Sunday on the doors informed the parishioners that the Bishop of London had requested Mr. Poole, the lecturer elect, to abstain from preaching for the present, a request which that gentleman complied with. In the Consistory Court last week an application was made for a faculty to disinter the body of a female who committed suicide in London on the 30th of May last, under the supposition that she was a Miss Pope, who quitted her home at Dover on the 6th of that month, being of very eccentric habits. The security of some trust property in which she was concerned was involved in the proof of her identity. A faculty was granted. On Friday, in the committee of the House of Lords on the bill of the Great Northern Railway Company for communication with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer in the London fish market stated that, by means of the railway communication between London and Grimsby, he had received 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them for the supply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby at eight p.m. and arriving in London at four a.m. Devizes and the neighbourhood were visited, last week, by a most destructive storm. Several persons were struck by the electric fluid and seriously injured. Two sheep were killed. The corn crops were damaged to a lamentable extent, the wheat, in many instances, being laid prostrate. It is said that three farmers have lost £l,
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-04-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VII., that Thomas Lord Dacre, of Gilsland, carried off in the night-time Elizabeth, sole heiress and Baroness of Greystoke.  At a recent inquest held in Taunton, the coroner was understood to remark, that since the introduction of free trade it had devolved upon him to hold inquests upon no less than five respectable farmers, who had committed suicide under circumstances which led one to suppose they were influenced in the sad act from a depressed state of their finance•.  The Lord Mayor of London gave the customary Easter banquet on Monday at the Mansion-house, and on this occasion about 350 ladies and gentlemen partook of the chief civic magistrate's hospitality. The speeches are unreported, as the representatives of the press had seats given them where they could hear nothing ; and, on complaining, were invited to a side table, to which " no gentleman could consent," and which was of course declined. A considerable degree of excitement was caused in the City on Tuesday by a rumour that a forgery had been effected on the Bank of England, by means of which stock to the extent of £lO,OOO had been transferred, in consequence of the production of a power of attorney which has proved to be a counterfeit document. The party implicated held a highly-respectable position in society at Windsor, and has absconded.  A'• liberal" contemporary at the mouth of the Tyne, who has hitherto been a noisy advocate for free trade in corn, coals, shipping, and everything else, proclaims it, at last, as '• a lamentable fact" that in the recent case of the voyage of the Mary C. Fitzroy from Shields to London and back with a cargo of 274 tons and 8 cwt. of coals, the loss upon the voyage to the owner was £5 14s. ld., the total charges being £BB Os. 5d.--the receipts £B2 6s. 4d.