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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 19, 1842
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR text mentions combustion, exposure, carbon, metallic components, and vessel concerns. Key entities are unreadable, with many garbled phrases and missing context. The piece appears to discuss safety or ignition hazards but lacks coherent details or identifiable individuals or organizations.
The examination of Lord Huntingtower reveals vast debts and a chaotic, unrecorded estate. He details prewar loans, numerous accommodation bills, and sales abroad, with little documentation and unclear accounts from key creditors including Mr Hume, Mr Canty, and Mr Dobson. The examiner considers revising the balance sheet and extending hearings to pursue further inquiries.
A brutal killing in Milton street Cripplegate ends with verdict of wilful murder against the husband. The Irish laborer beat and stamped the wife Doyle of Bell yard and fled before she died nine o clock Friday morning. The widow lay ill after an assault witnessed by lodgers and surgeon Blyth attended.
The Milton Street inquest heard James Middleton and Mary More recount a brutal domestic assault by Michael Doyle on his partner. Witnesses described repeated quarrels, threats, and Doyle stomping on the woman, who later died. Dr Blyth testified a post mortem found abdominal injuries and a rupture likely caused by the assault. The jury withdrew and returned a verdict of not guilty of wilful murder.
In Abbey Dale near Sheffield two blasts felled gunpowder into the grinding works of Mr Dyson. William Price and his wife woke to a massive explosion that wrecked the building and caused shattered glass and damaged rooms. Three men, William and George Thorpe and Thomas Richardson, were arrested as investigators probe union tensions and motive amid a damaged factory and uninsured losses likely reaching four to five hundred pounds.
The Liverpool express reports news from New York papers up to the 19th including Mexico's alleged invasion plans of Texas led by British officers and a strong Mexican navy, Canada West elections with Lafontaine and Small victorious, smuggling schemes in Montreal, and reflections on Franco-British actions in Asia and Africa. Also noted are shipwrecks at Table Bay, new bankruptcy assignees, railway revenue figures, and the Croutonove Company's retail cases.
In London, the Court of Exchequer and Bail Courts adjourned at 11 am with no motions. Judges rose to attend sheriff nominations for the year. Reports cover Tracy v Taylor over a sewer rate on a Bridewell table seizure and debates on liability and occupancy in public property.
A fragment mentions a dead cormorant with a flounder lodged in its throat found on Hordle cliffs. It also reports on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s Walmer visit with wind and sea conditions, privacy at the castle, and arrangements for a private stay during the stormy spell along with local officials and railway talks near Deal.
An 19th century advertisement touts Stirling Bees Essence as a universally effective remedy. It claims medical unanimity on its value for diseases, with unlabelled bottles given by physicians. A dream discovery promises nerve strengthening and tremors cured, urging public trial and charity funding. Prepared by E Purser and sold through chemists, with a note to seek Dr Grandison’s Charity Pill.
Parasitic nostrum advertised by J. W. Stirling chemist promises rapid relief from gonorrhea greets spasmolytic strictures and urethral pains. Claims to cure in three to four days using cabeb and salt of sarsaparilla with other alteratives. Sold worldwide in bottles at 4s 6d 10s and 20s per bottle from multiple London dealers and druggists.
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