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Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 15, 23 February 1870, Page 7

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A worn in living on the property of Sir Watkin W. Wynn has presented her husband, a labourer, Avith five children at a birth. Three days ago they Avere all alive. The Queen has sent her £7. Twice she has had throe at a birth, all of whom have lived. The poor woman Iras had tAventvtwo children. One of the boys on board the trainingship Warapite, off Charlton, committed suicide by hanging himself, Avhile in a fit of ill-temper caused by being placed in solitary confinement for misconduct. The lari, Avho was named George Dobson (aged 15), Avas admitted by the Marine Society on October 18. An inquest Avas held on board, when the jury expressed themselves unanimously of opinion that the conduct of Captain Phipps and the schoolmaster had been only such as to preserve the necessary discipline of the ship. On November 22, Mr R. Blagden, the coroner, held an inquest at the Lamb Hotel, Westbourne, on the body of a child named Eliza Pelter, who Avas poisoned through eating a number of chrysanthemum blooms, which had been given to her at school. Two daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn have been married in Westminster Abbey—Lady Maude Hamilton to the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lady Albertha to the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duke of Marlborough. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian, and the Duke of Cambridge, were present at the ceremony. One of tho French papers lately gave tAvo admirable receipts for cooking lobsters, but they appear to us calculated to give more satisfaction to the epicure than the lobster, to the consumer than tho consumed. We are told in'the first place that it is indispensable to the success of these receipts that the lobsters should be alive ; then we are directed in one case to cut the lobster across in presentable pieces, and to break the claAvs without disfiguring them ; and in the other to fix the lobster on the spit, and put it before a very quick fire, then to basto it Avith butter seasoned Avith salt and pepper. When the shell drops off in small pieces, then, and not till then, is the unhappy lobster cooked. Tho Rev. George Gilfillan re-delivered his oration on the Byron-Stowo mystery at Sunderland on Wednesday Aveek, and made the folloAving additional remarks : “ Mrs StoAve, I see by to-day’s Scotsman, intends not only to return to the inglorious charge, but to write a book, and next to give a history " of the whole disgusting matter, explaining therein, and shoAving the historical connection of, Lady Byron’s letters to Mrs Leigh. We may well ask, where are her friends 1 Will no one—her sensible husband, her gifted brother intefere to tell her that, even though she should succeed in Avriting a plausible book, it will first of all come under the penumbra of the prejudice which her “ True Story”—so grossly false and outrageously overdone—created against her, damaging, if not her trustworthiness, her prudence, reticence, and sense ; and, secondly, that the book is not likely to demonstrate her proposition ; and, thirdly, and even though it should, it Avill only perpetrate, along Avith the blasted memory of its subject, her ultroneous, officious, unwomanly, unenviable share in the miserable task, and send her name doAvn to posterity as a sort of volunteer moral Mrs Calcraft, or female executioner, to a being Avhom, Avith all his faults, I pronounce ineffably greater and nobler than her small, sanctimonious, but viperous Yankee self.” On November 15 an explosion took place in No. 5 pit of the Moss Hall Coal Company’s colleries at Platt Bridge, three miles from Wigan. The shaft is 275 yards deep, and has been recently constructed. The winding up of men for the night had commenced, and many had been brought up, when the gas fired in the six-feet mine, the lowest seam. Exploring parties were formed at once. The explosion Avas very violent, and much damage Avas done. Eight bodies have been recovered, and nineteen men and hoys are still in tho workings. The colliery Avas on fire, and both shafts have been closed to extinguish the burning coal. A despatch from San Francisco, dated November 9, states that the Tahiti Cotton Company about six mouths ago sent the barque Margaret Gander, Capt. Blackett, to the Gilbert Islands for a cargo of coolies. The captain succeeded in securing about 300, and Avith this number be started on his return trip. During the voyage, they mutinied, anil killed the captain and two officers, horribly mutilating their bodies. The mate and crew escaped to tho hold of the vessel. There he placed a keg of powder under tho main hatch, and having arranged a fuse, called the coolies. The savages croAvdod round tho hatchway, and the mate then fired tho fuse, blowing up the portion of the dock on avlucli they Avere standing, and killing nearly the avliolq of them. The rest jumped overboard, or fell victims to the mate and remaining men. The vessel was brought safely to Tahiti. Three men have been arrested at Lawrence, Mass., on a charge of attempting to poison the trotting horse Frenchman.