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MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. - An inquest was held last Wednesday at Standrigg, near
Coathill, in the parish of Wetheral, before William CARRICK, Esq., coroner,
on view of the body of Thomas ELLIOT, husbandman, aged 23 years.  It
appeared, from the evidence of a companion, that deceased had a difference
with a young woman on Saturday last, which preyed upon his mind.  Since that
time he would talk about nothing else.  He attended a dance at Coathill on
Monday night, and remarked to his companion "that he would never be at
another dance at Coathill."  He was very much depressed and quite altered in
his manner.  On Tuesday he was in the same state of mind, and was discovered
on the evening of that day hanging by a cart rope from a beam in the barn,
with his feet resting on the fore end of a cart, his head about three yards
from the beam.  He was quite dead.  Verdict, temporary insanity.

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SUICIDE. -  An inquest was held before Mr. LEE, deputy coroner, on the 11th
inst., at Aglionby, on view of the body of John MILBURN, of Low Northsceugh,
farmer, aged 34.  Deceased had for a long period been labouring under an
abcess in his back, which lately began to heal.  He was on a visit to his
father's where he had been about ten days.  He frequently complained that
since the healing of the abcess he felt his head affected, and he appeared
to become more desponding and depressed.

On the morning of the 11th inst., about six o'clock, his brother left him in
bed.  About an hour afterwards he was found on the floor at his bed side,
undressed, and in a dying state, with a large quantity of blood beneath the
bed.  A razor was found beneath him.  He had two cuts upon his neck - one on
the right and the other on the left side.  The one on the right was very
severe, and no doubt caused death.  He survived about twenty minutes.
Verdict, "Temporary insanity."

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FATAL ACCIDENT AT KELSO. -  On Saturday night a young man, named ROBERTSON,
one of the guards on the North British Railway, came by his death in a very
melancholy manner at the Kelso station.   A goods train was about to leave
for Edinburgh, and ROBERTSON went to shift the points for the purpose of
letting it on the main line.  After he had done so, he held up the lantern
to signal the train to advance;  in stepping backwards, however, something
caught his foot, he stumbled across the rails, and the whole goods train
went over him, cutting him to pieces in a frightful manner.
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DEATH OF J. C. BACKHOUSE, Esq., -  this greatly respected member of the
eminent banking house of Backhouse and Co., of Darlington, is dead.  He
suffered from the insidious disease which carried him off in the mid-day of
his life, though the last few winters he spent under the suns of more genial
climes than England, as well as having sought relief by travelling through
Egypt and the Holy Land.  Mr. BACKHOUSE was the warm friend of all the
institutions of his native town, having for their objects the improvement of
mankind, whether social, religious, or moral.  He was of refined intellect,
good taste, and known kindness of heart, anxious at all times to promote the
welfare of his fellow-creatures.
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