The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

SNOW STORM AND 4088 OY LIPS.

The village of Crook, near Durham, was visited
on Wednesday afternoon with • storm of snow and wind of
nntonal violence. About 6 o'clock, J. F. Adamisn, •
fanner, proceeded on hie return journey to his home, •
distance ot between seven and eight miles, to Quebec. near
Fah Loud. A Turtlr of en hour afterwards, he wee killed
by • train of eighteen empty coal waggons, engine, and
tender paring over his neck, severing the head from
the body, except as It hung by the skin. It la supposed
that deceased was blinded by the falling damp snow,
and the wind blowing in his Paco ; that whilst walking
along the line he trod on two loose rails, when Lis feet
slipped, and he fell with his body across tic bat-
tery, hie head inside the rails. In consequence of
the engine jerking, the engineman's fears were excited, and
he attompted, by signals, Sec., to call the gatekeeper's
attention unanceirahlly, on his return with another train
from the pit. Search was made, and the body wee found.
In the boast coat pocket a broken medicine bottle, labelled,
wee diecovered, which wee taken by the policeman to the
different slope, by woich mean. be was identified. Deceased
was 42 years of age, and leaves a wife and adopted eon to
mourn his has.
Oar Shields correapondent writes on Thursday forenoon:
"The causties of Durham and Northumberland have been
vatted, since daylight yesterday morning, soy one of the
heaviest snowstorms experienoed in thine parts for some time.
It is tow lying very deep in the hill die'riote and down oa
the coast, and in some parts it has drifted up several feet,
Several of the colliery waggon step have been p madly
blocked up by snow, and difficulty he been felt in poring
from town to town. The weather ha. been very cold, toe wind
blowing from the north-east, and yesterday the thermometer
In this town indicated four degrees below the freezing point,
Yesterday afternoon the view reward hem Tynemsoath Point
was very grand and impressive. The entire seaboard wee
covered with a mantle of snow, and the distant Cheviot, were
also wrapped in their winter's mantle ; the North Sea was
breaking with great fury on the North P,er and acmes
Shields Bar, the sky seaward being temoet of an Indigo
colour, the north-east gale bringing up blinding showers of
snow, which made it exceediagly difficult far the pilots to
keep their look-oat. So dark awl stormy was the afternoon
at three o'clock, that the lights on the oosst hod to be put
up, to mast vessels making foe the bubonic The Shields
lifeboats were out ready for say emergency, but the few
TOWN that attempted to run for port were get in in seedy
by clever aesoiansoip. Some light
_vessels that hod got down
as far as Shill. Bar were obliged to pmt about and ran
for Bridlington Boy. The weather is • little milder lag

A GHOST SToity.—For three weeks or a month
the family of Mr. Martin. Ashford-road, had Len dirnrbed
by mystericoun ringing, of the door bell, Molest shaking of the
doors and divers other annoyances, the perpetrators of which
no vigilance could detect, and to which DO clue mull
be obtained. The family consisted of Mr. end Mrs. Martin,
their son, a young man of &bunt 20, another eon is
Invalid) some years younger, and one female servant. TM
sernnt was a stolid, demure sort of 'arson, not given to
epilog out over ranch; the had no followers, but had
two yenta' character Item her last place, end was so
much raspooled and Lasted by her saleroom that in
the summer when the family went to the seaside she had
sole charge of the house. The family were of regular habits,
and kept early hours, and the whole thing was imaglicabka.
The effect, however, on the health of Mrs. Martin and
her invalid son began to be seriow, tool the aid of the
police was called M. For a oust time • poilleams&
wee almost ennstarely In the how*, but encash the Mae
turbaucts did not take piece wile he was them, be bed
never left many minutes Letore the &Ile were again
rung, and the doors wan eliaktn en violently ea
ever. At length, last Solidity evening, Mr. Melo-
ney placed Soirge oat Fraihrestoce cud • sorlan of
polio all round the house. The policeman on the premises
left about sins o'clodr. In twenty minutes after the beak
door was elision viiilestly—there was no was within tho
cordon—end it was hum proved that the ghost was within
the home. The police Owl), departed, and Fi.,ither-
thooe having instituted inquiries found th.a the
servant iria, Under • otno+iy and even a religious exterior. had
long courted r a a meet 9 groat and pettligateimiter Oa being
charged with the perpetrator' of these abominable tricks,
ale, after so so hesitation, confessed her gull' ; and that
some of the fellows who vieited her having corns
at each hours of the main as modeled it likely
that • discovery would be made, .he bad invented then
noises and pretended alarms from robbers in order to prevent
suspicion foiling upon herself. Footmarks in thegerded whisk
i had mooed to confirm her toles had been made, utoubt-rved,
by herself ; cud the boldness, coolness, and dexterity
with which she so long deceived everybody wee certainly re-
markable. Tier whereas., indeed, up to the very moment of
the dlsootavy,ana socouvinoed orbit innocence acto to; almost
uu•illing to toot It. Toe girl, whose name im Herne King,
was dieutiss,d —it being doubotul whether any cliergo
against Ler emit( be entertained by the umatiotrates—and
her wages paid to her relatives here on rendi"on that ohs
was at ones sent home to her parents, who •ro hest, ate
very r.epectabls labouring people at Tenterien.—liaidstose
Journal.
RENIF.MBERING CONTRIBUTORS. Everybody
knows the lama's, Herald. A tow month* ago, the pro-
prietor, Mr. Biagio, dial, leaving • fortune eve. 20,000 L,
and, to his credit he it thid, he has " thmeitaboo,l" the con-
tributors to hie Herald. Amoeg them are two Cambridge
men. Mr. T. Looker, and Mr. Thotupsoo, Lusher of one
Inspector of police, have, during the hat few dolt. reecxed
the gtetifyter intelligence that. as oemetenei p.)0....1 WO'
tributes. to the Berea, Mr. Biggs has left "illk-,41001. tack-
-Cambridge luagradmd.