The Northern Guardian. — 1893-07-31 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NEW SUMO& OF TREATMENT FOR DISEASES OF TFIE EYE AND EAR WITHOUT OPERATION.—Mr L. Mitchell, Oculist and Aurist, of Leeds, announces special visits to Durham (Three Tuns Hotel), Saturday, July 29; Darlington, Monday, July 31; Bishop Auckland, Thursday, Aug. 3; Middlesbrough, Saturday, Aug. 5; West Hartlepool (Station Commercial Hotel), Tuesday, Aug. 8; Stockton (Black Lion Hotel), Wednesday, Aug. 9 (hours 11 to 4), where he may be consulted on all cases of defective sight or hearing. Artificial human eyes adapted where the sight has been destroyed without pain or operation. Spectacles, eye preservers, to suit all sights. References to local patients. Letters to be addressed to 24, Zetland Place, Roundhay Road, Leeds,—Advt. Lord Durham is somewhat seriously ill.  Mr John Morley arrived at Limerick yesterday morning, and later in the day left for County Clare. Christopher Barker, the Lincoln joiner, condemned to be hanged to-morrow for the murder of a young Wesleyan schoolmaster, has been reprieved. Mr R. A. Carswell, at Darlington Dog Show, on Friday, took Ist prize in the open class for Newfoundlands with his Newfoundland bitch "Bonnie May."  A Merthyr Tydvil telegram says: The sliding scale audit shows steel prices show a reduction of 5s on the accepted minimum, but wages will not be reduced.  A stack of hay, fourteen tons, belonging Joseph Hall, Escomb, has been destroyed by fire, supposed to have been caused by a pipe spark whilst thatching. _ _ _  _ Mrs George Robinson, of Staindrop, has placed a commission for two beautiful stained windows to be inserted in Shildon Church to the memory of her late husband.  The action of Miss Hughes, late lady principal of the College Hall, Bangor, against the Weekly Despatch for libel terminated on Saturday night at Chester in a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages £350.  The trial of three men for the murder of P.C. Ewes was concluded on Saturday night at Essex Assizes. The jury acquitted Rumsey, but Richards and John Davis were found guilty and sentenced to death.  At Warwick Assizes on Saturday, James Hart (64), was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour, and his son, W. F. Hart, to six months, for falsifying the books of the company of which they were officials.  The Mayor of Middlesbrough (Councillor C. L. Bell) i 8 confined to his bed through indisposition, and the formal opening of the new ferry landing, which was fixed for to-day, has in consequence been postponed. Speaking at a temperance demonstration at Trowbridge on Saturday, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, M.P., said the Local Veto Bill was more popular and had excited more interest among the masses of the people than the some Rule Bill. _ _  At a Consistory Court at Hereford on Saturday, the Rev. Henry de Burgh Shiley, vicar of Garway, Herefordshire, was found guilty of adultery with a woman in his service, and was deprived of his vicarage and other emoluments in the diocese. At Cambridge on Saturday, the summer gathering of university extension students commenced. The Vice-Chancellor welcomed the students, and Professor Jebb, M.P., delivered an address on the work of the ten universities for the nation as supplementing secondary education. On Saturday night, at Leicester, a fight took place between George Gilbert, a shoe hand, and another man whose beer had been upset by a dog belonging to the former. Gilbert was knocked down, and died before the arrival of the doctors. A man named Griffin has surrendered in connection with the affair. A