The Northern Guardian. — 1892-10-12 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.  Footballs cheapest at Laverick's, wholesale-general dealer, Whitby Street, West Hartlepool. —Atiet. Warcitits thoroughly cleaned, is ód; new mainspring, is 6d ; brorich pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 months.—J. M. Caoziss, 76, Lynn Street, Wes Hartlepool.—Adet a Thirty special constables were sworn in before the West Hartlepool magistrates to-.lay.  Venezuela contains a population of about 2,500,000 inhabitants. About 326,000 are Indians, all of them peaceful and more or less industrious. Jupiter will be seen at his beat to-night. This planet is now the most conspicuous object in the eastern heavens during the early part of the night. The Sunday opening of the Free Library at Coventry has proved a failure, and the committee, after twelve months' trial, have decided to close on that (lay. A London correspondent hears th.at Mr GladstOne ' .will contribute either to the Nineteenth Century or the Contemporary Review a paper on the late Lord Tennyson. Shortly after noon yesterday, Henry Christian, 80 years of age, of 12, Albion Street West, Preston, fell from a chair in the Free Library in that town, and died instantly. Isaac Boldwell, a gentleman living at Sydenham, left his home yesterday morning to serve as a juryman at the London Sessions. On his way to the court he fell down dead. Maggie Corbett, aged three years, who was rescued from a burning cottage at Blackburn, on Monday morning, expired of her injuries at Blackburn Infirmary yesterday. A number of foxes have been poisoned in Lord Petre's coverts near Chelmsford, and the Essex Hunt Committee have offered a reward of £5O for the conviction of the offenders. 1 At the Lambeth Police Court yesterday, William Dalton, alictA Ernest Park, aged 36, was charged on his own confession with the murder of Lieutenant Roper, at Chatham, ten years ago. The accused was remanded. The Australian free labourers have invented the term 'union slave," which they apply to the unionists as a set-off against the title " blackleg," which is invariably used by unionists when speaking of the free labourers. The girl Virginie, who is just now creating a sensation at Courtalet by pretending that she . has occasional visitations from the Virgin Mary,. persists in her assertions, and has already collected a considerable following of believers. The fashionable lady will have to go without fur this winter, or else pay such a price for that article as she has never paid before. "A pound an inch" is the modest estimate that has been given by an expert in the matter of sealskin. Lord Mountmorres, son of the 111-fated nobleman whose murder in the West of Ireland created such a thrill of horror in 1880, has, since leaving Oxford, entered the ranks of journalism, and is now on the staff of one of the weekly journals. At the Salford Hundred Court of Record, Samuel Williamson, a plate roller of Sheffield, was Yesterday sued by a domestic servant named Laws for damages for breach of promise. In the defendant's absence the jury found for the plaintiff, and assessed damages at £25. A terrible accident is reported from the Rhondda Valley. A young man named Thomas Jones, employed as a brakesman at the Tylorstown 651liery, whilst at work near the pit's mouth stumbled and fell headlong down the shaft, a depth of 620 yards. His body was literally cut to pieces. At Marlborough Street Police Court yesterday,. Colette Depre (30), described as a dressmaker, was charged on remand with having attempted to murder Louis Hernould, with whom she had been living at Fitzroy Square. The magistrate remanded the accused for a week without bail. The latest scion of an artistocratic family who has adopted the fashion of "going in" for trade is the Hon. John Wallop, brother of the Earl of Portsmouth—better known as Lord Lymington, M.P. Mr Wallop has purchased an oldestablished soda-water manufacturing business. The first stage in the extraordinary prosecution, in which the Rev. Dr. Wright, rector of l'ortglenone, Antrim, is the defendant, was concluded on Monday night, after a week's hearing, by the committal for trial of the rev. gentleman. The case arose out of a dispute about the right of way, and it is alleged the defendant, during an altercation with one of his parishioners, drew a revolver from his pocket and snapped it at complainant's breast.