The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-11-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TEE ORENEYB.—The weather still continues very stormy in the North. In Orkney during Sunday night there was a strong gale from the west, shifting to the north on Monday, when the islands were visited with a snowstorm. The hills are covered with snow, and the air is very cold, the thermometer being one degree below freezing point. Joseph Waller was again brought before the Bromley Magistrates on Monday morning charged with the murder of Mr and Mrs Ellis at Chisleburst. The vehicle in which he was conveyed from Maidstone Gaol was followed for some distance by a hooting and yelling mob, and on arrival at Bromley a desperate attempt was made to lynch him. Joseph Waller was charged at Bromley, on Monday, with the double murder of Mr and Mrs Ellis, near Chiselhurst. The prosecution was conducted by the Crown, and the evidence given was a recapitulation of the prisoner's confession, already published. Ultimately, he was committed for trial on the charge of wilful murder, A painful scene occurred in Court,the prisoner's mother fighting her way in, and exclaiming that she would tand by her son to the last. At the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday three youths, the eldest being seventeen, were each sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for the manslaughter of an old man near Goole. John Roberts, who was found guilty of attempting to murder his sweetheart near Shipton, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, Mr Justice Field adding, with significant emphasis, "Life must be protected, and shall be." On Monday night the weather off the Tyne was stormy, with a strong sea running, and steam trawlers had to put back. .While the Danish schooner Bertha, from Antwerp, was entering the harbour, towed by a steamer, she got athwart the gearing at the end of the South Pier, and was totally dismasted. She was taken up harbour making water. When the vessel struck the South Shields pilot who was in charge of the vessel, fearing she would founder, attempted to jump ashore, and in doing so fell into the sea and was drowned. His name is Joseph Marshall, and he resided at Edith-street, South Shields. At Sheffield Police Court on Thursday an old woman named Johnstone was sent to prison for 21 days for fortunetelling and obtaininz £5B by subtle craft. Prosecutrix was a woman who had been left with a small fortune, and Johnstone obtained the money from her on the plea that she could "read the planets" and could get her another fortune. He told her she was in league with fairies and with the devil.  The S. A. Sadler, s.s., Capt. Caygill, of and from Middlesbrough for Hamburg, with a cargo of pig iron, has put in at Grimsby with damage to windlass and loss of anchor and cable. The Primrose, Boyes master, of and for West Hartlepool from Lynn, in ballast, has been towed into Grimsby with damage to windlass and loss of anchor and cable. The Cicero, of Hartlepool, has put into Dunkirk, having been struck by a sea. Some of the hatches were stove in, causing water to run into the hold. The Marchioness of Ripon and Earl De Grey, ,accompanied by Captain Clough Taylor, Lady Elizabeth Taylor, Dr. Anderson, Mrs Anderson, and suite left Charing Cross by the tidal train on Wednesday for Paris, en route for India. the Duke of Argyle and a numerous party of ladies and gentlemen were at the station to bid them farewell. A Royal saloon carriage was attached for her ladyship's accommodation.