The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-06-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NEAR  OONBETT.  Quite a sensation was caused at Hill Top, near Consett, on Thursday week by the appearance of an elderly man, who was accompaLied by the village constable, P.C. Longstaff. It soon eked out that the former was in pursuit of his runaway wife, and that the representative of the law was aiding him in his search. The facts are briefly these : Oa the 11th of May last Geo ge Hill, a postman, living at Pickeriug, in Yorkshire, discovered that his wife, who is about forty years of age, and, the mother of two children, the youugei-t of whom is turned 13, bad eloped with a hawker named Oeoige Stock. dale. Several boxes containing articles of wearing apparel and a quantity of bedding had been carried off, and from subsequent enquiries made by Hill it tianspired that the runaway couple had taken tickets for Gateshead, beyond which place they could not be traced. This week, however, Hill learnt that his wife and Stockdale were living together at Hill Top, and,being anxious to recover his property, tie left Pickering on Thursday morning, and was not long in discovering the whereabouts of the guilty pair, both of whom are connected with the local corps of General Booth's Hallelujah Army. Hill desired Police • Constable Long. staff to take Stockdide into custody on a (Marge of stealing Lis property, but the policeman, not being armed with a magisterial authorisation, very properly deolined to do so, but proceeded to Consett with the injured husband to ask the advice of his superior officer sato what course ' was best to be pursued under the circumstances. Superintendent Oliver pointed out to Hill, who seemed more concerned about hitt property than his wife, that as the alleged theft had been inmmitted at Picker ing his proper course was to hare applied to the local megistrates for a warrant. In the absence of a warrant, he advised the man to return to where his wife and !Rockdale were lodging, and endeavour to regain possession of his goods in the best way he could.  THE POTATO DIBEIRE —Evidence was given on Tuesday before the Potato Crop Committee at the House of Commons by Mr Dyer, aionstant director of Kew Gardens, and Mr Carrnathers, for a number of years naturalist of the Royal Agricultural Society. Both agreed that the disease was caused by a fun. gus in the plant, but the former held that the oontagion existed in the seed, while the other believed that it was carriel only in the atmosphere. Tbere was no definite plan submitted for getting rid of the disease, hut it was pointed out that it might be greatly modified in its extent. .  A Corm/ism:a OF BfIIIIIDER. -At the Guildhall Police Court, London, on Tuesday, George Herbert, of Se'shy, near Stroud, was charged on his own confession with murdering Annie Mills, his sweetheart The prisoner gave himself up to the police on Monday night, and said that he murdered the young woman, of whom he was jealous, by stabbing her with his pocket-knife in a wood on Saturday night, the sth inst., and threw her body into a ditch. He then left ,by twain, and came to London. The police 'at Stroud bad been communicated with, but had no information of a murder having been committed. The prisoner, who persisted in his statement, was remanded. . .  - The War with the Zulus has caused the eleath of many good and brave men. but how many more deaths have been caused by the neglect.d Cough or Cold? Any person troubled with either of those complaints, or any affection of the Chest and Lungs, should try "