Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-01-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CART.—On Thursday evening last a serious accident ne•mrred at Burnham in connection with the mail.cart which carries letters te Bridgwater. The cart was standing outside the Post-relice, Victoria-street, whilst the river was absent for the letters, when just at this moment a brass band struck up, and the horse took fright and started off at great speed. On coming to College. street. the horse being blind Idled to turn the corner. Another instant and Mr Bacon's shop (ironmonger), which faces Victoria-street, was dashed into. The horse entered the shop by flying through the door, leaving the cart behind, which wss dashed to pieces, as were also both windows and cont••nta, with which it cime in con.act. A complete wreck then commenced in the shop—the horse plunged and kicked, breaking and scattering almost everything. Two doors at the other end of the shop we' e kicked in. After considerable difficulty aid time the animal was got out through the private entrance. It would hardly be imagined the arnoint of destruction esused. Had any person been in the front of the shop they could hardly have escaped with their lives. Mr Bacon was behind the eonuter at the time, but most fortunately was not hurt. We reg-et to learn, however, that through the fright he has since been very dl.  During a severe storm on Wednesday week near Walton-over-Mare, M 415 struck -fey lightning as Aliso 1-farse. the daugh.er of a farnieriliviug a Uphill. she stood in front of a looking glass. The 'effect was to blacken and paralyse one side of her. The Earl of Beauchamp, in distributing the prizes at Malvern College recently, made some significant retnarka ou education, laying it down that the training of the intellectual faculties was valueless unless based MI religion. Be went in strongly for the classics, and for the practice of manly sports. An alarming and destructive fire oceurred hear Boltnti on Monday night. A coal train with one doz n waggons, from B acliburn, came into do,lision with a pilot engine at Bromley Cross, near to Black- , burn. So terrific was the shock that the mane was ' thrown off the rails and turned ovr. The road was torn up for many yards, and both the drivers, and a stoker, were severely injured. The traffic was delayed for some hours. By 04 of those unwelcome coincidences that sometimes occur, it happens that the news of the diy bears in an extraordinarily large number of instancelikiti the crimes of murder. manslaughter, or attempted murder. The most prominent item of this class is the execution of a woman, Priscilla Biggadike. at Lnooln on Monday. The prisoner had poisoned her husband, after having formed a connection with another idtan, and attempted to throw the guilt of her crime on tier paramour. She met her fate firmly, it is said, and persisted to the last that she was innocent of the murder. A disgraceful case of sacrilege i reported from Rochdale. The Church of St. Mary's was highly decorated for the Christmas festivities, which appears It) have given offence, for on the conclusion of One of the services some person remained behind and tore &veil the banners and flowers decorating the altar, broke up and scattered on the floor two immense candles, tore the altar cloth, and carried away two. large brass candlesticks and • braes vase with the inscription soon it " 1.H.5." No trace of 'the perpetrators has been discovered.  The gale of Saturday and Sunday appears to have prevailed with great violence in all parts-iif the country. At Liverpool, at Sheffield, and at R ,cbdale, lives were sacrificed by the storm, which also caused great destruction of property. The shipping disasters have been numerous and very serious. An American emigrant ship has been lost 700 miles west of Ireland, and 122 persons were drowned. Forty-two escaped on hastily constructed rafts. At Boulogne a lifeboat was capsized on Sunday and five of the crew were drowned. At Southend two men were drowned, and the China, one of the Cunard steamers, on it outward voyage, ran down a pilot boat in the Mersey, near the northwest light-ship, and two of the crew, in attempting to gain the steamer, were drowned.