Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1865-05-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ASSAULT.—Agnes Monty was summoned- by Mary H. Hays for an assault. On the 1-2 th inst. complainant saw Monty beating her daughter, a young woman, and, on going up to her to interfere, she was struck in the face by defendant, who also tore handsful of her hair off her head. The case was proved, and defendant fined Is and costs.— Agnes Monty was again charged with assaulting the daughter, whom she struck and pulled down to the ground by the hair of her head. Witnesses proved Ow e3se, and said that the daughter had had fits at the time and since in consequence of the assault. Fined Ins and costs.  faces and hands were very much burnt. Captain Von Bergen's injuries were more severe than the other two, and he had to be taken Ashore for medical treatment. The clothes of the captains were set on tire, and on extinguishing them they all got on deck and raised an alarm of the vessel being on fire. Sailors from the adjoining vessels got buckets of water and poured down the hatches, and while so doing another explosion took place at the fore part of the vessel, but the damage by this was not very great. There was great consternation among the shipping owing to the rather crowded state of the harbour where the fired ship was lying. In a short time, by a continual stream of water being poured down on the cargo, all signs of fire disappeared. The vessel is insured.  A letter from Canea (Candia) announces that the olive crop of 1864-5 has turned out most unfavourably, and that prices have ruled so -high as to prevent any purchases for Europe. A fearful murder is reported at Vienna. On the great market place, in the middle of a bustling day, the wife of a jeweller was murdered, and £4,000 worth of goods taken. At the barking of a little dog people went into the shop, and saw her lying deluged in blood Some asparagus plants of enormous size, now exhibited in the windows of eating-houses, in Paris, attract the attention of strangers, who express great curiosity to know how they are cultivated. A farmer in the neighbourhood of Paris supplies the following explanation :—They are planted, not in the usual way, in beds, but separately. As soon as the plant rises a short height from the ground, the gardener covers it with a bottle, under which the plant attains an enormous size before it is fit for use. A. post-office robbery of a very ingenious kind is reported from near Bridgewater. A respectably dressed man went to a branch post-office near that borough, and passed himself off as a post-office inspector. He obtained a lot of money order forms under pretence of sending uew ones to tke office, filled them in at a house not far distant, returned to the branch office, got them placed in the post bag, and next morning he and his companions drew the orders in London, at the branch and general offices. The Bulletin des Las publishes a new list of patents. Among them is one granted to two Lyouese, who have discovered a mode of lining letter envelopes with silk. There is another for a cane wkich you can put in your pocket and transform into a seat at will ; another for an instrument to indicate the existence of minerals or springs of water in laud; another for raising a ship into the air and steering it there: another for applying steam to children's toys another for heating and lighting apartments with the same apparaWS.