Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-03-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TIT-BIT 3 FROW " TRUTH."  A sprightly st,i &plc:maid t ileine atea unite sisinatioit recently at a patty, by asking the , Papal Nuncio to allow her to inspect the diamond I cross which he wore round his neik. This was rather startliog, but the polite prelate took off the jewel and handed it to the Protestant lady, who to place it round her own neck, and she proceededt t.eturn it until she bad admired herself in • mirror. The Nuncio and the other Catholics were horrified by her levity, which they regarded as rank sacrilege.  An Indian paper has been deprecating mixed marriages between English and native officers of the Salvati•m Army. The next pair of officers who entere4 into matrimony sent their compliments to the editor in the following terms : The Salvation Army Divisional Headquarters, Bbently Bazaar, Pare/ -road, Bombay. February 6,1890. To the Editor, i• But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and all murderers, and whoremongers, said sor, cesers, aril idolaters, sad ainiars, shall h3i.s. their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death..--Rev., chap. z xi., v. 8. DZAR 3m.—W. are prayinr tor your salvation.- Yours faithfully, LLIL&I Onion AND PIVOL  It is curious, in view of the fact that Mr Flanagan's tnegaum opus is " runletlism sad Crime," one of the vilest and most mendacious works that were ever isaued from the Press, that in a club where Judges, Bishops, and Cabinet Ministers are es ufirio admitted by a revolution of the committee, live members should have voted for his admission against every one that voted against it. This would almost lead one to suppose that the beads of the Govenurient, of the Law, and of the &stablished Church are not quite sincere in their public disair proval of that libellona work, but that their feeling in regard to its author is that which animated some Italian Prince of the Middle Agee, when a bravo missed killing an antagonist, and allowed himself to be caught red-banded. -Sir Richard Webster is having rather a rough time of it just now. But, in regard to one thing, he is unjustly accused. The apology that he read out on the part of the Times was not conceived in a generous spirit. This, however, I believe, was not hi. fault. The Times held that it was entirely above making any apology, and it RCM tally by the very energetic action of Sir Richard that any apology was made.  At a Unionist dinner at Yeovil last week the reporter of the Western Chronicle, the local Liberal paper, was refused admission, although the representatives of other journals were allowed to enter. The comments of the Western Chronicle on the incident are so much to the point that I take the liberty of reproducing them :—" The party which is ready to line every ditch, to fight to the last drop, to charge with all its chivalry for the purpose of breaking a law, is reduced to this—that, at a club dinner, with Colonel Harbin and Mr H. M. IrnbertTerry as chief speakers, they are afraid to meet a mere newspaper reporter. And perhaps they are right. For, far deadlier than any leaden hail, far more destructive than any charge of Ulster men, is I the spoken after-dinner utterance of the local Tory leaders, faithfully recorded in the columns of C journal which is not in the pay of the Tory party."  AT WESTIHIV,iTER,