Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1877-10-20 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

WILFUL STACK BUKKINO.— OU Monday, at Morpetit Court House, James Keenan, tramp, well known to the c.maty police, was charged with and maliciously settiog file to two stacks of cats at Thriaton New Houses, on the Bth inst. h was found that the piisoner bad been lying beside thi: stacks from twelve o'clock till about haitpast three, about which time the stacks were seen to 133 oii fire, and prisoner walking away towards &Mott. tie was followed by P.C. Spence of Felton, and apeteritli dat Eshott, about an hour afterwards. On 'he Cb.iirtn,ti formally charging him, he said "They are all against me, I may as well plead guilty." He wits then otiminAed for trial at tbe next aveizee.  CHUGS OF STEALIKO • BULLOCK AT DARLINGTos.—On Monday, at the Darlington County Police Court, Robert Dizon was eli4rged with stealing a hillock, the property of James Ohotton, farmer, Morton Palms, near Darlington. About seven o'clock in the morning on the 2nd September, the prosecutor }laced some bullocks in a Reid adjoining the Yarm Road. at Morton Prima. In the afternoon of the same day one bullock was missing. Nothing was heard of it till four days afterwards, when it tianspired that the missing animal had been sold to a cattle d.*1... ci the. name of Wits... Prisoner had before offered the bullock to a man of the name of Coßingwood. Search was made for the prisoner, who was traced to Middlesbrough by Sergt. Mutimer and apprehended. The prisoner was committed for trial. Heavy Ga.u.—A heavy gale of wind passed over Hexhitm and the entire district on Sunday night and early on Monday morning, but without doing any serious damage. The flagstaff on the tower of the Abbey Church was bent down, and two large stones loosened by the violent jerking to and fro of the pole. In some places the telegraphic oommunication was interrupted for a couple of days. The acmouute which have come to hand mention destruction of grain, the uprooting of trees, and the loss of valo• able shipping and other property. At Teesdale, the violence of the wind on Monday started a laden truck in the goods yard at Barnard Castle, which in its progress smashed the gates at the Ilsrmire level crossing. Several houses there have also been reported to be partially unroofed. A telegratn from Caithness reprta a terrible storm on Monday night. Several vessels were wrecked, including one belong. tog to Thurso, which foaodered in Sorabeter Roads, with her orow of four bands.  SURPROTED CUILD MURDER AT YORK —On Mon. day, Mr Henry Wood, coroner, held an inquest at York on the body of a child which had been found under auspicious circumstances. On Saturday after noon, as • pupil of Mr. Armstrong's school, named Anthony Thomas Humble, was going up Pennyroll Lane, which leads from the WuHord Road to Low Moor, he stepped through the hedge of a field to ask a man who was cutting it I. give him some thorns for a bonfire. In doing so he put his foot upon something soft below some lately moved soda. The sods, were removed, and there Wall found beneath the body of a child wrapped in cloths. Decomposition had set in. A woman was seen to go down the lane and back again and look over the hedge where the body was found concealed just before the discovery, and the inquest was adjourned to give opportunity for inquiry as to her, it being believed that she had some. thing to do with the concealment