The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-09-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COUNCILLOR T. M. BARRON has taken such an active part in social and educational , for the past few years that the rasig.. of his seat as chairman of the School Board came as a shock to those who are more intimately acquainted with the genial exMayor. Whilst it was well known locally that Mr Barron has not of late enjoyed what is generally termed good health, I think I am right in saying.that few expected that the infliction would have interfered with his public duties so suddenly, and the announcement that he has been ordered to give up public work and go to foreign lands to recruit his health has aroused strong feelings of sympathy. It is to be hoped that Councillor Barron's stay-abroad will be of brief duration, and that he will return with a restoration of that health and vigour which characterised the earlier part of his public life.  matters  i nation  I Man  TirE subject is by no means a pleasant one to dwell upon, but the fact remains that Darlington is making itself a name in the discovery of dead new-born children. And there is something in the "name" that no town would care to boast. Within the last three years five of such children have been found, and in no case have the police been ' able to effect a Satisfactory solution of the matter, notwithstanding that Superintendent Goodman and his staff have worked so energetically. It .is a singular thing, too, that the crime is not committed in any other town in Coroner Proud's district; or, in other words, that these cases are peculiar to Darlington. However smart these heartless creatures may be, there is no reason to believe that they will continue to succeed in their murderous work. If the police continue to exercise that vigilance which has , diszaeterised their efforts in this direction of  late these d;atiful mysteries will yet- be solved.  IMEsSILS J. PRIESTMAN AND SONS have just completed a memorial to perpetuate the memory of a brave soldier, and which in a few words tells its own tale. The , memorial is of hard Bolton stone with a I I carved panel, and the words engraved upon It are as follows :—" Sacred to the memory of Michael Murphy, formerly sergeant in the! 2nd Battalion Military Train of the 7thl Hussars, who, for conspicuous gallantry during the Indian Mutiny, where he received five ! wounds in saving the life of a wounded officer, obtained the Victoria Cross. Born at Tipperary, 1832; died at Darlington, 4th April, 1893. R.1.P." 4 The rescue which won this gallant soldier the Victoria Cross was effected when Lieutenant Hamilton was down and surrounded by five mutineers. Murphy charged them single .handed, and succeeaed in carrying his officer into safety. Murphy, however, received five wounds. In Sir Henry Havelock-Allan Murphy subsequently found a good friend, and one who thought so much of his sterling qualities as to now mark his burial-place by the erection of the stone in question.  the property proposed be added to the Royal Oak does not belong to the same owners as the hotel.—The Bench, after consulting in private, decided to renew the license in each case, but withheld their prirmi•Riion for the proposed alterations. They also refused the application of Mr Matthew Harrison for a beer off-license to premises in Middleton-row occupied by Mr James. Peacock as a grocery and provision stores, the application being opposed by Mr Frank Mayson on behalf of several ratepayers and the British Women's Temperance Society.