Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1874-03-28 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE HERALD.  SATURDAY. MARCH 21. 1874.  AN enormous addition has been made to the talking power of the South Stockton Local Board of Health. Hitherto, the Board has been notorious for practical work more than for eloquence, and the district tor low rates in preference to extravagant expenditure. Bowing to the inevitable times, however, changes and improvements must be effected, At South Stockton Board meetings,unfortunately,talking has increased inordinately without any practical good being done. We hear that the reporters tried on Thursday to keep a co• rect account of the number of speeches Inade by one gentleman. They got up to one hundred and twenty, and then gave the ta.sk up in despair. Had the other six members been as garrulous as the seventh we should 'nave been bored with S4O adikesses ! It is clearly time that the Board enforced a regulation allowing only one speech on each subject.  a prediction concerning tile differences Of opinion that prevail respecting the .division of the union have beet reahsed, and the Boarddias taken a practical cosamon-sense way of avoiding the bickerings that ,would inevitably be brought to the fore were it to attempt the task of disassociation. The special committee suggested a plan which interfered most materially with the 6 uisborough Union, taking, as it did, the be portion of its townships, altogether ignoring the fact that Guisboroirgh quite objected to the proposal, and had successfully opposed it two years ago. Equally inconvenient will the arrangement be found which suggests a division of our own union by the county boundaries, or by the method of Mr George Watson, who would leave Yana and Tharnaby intact and take in large &acts of land from the county of Durham. This, it is needless to say, would be opposed by a majority of the ;Stockton Guardians, who are quite willing to agree to a division, but determined to stick to the ,elder brother's portion. We sh,ll soon have a commbsioner sent down from London., and doubtless,he will recommend the erection erf another large workhouse for the existing union, as the most efficient and satisfactory way eat of the difficulty.  ANomes. ointemporary has made its formal bow beiore Stockton this week. In one column  it repudiates any idea of becoming a " literary cesspool," and in another, reporting a " supposed" child murder, plunges the reader into a slough ofidespend to define what constitutes-the editorial " cesspool." Apparently not content with a first practical illustration of the emptiness of promises, be further.gives usa sensation in the shape of a child poisoned, with Ar Laidler's elaborate description of the case ; "coma," "napkin," 'gest motion," "anxious and distressed countenance, violent vomiting, severe pain at the pit of the stomach, cold, clamming sweat, cold emtremities, pulse feeble and small," are all given with due gusto, and will doubtless be appreciated by the "warm-hearted friends, who, bewailing the utterly inadequate manner in which the requirements of the town and neighbourhood are met by the present evening papers, have represented •to us the growing discontent and dissatisfaction manifested by all sections of the townspeople on this point, with an earnest appeal that having 'creditably supplied a much-felt want in Mid' dlesbrough, we should make a similar attempt in Stockton." ((!)