The Northern Guardian. — 1894-06-16 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

OOO-The good people of Hartlepool are never behind hand. The Town Clerk (Mr Herbert Bell) and Alderman Thomas Richardson carried their point about keeping Middleton separate. The inhabitants of Middleton naturally want direct representation on the Board of Guardians, and with the assistance of so large a ratepayer as Alderman Thomas Richardson, J.P., experienced no difficulty in carrying their point.  -000 I have heard a rumour which I quite believe will turn out to be true. It does not appear to  be a matter of first-rate importance, Fut it is one in which Hartlepool people will take a lively interest. The Council decided to petition the Postal Authorities about the sub-offices at Middleton and on the Fish Quay being under the wing f the West Hartlepool office instead of the Hartlepool. If rumour be correct, arrangements have been made, or soon will be, to have these branches attached to the Post Office of the ancient borough of Hartlepool.  The Seaton Carew suicide has been much discussed in the pretty little village during the past week. Lisle was a good servant, and was well liked by his master (Mr White). Suicide is a sad ending of a young life, and it is not often that one so youthful commits such an act because he has been "crossed in love." He was a regular attender at chapel, and met a girl there whom he would have liked to have wooed and won. She knew him as a friend, and liked him as such—no more. She gave him no encouragement, and as he was doubtless ignorant of the fact that "a faint heart never won a fair lady," he penned a letter to her expressing the hope that he might meet her in Heaven, and then hurried himself off to Etecnity. Verily, love for a girl makes many a good fellew a fool!  My sympathies go out towards the young girl whose name has been freely connected with Lisle's in this ease. Councillor Vitty did his utmost at the inquest to suppress the letter, but Coroner Settle would not listen to him, and so the letter was made public, and some papers— all but the Guardian—published the girl's name in full, much to her annoyance. Is there not enough and to spare of trouble in this world without giving needless pain to a girl not yet out of her teens ?  A week or two ago I referred.to the fact that a meeting of local temperance folk had been held to try and arrange some joint action in their fad. A committee was then appointed to draw up rules and lay them before a meeting of representatives of the various temperance societies and congregations in the town. A meeting is to be held in the Parish Hall, on July 10, preceded by a tea at seven o'clock, when the subject will be fully discussed. "The committee venture earnestly to hope that the proposed scheme will be heartily supported by all interested in wise temperance reform, and they are sanguine that, with a little patience and mutual toleration, iipuch ultimate good may result."  The members of the Trades and Labour Council have met once more in private, and their proceedings have been duly reported, thanks to whom? However, several of the members appear to be impressed w ith the importance of the name they bear, and have captured a huge idea with a view to preventing the completion cif work manufactured abroad. It should be explained that they had the moulders' strike under consideration at the time. Provided they succeed in this it will of course add to the power and effect of strikes—the old-fashioned, rude, poverty-producing weapon, and it is this alone which leads me to think that the membets of the Council would have been better employed in discussing proposals of a more conciliatory character.  -0(0 I see from the Guardian that we have had a visit from the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, and that the Rev. J. T. Hodgson, of Wittonle-Wear, read an interesting paper, dealing more particularly with the St. Hilda's (Hartlepool), and the Darlington Parish Church. There are those, of course, who cannot appreciate the tastes of our antiquaries, but they are on the decline, so far as regards numbers. However, at Hartlepool, Hart, and Stranton our relichunting visitors were most hospitably received. To return to Mr Hodgson's paper, I think that part dealing with St. Hilda 's would be extremely interesting to our Hartlepool readers. Alderman Thomas Richardson is deserving of the heartiest thanks for his generosity in spending such large sums of money for the preservation of an edifice so rich in memories of the past.  Now that the warm weather is coming on, I would say, bathers, ahoy! Confess yourselves —some of you that were, until last season, mere "stone-bottomers," but are now, from porpoisean aid, proficients in the art ; or—shall I say i—something like young bull-frogs in the water. Take others down, old or young, to the south pier head at 6.30 in the mornings, or become teachers yourselves. For, to say the least, any one of us may be in a fix from not having mastered the simple affair of knowing how to swim.  I have plea-suro in reminding my readers that the Hospital Demonstration will be held tomorrow, at the Armoury and in the grounds; and favoured with fine weather I have no  doubt it will be a great success. The procession will meet in York Road, between Thornton Street and South Terrace, at 2 p.m., and I am asked to remind volunteers that the collecting boxes will be given out at Mr Tweddle's yard, York Road, at 1.30 p.m. The Borough, Blue Ribbon, Old Operatic, 4th D.V.A., and the N.E.R. bands are expected to head the procession.