The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-08-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BRUTAL WIFE ASSAULT AT MIDDLE SB ROUGH. At the Middlesbrough Yo(ice Court ou Wednesday before the Mayor k Aldermen Collingwood) and Mr , Waynnan Dixon, J.P., Michael Duff, labourer, of 53, Arthur-street, was charged with an aggrovened assault on his wife, Mary Dud. Prosecatrix said they had been married for twenty-three years, and= prisoner had ill-treated her continually. the past fortnight be had beaten her every day with a dick, and on Saturday he attached her with the stick, beat her savagely, then booked her down and kicked ber.—Dr. Veit* police solgeOn, stated that the poor woman was one mass el hruises.—Prisoner, who said he chastised his wife for being drunk, was sentenced to three mouths' hard labour. TO Tifte DnaP.—A Person Oured of Deafness and Noises in the Read of 23 years' danainglll • AMID reined:, frill send a description of it Pam so any Palma who applies to Nicnorsoa. 21, Medlool-ennave, London.—Aars. To Rim= Gams HAra.--Loalcrer's Sulphur Bair Bantreer n te,e guideway:4=rd Clustindr•diageholdes4ll. .1,  _ tu es es XLIOTION The butcher who trusts loses flesh. tOkeerniiis "alWaiti leak Wilia . . . Kane ar• the,,,men who weedd rather , dye , have Frey Whiskers. . The lively horse is not so much of a charger the chap that runs the stable. Isn't it singular that the product of the still should make people so noisy? Naturally enough the spot most dear to cattle is their fodderland. • A meerachaum mine has been discovered in Florida. They will soon begin to lay pipes from it. Weal of principle is the principal want of many men. A recently deceased Virginian's will requests that his epitaph shall state he was a great turkeyhunter and a tolerably good fiddler." A Yankee journal offers this inducement—" All subscribers paying in advance will ho entitled to a first-else-3 obituary notice in case of death." Bloomer: "Which do you prefer, beer or chant- ps.gne?" Blossom : "It all depends." Bloomer: At Kissingen everything breathes of Bismarck. On what?" Blossom: "Who pays for it." His likeness, in bronze, marble, oil, or photograph, is visible on every side. A Maine man recently rose in a municipal meet. ing and solemnly announced, "For reasons unThe fifty miles championship of the Surrey known to myself I desire to resign." Bicycle Club was won on Saturday by J. E. Bakes in rather less than two hours and three-quarters. . A Fact.—When it is one minute after eight o'clock, it is past eight • when it is thirty minutes Several days ago a Cincinnati young men was after eight, it is only half-past eight. struck on the chest in a fight. He almost immediately lost his power of speech. Ethel "Do you think he'll commit suicide if I reject him?" Maud, sweetly "Oh, no! He didn't when I rejected him!" Ethel: " Ah, but you must remember the two cases are different !" A coincidence.—" All alone, my dear chili. I'm afraid that husband of yours neglects you terribly. He's always at his club when I call." "Yes, mamma; but he's at home at all other tidies." A Yankee, describing a lean opponent, say.: "I tell you what, sir, that man doesn't amount to a sum in arithmetic; add him up, and there's nothing to carry." -Wasting a Word.—Editor (to reporter) : "Mr Pennibs, I must caution you to avoid tautology." Reporter: "Rave 1 need& tautological expression, sir ?' "Yes, in this article you speak of female shoppers." Someone asked Sir Walter Raleigh, of whom it was said he "could toil terribly," How do you accomplish so much, and in so short a time ?" "When I have anything to do," he replied, "I go and do it." For a neat mixture of metaphors it is not easy to beat the opening sentence of • recent paragraph in a morning contemporary—" Many are tlis pitfalls which lie in the path of a man who site down to make his will." Mr Slimpurse (alter a decided refusal): "I know what the matter is. It's because lam poor. You wquld marry me if I were rich." Miss Gailie (thoughtfully): "Perhaps so, but you would have to be very, very rich." Friend: "You have been marr;ed only a week, and here I find you in tears!" Young wife: " Yes • but my husband has been trying to get elected on the County Council, and I have been reading in the papers what an unmitigated scoundrel he is!"