The Northern Guardian. — 1893-08-17 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NEW SYSTEM OF TREATMENT FOR DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR WITHOUT OPEBATION.—Mr L. Mitchell, Octilist and Auriat, of Leeds, announces special visits to Middlesbrough, Saturday, Aug. 19; West Hartlepool (Stati-m Commercial Hotel), Tuesday, Aug. 22; Stockton (Black Lion Hotel), Wednesday, Aug. 23; Durham (Three Tuns Hotel), Saturday, Aug. 26; Darlington, Monday, Aug. 28; Bishop Auckland, Thursday, Aug. 31; (hours 11 to 4), where he may be consulted on all cases of defective sight or hearing. Aitificial human eyes adapted where the sight has been destroyed without pain or operation. Spectacles, eye preservers, to suit all sights. References to local patients. Letters to be addressed to 24, Zetland Place, Roundhay Road, Leeds—Add. Malta letters state that it is hoped to have the Camperdown ready for sea by September sth. The remains of General Sir Edward Flatuley were interred yesterday in the family burying ground in Erompton Cemetery. Mrs Monk, widow of Dr. Monk, the editor of "Hymns Ancient and Modern," has just been granted an annuity of £lOO from the Royal Bounty Fund. The Channel, off Dungeness, was enveloped in a dense fog during Tuesday night. A large steamer grounded, but was floated again yesterday morning. John Makin, who, with his wife, was convicted in March last of murdering one or more children entrusted to their charge, has been executed at Sydney. Yesterday morning, premises occupied by Mr J. Milton, stables proprietor, in Milton Road, South Hornsey, were destroyed by fire, and two valuable horses were literally roasted to death. Splendid white wheat, weighing 65lbe per bushel, arrived at Bank Top Station yesterday for Mr Frank Archer, Blackwell Mill. This wheat was grown at St. Osyth, near Colchester, in Essex, on some of the finest laud in England. Late on Tuesday night gold watches of the value of several hundred pounds were stolen from a bedroom at the George Hotel, Portsmouth, occupied by Mr J. Thomson, a traveller for Messrs Fulda and David, jewellers, of Hatton Garden. Mr and Mrs T. Wrightson, of Norton Hall, much regret that, owing to Mr G. Mortimer having an attack of scarlet fever, they are compelled to postpone all arrangements for the 23rd inst. They are glad to say Mr Mortimer is going on satisfactory. Heavy storms, causing the lose of many lives, are reported from the Baltic. Twelve fishermen from Hapset', near Memel, and nine from Ferman, also near Memel, have been drowned. Another boat is missing with five men, who, it is feared, have met with a similar fate. A sympathetic correspondent sends a pitiful picture to the Daily Graphic of the polar bear at the Zoo. The poor animal is suffering terribly from tropical heat. All day long he varies fitful tramps along his limited field of exercise with periodic plunges into the diviqg tank, in which he has barely sufficient room to turn. There arrived a few days ago, at the Bacteriological Station at Kharkoff, a party of no fewer than 53 persons, all bitten by the same rabid wolf. Forty-five are young children, and many are dreadfully lacerated about the face and head. The wolf, breaking from a forest, traversed six villages, savagely attacking every one in its way, until it was finally killed. A gunsmith named Pusinalls, hailing from Birmingham, but who had for several months been out of employment, and bad consequently become depressed, committed suicide yesterday morning by cutting his throat at his lodgings in Hampden Street, Harrow Road, London, while his bed' fellow was preparing to go to work.