The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-06 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. Warems thoroughly cleaned, Is 6d; new mainspring, is 6d; brooch pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 months.—J. M. Caozmu, 76, Lynn Street, West Hartlepool.—Adrt  The Hartlepool Temperance Band will play a programme of music on the Promenade to-morrow evening at 7.30 (weather permitting). Conductor: Mt J. Oliver.  There is now being exhibited in Ceylon a "jungle man" from China. The creature stands about two feet in height, has a head and face like a monkey, and a body which otherwise appears to be similar to that of a human being. The body of the captain's wife of the Thracian, which went down on August 14th off Port Erin, was found floating just outside the bay, and was brought ashore by some boatmen at noun yesterday. The body was partially dressed.  In pursuance of the Russianising policy lately inaugurated in the Baltic provinces the Government has decided to established Russian State subsidised theatres at Rivalriga, Dorpat, and Mitan, hs welt as in several other important towns of the frontier provinces.  John Lomax, Ashton Road, Fa.ilsworth; was found in a stream at Tottington, with his throat. cut, on Sunday. Some time later, at the Waggon and Horses, Hawkshaw, a box was found containing a letter written by the deceased, addressed, "Police Office." The letter said—" Please excuse this note. I have been robbed of £3 168 at a lodging-house. I shall commit suicide. I shall be found near your house in the morning." It was reported to the police on Saturday that the cashier to a firm of leather manufacturers at. Bermondsey had absconded with £B2O. A day or two ago the firm sent him to the bank with that stun ; but he never returned, and the money was not paid in. Later on, however, they received a registered letter containing notes to the value-of £7OO, but nothing has since been heard of the cashier, who is only about 25 years of age. A Dorsetshire farmer named Mead, and his wife, were summoned at Dorchester on Saturday for illtreating a servant named Light. It was stated that the girl went into the defendant's service in good health, but was now reduced almost to. a skeleton by continued neglect and ill-treatmeat. bin Mead, it was said, beat her violently, and kept. her without food more than 24 hours at a time. The woman was fined £lO, and the husband is nd costs.  A Gloucester youth has been committed to the Assizes on a charge of stealing apples and shooting with intent to avoid arrest. The evidence was of a somewhat extraordinary nature, proving that on being seen in the orchard by a watcher apd pursued, he deliberately turned round and fired a. revolver, and then, saying "If thee's come another yard I'll shoot thee again," fired again. The watcher, hearing the bullet whizz past his ear, after a chase of half a mile, allowed the prisoner to escape. He was afterwards traced by the police. A shocking case of accidental shooting has occurred at Curraghniore, in county Kilkenny., near New Ross. A farmer named Egan returned from searing crows and laid his loaded gun at the foot of the stairs. One of his young children began to tamper with the weapon, and the father ran to take it away. In doing so the gun was discharged, and the charge, going through the roof to the chamber above, lodged in the face of Egan's daughter, inflicting a dreadful wound. The left. eye was blown out, and the face very badly injured. She lies in a dangerous state. The idea started by M. F. Deloncle of making an immense telescope the great attraction of the International Exhibition to be held in France in 1900, has been laughed at a good deal. The project is, however, far from abandoned, notwithstanding the great difficulty of constructing the huge instrument, which is to be 44 yards long. The task of furnishing the great concave mirror will fall to the St. Gobain glassworks. The making of this mirror, M. Deloncle thinks, constitutes the only difficulty to the execution of his project. The cost of the instrument, with the necessary foundations and structures will, it is calculated, reach two million and a half francs. During the journey of the Princess of Wales and the Princesses Victoria and Maud to Scotland on Friday night, an incident occurred at Peterborough, where the royal carriages had to be shunted from the Great Eastern to the Great Northern Railway. While the train was waiting on the platform a little girl pressed forward, and, on some one holding her to the window, offered the young Princesses a bottle of sweets. The child was so earnest, and looked so disappointed when she thought the train was going before her present could be given, that Princess Victoria at once rose, and accepted the little gift to the great delight of the child and amid the cheers of those assembled on the platform. The new coinage has hung fire for a long time, but the Chronicle understands that the accepted designs of Mr Brock, R.A., are in an advanced state, and that the issue of them may be expected for the early months of next year. There have been three heads of Her Majesty upon the coinage —the youthful head which was upon all coins until the Jubilee issus, and is still upon so many in circulation; the Gothic head and crown upon the older florin ; and the effigy with which Sir Edgar Boehm disfigured the Jubilee coinage. Of these the Gothic one was by far the best, but it is probable that the new coins will bear a head more appropriate to date than the girlish one, and far more graceful than the later one—a head encircled with a small tiara, similar to that on much of our colonial coinage.