Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1896-04-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

AND PERSONAL.  -----A swansea lady has bequeathed to Greenwich Floopit al several relics of Nelson, including his  trousers ----Herbort Barry (16), pupil teacher, Preston, ba, beon fined £3 for pulling his pupils' teeth out in lieu of a castigation. --lir ressmore Edwards the other day laid the foundatton•stone of a public library to be built by him st a cost of £2,500 at Nunhead.' --Iv itb one exception, the whole of a family nano hoe, of Balltnasloe, have suddenly gone nia ,lAI been lodged in 16 lunatic asylum.  An otter—a young dog—has been shot up the Lea at Fituuler's Wetr Fishery. Another otter was sto there the same day, but escaped. Mr IV. 11. Patterson, corresponding secretary of the Durham Miners Association, is graduall) recovering. and is now at Grange-over-Sands.  Sheffield Wednesday team succeeded in defeat ing the Wolverhampton Wanderers by two goalA so one in the final tie contest for the Association  t. up. London County- Council on Tuesday, after a long thicussion, expressed itself in favour of the scheme of the Water Committee for procuring a supplemental supply for London from Wales. A rontinuous run upon the London and Universal Bank has compelled the directors to temporarily suspend payment: but it is officially stat...ki that all the creditors will be paid in full.  The marriage of the Princess Alexandra of Coburg and the Hereditary Prince of HolienloheLangenburg was solemnised at Coburg, the Emperor William being present at the wedding breakfait.  A remarkable accident happened to James Stewart, a professional football player, at Blackburn on Tuesday morning. When tending a how the animal attacked him and bit off one of his ears.  _ . An old pensioner. who had previously threatened to commit suicide, was found dead at the foot of Dover Cliffs crushed almost beyond recognition. This makes the third death over the cliffs in gx weeks.  Nearly the whole day was occupied at the Dover Quarter Sessions on Monday in the trial of a petty theft case. On the jury retiring, one of the jurymen went home for dinner. Another had to be sworn, and the case reheard.  There is now a _ fair chance of Linlithgow Palace being better cared for than has been the case in late years. The nucleus of the Palace seems to have been a tower or fort, first built by Edward 1., who inhabited it in person a whole winter.  A man on Saturday last went to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it was found he was suffering from email-pox. and an ambulance to take him to Ntw Cross Small-pox Hospital was wired for. In the meantime, the man escaped through a window, and is still at large.  A stone, weighing over half a hundredweight, was placed on the metals of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway near Larne. A trail from Belfast crashed into the obstruction, but fortunately kept the rails. The locomotive and the two front carriages were considerably damaged.  Agony columns are put to strange uses. A man was wanted at Stratford for deserting his wife. The police failed to find him, but one more wily than the rest advertised in "Lloyd's News" as follows :—"Meet me at Fenchurchstreet on Sunday evening." Prisoner did so, and was then arrested.  Andrew Bolton, works foreman to Messrs -Mawr and Coulston, electrical engineers, Glasgow, hanged himself from a weighing machino OH Mends He had dressed in woman's clothes, and surrounded himself with tragic pictures from the illustrated papers, and a mirror was suspended in front of him.  The 150th anniversary of the famous Battle of Culloden on Thursday week was not forgotten by patriotic Scots, and the memorial cairn erected on the field of Culloden was decorated by memorial wreaths. One of the cards bore the words, "In memory of the brave men who died for Scot• land and Prince Charlie, April 16, 1746."  At Reading on Saturday the woman Mrs Dyer was charged as the principal and her son-in-law, Arthut E. Palmer, as an accessory after the fact, with the murder of several children. The principal witness was Miss Evelina E. Marmon, of Cheltenham, who identified one of the bodies as that of her own child. Prisoners were remanded till to-day.  A unique tenancy has just been terminated on the Kintore estate. Extending over four centuries, it has at length been severed by the departure of Miss Mary Rait from the farm of The Brae, Kintore. The connection of the family with the estate has been traced back to the year 1650, but tradition carries the connection as far back as 1457.  An inquest was held at Teignrnouth on Tuesday on the bodies of Henry George Haines and the three children who were murdered by him. Dr. Johnson said Haines suffered from severe  _ mental depression, but witness always considered him responsible for his actions. Since February, however, —sines had. leveloped symptoms of delusion. The inquest was adjourned.  The District Council of Featherstone, near Pontefract, which had an all-night sitting on Friday over the question of the chairmawhip, met again on Monday evening, when the deadlock was continued. After an adjournment for supper, dontiinoea, cards, and chess were procured, and the members made a night of it. At eight On Tuesday morning an adjournment for breakfast was agreed to.  Primrose Day was celebrated last Sunday in Parliament-square. At one o'clock there were a thousand people on the square, when the statue Wad tastefully decorated. One wreath bore the znotto, "Peace with honour." Flower girls did  a splendid business. In Liverpool button-holes of primroses were also worn, and at Windsor the facade of the Constitutional Club was prettily decorated, the initial B and coronet being prosninent.  Many a village (says the "Councillor") that In 1894 was a veritable death trap, to acclimatised," at any rate, is in the year of grace, 1896, a positive "health resort." The village Pump has been superseded by some more reliable instrument for the supply of water, and sanitation improved; the village ditches have been filled in, and the village green has been made suitable for promenade or recreation. Rights of way have been safeguarded, allotments have been provided and parochial trusts placed cn a more satisfactory footing. Parish Councils are expected to do more yet.