Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1875-07-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE HERALD.  SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1875.  ALL who are connected with the trade of the district will be pleased to see that the unhappy charge against Mr Richardson, ex-M.P. for the Hartlepools, has been unconditionally and honourably withdrawn.  A LONDON Correspondent, referring to the Municipal Elections (Camuiative Votes) Bill, remarks that "Mr Dodds, M.P., rendered an invaluable service by the decided stand he took, and obtaining a pledge from the Government that the important points which he urged should be properly dealt with."  WE hear that the Committee of the Stockton Sunday School Union are making arrangements for several galas during the race week. There is to bz a gathering of Sabbath school children in the Exchange on the Sunday preceding the races. There are to be open-air galas with musical performances by one of the leading grenadier bands on the Monday and Tuesday, a trip to Redcar or Seaton Carew on the Wednesday, and a grand concert in the Exchange on each of those evening. The details of the scheme are not yet fully matured, but we believe the above to be a full outline of what is proposed. It will be seen that the Union is about to incur heavy responsibilities, and is to some extent at the mercy of the weather. We hope that all friends of the laudable movement will give their 'support to the undertaking, and by liberal subscriptions for tickets remove any possibility of loss occurring.  Tux suicide maniastill continues, and seems to be spreading. At Stockton, on Thursday, a man nearly strangled himself because he -could not rid himself of an objectionable lodger. At Risey Hill, near Guisborough, a woman has swallowed a dose of opium, mixed it with red precipitate; and another woman at Buosbeck swallowed poison after quarrelling with her husband. Drink and jealousy are assigned as the cause for each of these wicked acts; happily none of them were successful.  RECENT alterations made by the North-Eastern ilailway Company in the Sunday train arrangements of the Darlington section have been welcomed by the public as the first indications of a disposition to meet the legitimate requlrements of this district. Several correspondents have taken heart, and forwarded corn-1 munications pointing out how easily the people of Stockton may be more further benefitted by a little further extension of railway liberality. The two new trains on Sundays have their starting point at South Stockton, distant more than a mile from the north end of the borough ; the Company has its principal station at the north end of the town, and had the trains started thence the inhabitants would have had the opportunity of joining the train without +lie toil of a walk to the more remote station in the heat of summer Sunday afternoons. Others complain that lower rates should be charged, but were the company to grant the facility sugge,sted, without increased cost, much would be accomplished toNtards reconciling the public to regular fares for riding by what are, to all intents, and purposes, excursion trains. It is also pointed out that by delaying the Sunday evening train timed to leave Darlington for Saltburn :at 6.30 p.m. until the arrival of the through train from the South at 7.35 p.m. a great boon would be conferred upon those who under the present arrangements may travel from all parts of the kingdom on the Sunday, and must then stop through the night at Darlington, within a few minutes' ride of home. If it is right and proper to travel on Sundays, it cannot be wrong for the traveller to reach his destination and pass the night with his family. Another singular anomaly of the present mouth's time bills, is the addition of a train timed to leave Saltburn on week-d tys at 9.45 p.m., ar d stopping short at Middlesbrough at 10 20 p.m. Now, it would appear that the company do not expect Stockton or Darlington people to visit Salthurn or Redcar during the week, for there are regular trains leavir.g Middlesbrough at 9.30 p.m. for South Stockton and Darlington, and at 9.45 p.m. for Stockton, the last named leaving Middlesbrough twentyfive minutes before the arrival of the last train from Saltburn. By a very little re-arrangement, the train from Middlesbrough to Stockton might be delayed half-an-hour, or the train from Saltburn might be accellerated so as to afford Stockton train facilities equal to those just conceded to Middlesbrough. Another important concession has been made through the intervention of Mr Dodds, M.P. The train leaving Saltburn at 8 a m., will after Monday next be run to Stockton, instead of as formerly, stopping at Middlesbrough.  BY the report published on another page it will be seen that the problem of mectianical puddling is advanced another stage nearer its solution The North of England Industrial Iron and Coal Company has taken a foremost position in dealing with this important question, and now seems likely to attain the honour for which it has striven during the past three years. Having implicit faith in the statements of the patentee, corroborated as they were by the report of the Commissi iners appointed by the English iron trade to enquire into the working of the Danks patent puddlini, furnaces in America, the Company erected ten of these furnaces at the Carlton works, and the directors were compelled twelve months ag,, to declare the working of the furnaces, as original cmstructed to be a signal failure. This announcement evoked mull comment at  the time, and also various contradictory statements, but the reported abandonment of  TO