Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-06-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK.  FEVER has broken out with great virulence at Sheffield.  IT is reported that Mr Fothergill will retain his seat for Merthyr.  THZ Lochgelly Iron Company have given notice of a reduction of 3d per ton on the wages of ironstone miners.  AT a meeting of the Phcenix Bessemer Corn: pany on Friday, it was resolved to wind up the concern, and make a fresh effort to recommence business.  FRAUDS to the extent of nearly £300,000 have been discovered at one of the Dublin Banks by one of its officials. A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of the defaulter.  Two heavy failures are announced in Glasgow. Messrs Mason, Eaclie, and Co., woollen manufacturers; and Mr J. B. Murray, yarn merchant. The liabilities of the former are stated at nearly £40,000.  AT a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers Defence Association on Monday, resolutions were passed condemning the Permissive Bill. No one expected them to do otherwise.  ON Wednesday, the only son of Mr Barclay, M.P. for Forfarshire, was killed by falling from a tree. He was only nine years of age, and had climbed the tree on hie way home from school at Aberdeen.  ON Friday, an accident occurred to a passenger train on the Great Western Railway near Bathampton, by which a commercial gentleman from Bristol was killed, and the s.oker and driver of the train so seriously injured that no hope is entertained of their recovery.  A WOMAN was found dead in her on house in Glasgow on Sunday morning. Deceased, along with her husband and son, were drunk on Saturday, and a row took place among them. It is asserted that the sun struck and knocked down his mother. The father and son are in custody, pending an investigation.  A MINER was killed at the Griff Colliery, near Nuneaton. on Aionday morning. He was ascending an incline in the workings, when a train of waggons, which had broken the couplings, ran a;ainst him, smashing his head; and otherwise mutilating him severely. The in. quest was adjourned for the attendance of the Government Inspector.  JAMES THOMPSON, of Bolton-on-Swale, who had twice attempted to commit suicide on the railway near Croft, was bromllit up at the Darlington Police Court on Friday. After being cautioned, he expressed regret for what he had done, and promised to "go home and earn his living, and do justly in the sight of God." His wile had told him she liked other men better than him, and had ran him into debt, although he had advertised her.  A SHOCKING occurrence took place on a passenger train near Plymouth, on the South Western Railway. The guard of the train appears to hat climbed to the top of the carriages, and while looking through the lamp-hole of a firstclass carriage, his head was cut off while the train was passing under a bridge. The occupants of the carriage were startled at seeing blood streaming through the roof. The train was stopped, and the headless trunk of the guard was found on the top.  A CASE of great importance to property owners was decided in the Court of Chancery on Friday, before the Master of the Rolls. George Smith sought for an injunction to restrain William Smith from raising a building in Villiers-street, Sunderland, to such a height as to interfere with the light and air plaintiff enjoyed. The house complained of was only nine feet high, and had been raised to twentysix feet. His workshops and dwelling-house were thereby darkened. The injunction was granted, and as the building had been completed, two months were allowed for the removal of the goods from the warehouses, and pull down the building to its former size. Villiers-street is being transformed from a back street into a business thoroughfare and the decision will affect all the properties in that locality.  Ma ROBERT HARVEY, publisher of the Daily Telegraph, was summoned before Alderman Bosley by Mrs C. G. Prodgers for assault. Mrs Prodgers called at the office for a hack copy of the Telegraph. She tendered half a sovereipi in payment, saying that an old copy should only be charged a halfpenny or threefarthings. The clerk refused to cLange the half sovereign, and Mrs Prodgers made for the door without paying for the paper. Mr Harvey then stopped her, and in doing so stepped on her dress, which was very long. He at once apologised for trampling on the dress. Mrs Prodgers maintained that he did it wilfully, and as she was only going to the door to ask her coachman for a penny, she said she would institute proceedings against him for assault. His Honour at once dismissed the case.  THE suspension of the Rev. Mr Maconochie of St. Albans was put in force on Sunday. There was a large congregation, and the only change madS in the service was the omission of the candles. The officiating clergyman scolded his superiors in language more focible than polite or judicious. It was certainly an unusual occasion, and the Rev. A. 11. Stainton appears to have taken full advantage of the opportunity. Here are a few choice morsels from his discourse :  " The suspension was an insult and injury done to one of the most devoted men the Church had ever possessed. There was not a siugle bishop on the episcopal bench who was so devotedly attached to the Prayer Book as the criminal—for so they would make him out to be—who was then suspended. They law all the bishops looking calmly on while a set of fanatics were hounding down a devoted priest of the Church, just as a parcel of miscreant lads would hound down a poor dog with sticks and stones, break every bone in his poor body, and never cease until they had beaten every breath out of it. He called on them by every truth Mr Mackonochie had taught them, and by all the influence he had over them, to abominate and execrate the treatment he had received shoe he had been the minister of that church, and to oppose it in every way."