The Northern Guardian. — 1892-08-24 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.  WATCHER thoroughly cleaned, is 6cl; new mainspring, is 6d ; brooch pins, 2d. All work gua.ranteed 12 months.-4. M. CH9ZIER, 76, Lynn street, Wc*t Hartlepool.—Adrt.  The traffic receipts of the Midland Railway Company for the past week show an increase of £5,418.  The traffic receipts of the Hull and Barnsley Railway for the week ending August 21st amounted to £6,e64, showing an increase of £2B.  A yacht belonging to Mr French, of Bognor, capsized yesterday off Selsey. Dr. Browning, of Kensington, was drowned. The body has been recovered. The Earl of Scarbrough is gazetted Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of the county of York, tke city of York, and county of the same, in the room of Earl Fitzwilliam, resigned.  The doctor of the convict prison at Civita Vecchia, Dr. Alessandri, who also holds the post of Mayor of that town, was yesterday fiercely attacked by one of the convicts, named Palzeri, who stabbed him four times with a knife of which he had obtained possession. The timber trade is pressing on the North...:astern Railway the need of fuller facilities for its growth at West Hartlepool. The railway company replies that the trade is a "seasonable" one. So are most trades; yet railways endevour. to foster them. It is probable that one or two directors will visit the port soon. _  Easte  The new 110-ton gun to take the place of the defective 110-ton gun in the Victoria, the flagship in the Mediterranean, has been delivered at Chatham dockyard from the Elswick Works, and will be at once despatched to the Mediterranean. It is understood, says the Times, that no further orders will be given by the Government for the manufacture of these large and costly guns. Yesterday afternoon, the Mayor of Richmond (Courvillor William Ness Walker) gave a treat to about 900 of the school children of the town. A series of sports were held in the Castle Yard, where the 19th Regimental Baud played during the afternoon. An excellent tea was partaken of in the Market Hall, and a series of entertainments were given in the Town Hall. Hearty cheers were given for the Mayor and Mayoress for their kindness. The redecoration of the House of Lords is to be undertaken at once by the Office of Works. The Upper Chamber has not been completely redecorated since it was built, and is in great need of renovation. A sum of £2,000 will be spent on the work, whieh includes a great deal of regilding. The frescoes are not to be touched. The work of rearranging the whips' offices and the other rooms debouching upon the inner lobby of the House of Commons will be undertaken immediately. An old man named Thomas Allcock, 66 years of age, hanged himself at Stalybridge yesterday morning, under somewhat mysterious circumstances. Deceased had been rather out of health, but gave no indications of any tendency to suicide. At breakfast time on Monday he was hearty and cheerful, and shortly before ;limier was found suspended from the ceiling with a rope round his neck, quite dead. Allcock was well known in the locality, and the event has created much surprise. A terrible accident took place yesterday on the Great Western Railway near Wrexham. As a fast goods train, which runs between Bristol and Manchester, was approaching Wrexham, Ebenezer Hughes, the driver, got on top of the tender to examine the ejectors. While doing so his head came in contact with the Esless foot-bridge, and he was knocked down between the engine and the waggons. He was frightfully mangled, and died almost immediately. The deceased resides at Pontypool. A novelty invented by a Paris firm for the benefit of the dilettante bathers at Trouville is described as a couch formed of a sheet of canvas stretched upon a very light metal frame, and provided with a canopy to protect the eyes of the occupant from the sun. The bed is kept afloat by means of large hollow metal tubes filled with air. On this it is possible to recline at ease floating upon the water in calm weather. A small model of the contrivance has attracted crowds of gazers to the window of the shop in the Faubourg St. Denis, where it is exhibited. Drink and tobacco, the temperance oiators often tell us, go together, and of 266 persons discharged since the opening of the Dalrymple Home we find that 234 of them were smokers. Some of the other particulars of the 266 are interesting. The temperament of 126 is described as " sanguine " ; 61 were gentlemen of no occupation, merchants coming next (25). The exciting cause in 124 of the cases was "sociability," the next most frequent cause being domestic trouble (24). Married men were 133 to 118 single, and in 92 of the cases whisky—the " guid mild Scotch drink" of Burns— was the kind of inebriant used, "all spirits" coming next with 67 cases. In 28 eases brandy was the liquor, and only in 6 beer. The great majority of patients are described as having had a "good education," and 61 of them had been at cellege, so that it is by no means the ignorant alone who fall victims to what St. Augustine called "a , flattering devil, a sweet poison, and a pleasant sin."