The Northern Guardian. — 1894-01-05 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

SUITABLE PRESENTS FOR XMAS. Silver 'Brooches, 18; Thimbles, Is ; Silver Alberts, 56 6d ; ISilver Watches, 14s 6d ; Wedding Rings, 10i4 6d ; [Watches cleaned, or Mainspring, Is 6d.—CßOSlgh.ti.. The Watchmaker, 76, Lynn Street.—Ad. Mr Manlield, M.P., the junior member for North' ampton, has decided not to seek re-election. Mr and Mrs Gladstone will leave London tomorrow for Brighton, returning to town on Monday.  A severe shock of earthquake was felt on Wednesday at the village of Escanthout, five and a 11.31 f miles from Valencicruaes. Very little damage was done to property. Lord Ripon has telegraphed to the tfoweenors ef the Amstralitsion Colonies that the Duke and Duchess of York find it impossible at present to accept the colonists' kind ill%itation.  Last night, at the house of Mr Thomas Twin, Zetland Arms, Si nekton, twenty-four persons sat down to a tripe supper. After the cloth had been removed the evening was spent in harmony. At Reading, James Gathorne, a clerk, has been committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions, on a charge of wilfnlly and maliciously placing a lighted. match-box iu a letter-box of the Reading General Post Office.  The Jews' Free School in the East End of Lon. don is the largest elementary school in the world, mustering some 3,500 children, and on New Y.ear's Day it chief, Mr Moss Angsl, entered upon the 54th year of his head-mastership.  Lieut.-Col. Pearce, 4th V.8.D.8., died at Okehampton yesterday from complaints following an attack of iufluetJak. Dteedsed was well known as a first-class Volunteer marksman. Amongst his sw•cesses was obtaining the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon in 1875.  The girl Cogdon, who was injured at the east end of Sunderland by the man Martin, is still detaine,l at the infirmary of the town mined. Yesteruay she was very seriously ill. It will be remembered that the tile thrown by Martin penetrated the girl's skull.  Frank Smith, an nnmarried man, recently of ! Bradford, has committed suicide at Kimberley, South Africa. He was under treatment at the., hospital for an affection of the lunge, and becoming greatly depressed on being infermed that there a.s but little chance of his recovery, he cut his throat with a razor.  The Correctional Tribunal in Paris has sentenced a widow named Millescarops to five years' imprisonment, ten years' prohibition of residence in Paris, and in addition to pay a tine of 1,000 f., for espidnage. She had communicated to third parties plans' which had been lost in her house by a person em, ployed in the Seciet Service, whereas it was her duty to restore them to the Government.  I A daring burglary has been committed at St. Jude's Church, Meeting-house Lane, Peckham. The vestry door was forced, and the burglars, having regaled themselves with Communion wine, set about ransacking the vestry. They made an unu.fuiacimuyi, to force tile safe, and after- , wards packed up the cassocks and surplices into bundles ; but at this juncture they appeared to have been disturbed in their operations and madej off  An extraordinary escapade is reported on the part of .Mr John S. Mason, late manager of the Munster and Leinster Bank, Dunmanway. On Tuesday night this gentleman was returning to ! Skibbereen from Sehull, in company with his wife, and when the train stopped at Ballydehoh he alighted. Then going back a few perches of the hue he mounted the wall of the bridge which spans a tidal ml. t, and tumbled over' falling a distance of some 50 feet. He alighted in a few feet of water, but was rescued uninjured. The unfortunate man was, it appears, for some time an inmate of a lnnatic asylum. HE PAD No