Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-10-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

HORRIBLE DEATH.—About fourteen days ago a young woman named Hardwick, of Barton, near Melton, was missing from Rawelide, near Goole. Nothing was heard of her uotil Thusday week, when the upper part ot her body was found in the canal, and subsequently her legs were iound, but at a considerable dist ,nee. Some portions are missing. It is inferred that the unfortunate girl either committed suicide or fell into the canal, and that her body was cut to pieces by the screw of a steam tug. An open verdict of "Found drowned" was returned. A sail domestic tragedy has been enacted near Goole, where the wife of a sailor, whose mind had evidently been unhinged by the fear of poverty, took her two grandchildren, aged four and seven, to the banks of the Onto, threw the elder boy into the water, and with the other child walked into the river until the current, witch was running strongly at the time. carried them both sway. The scene was witnessed at a distauce by a woman who was unable to reach the piece in time to prevent the unhappy woman &caromplishieg her ol j.ct. BAPTISING IN THE HIGHLANDS OF TEES, DAL, —ln the summer of 1868, a minister of the Wesleyan denomination, stationed in We irdale, and an &spiting youth, paid a visit to the wild mountain I pass of High C ps Nick—s rugged chasm, near ~,,, in Weetmoreland. On their return home through ! Teesdale, the minister was somewhat startled at an invitation he got to baptze a Teesdale farmer's children. Tne long walk and the mountain air gave the tourists an appetite which wits appeased at a farmer's hoard in Btrkedale, near Cauldron Snout, at which they called and got a Teesdale welcome—bread and milk. Just after the travellers had left, it struck the farmer that two of his children were not baptized, and as one of the gentlemen they had entertained was a minister, it afforded an opportunity not to be lost sight of, so the he id of the house went out and stopped the departing guests with " Hoge! " and a wave of the hand. The youth went back, and the Teesdaler, uniting to the individual with the white choker, (MR " C yon fellow dew helms " tnea itatc christening children, " because," he said, we ha twee ed wants dewn, a' en tel' ern ta Cu' back en dew them " The youth went to his reverence and interpreted what the good sire wanted, so they re-entered the house, and the father saluted the minister with "Can thou dew I ba'rns ?" and being answered in the affirmative, every preparation was made for the ceremony. J ioathan was to be baptised first, but was out playing. How ever, he was brought in not at all " fettled" for the ' occasion. Neverthelese, he got baptised ; and then came Nickle'w turn. But the good-natured father found Nicholas asleep in his cradle, and he said, " Nickle's asleep, en we'll nut wacken em. Ye ma' co' sum uther ta`tn en dew Nickle, and they'll a' be dune." He then added that an occasional minister was sometimes at B rkedale, so that they might get Nicholas baptised when he was waken. He mo Cover informed them that a little " Primitive ranter yance happeeed in, en they gat a ha'rn dew°, en dares lad t' p eacher eat a bya-son fa' scouce en a crappen ki'ak efter he wer dewn."