Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-06-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SMALL-PDX has broken out at Blackburn. The infection is said to have been imported from Blackpool.  A LIVERPOOL stockbroker's clerk has swindled his employer of several thous tads of pound:: by speculating in stocks and shares,  ET is stated that the Danube Navigation Co.'s steamer has been seized and compelled to land about 159 insurgents II Modslin.  PRELIMINARY borings for the Channel Tunnel have been commenced at Calais. The progress, as far as they have gone, is considered eatisfactory.  IN a street fight at Waterford, on Wednesday night, a quay porter stabbed two men. One is dead, and another is not expected to recover.  RYROPE COLLIERY has been thrown idle by the miners striking against stone men taking contracts, in contravention, as they allege, of the rules of the Union.  THE Dublin city treasurer has absconded. Defalcations to the extent of £3,000 have been discovered. The Corporation hold sureties to the extent of £6,000.  ARRANcEmENrs are said to be in progress for 3 fresh conference on the Eastern Question at Ems. The Emperor William is to be accompanied by Prince Bismarck,  THE South Yorkshire miners' strike has been settled by the men accepting the .reduction of 121 per cent. A considerable proprtion of the men are still dissatisfied at this reduction in wages. .  ON Friday, the chief engineer of Her Majesty's ironclad Hydra was killed, and the assistant engineer severely scalded, by the bursting of a valve while steam was being got up.  EDWARD HORNER, a small farmer at Winksley, near Ripon, hanged himself from the ceiling of the kitchen on Thursday night. He had been in a desponding condition for some time, as work was slack.  ON Friday, Isaac Stephenson, a groom, was fined 20s and the costs by the Barnsley magistrates, for infringing the Betting Act by instructing a betting man to back a horse for him at Manchester.  A BEDRIDDEN pauper at York, 89 years of age, committed suicide by stabbing himself in the abd, men with a pen•knife. The woman who attended him had only been absent from his bedside a short time.  Tu.! charge of libel against the publisher of Vanity Fair by the Native Guano Company was partially heard at the Bow-street Police Court on Thursday. The case was adjourned till Thursday next.  WE are glad to observe that the statement widely circulated on Thursday that the Mersey Forge Works were to be closed on Saturday is incorrect No stoppage is to take place at present.  ON Friday, James Blirs, a boot and shoe dealer in Banbury, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy. He has failed three times within the last few years, and in neither case have his creditors received a penny of dividend.  THE Prince of Wales is recovering. his oyal Highness, accompanied by the Princess and their children, left London for Sandringham on Monday. Their Royal Highnesses will be the guests of Madnne Van de Weyer duriLg Ascot week.  ON Monday, a widow, named Mary Wilkinson, 73 years of age, died at Witton Park, Blackburn, from the effects of injuries inflicted upon her by John Dodds Loomer. Several days ago deceased L:11 gone to Loomer's house to enquire about a child that had been abducted, when Loonier beat the old woman savagely, breaking her leg in two places.  body f4gbtful  ON Wednesday night the drivers of two vehicles, in returning from the Derby, tried a race. One of the conveyances was run against a lamp pest, when the driver fell back on his seat bleeding profusely, having sustained severe concussion of the brain. he driver of the other conveyance continued his journey as if nothing had happened.  ON Thursday, while old cannons were being broken up and pladed in the furnace at Monkbridge - Ironworks, Leeds, to be melted, a piece exploded with a terrific force. Fortunately it had been put into the refinery muzzle upwards. It had contained four balls, each weighing about 101bs. They were forced into the air a great distance, and in falling penetrated into a brick chimney. No one was hurt.  AN official report, signed by nineteen physicians of different nationalities, has been issued, certifying that the ex-Sultan's death resulted from the opening of the veins and arteries beneath the bend of the left arm. The fur.-ral took place on Sunday afternoon, when all the ministers were present. The Paris Gaulois intimates that the wound from which the exSultan died was not self -inflicted.  A PEDLAR from Newcastle was murdered in Manchester on Saturday night. He had been seen quarrelling with another man in Millerstreet, Maschester, and on Sunday morning his almost - was found I,  P • • • ,•