Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1874-10-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NOTES OP THE WEEK.  ALDERMLN JESSOP, of Slwffield, has offered £12,000 for the erection of an hospital for woluen.  Six of the rioters at the recent Northampton election were sentenced on Monday to three months' imprisonment with hard I,tbour.  Tas South Wales ironworkers have received notice that their wagas will be reduced 10 per cent., after the expiry of a month's notice.  JOHN IiBF.D, 1. boiler maker, was sentenced to six months Laprisonment with hard labour by the Hartlepool magistrates for striking his wife on the had with a pitcher.  THE foundation-stone of the Airedale Independent College was laid at liradford on riday, by Mr Titus Salt. ihe institute will cost about £17,000, and £13,000 have already been subscribed.  LORD PENHRYN'S quarrymen have refused to entertain arty fresh proposals from his Lordship until the enquiry now going on as to the alleged infringement of their agreements has been settled.  THE Erie Railway Company has closed its London office. Mr. Stephenson, the secretary, whose salary was guaranteed for three years, has compounded with the directors for a much smaller sum.  THE Vendome Column, which will be coopleted in about a month, will be decorated with a statue of Napoleon 1., made from a model in possession of M. Dumont, as it was found impossible to repair the old one.  ON Thursday, the palace of the Countess Arnim-Boitzemburg was subjected to a second domicilary visit from the authorities. During the vi,it the palace took fire, caused, it is believed, through the carelessness of one of the officers. Very little damage was done.  Two children were burned, and a third was  rescued in a very exhausted condition, in a fire at Liverpool on Friday morning. The premises burned were occupied by a picture frame dealer, and they burned with great rapidity.  IT is stated that the charge against Count Arnim will be magnified into high treason. The prosecution is getting up evidence to support the graver charge, and reliance is placed on his having divulged certain State secrets. It is evident that his persecutors mean to crush him.  HOSPITAL SATURDAY in Loudon WAS little better than a failure, if the £6oo_hatided over to the treasurer on Saturday is anything like the full amount subscribed. Besides collecting sheets and boxes at works and public-houses, a morning performance was given at the Drury Lane Theatre, and ladies were stationed at collecting tables in various public thoroughfares.  A RICH merchant of Vienna, who is a married man, and the wife of another rich merchant with whom he was living, poisoned themselves in the Golden Cross Hotel, out of spite to the law, which prevented their illicit intercourse becoming legalised. They are the fourth couple who have committed suicide in the same hotel since January.  THE Sheffield Medical Officer of il .alth had to interfeie with an Irish wake, owing to the smell from the dead body over which the Irish people were making merry. The dead body had lain for four days before the Medical Officer ii.terfered, and it was not intended to bury it for four days more. These wakes have often proved a fruitful source of disease, and not unfrequently of crime also.  CONSIDERABLE interest was manifested in this country when it was first announced that Sir H. Robinson had annexed the Fiji Islands, and hoisted the British flag. The King and Chiefs having made so many conditions that had Sir H. Robinson conceeded their demands, the acquisition would have been a great burden instead of a boon. All doubt has been :Yet at rest by the receipt of intelligence that the surrender was unconditional.  ON Monday, a shoemaker named Cranwell, 50 years of age, was brought before the Marley. borne magistrates, charged with attempting to murder Emma Bellamy, about BO years of age. He had been paying his addresses to her, ancl invited her to take tea with him on Saturday, when he declared that she had deceived him, and after dealing several severe blows on the head with a hammer, he cut her throat. Her depositions were taken immediately after Cranwell was arrested. He has been remanded for a week.  COLORADO has been visited by a plague of grasshoppers. They appeareg like a cloud about 500 feet from the ground darkening the earth. They then descended in myriads, and made themselves comfortable for the night. Next morning they set to I work and eat up every particle of herbage, from onione and cabbk;es to verbenas and gladiolas. The only green things left in Colorado were roses, phoxles, cherry, plum, and peach trees. On two previous occasions the grasshoppers ha i e "cleared out Colorado," butlthe third visitation proved a crusher.  Tux Rer. Mr King, the owner of Apology, and now generally known as the racing parson, has at length succumbed to the representations of his Bishop, who it a very conciliatory spirit pointed out to him the incongruity of his position. Training racehorses and saving souls from hell are two distinct vocations, and the octogenarian parson has chosen the more lucrefive profession. He leaves his religion and stitAts to his stud, giving his ecclesiastical b.perior a "bit of his mind," as he makes his exit from ithurch life.  Tam Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation from Baron Rothschild to visit his country mansion at Ferrieres. In connection with this visit, the Daily News correspondent says that His Royal Highness will have the gratification of eating his dinner off a service of !Jewell porceluin worth 100,000 francs, which was brought out for Napoleon 111. But he win. only be able to see the gold knives and forks which were placed on the tahle on the pane occasion, the Baron having made a vow that they should never be used again.