Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1870-01-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MELANCHOLY FATE.—A pitiable history was revealed on Monday at the Liverpool Coroner's court during an irrpiest upon the body of a man named Wharton. Wharton, it appeared, was once a man of fortune, but COIItiIIUOUS reverses, combined with the death of his wife, had such an effect upon his mind that on Friday last he c•mmitted suicide by using prussic acid. A verdict of " Temporary insanity" was returned.  The true diameter of tea cannot be judged of by its appearance; the commonest wintry crop is by the aid of artificial colour, made to resemble fine tea ; this Causes toss to the consumer. 'Fite tea imported by Messrs. llorni man, is pure, and can be relied upon for great strength, wholesomeness, and great cheapness. Said at 2s 4d-2s Bd-35-35 4d and 3s ltd per lb. in packets. Local Agents are advertised in our columns.  HoitSF. EA-11S0.—The hipp(Thagists are advancing with rapid strides. In 1868, during the months of September, October, and November, 563 hotses (including a few eases and mules) were eaten in Paris. In 1869, during the same period, the special slaughter-houses disposed of 083 horses, showing an increase in three months alone of 118 horses, or 36,000 kilogrammes of horse iner.t. In the departments also horse-cooking progresaes at the same rate.  Letters from Mexico, via Havanna!), state that a counterfeiting and forging establiehment has just been discovered in that city, after years of effectual working, in the creation of all classes of national obligations, stamps, bonds, &0., "which prove so perfect that no one can tell the genuine front the false." The divc,iyery, it is said, was accidental, and not from any official astuteness on the /Art of the police. The parties were taken in the act of work and emission, and proved to be Germans, the names of their pretended firm being Case, Beceril, and Ilerner.—Times. GREENWICH TIME BY TELEGRAPH,—Lord Kinnaird has succeeded in inductng the Post-office department to adopt a valuable suggestion in connection with the working of the government telegraphs. It has been resolved, at his lordship's instance, that Greenwich time shall be telegrApbed daily to all telegraph stations in England, Scotland, and Wales. All the Post-office clocks will therefore be regulated by Greenwich every morning, so that when persons go to poet their letters they can set their watches acaording to the correct time of day at Greenwich Observatory. In Ireland. in the same way, Dublin time will be telegraphed all over the couutry.—Dundee Advertiser.  Drunkenness is.: the prolific parent of aswife-beating. and murders, but it is not often such tlitigs happen in returning limn a visit to a place of worship. At Birkenhead, howi.ver, this seems to have occurred. An omnibus driver named Codringtom and his wife, had been to the Roman Catholic chapel in that place, to attend a service in celebration of the new year, and on their way home quarreled. The poor woman was knocked down and kicked so brutally that she died in a short time. She was the mother of flee children. Her ruffianly husband is in custody.  The Mark-lane Express says the markets, even in the holidays, have evinced more confidence, owing chiefly to the restricted supplies sent by farmers. The crowing crop, though not forward, still looks well, and on its condition and our future imports prices must depend. The immense foreign arrivals make any important revival very doubtful for some time. It 's not, however, to he expected that so much will come at the present low rates, or that exporters have the power to send it, but this is the real pressure on the market. The arriv ds of breadstuffs in the last four months of the past year amounted to 4,411,000 qrs. against 2,594,000 qrs. in the corresponding four mouths of 1868  A SCENE AT WoMBWELL'S