The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-10-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO. It is a damages end costa, amounting together to £ll2. 'smart price to pay for one particular 'indiscretion, After the action Heath filed his petition, and there ! but I cannot think it an excessive penalty for what were no assets. It was stated that the libel con- I most plain people would call a cowardly libel, folsisted of a drawing ivith writing—The bankrupt ! lowed by a shabby skedaddle." said he was trustee of a chaeol at Entorna where i The Ilailp Chronicle hopes that the vigilant eyes he preached, and he had continued his ministra- , of Mr Acland will have been directed to the an lions there notwithstanding the finding of the jury. I ctuneances of the suicide of a little boy of eleven I feassisted his father in his business, bet had no at Bernoldswick. This small creature was a half. salary, and his only assets consisted of a few books. ! timer, and his eel oolmaatair gave very emphatic !Math said he did not admit that the drawing was 'j evidence of the effect of the half-time 'system on his filthy or indecent any more than a Sloperian ! small frame. Hews', a very hright bete his school pisture.—His examination was adjourned until the 1 life was full of promise, and he bad shown great next court. The bankrept's statements oet:a- interest in his work. Of late, however, lies sprite sionallv provoked a good deal of laughter in court, and wcrk had both declined. "I could not." said e __ _ _  On Wednesday week an animated discussion took place in the Chester Town Council on a proposal im adopt the Hop Pole Paddock as a site for an electric lighting station for the city. The paddock hon one side of the Chester walls and the cathedral on the other. The Duke of Westminster, telegraphing from Blair Athol to the blayor of Chester, said, "Hear electrica go to Hop 1 Pole Paddock. Hope walls and cathedral will be eparml degradation that would result." The Dean of Chester, Dr. Darby, Archdeacon Barber, and Canon Fielden attended the Council meeting and r,cinted out the infonvenience which would p,wibly result, the cl.elger from vibration, and the mjqry to the app:arance of the cathedral and walls. About £121,000 had been spent upon the mthedral during the last twenty years, and it would be a great misfortune if the view of the cathedral should be interfered with by the erection of unsightly works and chimneys. The dismission was very lively throughout, several members deprecating the interference of the Duke of Westminster. In the result eighteen voted for the Hop Pole Paddock Station and ten against it. It was ttereforis carried, a member exclaiming, "It is a digrace to Chester."  the good sehoemaster, "find it in my heart to , punish the lad, he had such a pleading, melaneholy countenance." Mr Barrett :Ade& that hut experience showed him a similar falling-off in the case of half-timers. " I have. seen," he said, "lads so tired at the sehool that we have had hard work to keep them awake. And no wonder, considering that this scholar of eleven had had to rise at half-past five in the morning to go to work. Mr Barrett condeinns the system root and branch, and Hugrgeets that the local association of master, should meet and denounce it. Let us hope that the death of this small martyr of industrialism, Plus overI pressure, will quickea the Government's determination to fix the half-time limit at the age at which the Benin Conference assessed it—namely, twelve. The Glasgow steamer State of Nebraska on her last outward passage rescued two American fishermen. after they had had a terrible adventure in a small boat or aory. The State of Nebraska was gaing from the Ord° to New York. and on the 22nd ult. she fell in with a 81113.11 boat drifting about on the ocean. The boat had two occupants—two men—but thee were in euch a terrible state that one of the sailors from the !iteamer had  Fee practical purpcoes, according to the Hospital, thnre ought to be a class of medical experts whose duty it should be to deal with the cases of oppsrent!y incurable crimin:vls. Such criminals, v.•!wi it has berm scientifically decided that they are incurable, should be recognieed as pitients in hovp:tals or asylums. Their family iii,tory mid their personal history should be carefully enquired into, and they should b. put under a course of rational moral medicine at the expense of the State. In short, the habitual criminal's prison should be a hospital iv,hool. In due time a certain number of cengeaital criminals would be ma far improved that, like the boy with the cured handy legs, they would le. able to walk, on the whole, morally straight. Such as these should, at the proper time be set at liberty to take csre of themselves, on the understanding that they would be free to return to the hospital school if they found the criminal tendency too strong for them. A cortain proportion of congenital criminals would be found to be permanently incurable. These would have to be confined to the school-hospital fir the term Df tier natural life. Their lives should in that .56 be made as happy for themselves, and as profitable to the State, as poesible—seeing that, though thy are vicious and regardlos of other rights, they are so by virtue of hereditary breks mer which they have no control, and which )ave proved too strung for them.  to go and tie a rope round each of the two plor flows so that they might be hauled on board the English vessel. The men, whose names were T. K. Abbott and Job Porter, were fishermen belonging to the American fishing sehoor.er Poppy. Vivo days previously they left in their dory to take in lines which they had before set, aboet a mile from the schooner. A fog came on, and the men could not find the buoy, and never afterwards saw their vessel. They passed five days of the greatect possible agony, drifting about with the wind and sea and without anything to eat or drink. They dare not go to sleep, as such would mean dcath ; and to keep themselves awake they told each other stories. It was a difficult task, and both did all in their power to-avoid this sleep of death. At one time a large steamer came within hailing distance, and the men were certain they were seen: but to their horror the vessel took no notice of them. They could even see the sailors leaning over the bulwarks of the steamer, but they were heartlessly deserted. When the State of Nebraska ~Rllll3 in view they were in their direst straits. They stood up in the boat by great exertion, shouted, and then fell fainting to the bottom of their tiny craft. It was in this state that they were hauled on board the State of Nebraska— :laggard, and at death's door. They were landed at New York four days after, and had then not properly recovered,