Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-08-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE GUIDING STAR.  The tobacconists are being looked after. A few days since several members of the trade were fined at Sheffield for having to their posses•ion adulterated tobacco and three or four others have just been mulcted in penalties ot £5O each for a similar offence. The material used in the adulteration was flair and starch. It was stated on behalf of the accused that they had purchased the tobacco in the usual way of respectable firms without knowing that it was adulterated, and in the case of one firm this defence was strengthened by the fact that tobacco manufactured by itself was pure, while that which it had purchased was adulterated The magistrates, however, were bound to inflict the fine  A ghastly discovery was made one day last week at Heath, a village near Chesterfield. A tramping shoemaker was begging in the village on Sunday week, and was last seen bitting near to a well which is famous in the neighbourhood for its excellent water. On the following Wednesday, while several people were engaged in drawing water from the well, a dark oil -et waa ob served in the clear liquid, and on being siirred with a pole was found to be a inan's body. Several people were rendered sick by the force of their imscination On the body being got out it was found to be that of he missing shoemaker, and as the cover of the well wou'd have to be removed to admit the passage of the man, it is believed be eomtnitted suicide.  The Mark-lone Express, in its weekly review of the corn trade, says tile reaction in favour of new wheat has continued, and foreign old is preferred to old English for mixing, an that in spite of its scarcity this is passed by tiniest; at comparatively low rates. The of new wheat have generally advanced 2s per qr, and the reaction has not been coofilied to this country. In France, Belgium, America, and even in Hungary there has been an upward tendeney. Dams,, has dropped about 24 per qr., and in ny German markets have shown weakness. Potatoes and all vegetables keep at such ex•ravagant rates that the claims on the wheat crops must needs be heavy, and there is no reason that flour should,be unduly depressed. It ought to be generally known by sea-side and other lodging-house keepere that letting lodgings which have been occupied by lodgers afil oted with contagious diseases before the said lodgings have been effectually purified is an i.ffence punishable by law. The Sanit-iry Act of 1846 (Viet. 29 and 30, c 90, secs. 38 and 39) provides that: If any person knowingly lets any house, room, or part of a house in which any person suffering from any dangerous infect ous disorder has been, to any other person without has lug such house, room, or part of a house, and all articles therein habit) to retain infection, disinfested to the satisfaction of a qualified medical practitioner, as certified by a certificate given by him, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £2O. For the purposes of this provision, the keeper of an inn shall be deemed to let a part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such an inn."—Pall Mall Gazette.