Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-03-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OOO.  - -- MISS WOOD, who has been known, especially during the last few weeks, as "The Mad .Shaker," was on Saturday confined in an asylum. _  FURTHER proceedings in the Canadian Oil Well Case are threatened by the plaintiff, as his solicitors are co-ifident that defendants are liable.  Tata extensive rolling mills of Messrs Palmer at Jarrow were closed on Saturday, in consequence of the slackness uf trade. A large number of hands will thus be thrown idle.  ANOTHER fatal warning to railway passengers took place on Friday. Archdeacon Freeman, of Exeter, died in consequence of injuries received by attempting to leave a train while in inotioi a.  Aic un. ergraduate ot University College, Oxford, named Keates, committed suicide on the Londo,i and North-Western Railway on Saturday. His mind had become affected by over-study.  THE pakss, uger steamer Tuscan from Dundee to Liverpool, went ashore at the mouth of the Tay on SAttirday. The crew and passengers were landed, and the vessel was afterwards got off safely.  AN attempt as been made to bring about a meeting between the masters and men con• nected with the Tyne shipbuilding' trade. The Jarrow joiners hwre no oljectiou to a conference, but are determinedly opposed to arbitration.  A strike among; the Dundee juiaers appears imminent unless, the Ina4ers yield an advance of Id per hour. Sevral firms have already given the advance. and thirteen refuse to concede. A strike committee has been appointed to insist on the advw.ce from IV to 8d per hour in all workshops.  THE whole of the Dowlais furnaces are now blown out, so that there is every prospect the lock out continuing for a considerable time. But for the aid afforded through the Miners' National Associltion and other sources, the men would have been forced to yield before the extreme measure of damping down was resorted to. Now that the fires are out, the masters will wait for a more favourable turn of trade before they begin operations again.  Sus-Ncrous looking advertisements sometimes appear in newspapers ;Oi tho eDvery:of stolen 71to property, the advertiser assuri.p.; thief that the strictest confidence will she maints.7."A) and no questions asked. Newspaper proprietors and the public, ought to be reminded this means of recovering st-len property is illegal, and as a case has recently occurred, which directed public attention to this almost forgotten Act cf Parliament, we quote the section of the Act : • "Whosoever shall publicly a- lvertise a reward for the return of any property wh:,-soever, which shall have been stolen or lost, and shall in such advertisement use any words purporting that no questions will be askssl, or shall make uR_ • any words in any public advertisement purporting ti-/t a reward will be given or paid for any property which shall have been stolen or lost, without seizing or making any inquiry after the person producing such property, or shall promise of offer in any such public advertisement to return to any pawnbroker or other person who may have bought or advanced money by way of loan upon any property stolen or lost, the money so paid or advanced, or any other sum-of money or reward for the return of such property, or shall print or publish any such advertisement, shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds for every such offence to any person who will sue for the same by action of debt, to be recovered with full costs of suit," An in ormation has been laid against at least two London Journsls—includiug the Standard —for publishing an advertisement in controvention of the above statute, the case will be tried before the proper court.  Tax name of Professor Holloway, of London, has for many years been before the public as manufacturer and vendor of pills and ointment, which are prom me d to be universal remedies for all the ills that flesh is heir to. His enterprise in making their virtues known to the world, and the immense sums expended by him in advertising them, from the great pyramids of Egypt to the meanest country newspaper,---are often regardet as fabulous, though 'true for all that ;" until in whatever direction a traveller may go, what civilised or uncivilised country he visits, he is sure to be ' reminded of the existence and continued efficacy of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. , Hiving be n prosperous in business, we now fira Mr Holloway, in his old age about to devote a law portion of his fortune to the further benefi of his fellow-creatures. He has recently provided about £lOO,OOO for the erection of a large convalescent heiliit.:l for the use of the London poor, and now he is about to appropriate £250,000 for the purpose of providing a great university for women, on a scale surpassing anything hitherto attempted in Europe. What Mr Peabody did for the working classes of London, in the shape of impr. ,v•td dwellings, Mr Holloway intends doing for the women of this country. A site of nearly 100 acus has-been secured in one of the Southern Counties, situated in the midst of beautiful scenery, and thereon is to be erected a magnificent building, and which—if wise men can do it—will be the finest in Europe. There are to he colleges and halls sipilar to those of Oxford, and it is hoped that the same happy results will emanate from them. Mr Holloway, however, will leave the gates open for further effort. His vast benefaction will be appropriated solely to produciag a university of which the nation may be proud, and he leaves other public-spirited individuals to provide the wherewithal for endowments of chairs and scholarships. The scheme has already received the approval of ladies and gentlemen specially interested in improving the condition of women, and many mad, .