... [TEE PROPRIETORS OF THE PACKET AND TIMES HAVE OBTAINED THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF PUBLISHING THE STORY IN THIS DISTRICT.] PHANTOM FORTUNE, BY MISS BRADDON, Author of ady Audley', Secret, Taken at the Flood, A Strange Worl4, Dead Men's Shoes, li '-Weavers and Weft! Just as I am, &c., &o. J CHAPTER ?? 0 BirERNESS OF THINGS TOO Swam'.' Only for an instant did John Hammond stand so ...

... The meanest practical joker lives in Philadelphia. Being on a visit to a neighbouring city, he spotted his face all over with red paint, and suddenly made his appearance at anannual meeting of the Anti-Vacoination Society. The members nearly broke their necks getting out of the windows. Hundreds of thousands of men die annually from strong drink. We never undertake to criticise, but we do not ...

... Motrict News. . I The claims of Temperance were advocated in York MIinster on Sunday by the Rev Canon Wilberforce. Vice-Chancellor Bacon has dismissed the petition with respect to the Yorkshire Brush Electric Light Company. The Right Hon. James Lowther, M.P., has been elec- ted President of the Redoar Conservative Association. The steamer Jane Grey, of Whitby, has been lost off ?Portcawl with ...

... TIRE CHURCH AMD NATIONAL EDUCATION, The following facts connected with National Church Schools show what a prominent part Churchmen take in the promotion of education, and they, also show to what an enormous extent the pockets of the ratepayers. are relieved by the education of about 2,000,000 children, who, but for these agencies, would have to be provided for by School Boards When the Act of ...

... 'I OnlFriday Ur Goddard, engineer and surveyor, Lincoln, o was cross-examined by Mr Jeune for the Corporation of , Lincoln. 11 MrDugdale, Q.O., then opened the csse for the owners of She Southfield Estate, at Hesole. With regard to his clients within the limits of deviation, although they V objected to the line, still, after what took place yesterday E he felt that he could not place their ...

... THE , T:4 |THE GWAR .A ?? I. . ~- . -s u. - .I,. . :ETS. BRITISH NgEGIMEIl a ANEDLTED 'm 6t 0, ZULUS iI~LLD maited ARRIVAL OF DESPATCHES. PlY Of Cat Tow~rJan. 7'ii t ien;. verY 2 (i if this On the 21st instant a British column, conslistiig of 'a ?? done portion Of, the 24th Regiment, and 600 natives, wiith~ quo- one battery 'wee defeated with terrible, loss bya ov r- ,Aon whehaing force of ...

... :. ?? ?: - - - .. 145 W AT. NeW ?? - , , ., I 1:,. ? I , Q? . . ?? with troops for Indie. -ottw t 0 s~r Myrnes irk the' Bernese Oberlaud, was on1 Mondly ) almost ICY9! ly destroyed by fire.4 *The split in the National Agricultural Labourers'Union is widening daily. Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, is suffering from bronchitis. Lord Justice Baggalay is also thsconfined to bed ...

... local Intellgencm. I ROYAL TNSTITUTION.-TOmorr)w (Saturlay) tit s threeo'clock,J. J. Harris Teill, MA.,wF.CS. will lecture on The Structure of M'Tatter and tnergy, being the introductory University Exteneion locture l' on Science. HULL CLERGYMEN AT THE CHURCH CoGsoa 8ss- The follow'v2g are the names of some of the local clergy who were present at the Sheffield Congress :-Rev. J. McCormick, ...

... THE HRELTH OrTSF R~URAL DISTR1OO lation 20i. MIelton Birt death. population 187. Ferribylly birth. deaths 3, dath a3irts li 25, bith-re th-rat 6,Ppujation 43' 25, birth-rate 26, deaths 14 death 9561 Suttona with Stoneferrt y *thrs y: irthA deaths 27, death-rate 16.- poiultioI Births 18, birth-rate 37, death8 16 d lation 481. Welton with ?? ; ratte 27, deaths 21, de Ith derth rat 28 r Westella ...

... I - - .HAVEST PROSPES. - of:1 Although 'variable, the wuatbwr lt week was more favourable for maturing cereal crops, aad'the showers. which. have fallen have benefitedtbarley aud'oat withdut doing ulaterial damage to weat. a The generalitenour of such. reports ?? to handl regazrding the condition and prospects of the wheat crop is, says- the: Mark Lane Ezpresa, decidedly ,against an average ...

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... A violent storm passed over North Staffordshire on H Saturday afternoon, therain being excessively heavy and 13 f the thunder at times very loud. One of the peals so : M frightened a horse that was being driven fromn Burslem 16 t, to Hanley that it reared and upset the cart, killing the per, occupant, a woman named Guest. The floods show no Y signs of abatement, storms having been very ...