MONEY ADVANCED TO FARMERS, TRADERS, and OTHERS on Personal Security, from £5 to £lOO, on Furniture (without removal, approved, bills discounted. Apply personally, or with stamped envelope to the Stockton and District Loan and Discount Bank, Market Cross Chambers, Stockton-on-Tee

that the great success attending the BAKER PORTRAIT CLUBS In Stockton and neighbourhood has enabled him to increase the size of Portrait from 12 by 10 to 15 by 10. WARRANTED PAINTED SOLID IN OILS. Satisfaction guaranteed. Gold Frame, with Corners, 25 by 20. Payments, One Shillin

a PRIZE of TWO GUINEAS to the choir (of not less than 20 voices, and not more than 30) who will best render the PART SONG "Up, Quit thy Bower," B. Richards, composer (Chappell's Vocal Library of Part Songs, No. 10, price ed, or Tonic Sol-Fa, Vol. 91, No. 484), and a PRIZE of ONE

freed from all disaeeable taste and smell, without in the least affecting its invaluable remedial and nutritive properties. It is easily assimilated, can be retained on the most sensitive stomach, and does not give rise to nausea or eructations, thus far surpassing even the well

1 PRICE ONE PENNY.

SAD CARER A LITERARY MAN. The correspondent of a New York paper gives the following account of Mr G. S. P,hillips, "January Searle," who was once rather widely known as an author and journalist. Writing under date December 13th, the correspondent says :—" A wellkno wn literary ma

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