Sale of work at Arkengarthdale. A very successful sale of work was held in the schoolroom on the 24th ult to defray the costs of repairing the damage done to the churchyard by the successive floods of the Arkle Beck.

Arkengarthdale. The unusually quiet and secluded village of Langthwaite, in the above parish, inaugurated the first Anniversary of the Sax-Horn band on Tuesday August 25th, with a tea festival, ball and concert. For the occasion a large tent was erected in a suitable field adjoining the village, capable of holding 1,600 persons, and we need hardly say the largest ever erected in the neighbourhood. ... All being in readiness, the band proceeded to a neighbouring village, Arkle Town, where they met the Reeth Band, and combined together they marched back in procession playing several favourite tunes, to the tent. It then being four o’clock, tea commenced in right good earnest and continued up till 7 o’clock, when not less than 700 drank of the cup which cheers but never inebriates. added very materially to the occasion.

Durham Assizes. J Hind was indicted for bigamy. This was an aggravated case. The prisoner married Mary Sliddle [Siddle or Sidall] at Grinton in Swaledale, Yorkshire and , after living with her a short time, went to Chaterhaugh in the County of Durham, and there married mary Johnson of that place. There was only a space of eight months between the marriages. ... the Jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of 1 s and be imprisoned 12 months.

At the Richmond (Yorkshire) county Police Court on Saturday, the Rev N. Valentine Blake Evanson, vicar of Melbecks in Swaledale, was charged with attempted murder. It was alleged that while suffering from delirium tremens the accused had attempted to cut the throat of one of his parishioners, a miller named Airey. He was bound over to keep the peace in three sureties, on of £50 and two of £25 each.