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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1881, Page 1

I Interesting old documents throwing more ■light on Shakespeare's life have been discovered in Warwickshire Two bags with 150 pounds of dyhanntewere found under the bridge over the Catherine canal, St. Petersburg. Oue of the severest thunderstorms experienced for. some years broke over London on the night of July sth'. Throughout the evening the atmosphere was exceedingly close and oppressive. About eleven o'clock rain began to fall, and the first peais or thunder broke fortu shortly before midniobt The lightning, both forked and sheet, waa exceedingly brilliant, and continued almost without intermission, while at intervals the rain fell in torrents. The direction of the storm was from north to south, and it lasted ■ till day had^fairly broken. Several thunderstorms are also reported from the provinces, and in some cases fatal results have followed. As a bOy, a driver at the Binchester Colliery, Bishop Auckland, was leaving his work he was struck by the lightning and killed. At Blackburn the storm commenced about half past eight, but in Durham it began much earlier, and from half-past five till six total darkness prevailed ; a shower of large hailstones accompanied the rain. At Livemool the atmosphere was extremely close, both before, and after the storm. The lightning was intensely vivid in the Isle of Man. -As far south as Penzance the storm raged j- In a village near Swansea the. roof, of a COttagQ was sfcfttsere& ; »