MY eye couldn't fail to be attracted to the above headline while I was looking through the Darlington and Stockton Times of September 1, 1866, in the hope of finding information about the opening of Darlington Covered Market. Here's the sorry story: ========================== A REVOLTING SCENE AT BISHOP AUCKLAND. A shocking scene was witnessed at Bishop Auckland on Sunday afternoon. The corpse of a poor man who had died of a lingering illness was about to be removed to its last resting place, and just as it was being placed in the hearse, with the friends all standing mourning around, the coffin, either from the enlargement of the body or the inferiority of the make, burst open, and it was with great difficulty that the body culd be got into the house again without falling to the ground. The coffin maker had to be sent for, a distance of two miles, to repair the damage or make a new coffin, and the body had to lie in that state, in a small room, until half-past seven o'clock at night, when the hearse and the friends were again summoned, and the funeral proceeded. The coffin, it is said, was a parish one.