The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-29


constituency in the kingdom; 1t has had
three Parliamentary elections fought on
the same register-this was in 1885, 1856
and the bye-election also i'm the latter
year. II has polled the youngest elector
Zone of sixteen) and the oldest Zone of
100 and last November the present dep
uty-mayor's nomination papers con-
tained 800 signatures-certainly thing
never before heard of in a municipal cleo
tion.
Are there snakes In Vaynor? The rec
tor In his book says no. the Vicar of
Llanfynydd says that when he was a
curate at Naynor he killed millions, or, at
any rate, few, The rector now author
ICES us to speak out as follows: "The
Vicar of Llanfynydd surely has been
dreaming. If he will spend his holidays
at Vaynor during next August, the rec
tor Will gladly give him shilling for
each snake he will catch in the parish
during the month"
A feature of the endowments belonging
TO Pentyrch parish are the almshouses,
five In number in which so many spins
ters reside. There were originally ten
but five are in ruins. There was at one
time a stone tablet with a Latin i'm
scription let into one OF the walls, but
this has now disappeared, and 1t is not
known what the inscription was. Some
rogue thinks it is the tablet discovered
recently at st. Fagan's church, and
which has not been properly deciphered
In the May number of the HAUL" the
rector at Newport, Pembrokeshire, con-
tributes a second instalment of his min
isteral "reminiscences during tn past for
~ years. Mr.. Jones writes In that chatty,
graceful, and occasionally humorous
style which characterized a similar series
of letters from his pen some time ago,
and given to the public in the form of
a small book. He was curate of Radyr
near Cardiff, forty years back, and his
experiences of the cathedral and the cler-
gy of those days is both instructive and
interesting.
A Calvinistic Methodist chapel in An
glesey became so dilapdated that the
deacons and members decided to pull it
down and build another, but the problem
had to be faced-where should they wor-
ship In the meantime? The clergyman
of the parish when he heard of their di-
lemma offered the use of the church.
and the offer was readily accepted. The
Methodists for twelve months held all
their services in the church, and were
grateful for the privilege. The vicar
went further afield, and lent the church
school to the Nonconformists of neigh
boring parish while their chapel was be-
ing renovated.
Twenty years ago a Jew trader lived in
the Welsh hills" His business was to
carry about box from door to door with
cheap jewelry, spectacles, and a bit OF
the famous Turkey rhubarb which was
regarded as a great specific generation
ago. Then he appears to have gone to
the Cape, and found his way to the
Transvaal, where he prospered and used
his gains to such advantage in helping
needy government men, spectators and
others, that he is now reported to be a
millionaire. He is held in high repute
by Kruger, and is often to be seen arm
in-arm with that grim old Sunday school
man-chwedl Lloyd George.
Miss Clara Butt is very popular in one
particular little corner in Paris She
is in Paris now, and Mrs. Clara Novello
Davies who is with her, writes: To-day
we went to the orphanage, where there
are about forty destitute children. Miss
Butt goes to see them, takes them pres
ents, loves them, and sings to them two
or three times a week. II was a pretty
sight to see them clnging around her."
The other side of the picture is a recep-
ton given in honor of Miss Butt, when
many scores of the great people OF Paris
were present, Baroness Rothschild among
| them.
Reference to Dick lamar, the Merthyr
murderer, who found a place in Madame
Tussaud's, reminds correspondent that
| his capture was man hunt of a most ex-
| citing kind He was run to earth in one
| of the woody copses on Aberdare Hill
The only case which surpassed it was the
| capture of highwaymen who plundered
! the Abernant cashier of large sum OF
money when on his way from the Mer-
| thyr Bank to pay the men. In this case
| the news was taken to the iron works at
| Aberdare and the whole of the workmen
| spread themselves over the hills in an in
describably short time and ran the rob-
| bers down
In his interesting and chatty history of
| the parish of Vaynor "Creidiol' en-
| phasises the fact that his parish enioys
| complete immunity from the presence
| of snakes and adders, and contectures
that St. Patrick must have charmed
these creatures away Now comes the
trouble. The present Vicar Of Liam
| fynydd, Carmarthenshire, was curate for
manay years at Vaynor, and he relates
that he saw many snakes in Vaynor
parish, and on one occasion killed one
over yead long, and as for adders, he
used TO count them by the dozen. OF
| course, the reverend gentlemen NAV
have been so popular that even the snakes
and adders followed him to Llanfynydd.
DR.. Pan Jones, the fiery Welsh land
laws reiormer. has concluded arrange
ments whereby one of the vans of the
Land Naturalization Society will make
a piigrimage through the length and
| breadth of Wales this summer. The We
| hlcle Will contain a staff of English and
| Welsh speakers, and will start on its
| journey on the % of June. DIR. Pan Jones
| evidently hopes to gather a harvest of
converts after certain recent events in
| North Wales. The Radical Mercury
of Liverpool, shifts and remarks that pos
| sibly Welsh branch of the English So
ciety will be added to the numerous
moribund associations which already
| exist in Wales.
If the medical officer of health for Kid
welly had to depend for his living on the
salary he gets from the corporation he
would sometimes live in a palace and AT
other times in a tent. First of all his
| salary was fixed at EGO and then it was
raised to fS5 where it stopped for three
years, and then took long drop to f2 los.
A year later IL went down to flo but
curiously the town saved nothing by the
shrinkage. For a while the salary was
f2O and over the local government board
paid half; Immediately IL got under that
sum Kidwelly had to pay it all. For this
reason the council on Tuesday suggested
f20 again, but, although the increase
would cost the town nothing the proposal
was lost by eight votes to seven. Kid
welly and its seven dogs in the manger
ought to form the subject of the next
eisteddfodic awdl.
The Rev. ]. Swinnerton, who has ac-
cepted the living OF Llandevaud, rendered
vacant by the death of Canon Edwards,
was a curate at Mountain Ash for five
years and curate-in-charge at Tondu for