The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-14
WELSH NEWS NOTES.

The results of the Cymro plebiscite,
giving the names of the fifteen most
popular preachers in Wales at the pres
ent time, has led correspondent to
compare it with list of twelve popular
preachers compiled by the readers of
South Wales paper many years ago.
Only four of the twelve survive today,
viz, Principal T. Charles Edwards, Eg-
lwysbach, Rev. Ossian Davies, and
DR.. Cynddylan Jones. The two last
names are ommitted from the present
list. 1t is a curious coincidence that
the Cymro plebiscite includes the
names of three ministers who succeed
ed to the pastorates occupied by minis
ters whose names figured in the old list
of the twelve referred to. Thus the
Rev. VIM. Pryddrech is the successor
of DR.. Saunders; Rev. Charles Davies,
Cardiff, of Nathaniel Thomas; Rev.
John Williams, of DR.. owen Thomas,
Liverpool.
Three of the biggest" men Gin more
than one sense) of their respective de-
nominations happen just now to be To-
Gated as pastors of important churches
in Carnarvon. DR.. owen Davies, Bap-
alist: and the Rev. Hugh Hughes,
Wesleyan, are each over six feet high
out Of the pulpit as we'll as in it. DO
you know, gentlemen" said the Rev.
Evan Jones, Moriah, who is almost as
broad in body as he is in mind, ad-
dressing his three colleagues on the
street the other day, "do you know.
gentlemen, that you have mistaken your
vocation?" They looked three notes of
interrogation down upon him. "You
| ought to have enlisted in the Life
Guards" 80 we have" replied Dr.
Owen Davies, Sin the everlasting Life
| Guards"
The current number of the Iron and
| Coal Trades Review contains a we'll
| written, illustrative article on the coal
and iron industries of South Wales.
| The development Of these industries is
| correctly described as "a very wonder
full tale" In leading article the edit
| or says: Gladstone at one time de-
| scribed a leading North country town
as the youngest child of England's en-
| terprise. That description was no doubt
| justly merited, but no North-country
town can point to such a career Of
uninterrupted expansion as Cardiff.
and no community can more proudly
claim that they have done great things
in their day and generation than can
the people of South Wales"
An interesting and valuable book for
the historian of the Free Church of the
United Kingdom has just been complet-
ed by Welshman. 1t is entitled"Ves-
tiSes of Protestant Dissent" being lists
| OF ministers, sacramental vessels, etc.
pertaining to most of the churches
(and a few others) included in the Ma
tional Conference Of Unitarians, Liber-
al Christians, and other non-subscrib-
ing and kindred congregations. The
work is by the Rev. Geo. Eyre Evans
of Liverpool, and is dedicated to his
father. the Rev, David Lewis Evans, Of
Lampeter. Twenty pages of the book
are devoted to the Welsh churches.
The Hobgoblin's Hollow-tree stood
within living memory in the Park at
Nanrau, Merionethshire. 1t was a not
ed tree, and the peasant as he passed
In the gloom Of the evening would
| quicken his pace, and perhaps murmur
a prayer for the preservation of his
person from the crafts of the Evil One:
Fen to this day the peasant still
With cautious fear treads DER the
| ground.
| In each wild bush a spectre sees,
| And trembles at each rising sound.
The Auglesey County council have
passed the following resolution:-"That
| this council expresses in the most en-
phatic manner its disapproval of Mr..
Justice Ridley's conduct at the last
Assizes held at Beaumaris, forbidding
witnesses to express themselves, in Civ
| ing evidence, in their own language in
their own country"
The Rev. DR.. David Roberts, Devil
, Ogwen, the well known Welsh bard
and Congregational minister, OF Wrex-
ham, who, owing TO the effects of his
recent illness, has not been able to
preach for some months past, is report
ed to be progressing favorably. He is
at present staying at Holyhead
A marriage has been arranged, and
will take place in the autumn, between
Mr.. Francis Horation Lloyd, son of Sir
Horatio Lloyd, of Chester, and Con-
stance, widow of the late Mr.. Freder-
lex j. Cohen, of London, and daught-
er of Mr.. It. Ellwood Horton, of PEN
| maenmaWr, North Wales