The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1891-03-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AUDIMSTCES OF ONE.—A sailor who had just come into port with a full pocket, paid Stephen Kemble £3O to have a performance of "Henry IV." all to himself, with Kemble as "the old boy with the round forecastle, built like a Dutch lugger, and lurching like a Spanish galleon in a heavy sea." He chose the music to be played by way of overture, saw the play through, and gave vigorous expression to his appreciation of the Falstifil of the occasion. Ur. J. C. Foster, an American manager, taking his ease at his inn in Bucyrus, Ohio, was aroused by a stranger entering the room, playbill in hand, and accosting him with, "You play 'Richard tonight. Now, I have never had an opportunity of seeing it, and, unfortunately, I leave the town this evening. How much money would induce you to play 'Richard for use this afternoon ?" Thinking his visitor was joking, Foster said he would do it for twenty-five dollars. "And how much for The Rough Diamond' as well ? " "Ten dollars," quoth the amused manager. He did not know whether ho was amused or vexed when the stranger planked down thirty-five dollars, with the remark that the performance must commence at two o'clock sharp, and took his leave. Upon telling his company the bargain ho had concluded, the lotion of playing Shakespeare's tragedy to one mau so tickled their fancy that they at once consented. Two o'clock came, and with it the audience. Choosing the test position in the hall, and placing his f-r..t upon the back of the seat before him, he wttled down toenjoy the tragedy,applanding laeartily.and at the conclusion calling the Richard. before the curtain. Then the farce was gone throuVh with equal success, and the delighted audience left in time to catch the 6.45 train.  A CASE OF NEClammicr.—Africa is the home of sorcery at this day. The subjects of the lmaum of Muscat—otherwise Sultan of Oman—rank among the most prosperous and enlightened ,rf the East. A ease of necromancy certified by pnAssedings in a court of justice is sadly rare nowadays, even in the unsophisticated East. We may give one, renowned from Cairo to Teheran, which dates some score of years back. A young merchant of Muscat married a beautiful girl, and shortly afterwards trailed to Zanzibar, where he struck up friendship with a countryman. The two were seated, smoking. on the housetop, when the merchant remarked that his companion's face suddenly took a grave and terrible expression. After due pressure he exlained. In that very moment, having "the gift," he had seen a young man, named, enter the merchant's house at Muscat, when his wife, alone, received her visitor with undue warmth. The injured husband cried for vengeance, and length it was granted, on conditions. lie drew up a document authorising his friend to Lunish the guilty pair, sealed it, and put the date. Then the whole household was summoned, every member signed as a witness, the magician countersigned, and put the death warrant away in safety. Then he said to the merchant, " Giv3 Inc your dagger ! " —turned towards Muscat, and, after incantations, stabbed the air twice. "You are avenged," said he. As soon as possible the husband wound up his affairs, and returned home to find his brother under arrest for murdering his wife and her paramour at the very hour when those events occurred five hundred miles away. Th( magistrates had no sort of evidence, but sine( the guilt of the dead was dear they thought it most likely that the husband's nearest relative had avenged his honour. The merchant told his story, which caused such public excitement that the Sultan, or Imaum, heard of it, and he summoned all the parties before him at his palace at Nezevah. There the magician produced his power of attorney, as one may say, and all the persons who had witnessed it—most respectable people—all of whom swore to the circumstances. After a long trial, the Sultan declared himself incompetent to judge such a case, but he issued a proclamation, which har still force of law, in Zanzibar as in Oman, forbidding necromancers to interfere with the course of justioc between private individuals.  The Editor of the Medical Aunval speaks in the highest terms of CADBURY'S COCOA as a beverage and a food for invalids on account of its absolute purity, high quality and absolute solubility, and counsels the Medical profession to remember. in recommending Cccoa, that the name of CADBURY on any packet is a guarantee of purity.