The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-05-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TIIE WRONG BOTTLE.  A writer in the Sotha Note. 4 says :—" Home years ago the newspapers recorded a very painful incident whieli was much commented upon at tho time, we remember. A wealthy gentleman, a Mr. Hanintry Lee, died from the effects of p ison given to Jinn at his rotidence, Plymouth House, near Cardiff. Mr. Lee, w 1.11) W 41.14 in his eiglity.secoad year, had met with a slight iteeideet by felling down some steps a few days PrerrnYly. A holtle of medicine was ordered to be administered to the aged patient, and an embrocation to be applied to him back, thin night the butler wits requested to give his master his usual dose of the medicine. The two bottles, One containing the draught, the other the embroeutioe, Ktootl twar eat!' other upon the mantelpiece. Ihe mom being dimly lighted, the butler, in haste, gave his mast..r the lotion instead of the draught. The fatal mistake was instantly discovered; medical icon were Nlllllllllollltd who mado use of the stomach-pump and various antidotes, but it was toe late. The poor sufferer, calling the member of his family around line, shook hands with them, and earnestly begged that, they would not prosecute his old servant, who had given him the poisonous liquid by mistake. This kindhearted old man died the following day—killed by a mistake !" The writer goes on to remark that thou so-called accidents are becoming alarmingly frequent, and within the last four months " we 10450 read of no fewer than four eases. It is not a sufficient protection to label the phial with the word— poison," and he suggests the use of an angulax bottle, and that a legislative measure should make it Isupemtiw ttpou themists to use them.  GENERAL NEWS  1 A gentleman, lately Italian consul at Birmingham, had b‘ en arrested for fraud. I  During a thunderstorm near Birmingham, on Wednesday, two men in a hut were killed, and a third seriously injured. Dr. Siemens has offered £lO,OOO towards the erection of a suitable building at Westminster, to he devoted to the interests of the applied sciences. The report of the death of Mohamed Ibrahim Khan, eldest son of t.,here All, ia contradicted. He is, however, seriously in.  The colliers have asked Mr. Cross to appoint on the Mines Commission representatives of labour, as questions outside the causes of accidents bad been introduced. _ .  - The proposed banquet to Mr. Gladstone in recognition of his great public services has not, as was recently stated, been abandoned, but only postponed to a more convenient opportunity. William They, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife at Bristol, has been reprieved, in consequence of the representation of the doctor that he was insane at the time.  A company has been formed in England to carry on the business on breeding and fattening cattle on the Western plains of the United States for the English market. The Master of the Rolls, has granted an anjunction with costa restraining Worthington and Co., brewers, Burton-on- i rent, from using a triangular label which infringed Bass and Co.'s trade mark. The ceremony of pr,senting the birrettas to the newly-appointed cardinals took place at the Vatican on Tuesday morning. A idressing Dr. Newman His Holiness said he felt he had made a happy choice in his selection. Accounts from the Sutherland bills show the sad havoc which the inclement weather is making the sheep. Lambs, it is said, are dying in hundreds, and floamasters are consoling themselves with the possibility of saving the ewes. Edward Smart, who was convicted at the Worcester Assizes for the murder of Lucy Deena, at Thornbury, without provocation whatever, the woman being a stranger to him, was executed at Glom:ester on Tuesday morning.  A boiler exploded at Leeds, on Wednesday, doing damage to the extent of £l,OOO, and injuring a son of the proprietor of the works. By another explosion at Walsall five men were killed and a sixth severely hurt. A Press Association telegram says that an arrangement has been arrived at between the joint committees in the Durham coal trade, by which the County Court Judge for Newcastle will act as arbitrator in the existing dispute. THE PRISONER Mosaic —The Home Secretary has, after a full consideration of all the circumstances, advised the remission of one week of the sentence passed upon Thomas Moran, of Chester.