The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-01-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AMERICAN EXECUTION.  At Canton, in the State of New York, a youth named Van Dyke, aged 19 years, has just been hanged for the murder of his wife, whom he married on the Monday and shot on the following Saturday morning. The New York Tribune says: "He spent his last night enjoying himself with his friends and others at the gaol, smoked 14 cigars, and chatted freely till midnight. At two he went to sleep, and slept about four hours. He appeared about the same next morning as previously, with the exception that towards noon he grew serious, and did not have much to say. A new suit of cloth's was procured for him to leave the world in, and after he had put them on he announced that he was ready. 'Van Dyke, accompanied by two deputies, entered the gaol yard at an hour after noon and took his position on the platform under the rope. He was quite composed, and wore a somewhat serious look. The sheriff read the death warrant, and asked him if he had any. thug to say. He spoke loudly, and said he deal red to say to one and all to beware of bad company and whisky. Bad company had led many a man to ruin, he said. He was then executed, and his body was afterwards placed in a coffin and forwarded to Van Dyke's mother by express in the afternoon."  The Bilisburgh Daily Review states that Mr. Ellice has made up his mind to retire, even before the close of the pi °sent Parliament, from the, House of Commons, in which he has represented the At. Andrew's Burghs for many years, and adds that in tha. event Mr. Stephen Williamson will become a candichte in the Liberal interest.  Mr. Mitchell Henry, M.P., writes to the Freeman's Journal, ueolaring that since he purchased the estate at Kylemore, county Galway, not • lies thatene or roof has ever been removed, and tbat twenty families have been added to the rental. This categorical denial of the statement by the local Roman Catholic curate, is confirmed by the parish priest of Ballinakil, who says that the charge against Mr. Henry is foundless in fact sod startling/ in its utter untruthfulness Mrs. Oliphant is writing for the "Condi 1 Magazine" e story entitled "Within the Preeinel ." the scene of which is laid chiefly in the nei:=ll- o' Windsor Castle. Th • story will bays 'the advantage of being illustrated lv”. Mr. Frank , Dicksee.  "A History of the Campaign in Armenia in J 877," by Mr. C. B. Norman, late special correspondent of the Times at the seat of war, with specially prepared maps and plans, will be published in a few days by Messrs. Cassell. Petter, and Galpin. We have received Part I. of " CatiarlPs liltJJtret d I f•sto.7 of the Russo-Turkish NN ar," wid-rh is vvvvv rely introductory and does not carry the subject further than the declaration of war bv Mervin. in June, 1876. But enough is given .0 show the extreme anti-Russian anim is that inspires the anonymous Rutin:Jr.—Academy. We understand that a new edition of the Bible society's new Hebrew translation o the Now Testament is in progress, witn numerous imprevements, under the eye of the venerable translator, Dr. Delitzsch. The first edition went off so rapidly in Germany that few Englhh scholars were aware of its existence.—Athetueurs.  Mr. Taylor's comedy of "Victims," arst produced at the Haymarket Thestro at ont twat ty Lrears ago, is to be revived at the ( o irt. h:r. , Taylor has made some slight modifies ti MB, with a view to rendering the satire apla cable to modern times, but in structure and sin the play rethaius the bailie as when it was first gives.