The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-11-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.B.  GENERAL NI',IV  The Church Congress will be held at Leices ter next year. Cardinal Jlanning is expected in Rome next week. Tee  Nun York ILlrald predict ; storm betwem the 14th and 16th non. _ . .  The son of the Town-clerk of Southport was shot on Monday, in attempting to draw a charge from a revolver. Captain Carey, who has been trying to effect an exchange from the 08th Regiinent, has been unable to do so. Three of the pack of the North Durham F ,x-hounds were killed on Friday, by the exp.a..s train dashing through them at Feusher. Salvini has reappeared at the Testi.° Carcana, in Milan. Be played Othello on Wednesday night, and was rapturously applauded. At Leeds on Saturday, James Spencer, miner, was sentenced to twenty years penal servitude, for attempting to murder Martha Ann Wagg. A lad, who was believed by his frieml4 t have perished in the ill-fated Eurydice, lims returned to hfs home at Brighton.  A " Renter's " telegram, dated Cape Town, October 21, states that hostilities will be resumed against Secocoeni, if he refuses to submit to the British authorities. - • •  - A collision has occurred between the British ship Lady Octavia and the steamer Champion The Champion sank in a few minutes, furl 30 persons who were on board were lost. Some antiquities excavated at Ammhus, in Cyprus, are expected shortly at the HriLish Museum. More are awaiting despatch to Eng. land. Froggatt, the ex-solicitor who was imprisoned for participation in the great turf frands, was on Wednesday sent for trial at the Old Bailey on a charge of misappropriating £lO,OOO trust money. According to the I ondon correspondent of the .21.t/itcheefer ilhartlian, a high official of Parliament has said that he does not exp •ct the dissolution to take place until January, 1831. Miss Francitia Ella Partridge, aged 19, daughter of a retired naval officer, resoling at Ewell, has died from injuries susta.ned through her dress catching tire. Among the naval appointments is that of Rear-Admiral H.R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh to: be Admiral Superintendent of ' the Royal Naval Reserve. A widow, named Dimmock, who formerly kept an hotel at Twickenham, has obtained £2OO from a retired tradesman, named Burrows, for a breach of his promise to marry. Two farmers' sons in South Devon having been sent to gaol for poaching, a great deal of , indignation has been elicited against the magis— ' trates. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon preached on Sunday to crowded congregations at the Metropulttau Tabernacle, previous to leaving London for Menton°. He will be away from his congregation for eight weeks. The latest Yankee discovery is a spring in Michigan. so stongly magnetic that a man who drank from it and went into a blacksmith's shop found the anvil on which he sat stuck fast to him, and had to have it amputated. The Home Secretary has declined to alter the sentence of three months' imprisonment recently passed on the Rev. Brooks Hill, curate of Um:field, for abandoning his wife, and leaving her chargeable to the parish. The Dominion Line steamer Brooklyn left the Mersey at noon on Thursday, the 3Ctli ot October last, and artived at Quebec in eight days—oMFriday, the 7th inst.—et:Mg the tastest passage on record between the twe ports/ The correspondent of the Observer, writing on Friday, says there are rumours that Ayoub, aoob' other, is likely to declare the independence of Herat and the surrounding province, There has just died at Mawdsley at the ago of seventy-nine years, all old man named George Moss, whose claim to celebrity rests on the fact that lie expired on the bed and in the house in which lie was born, and that he never slept away from horue diving his long lifetime. At a special meeting of the Sittingbourne Local Board on Saturday plans were approved for laying out a recreation ground, 10 acres in , extent, at a cost of about £3,000. A considerable proportion will be raised by private sub, scripirion, and the esmaiiide; charged on the rate's.  A