The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-08-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXECUTION AT EXETER.  The convict Macdonald who was sentenced to death at the recent Devon Assizes for the murder of Bridget Walsh, his paramour, was executed at Exeter on Monday. Since the sentence was passed he has been very penitent and re:.*ived the minis tot iuns of the Roman Catholic priest with marked attention. On the night previous to the execution be retired at half-past seven, and woke at intervals up to teenty minutes past five, when be got up, dressed and washed himself, and made up his bed. At hatf.past six he received the priest, who emained ith him to the last. At five minut s to eight he was pinioned and conducted to the scaffold. He walked with a firm step, with a crucifix in his hand, to the scaffold erected in an inner courtyard. He took his place under the beam, and Caleraft adjusted the rope. Ile then fell beck into the executioner's assistant's arms, and the drop fell. He died almost instantaneously. The convict left a will, written since his trial, in which he disposed of the money he possessed, about ; directed that the expenses ce his paramour's funeral should be defrayed; and the balance divided between her children, to be distributed at the discretion of her husband. It is believed that Macdonald was an assumed name. He :aid his friends were respecta'ile and in a good position, and that his father and mother were living. Nobody visited him in prison, and he declared he would stoner die a hundred deaths than that they should know of his position.  Two men who were iniured in r.n erplr,s'on at the Chilwort h Powder Mills !at w,ek are now d•rtd. The Catholic societes in New York I,ave resolved to place a statue of Father fdathew in. Central Park.  It appears from Colonel Henderson's report on the meropolitan police for 1873, that there are in London more than 800 cab drivers who are teetotallers.  The total authorised strength of the metropoli• tan police on the 31st December last as 9683. being an increase of 122 men above the strength in the corresponding date in 1872.  - As a curious fact, a New York paper cites the present custom adopted by ladies at the summer resorts of premenadi. g in the open air bareheaded and of sitting at the dining table with their Matson. A telegram from Naples says the police have searched the houses of several persons employed on the Southern and Roman Railways. Two of the workmen have been arre-ted, and some seditious documents have been seized. A testimonial f considerable value is about to be presented to thc Right Hon. Edward Bouverie by his late constituents. It will consist of a service of gold plate and a portrait of himself and Mrs. Bouverie, by Sir Francis Grant. At West Hartlepool, on Monday, Edmund. Grieves, steward of the steamship David, of Sunderland, was committed for trial on a charge of cutting and wounding Thomas Coward, fireman on boaid the eamc steamer, on the sth inst. On Monday, upwards of sixty bricklayers and labourers employed under the various master builders in Pontefract left work, refusing to start unless the time for commencing work in future be at seven in the morning instead of six as at present. The Weekly Register and Catholic Standard says —Miss Hales, of Hales Place, Canterbury, has given to the Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate a portion of her estee at Canterbury, in a beautiful and commanding ri.ition, for the site and grounds of a novitiate. The foundations of the future noble abbey are already laid.  Some passengels who stepped into a compart. ment of a first-class carriage at a Scotch railway station one day last week were somewhat surprised, and had their clic:laity a little ruffled, on finding that they had for a fellow-traveller a fine pig, of which the apparent owners, a number of ladies, were very careful. This beats the lap dog mania. Tars "Car."—Two rough-looking young fellows, named Barrett and M'eartney, were c-mvicted at the Liverpool Assizeson Monday, before Mr. Justice Archibald, of assaulting and robbing a man named Thompson, and were sentenced to receive 25 lashes each from the "cat," in addition to the punishment, in M'Cartney's case of seven years' penal servitude, and in Barrett's of 18 months' hard labour.