The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-11-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BRIDDEND 2ND XV. V. TONDU 2ND XV.—Played at Tondu on Saturday, and ended in a draw, the home team scoring six minors to nil.  • The overseers of the parish of Leigh, in Essex, had a call made ni'on them renently by the &WA. Boasd for £llO, which meant a rate of 61. in the /annul. JJy osue unaccountable meant the overseers made a rate of 18. Gd. in the pound, awl uww there is an uproar in the parish. The difficulty in the Cale now itt that the magistrates had allowed the rate of eighteetromae.  A tragic affair was reported on Saturd y morning from Blackle3-, near Manchester. JILI11:13 Kay, a num well known in the village, calla I at Turbine Louge, 13laektey Woodi, in t'ae abseuoe of Mr. Smith, owner, and brutally attacked Mrs. Staid,. bhe escaped after a violent struglle, and raised an alarm. The assailant thou made otf, and his dead body was afterwards found in some water close by. Mrs. Smith is in a precarious state. _ _ _  The Lunacy Commissi.m, consisting of three leading medical men, appointed by the Se.netary for Scotland to report ou the mental condition of Litt,ie, condemned to death for the Arran murder, visited Greenock Prison, on Saturday afternoon, and were with the convict for over an hour and a half. The result of thou: examination, which has not boon made known, will be at once forwarded to the Secretary for Scoatud. In the Queen's Bench Division—before the Lord Chief Jostle° and Mr. Justice lEnthew —on Saturday, a rule nisi was granted against Dr. B truardo, ,equiring him to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue directing him to bring up Charles Go-sedge, a boy who was sent to the (-odor's home in September, 18S8. Dr. Barnard° had failed to furnish the boy's address to his mother, and it was believed the boy was at present in Canada. Au old woman known as Peggy Kelly (aged nearly seventy) wandered into Trinity Street Station, Bolton, the u her night, the worse for drink. No one appears to have noted her, but she must have fallen Mt the platform, for ou the arrival of the seven o'clock train from Blackburn she was found on the line in such a position that the carriages must have passed over her. Her left aria was cut off, and she now lies in the infirmary in a precarious condition.  Au excursion traiu on the Hull and Barnsley line, while travelling to Leeds, on Satuiday, at the rate of fifty miles lin hour, ran into the galas VAU of a goods traiu at Pontefract West Junction. The guard Dining the danger jumped from the van, but the driver and stoker of the excursion stuck to their engine, which left the rails, and eventually turned over, fortunately to the right, or it would have drugged the train 11,3W11 an embankment. The passengers were uninjured. Prederiek Jolla Chittoe, a provision dealer, was brought up at the Birtuingham Police Court on a charge of setting lire to a shop. When the abtrea was given the police discovered an elaborate arrangement of patent firelighters and wooden boxes ablaze. Prisoner was roma:idea, to permit of further inquiries being made. It may be stated that the took of the shop is believed to have been considerably below the value of the £3OO for which it is insured.  _ To DARKEN GREY HAlR.—Lockyer's Sulphur Hair Restorer is the quickest, best, safest, and cheapest. Large Bottles, is. 6d. Everywhere.— Advt.