The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-01-10 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH BUSHRANGERS. —Six armed bushrangers have attacked Waste Bodgery Station, near Sundiaga, ad. after seizing over thirty of the residents, held possession of the station fir nineteen boors. They were attacked by a force of police of the district, and a desperate enoounter enema]. Two of the bushranger. were killed and four captured. one of whom was wounded. A constable named Bowen was also wounded during the affray and haa since died. The leader of the gang, named Scott. who io also known as Captain Moonlight, is a notorious Victorian lriminal. He, with the other prisoners, has been committed for trial on the charge of murder. THE Sheffield Telegraph says that an old One ched house at Belper, Which is reputed to have been first erected a thousand years ago, fell to ttri grou id. At any rate, this much is known, that -Psi 'ears ago, under the sign of the Peacock, it was the only inn in the town. A NEW FOOTBRIDGE across the Severn, at Shrewobury, connecting Coleham and Belle Vue with the centre of the town, has just been opened by the Mavor and Corporation, and christened "Whitefriars," It is a lattice-girder iron bridge 150 ft, span, and has been erected at a coot of £2500. SIMULTANEOUSLY wina THE PUBLICATION Of sin appeal for stibecriptions in aid of Mr. Edward Gnwer • Wenman, of Bevenden, one of the famous Kent vricketing eleven, Wenrnan's death is announced. As a wicket-keeper he has never been excelled, and ow a batsman be was no unworthy rival of Fuller Pilch. Iris wawoerricn from Gliisohenen that though the workers at each end of the tunnel are about a thousand feet apart they can bear each other work. /his is • pod that the intervening material is sat sponay. but reeky, and ocesequently more wily arorkahla.  • %me 4.9•-••••.  , 'SOCIETY aqsarp.. (From " 11(fair.") •  THE DTING VIAL The year is dying—let it paw It leaves strange memories of regret; It leaves my eyes all dim and wet, geeing strange sights as thro' a glass. It leaves regrets sincere and deep For joys I shall not taste again; It leaves the scars of half-healed pale, Pain which has forced my heart to weep. So let it go—reluctant quite, And still half-pleased to know it past, Clinging, and yet not holding fast. A long good-bye, Old Year—good night.  A butcher at Maidstone got thirteen -penoe a pound for a fillet of veal by a compliment worthy of Chesterfield. "That's very dear," said the lady, touching the joint, "considering that it is not at all white.' "if you will put your gloves on, ma'am," said the butcher, "you'll find it white enough." A few trade-men of this description would soon ruin the co-operative stores.  There used to be sold, many years ego, a small ivory box, about an inch in diameter, in which was a needle turning on a pivot like a email pocket-compass. When this box was placed between bedclothes or wearing apparel. the motion of the index wo.ild, after a minute or two, unerringly detect the existence of dump, if damp were present. I do not remember the principle of this invention, but the inventor claimed for it that it had waved many lives. which I readily believe; and I have no doubt that were some such a damp detector to be manufactured in these days of incessant travel and vicissitudes of bed, it would command a very large sale. The Press Rtle at the Paris nipporlrome seems to have beer :Tanya success. It was just one of those fetes which Parisians can organise better than any other people in the world. Call it charity or what you will. if the excu.e for meeting be one of pleasure, and if there be a liberal allowance of brim beards and popular actresses, the goetnietts of the Boulevard will troop in thousands, and will pour out their louis like water. The net proceeds of the fete will probably exceed .£20,000, something like double the sum which was made at the Albert Hall last season, for the Societe de Bienfaisance. Half of this is to go to the Murcia Inundation Fund, and half to the poor of Paris. _ (Prows "Whitehall Review.") _ . .  A second Gazette is about to be promulgated, giving promotion and honours to officers brought specially to notice by Major-General Sir Francis Roberts,