The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-03-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CORY OF AN AF,IIAN NA71.11.--A good story is told of Pottinger. on his joining the camp o the Governor-General. Lord Lawrence was delighted  On Monday, Dr. Hardwicke held inquests on !i no less than three children who boa been found murdered. Thu first was at the King's Head, Broad street, Bloomsbury, on the body of a male child found in the arts, of 53, Bsdiord stinare. William valet at the above house, stated that on tie prey .us Thursday be found a paper pal eel 1) la the front area, and on I going to pick it up saw the head and legs of a child protruding out of it. He called in !. the poiice, and Mr. Ross, a neighbouring ..or. I. peon, was sent for, who found evidences of compression about the mouth and hose, cleark indicating that the chi d bad been wi.iully staff°. cated. The second and third cases were both held at St. Pancras Coroner's Court. Henry Box, a porter at the King's Cross Station of the Metro. 1, politan Railway, stated that on the previous Fiiday ; he went into the cloak-room and saw a pa ce,, 'which he at first supposed to contain meat, • but on opening it there was the body of a full. • grown female child. Dr. Miller, ot Penton- .‘ ville, was sent for and was clearly of opinion that the child had been murdered by su:.oca. tion. The third case possessed some peculiar features. Henry Freeman, a checker at the King's Cross Goods Station of the Great N rthern , Railway, deposed that on Saturday when the goods train came in from 1 ode, at half-past eleven, he helped to remove the tarpaulin from one of the trucks, whet a parot trolled oil, coveted by American °loth. He picked it up and examined it, and in taking it to the parcels office the bo.ty of a male child fell out. On being examined the medical man pronounced it to have been murdered by being suffocated. Mr. Richard aliams, superintendent of the Great Northern Railway police, stated that from telegraphic information he found that the men who left the parcel_ containing the child at the York station were well known as being in the employment of a local carrier there, and he hoped to be able to trace where the deceased came froin.—The jury in every ease returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.  with his gallauce-cniduct aud thu illforinatic7ii he was able to givo, aud ho wan, of ermine, in,ited to . .  The vicarage of S. Matthew's, Holbeck, vacant by the recent death of the Rev. J. H. F. Eendall, bas been presented by the Vicar pf Leeds to thel Rev. Osmond Cookson, who has been for some time chaplain to her Mro3sty's prison at Armley. The total income of the Holbeck Vicarage is about £4OO, including £6O per annum for the chaplaincy of Holbeck Cemetery, which has for some time been held by the. Vicar of the parish. Mr. Byron seems to have exhausted the sub. jects suitable to burlesque, and has recommenced the series. He announces a new version of" Notre Dame de Paris," under the title of "Pretty Esmeralda and Captain Phcebus of Ours." If he Continues in his present course it may in time be said of him, as of Alexander, that "thrice be slew the slain." To burlesque it is attributable that romantic drama is now, for practical purposes, --41/unaesini.  join the Government circle at dinner. While the guests were assembling, a stranger—an "Afghan native" was observed standing shyly aloof and alone, leaning against a doorpost. Some of the officials thought ho had no business there on tho day when they were about to do honour to a man whose praises were the common rt'k of  all, and whose bravery stood in such arked contrast to that of the Afghans, and advised that some one should tell him to begone. But while they were discussing who should do it, tho veruor-General entered, with his sister on his  ---; arm, and leading her up to he shy, reserved "Afghan," said, "Let me present you to Flared Pottinger, the hero of Herat r—Heroes of Britain lin Peace slut War.