Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-08-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MIERII-'l5 -GEORGE ROBINS !—A wealthy man of Boston, who owns a country residence in the suburbs of that city, recently became dissatistitni with it, determined to have another, and instructed an auctioneer, famous far hi descriptive powers, to advertise it in the papers at private vale, but to conceal the location, telling put chasers to apply at his office. In a few days the gentleman happened upon the advertisement, was pleased with the account of the place, showed it to his wife, and the two concluded it was just what they wanted, and that they would secure it at once. So he went to the office of the auctioneer and told him that the place he had advertised WU such an one as he &sired, awl he would purchase it. The auctioneer burst into a laugh, and told him that that was the description of his own house, where he was then living, lie read the wlvertiseineut again, pondered ovor the "grassy slopes,"" beautiful I vistas," "smooth lawn," &c., and broke out: "Is it possihle ! Well, auctioneer, make out my bill for I advertising and expenses, for, by George! I wouldn't Isell the place now for three times what it cost me !"  His WORKS DO NOT FOLLOW 111 M !—The American obituary notice which mingled business and tears in the declaration that the widow still kept the store and manufactured the incomparable pickles for which the beloved husband was ..... UR, is equalled by the following morceau tram the Sunday Timea. After paying a warm tribute to the memory of the proprietor of the paper, our contemporary goes on to  say : So complete and compact was the organisation of the staff of the Sunday Times under his watchful oversight, that not even his own departure from th, world will render necessary any change in the administration of any department of the paper, or in those thoroughly independent minciples which have raised It to the high position It occupies in public estimation. A SPEECII CoRRECTED.—Senator Wade's late Kansas speech, about which so much has been said in the newspapers, is thus hit off by a humorous contributor in a Cincinnati paper : .9 didn't say that laboursaving implements should be allowed to vote, and that a thrashing machine was better than any other man. Neither did I declare myself to be in favour of an equal distribution of the inflammatory rheu• niatism in the United States among the people, for in five years it would is in the hands, feet, elbows, knee-Joints, etc., of a few again. But what I did say was that mowing machines do not digest as readily as the common scythe 111111/11g the working classes, and that steam saw-mills are not a. healthy a summer beverage so when worked by hand." I then asked him, ought he not to correct the erroneous por s of his speeches through the columns of the Bungtmen You Bet. as they might injure his prospects if I¢il.g a yawl iolate for the Lunatic Asylum, but he only laughed, and sMil was contrary to the established usages of his life to contradict all) thing. SENDING A THREATENING LETTER,—On Saturday, at the Assiaes for Salford Hundred, John Dinan, who had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with haring at Tonge, on the 23rd July, wilfully and feloniously sent to Thomas Brideoake Knott a letter, without any name or signature thereto subscribed, threatening to kill and murder lam, was brought up for sentence. The prisoner did not deny sending the letter, but said he had done so when drunk. His lordship ordered him to find one surety of 50/. and two of 25/. each to come up for judgment when called upon.  AN