The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-12-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ECCENTRIC MAN.—OR Saturday night Mr. William Carter held an inquest at Brixton on the body of Mr. William Tinmouth Dixon, age 74, of Brixton. The deceased had lived a most reclusive life for 10 or 12 years past, and never allowed any person into his house except a Mrs. Lowden and her daughter, who occasionally took him some provisions, lie refused to see any of his relatives, and had not been outside his door for 10 years. When he required any provisions he pulled down his blinds, and Mrs. Lowden knew what to do: but at all other times the blinds were up, and this system of signalling had been adopted ever since the old gentleman began his life as a recluse, On Saturday last Mrs. Lowden, seeing the blinds down, went to the door, but. fai'ing to make deceased hear, suspected something was wrong, and sent her son to force an entrance, which he did, and discovered Mr. Dixon lying upon the stairs quite dead. The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes. The house was filled with books, and the library stocked with some choice and rare volumes.  A thick headed boy being told to go to the hardware store and get a piece of sheet iron twelve inches square, said : " Y—e--s. Twelve inches sqnare, but how long must it be ?" Albert Smith's literary signature—" A. B."—was once shown to Douglas Jerrold, at which the wit remarked "Ah, that's a fellow who never tells more than two-thirds of the truth."  A widow was weeping bitterly for the loss of her husband, and a friend tried to console her. " No, no," said she; "let me have my cry out, and ther. I shan't care anything more about it." Quin, the actor, being asked by a lady why there were more women in the world than men, replied : " It is in conformity with the other arrangements of nature, we always see more of heaven than of earth." We see it stated in the "fashionable intelligence" that "ladies are going to wear their bait this reason as they, did three hundred years ago." We had no ides that there were any such old ladies around.  At a meeting of tome American Congregational ministers, one genVeman, who stated that he had been eastward with his " superintenelent," was interrupted by a brother clergyman, who asked if he meant his wife.  Tux PURFLERTlusnicasa.—The London correspondent of the alasgow Herald writes .—At the coroner's investigation into the Purileet murder, on Saturday. a man fainted whilst the surgeon was giving his evidence respecting the brutalities perpetrated upon the poor young girl. The details were simply unfit for publication, and exceeded in atrocity anything that for years past has been die closed in a court oflustice. Apart from this terrible characteristic, one of the most striking features of the ease was the coolness, promptness, and "self-possession exhibited throughout by the accused. He acted as his own advocate, crossexamined every witness himself, and showed an amount of shr..wdness and alertness in following every turn of the examination which, under the circumstances, was little less thin astonishing. It is said that he was a lawyer's cleit before be entel ed the army, which, if it be truc, will account very considerably for his demeanour.  Mn. Scenes DENMAN ON Ocissas OF