The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-10-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RUINED BY DRINK.  The death of one of the most cultivated, brilliant, and famous doctors in Connecticut is, says an American despatch, hourly looked for at the New Haven Hospital. The patient is Dr. Joseph' J. Barry, who was born in Ireland in 1822. He was graduated, in Dublin, and practised on the "fever ships" that came into New York in 1847. He went to California in the gold excitement, and made money rapidly. A successful practitioner, he was extravagant, and as riches accumulated he took to drink. Odd and unreasonable, no one could do anything with him, and finally he lost everything through his appetite for rum He came to New Haven in 1872. Soon after, in a drunken spree, he lost his Dublin diploma, and, unable to find it,went to New York, took a course at the University, and. procured • second. Then he returned and started to build another fortune. He was successful, and soon had the largest practice in the State. He became • preacher of Temperance. He made money fast, and gave much in charity. About four years ago he began to talk again of heart troubles, and was soon under the influence of his old enemy. He made • desperate struggle against the influence that he felt coming over him, and since that time his life has been a perpetual fight with liquor. The roomy has defeated him. Of late he has been locked up in all the principal Eastern cities for vagrancy and drunkenness, all his fortune is gone, and his doctors say that he cannot live.  INTERNATIONAL IiEALTH EXHIBIrON. It has been finally decided that the closing of the Health Exhibition, which takes place next Thursday, will not be marked by any ceremonial. The exhibition will be open as usual until 10 o'clock, when the doors will be closed for the last time. The Juries have, with two exceptions, finished their labours, sod the awards will be published in a day or two. No veins have been spared in testing and carefaßy estimating the relative merits of the numerouc competing exhibit', no single award having been made ou inspection merely. To assist the juries in their deliberations, spacious premises in Brompton have been acquired, where for some months past varies* heating and ventilating apparatus have been scientifically tested under the charge of experienced officer.; the system for testing stoves being to send them from the exhibition to the trying room, where each has in turn been fixed, and the amoant of heat thrown out, draught of chimney,. amoent of coal consumed, and smoke generated, carefully tested and registered. It would not at the present time be fair to allude to the relative value ef any of the articles tested, but one curious fact has come out, it having been proved that what are known as the slow combustion stoves are not so superior in heating and ventilation powers as has been supposed, experiments having shewn that stoves closed at the bottom do net throw out the same amount of heat as open " grid " bottomed stoves with the same amount of coal.  The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to Captain P. IL Simonsen, of the Geeman barque Moctezuma, in acknowledgment of his humanity and kindness to the SUrViVOr• of the shipwrecked crew of the Mignonette, who are awaiting their trial on charge of murdering the boy Parker.  The dead body of a married woman, named Beasley, was found on Wednesday morning in a ditch by the side of the London and North Westam Railway, near Longford Station. It is supposed that while upon the railway near a level crossing during the night she was caught by a passing train, and hurled into this ditch, a distance, however, a 18 yards.