The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-01-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN A GIPSY ENCAMPMENT.  Gipsies from all parts of England are flocking excitedly to the encampment of the Lovell tribe, who are sojourning five miles from Wolverhampton. It has just transpired that the woman who passed as George Lovell's wife has died from poisoning. On Tuesday, after a post-mortem examination, the stomach was sent for analysis to Dr. Hill, of Birmingham. On Friday night the deceased's shrieks alarmed the encampment. She was found leaping and beating the air, and shortly afterwards she fell dead in her Bleeping place. Lovell was at the time at a neighbouring .nn. . _ _  -On Tuesday an inquest was opened on the body of the deceased woman, Lemontinia Smith. It was shown that the deceased passed as the wife of Lovell, and that, at Lovell's request, a collier at Brierley Hill had purchased and given to her a packet of vermin destroyer; but that when the powder was handed to her she returned it, saying that she had in the tent far more effective means of destroying rata. Subsequently she re-accepted the poison, but declared that she should throw it in the fl e. She had never complained of Lovell treating her unkindly, and her mother said she had said she should kill herself. as she preferred death to an unhappy life. The father said he had never heard of any threat by his daughter to commit self-murder. The sure on could not account for death; and the inquest was adjourned, to hear the result of an analysis of the stomach.  Tas PLIMSOLL COMXIIVII:11 on Tuesday resolved to meet weekly to prepare evidenoe for Pail ament and the Royal Commission. The London correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser says that "Mr. Holloway, the well-known vendor of patent medicines, who not long since devoted £lOO,OOO to building two hospitals out at Caterham, has recently consulted a well-known member of Parliament as to the disposal of no less a sum than two millions sterhng in works of charity." Mr. Dixon, M P., on Tuesday addressed a crowded and influential meeting at Rochdale, on the education question. He supported a resolution cordially endorsing the proposed action of the Birmingham League in introducing next session bills providing for the universal adoption of school boards and compulsory attendance, also for repealing the 25th Clause. Referring to his own bill, he expressed the most perfect confidence that it would be passed before many sessions were over. Mr. Dixon was most cordially received throughout his defence of the League programme.  - A public meeting to protest aainst the introduction of auricular confession into the Church of England was held at Chelsea on Tuesday. It was very fully a tended, and amo, g the speakers was Mr. Jas. Maden Holt, the member for NorthEast Lancashire, who declared his belief that it was time the country should awake to the importance of a question which threatened to deprive England of the open Bible. That was the basis of the freedom that had made her what she was. Resolutions condemnatory of the doctrine, and adopting a memorial to the Bishop of London, calling for immediate and effective action, were unanimously carried.