The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-04-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXECUTION FOR THE MURDER OF A  I'ARAMOUIL.  The convict Feared, convicted at the last Kent As=ises of .the warn: murder of his pAramour, !Mary Anne Bridger, expiated his crime upon the !scaffold at Alaidstoin Gaol, at nine on Tuesday The miserable man, since his conviction, has adhered to the statement that thottA he believed he was the cause of the woman's ded.h, yet he had no wilful intention. During Month, y msht. lie kleir. 'roundly, and weke at about live on Tor stay morning. iHe pad earnest attention to the ministralions of the 411141411 in, and expr, ssed regret at Cm bad life he had led. shortly before nine O.CIOCk ,11,, i-uu,uvirt was delivered into the hands of Marwood, the ei.ctitioner, who pinioned hint in the condemned cell, and, on the completion of the process, the procession to the scaffold started, it beieg preceded by the governor of the Riot, the under-shertit, and the chaplain, the IA ter gentleman reading the burial service. On arrival at the scaffold, Fonlred, who exh:bited remarkable firmmess throughout, was placed upon the drop, aud the 'bolt was quickly drawn. There was some slight movement ef the body for two or hree minutes after the drop fell, but the num appeared to die easily. The execution was witnessed by a number of the gaol officials and a few representatives of the press, and immediately afterwards th., black flag was hoisted over the main entrance to the prison. But very few people icongrezated outside the gaol. •  IThe expedition to North-West Africa, under the , direction of Mr. Donald Mackenzie, will Imre England immediately after the 27th lest. Mr. R. Dunlop, wholesale ham and cheese merchant, ,Brunswiek s reet, Glasgow, has been found dead in his ilsathrootn, at his residence in Al...arose street.  The str'k of operatives at the Sinclairtown powder worksagainst a reduction of wages terminated on Tutsday, the people resuming work at the old rate of pay.  William Sheels and his wife, of Mathbran Church, .county Meath, have been remanded on a charge of Imurder committed in l$1;5. The alleged victim was a !bailiff named Thomas Devlin.  IMiss Margaret Poulton has been elected a member of the managing eommittee of the InverkeiAting Parochial Board. This is probably the first elect in of the kind which has taken place in Scotland. John Peebles, a book canvasser, was charged at the Dundee Circuit Court with the murder of a carter named Alexander Robertson. Ms plea of culpable homicide was accepted, and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. The last rumour is that there is to be a" Challenge' Bee, in which there will be sides composed of victorious competitors in pro ions bees, esch party to supply the other with sets of words. This arran2ement aill Frovido for the words bLing sufficiently ditlicult..  At the Wilts Quarter Sessions, held at Salisbury, lon Tuesday, the migration by the Earl of R.tdnor ot the chairmanship ttf the Salisbury and Warminster Sessions sins received, and the question a appo'uting I his successor was adjourned until the next seestons. I A millworker named Cottle), has been appr.htmtled lat Dundee on the Zharge of having murdered hti sweetheart, a milt girl, mimed Bruntfietd. It is alleged that he pushed the girl down a stair, and that it was from the injuries then received that she died.  Mr. Sdater-Booth, on Tuesday, promised a deputation which waited upon hint urging the necessity of inserting in the Valuation Bill a clause giving to aggrieved parties right of appeal on questions of rating indepen dently of the deems on of the chairmen of quarter sessions, to consider the matter. 'Lieutenant Cameron brought tvi.h him from Afr;ca one civet cat, one oe,elot, one lemur, one fox, three parrots, one porcupine, two wild ca's, two monkeys. four palm birds, one marabout, and one eagle. l'he creatures were taken charge of by a representative of the Zoological Society and removed to London.  A V.I.C.tNT CILONIAL Thattotatic.—The Right Rev. Dr. Wilkinson has resigned the Bishopric of Zululand, but the Provincial Synod have adopted a resolution declaring that, while they unwillingly feel contrained to accept the resignation, sufficient cause has not in their judgment been assigned by the Bishop to render the resignation uecessary-.