The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-01-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE ITTTERANGES OF A MINISTER. On Sunday, in the Temperance Hall, Bolton, Mr. J. Applebee, • well-known public lecturer, addressed the congregation of the Free Christian Church in that town, as their minister, for the last time prior to sailing for America. Mr. Applebee addressed his hearers as "Ladies and Gentlemen," and said he did so advisedly. If he had addressed them as "Dear friends,* or even as "Friends," as "Dearly beloved brethren," or even as "Brethren —he would have used words which would not have been correctly expressive of the emotion be felt. He was a friend and a brother to everybody connected with that church; but that was a very different thing from saying that everybody convened with the church was a friend and a brother to him. He was a friend and a brother to the veriest worm that crawled, yet when the worm misinterpreted the meaning of its worming life, and made his higher life uncomfortable, then, without any remorsefulness he proceeded to do execution on him. This was what he was about to do to-day, but as people ought to be polite even to worms he addressed them all present, worms included, as "Ladies and Gentlemen.' On the whole, he had come to the conclusion that Bolton was a most unpleasant place to live in. There was nothing lovely either about it or in its inhabitants. Its people were as cold and cloudy, as muggy and as unsympathetic, as coarse and as boisterous, as its own skies were cold and cloudy, muggy and unsympathetic, coarse and boisterous. Some of his congregation, he feared, were past praying for; anyhow, he had taught them the unwholesome lesson that it prayers were to do them any good they must be their own prayers, and not those of a spiritual doctor called in on an emergency to pray officially. Did they think that he was going to leave his fireside, Ins-sake the company of Homer, Shakespeare, and Milton, and all other worthies of historic time, to listen to their imbecile tittle-tattle, and to sip the dishes of dirty scandal they were so fond of brewing? If he did not speak the truth when he said he would go from their midst with honesty unimpaired and honour untainted, might his right hand lose its cunning, might his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth, and if there be a hell might the light of his soul go out in the blackest smoke of it! The congregation thus addressed owns no connection with any denomination, the tie which has hitherto hound them together being simply admiration of Mr. Applebee's lecturing,  The offieers of the Grand Trunk line are negotiating with the engineers now on strike. _ _ _  _ News from Cape Town, by Megrim Donald Curries mail steamer Edinburgh Castle, by telegraph from Madeira, says the Raffles are reported to be quiet, and there Is no prospect of war. At the Westminster Police Court, London, on Tuesday. Frederick Treadaway was charged, on remand, with the wilful murder of Mr. Collins, at Pimlico. He was further charged with the attempted murder of Fslizabeth Collins. After hearing further evidence, the magistrate remanded the prisoner till Monday next. In a ease of drunkenness which came before Mr. Bridge, the Hammersmith police magistrate, he remarked that it wee really shocking to see women ehsrged every day, there being more women than men. The only way women could expect their husbands to keep sober was for wiYINI to give them comfortable homes and refrain from touching the drink. In his opinion it was much worse for a woman to get drunk than a man. Tue