The Herald of Wales. — 1888-07-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HEROIC ACT.  " C.H." writer in Saturday's Times as fellow :—"Knowing your willingness to publish any special act of bravery and heroism, I venture to send you an account of a ead oecurrence at the Coaatgnard Station, Castle Townsend, County Cork. A Mrs Hope, wife of one of the men, went out to dry the ciothes she had been washing, leaving her three little boys in the kitchen, where a fire was burning. It is not distinctly ascertained how the accident happened, but the wand boy's intention was to write his name on the table with a charred stick. The probability Us that the other end of the stick was alight, and as he was writing, his alothes caught flue, and the children's screams aroused the neighbours. A Coastguariman named Osborne went in to see what was the matter, and finding the ohild burning, he promptly seised a large rug and threw it over him. 'Then giving him to the distracted mother, who et that moment returned, he went back to the kitchen, which was filled with black smoke, so thick and dense that nothing was discernible, and crawling in on his hands and knees, he felt his way to the era,le, from which he dragged the baby. Placing him safely outside, he returned a third time, and with difficulty rescued the eldest boy, who was paralivAl with terror in a far oorner. Osborne's] hands were terribly injured, and his clothes almost all burnt off him. Such braveryspeaka for itself. leis unnecessary for me to add anything further, except that the unfortunate child who was so badly burn died within two hours of the accident."  Foul play is now suspected in oonnection with the mysterious death of an Orangeman named Greenaway,whoee body was found, en Monday, on the railway metals near Gilford, County Down. There is now little doubt that the man, after being murdered and his body mangled in a shocking manner, was carried on to the railway line so as to make it appear that he had been killed by an early morning train. The polioe are carefully investigating the affair, and a number of arrests ars expected. _  Iu the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, an action was brought by the Rev Canon Douglas, of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Nottingham' to decide whether he obtained the consent of adeceased Italian organ grinder to the canon's guardianship of his daughter by fraud and undue influence. It was also alleged that the girl was forcibly abducted from a Protestant orphanage in which she had been placed. The jury found there was no fraud or undue influence, and gave • verdict for plaintiff. At the opening of Manchester Assizes on Friday, to his charge to the grand jury, Mr. Justies Grantham made an important allusion to the case of John Jackson, who is about to be tried for the murder of warder Webb in Strangeways Gaol. Even though there was no immediate design on the life, he said an not which resulted in taking of life was murder. In the evidence submitted it was the duty of the jury to return a true bill. On Saturday, at the Bridgend Police Court— before the Rev. C. R. Knigut, Cohn& Franklen Mr F. O. Boles, and Mr E. Price— David John Davies, of Maeeteg, saddler, a married man, was charged with indecently asiviulting Catherine Ann Dupplaw, a young married WOMII, in a railway carriage. whil.t travelling between Cymmer and Abergwynti. He was commiited for trial at the quarter &salons. Kr R. Scale appeared for the ddendant.  Rose Peel, 18, a respectably dressed girl, Hying at 68, Willow-street, Westminster, was ohsrged before if.r Partridge, on Fridley, with seriously assaulting her stepmother, Mary Peel, at the above address, by knocking her eye out with the spout of a tea kettle.—The prosecutrix was stated to be in the hospital unable to attend the court, but evidence was given by Constsble Baccn, 761 A, to the effect that the injured woman came into the Rochester-row Westminster Police Btation on Thursday evening bleeding iroai one of her eye. She said that her stepdausider, the prisoner, had assaulted her by flinging a tea kettle in her face, and the girl, who was shortly afterwards apprehended, admitted it, and said that she did it b, cause her mother called her • bad name. The doctor at th• hospital said the remains of the roseonttix's eye would have to be taken out at once—the eyeball war completely smashed.—The prl boner said she had no intention o finflisting such a shocking injury. In fact, she did no intend to throw the kettle, but only the wa t It toontaitied. filte wag remsoded.