The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1874-04-10 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TRAGEDY AT HOXTON.  At eight o'clock on Saturday morning a horrible nag* was perpetrated at Horton. It would appear that Mrs.- Neuman, wife of a shoemaker, living at 43, Brunswick place, City road, got up shortly after eight o'clock, and proceeded to the ground floor for the purpose of lighting the fire and to prepare the breakfast. At the same time her eon, aged eleven years, was in the act of opening the shop, when the murderess, actuated by some mysterious impulse, and with a wild expression upon her countenance, rushed from the shop, bearing in her hand • large carving-knife; but fortunately the boy saw her approach, and managed to elude her grasp. She then rushed upstairs Into the bedroom of her brother, and with threatening gestures, declared that she would murder him. A severe straggle ensued, and eventually she left the room. In her paroxysm she entered the room where her daughter Jane, aged four and a half years was sleeping, and deliberately cut her throat. The body ef the childpreseted • most horrible spectacle, the head being almost severed from the body. Another daughter fortunately had risen • quarter of an hour previotudy, or inevitably she would have shared the same fate. She then left the room and attacked her husband, wounding him severely about the arms and hands, and in spite of his endeavours to wrench the knife from her, she at length cut her own throat, and fell to the ground insensible. A policeman, hearing cries of 'Murder," which proceeded from the house, at this juncture made his appearance, and discovered that a most horrible murder had been perpetrated, the room be;mg literally inundated with blood. He (the constable) at once sent for Inspector Ramsay, who, seeing the dangerous state that the murderess was in, ordered her removal to the hospital, where she now lies in a precarious condition. he woman is 42 years of age, and the little girl who is murdered Is one of eight children. She had always been kind to her children, and it is supposed that the deaths of live of them have so preyed on her mind as to produce an insanity which led to the perpetration of the shocking act we have now recorded.  Wallace's " Maritana" and BaHe's "Boheminn Girl" have been the English operas played this week at the Crystal Palace, with Miss Rose Hersee, Miss Pranklein, Mr. G. Perren, and Mr. H. Corn in the principal parts.  - TRW DROWNING OP PILGRIMS IN THE MsDrTzaauti•N.—A Board of Trade inquiry into the casualty on the steamer Laconia, by which a large number of Arab pilgrims were drowned, was concluded at Liverpool last week, when the judgment was given. The court found that the camalty was an ordinary peril of the sea, and was not owing to any default of the master. The pilgrims, who numbered about 1300, were very unruly and refused to go below. There was no warning of danger, and the sea which caused the accident was the only one • hich broke on board. The Court, under the circumstances, returned to Capt. Blacklook his certificate.  Under the heading of "A Singular Coincidence," the Paris "ran, contends that the libretto of M. Offenbach's " Orphee aux Enters" was suggested by one of the light pieces written by Mr. Disraeli, a classical squib, a translation of which, by M. C. de rranciosi, was published in 1855 in the Revue du Nord cis to France. The entrance of Orpheus into Pandemonium, the imprecations of the Furies, the intercession of Proeerpine to induce Pluto to depart with Eurydice, the protesta against any infraction at the fundamental laws des ElVers, which forbid the departure of any mortal therefrom who has once crossed the Stp, and the consequent resignation of Plute's ministers, are amusingly described.