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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-08-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CRUISE OP THE SAPFHO.—TFIE EARTUQUARE WAVE Her Majesty's ship Sappho arrived at Auckland on the 26th of May. She was caught in a violent squall a few days before, which blew away ai her sails and hove her on her beam ends. She lay in a very dangerous position for a few minute's but afterwards righted. The Sappho, aftei leaving Samoa, went through Hapn and Tongs groups, searching for the schooner May Queen. supposed to have disappeared when the earth quake wave was felt at Tonga, but without sue cess. The Sappho took the new British Consul for Samoa, Mr. Liardet, round the Samoan group. The schooner Canterbury, which set out on an expedition supposed to be conducted with Snwarrow. left Samoa for the Savage Islands on the 6th. She was much knocked about by the hurricane, and the cargo had to be sold to raise money to refit her. Her intention of going to the Savage Islands was reported to be to get a cargo of pigs. The earth%twave was experienced very strongly at o and Tonga. There were 10 or 12 rises and falls at Vavao on the 11th of May, the greatest rise being about 10 feet. The reef was left quit. exposed at times, and as the water receded it left millions of fish behind it on the rocks. Tii. effect was very extraordinary. The natives di, not recollect anything like it, and, in a great rage. accused the Sappho of bringing the wave. A: Tongs the wave lifted the stranded ketch Pearl right off the reef anti left her in deep water, saving • lot of trouble and expense. The Sappho reports that Maki. Governor of Vows°, met with his death in an extraordinary manner early in May. He was amusing himself by killing fish with dynamite, and happening to keep hold of a charge too long after lighting the fuse it exploded. blowing his hand and part of his arm away. A day or two afterwards lockjaw set in and he died. Her Majesty's ships Wolverine, Nymph, and Sappho rendezvous at Auckland shortly for a court-martial.—Otage Daily Tines.  Two men were struck by lightning at Clifton. near Banbury, on August 16th, when returning from the hayfield and carrying their scythes. One of them was killed on the spot, and the otho was severely injured. A farmer, who had sent to the Birkenhead market the carcass of a pig which had died of scarlatina, was summoned to the police court in that town last week. He escaped with paying a penalty of £lO and costs.  The Cologne Gazette states that the Crown Prince of Austria is expected shortly at Berlin to present himself to the 2nd Bradenburg Regiment ot Uhlans, of which he has been appointed colon& by the Emperor of Germany.  MeRDER BY A Ssmes.—A verdict of " Wilfu! murder" has been returned by a coroner's jun against Henry Elliott, sailor. for causing the death by stabbing of Mary Hesby, at Newport, MosWoutbshiro. on the 1,171 b inst.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-08-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND.  (From the London Telegraph.) The English people are watching with anxious i patriotism for tho measures by which the Queen's Government means to safeguard the endangered 1 interests of the Empire. They no longer pa} the slightest attention to those philanthropists who ; excuse massacres when committed by Russians : and Bulgarians. They have done with the peace-at-auy-price counsellors who applaud such wars as suit them, and with the moralists who point out eagerly and gratuitously why Russia ought to be allowed to break treaties. The attention of the country has been withdrawn from such talker's, to be fixed intently upon the great peril to our Imperial influence and intercourse threatened by the approach of the Czar's troops towards Constantinople. The extent of that peril is at last thoroughly undcrstood, and, while public opinion has seen with all the inure satisfaction the despatch of the vanguard of • Precautionary foroe, it urgently deinestala that this measure shall be followed up by whatever else the Government, with its fall information, believes advisable. The fleet is under way in the Egean waters; the transport vessels are on their voyage towards Malta and our special correspondent at Portsmouth communicated on Saturday morning the names of the additional regiments whiels stand ready for tlic order to embark. Behind these are other troops in readiness and other vessels awaiting commission or charter, so that the means for a decisive policy will not be lacking if the policy itself be boldly resolved upon. And this is what the nation now impatiently expects, for it comprehends the position in which England must fled herself if Buasian diplomats dictate a peace inside C..emtantinople or under its walls. The Czar has Mdse.! fonntli an interpreter in Mr. Bright to tell us what his Majesty proposes to demand, and we• may judge; by the sneer in which Muscovite journals indulge about our expeditionary force, whist their tone would be if a settlement has to be medo out of sight of 'British bayonets and broadsides. Moreover while the Russian determination to march upon Constantinople becomes day by day more openly avowed, we have no longer even the immoral comfort of the bribe of Egypt to make us connive at the " murder " of Turkey.  That indefatigable antiluary, Mr. C. Wright, has added to the secoua edition of the programme of the congresa of the British Amine°logical Association at Llangollen a little sindoh map of the part of North 'Wales the congress proposes travelling through on the various excursions.  Glanders of a malignant type has broken out among the remounts of the 21st Hussars, stationed at Hounslow. Under the above circumstances the wisdom of moving these remonnts is much questioned, as nothing is so likely to spread the disease as close, ill-ventilated stables, which b regiment is forced to occupy when billeted on the line of march. Furthermore, the relieving regiment, the nth Hussars, suffered from glanders for some • years.  SERIOUS ROBBERY AY 803tERSET
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-05-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE CF MURDER. An extraordinary case has been investigated by Mr. Coroner Chasten at Occold, Suffolk. A A young woman named Capon, the daughter of a farmer and county official, gave bilth to a child, which a medical man descrii,ed as strong and healthy. Be afterwards missed the child, and was told by Its grandmother that it had Leen sent away to a sister's. The child's body was afterwards found in a box. Meanwhile, the grandmother died suddenly, and the daughter thou stated that the dead woman had taken the child away. Medical evidence showed that the child had been suffocated, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the dead woman.  well as of the military cadet corps, were present. ,rhere is a curious story going about, which I beirdheudther betters in the use ex vue, powder. At the conclusion of the religious ceremony the . . believe is true, although I cailuot absolutely vouch s be employed so as At th ' eriuce delivered an appropriate speech. eum brought fed, and treated memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1351. vitation of the Municipal authorities of Tatar- for it. On the occasion of the Queen's visit tot tki duess A handsome subssri tem with the ui s In acknowledging the gift Sir Lyon Playfairevening, Jack distinguished * B himself ty Biarritz, she was accompanied by a new courier. • u°l for uthem *and on board the Pain over making a etatemeut that "Uncle Bitzardjik, the Prince, attended by the Ministers andexpressed his appreciation of the honour which had Sub.sequeire investigation has brought to light the ••' s was ra collected. Ca, tai Stewart and the crew It g Bobbies • " f "a had ' his suite, visited that town and met with an en- e 23 were p a been conferred upon him, referred to the readiness art sewl ,6 or which vulgarity, lis fact that this . • ' • d'se • new courier was e womau in Loam- were landed at Plymouth, and taken charge ot by thweiaatio reception. A banquet was given in I' h which had at all times been shown by the Prince of glut' w "Ye he was promptly sent to bed, explain. honour of his Highness, at which patriotio speeches ear that the Queen has given he' best apart- the Shipwrecked Mariners Society, who will forwar d Wales in • • li. !1 d advice • giving en comae an on occasions • log between his sole, however, "he sae as meats at Kensington Palace, which have been kiss her." were delivered. them to their homes. of difficulty, thus rendering his duties as honorary The Pope has decided to reside dui lug the Summer vatrant siuce they were surrendered by the Duchess secretary easy and agreeable. He also spoke of My sister was very grave with me that evening, of Leek nearly seven years ago,to Princess Beatrice, months at a small villa in the midst of the vaet THE PRINCESS OF WALES AND THR the diligent • fl 3 • services o mums Christian as But Bobbins WAS so curiously prim and so positive; buildgardena belonging to the Vatican. This little her in wits, is not to occupy tie in ; but they are given to
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-06-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

UPC. Be IN as in :nenipt of a salary of £6 10s. weekly. Prison.r add he had a eatieaotory explanation, and the cane was adjourned for the examination of his accounts.  Sir John E. Millais has nearly completed a large picture, the subject of which ahows the great artist kill faithful to the Huguenot period that attractea Min in the es,lier days of Ms career. It is the night of St. Bartbolemew. In the interior of a church a Catholic soldier is setting forth to matsnore ; a priest encourages h•rn to go forward, whi:e a, sister of mercy, with an expression of piteous entreaty, has thrown herseif on her knees at tile w.ultl-be-murderer's feet and pleads for the Protestants.  As a Midland passenger train was the other day approaching Swansea the driver saw two children playing on the railway a hundred j ards in front. On hewing the whistle sound, d the elder child Tan away, leaving her sister, aged two. The little child we frightened and fell across ,he ‘‘liere tihe lay apparently paralysed. The driver applied the brake, but es it w a evident that the engine wou'd not top in time the stoker jumped off, ran in front of the train, and snatched up the child just as the life-guard of the engine tonehtd her.  The Secretary for War has just issued a circular, Banat (ming the formation of cadet battalions to be indepeud lit of ordinary volunt• er corp., and to consist of boy- between fon: teen and a. yentecn. No battalion is to number more than 600 or less tit at 240, and each will bear the name of the lino r I.hn nt of its district. Officers, who may be youths c adults, will have honorary comm!ainons, Fe gaz.uted in the usual manner, and appear with their line regiments in the army list.  Land in Ilampt,hire is still out of favour. The Glidden estate fetched only £27 an acre but Mr. Jaime Howerti, late M.P., has paid £9O an acre fir a del ghtlui property in Bedfordshire, 'and £79 ha, been bid intsuceetndully tor Derbysh re ild turf. Importan' ,stat.te in Kent and Berkshire have been dmposed of for £42 md £4O an acre, a fine pr perty in North Dot ham for £52; and although dm value ot land in Wales is not so high, every sere of the large estates offered for sale in the Principality during the past week has found a purchaser. Some worlquen, while excavating at Spittal Gas Works came across over 100 silver coins, which were found in sand soil at a depth of about four feet. About a dozen Spanish coins, resembling in sizo our crown and half crown, are in capital condition. They bear the date 1795 ; also the words "Carolus MI., Rex. Hispan et Md. On the face of the coins is a large imprint of that sovereign, and immediately on the top and near the centre is a small but distinct impression of one of our Georges, probably stamped on the coins in order to make them current in this country at that time.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-05-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

FOREIGN ITEMS.  During 1885 the number of receptions" at the Morgue in Paris was 858. Of these, 659 were the bodies of men, 199 of women. The busiest month was August, when the number was 106; the slackest February, when it was 41, Of the 858 bodies, 605 ware identified, and the following is the classification given of the professions :—Men— Labourers, 113 ; employers, 67; drivers, 51; masons 47; mechanics, 23 ; gentleman, 19, other professions, 158. Women—Working women, 37; domestic servants, 26; washerwomen, 17 ; flowergirls, 16; bookbinders, 1! ; other professions, 18. The sundry forms of deaths are classified as follows :—Drowned, 181 ; hanged, 79; fire-arms, 163; side arms, 91; poisoned, 62; suffocated, 131; falls from houses, dx., 75 ; other causes, 53. The recapture of the Hungarian town of Buda from its Mahometan conquerors in 1686 is to be commemorated by a festival at that place, under the auspices of the municipal authorities, who intend to invite to tho fete the descendants of those who took part in liberating the city from the yoke of the Turks, after it had been in their hands one hundred and forty-five years. Among the list of liberators are a number of Spaniards, Frenchmen, Englishmen, Danes, and Croatians. The first mentioned is the Duke of Lorraine, who was in command of the army of the House of Hapsburg. The British names include Captain Bellaeis ; Cure, a Scotchmen ; Dudley, a son of Prince Rupert; FitzTamee, a son of King James IL, afterwards Duke of Berwick; Forbes, Earl of Granard Lord Halifax George Hay Howaill, Lard Ucrry ; Moore, Viscount Llountjoy o.: Ireland; James Richard St. George; and Captains Talbot and Wisemen. It is intended to address invitations to the living representatives of all these, and of all the other native and foreign troops who took part in delivering the Hungarian city irotu Ottoman rule.  I revolt among the convicts at St. Vtnoent de Paul Penitentiary at. Montreal has provoked much comment in the Dominion. Minor outbreaks and acts of mutiny have been so frequent that an impression prevails that there must bo causes for these attempts which are unknown to the public. So g. nerally does this feedug prevail that the Government has ordered an inquiry into the whole o the facts, and it is believed that the convic,s 1,7,11 give avid. nee as well as the pi son officials. N ne of the convicts escaped from the prison. The total number shot down was If, and in five cases the injuries have proved fatal. A priest in the province of Huesca has been arrested for firing upon and wounding a schoolmaster of a village, as the latter was passtng quietly along the street. A canon of the Cathedral of Minorca, nato d Avial, baying been c ndentned tor three yours' correctional Imprisonment for an assault on the Bishop, on tearit.ng his seuteoce, by some accounts threatened to kill, and by others actual y attempted to murder, the Bishon who was trying to obtain a mitigation of the eeteio uipoeed. .. •
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-05-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE ROUGH CLOSE SHOOTING CASE. John Daniel (36), desorii ea as a labourer, was arraigned at the otaffordahire Assizes on Tuesday, for the wiltul murder of his brother, William Daniel, at Rough Coee, on February 17th, Mr. G. Oumbleton and Mr. R. Smith werefor the prosecu. lion; Mr. J. Underbid, Q.C., with Mr. H. T. Boddam, detended the accused. The learned counsel for the prosecution, in opening the case, said that the tacte were extremely simple, and he thought they would have no alternative but to find the prisoner gunty of the grave charge for which he was indicted. it appeared that the prisoner and the deciased resided with their father, Thomas Daniel, who was a farmer and market gardener, living at Dale House Farm, Rough close. Besides these prisoner's wife and and orphan girl named Jukes also lived there. The deceased had been living away from his Muter, but about three weeks before the occurrence ha came back, leaving his wife and children with friends at Longtou. There did not appear to have been ally qil rrel or enmity between them, and ihey wouid have to form their own opinion of what led to the occurrence. Shortly after William's coming home a married sister of theirs, named Bennett, died, and the prisoner seemed to have ads the arrangements for the funeral, which, however, did not give satisfaction, and a quarrel ensued between tile brothers and Bennett, which led to fighting. Cross. summonses were issued in consequeu,e, which were to have been heard on the 22.. d February, but were ad. journed till the 29th; they were not, however, heard on account of deceased meeting with his death in the interval. On the mottling in question the prisoner, deceased, and prisoner's wife were going to Longion market. Deceased and criserter's wife were waiting tor the prisoner. Prisoner came int with the gun, and said "You are going to ruin me to-day," at the same time raising .the gun and firing. Deceased "ducked" his head, and then ran out of the yard into a field. Prisoner followed, and fired again. This shot took effect, blowing deceased's brains out. The prisoner's wife, it would appear, saw the whole occurrence, but still under the present state of the law, could not be called. Her screams attracted the attention of a Mrs. Latham, who lived near, and the girl Jukes. The prisoner had practically admitted his guilt to several persons. Mr. L'nderhill then addressed the jury for the defence, and, the judge having summed up, the jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of nearly two hours they returned into court with a verdict of manelaughter.—His Lord. ship, in passing sentence, said he could not conceal from himself that prisoner had shot his brother in a most furious lemper. His life had been saved by the verdict of the jury. but he must be severely punished. He would be kept in penal , servitude fur twenty years.  SUDDEN DEA l'H OF A
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-07-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AWFUL MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY.  SENTENCE OF DEATH. OnSaturday, at the Manchester Bummer Assizes —before Mr. Justice Cave—John Whaite, 34 years of age, a taotory operative, was charged with the wilful murder of his wife, at Bacup, on the 41h June List, under circumstances of great wuelty and atrocity.—.tvideuce was given to show that for some years the prisoner and his wife had lived together in Rochdale Road, Bacup. He was a man of considerable physical weakness, but the deceased was described as being a particularly handsome woman. The prisoner followed the occupation of a weaver in a factory, and his wite nursed a neighbour's child, and in order to augment their income they took into their hou,e a lodger named Ashworth. The deceased woman seemed to have teem° very intimate with Ash .%orth, and her relations with him have led to many disputes between her and the primmer, who was exceedingly attached to hr and her three children. He brooded over his wife's conduct until he seems to have deliberately planned to murder her, and he selected the nigtt of the 4th June for the purpo.e. At about six in the ev%ning while he and his wife and a little dat glator about nine years of age were in the house together, he bade the c..ild go out, and she left the house. About half an hour afterwards the prisoner went himself to the pelitie station, and said to the officer in charge, "I nave come. I want you to take oars of me. I have made a mess of it at our hou.e." He was asked what he had done, and replied, "I have had no peace since that man Climb to our house. I have warned her scores of times. I believe I have k lied her. I have looked the door and brought the key." And he handed the door key to the oonstable, who .mmediately went to the house and found a pitiable sight. ihe unfortunate woman was lying on the hearthrug quite dead. She had been fearfully beaten about the head with the tongs until she was a mass of bruises and outs; and alter death it is believed he cut her throat trout ear to ear. A neighbour heard the woman during a erne gle say "Ott, John, Ism doue," but paid no heed because of having beard frequent quarrels before. The prisoner was detained in custody. During the trial he presented a sad spectacle. On being placed in the dock to take his trial he burst into tears, and at the sight of his daughter he again gave way to great grie..—The jury found him guilty of the capi.al offence, with a recommendation to mercy on the ground of the great provocation he had received, and sentence of death was passed in the usual for.u.—On hearing the sentence the prisoner was quite overcome with grief, and would have fallen ,n the dock if he had not been caught by the warders in attendance, who quietly intended him to the veils below.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-10-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CABES OF ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. A distreeteng case of child entirder was reported to the police at Burslem on Tuesday morning, a woman named Lavinia Davies, the wife of a potealler residing in Peel Street, in that town, having drowned her daughter, aged three years and utue months., by putting her in an earthenware vestal containing water. From enquiries made by the pollee it appeared that about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning Mrs. Davies called to a neighbour named Parr, and on the latter going to Davies's house Mre. Devise took her by the arm and led her into the kitchen, in one corner of which stood a jow, , or panchau used for washing purposes, and whi h we. partly fuli of water. Pointing to the vessel, Mrs. Davies said "Look there, friend," and then Mrs. Parr found that the body of Mrs. Davies'a child Fanny was in the water. She at once took the child out and sent for a surgeon, but life was extinct. On being asked what she had put her child in the water for, Mrs. Davies said, " Oh, dear, the devil prompted me." It is stated that kr nearly twelve mouths past Mrs. Davies has been toe low desponding etate,and a week ago she was heard to threaten to take the life of the child, but no notice was taken of the matter. The Devisees have a large family, and are very poor, and it is supposed teat distress has so preyed upon the woman's mind as to completely unsettle her mum—At the Pollee Court, on Tuesday (before Mr. H. 0. Greenwood, ettpendiary), Lavinia Davies was charged with the murder of her infant child. The accused, who stood in a supplicating attitude and kept up a continuous moaning, said, in reply to the charge, "I did it because I want to die." Mrs. Parr having given evidence as to the circumstances under which ens found the body of the prisoner's child in the jowl of water, the prisoner wait remanded for a week. Information of the occurrence has been forwarded to the coroner, and an inquest on the body of the child will be held. _ _  At the edjourned inquest on Tuesday, at Croydon, on the child of Susan John, the jury returned a verdiot of " Wilful Murder " against the mother. The medical evidence showed that the child lied been torn alive, and had died from suffocation c dby soul .!.:ng bng thrust into its mouth.— At an early hour on Tuesday Susannah Tickle, a woman about fi.ty years of age, of respectable appearance, but no settled residence, surrendered herself at one of the Manchester police btatious, and slated that in the year 1'164 she drowned one of her children, four years old, in the hiver liweil, behind the Pomona Gardens. She never told anyone, but had been uneasy ever since. Lliqu rise corroborate a portion of her statement. Site woe remsnded ter a week.—At Watfo, d Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Lucy Glover, laundrymaid at St. riincrae School, Leavesdep, was committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of her infant on August 241 h.