The Herald of Wales. — 1890-10-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MONMOUTHSHIRE. That Abercarn h to havo i Imml board, and arrougoments are beb g. made by the Monmouth- ' shim County Council tor the formatAon ol this authority.  That the ease of smali-v.2k at 5, Victoriastreet, Pontlottyu, is of a serious and clang' nun nature, and the patios,. 6 kept quite isolated. No other eases have occhtTed• pi,. a Nuldsome paria, aha,:eh of staTinhMat Fitlass'hat+wbrndnowdmiindedthet4 ievethin, as a memorial of those who perhbed in the loaueroh disaster. The cost of the um • morial wih t,e £250.  That amaL-,ox-has made its appearance in Pontlettyri. A Mut. Stephens probably contracted it front het brother, who worked at I Newport Docks, contracted it there, and was I nursed by his rioter at Poutllottyn. Every precaution is being taken to irolate these two leases.  Th it on Wednesday morning, John W tkins, fitter, 'ralywain, met with a serious accident at Llanerch Colliery. Whilst he was standing on the engine platform attending to his duties, he unforttundely missed his footing, and his right leg was caught by a passing train, causing it to ho severely -bruised and fractured. (In the day before a young man, of the name of Robert &cot, had one of his feet very badly hurt by the fall of a heavy piece of iron upon it. 'rliat the Cwmbran colliers, at a large meeting and demonstration, have passed the follcwing resolution on Unionism. "That thi. meeting is of opinion that a strong and effective Union is necessary for the protection of the intermits of no employed in min.., and, finding there are two aasociatiom in existence in: nulls Wales at present, they believe that the interests of all could be totter protected by all the miners of South Wales and Monuvoilthaire forming one zissociaVou ; therefore, this meeting of wwkmun pledges itself to support the Miners' blederation of South Wales ant Monmouthshire."  _ That the Calviniitio Methodist Association Conference we 9 continued at Pentnewydd, on Thursday, under the presidency of tho moderator (the Rev. D. C. Davies, M.A., , l'rincipal of Treveoca College.) The Rev. Joseph Evans (Swansea) presented the report of the Temperance Committee, which dealt with several matters, and, amongst other things, recommended that the Churches be requested to use unfermented wine for the sacrament, that the Association should lay stress upon the importance of office-bearers its the churches bang particularly urged to become total abstainers, and that the secretary (the Rev. J. Morgan Jones, Cardiff), forward to the Homo Secref,ary and other members of Parliament is requisition that M.onmouthabire should be in- I ...Wiled in the scope of the Sunday Closing Act. I These recommendations were adopted. ' • '  That Edward Jones, a boy of ton, was charged with attempting to commit maid° by cutting his throat at Iffyilyndislwyn Church, near Abercarn, oa the oth inst. Prisoner, a I reepectable-looking boy, wham throat was , bandaged, pleaded guilty. It will be within recollection that a short time ego Junes created a sensation by stating that he had been knocked down in a field near his home and murderously &smelted by a tramp. It was subsequently found that tho story was one of his own concoction, and that he had himself applied a lethal weapon to his deceit. No evidence was offered. Prisoner failed to assign any reason for his strange conduct, but premised not to repeat the attempt. Ile was now discharged, his father becoming surety in the sum of £lO for his good behaviour.