The Herald of Wales. — 1888-12-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JONES.  On Friday in the Queeus's Beech Division, London, yesterday, Mr. Boron. Huddleeton and Mr. Justice. Hawkiva, sitting as a Daisional , Court, disposed of the °use of Paradise v. ! Junes and another.—Hr. Cross said he appeared for plaintiff,who was the moving person in this motion. He asked for judgment in in accordance with the report of the special referee, made in pursuance of an order of an order of reference drawn up in the SWUM% District Registry. The action was to recover possession of certain premises demised to the by reason of breaches of covenant. 'I he referee found that the plaintiff was entitled to possession and certain sums; that the premises were out on repair at the time the writ was issued ; and that the breach WAS remodiisi before the defence wee put in. He (the learned counsel) wilted for judgement in accordance with the report :—idr Vs ightman Wood, who represented the defendant, p inted out that the referee had suggested that etch party should bear his own costs of the referenee.—Mr Baron Huddleaton : The plaintiff will be entitled, to possession and then judgment upon the report 'lle defendants can obtain relief of the forfeiture upon payment of the sums mentioned in the report within ten days. Each party to pay his own costs of the bearing before the referee.  If every accident marring in the collierial of the kingdom were duly chronicled and collected, the collection would form one of most marvellous volatiles of miraculous escape ever published. Take for instance the accident which has ooeurrecLat the Lady Windsor Pit, Ynysybwl, one of the pits owned by the Ocean Coal Company, Limited. It appears that at 6 a.m. the cage with two of the night men was being wound to thetrinfaae, when, through some mishap, the rope failed to coil around the drum, which resulted in the cage, with its 1 living freight, being preeipitated a depth of one hundred pads. Willing hands were at once set to work under the superriaion of Mr Evans, the mechanical engineer, and Mr Edward Jones, manager, to extriceAe the men, and after a lapse of three hours they were brought to the surface, little the worse for their miraeulowi adventure. The remainder of the men were brought out through the upoast pit. Medical officers of health in the chief towns of Wales nom to be having a lively time of it just now. The Cowbridge Town Council, at its monthly meeting on Thursday, was chiefly engaged in debating a motion movrd by Alderman James, that Dr MeLlom the medical offioir of health to the borough, should be called upon to resign, or that failing to do to, he should be given three months' notice. The contention of Alderman Janice was that by his action in reference to the recent epidemic of diphtheria in , Cowbridge, the medical officer had produced a panic and created an impreseion in the neighbourhood contrary to the real state of things, and that he had communicated with the Local Government Board on the matter without first presenting a report to the sanitary authority. A heated dieciasicn took place, and after hearing a statement by Dr Moller in reply, the council resolved by nine votes to six to retain his services.  Superstition I. frequently responsible for very odicus and horrible crimes. A. cue in point is narrated in the EWALD papers, the theatre of the crime being within a short distance of Odceea. Recently some passers by going through a wood stumbled upon the body of a yonng man of gentlemanly appearance, who , had evidently been murdered, and mutilated afterwards, it being moreover remarked that portions of hie body were missing. Irquirlee established in due time the identity of the victim, as well as that of the two men who had mutilated him. Questioned as to the motive for the deed, they replied that it was neither vengeance nor intent to rob that bad prompted it. They ware receivers of stolen poverty, howeve , and a gang of thieves having planned • robbery at • certain house on a certain night, • sure mean. toprevent detection or non-encomia was to go about the work by the light of candles made with the fat of • haman body. This accounted fcr the killing and subsequent mutilation praotheel on the viceim of a superstition which, it appears, prevails to an extraordinary degree in certain parts of Russia, the common belief in these localities bedng that, if • burglary is committed and the delinquents are not caught, it is due to the fact that they did the job by the light of candles mode from a human body.