The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-04-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS AND DISTRICT.  The directors of the Stroud Gas Company have reduced the price of gas fun' 4s 3d to 4s per thousand cubic feet.  Mr. R. Crawshay has returned from Cheltenham, and may be seen daily driving about Merthyr and neighbourhood. He tninks, and evidently feels convinced that "there is no place like home."  BurriturNE.—A grocer, named llartly, was on Monday fined £2O, at Newport, for selling adulterated butter, The compound, which was described as butterhge, contained five per cent. only of pure butter and ninety-five per cent. of adulterated matter.  At Cardiff, a stoker who was sent to gaol last Monday for coal-stealing, proved that he was an honest man until now, when he was unhappily driven to theft because his family were utterly del.titu te. On Monday afternoon an explosion of fire-damp took place at the Park Colliery, Liversedge, near Dewsbury. One man was killed and two others seriously injured. The latter were brought to bank, and taken to the Dewsbury Infirmary. Their condition is very critical. A bootmaker, named John Rust, who claims to be a lineal descendant of George 11., was charged before the Colchester borough magistrates with being drunk and disorderly. He asserted that his mother was a great granddaughter of George 111. He professed a thorough knowledge of science, and spoke freely upon electricity, the telephone, the microphone, and tLe phonogriph. He was discharged on paying the costs. _  At the Ludlow; Guildhall, on Tuesday, a coal agent, named Richard Coles, was brought up before the county magistrates charged with embezzling at the Craven Arms Railway Station various sums of money belonging to the South Wales Coal Company. six weeks ago the prisoner's defalcations were nearly £l5O. Three Specific charges were proved against him, and he was sentenced to six weeks hard labour. Prisoner had been in the company's employment sixteen years.  SAD ACCIDENT FROM "CAT AND Doo."—On Friday evening a BOA aCcIdWII happened on the pubfie path in Penydarran-park, lMerthyr, near the fish-pond. There is an open space of new ground made there by tipping the town scavenging and ashes, and upon this a number of young men were at play with " cat and dog," when the sharply-pointed bit of wood which is called the " cat " struck a lad, about eight years of age, in the eye. The missile entered point foremost, and gouged the eye clean out of the socket, the injury heing of a nature which it is feared will lead to a tgtalloas of sight,  Dr. E. M. Grace, coroner for West Gloucestershire, held an inquest on Monday en the body of Lucy Derrick, a domestic servant who, while on her way to Gloucester last week, was knocked down and murdered on the Thornbury-road by Edward Saunders, a London pressman and returned convict, supposed to be of unsound mind. Prisoner, after committing the crime, sat on a heap of stones alongside the body of his victim till he was arrested. He has stated that after leaving Bristol he was tempted to murder two young girls, and afterivards `a woman who gave him a drink of water, kint he was prevented by some one approaching. The murdered young woman's lever stated that she wished him "Good-bye" on the morning a the murder, and was ineking her way to Gloucester, The Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Saunders.