The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-06-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDEROUS AFFRAY IN A WORKHOUSE.  On Saturday evening- a murderous attack was made at the Coleshill Workhouse, near Coventy, upon the master, Mr. John Paws, by two inmates, named William Henry Barton, and Lewis Coleman. The men were found wrecking a greenhouse, every pane of which they completely smashed, together with about 400 flower-pots. On the master remonstrating, they attacked him with heavy piles of timber, and he was so shockingly maltreated about the head that he became unconscious. The scoundrels then continued their work of destruction, at the same time making most hideous yells, and threatening to murder any One who interfered. They threatened to murder Mr. Dawe and others, but with difficulty Dawe was removed from the yard. The waster's daughter, who holds the position of governess at the wdrkhouse, went to her father's assistance, whereupon she Was chased by one of tlo mini, who, carrying a piece of wood, threatened to murder her. The nurse approached with a gun, but she also was compelled to beat CI hasty retreat. After uprooting some 400 geraniums in the garden, the men were secured, handcuffed, and Laken to Looatord Nicimgai4=  LORD .OERBY ON corrEE TAVERNS AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC).  Lord Derby being present at the opening of a coffee tavern in drouglion, lanehcster said :—He was very glad of the opportunity of bearing his testimony to what he believed to be the thoroughly sound character of this movment. It rested upon an essentially sound basis, for both from a philanthropic and patriotic point et view it deserved all the support which it was likely to receive, and as far as he can judge, it was likely to receive a good deal. Those who could carry their recollections back for live and twenty years had heard the liquor question discussed from every possible point of view. lie had never been a great believer in coercion or prohibitive action where a national taste was concerned, and where they had to deal with people like ours. No doubt the legislature might do something, and what it could do it ought to do in the way of putting temptation out of people's way; but if they went beyond that, and tried to keep liquor from people who really want it, however desirable they might consider the object , to be, he believed they would fail in the attempt, and by creating a feeling of opposition and antagonism to the law, they would introduce ,an evil almost as great as that they were attempting to oppose. Therefore, he thought that that branch of the temperance party, if he might call it such, which had undertaken the setting up of coffee taverns, had got hold of the stick by the right end; because there was no question here of prohibition or coercion; there was no attempt to prevent any man, if unfortunately he preferred the public-house from going there, but there was an attempt to give every man a fair option to give him his choice of indulging in a kind of refreshment which they all agreed was hotter for his pocket, better for his stomach, and better forhis brains. fl ehad sometimes been asked whether this movement was business philantrophy. He hoped it was business, because of ;t was looked at from any other point of view it would soon come to grief. They believed the taverns would be, and ought to be, pelf-supporting; in point of fact, in many places ley had become already, at the outwit, highly remunerative; but they also believed that the pioneers of such a movement must be prepared to run a little risk. One of the advantages of the movement was that if it failed nothing worse would happen than that a little money would he lost. If it succeeded, and he believed it would, it would have Iwourbt about gradually and unostentatiously chat might end in being a very great ent Taal +c:.ial reform. _ _ _