The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-12-02 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MURDER IN IRELAND.-1 murder was co- ~• within three miles of Cahir, county Tippe Friday. The victim was a man employed n ;. taker by Colonel and Lady Margaret Charteri . Lonergan. It appears that the deceased at !., • market at Cahir on Friday. He was subsc found murdered on the road, his head batter bruised in such a manner that his nearer • ' could scarcely recognise him. Within a fe-v of the scene are two houses, the occupants 07 first discovered the body. They had hearl ' as of some fighting going on outside, but the .- ' no further light upon the matter. The only assigned for the crime is that the decemt 1, himself obnoxious by prosecuting persons or 11 passing. The deceased's son was severely I on one occasion when he attempted to int err-some parties who were stealing turf. An 1 was held on Saturday, and a verdict of wil der was returned. No arrests have been yet • The district in which this murder has occur:, been hitherto free from agrarian outrages. REMARKABLE OUTBREAK OF THE TITITOII` —An important and very unpleasant contri to the history of epidemics is made by tho Medical Journal, in an account of a viol. • locidisedontbrealt of typhoid fever in Islingt 0: to the Milk distributed from a dairy to its I. customers. The details were given and the it. gation was conducted by Dr. Ballard, the officer of Islington. Here are the facts: "V.' less than a semicircle of a quarter of a mile 168 cues had occurred within ten weeks ; : found it impossible to explain this on the r local miasma, bad drainage, or water supply. of the cases occurred in the honsps of the and some while the families weri in the c their summer holiday. Several auggostioi • • olered by local practitioners which he disp • ' :eriatim ; the last of which was that the rag due to the distribution of milk from a p (airy. At first bethought little of this; vary progressed, he was driven to adopt true explanation. The evidence adduced 1, canvincing. Out of one hundred and forty . snpplied from the dairy, no fewer than sec, • fired from typhoid, and thirty deaths being at the rate of 7.1 per cent on theca-, as many cases of typhoid deaths occurred t•-d district referred to as in the whole of the parish. In confirmation of his in . stated that it Was remarkable how th picked out the customers of this dairy i itreets and squares; it attacked female-, ' siren, who are the largest consumers of all proportion to male adults; and he al curious instances in which in several family persons attacked were those who too't icular milk. At the same time hedid not , ahsolve local miasma from all participati inducing the outbreak, since the dice cred those families among the castoff dairy where such local causes were foun . The author next entered upon the qa.' the contagion entered the milk. He a r the process of exclusion, at an undergro--: on the premises of the dairyman. He sr: ' that this water was never added to the milk. , opening the tank, however, he found ths,' constructed of wood which had rotted. air 1 iron way, and that from this spot there w. coral rat burrows, through which water v.; ,1' t IT into some old drains discovered on .1, &oration. The probability was great, . mixture of water with the milk was ti its contamination. Charitably giving c- , statements made to him, he suggested ,:t.it : lily, as the water was used for cleansir th. 2 " can% enough might still remain to poi L'lo cans, without any intentional admix. se via' is being practised."