The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-07-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ILE., Sir G. Pomeroy Colley's miotary sccretarv, who was lolled in action in the 'l'ransvaal, atu beibg ceuvejed to Englund for burial. he Royal (weraphical Society has received some int.-resting details of the let. ut I.e 1%.) 614111, EX. p1..11L1011 ill in au Cu 160 tender and others lost their lives. l'aris ail vices 8: it. that the harvest has comimmeed in ilie sem Ii id Fiance. The pa ace:. et wheat. lief Vs bern maintainid, netwithsimuliiig tun semblance ponoised by the harvest. A despatch boa' Minnesota shows trat the wheat crop there is iu excellent condiiioll. 11 is estimated that the crop this year aiU he 3,01,0,etal lambels inure than that of last year. The Liberals, as the result of the past half-year's contests, have gained a sent in East Cumberland, an the Conservatives lane won spate tat Coventry, Ives, and linaresborough. The Citizis stales that smallpox has broken out in Ifolloway Gaol, but the buffer/re, few in number, were promptly removed to hospital, the Home Secretary remitting their terms of imprisonment, which were short.  Evan Evans (40), farmer, of Mochtro, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude, at the Newton Quarter Sessions, La stealing fifteen sheep, which were turned out on a common, the property of several farmers.  Brigands have entered Eastern Routnelk by the south-westein frontier, and have captured the director of Be'lova and his dragoman, and cart ied them off into Macedonia. £15,000 have been demanded as their ransom.  Geneva, for the first time in its history, has had a race meeting. The sport included Alai and hurdle races and a steeplechase, and the meeting has been so successful that it is intended to repeat it during the present season. Seven hundred Slav pilgrim. Lave arrived at Rome from Bo.nia, Br's. go%ina, Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria Bohemia, unu and many more are expected It is mid the l'olish pilgrim bring 13,000 ecudi as Peter'. pence. In aid of the Railway Servants' Orphanage, at De i by, a bamar has byen held on the Mancnester Racecourse. The th,ject is to provide funds for adding a new wing to the Orphanage, to be called the George Stephenson Centenary Wtug.  The complimentary banquet of the City Liberal Club to Mr. Goschen has been fixed for the 27th instant. Several of her Majesty's Ministers are expected to attend, including Earl Granville (who will take the chair) and Sir Charles Billie. The l'rime Minister has been allotted at the Bowie of Commons tho aponnieut in Colonel Forester's htte official residence which 1,11,9 used as a dining room. Mr. Fereter has aho hod a room in the same Louie plum:dot The Brighton Railway Company will shortly ploce on their line a train completely composed of l'ullunin cars. The coinages will be houileoineiy appoieted, and will afford the comfort ut American trains with the speed of the Engiisii.  Constderable sensation has been caused at Stockton by the tore.t of 0 illor W. It. (indium, who WS Liken in cuNtotly on a charge of fraudulently obtaining goods, just after he hal sold.essed a long bytehl to a special meeting of the Town Council. The 3letropolitan Board of Works hare decided to direct the attention of the Home Secretary to the danger arising flout the storage under a peat pressure of gas made from coal oil, and of the desirability of measures being adopted for the protection of the public.  Negotiations are on foot with the Metropolitan Board of Works to secure the site of the Intended Opera House on the Thames Embankment for other purposes. The ground-rent, of .0,000 a year, has been punctually paid since the failure of Mr. Mapleson'e project.  At Preston Sessions Elizabeth Brown has been sent to penal servitude for tire years, for attaeking a girl named Percivai with a poker whilst she was asleep. The girl was frightfully injured, and the prisoner said to the police that she wished she bail killed the proseculris.  A married woman, named Susan Bill, has been bound over by the Bridgewater magistrates to keep the peace for six months with the School Board Inspector (11. r. 2l'lioivan), whom she had threatened to murder on hie complaining of her husband's neglect to send his child to school.  Nothing is known at New York of the alleged visit of the President's private secretary, Mr. Brown, to Ireland, to °...et secret information alluded to in the