Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. Since thedatoof the receivingorder thedebtorhas succeeded to the title of Marquis of Donegal. He was adjudged bankrupt in 1856, and again in 1869, from which latter proceedings he he has not obtained his discharge. At the Bow St. Police Court, on Wednesday, Messrs. Matthovson and LOMBOII, of Holywell Street, Messrs. Vizetelly of Henrietta Street, and three other booksellers, named respectively Smith, George, and Roberts, were charged with selling and uttering certain lewd, wicked, scandalous, and obseenebookii, specified by name, amongst them being " Nana ' and several others by Emily Zolo. It will be remembered Messrs Viztellie will recently be summoned on a similar charge. Joseph Gurney, attendant in the Lancashire County Asylum, Rainhill, has been the subject of a murderous attack by an inmate known as "Jimmy Lund," who, being considered harmless, was put to remove slack in the gasworks. With a spade Lund dealt the attendant a blow on the head, and felled him to the ground, where Lund renewed the attack. Faint hopes are entertained of the attendant's recovery. Lund aaid a man within him told him to kill Gurney, and he felt he must do it. A strange cane of poisoning has occurred at Guernsey, the victims being three soldiers of the East Surrey Regiment. The men, accompanied by two comrades, were drinking at several country public-houses. After leaving the last one they lay down in the road, and manifested symptoms of poisoning far beyond the insensibility of ordinary intoxication. They were conveyed to the military hospital, where restonttives were applied, but two of them, named Hobbs and Piggott, one of whom was a lancecorporal, died almost immediately, while the other lies in a precarious condition. The other two men will be called at the inquest to give the particulars of what occurred, as ,various conflicting rumours are now current. The incident has caused much excitement in the island Some excitement has been caused in Shrewsbury by the arrest of a man named Edwin Wilkes, who had eloped with a domestic servant, leaving his wife and family in Shrewsbury. Wilkes was formerly a fanner in a large way, but has recently resided in Shrewsbury, the girl being in the service of a neighbour. The runaway husband left home at the beginning of last week, and from inquiries made by Mr. Blackwell chief constable at Shrewsbury, it was ascertained that ho had gone to Plymouth, and had booked a berth for Australia for Mr and Mrs. Wilkes. Mr. Blackwell thereupon hastened to Plymouth and succeeded, with the aid of a detective, in arresting Wilkes just before the steamer started. He was brought back to Shrewsbury, and will appear at the Police Court in answer to a charge of deserting his wife and family. The girl has also returned to Shrewsbury. . . .  In the division on Mr. SaMuol Smiths' amendment with reference to the liquor traffic in India the temperance party defeated the Government by ten, the numbers being: _  e For the amendment For the Government ... 103  Majority The following Conservatives voted in the majority against the Government :—Sir Fitzwygram, Major-General Goldsworthy, Sir W. H. Houldsworth, W. Johnson, John R. Killy, Sir J. H. Kennaway, and Sir A. K. Rollit. The following Liberal Unionists also supported the amendment :—J. Caldwell, A. C. Corbett, L. H. Courtney, Sir Rayne Crossley, Hon. W. H. Fitzwilliam, Lewis Foley, Henry Hobhouge, T. Lea. M. Story-Maskelyne, F. B. Mildmay, T. W. Rusasell, and W. P. Sinclair. ' The Guion steamer Arizona, which has arrived from New York, brings tidings of the long-missing British vessel Wandering Minstrel and the whereabouts of her crew. It now appears that two years ago she was wrecked off the Midway Islands, but the captain, his wife, children, and the crew reached the islands in safety, where they have had to remain ever since. The natives are treating them kindly. The Wandering Minstrel, a three-manted schooner of 362 tons, belongink to the port of Peterhead, Railed from Hongkong in the month ef August, 1887, on a shark-capturing expedition. The vessel was ordered to return within a year. Nothing was heard of her or of the crew until the first mate and a castaway reached Honoululu in a sail boat on tht 21st of April, when the mate gave information that the Wandering Minstrel extrounterid a fearful gale about two years ago and foundered but all hands reached the islands in safety. The first mate started for Ifonolula, in a schooner's boat which had been yradtcsi on to the island. The authorities immediately chartered a vessel to proceed to the aid of the captain, his wife, children, and the surviving members of the crew, who will no doubt be rescued in due time.