The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NEATII GUARDIANS V. JORN THONAS REES.  This was a butum.ms for non-maintenance of a wife, and was further adjourned to enable the defendant to appear. Mr. Win. John appeared for the guardians.  BAST/  The ewe of Mary Davie., v. John Thomas was further adjourned until the 2let inst.  On Sunday next, the 23rd instant, the Rev. R. C Lewis, of Moiriston will preach morning and evening at ihe Wind Street Congregational Church, Neath, when we trust large congregations will be present to hear this earnest and successful young minister.  The Harvest Thanlcsgiviing and Dedication services will be held at St. Matthew's Church, Duffryn, on Friday next,, at 4 p.m. The pr,acher will be the Rev. C. J. Thompson, vicar of St. John's, Cardiff. There will also be a choral celebration of Holy Communion at 8.15 a.m.  A potato, weighinsr one pound, was planted in the spring by Mr. Moss, Lord Jersey's gardener, at Britonferry, and a few days ago the potato was dug up and produced 621b5., one potato weighing 2lbs. The potato is called the "New American Blush," an American variety, ripening between " Beauty of Hebron" and "White Elephant," supplied by J. Jeffries and Son, Circencester. On Wednesday afternoon, as Mrs. Prescott, of Bristol, entered an empty carriage of the Swansea and Mumbles Steam Tram Company at the lintland Street Station, she discovered a purse on the twat containing over £6 which had been left there by a previous passenger. The purse and contents were left with the station master by Mrs. Prescott.  Over 1,200 applications have been received for the post of public executioner, vacated by the d.ath of Marwood.  "General" Booth hag made a rcquest to the Foreign Office concerning the imprisonment of his &tighter in Switzerland. The Government have moved in the matter.  On Wednesday at Birmingham, a murderous wealth was ma& upan one John Dukes, by a man named Reynolds, who fractured Duke's skull with a heavy stick. He is not expected to recover.  At Havre on Wednesday, a terrible fire broke out on board the barque Oxford. Her cargo was benzine, and the destruction of the vessel was complete. One of the crew was burnt to _ _  At the Corn Exchange, Leeds, on Wednesday, a policeman saw a boy loitering about, and spoke to him, whereupon the boy fired at the officer from a pistol. The shot struck the wall within a yard of the officer's head. The boy was taken in charge, and turns out to be the son of a chemist's widow. Another desperate struggle with a burglar is reported, this time at a country spot near the rill ige of Park street, St. Albans. A gardener named Grimwood, hearing some one in his house early on Sunday morning, went downstairs, when the burglar attacked him with an open knif. The househtdder and the burglar chased,  and a severe contest took place for the possession' of the knife. The wife of the former, however, emouraged by V e cries of her husband, hammered the burglar's head with a pek r iint,l he we., stunned, when Griniwood, getting tree, hound him fa-t with a clothes line until a policeman could be obtained. How Marvellously are the Deadly Disease Dropsy, Wind, Asthma. Palpitation of Heart, Scantiness of Water, Swellings, etc., cured WI en taking Hughes' Patent Dropsy Pills. We :idvise all sufferers to give them a trial Sold everywhere at is. ltd., 2s. 9.1., and 4s. 6d.  KEATING'S COTNISI LOZENGES cure (loughs .I.thrna, Bronchitis. Medic ii testimony totes at no other medicine is so effectual in the cure  .1 these .laugerous maladie, One lozenge alone res ease, one or twe at bed time ensures reut. rtlieviug difficulty of breathing they are in. aluAle. They contain no opium nor any violent drug. Sold by all chemists in Tins In. lid and 2s. bd. each.