The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-02-25 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ADVENTURES OF AN ANARCHIST. That amusing and adventurous Anarchist, called I Lo c Axa, is at last under lock and key, awaiting trial for inflammatory articles contributed to his paper, the Endehors. His rambles around Europe and his arrest at Jaffa are about to be recorded by ! himself, but an advanced account of them can be given in a few lines. Zo d'Axa, whose real name, says the Daily Telegraph, is Galland, is the son of well-to-30 parents, who have been able to give him an income. He has moreover inherited money from an uncle, also belonging to that bourgeois class , which the Anarchists profess to hold in abhorrence. Out of his private fortune Zo da'Axa set up as a ' newspaper editor. Some months ago he was condemned by default to 18 months' imprisonment for inflammatory writing. When the sentence was being read out in court the Anarchist editor was making a tour round the world clad in a suit of green velvet, overtopped by a revolutionary wideawake. He was going musingly along a street in Jaffa last month, followed by a crowd of Syrian boys, when ho was stopped by a person acting as French Consul and told that he was wanted. The refugee pro tested, but six policemen were ordered out for his escort, and he was imprisoned in a tent. The story runs that during the night a heavy shower of rain came on, which caused the easy-going policemen to seek shelter in a house at some distance from their prisoner, whereupon the latter calmly left the tent and applied successfully for hospitality to the English Consular representative. Next day the policemen took their prisoner by force from his retreat, bound him like a bundle, and carri, d him on board the Gironde for transfer to his native country. Zo d'Axa was at first treated as unclremoniously by his own countrymen as by the Syrian police, for they put him in irons and exhibited him as a murderer. The Anarchist was regarded with curiosity by the passengers, and entered into his role as a supposed assassin with apparent relish. It is recorded that an Englishman having naked him hy he was in irons, the Revolutionist replied that it was because he had cut up an old woman into 13 pieces. This statement, made in jest, caused consternation and indignation among the passengers, some of whom wanted to throw the Anarchist overboard. The captain of the Gironde, however, took pity on the prisoner, and towards the termination of the voyage home had him unshackled and placed in a comfortable berth. Zo d'Axa will soon appear before the Assize Court of Paris to answer for his abrupt departure from lirauce while under sentence.  Twenty-five pounds constitute the weight of the new baby hippopotamus at the Central Park Zoo, New York. It was weighed and measured on the day a'ter its birth, when it was about eighteen inches long, and much the same shape as an oyster keg, with a little button of a nose, at one end two pink errs. The elder sister, who was banished from het parents' society before this snivel, was born in October, 1890, and now weighs about half-a-ton, her mother turning the scale at twe tons, and her Nth, r at three-and-half. desnatch from New Orleara announces that o,neral Beauregard, a prowinent figure in the Civil War. died there on Monday. He was born in 1818, Ind joined the Confederates in 1861. beginning the 3ivil War by the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Be vas made a General in July, 1861, for his defeat of -h. ?edemas at Bull Run, and then fom.ht at the 1 'auk% of nhiloli in 1662, and successfully &fen& d Cltailestown in 1864. Be was second in cornman I in Joseph Johnson's army until the war closed. He has since acted as idiutant-General of Louisis_ra.