The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1883-08-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. •  The Wt Coast of Scotland, on Friday, was strewn with wreckage from the storm which was Still r aging , -  Fifty acr es of property have been burned at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. The loss is estimated at 250,000 dollars. At West Bromwich on Saturday three ricks of hay were on fire. Two ricks were destroyed; the greater part of the third was saved. We are glad to state that the Bishop of Peterborough is still making favourable progress, though slow.  At Sunder:and, on Saturday, a music hall W fla burnt to the ground. About 1,900 people were in the building when the fire broke out, but they all left without confusion. - - - • • - -•  At Atlanta, in Georgia, a block of buildings, including a hotel and several banl s, was swept away; and the loss is estimated at a million dollars.  The ems itional Belgium clerical case, in which Canon Bernard was charged with embezzling tho funds of the church, concluded on Saturday morning; the court aquitted the prisoner. —--••••- • • • • • • •  H.M.S. Salamis, which had been docked at Sheerness for repairs, has been condemned as unfit for further service. She was formally a despatch vessel to the Channel Squad on. On Thureday at Liverpool, the dynamite prisoners, Deasy, Flannagan, Featherstone, and O'Connor, were sentenced to penal servitude for life.  The fines imposed on the Dublin jurors who failed to attend when the Phcenix Park murderers wtr, being tried have been remitted, except in four cases._  The committee of the Farmers' Alliance on Monday passed a resolution urging the Government to reject the whole of the Lords' amendments to the Agricultural Holdings Bill.  The Rev. -Nathaniel Colton was sent to prison for a month at Oxford on Friday, in default of paying a fine for being drunk and disorderly.  Wal,h, the man charged with intimidating Need, wh gave evidence in the Phcenix Park cases, has been ordered to find bill to be of food character, or undergo three months' trapriaciament.  At a meeting of the Cardiff School Board held on Friday, plans for a higher grade school were received and approved, and the clerk was instructed to ask the approval of the Edncation Department of such plans The Marquis of Bute gave a grand concert Cr Cardiff Castle on Friday evening. Dr. Parry, of Swansea, was the conductor, the whole of the arrangements having been carried out end r his supervision. The concert consisted of Welsh airs, sung in the vernacular. A singular death has occurred at Aberayron. A visitor named Samuel Evans, of Powlais, was found in his night olothes on the pavement, with a deep cut over his eyes and in an unconbelOlLS condition. Every effort was made to restore the unfortunate man, but he died in a few hours.  At Shoeburynesa, on Friday, the First Division of Artillery Volunteers marched out of camp to make room for the Second Division which arrived on Saturday. The Colonel complimented the men on the behaviour in camp.  The barque William Miles, 1,0 0 tons barthen, bound from Havre to Swansea, in ballast, has gone a-here on the sands east of Porthoawl and qill prkhably become a total wreck The or were an saved.  The living, of Slebeeh, Iraverfordwest, Ite.,resi vacant by the resiwnation of the Rev. J. Morris, has been presented, we understand, 11 the Baron De Rutzen to the Rev. F. Foster, N.A., Rector of Prendergast. The living is worth 'bout £lOO a year.  A prokitu'e named Alice Edwards, at Cardiff, but hailing from Newport, has had left her by an uncle the sum of £l,