The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-01-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An extraor. (Barmy crime has just been committed at Blanzat (Puy de Dome). A small farmer, named Br in, had invited his father.indaw to dinner with himself and wife. The husband was seen the next day, but nether of the others, and since then the bodies of all three have been found, lying side by side on a bed in the house. Brun had murdered the woman and her father by shooting them with a pistol during the evening, and the following night had, cut his own throat, and then laid himself down by their side and died. The motive for this act is not stat ed.  We stated some time ago that the meat of horned cattle infected with the rinderpest was perfectly fit for human food. M. HUSOOM has now tried experiments with the milk of cows attacked with the same plague, and which be has compared to that of healthy individuals, Calling the latter A, the milk diawn from a cow in an incipient stage in the disease B, and that, in very small quantity, procet ding from a far-gone subject C, he finds that B cot tame less butter and sugar of milk than A, and C less than B, The sample C had a very disagreeable taste, but M. Husson has ascertained that milk from a cow labouring under the plague in ty be taken with impunity by adults, but should not be given to infants.—Galignani.  • Herr Wagner's " Loliengrin" has reached Florence, after its success in Bologna, the operatic , company of which, with the conductor, Signor Mariani, arrived in Florence, despite a heavy fall of snow, in time to execute the work on the 7th ult. Not a seat was vacant, although the prices had been considerably raised. The King of Italy was present. The Florentines were as enthusiastic a: the Bolognewe, and " Lohengrin" was as triumphant as at Bologna. In consequence of the passing of a new law by the German Parliamenit, relative to damages for injury or death caused by railway accidents, the German railway companies have formed a mutual assuraree company. Damages up to 5,000 thalers are to be raid by the companies immediately responsible; but when that sum is exceeded 5 per cent only will be raid by the company in fault, and the remainder by the other companies in pro- , portion to their nosition and traffie  CHILD MURDER AT WOLVERHAMPfug  On Tuesday, Ellen Gardiner, aged 19, who had be-sm cook in the service of Mr. Bayliss., iron-fencing maker, Compton Road, of Wolverhampton, was committed for trial at the next Staffordshire a, sizes, upon a coroner's warrant, charged with the wilful murder of her infant child. Mr. J. H. Love, surgeon to the police force, deposed that the child had died partly from suffocation, by having been intentionally tightly entebed about the throat, and partly from deliberate injuries to the head, which had fractured the skull two and a half inches in length. These evidences were seen upon a post-mostem examination. After the murder, the body of the child was cast into a stream some distance from lhi, hose. The identity of the child is established ; and since her arrest the mother is believed to have made some kind of a confession.