The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1870-02-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OCCASIONAL NOTES.  A meeting of the members of the Glamotgan Agricultural Society was held on Tuesday for the purpose of electing a president for the year, when Major Turbervill, of Ewenny Abbey, was unanimously elected, and from the interest the Major shows in all matters of importance to the county, we have no doubt he will well fulfil the duties.  To-morrow (Saturday), the transfer of the property of the telegraph companies to the Postmaster-General will have been completed,  and on and from that day the conduct of telegraph business within the United Kingdom will be undertaken by the Post-office. A list of the postal telegraph offices, which will on that day be open to the public, will be ready for exhibition to the public on that day at all  the post-offices in the United Kingdom.  On the morning of the sth of February— commencing at eight o'clock—and thenceforward, the charge for the transmission of an inland message, that is of a message going from one part of the United Kingdom to ancther part of the United Kingdom—will be uniformly, and without regard to distance, Is. for the first twenty words, exclusive of the address, for which no charge will be made, and 3d for each additional five words, or part of five words. The message forms provided for those who wish to transmit inland messages will be of two kinds, viz., forms with a Is. stamp embossed thereon, and forms with- ' out any such stamp. Both kinds of forms may be obtained at the postal telegraph offices, and the unstamped forms may be obtained at the railway stations, from which the railway companies will transmit messages on account of the Post-office. he forms with the is. stamp embossed thereon, will be sold in books of fifty forms, price Zft 10s., or will be sold singly, or in such numbers less than fifty as may be convenient to the purchaser. We need scarcely add that an office will be opened at the Btidgend Post-office, and that the arrangements for the transmission of messages are completed. We have made arrangements, by which the Queen's speech, on the opening of Parliament on Tuesday next, will be specially telegraphed to our office, and will be placed before the public immediately on its arrival.  Two sad events have to be recorded this week, one a case of suicide—we might almost apply the same term to each—at Cwmavon, by a young girl, because her father was averse to her courtship with a young man in the neighbourhood. The facts will be found reported elsewhere. At the inquest the young man referred to gave evidence, and added a piece of gratuitous information which dis.. played a heartless feeling on his part, for lie said that he was only "playing with her," meaning that The was only trifling with the affections of the deceased ; under other circumstances such an assertion might have made him culpable. The other sad case is the death of Mr. Richard Hodgson, who was connected with the traffic department of the Llynvi and Ogmore Railway Co. The deceased was well known in the neighbourhood, and much liked by his numerous acquaintances. The deceased had been indulging too freely in drink of late, and this, coupled with exposure to the night air, had hastened his death. There is a discrepancy between the evidence of Mr. LEWIS at the inquest, and the driver ROSE, 55 to the quantity of liquor the deceased had supplied him at the Angel, at Aberkenfig, and as to his ability to take care of himself. We cannot help remarking upon the reckless way in which liquor is too often given to inebriated persons by publicans; some further restriction upon the public-house keeper is required, and we cannot understand why houses in the country should be kept open at all hours during the night while the law is stringently carried out in the metropolis for shutting up at midnight. The blow against the victualling interest last year was of only a feeble character, and more is required to be done, and as the teetotal mission fails in many quarters, the Legislature must endeavour to make up for the deficiency. It will be remembered that at thelast "walk over" for parliamentary honours for this county, an irrepressible voter asked Mr. TALBOT if he was in favour of closing publichouses on Sunday, and that Mr. TALBOT replied in the negative. Those who agree with the questioner will, no doubt, be glad to learn that one Welsh member (Mr. Morgan) has promised to bring in a special bill if Parliament does not move in the matter in the fast approaching Session, and they will also read with pleasure the following resolution passed by the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of intoxicating Liquorson Sunday (except to travellers). The resolution is as follows "That this committee, appreciating the sympathy with its great object which has been shown by the ministers of the various religious denominations, would respectfully but most earnestly request each clergyman and minister throughout this land to preach a sermon on this important subject, on or about the second Sunday in February, or as near that day as c(.nvenient, and would further ask that at the close of such sermon, wherever practicable, a collection might be made in behalf of the funds of the Association, so that the Committee may be enabled vigorously to prosecute the agitation till the object is accomplished."