The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-01-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANDS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—A boy named James Slater, aged 15, was charged at Richmond, on Monday, with attempting to commit suicide. He was found bleeding in the streets, and in reply to a constable said he had cut his throat while in a passion. The prisoner's father said it was impossible to account for the act except on the ground that he appeared to have been drinking. On Sunday night, while sitting near the supper table, he suddenly called out that he would cut his throat, and put his threat into execution. The father ran for a policeman, and in his absence the boy left the house. He was remanded for a week to the House of Detention. MARRIED LIFE IN Lsacasnter.„—GlVlNG AWAY • Wirs.—A singular affair took place in a beerhouse at Bedford, near Leigh, in Lancashire, on Sunday eves. log, a man named Josh. Hindley, fireman at a colliery, having deliberately made a present of his wife to one of his companions. Hindley, it appears, is a young man of about 22, his wife a prepossessing looking woman, who works as a weaver at the mill, being about 19, and there is a child a year old, issue of the marriage. The wife is spoken of by the neighbours as a well-conducted person, but the husband has frequently been heard to express regret at being married, and in the Millstone beerhouse, on the night stated, he offend to make a present of her to a single young fellow named Peter Hayes, a mculder. A lorg preliminary discussion as to the terms of the transfer ensued, both men, it is said by those who were present, being sober. At length the arrangements were completed, which were that Hayes should have the wife, together with the household furniture in Thomas street, besides two guns, the pigeon cote and pigeons, and a sum of .52. At closing time Hindley took Hayes to his wife at home, duly introduced him to her as her new husband, and Immediately left the place, where Hayes remained for the night. When ilindley handed over his wife to Hayes, he signed a paper confirming the presentation of his wife to a friend. Mrs. Hindley readily consented to the transfer.  Mr. Forrester has taken up the part of Druil Deuce at the Haymarket, Mr. Iletmann VPLill going to the James to play in the " 1 The death is announced of M. Gustave Laf.itague, dramatic critic of the Paris Figaro, anti tarps nal secretary of the Paris Opera Cornique. Mr. Knowles's connection with the Coutemlywn,7l new has ceased, and be is about to assume the cnitrol of a periodical to be styled The .11.1" th C•utnry.  TUN FREPCII SUGAR Mmes. A telegram from Paris stated the other day that "Messrs. Etienne, the greatest sugar refiners in Nantes, have closed their establishment for want of raw material, and many other houses have discharged their workmen. Hence considerable distress. The approaching debate on the sugar question in the Chamber is looked forward to with intense anxiety." The fact that the French re. fitters are without sugar—although the reason of the scarcity is thought to be a temporary and artificial one, arising from market manipula! ions which have made the production of refined at present unprofitable— therefore comes opportunely to remind the advocates of protective duties that they cannot procure national prosperity by taxing the country and impeding the free course of trade. When the best crops were large, the French consumer, as such, felt no pinch. The refiners could get plenty to manufacture, and could sell within the country all the cheaper, because of the bounties they obtained by exporting a lower quality in exchange for the higher quality received from abroad. But the surplus for distribution amongst French consumers so secured can now hardly be considered, in any one light, to outweigh the disadvantages of a tax barrier against free trade in sugar in France. The production of beet sugar in that country was only half a good crop last autumn, and the deficiency of nearly 400,000 tons in the continental crop of beet for the peat year comes upon a market falling-off in the cane crop. The result must be a great deficiency of supply this year, and both refiners end consumers already feel what it is to be shut out from the markets of the world. With the aid of the bounties secured by refiners, and the resulting increase of competition amongst the latter, the French consumer has benefited by reduced prices down to a certain point. That point now appears to have been reached.—Ecinkonist.  Solomon" will be the next oratorio given by the Sacred Harmonic Society. Mr. J. K. Paine' of Mavard College, has written an overture suggested by Shakespeare's " As lou like it."