The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-12-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MENTAL OVER\VORK AND SUICIDE.  Threatening notices were posted near Mitchelstown on Sunday, signed "Rory o: the Rills," win n• 'lams to pay no rent yeti! $ !hvic:3l.ll?•ttement was taunted, under pain of i.ntr.odi.ite death. sta the rgAive tiqte Lel-hived to refer io Lidy Ica,gelco'r 6statu Ito • tenants indighantly tore down the plauardF. They state the land is lotat a fair rent, they have asked for no abatement, hell plenty of employmint is given. roth.ps are attrilated to local agitators, who sae:. to disturb the peaceful relations existing between the Wray:lts and the liiiidlcrds. Mit Catholic party in Alsime-Lorraine is about to ftort a stestapapow for the If f •nee of its interests. The Shuttle:4,ler baA gran ed authorisation.  A painful interest was mini,. ated on Monday in the proceedin...• at an ;mined held at the hayrack Tavern, Woolwich, r, halve to the death of Mr. Henry Maurice Detwentwatcr Ratcliffe, B.A. Cambridge, aged 30, Ileammistor of tie Woo mi. h-comuion Military College, an establishment at which young gentlemen are pre i :.red for the Royal Military Academy and the army. The Rev. Chic. lee Ratcliffe, of Willing, Bedfordshire, said that the deceased, his brother, had often c implainol that his work was Laing him, saying that the trouble of teaching did not affect him so ntach a.. the weary of management, which tie tringipal of the collerei., Mr. Rippm, left in his hands. tio had about 50 pupils under his charge, and for more them tom years he had apycared more or less oppressed by his r. so 11:.PAilit.e.. Cis rffiysical health was also unsatisfactory, and for the laat mmith he Lid been suffering from an injury to the foot to.osiicid at football. Ile had spoken of going abroad at tiirlsttfyis for th sake of is health, but did not wish to do Sop Fez/We/lie was saver' to show that on lisiurday morning &Lewd brought borne a new pair of pistols, which the servants si In his room unloaded. Ilia manner during the day was as usual, which was generally strange, and in the afternoon ho %%rota to a friend, Mr. Firth, putting off a proposed visit In th- oven.ng, and saying. "To morrow, ! I shall be engaged; but we will have a night of it heir i•e I quit this dreary world for ever." Re sat up till midhight, when one of the pupils kit him alone, and immediately afterwards a report of firearms was heard, andeleceased was found sitting 'in an arm-chair, with a pistol in his 4and and a woand in the centre of his forehead. Dr. Barris Butler, his medical attendant, said that the deceased nuite broke down through over study and hard work 'shout a month ago, and, by tbeadvice of witness, Mr. Rippin soot him away for a week's rear, and relieving bim from teaching far the remainder of the term. Circumatances prev,inted Ida being away more than three days, bid he said that his work was less difficult then before, and he preferred to stay rather than go again. Mr. Wardlow Kennedy, a tutor at the estiblisliment, said that the deceased had displayed undoubted signs of temporary. insanity; and other witnesses bore testimony to the samo effect. The jury wished for the attendance of ;be pupil who last spoke to the deceased, and the inquest was adjourned.  It is espeelog that the Lord Lieutenancy of th• county of Durham, scortiag,l by the death of the Earl of Dulham, will be confericti on the Marquis of fmndouderry. The number of private bills for the next sessiott; of Parliment depo9ited at the Private Bill Offieo of the House of Commons is 213. Last year the number was 238.  The remains of the Earl of Durham were interred at Bourne Moor on Wednesday. Business was suspended in Durham, and the funeral procession was about a mile long.