Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-06-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  p.The American Rifle 'Team will leave NeW York 01. Jane 19 for Wimbledon. The Meerut, understende that Lord Dufferin will shortly receive a Speci,tl mark of Soya) appre• elation for his services in Egypt. Our Athenry correspondent says the Rev. Dr. Carr, who was dignissimus for the vacant see of Galway. has been appointed bishop for the diocese At Fulwood, Preaton, on Saturday night, a not.. titer's clerk, named James Proctor, shot his sweetheart, and after ward. committed suicide. intelligence wan received at histon on 'Tuesday of the death of Mr. Thcanse Gerrit, who represented ihat borough in the last Parliament. The Duke of Cambridge has been invited to give evidence before the Channel 'Tunnel Committee, and has consented. Ills Royal Wghness, it is well known, is averse to the scheme. Corporal Marten Young, let Scottieh Rifles, ha 3 been sentenced by court Martial at Aldershot to 56 days' imprisonment for selling coals which he was charged to distribute to the ei:01. Mr. Sexton has resigned his position as senior aecretary to the Irish Parliamenteiy party on the ground of ill•health. tie has held the post since 1880. • • -•----  At Leeds, on Monday, a man named Armstrong was remanded nn it charge of murdering Catherine Gregory, a widow, 50 years of age, by kicking her about thh head. - —• ••••  At Rot ford on Monday Stephen Phillips, manager of the Rot ford Co-operative Stores, plesded guilty ton charge of embezzling moneys of the society. and win sentenced to six iiiontlis hard 1-iboor. • • -  A supplement of the London Goalie leaned on Tuesday prolonga until the 6th of July the proltibi• tion of importing cattle from France into Great Britain. It is freely stated in Conservative circles that her Majesty's Judges have expressed themselves hostile to the Criminal Appeal Bill now before the Standing Committee! Mr. John Albert Bright, eldest son of Mr. John Bright, was married at t he Unitarian Chapel. Rochdale, yesterday, to Miss Edith Shawcrose. Mr. John Bright won present. At Woottomunder•Edge on Monday night the Falvat ion Army WAS attacked by the Skeleton Army, and in the wilee a policeman was injured, and two Salvationists were severely beaten. The Canadian and Iroquois Indian Lacrosse tainis played three games at Burlingham Club Ground on SAttlrilltV laterlloo,l in veil unfavour. able weather. The Canadians won by two gams to none.  Professor Ruskin lectured on Saturday afternoon in the University Museum, Oxford. He urged the necessity of pure and simple depiction of natural objects, and counselled students always to endeavour to draw nature in its truthful aspect. At a Board of Trade inquiry at Middlesborough on Tueaday into the lows of the steamship Asia, of Liverpool, with all hands, the court found that she was overladen, and the cargo improperly secured.  Mr. flarrington, M.P., left London for Iniland on Tuesday, avowedly for the purpose of enabling the Irish nut horn ies to take legal proceedings against him, and thereby "to justify in his person Umir recent action in regard to the Kerry Sentinel."  The Aborigines' PnAection Society have received letter from the Colonial Office acknowledging tie receipt of the mAnorial :most New Guinea. Earl Granville's secretary adds that the question is reCeiving the caret slconstderationot Lier Majeety's Government. -  Forged one pound notes,purporting to be issued by the Royal Rank of Ser•tland, are circulating in Clasgow sod the West of Scotland. The eounte, reds e good imitations. but being lithographed hinted:l of being engraved the outlines are not so sharp as the genuine n••tes. - - - •  A young lady named Henderson, one of a party Of excursionists to !balmy, Orkney Isles. on Satin, day whilst searching for eggs among the cliffs was suddenly missed. It is sopposed she slipped over the cliffs. A search for her body was futile, and it is supposed to have been swept out to set. Three women were remanded at biverpnol on Tele a lay charged with committing an ou t rage on n n out woman named Gallagher, Wil.l they attacked whit a knife and poker no violently that her left arm had to be amputated. Mortification net is. and she is believed to belying.  - . At Dorchester on Tumilar Charles William Blake, alir.3 Frank Mot.car, an artilleryman, underwent his final examination, and was committed for tri *I on 's charge of wholesale swindling. A letter from Prince Edward of Sane-Weimar was read di i• claiming ell knowledge of the prisoner.  The expectation in circles is that the Session will not be prolonged beyond the 28th af August. Such of the tinvertintent Bills as cannot be got through by that time will be abandoned. There is no real hope of pals ing the Critni nal Pr eedure Bill, and the prospects of the Patents fill ore not regarded an protnising. On Saturday morning two labourers, named Sparkes and Griffiths, were engaged with others • n the detnolition of an old mansion known as Chos geld, in Lower Teddington-road, Hampton Wick, when a wall fell upon them, burying them under the fragments. They were promptly got out, bet We was in both came extinct. Count Zacharoff, egret of the Allen Line, who le in Galway on emigration business, has received a letter threatening him with denth unlem tso Mayas that. city within 24 hours. Much indignation is said to exist in the district. because the count is engaving factory girls already employed to work at a factory in Massachusetts. The barque Stonewall Jackmn, of Boston, U.S., from Portland, Oregon, to idertlepnol, with 1,400 tons wheat, struck the rocks south of Redcar Pi r at midnight on Monday whilst. in tow of a steam tug, and filled with water. She is likely to become s total wreck. Her crew, nuinbering eighteen, pies-ceded in getting on board the steam tug. The " Prom Association" Marlborough uorresprindent says:—Two Conservative candidates /lave announced their intention of going to the poll at the next election. The leading ConserveCV.s have necepted Colonel Carden. The other candidate is Mr. Nlonn. Fenton Lodge, Andover. The White Star steamer Briietneic, which left Quismatown for Yew York lest Fri lay, put hack on Teestlay, and reports that a flaw had been discovered in Om crank shaft. She WO proceeding for Liveip.ml for repairs, bilk landed mails and passengers to proceed by another V,