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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-02-01 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

VALUABLE TROPICAL  NO MORN TOUGH MIRAT.  A German natmelist, Herr Wittroach, he. recently been making experiment. with the tropical fruit known es the papaw (eerie' papaya), the juice of which is found to possess the curious property when boiled with tough meat of rendering it tender. It the unripe fruit be pissed in the water is Which the toughest mist is to be cooked, it is found to effectually soften it and render it perfectly digestible; and the same re. sults are obeeived if the most be merely washed with the juice of the fruit. The think white milky, or rather creamy, juice, when extzsoted from the unripe papaw, in tact, contain. propertiee similar to those of pepsine, and it, is. poseible that it may be MEW ceptible of chemical preparation and become a valuable medicine. • Used-boiled, albumen, or white of egg, to which • few drops of dilate juice have been added, has been found, after 21 hoar., to be perfectly soft and tasty broken up, having undergone, it fact, the same prdoess as food digested in the natural way. If taken in too large doses, the substance is dangerous, hiving the effect of permeating and actually destroying the thin mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines In Barbadoes, for instance, and other Welt India Islands, it was Ones the custom to feed pigs on the green fruit, but it was found that if the animals °Dammed any very large quantity of the diet without snakiest proportion of other kinds of food they suffered in health and were 'totally killed by the inteiudV of the chemical action. In Quito the use of the juke as a means of rendering meat tender is very general. To sailors and others whose dietary largely comet, of hard "junk" this fret is of great interest, salt meat- bceng affected in pre. slimly the name manner ea freak meat. The papaw fruit, when fully ripe, is about seven or eight bushes long, of • bright yellow colour, somewhat resembling • citron or lemon, of the flavour of which it partakes in • small degree; .aat anplearant tests of petroleum, or, as deseribed by some persona, of indiarubber or torpmane, however pervades ths fruit,—Ookattie aad  Another double suicide has bean °outwitted in the Breda quarter, at Paris. Mdli.. kergiterite D--, not having been seen by her neighboars for two days, her room was broken open. The yoang woman was foetid dead on her bed. By her cite lay the body of her over, • young man rum.' Paul F—, the lion of • provincial notary. They hod poieoned thenuielves. It appears teat the young men bad forged some cheques to meet the etpumee of hia mistress, and, fearing the puoish meet that would follow, he kie.rsuaded he: to commit suicide with him.  wax idt liattzted  li ;I?  anci  manci  A bOZ13101.:11111:10AI2DIAIL  rDM'jggeilattlaritritlal -11-',197 no *la& eche4 *lf a "dr ..(Myrn7R-Itt.t& agßir, s! T si :ra*a! soil atw Wad er'!tis:atian."l a sow I.!werwEirl t444oolllliliratirr%* Vottlang •-T 1 i
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-03-29 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

INGULAR SUICIDE.  A:inquest was held as Motullay by the coroner for *ikon touching the death of john Andrew BYsees aged Sh tears, who had &remitted subside uncles the following circumstances. The &noosed, who worked in the timber yard of Mr. Norris, was thrown out of employment loot week, and this, eoupled with the feat that about the same time he was rejected by the object of his affections—a servant engaged at • pabliohouse in lioltoe—hed • most depreseing drat upon him. On Friday evsning he milled at the Oliver Cromwell boathouse, in Bridgemanatrest, and expressed his determination to drown himself. He also said that he had a penny, and se that would be the lisat drop of beer he would have on earth, he would have • penny gill with it. The landlord sympathetically remarked to deceased that if he was going to make such "straight work" of himielf he should have • pint of beer forth, penny, and at once supplied him with it. Decessad invited the oompany to drink with him, and ache was about to leave the how's he was asked to leave something by way of legacy. He then emptied his pooketa of their contents, which he distributed amongst the company, ting to one a knife, and to another his pipe. and lord expressed • desire to hare • look of hair, but deceased appeared reluctant to grant that request, and gave him a brass button which had oome of his trousers. This the landlord nailed up in his taproom as • memento, and then advised tithes, as the weather waa so very cold, to And • warm water lodge in which to drown himself. Deceased left the house, and appears to lave gone and thrown himself into the warm water lodge of Maas. Mandan and Sons, in Coohrane street, where his body was eubseqnently diaeovered. The jury returned • verdict of " Tempi:ear, insanity."
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1879-07-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.  The will (doted March 11, 1878), with a oodicil (dated January 23, 1879), of Mr. William Holland, formerly one of the principal partners in the firm of Messrs. Holland and Sone, late of No. 109, Harley street, who died on May 3 last, was proved on the 20th ult. by Mrs. Phoube Jane Holland, the wick w, and Thomas Alban Holland and the Be,. Cyril William Holland, the sons, the ereentora, the personal estate being sworn under £140,000. The testator leaves to his wife his furniture, plate, pictures, jewellery, household effects, wines, consumable atoms, horses and carriages, and a pecuniary legacy of .21,000, and for life the income of one-third of the residue of his real and personal estate ; to hit cook, Elizabeth Stephens, £120; and to hie housemaid, Mary Frost, and his coachman, Charles Bourne, £lOO each, free of duty, conditionally on their being in his ;service at the time of his decease. The remaining two.thirds of the residue of hie property, and the whole on the death of hie wife, he gives to his eight children, Mrs. Phcebe Anne Hunnybun, William James Holland, Miss Caroline (Maypole Holland, Mies Edith& Gertrude Holland, Thome Alban Holland, Cyril William Holland, Edgar Stuart Holland, and Bernard Egerton Holland.—The will (dated August 8, 1676) with two oodioila (dated August 30, 1876, and June 9,1877) of Lady Charlotte Penelope Strut, late ci No. 10, Charles street, Berkeley square, who died on April 7 last, was proved on the 24th ult. by Colonel Charles Napier (Burt, the aon, and the Bight Hon, Thomas George, Earl of Northbrook, the son-in. law, the executors, the personal Imitate being sworn under £BO,OOO, There are numerous lepotes, both peennbary and specie°, and the residue of her property the testatrix gives to her said son, Colonel Start—The will (dated Mereh 11,1878) of Miss Mary Hine, late of No. 6, Re•thoote street, Meeklenburgh square, who died on the sth ult., was proved on the 25th nit. by Henry Michael Demphy, the sole executor, the personal estate being sworn under .29,000. Among other legacies, the testatrix bequeaths £2O to the Incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Regent street, for his oohed' ; .2230 to the National Benevolent Institation ; and .2400 to the Royal Academy of Musk% Tenterden street, the dividends or interest to be appliad as • yearly prize for the composer of the beet English ballad, under seventeen years of age, and to be called " The.Hine Prise or Gift."—Prom the Ilinagrated London News, Jul 12.  A sbormaker, named Brown, has been appro. bended at Writtle, near Chelmsford, allergen with attempting to murder hie wife, and with afterward@ attempting to commit suicide. The pri. boner cut his wite's throat and hie own, but in neither care, happily, are the inj iries likely to prove fatal.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-08-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DOUBLE SUICIDE TO AVOID THE  WORKHOUBB.  Mr. Wynne B. Baxter, coroner of Bast London, held an inquiry into the oroumatanoes connected with the deaths of Charles Hatton, aged 42 years, • pecker, and Miss Hatton, aged SS years, his wife, who were found poisoned in bed. The whole of the facts of the ease were of • most distressing nature.—Blisa Cox, the wife of • looksmith, Identified the man as her brother, who had been out of work sinoe Christmas.—The Coroner: How had they been living i—Witness: By pawning their thine. —Did the wife do any work f—She mad to until her eyesight failed her.—The coroner at this point read the following letter whieh the man had left on the table: "I leave these few lines to sal that we have poisoned ourselves so an be escape the workhouse, as we have no money and nothing to make any of. May the Lord forgive for what we have doze. We cannot stand It no longer. —O. Harrow. My sister's address 1. 241, Wilmot-street, Bethnal-green-road."—By a juryman : Have they ever applied for relief I Witness: N.. The Coroner: The letter suggests that they would net. —Wittiest added that she last saw Mrs. Hetten alive on Saturday last, when she gave her money with which to get Sunday's dinner.—P.o. Hitler deposed to bursting open the door at the reggaetion of the landlord, and finding the deossestL The place was beautifully clean, but there wee no trace of food with the exosption of • small qnsisaty of flour.—The Coroner said it was a most distreesing story, and he oould not help •tidnklig thal tb• horror of the workhouse would be in s arose measure done away with, if the system et cation now now in vogue in Sheffield were Matted throughout the country. Then the respestehle poor would not have to associate with the eruilitless beings who had drifted into the workhouses • result of their own misdeeds.—A juror ooneseded that the case was • strong argument in favour of a bettor system of outdoor relief.—Aftar a brief deliberation, the jury returned • verdict in both awes of "Suicide while of unsound mind," adding that it was brought on by distress.  A gentleman who is said to have been a lieutenant in the British army has oommitted suicide at North Peak by means of morphine. It is believed the rash sot was prompted by btudnese worries. He was 47 years of age.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-06-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE THROUGH WANT.  On 43aturday evening, Mr. W. 3. if afristrode of a the a:ironer* for the county of Kent; held an aquest at Upner, near Rochester, as to the death of Frederiok Hunt, a cement worker, aged 49 1" years. It appeared from the evidenoe tlfit deceased rose at about 5 o'clock in the mdrifing,' as if going out to seek for work. His wife gbt •k' up later, and on descending the cellar to fetch a wood to make • tire, preparatory to getting breakfast ready, she was horrified to And blisr.". hanging by the neck by a rape suspended ?rein it"! Iron bracket. He was dead. It was stated that'' the cement trade had been in a very depressed' condition, and a number of hands had been thrown out of work. The deceased had been unable to get anything to do for 10 weeks, although he had tiled hard to obtain employment. His want of moms t in that respect, coupled with the privation it ens " tailed, had preyed upon his mind; and early liial the week he had told his wife that the next time 4 be went out he perhaps should never return. 41604 jury returned a verdict that deceased bad oono* mho:id suicide daring a fit of temporary inianity.f —The Coroner: You could come to no other oell.ooo elusion, gentlemen. -the poor fellow WIN 'o' have been almost dying of starvation, althoegk'be was willing to work and earn his bread. It* a A very sad oats indeed.  ,••• • 1/414 A German bicyclist has just ridden a race a railway train. The event was decided at Boxiunele-: .0 burg. A mechanic named Gars betted tbat would beat the express train from Rumme'Aurae@ far as Friedrichshegen, a disteaos of Ili miles, by 10 minutes. As the train moved from the station, .1 Gars swung himself on to his bicycle, and was wow • out of eight. He really reached the goal IQ ), minutes before the express, having done the disanos in 32 minutes, and won his bet. ,
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-05-22 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE. Mr. Psyne,tbe Southwark oorbeer, held an inquest at Guy's Hoepital, on the body of Henry Riebasd 1 Mansfield, aged 45, of 38, New-street, Doekbeads The deceased, who was lampmaker to the Surrey Gas Company and the Bermondsey Board, Tbad , been • in bad health for some months past, suffered acutely from rl/4euniatisin, was in debt, and greatly diatreseed from want of trade. He left home is the morning with the intention of trying to borrow money enough to pay the rent - collector the same evening, and, not returning, his sister, who kept house for him, went in search of him, and on the foliating night he was found lying apparently dead on his workshop floor. The workshop door was fastened, and, on Lis sister kicking at the panel to open it. Muse field crawled from a heap of shavings under the bench and unfastened t e latch, when hews. found to have a deepgash in the throat, his shirt front isaci,elozhing being clotted with blood. A doctor was summoned and the deceased removed to Guy's Hospital, where he died soon afterwards from the .njuries. A subeequent search in the workshop led to the discovery of a razor, upon which blood was clotted, amongst the, slayings, which were also spotted with blood, and amongst the deceased's papers were found three letters, dated November last, stating his intention of, committing suicide, and willing his property to his sister. A billbead was also found with the words, 'This is all through that vagabond, Sleigh, the. broken. down Forester," scrawled across it; and that person, being called, deposed to having discovered, on the death of Mansfield's lather, eighteen months ago the (WM of £llO hidden in a crock in the cellar, and about this money he and Mansfield had quarelled„ and, the deceased making application to a magistrate, witness was locked up, and afterwards bound over to tacit the 'peace. This was all the grudge there was between them. The jury returned a verdict of' Suiside whilst of unisOund minas"
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-05-15 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SVICIDE.—A butcher et &ranee', named Raymond, has attempted suicide for the second time. Two years ago his next-door neighbour and companion, Oreose, • pawnbroker, hanged himself in his own house, and Raymond cut bum down after death. He has said that the sight has haunted him at interval' ever since, and that the dead man's ghost has beckoned han to adopt the tame method of quitting life. This time he was discovered only just in time to be saved. He is recovering slowly. NEW Amotriowsze Gtrzes.—The Select Com_  _ mates on Heavy Ordnance, of which Mejor.Geoeral Gordon, LA., is president, are now engaged in preparing • report of a series of trials concluded at Shoeburyness, which have taken place with a view to testing the range and velocity of the new 61n. and Bin. Armlition miii.. designed for siege and garrison purposes. So far as their investigation have already gone, the results have, it ia atatad, tar exceeded the most sanguine expectations. The 6-inch, with 351 b. battering charge and an B(Hb. shell, attained a velocity of • fraction over 2000 ft. per second, while the 8-inch, with • 90 lb. battering, charge and • 184 lb. shell, s velocity of 2300 ft. per wooed. With a shell of an itsproied potters the velocity was increased to 3000 ftywhieh is maid to be far beyond that which be. ever been previously °OWNS' my goo sow in use in the aervioo' ' 21.11reicar Ittirrihs.LVAVl*J*2' .Pettr ort dow %Mom shn Ims. low apjsit tor baring scainitisikbaggaseriwitumMera of the Oonservative party during the polliittuktlifsts D."14:2101i. . . or to send Oiik alfmaril to a of astoodeisto *WS' ildirisid, ma% is micrily of rum rompostivii,  - . v : • •,. , ,' '''' C. '.: *—" IA'":""'. 6 *".„: '"..*L **. 4: f' . '''.' '; 3 L .444 4kr i.a LI .4 .I. a L.-...; .i. . ..-_ .• -t ' . ~,,, I I 1 • II i s f re. ~ •,„,i,or %,..,Jiiie ,V. . : • or cI 4 11. AND _ _  o wassiaCustion ci er, , Trefo W et, .  • iZs .11 1 I Pi,. • 00, Tiiciount's Thc .. • Aso atemair„ peekasi Inciaguk` Fru* .611
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-10-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DYNAMITE.— Philip Docherty, a labourer, bait beeu fined 1:2 10.. and .£3 of expenses, by the Stirling magietratee, for put leg into the river.Roltin, near Bows railway bridge, a quantity , of dynamite with la fuse attached, and applying a light to the fuse, wheyeby sit explozion took place, bad twenty four trout were killed. Taß M08T41.141Y OF HIALTH Rnsonvs.—The Bcanatary Record . says: Our table of August statistics includm the following fifteen watering places and , health resorts: Bangor, Brighton, Davilieb, Doves, Eltabourne, Llfracomb.., Littlehampton, Rerusgate, Ride Southport, Teignmouth, Torquay, Weston-super-hare, and Worthing. The annual ,1 death-rate in these fifteen watering places during r litisur, although most of them were crowded with,. visitors, who are not counted in the estimated population, did not average more than 203 per 1000; the' syMotie death-rate was equal to 5.0 per 1000. mainly, owing to infantile diarrhoea, which was fatally preyslent in Brighton, Eastbourne, and Penzance. The deaths referred to the six other symotic diseases in e these watering places were remarkably few, and the above figures afford satisfactory evidence of the health condition of these holiday Assorts, and of their eompdrative freedom from symotic fatality. The death rate from diseases of the terpiratory organs during Angtret in these watering ;deceit, exclusive of Brighton, for which we have not yet succeeded in obtaining the 3 information, did not exceed 1,1 per 1000, against •11 average of 28 in all the sanitary districts. hatwa Cox, a fish dealer, whilst in custody at Lyme Regis, on a charge of steeling two roles, has committed suicide by hanging himself with his pockethandkerchief, which he fastened to his cell door. At theukrill a virtitial ef'Temporary insanity" was A willie2 USW= AM to oostvClo,ooo, iififfeesteautakof nattiest by the pscation. The Marquis of Bute has leased the site of the ol& theatre., ! in Orockhqtimitowniwith .Ithe4V to arch over the stria of Water supplyitg the iiute do4ce. At is.. iided to build on the siV,H. old-thesiiiie spubid 'halt at • cost of .£12,0W —le is to heat' 2000 Persona' and to have ea orchestra for 200 performers.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1880-06-19 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

IHR JARROW-ON-TYNE CORPORATION have judicial to hi. country's IiberV,„.AI:PM btavirs:-A • . ~The former. Turd itothamador to Berlin, decided to memorialise Parliament in favour of Mr. ' ire AsSAMINASION OF A' M 4 "i Bey. does not seem inclined to attach age,himthelb iver ' of' -the laillWeirn bet/intororvii JpriAmee of the. bankauet.gnilure Ashton Dilke's bill for e 'Atha idairs ‘-'l Polling. few days • id . tednetiety• ' so -ably, represented. Tie-,. is bent upon A . ' ' Salon and St. Martin de Odd wat fou ~ di . Since his disiniesal, we ad, at the bottom Otitis oat* -The-amit=balla tialtan bath' ming himself. stolen. •Twei pools of Isloottorallabilillbinettit tht it' murder baring been perpetretedi hear Ohs Miran*, 111 high mot& Out of 2000 laitereiSee William . beet rib A found *the mei of iha-Beisgeliattenik aribtieolit to Arline i montane( Let iilliealedaeliAhrirpste I Sew rail - ilameek,,, It iabelionlithatodadmilledle son,' 41: on two the; 'who i  Sex  aPPetib,)ll.. A mourning. : . •• :• I: " . • iv....0u •• ~;-.1... mid gu, .0... AO . ' •lir:44llWCXhila laltbrin4L' .4 „ii_ 0 . .....ka .-Isimo‘ihnshieht. : ~g4ttlit3rsP - Ithrr-n .4110 .. MAW ;ash, lifoil I°.9' l Ai the W'''  - - A CANADA editor saya he has "a keen re ier to prink ell fool* and knaves.' His friends, if they -are prudeut, twill take it from him. He might commit suicide.  -iire,  kritt  petiUbn  itt the petitioners  ;10-74444ra,  Apr . liken4olll.  -Asern -4as!!ldd  :44t;l_ifdare  Gwvi  'Ddd,  boats,  ghisre will yoi;-lxcionssey usisirer*  • • :.-tr, 4.str& IR - . alle N, lefoii -1 Om , oSn - - trilli . - iu wor aa Ora "- Brow. of  41111kfta Aelt4.4: ' t*:' 'i: lw hOst ' ttebteeklattit: ' ' . :111S ;If"' iii. , ` igtd% 344. Mml, , . 14W qt filliil4/1"114,- 41901gDWr_ota, .. 4,,, .. • - •.i, - A ~., , „1",1 uedoo.4ooo ofland & . ',/ . hlulZ I IrZar '•: ' ' ':-V-I,' „". be did , lwriqieptobadAstvd•hrtgisirreitheial _,,, 1 :, tO Grip% 1 Aptirediskigood `nr hisaluitabibilli PM Iges.;ftiows I. „, a „ : leitto4jalyi 4841,1*mw0 9,,kr.;-: , . ,f,:itF.,-.- •!...:7M lett4 , 1 Ipdpkimpi r 0816 keipitabat, • _...., wsktiliale.A••••tie.4ll64•• 7 "ir7.. /:.;' .: " NW. delay Air ''' gan/Nblit- or Mirk& • 5e..., .1 gamy
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-07-25 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

COLLIE DOGS PUNISHABLE ' FO N A II'IRST  V ' OFFENCE. • ' Owniirs oroolES doss wM receive with Something like etiniternatioh certain remarks' of Mr. Justice Mathew at Guildford Asdzes. A case cube biter* him in which a bank manager cern&bled that • collie hail frightened his borne and canoed 4 to bolt, and that as a result the horse was so injured that it had to be killed. There was no evidence that the dog had misbehaved before; but, said the learned judge, testimony to this effect was not necessary in the caae at collies, because an Act recently passed for the protection of sheep singled out that epeeists of the breed as punishable en a first offence, unlike all other dogs. Conse-9nently the collie's master .vaa adjudged by the try to ' pay over £3O as damages. Collies—or proprietors—will no doubt raise an indignant protest against what they may legitimately regard as 111 !Ado. PO  Itztelatkv).  The Thames is reported by the Woolwich Lora The British Museum was visited last year by Board to be this summer in a worse conditien Lhasa 530,172 persons, about one-seventh of whom came ever. The water is getting polluted over a broader luring th. growling. This total is greater than area; it is almost as bad now at Greenwich as at that for sore the lareoeedhig four years, during Woolwich; it smells badly wham stirred by the each of which rather less than halt a million pawed steamboats at Limehonse ; and it is expected by the the doors, but it is more than 54,000 less than the Board to become contaminated between Londonfigures f4r illss. . bridge and Westminster within the next twsdve The Prince of Wales presided on Monday at months as badly as it was before the main drainage meetings of the Royal College of Music and of the works. _ Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music The widow of one of the Italian victims of the I and Royid College °Masi° at Marlborough Route, late lynching affair at New Orleans has attempted 1 Early the other morning, Jame. Bailey, the Mrs. Nancy Amadeu), of &widen, 'Vermont State, to commit suicide by taking laudanum. It is t negro who criminally assaulted Mrs. Folsom at though 101 years old, is said to still do light house- believed that she will die of grief for the loss of &she (U.S.), was taken from the jail ha Little work, her husband. ' Rosh, Arkansas, and hanged.