The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-06-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

COLOURED SHOWERS.—At Toulouse, a few days ago, the population of the town were surprised at seeing the ground covered with a yellow dust. This phenomenon, which is known under the name of a shower of sulphur, is produced by a current of air passing over extensive pine forests, or masses of flowers, and carrying with it the pollen produced, which is afterwards brought down by rain. _ _ _  ACCORDING to the St. Petersburg journal, the Gobs, the Russian Empire contains an immense quantity of coal of excellent quality. The mines of Tula, in the Government of Moscow, alone, it is said, would suffice to produce for 150 or 200 years 400,000 tons annually, and the district of the Western Don might supply yearly, for more than two centuries, a quantity equal to what is produced in England. A SINGULAR and fatal accident occurred to a servant girl at Fairfield, near Liverpool. She was engaged in washing at a" dolly" tub, when her mistress, who had occasion to leave her for a few minutes, found her with her head in the tub, motionless. She pulled her up instantly, and seeing that she was insensible procured assistance, but the poor girl proved to be dead. As she had been subject to occasional fits, it is supposed that she had fainted while stooping over the tub, and so died.  A VERY SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT occurred, a few days back, at Hull. A battery of the Royal Artillery was waiting to embark for Gravesend, and during the interval one of the bystanders asked a private of the corps to show him how the Snider breechloader carbine was loaded. The artilleryman courteously complied, but the carbine exploded at the moment, and the bullet entered the body of the bystander, indicting a most dangerous wound.  A LOCAL PAPER tells a strange tale about the monastery at Laleham under the control of Father Ignatius. A man, supposed to be one of the" brothers," has been placed in the garden at the rear of the monastery and tied up with a rope as though he were a dog, with an earthenware saucer placed before him to drink out of. He was there four days and nighti, being obliged to lie on the ground. It is added that the wretched individual was doing penance for having killed a swallow.—Pall•mall Gazette.  - ath awn; + several wealthy free negroee. sewed that crib. passengers in the English mail steamer for Southampton. Several hundreds of people of colour visited the steamer to bid their friends adieu. The immigrants stated that they were going to England to make an effort to enlist the sympathies of the people in favour of the emancipation of the blacks in the island of Cuba.  UN FRIDAY MORNING a lire broke out in the premises of Messrs. J. and G. Rennie, boiler makers, Greenwich. It was discovered in one of the factories containing a number of partially finished boilers and other valuable property • and, owing to the comparative scarcity of water, the efforts of the firemen were not effectual in preventing it from spreading. The value of the property destroyed is estimated at several thousands of pounds. A. VERY SHOCKING MURDER and attempted suicide are reported from Scarborough. A tradesman named Constantine was shot by his landlord, Mr. T. Lee, because he had not paid his rent. The unfortunate man is dangerously wounded, and Lee, after trying this new method of enforcing payment, attempted to shoot himself. He had pointed a pistol to his own head, when a servant rushed upon him and pushed it aside. _ _ .  UN FRIDAY MORNING a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. J. and G. Rennie, boiler makers, Greenwich. It was discovered in one of the factories containing a number of partially finished boilers and other valuable property; and, owing to the comparative scarcity of water, the efforts of the firemen were not effectual in preventing it from spreading. The value of the property destroyed is estimated at several thousands of pounds. _