Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-09-18 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WILSON." At the sitting of the spirituatistic oonferenee in Perris, Mr. Everitt, from London, stated that Spiritualism now pervaded the whole of Enggland. There were no public meetings, lie ad. mittai, but there were hundreds of ocosero in private families. At one of these he witnessed a curious phenomenon. The surface of a table rose up in the shape of a cone, trom whieh flames broke forth, to the great terror of tho ladies present, and then the table returned to its proper shape. Neither he nor his friends could explain this phenonmenon, and the spirits who were present could not help ' them. Mr. Everitt also mentioned an extraordinary ease of slate writing. Two spirits wrote upon a slate at the same time, one cornreaming at the top and the other at the bottom, Mrs. Everitt being the medium. According to an American newspaper, the chemists are at work by hundreds in the States " striviug by night and day " to find some , means for producing aluminium. If they succeed in their task, and the metal which in 18.'8 Wohler discovered in common clay becomes no dearer then iron, it cannot be doubted that the newer substance will be everywhere adopted for the thousand purposes in which strength, ductility, tenacity, and rigidity are required. Just as the men of the stone age flung aside their flints to use bronze, and those of the bronze abandoned the inletrumeets compounded of tin aml copper for the stronger and more tenacious iron, AO we, to whom ir .n is now the staple metal, should most unquestionably give up its use could rluminium be produced in like quantities and at the NSIIIO or a lesser prase.' Other things being CONS land a free choice offered between the two Ines ale aluminium must inalmosal every conceivable case be preferred, for there is hardly a purpose now served by iron for which the former substance would not prove ten times more efficient. The difficulty of producing it cheaply alone prevents alurniniumfrum becoming the universal metal.  s A young woman who had been on very intis mate terms with Prado, the murderer of Marie • Aguetant, the demi-mundane, who lived in the I Rue enumartin, has just handed over divers F articles of jewellery which had been given to her by her lover to the authorities, through the insr/faxe al .2 prinet. 2.e worthy ere/ow:lot-1h called on Thursday on M. Gullot, the Joy, d'lostrortion, and explained that "a poor sinner, who had had guilty relations with Prado," had received vr,rious gifts from him. She did not then know that lie was a criminal. Prado had paid his debt to society on the scaffold, and, the young woman felt remorse at keeping presents from a thief and a murderer. She had therfore begged him to take the jewellery to M. Gnillot. Meanwhile he would be much obliged if the Aye d'instrortion would re- ' frain from asking him to rex eal the name of the ' heroine of this adventure. M. Guillot complied with this request, and took charge of a gold 1 watch, a silver .bracelet, a gold brooch embellished with pearls, and other trinkets, which ' are to be returned to the persons in the Gironde 1 from whom they were stolen by Prado and his accomplices.  A shocking discovery was made on the G•init Western Railway at Pedmore. near Stourbridge. zit daybreak on Saturday morning. The men on a down goods train observed the holy of a nuin on the opposite part of the line with the head severed from tho trunk, and after stop. ping to remove the remains to the side of the !lac; they reported the discovery to the station. mastcr at Stourbridge Junction. Assistanee was procured, and Police-fsmstub,e Davin went to thi ..pot end took particulars of the finding of tle.ly, which it was eventually discovered was that ,d John Pitt, a ceaehmen, in the ser. vice of Mr. David Yardley. Davis found a razor in deceased's pocket, which was marked with blood stains, and there was a clean cut on the left side of the neck indicative that there must have been a wound inflicted with the  Irazor before a passing train put an enct to the man's existence. He had been giving way to drink of late, area since Tuesday he has absented himself from Mr. Yardley's house. From , all the circumstances there is no doubt that the ease is one of suicide, and the rumours of the affair, occurring iu such u tragic !winner, created a paitiful sensation in the neighbourhood. Dr. Bayley examined the body before its remoral. It was taken to the Seven Stars Inn, old switdord, to await the coroner's inquiry. .. - ... 0