The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1882-10-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OUT AND ABOUT.  The Medical Stakes, value £4O. Result of the Race: Cowbridge Ist; Llantrisant End. Won by a bead.  Captain Macheath, a freighter, coquetting with Miss Barry and the Fair Ogmore : Oh! how happy could Ibe with either, Were Vother dear charmer away.  Coity Higher will soon be able to boast of as great a reputation for vestry, squabbles as Lien formerly held. The appointment of an assistantoverseer for the hamlet of Coity-higher has given an opportunity for a further display of feeling; and the police records do not tit in with the unanimous expression placed on the minutes of the vestry. The "happy family" were to meet again yesterday.  The Labourers' Friend Society will I assume soon hold their annual exhibition, and perhaps I may be pardoned for making a suggestion. The Earl of Dunraven is now staying at the Castle, and possibly he may be induced to take the chair at the forthcoming dinner, and his presence would ensure a large gathering. His lordship is an able speaker, and he might throw out some hints to improve the usefulness of the Society. The winter session would probably be over before the date fixed for the dinner, and the Earl free to act as president at Bridgend. •  In an article upon "Unconscious Cerebration," by Frances Power Cobbe it is recorded of a certain banker, who having lost for a time the keys of the treasury was sent home to sleep, and on awaking was ab!e to point to, the place where he had himself placed the keys for additional security. I know another banker— who by the way is a poet also—who not long ago was afflicted aith unconscious cerebration. He also had a dream. He dreamed that he was sitting on the banks of the river Lune (that's another name for the Ogmore I suppose) and a fair young maid came there who after decking herself with flowers, after the manner of Ophelia, prepared to commit suicide; but before she went as far as that, the banker and dreamer awoke. Both stories have been recorded—the first long ago in prose, the other recently in poetry!  ''he hunting season is on the eve of commencement, and it is just as well to observe that the doings of the "rare sportsmen" hailing from Coity have been noticed. When they chevy a fox right into the mouth of the enemy; the real lover of sport will no doubt say let them in future be conspicuous by their absence, and have a chevy at the vestry.  I have been asked by one who shrinks from putting his pen to paper, to ask if the passage between the establishments of Mr W. J. Lewis and Messrs. Bankey, is a public thoroughfare or not? He says the trouble to go that way is great; and after receiving the droppings from flour bags on the hoist; particular care must be taken of the shins, as on one side of the passage is a strong barricade of candle boxes, crates,kc., on the other piled rows of empty beer casks. The latter must be distasteful from a temperance point of view. Not, because they are empty of course.  Next year will undoubtedly give us a bill introduced into Parliament in favour of Sunday Closing in England. This is following quickly on the heels of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. I hear it stated frequently that this latter piece of legislation will jeopardise the seats of some of the Glautorgansbire members. A double shot is to be fired at Sir Hussey Vivian on account of his vote on the Employers' Liability Bill and the Welsh Sunday Closing Bill.  The declaration in favour of stopping the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday (except in the case of lodgers and bond fide travellers), now in course of signature, has already been signed by 3,598 county and borough magistrates for England and Wales viz :--County nifwist rates 2,038 ; borough magistrates, 1,380; count and borough magistrates, 180—total 3,598. - Among the magistrates who have signed are the following: Messrs. Win. Davis Bridgend; P. W. Flower, Britonferry ; G. H. Jenkins, Cowbridge ; Griffith Llewellyn, Baglan-ball •' G. Byng Morris, Danygraig ; G. Whitlock Nicholl, The Ham, Cowbridge; J. W. Stradling Carne D.C.L., St. Donat's-castle ; John Popkin Tmherne, Coytrahen ; Lieut.-Col. T. Picton Turbervill, Ewenny-priory ; Be,. Roper T. Tyler, M.A., St. Hilary; Sir H. H. Vivian; Messrs. John David, Abemvon ; Evan Evans Aberavon ; R. W. Llewellyn, Court-coltnan; El. J. Randall,Bridgend.