The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-08-01 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE IN A CHURCHYARD.  he colony.  A Guildford Correspondent writes :—A horrible case in reference to the state of the adjacent parish church of Shere has just been reported to the rural sanitary authority. In digging a grave a human Ludy was exhumed in a semi-decomposed state lying only four feet beneath the surface. It was allowed to lie some hours by the grave-side, and in the meantime a large hound got access to the churchyard, and was discovered devouring the flesh from the portions of the corpse that remained. The medical officer, reporting upon the case, observes:—" A grave was dug, and to get down four feet a human body was exhumed which was only partially decayed, the brains and ligaments still remaining in an advanced state of decomposition, and giving off a most horrid smell. A second corpse was parti ally to be seen within three feet of the surface. It was left in this state twentyfour hours, and was within thirty feet of the house in the churchyard. The smell in the rooms facing the graveyard was so strong that they were quite unbearable. One corpse was buried within nine feet of this house last year, and soon after there was a case or typhoid fever; and the same in 1877, after a corpse had been buried close to this house. The churchyard is above the that supplies the house, and these bodies have been buried in a line with it. The part of the grave-yard is quite full, and it is not advisable that more bodies should be buried here, as the whole of the yard drains into the stream close to it, and the water at the present time is used by several families in the village. The medical officer adds: I ordered this grave to be filled in, and the corps to be buried further from the house. The sanitary authority has decided to forward the report to the l twee Secretary and to the Local Government Board.  A party of excursionists from Chatham met with a serious mishap on Saturday. They were in a four-horse coach, which became unmanageable on going down a steep hill at Brornpton, in consequence of the pole of the coach suddenly snapping. A large number of the excursionists were thrown out and seriously hurt. According to several American papers a striking cure has been effected by Dr. W. B. Neftel, of New York; the patient being a lady, aged sixtythree, who had become blind in consequence of cataract. In regard to the maul operandi, we are only told that electricity was repeatedly applied in the vicinity of the affected organ.—Electriciaii.  A blacksmith, named Michael Walsh, residing near Foynes, county Limerick, has killed a young woman named Nora Fitzgerald, by striking her on the head with an iron bar. It has since transpired that Walsh is insane. He attacked several ether persons besides the deceased, and had a desperate struggle with the police who took him into custody. The trustees of Manchester New College, London, which, though undenominational, is the institution at which most students for the Unitarian ministry aro educated, have before them a scheme for removing the college to Oxford, as well as another for reorganising in the Metropolis. The alternative schemes will be discussed at a meeting of the trustees at Manchester in the autumn.  Au enquiry has been held at Bromley, Kent, into the death of a young man named Thompson, and his sweetheart, a Miss Parkinson, whose bodies had been found floating in a pond. From a letter left by the 'ormer and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the girl's father objected to their marriage, and the couple :emulated suicide together. A verdict of temporary mutat, rres mania  The annuity fund for the Rev. John Cumming, D.D., amounts to £l,