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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-07-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CRUSTS BY OLD CRIJSTY.—Why do men drink and smoke, Ma'am? To render their company and conversation endurable to each other. How it is that women ever manage•to stand each other's society, I cannot imagine.—Punch.  Her father served in the 9th Foot during the Peninsular war, and she was sent home from the seat of war in 1814, to be educated at the Duke of York's SchooL Two of her brothers were killed at Waterloo. She married a sergeant of the 18th (Royal Irish; Regiment, and all four of bureaus have fallen In the service of their country, two in the 51st Foot, one in the 7th Foot, and one in the 55th Foot. One was killed at Rangoon, one sabred in the Crimea, and two died in India, leaving her in the deepest poverty.  A MYsTERY.—The dead body of a sunburnt man, with letters indicating that he had not long returned from India, was found in the Thames, at London, on Saturday. His legs were tied together, as if he had committed suicide ; but the surgeon who examined him came to the conclusion that he had been murdered first, and thrown into the water afterwards. In the first place, there was the mark of a heavy blow, struck upon his face with some blunt instrument; secondly, his chest when tapped sounded hollow, which a man's who has been drowned does not; and, thirdly, the cords with which his legs were bound had left no indentation, as they would have done (and as, indeed, his garters had done) had they been used before death. Filially, one of his pockets had been cut out, and he had not a farthing of money about him.  - - ANXIOUS TO CONCEAL HIS BIRTH !—One of the most extraordinary points set forth in the extraordinary bill filed in the Court of Chancery by the claimant to the Tichbonie succession, is the statement connected with his marriage. The claimant says that he, a Roman Catholic, being at Wagga Wagga, in Australia, and being desirous of marrying a Roman Catholic girl, elected to have the marriage ceremony performed in a Wesleyan Chapel in order that he might the better conceal his birth. Roman Catholics, it is well known, consider a marriage celebrated by a Wesleyan minist-r as no marriage at all; and at a time when nobody suspected that Roger Tichborne had survived the wreck of the Bella and when no inquiries had been made or search instituted after him, the fact of a man calling himself De Castro being married in a Roman Catholic or in a Wesleyan chapel could in no way i assist in maintaining or n endangering the incognito which the claimant avers he was anxious to preserve.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-11-09 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE AT LEICESTER. -At Leicester on Saturday, a man named Joseph Billsori, 51 years of age, who had been in a desponding way for some time past, on being ordered by his medical attendant to take an airing, proceeded to the banks of the river Soar, close to the Leicester Abbey wall, where after tying together his legs and arms by means of a where, he dropped himself into deep water. Ile was found half an 'hour after in an upright position, life being extinct. At the inquest on the body, held on Monday night, it was stated that eight out of nine of deceased's family had committed self-destruction, and that shortly before deceased committed the rash act he made an attempt to poison his wife by offering her a glass of water in which was mixed a quantity of arsenic, at the same time saying that if she would drink half he would drink the remainder; but he wante 1 her to " go" first. She, however, bad the presence of mind to take up the glass, as if to driuk, and throw the contents behind her.  RATHER UNDinrcIvIED Thursday, in last week, the magistrates of Hastings had before them a case in which Lady Frankfort de Monti...roc, —ow. charged by her servant, Sarah Rebecca Morey, with assaulting her. The defendant did not appear. Complainant said that the defendant fell into a passion with her because she asked her ladyship for another candle for the kitchen. Her ladyship said, "I will not give another. One &night is enough for the winter for the kitchen." Witness went across to take a piece of candle from a bedroom candlestick, on the other side of the room. Defendant jumped up, went to the fireplace, took up the poker, locked the door, put her back against it, and danced. She held the poker up threateningly. She said, "I will knock your brains out with the poker." Witness tried to open the drawing-room window, and Lady Frankfort rushed across the room while she was doing so, and seized her by the hair. Her ladyship's sister was preseit, mid was frightened to death. Defendant put the poker down, dragged witness half across the room by the hair, and then turned her out of doors, and refused to give her her clothes. The magistrates fined her ladyship 40s. and costa.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-02-16 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CARDIFF.  BOARD OF GUAM/TANA—The weekly meeting WY held, as usual, at the Workhouse. on Saturday last, E. W. David, E.q., in the chair. The report of the matter of the Workhouse was read, from which it appeared that there were 3i2 pauper inmates, an increase of 3305 the corresponding week of last year. The refuge, a part of the house used for the casual poor, was somewhat denuded of its inmates, but the house was still overserowded, especially some of the female and children's wards. A sailor had be, n admitted suffering from the small-pox, and some complaints were made respecting it, as it win thought he ought to have been sent to the hospital ship. On inquiry it was found that he did not belong to any vessel in the port. The master of the Industrial School reported the number of children there to be 212, being an increase of 32 on the corresponding week of last year. A correspondence between Mr Wride and the Poor-law Board wan read, in which Mr Wride made mime inquiries; respecting the method lie should adopt in administering extra medical relief in the absence of specific instructions from the board and also from the medical officers. A plan was pouted out by Dr Paine, and the board expressed surprise that the relieving-officer should hove entered neon such a cerreeponcenee without informing them. Ti' meeting then adjourned. MAN DROWNED Is CAktDIFF.—Ori Tuesday evening an inquest was held at the Town Hall, before Mr It. L. Reece, Coroner, on the body of John Phillips, 22 years of age, which was fonnd in the canal, on Monday afternoon. It appeared that deceased was a very dissipated cliaract, r, and had no home, being in the habit of sleeping in baylofta. Ile Was lust seen alive on Siturday night by a man named Williams in the Naga Head beer-house, where he went to get some drink but the landlord refuied him, and he left the house in a very drunken state. Nothing snore was heard of him till his body was picked up at the south end of the tunnel on Monday afternron shout half-past three o'clock, and coeveyed to the dead house, where it was examined by P.c Tarnblin who fund two cuts on the back of the head, about al inch long and which appeared to have been caused by a fall on a stone. Nothing was found on the bode but EDDIE v,,nt pegs. It was also stated in evidence that deceasurs mother committed suicide about 18 months ago. The coroner in summing up said he thought there would be no difficulty in arriving at a verdict as it was most probable that the cuts were caused by falling on a stone. The jury returned the verdict of "Found drArned."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-10-12 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS IN LONDON.  The high sheriff of the county of Surrey, Mr. Molyneux, has appointed Tuesday, the 15th inst., for the execution ot the Frenchman, Louis Bordier, for the murder of Mary Anne Snow, in the Old Kent-road, London. The usual hour would be nine o'clock, but in consequence a the same day being moved for the execution of John Wiggins, at Newgss'e, the time has been changed to ten o'clock. Bordier exhibits a good deal of firmness, and seems resigned to his late. There does not appear the slightest ground for supposing that his mini is affected. He professes the Roman Catholic faith, and alth, ugh he attends regularly at the services in the prison chapel, he is visited almost daily by this Rev. Air. Faure, attached to the RomanCatholis ehrirch in Leicester-square. The only per on who harbeen to see him since his conviction is a French fellow-workman named Pastel. The culprit has not alluded to his crime since his conviction. The Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment has takes up the case of the prisoner, and has memorialised the Home Secretary, urging that there is sufficient ground for not carrying out the sentence. John Wiggins, who was convicted of murdering Agnes Oakes, a young woman with whom he cohabited at Limehouse, continues to declare that he is innocent of the crime; and that the defence he made from the very first, that the deceased committed suicide after having attempted to kill him by cutting his throat, was the truth. Upon every occasion that presents itself, he appears ready to give all the details as to the manner in which the affair took place. Since Ids conviction be has been visited by his father and mother, both of whom are very aged people. The culprit attends the chapel service regularly, and pays earnest attention to t‘ie exhortations of the chaplain of the prison. In this case also the society mentioned above are exerting themselves to procure a remission of the sentence.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GALES ON THE FRENCH COAST.-A curlons Irrdletlrthat of the prisoner's landlady, wko deseribe Ohms the American bar, stated that he had practized for man. circumstance occurred at Calais at low tide a few days cated personal question, deserves the gratitude of . a very quiet msn, bat low-spirited and unhappy, and that of years at New York. The marriage, it performed WI dessince. A Russian vessel, bound from Malaga with a Parliament and the country for the vivacity which ne a ...Iwo, who spoke to the existence of insanity in the cribed by the first two witnesses, would be valid according , cargo of wine, was observed by the Calais pilots to be ha.a imparted to the otherwise dull and stagnant pro- family and to the " weakness " of the prisoiier's miiid. A to the law of New York. It was not necessary that a mar. in great danger, awl after one or two unsuccessful ceedings of the autumn session. He has baited an police-constable al. had remarked a strangeness of manner riage in the state of New York should be entered in a't , attempts, they. at length boarded her Her foremast unfortunate diplomatist and braved the Speaker on in Baker, and had. sometimes watched him home lest he register. It was sometimes done, but it was rather an theeeifoe. had been carried away, and on getting aboard it was points of order with an animation, a gallantry. and a shmdd commit suicide. . . h exception. . . d , I discovered that every one of the crew was in a atate of perseverance which have revealed in him unsuspected 010 n the other bawl, the prisoner s fellow-clerks, wit one in cross-examinatton by Mr. Montagu William, the wit. endowed , whom at least he appears to have been on intimate terms, neas said he had not with him any authorized copy of the was kept wi I intoxication, and the pilots were compelled to leave elements of greatness." seem to have had no idea the was not as much master written law of New York. In the state of New York the heads of tia ' the vessel in order to escape being shot by the master DAMAGES FOR TIIE Loss OF A
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-04-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ADVICE TO LONELY TRAVELLEII.4.—If you are ever walking along &dangerous road, and a footpad stops you with "Stand and deliver," Fay pleasantly "You're the man for ray money." This will raise a smile on his saturnine countenance. Take advantage of this to show you will stand none of his nonsense, and deliver yourself. —Punch. A CASE OF FELO DE SE !--A rather curious incident occurred a short time ago at Freienwalde, a favourite watering-place about forty miles north of Berlin. The church was to have a large new bell, and all the inhabitants had assembled to celebrate the occasion and to watch the process of its suspension. A band, moreover, was stationed in the steeple to give it a musical reception. The appointed hour for the ceremony arrived, lint not the bell. The spectators watched and the band played for three long hours, but the principal actor in the piece did not make his appearance. At last, at twelve o'clock, their patience was at an end, and the musicians descended from their lofty orchestra. The last man was hardly in safety when the steeple was struck by lightning and set on fire, and the old bell fell, a mass of glowing metal, within a few hours of the time appointed for the suspension of its successor. The accidental, or rather providential, delay of the new bell thus saved many lives. It is most probable that the old bell purposely attracted the electricity from a feeling of jealousy at the honours paid to the new one; in short, it was a case of fel.° de se.  A -GRIEVANCE !—A correspondent signing himself "Gun Filer," uTiten thus to the Morning &dr :  I am an old inhabitant of Birmingham, and never till now have I met a working man that was a Tory. The totlowing Is the specimen—being one that went on the deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer !--."A diamond ring adorns his finger he has two places of business In the centre of the town for wholesale and retail purposes, besides a country residence in the most fashionable part of the suburbs. Such Is a sample of what was flailed off as a Birmingham working mass' Barnum cannot beat this"
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-03-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  At the Southwark Police.court in London a middle. aged female, who gave the name of Mary Taylor, but whose real name was Grist, was brought before the magistrate charged with attempting to drown herself in the Thames. A policeman said that on Sunday evening be wan on duty when he received information that a woman had jumped into the river by St. Saviour's Dock. He went there, and saw the prisoner seated in the river. which nearly covered her. He pulled her out, and asked her what she meant by such conduct, when she said that she intended to drown herself. She also said that she had tried all she could to do no, but the water would not cover her, neither could she sink. She was in a deplorable state, everything being soaked about lod., and she appeared to have been in the water some time. Ile conveyed her to the workhouse, where she was carefully attended to and her clothes dried. The Magistrate (to the prisoner): What have you to say? Prisoner: Nothing, sir, only I wanted a home.  The Magistrate: But not a home in the river. Prisoner : But I thought to end all my misery. At this part of the inquiry a very respectable looking man came forward and said his name was Robert Grist, and the prisoner was his wife, having been so fifteen yearn. For some time past she had not been in her right mind, and it was not safe for her to be alone. _ _ _  The Magistrate told him that if such was the case he ought to have her taken care of. She had made a most determined attempt to commit suicide, and it was a miracle that her life was saved. . . _  tli-ehnt-itiii-nd---t-olii-tiiS-Wo—rshlP*7l;at he could not afford to pay for her in an aeylurn. He, however, never heard of her attempting to commit suicide Mom__  The-Alagistrate directed the prisoner to be taken to St. George's Workhouse, and there to he examined by the medical officer of the parish as to her state of mind. She could not be allowed to go at large for the present.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-04-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE CASE OF SUICIDE AT SWANSEA.  A Bad and rather singular case of suicide, which has occasioned considerable excitement, took place in this town, on Monday night. The facts ot the case have been, as usual, considerably embellished by rumour, and will not be accurately known until the inquest (which has been fixed for this day) has been held ; but so far as we have been able to learn, they are as follow: It appears that about • quarter to eleven o'clock on Monday night, a young man named Thomas Harris made his appearance, in a state of considerable agitation, at the Police-Station, and said that a young woman named Maria Brown had, a little before, thrown herself into the Uplands Reservoir, and was drowned. He said that he had done his best to save her, but had failed, and had only recovered Ler hat, which he held in I his hand. This was all the information which he gave in the first instance, and the police-officers at once acted upon it, but, in reply to questions put subsequently, we understand that Harris gave the following details of the sad occurrence: Ile stated that on Monday evening the deceased bad gone for a walk with him round Gorse Lane, and that in the course of the walk they had a quarrel. On parting, they wished each other "goodbye," and the deceased said, You shall never ROO my face again," or words to that effect. Ile subsequently saw her leave her house, and followed her. She went towards the Reservoir, and, before he could come up with her, had thrown herself in. He endeavoured to nave her, but unsuccessfully. The police-officers Detectives Stratton and Traherne and Inspector Buck—immedi• ately upon receiving the information, procured drags and went to the Reservoir. They dragged for about half-an-hour, from the side of the Reservoir, but, not succeeding in recovering the body, sent for a bost and dragged out towards the middle. About two o'clock, the body of the deceased was recovered. and conveyed to the house of her uncle, Mr Thomas Brown, pilot, of Rutland-street. Weehall give a report of the inquest In our next.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-04-06 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

UNEASY LIES TIIE HEAD."—The New York Times says :  The fact that Mr. Peabody. during his ten months visit to his native country, has received 4,000 letters of application for pecuniary assistance is not calculated to give hint a very high idea of the independent spirit of his American fellowcitizens. We have no doubt that in the aggregate they demanded a sum not less than our national debt, and that the reading and consideration of them all would have required at least ten years. Probably half, at least, of the letters were in behalf of really worthy objects and persons; hut whether they would all have been benellted by the gifts they asked is another matter. As ninny of the writers requested that their applications should he kept secret, Mr. Peabody, intending soon to leave for England, has caused the letters to be burnt in his presence. Had he published them in a volume it would have been instructive and lively reading for Ibis generation and the next.  AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE regret to say (re' marks a Vienna correspondent) that the number of suicides committed in Austria, and more particulary in Vienna, is fearfully on the increase. Two or three people a day kill themselves here ; young girls, old men, cooks, pensioned officers, clerks in banks, market women, persons belonging to every social class, lay violent hands upon themselves for causes which are frequently but too trivial. In this morning's paper two suicides are recorded in this city. One young fellow hanged himself after a love quarrel, and another, a clerk in a lottery, suspended himself to a tree in the Prater, nobody knows why. The female self-murderers generally drown or poison themselves; the males open their wrist veins, cut their throats, or hang themselves. It is an appalling sign of the times, of the general distress, and of the recklessness brought about by the unfortunate results of so many years' bad government, that self-destruction should have assumed such an epidemic character. MARINE DI sisTEßs.—The Bureau Veritas of Paris publishes the list of marine losses during the month of February last. The total number of vessels lost is 224, including 16 steamers. Of the vessels lost 102 were English, 43 American, 21 French, 11 Italian, 9 Danish, 7 Prussian, 5 Dutch, and the remaining 26 sailed under various other flags- Eleven vessels are supposed to have been lost with their crews, no intelligence respecting them having been received. The number of vessels lost in the months of January and February, 1867, was 645, and in the corresponding periods of 1866 678, showing a diminution of 33 casualties in favour of the present year. AN
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—An accident occurred on Monday on the Nottingham branch of the Great Northern railway. It appears that as the driver of the 9.40. a.m. train from Grantham approached the Bottesford Station, he noticed a waggon and team, in charge of a young lad, in the act of crossing the line. The whistle was immediately opened, but before the youth, who made every effort, could extricate the [ horses from their dangerous position, the train was 1 upon them, and the engine striking the leader, cut it almost to pieces, the hoofs of the horse striking and bending the iron steps of the carriage, such was the force of the collision. Fortunately the train kept the rails, or the consequences would doubtless have been I much worse. The boy escaped unhurt A QUESTION NOT ANSWERED !—The "Army I and Navy Gazette" says A correepondent tells it. that, having to go into the bar, rack rooms of a cavalry corps at an early hour during the late froet, he found the men with pieces of candle stuck Into bottles, endeavouring to remove the protection to their throats which God had given them, but which the Horse Guards had taken away The following remarks were distinctly heard by him, coupled, of course, with the expletive. usually expressive of had humour:—" I say, Bill, why don't I she Prince have to do this here? He's in the 10 h Hussars" Answer—"Blett if I know ! Why don't the Dike have to dock his Newitate frill? that ain't regulation." We hope we are I net unduly irreverent in reporting these remarks. MURDERING THIt WfLuNG MAN ! —The Court of Assize, sitting at Grenoble, has just sentenced to twenty years' hard labour a mountebank named Stenegre, for the murder of one Rappelin, at a village fair in the neighbourhood. There had been a quarrel in the course of the day, and at night Stenegre, who had been badly beaten, went in search of his antagonist ; he did not find him, but falling in with Rappelin, who wore the same kind of dress, he used his knife ' upon him with fatal effect. SUGGESTIVE Fecis !—The report of the coroners of the city and connty of New York, for the year ending December 31, presents a body of suggestive facts. There were 71 homicides and infanticides; there were 61 suicides • 12 of the deaths of suicides were by hanging, 12 by ;hooting, 10 by cutting the throat, 4 by drowning, 7 by taking laudanum, 5 by taking Ravi. green ; one man jumped into a brew vat. Of the suicides, 25 were Germans, 8 Irishmen, 2 Frenchmen, and 13 Americans. There were, beside homicides and suicides, 950 deaths by violence in New York during the year ; 170 men, 29 women, and 38 children were den ued. 24 persons were burned to death in burning buildings, and 42 persons were burned to death by ex. plosions and other causes. 'rhere were 235 fatal Cases of sunstroke; there were 170 deaths from falls ; 89 persons were run over and killed by street cars, steam cars, and other vehicles; 11 persons were killed by overdoses of laudanum. There was but one ease of starvation. One man was strangled by a piece of meat and another (inirabile dictu !) by a "waterfall" ball.