The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-03-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SLIP BETWEEN THE POT AND THE LIP.— The French Gall' gnani has the following :—"The police made a descent a few nights ago on the abandoned quarries of La Villette, Paris, and arrested ten vagrants just as they were feasting on a monster harlequin, or stew, composed of fragments of victuals of all kinds. Each had brought his quota of fish, poultry, meat, vegetables, &c., all of which had been cooked together in an immense earthern pot, around which they were all squatting down. They appeared to feel keenly the aggravation of their misfortune on being interrupted Just at the commencement of their repast, and the more so that a request for the police to wait a little until they had finished could not be acceded to. During the two preceding nights 55 other individuals, without home or any avowable means of existence, were also removed to prison from the same haunt." AN INQUEST of a very painful nature was held at Norwood, on Friday, on the body of Edward Thomas Lee, a youth of seventeen who had committed suicide by jumping from one of the Cryatal Palace towers. He was a draper's as.htant, and had recently got a new situation, from which he was discharged, as his references were not considered satisfactory. The unsatis. factory reference was given in mistake by the deceased's former employer, and the person to whom it referred was another man of the name of Lea. The deceased, whose character was irreproachable, had called twice on his former employer to have the mistake rectified; but on each occasion the gentleman was out; the poor fellow then went to the Crystal Palace and killed himself. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. THE PUBLIC have already learned that the hur to the h.nel of the Hon. T. Stanley, M.P., son of the Earl of Derby, was caused by the snapping of a chisel bile Mr. Stanley was engaged in joinery, of which he is very fond. The hurt, we are glad to say, is not serious; it does not affect Mr. Stanley's general health, and though it prevents him from holding the pen, it allows of his reading as much as ever. In the hope that it may contribute to his recovery, we (Star) present hint with an epigram with which a correspondent has improved the occasion— While Stanley's poor hand with its wound is still aching, Let him ponder the wisest of joinery's rules; If political youths take to cabinet-making, They should first learn to choose and to handle their tads. ATTACK UPON A HOUSE HY ARMED FENIAN& —On the 25th of February, at nine o'clock, the butler at Maryboro-house, about four miles from Coik, answered a knock at the hall door, when immediately five fellows, armed with revolvers, rushed in and demanded delivery of all arms in the house. The proprietor, Edward Eyre Newenham, Esq., county magistrate, came from the parlour, and the demand was repeated, when he went to his bedroom and fired a shot through the window, to give an alarm. The band then went into the demesne, and fired at Mr. Newenham, in at the window. Mr. Newenham replied with three shots from a revolver. One of the assailants fell on his knee, evidently hit, and was removed by the others, who 'nada off.  DOES SEWER GRASS TAINT MILK ?—At the late debate at the meeting of medical officers of health, on the dryearth sewage system, it was alleged against the method of disposing of sewage by irrigation that when cows are fed on the grass of meadows so irrigated their milk is tainted with a sewage smell. Now, it is quite possible that milk may be tainted if the cows have any tainted food or drink whatever, and more especially if their water be impure. Thus, Mr. Morton tells us that at Lodge Farm, Barking, where the cows are largely fed upon the sewage rye-grass, the milk was once tainted for some days because the well received some drainiugs of stale water from a grains pit; but as for the sewage grass itself, he has no hesitation in saying that rye-grass fed with repeated doses of sewage is a perfectly and healthily grown plant, having only the aroma and properties belonging to the germs lolium, and Is incapable of producing any effects beyond those of lolium grown under any other circumatances. As a matter of fact, cows fed on sewage grass alone yield a perfectly good and wholesome milk.—Medical 7'iMeB and Gazelle.  A YOUNG MAN named Benj unin Pratt, in the employ of Messrs. Key Brothers, tea merthants, Liverpool, as commercial traveller, was brought before the Liverpool stipendiary, charged with having embezzled various sums of 'policy belonging to hiaeruployos, which he had received on their account from customers. The prisoner, aho had nothing to say in defence, was committed for trial, _  Tin DEATH of Mr. William Cory, well known In the coal trade of London for his experience and connexions as a coal and shipowner, has been announced. It was mainly through the exertions of Mr. Cory, by the establishment of the large floating derricks on the river, and the erection of extensive hydraulic machinery at the Victoria Docks for quick despatch in the delivery of coal at a low cost, that the trade in coal by sea has of late years been at all enabled to compete with that by railway. It is said tie it of the whole quantity yearly arriving M London by sea—viz., 3,000,000 tons—at least 1,000,000 tons passed throtigh the hands of his  THERE WAS A GREAT GATHERING in the St. James's.hall on Wednesday night to hear a lecture by the Rev. Newman Hall on England and America. Mr. Blight presided, and spoke strongly and eloquently of the necessity for a good understanding between this country and the United States. Mr. Hall having delivered a most interesting lecture, Mr. W. E. Forster, MP., moved, and Sir F. Buxton, MP., seconded a resolution declaring that no time should be lost in the endeavour to settle the Alabama claims. The resolution was carried unanimously. The Rev. Newman Ilall moved, and Lord Amberley, M.P., seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Night for presiding. It was carried enthusiastically. There were no less than 13 members of Parliament on the platform. . . _  ACCORDING IO die Spectator ft -subacription for a true college for women—in the Oxford sense an institution in the country where young women should be resident during the whole of the academical (half the actual) year—has been begun by a magnificent donation of £l,OOO by Mrs. &diction, followed by many subscriptions of £lOO each from various ladies said gentlemen who are anxious to set on foot an educational institution for women, beginning from a higher basis of academical learning than those now chiefly known as ladies' colleges have been able to insist upon. Moreover, local residence iA to be a condition sine god non. The institution itself to be in the country. A healthy situation somewhere between London and Cambridge hue been proposed. AT