The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-07-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

INTEMPERANCE IN EATING.  In these papers a few notes on the question of over-eating will not be out of place, for it is a really important matter meriting careful consideration. Most of us will be disposed to admit that we eat unreasonably, and live to eat instead of eat to live. It has been well said by an able writer that inordinate eating is a vice That rides rampant in our midst. It is a vice that, in conjunction with intemperance in drinking, bad air, and impure water, tends to degenerate the age in which we live. It not only shortens our lives by producing ultimately dyspepsia, that forerunner to so many sources of painful and deadly lilnients, but it affects deleteriously the existence of our offspring, for the progeny of the glutton can only be puny, feeble in mind, and inactive in body. The wise man, then, will ever eat and drink in moderation, not suffer the gratification of his appetite to become the means of damaging his health, and we might add intellect, for the intellect of your inordinate eater is always gross. The food we eat ought to be pure and fresh as possible, else it cannot but be detrimental to the system. Fish, in particular, cannot be cooked too soon, and even vegetables, we always think, are the more sweet and wholesome if cooked as soon as culled.  Captain and Mrs Boycott have returned to their residence at Lough Mask. The Princess of Wales has become an honorary member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours.  The headtnastership of Salisbury School has been filled by the appointment of the Rev W. Bird, M.A.  At Bow-street, on Wednesday, Mr Flowers granted a summons against Mr Newde,gate, M.P., on charge of maintenance, the alleged offence consisting in having paid £2OO to the plaintiff in the case of Clarke v. Bmdlaugh. The Viceroy telegraphs to the India Office that the partisans of Ayoub are actively stirring up the country in hi a interest, so that the delay in the peace negotiations is thought to be unfavourable to the Ameer. The news of the commutation of the sentences on Midhat Pacha and the other State Prisoners is confirmed, and a Constantinople correspondent telegraphs a report that they were sent away early on Wednesday morning in a steamer to El Hedjaz, in Arabia. The Grand Duke Constantine's resignation of the Presidency of the Council of the Russian Empire is at length officially announced, and a St. Petersburg Correspondent states that the administration of the Fleet has already devolved upon the Grand Duke Alexis. On Wednesday night a thunderstorm passed over Warwickshire A chapel situate a short distance from the Foleshill Railway Station was struck by the lightning, a portion of the roof being damaged. The electric fluid passed down the walls of the building, snd forcibly removed some of the brickwork and a massive iron plate, which was found broken on the floor. A verdict of wilful murder was returned on Wednesday at Woolwich against one George Purling, who killed his paramour, named Mossell, by striking her on the head with an iron bar. An engine driver, named John Walker, committed suicide in a canal at Swansea on Wednesday in a most cool and premeditated fashion, whilst his companion, who attempted to follow his example, was frustrated in the rash act. At Chester Assize s ou Wednesday, Frederick May, a solicitor and clerk to the Macclesfield Board of Guardians, was charged with bribery at the last general election at Macclesfield. He was found guilty, but sentence deferred. Some revelations as to the importation of Italian boys were made at the Hampstead Police-court on Wednesday. A boy who had been sent into the streets with an accordion being charged, complained of 01-treatment from the padrone who brought him over from Naples. The Italian Vice Consul said the padrone was liable to a penalty under the laws of ltaly for exporting bc)l3.