The Herald of Wales. — 1889-03-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LATEST MATRIMONAL SWINDLE.  The characteristic Parisian swindler in matrimony has lately been abroad. The most recent specimen of the set ie a person called Value, who sometimes called himself Venriage, and at others evoked souvenirs of Swim touts by introducing Minted to customers as Von Rigi. He hid been a clerk in a large man- warehouse in Paris, but growling tired of a life of subordination and small returns he resolved + I set up in Mishima on hie own account, His Step was to open allymeneal Bureau and to an verde°. He anlinunoed in a newspaper that he had on hand for the Marriage Market a young lady of twenty-three, with a trifle of £lB,OOO as et dot or dowry. It wen stated further that the fair heiress, being rich, did not want money but "position," and that she was a Protestant. Others were received by Von Rigi from nearly every European country. There was as suitors a Belgian Captain of "Gendarmes," an Italian officer, a Justice of the Peace in Luxembourg, an Helvetian lawyer, and several Frenchmen, one of whom was a doctor at Macon. From each of them Von Rigi !received contributions for his information, which consisted principally in explaining the reason why the heiress adopted an almorinal method of finding a husband—this was because her father had committed suicide. To all the suitors it was explained, moreover, that the marriage would be . adjourned until after the demise of the lady's grandam. The letters read in court were of an musing character. The Belgian Captain remarked that hews. always inditing compositions in prose or poetry to an imaginary fair one, and he expressed an epistolary hope that the young lady with the dot would to,iespod and lire up to his ideal. The Italian officer, being a devout Catholic, hesitated before marrying a Protestant, and a Heretic, hoping, no doubt, to find somewhere else a more orthodox person to kiss, while a wealthy Gallic , -distiller, considering the lady's lineaments, as set before him in a photograph, to be those of a person zs rather advanced in years, forwarded fifty to Von Rgi for a iresh carte-de-rlsite. The distiller, however, bad his suspicions, so had the Justioe of the Peace; and Von Bigi was watched. It was incontrovertibly proved that the rich Protestant young orphan was a creation of his fertile brain. He got off with a month's imprisonment.  A man named James show accidentally walked into a pit abaft at Riwiton Park, falling a didanca of 400 yards. Death, of course, was instantaneous. _  The towboat Kangaroo capsized at S= Indiana, on The 13th inst. George owner, and E. Simmons, cook, were drowned. Ilve others were saved.  The old lady who fired six shots from a revolver in the Pulala de Justice at Paris in order to draw attention to her case, accomplished her object in part. Attention was immediately drawn to her, and she was put under arrest. Mr. George Rawson, the well-kaawn hyrrumlogist, died at Clifton yesterday at the age of 82 I years. In earlier life he was member of a firm of Leads solicitors, but 40 years ago he became known as a writer of sacred Sir James and Miss Rainumhave been spending the last week at Torqnay. The Preoident of the Divorce Court looks as happy as if the Parnell Oatranissiala had no existence, and there were no such things as hectoring counsel and perjured witnestee.  - The funeral of Bishop falathorne took place on Tuesday, at St. aid's Roman Catholic Oathedral, Birmingham. The service was of a most impressive character, eleven bishops taking part. Cardinal Manning wrote to ewes° his absence from the funeral of his dear friend and ' distinguished mlleagtut beingoanfmedby illnoss. Bishop Hedley of Newport F1110410(1. Au old lady, brong,ht up ar's witness before a bench of magistrates, when asked to take off her bonnet, refused to do eo, saying: "There's no law compelling a woman to take off her bonnet." Oh," said one of the magistrates, 1" you know the law, do you? Perhaps you would like to come up and Fit here and Leech "No, I thank you, air," replied the old lady • "there are old wolLEtia enough there People were somewhat puzzled on Sunday at one of Canon Carter's remarks in his short and admirable address during the midday eervioe at St. Paul's Cathedral. It was Lady Day, and the rev. rntleman reminded his oongregation that Christians remembered the day ius a different sense from that in whiah it was remembered by the world. Referring to the Magnificat, the Canon of Truro said that "it came first from the heart of one single, happy soul," "The eye of the soul" is familiar enough, but what is "the heart of the soul ?" The Rugby Football Club have apologised to Mr. F. B. 'Holmes, of the Mcsely Football Club, for the outrageous conduct to which he was subjected at Rugby. Mr. Holmes was the referee in the Leicester and Rugby cup tie last week. The supporters of the Rugby team got it into their heeds that he had blown the whistle for time five minutes too soon; so they kicked him on the shins and tore the buttons off his coat, and he bad to take refuge in a house. From thence he wee forced to escape secretly into a loft, over the roof of a building, and down a /adder, and drive to the station in a cab. This IA a trifle worse than they do at Neath and Carmarthen.