The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-08-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  The GPiman Reichstag elections have been poetponcd till We end of th:toter.  Twenty -two Cardinals attended a SOCA* C010111a• tory held by the Pope at the Vatican. The Duchess of Cambridge, who has been in(lisp sea during the past week, is now rapidly inproving.  It is now intended that Sir Augustns Paget shall leave Rowe at tne espinitiun of his live years' appointment there.  Mr. Henry Harvey has just finished in terra-c.:Ala a bust of General Sir tervilerick hoberte, who gave the sculptor several sittings.  A medical journal calls attention to the fact that ment is sometimes made unwholesome by the uto or mrtain kinds of wooden skewers.  It is intended very shortly to offer the highest eltuts of the Order of the Ustuanie to Lord Delft/in, the British Authateseder at the Porte.  At the rent collection on the extensive estates of Giatniv, Lord Strathmore allowtil his tenants an abatement of 20 per cent. on the reuus for the half. year.  Mr. William G. Fargo, president of the American Express I:Lanpany, and founder of Wells, lingo, and Co.'s Express, has died at Buffalo, aged sixty The Crown Prince will represent the Emperor of Germany at the gnat nunacuvree in itulettli., which ate to take place in Wu Ltustia.iug month.  A tolegram from Durham states :—" Ante' ican ship Calcutta trout PlitUypine lalanda for has been totaily wrecked at Wham, antic peraulia only saved."  The Probate Division of the Coutt of Probate snit Divorce, which has now rim-zi fur the Long Vise:awn, is the only court which kis clibrasail of ail du: (Abed on its cause lint.  The Dublin Corporation Committee of the v hole House, to which the question of incr.lising the Lord Mayor's salary by Ll,OOO was ruierked, e reported in favour of it. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 14,870,764 gallons of whisky were made in the Filth lutvrnal Revenue District of Kentucky. There is now in bond about 20,000,000 gallons.  Botanists everywhere will be glad to earn that a new edition of Professor C. C. Krbingion's "Manual of British Botany " is being prepared tor issue by its accomplished author. The Allultrerria states that Theodor Bergk, one of the ablest of the great scholars trained by Germano and Dindorf, died at lintagz, in Switzerland, a few days ago. Ile was burn at Leipaio in 1812. Miss Disraeli, niece of the .ate Earl of Batumifield, K.G., and sister of his heir, his been siaytirg at Llwynegryn, near Mold, the gore. et the luso" lion. U. Cecil Baikea, late M.P. for Chester. Mr. Gilstrop, of Farnlorm Park, Bury St. Edmunds, has intimated his desire to present to ids native town, Newark, a free public library stocked with books, and with endowment for a custodian. There are at present living in the town of Mold a man and his wife who have 11 children, 45 grandchildren, and 25 great-grandchildren, making a total of 81 descendants, all of whom are now livtug. Professor E. K. Brandt, who is the l'resident of the Russian Entomological Society, has been devoting the present summer to the investigation of the insect fauna of the neighbourhood of St. l'etarsbur4. A bill introduced, hy Mr. Forster bus been print providing for the dissolution of the Iris . Church Temporalities COLIIIIIiStIIOII, and Die tiansfer of its property and powers to the Irish Land C At a meeting of the Pemberton Local Board, near Wigan, it was unit ll i a noualy resolved that peranisMon be granted for the experimental use of stesin on the Wigan and Pemberton tramways for 4 manta.  An inquest, held by Mr. Curter, the 31i.bi4e.et coroner, on the body of is newly-lawn female, in a vtadiet of wiilul murder agaiurt a eel vaint named Eagle, and is warrant WAS 11111410 out tor her committal.  In the French Joutirel (!Piet is published the Ise, approving the works for tue anaehoiation and ex tension of Calais Harbour. The cost of the contemplated imi,vvementa is estimated at needy 19,000,0001. The Queen has contributed £25 to the fund being raised by the Shipwrecked Fishertuon and Ji.raners' Royal Benevolent Society, Hibernia Chambers, Loudon thidge, on behalf of the Local Rebut Committee in toe Shetlands.  Mr. R. G. C. Hamilton, the Accountant-General of the Navy, has resigned his place on the Finance Committee of the Royal Patriotic; Fund, in com,equence of his being unable to agree with 11111110 of ine decisions of his colleagues. Mrs. Whymark, the wife of a well-known Ipswich cattle dealer, has committed suicide. She Witi discharged from Ipswich Asylum a month ego. She hanged herscli whilst the members of the family believed her to be still in bed,  As the Speedy, gunboat, was proceeding up the creek leading to the Royal Clarence V ictuailtng Yard, Portsmouth, she came into 4:ulilaion wall toe Royal yacht Elfin, carrying away the latter's figurehead and doing other injury. There has been an teot,, among the lionfebobl. of King Cetewayo anti King Langabbalele, anti one it Cetewityo's attendants has COMlllittlli eascid, tor fear of being it lied for an use.ult he had Immo on one of Lougalibaleic's wives. A young man living at Won, Hungary, the son if a village magnate, and himself a iii or oil:coat, recently committed suicide with the aid ta accents, Beside his body was found his card, on whiea he bad written the words: " Ano,riean  Mary Hunt, a domestic, luts been found guilty murdering her child, by a coroner's jury at iluliflay. The babe wns found under conic with its jaw,. 6r ken and its skull fraetuied. ultimately admitted the child was hers. The annual report of the Controller in Bankruptcy states that there is a consioeralne decrease of estates in liquidation uuuer the Banat iiptcy Act, :la compared with the previous year. Seca decrease is chiefly in regard to estates of the better class. Several of the former Bulgarian 31inisters have arrived at 1111SLehMk, as they have been fothi.l.l.ll by the Prince to stay at belie or Tialloy.l, or to cept any municipal office in conmetion with lilt, management of aliairs of the provincial 1:0111111Ullea An investigation has been ordered by the German Government into the cause of the accident