The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-02-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MEET.—A landlady said she did not know how to make both ends meet. 'Well," said a boarder, "why don't you make one end vegetables?" A. communication from Nice states that the grandson of Mdme. Volnys (Leontine Fey, the actress), only 15 years of age, blew out his brains with a pistol in consequent's of a quarrel with a college comrade.  Mr. Britssey, M.P., at the meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects, on Monday night, read a paper on the rise of wages in the building trades of London. He advocated piece-work as the only equitable system. At the Chester Assizes, on Monday, Frederick Spencer, who professed to be an accountant and money lender, at Southsea, and J. C. Butterha,m, his clerk, were convicted of fraud and conspiracy. Mr. Justice Lush sentenced them to five years' penal servitude.  A noteworthy landshp has occurred on the coast, about half a mile north of Whitby. A fine headland, forming one of the most prominent fea. tures of the scenery in that locality, is thus de. stroy ed. The causes are said to have been defective drainage and the action of the sea. John Appleby, a toolmaker, was arrested on Monday night in Birmingham, On suspicion of having caused the death of his wife. He went home about eleven o'clock intoxicated, and a quarrel ensued. Subsequently his wife was found dead at the bottom of the cellar step., her head showing serious injuries.  A project of law has been laid before the German Federal Council, proposing that from the surplus of the payments by France for the maintenance of the German army of occupation, 26,763,900 marks shall be placed at the disposal of the Emperor of Germany for the use of the contingents of the German army.  The shin Ironside, 899 tons, Captain Spencer, sa led from Gravesend on the 2nd inst., with the following number of emigrants for Brisbane, Queensland—namely, 119 single men, 67 single women, 76 married people, 44 children between the ages of twelve and one, and four infants, making a total of 300 souls, equal to 274 adults. Galignani says that a Bordeaux journal states that a wine grower in the Gironde has discovered a means of getting rid of the phylloxera. He has rums ked that a parasite of the strawberry plant carried on a war of extermination against that insect, and that where the strawberry is grown among the vines these latter have not been attacked.  The two women charged at Edmonton with t•ommitting the robbery of plate at Mr. Alderman 3 •'. house wen again before the magistrate oa Di( irdict . when some further evidence was taken, and ti ey were again remanded. A warrant was if,Sll, d for the apprehension of Garrod, the son of the older and brother of the younger prisoner.  The Luton magistrates have fined the landlord of the Dewdrop Inn £1 and costs for selling gin I adulterated with 43 percent. of water.  The second reading of Sir T. Chambers's annual Bill for Legalising Marriage with a Decea*ed Wife's Sister is fixed for the 27th of March.  The shoemakers of Vienna are striving to form a sort of university for the improvement of their art; a museum of models is to be appended. Thomas Burt Roe, master of the schooner Jenny Alarcon, discharging coals at Cardiff, committed suicide last week, by hanging himself. It is said that the breaking up of the ice on the Danube has had the effect of exploding s large number of the torpedoes which had been laid down.  At Witton, near Blackburn, a few days ago, two boys were sliding on a pond when the ice gave way, and they were drowned before help could be obtained.