The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-07-30 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. The firm is one of old standing. At Liverpool the old man, William Williamson, a labourer, who is in custody for having caused the death of his wife, was again brought up and charged. The Coroner's jury had found a verdici of wilful murder against hint. The evidence given at the inquest was now repeated, and the prisoner, who eried piteously in the dock, was committed for trial.  At Wellington, Salop, this week, Robert Morgan, a master butcher, and his two sous, Robert Bland. ford Morgan and I. S. Morgan, were charged with shooting Frederick Allen after the Parliamentary election for the Newport Division of Shropshire. The prcsecutor was seriously wounded in the left foot and left arm. The accused were remanded on bail, two sureties of £.50 each. The Postmast.er-Cseneral has dismissed two sorters in the postal service, Cdery and Cheesman, who have acted respectively as chairman and secretary of the "Fawcett Association," for insubordination, in persisting in an attempt at the general election to obtain promises from candidates with reference to the duties and pay of postal servants, notwithstanding a warning that such conduct would be improper. In Vienna suicides and attempts at suicide occur very frequently among schoolboys and apprentices dreading punishment from severe parents and masters. One day this week a little boy swung himself over the balustrade of a bridge over the Danube Canal, and was drowned before the boatmen could reach him. The little suicide was but . 10 years old. He had stolen and eaten unripe grapes in the garden of a nei_hbour, and threw - himself into the water rather than face tites,7 chastisement threatened by his father, an artisan. Notwithstanding the wet and gloomy summer, the harvest prospects in Ireland are very encouraging. Cern is an excellant crop, and it is long since so large a crop of potatoes was seen in Ireland. Turnips are also most promising, and hay is a good average crop, though short in some localities. On the whole farmers may calculate ma a good return for their capital and labour. An accident occurred one day this week at Taylor's Colliery, Taylorstown, South Wales, whereby three men lost their lives, and another was badly injured. The men were removing an empty train trout the rails to allow a loaded train to pass. The empty train collided with the prop@ supporting the roof, and removed them, with the result that a quantity of ddbris fell, competely entombing the four men. Superstitious beliefs still survive in America. In Linens, a few days ago, in the search for the body of a boy who had been drowned, the searchers tied up a loaf of rye bread in the lost boy's shirt, and set it adrift in the water above the place where the lad was drowned, the theory being that the loaf would float until in the near vicinity of the body. The package was placed in the stream, and floated until it reached a certain point, when it began circling round and suddenly sank. It is clamed that the body was found within a few feet of the spot.  The progress of electric lighting of lac has been sufficiently remarkable; but the system may be expected to take ere long a still more rapid development, for the patents under which the Swan and Edison Company enjoy a monopoly of the right to make the now familiar "glow lamps" will expire in about two years from this time. It is thought that lamps which now cost 3s. 63. will, as soon as the manufacture is thrown open, be obtainable for a shilling apiece. This is an extract from the letter of a Weer' Hartlepool lover, read daring a recent breach of promise case :—" I wish, my darling, that you would not write me such long letters. If you were to bring an action for breach of promise against me the lawyers would copy the correspondence between us and charge fourpence for every folio of 72 words. The shorter the letters the more we save from the lawyers." At the Devon Assizes this week a young unmarried woman named Emily Lancey was charged with the wilful murder of her child. The prisoner left the workhouse with the child when it was nearly six months old, and it was afterwards found dead, perfectly naked, in a ditch near Barnstaple. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but were of opinion that she was insane when she committed the act. She was ordered to be detained during Her Majesty's pleasure. The funeral of Mr. Thomas Cook, late of the firm of Cook and Son, tourist agents, took place at Leicester on Monday. Amongst those present, besides the chief mourners, were representatives of the Midland Railway Company, Canon Fleming, Dr. Edmunds, of the London Temperance Hospital, the Rev. Dr. Booth, Baptist Missionary Society, and deputations from numerous local organisations and temperance societies. The Duke and Duchess of Rutland were amongst those who sent wreaths. The man Martini, who was recently sentenced to death for the murder of a policeman, was executed at Montpelier, in France, on Saturday. On being taken from his cell, the criminal informed the chaplain of the gaol that he had no oonfession to make, and that he would meet his fate with calmness and courage. He drank a glass of rum and smoked half a cigarette whilst being pinioned. After asking forgiveness of every one, he walked with a firm step to the guillotine. In the course of the tumult Deibler, the executioner, was hissed.  An electrical instrument recently invented for avoiding the pain incident to the extraction of teeth has attracted considerable attention in the United States. It consists of adjustable prongs, carrying buttons and connected with an electrical battery. The buttons are placed on the face over the nerves leading from the teeth to the brain, and a circuit is established the moment the extracting instrument touches the tooth.  The water supply of Chicago is obtained from Lake Michigan, into which unfortunately much sewage drains. To avoid the contamination it has been necessary to carry the inlet far out into the lake, and to this end a tunnel eight feet in diameter and four miles long was projected some four years ago, and is now finished. Its cost has been 1,100,000 dole., and it is intended to supply 130,000,000 gallons per day to the city. A Cheriton labourer has been crushed to death. The poor fellow was engsged on some new drainage works when a large quantity of earth, weighing upwards of 20 tons, gave way, burying him alive.