Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal. — 1895-08-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NOTICE IS HEREBY. GIVEN that this Company's Railway, between Aberavon and nrm of Bands, ironmastere, Gartsherrie, UoatSwansea, completing the route between Treherbert, Neath and Swansea is :now opened for bridge, has died at the age of 70. Passenger Traffic. f The Steamer Miranda, of Hamburg, has foundered of Ushalit during a fog. The crew of fortyone were rescued and safely landed. Some boys playing at Black Fen, near Bexley, found the dead body of a child in a paper parcel under circumstances which indicate foul play. One of the most remarkable exports of tho Gold Coast is that of monkey skins. During the last five years an average of 175,000 skins has been annually exported. This is bad news for Manchester :-- According to the statistics of the Arkwright Club, the number of cotton spindles in Georgia and the Carolinas has increased 20 per cent since 1892. Mr. Howard J. Goldsmid, a well-koWn Birmingham jeweller and politician has committed suicide in a train by taking cyanide of potassium while travelling from Redditch. Two Clapham bakers and pastry cooks have been fined £lO each for having on their premises a quantity of condensed milk described as "decomposed" for use in their bakery. Twelve people have been killed and 25 injured owing to an overland train from San Francisco, caving the metals at Grant's Station, Now Mexico. One of the largest hotels at Portsmouth has been placed out of bounds by the military authorities, owing, it is understood, to the refusal of the management to serve soldiers in uniform with refreshment, except in certain bars. Captain Wiggins, the Siberian explorer, intends to present to one of our national museums the collection of silver pieces, valued at £5OO, presented to him by the late Czar. A steam dredger, claimed to be the largest ever built in America, has just been finished at Alameda, Cal. It is 110 feet long, 50 feet broad, and 10 feet deep. The dredge bucket weighs five tons, and will lift twelve tons of mud at each scoop. The latest piece of enterprise on the part on the advertiser is to announce his wares on the Himalayas. Many parts of the cart road to Simla are flanked by walls of rock, and upon these are painted, in bold characters, the 'flame and characteristics of a well-known whisky. Mr. Stopford Brooke has finally resolved to retire from the ministry of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, with which he has been connected for a number of years. Although Mr. Brooke's 'health hes been-greatly-iAproved by his stay _in Italy, he fears the possibility of another breakdown which would result in the closing of Bedford Chapel again, and the consequent dislocation of the work. Great excitement prevailed at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour on Friday morning, when the training brig Martin, collided with one of her own boats, occupied by five sailorboys, and capsized her. The lads struck out vigorously, and boats sent from the St. Vincent picked them up. TkMartin went to her anchorage. At the Carlisle Police-court on Friday, Mr. S. P. Foster, late Unionist candidate for Carlisle, summoned Mr. J. P. Buck, manufacturer, for having slandered him during the recent election by stating that he had been drunk. Mr. Buck now apologised, saying it was a report he had heard, but did not believe, and only used it in a bantering way. The case was withdrawn on payment of costs. Col. Yorke, of the Board of Trade, reporting on an accident at Limo-street Station, Liverpool, on June 13th., says: "This collision is one more proof, if such be needed, of the necessity for enforcing the rule that trains should enter terminal stations at hand brake speed so as to ensure an ample reserve of brake power to meet any ernereency." The General Election does not seem to have furnished much of a crop to the diligent collectors of electioneering witticisms, The following epigram is taken from the scrap-book of a lady : Among the men what great divisions rise; " Union" this one, "No Union" that one cries. Shame on the Ilex with whom such wrong began. Women are all for union—to a man. The Board of Trade Returns on Trade and Navigation have jam been issued. The imports into the United Kingdom during July shows an increase of £3,292,589, as compared with the same month last year, while the exports show an increase of £2,160,950. The exports show a substantial increase in every branch, Lord James has received a remarkable tribute of esteem from the masters and boys of his old school, Cheltenham College. A very artistic illuminated address has been presented to the Chancellor of the Duchy congratulating him upon his admission to the Cabinet. It is signed by all the masters and boys of the college, the former numbering 45 and the latter nearly 600. Lord James was the first. boy who entered Cheltenham College upon its °piano- in 1841, and is now president of the council, the governing body of that institution. The creditors oi Lord A. E. G. Osborne, son of the Duke of Leeds, met on Thursday at the London Bankruptcy Court, and, in the absence of au off er,left the case in the hands of the official receiver. The debtor was brought to the court on a promissory note for £650 endorsed by him in April, 1819, on behalf of the present Earl of Clanearty, but now filed at £2,877. His accounts now show a deficiency of £3,181. A destructive fire occurred early on Friday at Hill-street, Bermondsey Wall, originating in the premises of Messrs Lloyd and Sons, metallic cask makers. Despite the presence of a large number of steamers the flames spread rapidly, and a three-storeyed building, used as the workshop and stores, and another of the three floors used as the manufactory and stores, were very seriously damaged. The four-storeyed building used :is offices and dwelling also suffeied severely, while some adjoining property was damegecl, The "poi Mall:G/404e 1' publishes a letter which Mr, Gladstone wrote on Thursday to Khalif Khalid, of • Angora, in which Mr. Gladstone says he has made no charge against the Turks ht large, but against the Turkish Government. He claims that he has been a better friend to the Ottoman Empire than the Sultan, and he has always recommended reasonable powers of local self-government. That advice had been spurned, and Turkey had lost 18,000,000 people, and might lose more. For some time past (says the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent) rumours have been circulating at Sofia to the efleot that the Government intended to proclaim Bulgaria wholly independent, and have prince Ferdinand crowned as King. This project, I am now assured, will be definitely accepted or rejected on Prince Ferdinand's return. Difficulties in the way of its realisation are quite as serious as those that hinder Bulgarian and Russian friendship, but they are considerably less numerous. Turkey's interference, for example, would be excluded, and Russia's claim would no longer be taken in the same serious light.  =M:kr_VgArriZ7,7l -ftrw-F