The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1880-12-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO.  The scrutiny in the Evesham election petition was made on Friday morning, when Mr. Hartland was declared to have been duly elected. The judges decided that the costs should follow the event in the petition, the recriminatory vase, and the scrutiny. After an interval of four years, foot-and-mouth disease has again appeared in the neighbourhood of Lewes, Sussex. Ten beasts were condemned by the official inspector, and it is feared that several more animals on two separate farms are developing the disease.  By a Bombay order in Council, all public offices aro to be closed on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of February, 1881, in order that the services of the employes may be available for assisting in the census operations. The Indian census will be taken on the 17th February.  M. Gone, manager of the Path Gil Bin% a journal that has acquired an unenviable notoriety for the publication of indecent literature, has been sentenced for Cie perpetration of an offence of this character on December 5 to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 1,0001. The premises of Messrs. 31asgrave and Son, woollen manufacturers, Leeds, have been destroyed by fire. For the last few weeks the firm had been very busy, and work was carried on almost day and night. The loss, which is covered by insurance, amounts to several thousand pounds. Two cases of suicide by hanging are reported from Oxford. James Rorwood, while in a police cell on a charge of vagrancy, suspended himself by a strap, and when found life was extinct. Mr. Henry Leverett, undertaker, of Jericho, was also discovered banging in a water-closet.  From Dortmund it is reported that a fatal explosion has taken place in a coal mine near Langendreer. Four miners were killed and two were severely wounded. The accident was caused entirely through culpable carelessness on the part of a miner, who opened his lamp, contrary to the regulations. Mr. Hyacinthe Loy' son better known as hire Hyacinthe, has just addressed a letter to the President of the Paris Municipal Council, asking for the use of the Church of the Assumption, in the Rue Saint Honors, as he is compelled to give up his chapel in the Rue Rochechouart before January 15 next. A beginning, at least, has been made in the revision of spilling in British India. The Governor of Bombay, in Council, has lately issued an order directing that the town and district of Karachi is in future to be spell" Karachi," and not" Kurrachee," as was directed in a Government order of four years ago.  At the Middlesex Sheriffs' Court, Mr. Under. Sheriff Burchell and a jury aseessed the damages due to a survant girl, named Ellen Jane Alillard, for malicious prosecution and false imprisommut, which she suffered at the hands of Mr. Bell, her master, who gave her in custody on a charge of theft, at .Cl5O.  The Jewish World announces that a marriage has been arranged between Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, youngest son of the late Baron Lionel de Rothschild, and Miss Marie Perugia, sister of Mrs. Arthur Ssasoon. The ceremony will be celebrated at the Portland Street Synagogue in the course of next month.  A Board of Trade enquiry has been held at Cardiff, into the circumstances attending the foundering of the British steamship Mavis, of London, in the Bay of Biscay in November last. The Mavis was lost when on a voyage from Cardiff to Bordeaux, and two of the crew were drowned. The Court suspended the ouster's certificate for twelve months.  The men,who form the crews of the Bristol Channel pilot skiffs, who have been on strike several weeks against what they regard as the unfair selection of three persons to navigate all steamers of the Great Western New York Line have resolved to change their attitude, and proceeded to sea. They will test the question by a prosecution under the Conspiracy Act.  Thirty-eight men have been charged at Bangor with intimidating workmen employed in the South Carnarvonshire granite quarries at Llanaelhaina, where a strike lately occurred, owing to an Englishman being appointed foreman. One defendant was committed for trial, five were fined id and costs, and the others, with one exception, 40s. and costs. Notice of appeal was given in seven of the cases. A letter has been received by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce front the India Office, in which it is stated that nothing is known officially of the alleged proposal of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal that the Government of India should reimpose a moderate duty on all classes of cotton goods, and that "Lord Hartington has no reason to suppose that such a proposal would be entertained by the Government of India."  A town's meeting has been held at Leicester to consider an extensive scheme for the prevention of floods. It was urged that the question ought to be postponed until Parliament had dealt with the whole subject on a national basis. It was pointed out that over a hundred acres of land belonging to the Corporation, at present valueless, would be worth 10s. per yard when the tcheme was completed. The proposals were approved of by a large majority.  At the annual meeting of the Lancashire Independent College a report was read in which it was stated that the total cost of the recent extensions of the college building amounted to about £22,500, and that after all promised subscriptions have been paid the remaining total indebtedness under the building account will be about £B,