The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-11-03 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SAD STORY OF LOTS AND SOICIDE.—A. young woman named Margaret Irving, 20 years of age, daughter of a blacksmith, drowned herself at Carlisle a few days since, under circumstances of a melancholy character. For some months a tailor, named Glenwright, a native of Haltwhistle, living at (Nei* le, had been courting her, and by him she had become pregnant. He had promised to marry her, but it was two months since he had seen her, and last week she received from him what she considered to be a very cold letter. It was dated " Milkridge, October 25th." He said he was sorry lo hear that she was in so much trouble, especially when it was partly his fault as well as hers, and that her father had said what he had said. He continued "Our happy visits to Primrose Bank is going to come to trouble for us both in the end I doubt; but, my dear Maggie, we will have to make the beyt of it as it has come to this. I am quite aware that you will take it very badly to be slurred at. I had made up my mind to send you word that I was coming to sec you, but as this Lathe case I must oonient myself at home. I must fairly give myself up now, as lam a very unfortunate sweetheart; but, my dear love, I hope that from my heart that you will think none the less of me." That night she went into a neighbour's house, and cried over her letter, after which she returned home and gave her mother all her sweetheart's letters, saying the might do what she liked with them. Then she went into the neighbour's again, and bidding her good-bye ar.d saying that she was going away, left, and was seen no more alive. Next morning her dead body was found in the river Cables., ocr the town. An inquest has been held, end the jury found that the girl had committed suicide grhil. in an unsound state of mind.  The Roman correspondent of the Journal dc' nro..,ies states that Father Wing, who, it appears, is a member of the Society of Jesus, has been appointed to the office of custos of the Vatican of Basilica. Father Bollig is said to be an exceedinglgly learned than, and to be able to speak fifty-two languages. The Navy understands that the Channel fleet has been instructed to rendezvous at Gibraltar until further orders. The fleet in Besika Bay is to be reinforced by the Shah, flagship, commissioned for the Pacific; the Tourmaline, commissioned for the commodore on 0 a West Coast of A.friea ; and the Minx. On Saturday morning, whilst a goods train of the London and North-Western Railway Company was Ibeing shunted at Lancaster to allow a mail train to pass, the fireman, a young man named John Maxwell, lOf Carlisle, overbalanced hie self whilst upon the tender and fell on the tine. Eight wagons passed over him, killing him instantaneously. The dept estaff is'ied by Prof. Nordenskield on the Ice Fiord, Spits, e•gen, has been plundered in the most shainiful niai par. A Norwegian whaler, who visited the spot this summer, reports that provisions, felling tackle. clothing, guns, ropes, sails, and even the planks, hid dkappeared. It is to he hoped that ; the perpetrators of this heartless theft will be diecovered.  Ur. William Black is now on his way home after having paid a flying visit to the United States in quest of local colour for a new novel. His personal experiences of life in the territory of Idaho have been of a kind very differmt from those of the ordinary tourist in the United Stater, while far better fitted for supplying the novelist with useful hints. The 5r4 instalment of his nest novel will appear at the beginning of the year.