The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-09-27 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HALFPENNY TOLL BRIDGE: AN  INJ 0 STICE.  Echoes and Re-echoes.  The members of the Iron and Steel Institure, met at the Town Hall, Chester, on Tuesday. A little girl at Worcester was run over by a cart on Tuesday, and killed en the spot.•  Brightoniane are petitioning their town council to supprees the Salvation Army procesaione. Mr. Mitchell, of Sowerby-bridge, has been drowned at Blackpool while bathing.  - . Mr. Faweett, M.P., la the guest of the Judge Advocate-General at Wrexham.  The Ocean Steam Yachting Company purpose sending the Ceylon on a cruise to the Mediterranean as far as Alexandria, John Skidmore. an Oldbury labourer, has been oommitted for trial for attempting to outrage his daughter, eleven years ot age. Arthur William Desert, a native of Cork, is in custody at Leeds, charged with "long firm" frauds to the extent of £1,900.  Anexplosios of dynamite,ccusing eonsiderable damage, occurred in a closet-pipe in the Vienna Town Hall. A church beadle has been dismissed at Tipton on a charge of indecently assaulting three little in a c.hurcdi pew.  The rumour that Prince Bismarck would visit Deeside is understood to Lave arisen ant of his sons' visit to Abergeldie. The banquet in Soothind to Lord Roseberry has been fixed for the October 21, and is expected to become the medium of a great political monstration.  At Liverpool on Tuesday, Richard Cooper, was committed fee trial of a charge of the manslaughter of hie wife, who caused her death by kicking her.  At litrminglutat, George Lee, an evangelical minister, WWI committed for trial on a charge of fraudtdenty obtaining • quantity of linoleum, communion cloths, umbrellas, awerlete, &c.  Particulars have arrived at Liverpool of a daring attempt to escape from Pentridge Prison, Melbourne, in which a convict named Kelly was shot dead.  Richard Runt Crown, amackowner, of Great Yarmouth, has been committed for trial for the murder of his mother, whom he killed with a poker.  Emma Hale, wife of the landlord of the Brook Tavern, Oldbury, has been fined 10s. and costs for being drunk on her husband's licensed premises.  Three brothers named Dobson were haymaking at Middlesborough recently, when one of them was killed by a hayfork being accidentally thrust into hie head. The Bishop of Peterborough, preaching at Duston, near Northampton, said churches were not architectural museums, but places designed for worship.  To successfully cope with street ruffianism, the police patrols have been doubled in those part of the Metropolis recently protected by a single constable.  The decoration of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India has been conferred on Miss Edith Ferguson, daughter of the Governor of the Presidency of Bombay. The closing of Upper Ferry, Cbatham, rendered necessary for dockyard purposes, has led the Admiralty to award to each of the ferrymen OM thrown idle the sum of £lO.  A nurse of the Wanford Private Asylum, Exeter, was fined recently for slapping the face of a patient, and for giving her a second bath as • punishment. The Rev G. C. Ommaney, of St. Matthew's Church, Sheffield, has remarked that vestments, lights, and a grand church were likely to reach far more than the words heard from the pulpit. John William Stanley, who held a responsible position in the chief offices of the Midland Railway Company, Derby, has committed suicide by drowning in the Derwent at Darley Abbey. At Loughrea, %Mulls, Bilchrist, and other places where people have refused to pay the sums awarded under the Crimes Act, seizures of cattle have taken place, and the animals will be sold.  Two fishermen, named Robin Hood and Hunter Brogey, of Hartlepool, were returing to that port from the fishing ground, in the smack Robin Hood, when they were knocked overboard and drowned. A "Time" telegram from Constantinople on Tuesday announced that the Sultan has made a present of a fine property on the Bosphorus to the Prince of Montenegro. A coroner's jury at Liverpool has returned a verdict of wilful murder against a Russian seaman for causing the death of a woman named Elizabeth Hamblin, when he stabbed her in the breast.