The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1885-03-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. The strike at Sir Titus Salt's mills at Saltair continues. The mills opened at six o'clock on Monday morning, but very few bands resumed work. A St. Petersburg telegram states that Prince Orloff's health being seriously affected, Count Mapui.tie is likely to succeed him as ambassador at Berlin. The United States Senate has passed a resolution preveming General Berries, President of Guatemala, from annexing the neighbouring republics. The firm of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell, and Company, launched on the Tyne a magnificent cruiser war vessel for the Japanese Government. Makes from Lundy state that attempts will be made at high water on Friday to raise the steamer Peer of the Realm, which sunk there some time ago. Miss Fanny Calder, of Liverpool, delivered a edam on cookery in elementary schools at Cardiff, on Thursday, and the matter was dieminted by the meeting. A tradesman it Folkston°, named Inman, attempted to murder his father by shooting lfim with a pistol, and afterwards committed suicide by shooting himself through the temple. One of the pages lathe U.S. House of representatives is a great-great-grandsonof ex-President Madison; another is a grandson of ex-President Tyler. It has been decided to invite Mr. C. IC Palmer, the present Liberal Member for 'North Durham, to be the candidate for the Jarrow Division. It is stated that the Mayor of Berwiek (Alderman James Allan) is a candidate in the Liberal interest for the Berwick Division of Northumberland. The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass to Captain }'erlix Jose de Souza, of the Brazilian coasting vessel Nova Alliance, in ac'znowledgment of his humanity to a shipwrecked crew. In vaults in New York and vicinity there are now 34 bodice, awaiting the consuming fire of the projected crematory at Mount Olivet, Lang Island, which will be in operation probably about May let. At Manchester John Hawkins, surveyor, Ebury-street, London has been remanded on several charges of fraud. It is alleged that he obtained money from the wife of Mr. Warburton, MP., by representing himself as a relative. The French Senate have accepted all the retrenchments which had been made by the Chamber in the Ecclesiastical Budget. The result will be the abolition of theological chair sat the Universities, the sacrifice of the dignity of canon, and a great reduction in the allowances ta be made to bishops and priests. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday night Pat Norris, a farmer, was found lying on the road at Tinneranny, county Kilkenny, with seven stabs in his body and one in his throat. The police are investigating the affair. A young man named John Harrington has been arrested. The Victim is not yet dead. Harrington is a fisherman and farmer, and had been several times in gaol for assault. It is supposed that the outrage was the result of a drunken quarrel. On Sunday night an explosion took place at the pot-office at Temesvar, Pesth. The whole of the furniture cf the office was destroyed, the the windows were blown out, and three officials in charge seriously wounded. The disaster was caused by six small bags, which were described as containing samples of clover seed. They came from Mannheim, in -Germany, a spot which has become somewhat notorious of late as a resort of German Anarchists. The material contained in the bags was n a granulated form, and is believed to have been dynamite.  The Queen will start how Portemoutk et two o'clock on Monday for Cherbourg. The new dock wall at Dunkerque has given way. The estimated loss Is 400,000 francs. The British steamer Bolivia, of tilasgow, bee run ashore at Cherbourg. The crew were eared. General Grant is able to take sonic food, but his condition fails to improve. The death of Pere Monjardet, the general of the Frenoh Dominicans, is announced. Costanza the murderer of his fellow soldiers at Padua, has been allot at Venice. Miss Heald, of Lincoln, has made a bequest of £5,000 to the Yorkshire College at Leeds. It is expected that the Budget will be brought forward either on the 13th or the 111th of April Acting on medical advice, Mr. W. L. Jackson, MT., has left London for Cannes. Mr if. Staniland, formerly one of the Liberal Members for Boston, has issued an address to the electors of tee Spalding Division. John Lee, the Behbacombe murderer, has been removed from Exeter to Pentonville