The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-04-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. MT. John Ginnett, the well-known circus proprietor, who died at Brighton in January last, has left a personalty of £32,139. Nora Denis, a domestic, of Indianapolis, drank half a pint of whiskey and then shot herself dead. She was disappointed in love. A large jam factory will shortly be established in Kent. This will be good news to fruit-growers in that county. A German inventor is reported to have devised an ingenious camera for taking photographs of the internal organs of human beings and beasts.  The annual ccnference of the National Union of Teachers is to be held at Leeds on Easter Monday and the following days. The Judges will rise for the Easter vacation on Wednesday, the 13th int., after which there will be no further sittings in the High Court until Tuesday the 25th. On Sunday afternoon a melancholy boating accident occurred in Belfast Lough, by which three girls and a young man were drowned.  In the annual Association football match between England and Scotland, which was played at Ibrox Park, Glasgow, on Saturday, the visiting team won by four goals to one. . . .  -The i.rade in American oysters is rapidly increasing, the total number of barrels arriving in Liverpool for the week ending March 30th being 5,561.  In view of posEible outrages on I May, the Italian Government has sent instructions to the provincial authorities to watch all suspicious strangers. . .  So;e hothouse English strawberries, small but very red and of excellent flavour, found a ready sale in the London markets, last week, at half-aguinea the hundred. A tire caused by the explosion of a paraffin lamp occurred in a house in Liverpool, and when assistance arrived two children, aged 5 and 7 years, who were alone in the house, were found burnt to death.  Discovery is said to have been made at Oderisa of a conspiracy, with branches in ten other cities, inc!uding Belgrade and Constantinople, having for its object the overthrow of the present Bulgarian Government.  The Bishop of Exeter has administered the rite of confirmation to 38 pati nts of the Western Counties idiot Asylum, at Starcrosa. This is the first time such a rite has been conferred upon the inmates of the institution.  The Temperance Society of the Free Church of Scotland made rapid progress during the past year. The membership rose by 10,000 and now stands at over 90,000. Of 36 ministers ordained during the 12 months 35 were abstaineis.  Charges of corruption have been brought against members of the New Brunswick Government, who are accused, on sixteen specific charges, of having extorted money from railwayi, and committed other acts of venality. Three extensive fires are reported from the German towns of Posen, Hamburg, and Ludwigshausen. At the first-named place a mother and daughter lost their lives in jumping from the burning house. At Hamburg damage to the extent of several million marks was done.  "When you give up the Bible, woe to Scotland !" exclaimed Mr. Moody, the evangelist, in Edinburgh. "France and England stood abreast is the march of nations. France closed up the Bible, and England threw it wide open; and as the result English belts the globe to day as a language. Where is France 1"  Serious disturbances have broken out in DJ.humey, the King having committed several acts of aggression, and advanced on the French settlement of Porto Novo, to which he lays claim. In consequence of this the French Government will stop the payment of the subsidy to the King, and will dispatch reinforcements to Zanzibar.  On Sunday morning the porter of a mansion in Berlin, while sweeping the p Lasage, found the half. naked body of a woman, apparently strangled, but showing no mutilation otherwise. The murder had evidently not been committed on the Tot, and the body must have been carried there from some distant part of the town.  In the week ending April 2nd there were 208 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, an increase or 46 as compared with the corresponding period !ast year. The receiving orders gazetted number 103, showing an increase of 38, and the number of registered deeds of arrangement was 75, an increase of 34. —Compiled front Stubbs' Weel4 Gazette.  At Liverpool Assizes Lord Chief Justice Coleridge sentenced James Whitely, aged 32, labourer, Bolton, to 15 years' penal servitude for the attempted murder of Elizabeth Mather, wife of • man with whom the prisoner had lived for some time. Prisoner took the woman for a walk, when he suddenly threw his arms round her and cut her throat, afterwards robbing her. The body of a girl has been acchlntally discovered in a labourer's cottage about two miles from Bandon. it was buried beneath the floor, and must have beep there for a considerable time, as it was in an advanced state of decomposition. An inquest was held, but the evidence given threw no light on the affair. The house had been unoccupied for some time. The police are investigating the matter.  Five families were evicted in the town of Tipperary on Saturday, in connection with the Smith-Barry dispute. Reasonable terms were offered to the tenants, but were rejected in consequence A the majority of the Smith-Barry tenants beirg still out. A large crowd, principAlly composed of women, witnessed the evictions, and hooted the sheriff and the police. A Russatin Jew committed suicide in the Jewish Synagogue at Bristol on Saturday. He had lately arrived from London, and, though poor, be was disinclined to beg, but said he would rather work than apply to the president of the Hebrew Congregation. He attended the synagogue, and left a4out the middle of the service. Shortly afterWlrds the report of firearms was heard, and the body of the deceased was subsequently found in one of the outbuildings.  More rumours of marriage projects among the Royalties are current. They will probably, in due course, be contradicted. One from Vienna insists that the betrothal of Princess Marie of Edinburgh to Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, the heir presump. tive to the throne of Roumania, him been virtually decided upon. Another rumour comes from Rome, and is to the effect that the Princess Marguerite, daughter of the Duo de Chartres, ill to be married to the Crown Prince of Italy. Some idea of the rapid increase in real estate values in the city of Chicago during the present century may be gathered from the following circumstance. Mr. Giles Williams, a Wall-street broker, who is still alive, bought some years ago • square of ground in Chicago for £l2O. After holding it some twenty years he sold it for £B,