The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1890-04-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENE  ,RAL NEWS.  The Newry correspendont of the Dublin Elpres; [pip; that the Nat ioual 'relephone Company, Belfast, ere :irreuging to lay a trunk wire between Belfasl itud  The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland have issued a new rule forbidding any officer in their service having a salary less than £l5O pet annum to marry.  The "spreading " of the mombera of the Society of Friends is indicated by the tact that a comparatively large meeting of the body bas been formed at Tokio, Japan.  It in probably an arocryphal story that comae from San Francisco of the theft of 111dme. Patti'. Bongs by means of a phonograph concealed under the stage of the opera Louse.  Mr. T. Hastings Lee has been elected chief constable of the Isle of Wight. Mr. Lees was formerly chief constable of Northamptonshire, and is a bat rister on the Midland Circuit.  Mr. Davit hue sent the Bishop of Galway £2O for the distressed Liscannor &barmen on condition that no part of the money shall t e paid for rent. The Lord Chief Justice Peter O'Brien has subeoribed five guineas. Of the 263,795 British and Irieh emigrants in 1889, 168,771, including 67,897 Irish, went to the United States, 28,260 to Canada, 28,294 to Australia, 13,844 to the Cape and Nall4l, and 14,577 to other places.  Lord Douington has purchased the estate of Ixley-Walton, Leicesterrhire, about four miles from liegworth. This estute comprises the whole parish of Isley-Walton, Alai its manorial rights and mauor house.  A. woman was eleottal by oneof the pa: ish assemblial of Jersey as Queen's suruutoning.otticer of civil cases. The Royal Court., however, ou Saturday utigallantli decided that slie was ineligible to serve, and a new election was ordered.  Wm. Henry Boardman, labourer, hos been remanded at Burnley civil gad with desecrating a graveyard at Burnley. It was alleged that in November last the accused bloke open and entered a family vault in the churchyard at Holy Trinity.  The eldest son of Mr. E. Lloyd, the popular tenor, gives gi eat promise of possessing a tine tenor voice. The young gentleman has, indeed, for some time peat been studying in Leipsio, and he will soon make his debut as a voaalist in Loudon. In consequence of the death of a boy from hydro. phobia at Newtcwiaards the Lord-Lieutenant has directed the iesident magistrate for the county of Down to convene a special meeting of county magic. trate* to consider steps for the prevention of the spread of rabies. A bill has been introduced into the United State Congress ordering that a sum of 205 dollars, credited to Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," when he was United states Consul at Tunis, shall be paid to Mrs. Lunger, of New York, his only heir.  The local municipal authorities have (according to a Halle telegraia to Dalziel) decided to introduoe electric street cars, the first in Germany. The system adopted is the so-called American Sprague overhead system. The Berlin Edison Society will build the road.  An extraordinary suicide is reported from Saffron Walden. A man named Bush slept in a shed ad. joining a public-house at Rio:11111g, and was die. covered on Sunday morning with a deep gash across his body. He was conscious' and said he inflicted the wounds in his sleep. He died a few hours later. A telegram from New York states that Mice Charlotte Hugo, a member of a well-known Epie. copalian family In that city, has taken the "white yell" in one of the Roman Catholic convents there. Miss Hugo is the daughter of the married sister of Dr. Temple, Bishop of London. „.  - . At the Darlington County Court, on Saturday, Judge Turner appointed Mr. Barclay Peat amount. ant, of Middlesbrough, as the official liquidator of the Onward Building Society, without oppositiou, upon an application which was supported by