The Herald of Wales. — 1889-08-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

LATBEICX CASE. The ad-absorbing topic of disci:weir: just _aw seems to be the Maybrick sentence. The old adage that "when the doctors disagree who is to decide,"has played a sigaiiticantitpartAtae question. Most folk believe in the atult Maybrick, but are disposed to give her the benefit of the doubt.‘ It was very felicitously remarked the other day that if the case were reversed, Le., if Mr. Maybrick had been the prisoner, the cry would have been hang him, and that would be, in the estimation of many, too good for him. The prevailing tendency to humanitarian views has shown itself r',vetry conspicuously in the voluminous letters appearing day by day in the London papers on this painful case, letters written by men of the highest intellectual order in phynce and of the most eminent in chemistry, end all of which, with few exceptions, plead for a setting aside of the sentence. There is a point in this case too that should act as a deterrent to the use of poisons except as direated by a medical man. That we cannot help partaking of arsenic in our food stuffs is evident. In fact there is a certain quantity of arsenic, yes, and of prussic acid, in most of our edibles. But as nature prepares her eampoimds there can be no fear. In the meantime it is much to be desired that the prisoner, Mrs. May. brick, will not be hanged. The thought of such a lien of procedure is sickening, and as the sympathy: of this nation, together with that of America, is on her side it is to be hoped those in authority will see their way, after dim deliberation on the matter, if not to aerate, to minimise the pmdatonost. Whether the evidence woo:ronfriating or there is one thing certain, that a grope attempt has beeurnade to prejudice the judgment of the responsible authorities in the case, by ..blic clamour and hseling, ' Apart, however, . a this fact the case is a serious one, and ff there be a deal*, arid it ceamot le said there is ' not, then let the prisoner have the benefit of it. Swansea Herald.  The Doi* News tuideratandsthat Mr. Chaplin has been offered :and has accepted office as Prealdant of the New Board at ../cricailtare.  -•— sl,. Chronicle Vionnt teleurath cti There lay says : Frau Arthur Schulz, a 'nil-known actress, engaged at the Puerta 'r!vi,uvri, committed, suicide on Monday night, by sliooting here& with a revolver on the stage of the theatre, directly aster the final fall of the curtain. The unfortunate lady, who wae fortytwo rare of ago committed tdre rash act through an unfortunate love attachment.  On Saturday night a fire broke out in a block of warehouses in Effrugham-street, a narrow thoroughfare in Bootle. The "premises were stored with cotton, and though the fa* brigade were speedily on the spot, the fire had made such headway that the roof fell through in about two hours. The fire was not suMutd until throe of the storeys were burnt out. There were about 4,000 bales of cotton on thepremisee, and the damage is estimated at £2.5,000. , It is douWul whether the Scotch grouse' Reagan willbe an averago one. The dry summer , has affected the birds much, end,, lame numbers were found dead onthe hanks of dried up streams. The moors of West Sutherland and C.olthahire have not suffcmd no severely as those farther south, and on these moors some good sport will still be obtained. The deer forests are more sa *factory than grouse moors, ,deer being reported in good condition. errs comes from San Pranelsco -61 a clis' aster at Bea, by which nineteen lives haus been lost. The ,klaska Ounpants steamer Dora has arrived at SanTrancisco from the Seal Island, vrithtwo survivors of the whaler 'Little Othio, which was list in the frozen wag: Out of a mew of thirty-four hands only fiftecm were saved, Icing Teemed by the whaler Belvedere, Captain Alien was among the lost. .  9333'd when