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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-06-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ISEA.—The r t rapture of any importance since the operation of the Anglo• Egyptian Convention has just been made in the Red Sea by her Majesty's ship Wild Swan, which has had the good fortune to seize a -Acid having nearly eighty slaves on board. Two boys, named Sisley, the sons of a cabdriver of Kilburn, were drowned last week. While returning home they launched a plank upon some water which has accumulated several feet deep in an excavation, and while they were floating about upon it the plank overturned and they were both drowned.  A lock manufacturer, mimed. William Stuart, has committed suicide at Wolverhampton by taking poison. A few weeks ago he was charged before the magistrates with stealing a quantity of brass, the property of a firm with whom he had dealings, and althoughhe was ultrim ately acquitted, 4 is supposed that the disgrace preyed upon his mind. the anniversary of the so-called "Conversion of the Greek Ciliates to the Orthodox Church" has been celebrated by a solemn service in the ancient Cathedral of Chnlin (Poland) and by a banquet of 1500 covers upon the square in front ef it. The Czar, who is now the supreme head of the eparchy, presented the sacred vessels, which were displayed upon the altars.  At Louth, on the sth inst., a horse drawing a vehicle belonging to Mr. W. H. Smyth, High Steward of the borough, took fright at a band of musicia.ns,.and galloping furiously along the road caused one of the wheels to fly off, knocking down Mr. Matthew Bell, agent for Sutton and Co., the carriers. He was conveyed home and died within two hours. The driver, named White, was severely injured. At Guisborough tolice Court, last week, a telegraph clerk named Pattinson, in the Bretton Post Office, was charged on. remand with stealing a post letter containing a silver hunting watch. The letter had been posted at the Bretton Post Office, addressed to Middlesbrough, and was found on searching the house of the father of the prisoner. Pattinson was committed for trial at the York Assizes.  Oxford will be the meeting-place for the conference and annual meeting of the Association of Librarians. A proposition is under discussion to hold an Anglo-American library conference. It is thought that advantage might be taken of the visit of so many American and Canadian visitors on their way to the Paris Exhibition to waylay them at Oxford. The matter has been brought before the Premier, Mr. Forster, and Lord ufferin. _ _ . . _  The June number of the " Nautical Magazine" contains an article by Sir Travers Twist; on " Privateers," in connection with the Deolaraticu of Paris of 1856, as to the abolition of la rear., , and th• reported fitting-out of Russian privitteen, in Ahierican ports. The June number of the Nineteenth Century contains an important article by Mitllaat Pasha on the past. 'present, and future Of Turkey; a paper, by Sir Thomas Wstiso*, on "Smallpox and Compulsory Vaccination ;" and an article by Mr. Uladstene on the question of the clay.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-05-31 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BEA.—The firs! apture of any importance since the opesation of he Anglo-Egyptian Convention has just been mule in the Red Sea by her Majesty's ship Wild wan, which has had the good fortune to seize a essel having nearly eighty slaves on board. Two boys, named Sisley, the sous of a cab. lriver of Kilburn, were drowned last week. While returning home they launched a plank pou some water which has accumulated several eet deep hi an excavation, and while they we: Listing about upon it the plank overturned and Anay were both drowned. lock manufacturer, named William Stuart, las committed suicide at Wolverhampton by aking poison. A few weeks ago he was charge,. 'dere the magistrates with stealing a quantity of 'rasa, the property of a firm with whom he had lealings, and althoughhe was ultimately acquitted, A is supposed, that the diesraue preyed upon his  I We regret to announce the death of Earl Russell, which took place at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond park, on Tuesday night, at a few minutes to eleven o'clock, alarming symptoms having set In some hours previously. The statesman who has thus closed a life long in the public service almost without precedent in modern times, was born in August, 1792, and was thus within a few weeks of completing his 86th year. He was the third and youngest sou of the sixth Duke of Bedford, and when only 21 years of age entered Parliament in 1813 for the borough of Tavistock. He represented also successively Huntingdonshire, the borough of Bandon, and the undivided county of Devon in the unreformed Parliament, and after the passing of the Reform Act sat first for South Devon, then for Stroud, and afterwards for the City of London, retaining the seat for the last-mentioned constituency twenty years—namely, from 1841 until 1861, when he was elevated to the peerage. He was Paymaster of the Forces from 1830 to November, 1834; Secretary of State for the Home Department from April, 1835, to 1839; Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1839 to 1841; First Lord of the Treasury from July, 1846, to March, 1852; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from December, 1852, to February, 1853; held a seat in the Cabinet without office from the last date till .Tune, 1854; was President of the Council from dune, 1854, to February, 185'5; Secretary of State for the Colonies from March to November, 1855: re appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in June, 1959; and upon the death of Lord Palmerston in October, 1805, he was re-appointed Prime Minister, retiring from office in June, 1866, on the defeat of the Reform Bill in the Honse of Commons. A grandson, thirteen years of age, the son of the late Lord Amberley, is the successor to the title. •
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-08-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A CONVICT IN PRISON.  Last week, Dr. Thomas, Deputy Coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the Pentonyule Convict Prison, concerning the death of John Stanley, aged 46, a convict, who committed suicide by imaging himself in his cell on the 81st ulthno. The deceased was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of larceny, and having been con. victed twice before, he was sentenced to seven years penal servitude and five years' police supervisisin. It was noticed that he was a reserved man, and would not make any communication to any of his frieeds. On the above d: te on assistant warder an going to his cell and opening the door to allow deceased to come out to his day's task, he found him hanging by the neck by a brace and a handkerchief, which he had tied together, attached to the matting machine that was fixed op in the cell. It was found that he bad been dead for some hours. On the prisoner's slate was found written a request to the governor of the prison to let deceased's father know that he was dead. Although notices had been sent to the deceased's friends no answers had been given. The I • jury returned a verdict "That the deceased coal! mitted suicide whilst of unsound mind."  The Orontes proceeded to Portsmouth on Batorday with time-expired men and invalids.  A heavy gale prevailed on the coast of North Wales on Saturday. At Llandudno the regatta had to be postponed, a yacht being smashed to pieces and a cutter foundered. The death is annouced at New York, on July lath, of Mrs. Richard &spells, better known as Miss Mary Wells. She was born at Lincoln, in England, in 1829, and was a favourite actress in lii. United States between the years 1850 and 1868.  LEAD PolsONlNE.—Several oases of lead poihouint which have lately occurred in Germany bay. been found to bo due to the effect of the direc rays of the sun upon the oilcloth toxs of bab [ carriages in which the children were kept whenout of doors. The oilcloth is of American make I and contains 41. per cent, of metallic lead.— ' British Meilieol josstual.  With reference to bills now circulating amongs. the Metropolitan police, advocating the convenini of s, monster meeting to enforce their claims for rise of pay, the Chief Commissioner has Issued 11l order advising the men to exercise patience, a. all the evidence taken on the subject is in th. hands of the Secretary of State, with the Con missioner's favourable recommendation. Tb Commissioner adds that he will not oppose an legitimate petition, and will see a deputation fro the men, but he reminds them that any IITIRCOTII conduct will prejudice their case, and wid be pi. down with a strong hand.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-03-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE AT ADERATEON. MT, William J. Davies, commission agent of Aberayron, committed suicide on Wednesday, by cutting his throat with a razor. He leaves a widow and three children, the youngest of whom is only 8, few months old. About five years ago a thunderbolt fell in a fruit garden at Vernon (Eure) making a perforation about three inches in diameter. The currant and cherry trees around the orifice died at once, but every season the circle of destruction has increased and now all the vegetation over 22 yards has disappeared. The circumstance, which has not been explained, is puzzling the scientific authorities. The Executive Committee for promoting the building of the Royal Agricultural Society's Show in London, next year, held a meeting this week at the Mansion House. A finance committee was appointed, and invitations to join the general committee were issued to the different railway companies, in order that they might be induced to facilitate the transmission of samples and specimens to the show. Mae Its. HENRY CHUTE, wife of the lessee of the Bristol theatre, died on Wednesday evening aftera brief illness. She died whilst "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was being performed at her husband's theatre, where the news arrived just as the dying Eva was exclaiming, "I soon shall be no more." The performance was at once stopped, and Mr. Brandon Ellis stated the reason, whereupon the audience, evidently feeling the sadness of the annomaosment, quietly withdrew from the house. Mrs. Chute was half-sister to the late eminent tragedian, Mr. W. C. Macready, and she inherited no small portion of the hereditary talent of her family. The deceased lady was born at Swansea in July, 1824.—Weeterti Mail.  Tho Marquis of Bute ha e had an audience with the new Pope.  The Banbury Chamber of Agriculture on Tuesday passed a resolution in favour of imposing a tax on all vehicles for the purpose of maintaining turnpike roads. The Chamber also passed a resolution thanking the Government for introduc. ing the Cattle Diseases Act.  The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg sums up the present pesitioa of what may be called the Congress question, It seems, he says, "to be isayiug the sphere of reason and interest, and sinking into that of passion and prestige."  - A number of publicans have been fined by the county magistrates at Stockport and, the borough magistrates at Cardiff for selliag spirits below the standard strength, The charge against one publican at t•h.e latter place was dismissed on his proving that his cask was marked "Diluted spirits, 35 under proof," and that he gave the purchaser a label similarly inscribed. Stsouwat
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-06-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE LATE EARL RUSSELL AND FREE  TRADE.  In the following terms the committee of the Cobden Club have placed on record their feeling on the death of Earl Russell:—" The committee of the Cobden Club desire to place on record their deep sense of the loss which thts club, in common with the whole country has sustained in the recent death of Eail Russell. The illustrious career of Earl Russell, extending over more than half a century of public life, has already become a part of the national history. ever to be regarded as a memorable example of poi; tcal constancy and lifelong fidelity to the great principles of civil and religious liberty. But this club is bound to acknowledge with &pivotal gratitude his exertions in support of that cause which is specially associated with the name of Mr. Cobden. Though Earl Russell was not among the earliest pioneers of Free Trade, it was he who, by his fearless declaration against Protection at a most critical juncture gave a decisive impulse to public opinion, and powerfully contributed to bring about the repeal of the Corn Laws. It is well known that Mr. Cobden entertained the highest respect for his political character. When this club was founded Earl Russell was one f ithe foremost to manifest his appreciation of its objects, having joined it as an original member, having presided at its annual dinner in July, 1867, and having taken a constant interest in its proceedings. In thus perpetuating the memory of his connection with the club, the committee would also express, on behalf of all its members, their sympathy with the Countess Russell and the rest of his family, as well as their hope that so honoured a name, having now descended to his grandson, may carry with it the noble inheritance of his public and private virtues."  After obtaining the opinion of counsel on the subject, the Ashton-inalakerfield Local Board have resolved to take proceedings against certain colliery proprietors, to compel them to repair the damage to roads in the district caused by mining operations.  A private in the '2nd Royal Surrey Militia named Callingham committed suicide on Monday afternoon. 'While being marched through the streets of Guildford as a prisoner towards the barracks, he suddenly broke away from the escort, jumped into the river Wey at Guildford Bridge, and was drowned before assistance could reach  A prize fight took place oa Monday a few miles from Leicester. Two men named Houghton and Robinson had challenged each other to combat, and the event was made known to about 200 pereons, who proceeded to Barkby Thorpe. Here the combatants set-to vigorously, and Robinson gave in after being severely punished. The police then made their appearance, and Robinson was taken into custody.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-01-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A JEWELLER  EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT OF THE SUICIDE. The following is a siunmary of the statement found on William Jackson, who shot himself in Falmer Churchyard, near Lewes, on Sunday:— Friends, dear parents, and sisters,—l have journeyed on cheerfully till now, when the thought comes upon me of the immense anxieties of my friends concerning my future punishment, so that I have decided to put an end to my existence, and reles,e you, however painfully, of the contemplation of my alrful condition. The strain upon dear mother's nerves was terrible to think of. There are many keepers about here, and I shall wait for one to seize his gun from the corner of the public house and shoot myself. I feel the writing of this much more than I shall the act, and it is for your own good. I sadly fear I have mistaken my vocation in life. Please excuse me if Ido not write in 'an affectionate strain, as it would unman me. Hamburger, I do not think he will continue telling such a tale upon my death. It was a fair duel, and the odds were against-me. There has been a long and severe quarrel. He had libelled me, and I was determined to be avenged. I drew part of the powder from the cartridge, and did not think it would kilL I asked him which he would have, the dagger or the pistol, and he said the dagger. I threw it to the other end of the room, and when he rushed to pick it up I fired. I then closed with him, and after a terrible struggle wrested the dagger from him, and threw him off. I repeated my act and asked to make terms. He offered me a sovereign to- go, but I did not ask or wish for money. I said if he would allow me half an hour's start I would leave him, on the condition that he would not pursue or prosecute me. He promised most faithfully to do so, and I threw down the knife and ran. He picked it up and followed me down the first flight. I made a stand, when he at once returned to the room. I ran down Andrew street, jumped into a cab, and drove to Westminster. - . .  In'another statement he expresses a wish to be buried where he was christened.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-01-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AMUSEMENTS IN RADNOESMRE.—A. Welsh magistrate writes to the Times as follows:—" The inhabitants of this district of Wales amuse themselves by various lawless pranks. Sometimes they destroy the ornamental trees of a neighboursquire ; at another time they sack a church and smash the harmonium to pieces. Not long since the throat of an inoffensive donkey was found out in the morning in a vicar's field. The police, too, are roughly handled, and, in a midnight affray with a party of eight or ten disguised natives recently, had some difficulty in maintaining their own. The chief delight, however, of the inhabitants is now and then on winter nights to assemble together to the number of 200. They , then march along the turnpike roads for miles near the river and brooks, where the salmon are breeding. Some of the party beat improvised drums and let off guns, while others are spearing fish on the fords by torchlight. The greater portion are fantastically dressed and disguised. Ac. cording to individual fancy, they tuns their coats inside out, wear shirts outside, and muffle their heads; the ringleaders generally blacken their faces. These large gangs are called Rebeccaites,' and on more than one occasion this winter have marched unmolested along the chief roads of the county. In the face of such numbers the police and the river watchers prudently retire to a safe distance." Worth, tho grcat l'ai :s•r,a, twelve hundred  Tn the case ot the death in Dublin of the Rev. JtVIICS 31IVhinny, Presbyterian chaplain of the ferces in Ireland, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of suicide during temporary insanity. A blind Italian beggar brought a suit in a San , Francisco court several days ago to recover 100 dole,. and during the trial it came out that the plaintiff bad 1000 dols. to his credit in a savings bank.  A SV cm: or bees were recently discovered under ft 1 tlii Comaegational Church in Bosc'v,b. N.i and with CO rounds of ho ley taken Hi-Mg-Once a festival was held which 14.i1 the eliurch a large sum.  The stopping of tho Itl Ilt Logino \Vorlis want of orders is itunou.....,d.  The death is annoonc,-.1 of Lord Cecil Jam's Gordon, fifth non of coign, ii it .Uorquis ci Huntly. Several correspondents ',port a shock of earthquake in Cheshire and Shropsnno on Jan. 15th.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-12-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TASTES DIFFER.—Far be it from us to speak with disrespect of the Scottish national instrument, but to a landsman in the agonies of the mat de mer, the added torture cf a blast from a pair of bagpipes must, we should imagine, be maddening.—Manchester Guard am.  Mr Jam-es Porter, of the Perthshire Rifle Battalion, well known for his successes at Wimbledon and other rifle meetings, committed suicide at Perth, a few days since by taking cyanide of potassium, which he used in his calling of photographer. He has left a widow and twelve children. • On Saturday, notices were posted in the workshops of the principal builders at Bristol that after January Ist, t, .ing to the badness of trade, and the downwiud tendency of wages throughout the country, the wages of skilled artisans would be reduced one halfpenny per hour, and other employees pro rata. Mrs. Webb, of Ledbury, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Webb, banker, and deputy-lieutenant of Herefordshire, celebrated her hundredth birthday November 25th. She is the only surviving sister of the late Sir Joseph Thackwall,aWaterloo officer. Records in Berrow Church, near Ledbury, it is stated, contain proofs of Mrs. Webb's age.—Pail Mall Gazette. The entire MS. of Mr. T. P. O'Connor's new Biography of Lord Beaconsfield is now in the hands of the printer, and the book may be soon expected. It will consist of a single volume of about 600 pages, and will bring down the history of the Premier to his entry into London after the conclusion of the Treaty of Berlin.  The following story is told of the Rev. John Russell, the well-known Devonshire hunting parson. While dining out, not long since, with a party of gentlemen, most of whom were old westcountry friends, one of whom, a most agreeable Cornishman, who was always on the move, always wandering about like a Bedouin, from place to place, nobody knew whither, and was never at home, complained to him that he did not feel at all well, and that he thought he should go away for change of air. "Then go home," said Russel shortly.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1878-01-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PAIR OF SUICIDAL LOVEBR.-At the Thames Police Court, London, on Tuesday, Bella Brown, 19, a respectably dressed girl, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drowning at 1.30 that morning. She was rescued in a very exhausted condition. On recovering she stated that she had had a quarrel with her sweetheart, a sailor on board the steamship Dublin Castle, which was leaving on Tuesday for the Cape with the 90th Regiment on board, and that as he would not make it up she had thrown herself into the water.—Sergeant Barnett said that after the defendant had been rescued, her sweetheart, who bad left her before she had thrown herself in, came rushing hack, and it was only with great difficulty that he could be prevented from throw. hug himself into the water too, as they had s difficulty in persuading him that the girl was safe. It was further stated that the defendant bad before attempted to take her life.—Mr. De Rutzen remanded her for a week.  M. Leon jacquard, a distinguished violoncellist, has been appointed Professor at the Conservatoire of Paris, in place of the late M. Chevillard.  Mr. Thomas Dunman has been appointed to the lectureship on physinlogy at the Birkbeck In. eitution, recently vacated by Dr. Avel.ng.  The Verein far Deutsche Litemtur of DerUnitas just decided to add Mr. James Sime's "Life of Lessing " to its fourth series of publications.  The Examiner, which for some time pest has belonged to Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., will shortly become the property of the Earl of llosebery. Intelligence has been received from Sydney Ix telegraph that gold dbcoveries of con.i:d rablo importance have just been made in 1- Ow Guinea. Mr. E. A. Freeman has written a:, article, entitled "First Impressions of Athens,- which will appear in the forthcoming number of the muLiupAji llevietc.  flnticce.