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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-04-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE POSITION OF AUSTRIA.—The following is from a correspondent at Vienna :  The Luxembourg questions has given occasion to preliminary inquiries by the French Ambassador as to the position Austria is likely to occupy in the event of an actual conflict breaking out between Fiance and Prussia. The answer given to the French Ambassador has been—as I am assured on perfectly trustworthy authority—that no diplomatic arrangements binding Austria to the observance of a particular line of policy exist between her and Prussia, that the Imperial cabinet is pre-eminently inclined to a strict neutrality, and that in the extreme case of being unable to pursue such a policy any longer, she would join that power which would make the largest concessions to the Austrian interests.  POOR FELLOW !—A singular suicide has been committed at the Futteral, near Coleford, in the Forest of Dean district. A young man named James Ball, respectably connected, sixteen years of age, hanged himself with his whip in an oak tree on the Coleford-road. It appears from the evidence given at the inquest that he was carting sand, when by some means a shaft broke and injured one of the horses. The deceased said to a lad, " I would not have done it for 10/., it will cost 5/. to mend it ; that is a fine tale to go home and tell father to-night; it is enough to make a boy go and hang himself." Deceased then went up a hill into a small wood, and asked thc lad to go with him. The lad (Amos Baynham) said "No,' and deceased went away alone. Bavnham waited for him a quarter of an hour, and, finding he did not return, went to the wood, and there saw him hanging to the branch of a tree by his whip, tied round his throat.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-05-11 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

REMORSE AND SUICIDE OF A MURDERER.-The mystery attending the murder of the young woman Emma Jackson, on the Bth of April, 186.3, in George. Street, St. Giles's, in London, has not to the present time been satisfactorily elucidated. Recently a man of respectable appearance was discovered dead in a quiet neighbourhood in the city of New York, and on the matter being investigated by the authorities there was little doubt left on their minds that he had terminated his life by his own hands. On his person there was found a letter, written to a friend, stating that he was the man who on the Bth of April, 1863, beguiled the young woman Jackson to the house in George-street, St Giles's, and there assassinated her, and that since that time he had travelled from place to place, but being unable to find any rest he had determined upon committing suicide, and that he had put an end to his unhappy existence.  THE MILLENIUM AT LAST !—TIIC Progres of Lyons publishes a letter from a chemist of Marseilles, who suggests a mode of opposing the needle-guns by a Greek tire he has inventl. Ile says:—  To give an idea of the efficacy of my discovery, I declare, and taut ready to prove, that I rail, at a distantal of 1,000 metres, envelope an army of 100,000 men in a sea of flame, within less than live minutes. If a town bra to be taken by assault I have no need of a rotopshine, as I eta Fet it on fire In very nearly the same period. In a naval battle I would run Into the enemy, and in fifteen seconds cow, rail the deck of the vessel with a torrent of flame w Melt would burn the rigging, pemtrate hetw the decks, and irstantaneously stifle all the orew. In an attack on a seaport. I could burn the town and arsenals witIMI range with tho I.:oddity of lightning. With such mass nd oar is possible. us neither victors nor vanquislnd would return from the field of battle. As to the fortress of Lusembonrg, the subject t,f dispute at the present moment. I tmdertake to rid it of its garrison in quarter of an hour.  The Pmgres adds that if there is no Mat st ecx aggeration in the above description. sucli an invention could certainly put an end to all war.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-01-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

JOURNALISTIC CATASTROPHE.—An incident occurrey in connection with the minting of our paper on Mondad which we imagine is unparalleled in the annals of the Press. A cat had ensconced herself in the large cylinder of the four-feeder Hoe printing machine employed to throw off the first side of our impression. Before starting a machine of this sort there is considerable noise and bustle in putting on the " formes " of type, &c., and during thu first few revolutions it is driven very slowly. The cat, however, remained quite quirt during these preliminaries, and escaped notice until the machine was running at full speed, and had thrown off some 800 copies of the paper. She then apparently thought she had bad enough d' it. and attempted to spring out of the cylinehr, but being giddy, after her 200 full-speed revolutions, fell underneath it, and was crushed to a jelly by the revolving formes, her head making a large dint in one of the columns, and her flesh, blood, and bones being so evenly distributed over he type that it was only after a great deal of washing that printing could too resumed. So completely triturated was the unfortunate animal that, as one of the hands expressed it, "nothing was left of her but the skin." If her intention in taxing up her station in the cylinder was suicide, she could hardly have chosen a more effectual method of performing the happy despatch. No motive can, however, be asAgned for the nub act. We sincerely hope that if oth -I eats think of adopting this plan of escape from the cares of this world, they will try some other newspaper, for we have had enough of them, and the next one found trespassing in our machine-room with any such intent shall be handed over to the sausage-maker without mercy. In the present instance, no injury was done to our machine—luckily, for the price of a four-feeder Hoe is £2,Boo—but we can't afford to risk it again, so that if cat. want to be killed by machinery they must go somewhere els.—Nortli British Mail. INSTANT CURE OP ToOTH-
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-11-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NOTIIING LUCK ECONOMY I—The United &T-rice Gazette nye : The Royal Oak and Prince Consort, when off Lisbon, and not more than fifty miles it on the port, were ordered by signals to proceed to Gila...l;er, complete coals, give leave, and rejoin the Admiral andsdon without unnecessary .lelay." There wasa head witol at the time, and the Royal Oak had to use five out of her six boilers and then could only make six knot.. At one time she was burning five tono of coal an hour end scarcely making three knots. In order to reach Gibraltar to obtain 300 tons of coals the Ronal Oak expended 230 tons in addition, and the Prince Consort 133 No leas than 4E587 Fei. was the coat of that little amusement, or adding the cost of the voyage back, £776 Ss.  POOR FELLOW !—An inquest has been held at Messrs. Willis, Perceval, and Co.'s bstdiing.house, Lonnbard-areet, London, on the body of Mr. Woodcock, aged forty-six years. From the evidence of a clerk in the bank, it appeared that the deceased warn second clerk. He was always considered to be comewhat eccentric. About a month ago, a new junior clerk being taken, be became very excited, and asked tine witness whether the firm were not going to send him away. There were no grounds, however, for any such apprehension. On Saturday last he was very excited in his manner, and was so restless, that he left his books and wont out to walk on London bridge. He slept that night as usual at the bank. On Sunday morning, a little after nine nn'clock, he sent for a cup of tea, and immediately afterwards he was found lying on the floor of his bedroom with a  shot through his head, and • pistol by his aide near his right hand. He was quite dead. Another pistol, the cap of which had been snapped, was found in the room. Mr. Frederick Woodcock, a solicitor, residing at Glocester, said that the deceased, who was his cousin, got into pecuniary difficulties a few years ago, anil he ass so touch affected by them that it was at one tune a question whether he should not be put into an asylum. He was in debt E5OO. His friends assisted him, awl he became more calm. His accounts were rite correct, so far as the bank was concerned. Mr. 1. Lloyd said that he was called in and found the deceased lying dead in a pool of blood near the bedroom window. A pistol bullet had entered the head in front of the right ear, and had passed out three inches over the left ear. The wound was aelfinflicted. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-08-10 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE'S LAST LETTER.  A strange case of suicide has been investigated in London. A Polish Jew, named Fredeborg, poisoned himself with laudanum at the King's Arms, in Bishopsgate-churchyard, where he had lodged for some time. He had had notice to quit, and was to have left on Monday. The coroner said that befere toe deceased died the doctors of the Loudon Hospital )to which the deceased was taken' having been discovered before he was quite dead) sent him a letter which the deceased had written and placed in an envelope directed "To the Coroner for the district" It was clearly written on forty-five sheets of paper, was dated April 4, 1867, and showed that he had at that time first planned his suicide. On Monday he had put a postscript to his letter which ran : Ten minutes past eleven o'clock. I took the ingredient for my destruction. I hope it will relieve me from this accursed world. May the God of Israel and of Jacob pardon me. I thought I had friends, but I have found that at the sight of poverty friends fly." As the letter itself contained a serious attack upon a woman, the coroner said he should not read the whole of it to the jury. It concluded thus : I can starve no longer. I have had no meal to-day. I will end all while I have abed to lie on. It livery painful to be found dying of starvation in the streets of London. My only fear is that I will be discov. red before I am dead, and that disgrace will be worse than all. There is no hope for me. I do not know where I shall sleep to-night. It may be in heaven or the opposite region. You will require no postmortem examination ninny body, for the cause of my death Is laudimum. I wish to be placed in the burial ground amongst my people. After some deliberation the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1867-12-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MELANCHOLY CASE.  We learn with much regret of a sad attempt at suicide in Bristol, on Sunday morning, by a young lady about twenty-one years of age, the eldest daughter of a merchant of eminence recently deceased. The funeral of the resp.cted gentleman only took place on Saturday, and intense grief, acting upon a mind pre- I viously much impressed by religious excitement, led to the painful occurrence. It appears that about halfpast seven o'clo .k a man named William Broad was going across Durdharn Down, when he saw a young lady at some distance from him take a short run, and then disappear from his view. He hastened in the direction, and in a clay pit, which had been nearly filled with water by the recent heavy rains, he saw a young lady wholly submerged. He waded into the pool up to his waist, and succeeded in reaching her, and raised her partially out of the water, but was unable to rescue her without assistance. He called for aid, and a man named Dyer, who happened to be passing, came to the pool, and helped to rescue the young lady and carry her to a neighbouring seat. The young lady in question was missed from her home at about half-past seven, and messengers, both mounted and on foot. were instantly despatched in every direction in quest of her. She slept in the same room as two other members of the family, and on their being called in the morning they at once mimed her trom her bed, and it is stated that she left behind her a letter in which she expressed an intention to commit the rash act which she so nearly succeed. din carry mg into effect. The melancholy occurrence caused a considerable degree of excitement in the neighbourlmA of Durdham Down, and of course much aggravated the poignant grief in which the friends of this unhappy young lady were plunged by the loss of a near and much beloved relative.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-05-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AND DR.  COLENSO.  The Clergy of the Rural Deanery of Upper Llandaff have iddressed the Lord Bishop of this Diocese as follows:  "My Lona—We, the undersigned, the clergy of the Rural Deanery of Upper Llandatt, desire to express to your Lordship our feelings of gratitude for the efforts which you have made, as well through the press as in your place in the Upper House of Convocation, to vindicate the divine authority of the early historical books of the Old Testament, and to reply to the captious objections which have been recently urged against their character and their claim. Such cavils have been, indeed, of frequent occurrence in every age ; and they have been as frequently answered and exposed ; but what in the present instance excites alike our grief and surprise, is that they proceed from one of the overseers of our Church, who is bound by his office to drive away all erroneous doctrine; and who must himself have made the solemn declaration which he is obliged at ordination to require from others, of unfeigned belief in all the Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. Conduct, indeed, so inconsistent with moral honesty as an assault upon the faith, through the profession of which he has attained to his present position. must go far to neutralise the influences which otherwise from that position his teaching might derive. But ware not the less obliged to your Lordship for the prompt ness and ability with which you have instructed us how to meet this unlooked-for attack upon the very Scriptures to which our Lord Himself appealed, and which must ever form the groundwork of all religious teaching. " We remain, with much respect, "Your Lordship's faithful and obedient servants, John Griffith, Rector of Merthyr-Tyolvil, Rural Dean William Davies, Curate of Merthyr-Tydvil Owen D. Thomas, Curate of Merthyr-Fydvil John Davies, 8.A., Curate of Merthyr Tydvil Evan Rowland, Curate of Merthyr-Tydvil Thomas Thomas, Curate of St. John's, Pontyrhun J. Jones, Rector of Dowlais Daniel Leigh, Citrate of Dowlais Evan Lewis, Incumbent of Aberdare David Davies, CuraL of Aberdare  J. Davies, M.A., Curate of St. Fagans, Aberdare David J. Richards, Curate of Aberdare  David Jones, Curate of (M. Ash) Aberdare John Howell, Incumbent of yfiithfa Gilbert C. F. Harries, Rector of Gelligaer Alexander Stammers, Lecturer Gelligaer Charity 1). Noel, Vicar of Llanvaton Judah Joues,,.P.C., St.. Martin's Caerphilly: _  Rice Jones, Vicar of Eglwysilan William Davies, Incumbent of Llanwonno W. Morgan, Incumbent of Ystradyfodwg lwa rd Meredith Griffiths. Curate of Llanwormo John Cunnick, Curate of Ystradylodwg.'  Rhoda Jane Pratt, a young woman, committrff suicide by throwing herselt into the thorn s, at West— minster, on Thursday, through having met with a great diaappointment in love, which affected her mind.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

AND SVICIDE.—On Wednesday morning, shortly after 12 o'clock, the inhabitants of St. Matthew mlinal-green, were alarmed by the news of a mosbrutal murder and the suicide of the murderer. It apt pears that the crime was committed at No. 4, Globe street, Globe-road, Bethnal-green. The house was occupied by a weaver named James Dupey, with his wife and three children. They retired to rest thortl7 after 11 o'clock, all lying in one room, and about midnight screams of" Murder !" Police !" were heard. Several of the immediate neighbours rushed out and met the elder son, about 18 years of age, who exclaimed "Oh pray came upstairs ; my father has killed my mother !" A Mr. English proceeded to the apartment and discovered a most fearful scene ; the wife was lying upon a small bed in the coiner of the room, in her night-dress, with her throat cut from ear to ear, and the bedclothes were saturated with blood. The husband had made his escape out of the house, followed by one of the neighbours. Ile ran at full speed down Globe-street, in the direction of Victoria Park, where he succeeded in getting clear away Several persons wont in pursuit of the murderer, and when they reached the Regent's-canal, near the chief entrance to the park, a coat and hat were found lying on the towing-path. Information was given to the police-constable on the beat, when he called Mr. Russell, the lock-keeper, who procured the drags to discover the body of the murderer. It was then about halfpast 12 o'clock, but the body was not recovered until 5 o'clock the neat morning. Mr. Rolpb, the surgeon, examined the body on the towing path,. and found • fright. ful gash in hoot of the neck, which bad been inflicted immediately before submersion. A razor, besmeared with blood. was found in the deceased's pocket, and the weapon (which was handed to the police) was found to be one wh‘ch the deceased used to shave himself with at home. Mr. Burrows, the summoning officer of the district, proceeded to the house at an early hour the next morning, and made inquiry. He interrogated the elder daughter. and it would appear that she slept on the floor, by the side other parents, when she was suddenly aroused by her father stepping upon her. She sat up and heard a gurgling nose. Tile deceased woman was struggling, and exclaimed faintly, "Oh, Henry, don't cut my throat." 11,11' father was partly dressed, and, placing the razor in his trousers pocket, he ran out of the house. The cause of the tearful act cannot at present be ascertained, but the deemed 01411, who was 68 years of age, had beim subject la attacks of delirium.
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-05-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDR.-• Mr. George Richard Roberts, a master baker at Woolwich, committed suicide on Thursday, under painful and extraordinary circumstances. It appears that on that day a young woman named Frances Bliss Poston, for some months a servant in the house of Mr. Roberts, surrendered herself to the police on her own confession of having attempted to poison her mistress on the previous Sunday. She stated that she had been instigated to commit this act by her master, between whom and herself an improper intimacy had existed. The young woman was removed to the Woolwich police-station at noon, and subsequently Mr. Inspector Lineal had an interview with Mr. Roberts. and informed him of the , charge made against him. Ile requested that he would voluntarily attend the police-court at 3 o'clock, in order to be present at the examination of his accuser, Paxton. To this request Mr. Roberts readily assented, but about 1 one hour afterwards he was found suspended to • beam in the roof of his stable. Eliza Paxton, aged 18, was placed at the bar before before Mr. Trail, charged, on her own confession, with attempting to administer to Elisabeth Roberta a quantity of vitriol, with intent to commit murder. The only evidence adduced was that! given by Police Inspector Jamee Linvell, of the R division. He said that in the morning he went to the residence of the prisoner's father at No. 3, Charles-street, Woolwich, and saw the prisoner, whom he asked if it was true that she had expressed a wish to make an inttant statement to the police. The prisoner said it was, and the witness cautioned her in the usual manner. The prisoner then said that on the previous Sunday evening her mistress was away from home, and her master sent her for two half-pints of beer, which she obtained in two separate mugs. On her return she had her supper, and drank one of the half-pinta of beer, the other being intended for her mistress. While the prisoner was having her supper, her master was conversing with her, and tuns• plained that his wife kept such late hours. Her muter took • bottle from a shelf, and gave it to the prisoner, saying, "There, that will settle her." The prisoner then, in the presence of her master, poured • considerable quantity of the liquid from the bottle into the mug containg the beer, and afterwards went to bed. Tho prisoner also stated that her muter had seduoed her shortly after she entered his service. Inspector Linvell now produced the bottle, which was labelled "Vitriol, poison." He also stated that on returning home Mrs. Roberts was about to drink the beer, but rejected it ia consequence of its unpleasant teat.. She kept it until the following morning, when it was handed to Dr. Stuart, who at ones stated that it contained poison. The prisoner was then remanded, and the magistrate directed that the beer produced should be subjected to analysis. Mr. Casten., coroner for the district, will hold an inquiry relative to the SEWS*.