Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-09-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO.  At Dartmoor Convict Prison, on Tuesday, an assistant warder named Bennett was stabbed by a prisoner named Johnson, with a sharp piece of iron, and very seriously injured. How the prisoner obtained the iron is unknown. A Plymouth pawnbroker was on Tuesday cornmitted for trial and two others have been summoned to appear before the magistrates on charges of receiving goods which an errand boy had been convicted of stealing from his employers. The Football Championship of the United Kingdom was won on Saturday by the Dumbarton team, holders of the S .ottish Challenge Cup, against the Blackburn Olympic, holders of the English Challenge Cup, by six goals to one. ! The Newcastle Town Council on Wednesday wield' mouslv appointed a special committee to confer with .the Tyne Improvement Commissioners on the question of constructing a ship canal connecting Newcastle and district with Solway Firth. An inquest was held on Wednesday at Nottingham on the body of Hannah Hunt, who was shot on Sunday at Kirkby, near Mansfield, by a collier named George Spurr, who cohabited with her. A verdict of " Wilful murder" against Spurr was returned. Our Newry correspondent states that there is no foundation for the rumour that Mr. Maxwell Charles Close, member for County Armagh, is about to resign owing to continued ill-health. On • '  tho contrary, Mr. Close's health is rapidly improving.  _ At Cork Police Court on Tuesday John Fitzgerald, Michael Sweeney, and Joseph Stalk, arrested last week in connection with the seizures of arms and infernal machines at a bakery, were pot forward , on remand. There being no evidence against them, they were discharged.. An inquest was held at Preston on Wednesday on the body of Partrick Ginty, a labourer, who was killed by Anthony Henry, his cousin, on Monday afternoon by etabbing him with a knife. A verdict of'. Wilful murder" was returned against Henry, who has not yet been apprehended. A fire, which resulted in the loss of considerable property, occurred in a large warehouse occupied by Billton and Co., High-street, Hull, on Monday. , The premises contained a large quantity of rape seed, tow, and grain, and although the damage is not ascertained it must be very considerable. By the upsetting of a boat in the Huuriber on Monday two young men, named Henry and Ernest Nicholson, eons of a surgeon of that name residing at Hull, were thrown into the water, and Henry, aged 18, was drowned. Ernest was rescued by some men from the Lincolnshire side of the river. At the Provincial Grand Lodge of Cornish Freemasons on Tuesday Go Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Provincial Grand Master, presented Brother Hughan, for many years secretary, with a handsome gold jewel and purse containing 250 sovereigns, in recognition a his 'minable eervices to the Order.  The wife of the Rev. Francis Kendall, vicar of Lanlivery, who is brother of a former member for East Cornwall, liss committed suicide by cutting herthroat. An inquest WaS held on Saturday. it transpired that the deceased experienced religious mania. A verdict of t' Temporary inanity" was returned.  About eight o'clock on Saturday night a quarrel arose between two men living in Lower Holloway, and resulted in a desperate tight and the death of one, John William Coininings, labourer, living in Queensland-road. His antagonist, Charles Morgan, labourer, struck him a fatal blow behind the ear. Morgan has been apprehended. Partridge shooting commenced on Saturday in most parts of the country. The weather in some districts was wet and unfavourable, but in Seat.! land sport was begun in glorious weather. There was abundance of birds in Forfarshire, Fife, and Perthshire, but there being as yet but little stubble shooting will not be general for a fortnight. The ElchoChallengeShield, won by the Irish Rifle team at the late Wimbledon meeting, was conveyed from Dublin to Cork on Tuesday in charge of the , team and a deputation from the Dublin Corporation. On their arrival the band of the South ' Hampshire hegianent played " See, the conquering hero comes." They were received by the Mayor and citizens.  A committce of the Burnley Manufacturers' Association had an interview on Wednesday with a deputation representing the Burnley Weavers' Association, on the subject of the infringement of the hot of prices by certain tirms. The committee afterwards passed a resolution recommending the trade to abide by the list in its Integrity, and specially directing the attention thereto of the firms complained of. The Han. Guy Dawnay, M.P., speaking at is Conservative demonstration at Denby, Yorkshire, on Saturday, reviewed the Government measures of the past session, and condemned with sonie vehemence the course adopted by the Ministry in South Africa, and also their policy with regard to the Suez Canal. lie claimed to the ConservativeA the initiative of the principle of the Agricultural Holdings Act, which he regarded sea fair settlement of the question between landlord and tenant.  Mr. Newdegate, M.P., speaking on Tuesday at the Warwickshire Agricultural- Society's Show dinner at Coventry, said the deep depression in agriculture had broken down a prejudice among the commercial and monetary classes of tins country. The latter had thought they could thrive without the farmers, but they had found that their credit depended on them, because they were the great guardians of the safety of England, and upon that safety their credit rested. He complimented the farmers on the noble way in which they had faced their difficulties. The adjourned investigation into the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary Olasheen by her husband, Michael Glasheen, at Lislooran on the evening of  August 30, was resumed at Tipperary on Wednesday. Several neighbours and lodgers were examined with regard to the conduct of the woman's husband immediately before her death, but their evidence did not incriminate him, and the inquiry was adjourned. The principal witness against the accused will be his son, aged eleven years, who stated in his deposition, taken at the previous investigation, teat he saw his father take the deceased out of her sick bed, and place her across the fire.