The Herald of Wales. — 1888-06-30 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SUCCESSFUL SWANSEA,  MUSICIAN. The musical fraternity of Swansea will be glad to learn that their fallow townsman, Mr T. J. Davies won the prise for the beet " four part song" Davies, which 25 dollars were offered at the grand mtudoal festival held on the 12th and 13th inst. at Wilkeebarre, Ps. The adjudieaton were Oar! Leraham and Carl Pflu:w, (of Boston), Mr Arthur Mess, (of Cinctti), and Mr D. J. J. Mason, Mug. Bac. (Wilkesharre.) Mr Davies was represented b; Mr Lewis Anthony, the late respected Leader of Ebenezer Chapel, Swansea.  About nine o'clock on Tuesday night two young men in service at Vole wan Farm, Newchurch, near Carmarthen, whilst going through some fields, came aerosol the body of • man suspended to a tree by means of • handluw. 'tAef. The body proved to be that of Thorns. Thomas, 36, oarpeuter and licensee of the Farmer's Arms Inn,Water-strest, Carmarthen. whot it appears' had gone to stay with some of his relatives living in the neighbourhood. On Wednesday an inquest on the body was held at the Plough and Harrow Inn,betore Mr R. M. Thomas, deputy coroner, and the jury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased oommitted suicide whilst in • state of tempo. rery insanity.  A shocking accident, resulting in the death of two men, occurred during the early hours of Tuesday, at the Mardy Colliery, Ferndale. It appears that about 330 a.m. Evan Jona", repairer, 27 years of age, living at 25, Oxfordstrsit, was employed, with others, repairing in the south-west portion of No. 2 Pit, when James Daviee, a haulier, 29 years of age, living at No. 5, Oxford-street, 'Lardy, appeared on the wane to enquire how much more rubbish there was to clear. Just at that moment three pairs of timbers supporting the roof gave way, and both the men named were instantaneously killed by the huge quantity of rubbish that fell upon them. Diaries was a single men, and a native of Fishgeard, Pent • brokeahire, but Jones, who was a native of Ystredymourig, Cardiganshire was married and leaves a wife and three children. The announcement that the highest classical . . - . . .  honour in the London University has this year, for the first time, been taken by a lady, will help to strengthen popular faith in the prediction that Girton College will ultimately break down the monopoly of knowledge will& has been favoured for centuries by universities. As Miss Mary Louisa Worley has gained the gold medal in olvesica at the annual examination for the M.A. degree, her snecess will, no doubt, stimulate other ladies to make an effort to secure the higher honours that have hitherto been regarded as beyond the reach of the sex. As an educational event the result of the examination has a special interest It is, in fact, without precedent.: The Royal Eisteddfod, which is to be held this year at Wrexham, will, in all probability, be of an unusually interesting eharaoter. The entries for the great "chair" prize are very numerous, and the competition will, it is expected, prove very keen. About .£l,lOO will be given in prizes, and there are already 3,270 competitionl in poetry, prose, and music, while elioiti will contend for the prize baton. Two grand cmeerts will be held, at which • the Aressiah and Go if :;al+ will b performed. The eisteddfod will extend from September 4th to September 7th.  The first examplo of Kr Edison's "perfected phonograph" has been received in England, the inventor having sent one to Col. (}tumid, reeiding in Upper Norwood. The recipient writes to a contemporary giving an enthusiut;Cl account of the mucous of the phonograph in its improved form. On tho authority of Mr Edison's own statement, communicated by the phew:o.mph its if, Colonel 0 ,urand Says that the rreeent example is the first nutriment of his latest model that has h.en seen outside of his laboratory, or that has kit his hands. This information Mr Edison committed to the ph°. ',graph itself before it left America, and Col. urold graphically degcriton the communies. tion of the message. "At five minutes past two o'clock precisely," he writes, "1 and my family were enjoying the at once unprecedented and woounding experiewe of listening to Me Edition's own familiar and unmtstakable tones here in England, more that, :;,000 miles from the place where he Lad .roken, and cxacily ten days after, the voice bavttitr menn white voyaged across the Atlantic ocean." There is hope for the lazy 'otter writa in this glowing deurits tiun of the posaibt;ithe of the phonograph. ho more struggling with T. n and ink, or excuses for bad writing, or tter conflicts with the orthographicsl 'ties of the English .sagusge. e minutes' quiet chat with a phonogrs the extraction of 01 phantom= to 1,. irdsd lieu s •IC  .  '-o• .  ,