The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1883-12-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

LECTURE ON TWINS O'R NANT, TILE  WELSH SHAKESPEARE.  On Thursday evening, 29th ult., a lecture on "The Welsh Shakespeare," was delivered by Mr R. D. Morgan of Maesteg, in connection with the Maesteg Literary and Debating Society. In addition to the members of the society, several ladies were present, in welcoming whom the President. Mr Benner, remarked that Mr Morgan's former contributions to the society had excited a great deal of interest, and as much curiosity was felt regarding the Welsh Shakespeare. the society on this occasion bad departed from the usual custom, and had invited ladies to be present. The lecturer handled his subject in an able, eloquent, and humourous manner, and held that Thomas Edwards, "Twin o'r Want," for the bent of his natural genius, the resources of his imagination, and the true originality of his creations, deserved the title of the Welsh Shakespeare. His works were ably noticed, and we regret that we are bound, through pressure on our space, to omit the ample and interesting report before us. A vote of thanks was heartily passed to Mr Morgan on the motion of Mr W. Glover, seconded by Dr Thomas, and supported by some of the members  --A shocking suicide took place in Liverpool on Monday. A respectable-looking but poorly-clad woman, about forty, ascended the steps at the south front of St. George's Hall, and r•aching the plateau about half-way, climbed the balustrade and leaped into the street below, a distance of about thirty feet. She was taken to the hospital, whe e she died in a few minutes after admission.  Frederick Pulley, William Allen, and Henry Hartley hare, at Worship Street, London, been sent for trial on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences. Their plan is stated to hare been to advertise offering money on loan, and on a:plication being made to them, w.thout advancing anything, to procare various sums as enquiry fees, travelling expenses, and 80 forth, in one case receiving £3 34..61.  A disagreeable practical joke has been played upon a well-known inhabitaut of Sittingbourne, who upon getting up on Monday morning found that someone h ,d, under cover of the darkness, placed a liberal coating of whitewash upon the fence and mu roache-, to his residence. The removal of this coating proved to be a work of considerable difFeulty. The affair is likely to be heard of in thc police-court. The Mitnici:. al Council of Moscow has decided, upon the propcsition of Dr. Maklakoff, that during the winter the pupils of the municipal schools shall be exempted.f out attendance in very cold weather when the thermometer falls below II certain point. The governor general of the oity has con-mquently been instruct d that on these occasions notice boards must 1 3 put up at the police stations to inform paren: i that the schools are closed. The corirs ty of hunters and trappers in limerschatka lo not appear this year to have been particularly s evessful, but nevertheless a considerable amount c business tma been trausacted, as the following sale 0; rar:ous kinds of furs will show : B,Nteee, 3,00: - fox, 700; ermine, 1,000; bear, 1,300; seal, ;000; porpoise, 20; blue fox, 1); wolf, 20; wit'. sheep, 300; wolverene, 1,800; and various other .nun-coloured furs, 900. The prices. qr.:, not ennteil _