The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1887-03-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DEATH OF THE REV. HENRY WARD BE %CHER.  The Bev. Henry Ward Beecher, the great American preacher, died early on Tuesday morning, at his residence at Brooklyn. lie was suddenly struck down in the midst of his work by a paralytic seizure on Saturday last. From the that no hopes were elite! Wiled of his recovery, and he never regained consciousness. His death removes a great figure in the religious life not only of America, but of England also. The most widespread sympathy is telt and expressed throughout the country. The New York Legislature being in Session at Albany, on the receipt of the sad intelligence a resolution of condolence with the widow and the family was proposed in the Senate. It was passed by a silent vote, all the members risinj in their places. Many flags in the city were immediately at half. mast, and tok,ns of mourning visible everywhere, especially at the private houses of the great preacher's admirers. An enormous number of messages have been received by telegraph and delivered at the residence of the deceased, including one from Mr. H. Irving and Miss Terry. Mr. Ward, the sculptor, will take a plaster cast of the face, to help him in producing a statue of Mr. Beecher. _  Henry Ward Beecher, son of Lymen Beecher, and brother of Mrs. Beecher-Stowe, was born at Lichfield, Connecticut, in 1813. He graduated at Amherst College, Mass., 1834, and studied theology under hie father at the Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati. He first settled as a Presbyterian 'enlister at Laurenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, removed in 1839 to ludianopolis, and in 1847 became pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, at Brooklyn, Now York, where lie was soon well known as an opponent of slavery and an advocate tetnperanos. He also became prominent as a plaform orator and lecturtr. Mr. Beecher from an early period Wali associated with the press, and for several years was editor of the Chriation Union. He bad three times visited Europe, his first visit occurring in 1863, when _he addressed large audiences on the questions raised by the Civil War, urging with great earneatnewt the cause of the North. His third Visit to Euglaud was made in the autumn of last year, and since his return to Brooklyn be had been engaged in completing a "Life of Christ," of which the first volume appeared in 1871. lii 1882, Mr. Beecher formally withdrew front the Association of Congregational Churches on account of a change in belief on the 1910,j-et of eternal punishment. From the moment of Ws seizure on Saturday morning, Mr. Beecher remained new. usoions.  Madame D'Auka's action agaiust Lord lensdale aud Miss Violet Cameron, for breach of contract, was on Tuesday concluded before J make Field and a special jury. 'The question before the court was whether the contract had been mutually te-oinded or not. The jury fottud a verd;et tot the plaintiff, damagen £125. His Lortl.ltip gave judgment accordingly, with immediate execution._ _ _  has been decided by the Queen's Belief' that the election pe,ition preseuied by Mr. Joseph Arch against the return of Lord Henry Beni jock for the North-Western Division et Noriolk should be tried in London. . . .  Sentence of two month' impri.onment has been pronounced by the Southwatlc London magis. trate on Francis Art,lowan, clerk, for dimorder ly conduct and atotanlting the olive during the recent Socialistic diet irrhances in the Borough'. Eliza smii b, ii eel in girl has been charged at Mar ylebone Police C. urt,London with attempting C ininit suicide,niud wa committed for trial. By a majority of in .re than three to one the ratepayers of Paddington have decided not to adopt the Publro Librariert Ad. There was a large proportion of orb.teur ions. The Dean and Chapter oi Cheater have given their sanction for the Cheater Triennial Festival to be held in the Cathedral iii Ju y, 1888, and steps are already being taken to make the festival a great swoon.