The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-09-10 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. The Lancashire Tenant Farmers' Association have issued a manifesto, in which they say depression in agriculture is unprecedented, and they demand a permanent reduction sn rents, abolition of the law of distress, and the establishment of Land Courts, the present system of arbitration being described as a sham. A whaling party is being fitted out in America for the purpose of obtaining a live whale for exhibition in the Fisheries department at the World's Fair at Chicago. If captured the whale will be confined in a tank and towed to Chicago by the way of St. Lawrence river.  Much excitement was caused on Saturday in Wrexham and district by an accident at the blast pits at Brymbo. The winding apparatus broke down, with the result that about a hundred men and boys were detained in the mine for twenty-six hours. Most of the men in the pit passed their time in singing, and they all complained of the intense cold.  In the week ending September 3rd there were 160 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, a decrease of 1 as compared with the correhponding period last year. The receiving orders gazetted number 69, showing a decrease of 9, and the number of registered deeds of arrangement was 67, an increase of 16. —Compiled from Stubbd' Week'y Gagette.  A mysterious discovery tending strongly to suspicions of murder was made at Hawkshaw-lane, near Bolton, on Sunday. A child who had wandered to a brook found the body of a man with his throat terribly gashed. He is a stranger in the locality, and how he met with his injuries is unknown. No weapon was found near bim. Albert Edward Brown, aged 25, has been committed for trial at Ramsgate charged with bigamy. According to the evidence, he married Emily Payne at Ramsgate in 1884. It Was further stated that he went through the ceremony of marriage with Sophia Fletcher on July 14 last, and was enjoying his honeymoon at Harwich when arrested. A singular case of drowning was brought to light near Barnsley. Phcebe Coleman, aged nine, was sent by her father to post a letter at Carlton. The child not returning, a search was made. The envelope which had contained the letter was found, but the letter was missing, and the stamp had been removed. TLe body of the child has since been found in the canal near the spot where the envelope was found. George Hyde, a well-knovin resident at Weybridge, West Surrey, entered a neighbour's house and asked for ink and paper with which to make his will. Having prepared this document, he wrote a letter to his father, intimating his intention to commit suicide, cud then bolted from the house. Although closely pursued he managed to jump a high hedge, and made towards a deep spot in the River Wey, where, after a struggle with a villager, he put an end to his life. The jury at the inquest were of opinion that he was temporarily insane. The cholera scare is responsible for many curious incidents in Paris. One of a very singular character occurred the other day at a municipal disinfecting establishment in the Rue des Reenllets. An old lady called there in a state of the liveliest excitement, and stated that a mattress which had been forcibly taken from her for disinfection contained a number of bonds conatitutiag the whole of her wealth. She went away contented on being I assured that both the mattress and the bonds would I be returned to her quite safely and all the better for I their fumigation. Every reader has been told one time or another that eggs are "meat and drink." Their value ma a nutritive nourishing food is well known. Everybody, however, may not know that an egg beaten up lightly, with or without a little sugar is a good remedy in cases of dysentery and diarrhea; it tends by its emollient qualities to lessen the inflammation. There are few things more soothing for either a burn or a scald than the white of an egg It is contact with the air which makes a burn so painful, and the egg acts as a varnish and excludes the air completely, and also prevnts inflammation.  The swan lives longer than any other bird. Some have died 300 years old. . _  A woman named Ellen Briern was fined £5O and costs at Cardiff thil week for keeping a shebeen. The Princess of Wales and her two daughters, Prinaesses Victoria and Maude, hive gone to Dee side on a visit to the Queen. A serious epidemic of typhoid fever and dysentery is raging among the soldiers in garrison at Luneville  Earry next year sonic new coinage, with designs from Mr. Brock, 11 A., ell he issued from thii Mint.  Nearly £2OO is weekly taken at the public baths and washhouses established by the keal authority at Islington. In the last few days heAvy rains have been welcome in India, causing the prices of dried grain to fall considerably. In reopening en old mine in California, tint workmen came across a live rattlesnake and several flies, per f,ctly white. Tire consumption of coffee is declining, but the consumption of cocoa has increased 34 per cent. within the last five years. Tue Chancellor of the Exchequer has anonymously received ZOO from some conscience stricken income-tax defaulter.  It. is stated that ;ore cigars are now smoked in England than at any former period since the introduction of tobacco into this country. Bristol has obtained the sanction of the Local Government Board to borrow £66,000 for the purpose of lighting the town by electricity. Dr. Pierson declares that. the late Mr. Spurgeon once defined "gumption ' to be "not making any greater ass of yourself than you are by nature." The Midland Railaay Company has acquired about thirty acres of laud at Wellingborough, in order to extend the sidings on the main line there. The St. Olave's (London) Board of Guardians have resolved to allow the male inmates of the workhouse an ounce of tobacco each per week. A good deal of alarm has been caused by the recrudescence of brigandage in Sicily, which is chiefly attributed to the economic crisis prevailing there. The Government has sent a force of infantry awl gendarmes to the disturbed districts.  Ttie Spanish Government have despatched a gunboat to rescue 11 members of the crew of the Spanish Ycard, who are detained by Moorish pirates near Cape ;ruby. There has just died at Mietschisko, one Herr Wendt ,in his hundredth year. A born Pomeranian, he took part in the war of freedom against Napoleon and had both eyes shot out. Herr Wendt bore his sorrow to the day of his death with fortitude and resignation. Mr. Phillip Callan's election petition against the return of Mr. T. Healy for North Louth came before the Dublin Queen's Bench on Monday, when the Master decided that the securities by costs were insufficient and ordered that Mr. Callan should deposit £l,