Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-03-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

BITS FROM BOOKS.  Inspector Rubin and Sergt. Owen returnedß to Scotland Yard from Madrid on Sunday with 1 Richard Pigott'a documents. Michael Doneghy and his wife were fined £5 and costs by the Queenstown magistrates, on Monday, for bringing revolvers and ammunition from America. Catherine Saunders, a widow, was remanded on a charge of attempting suicide, by cutting her throat with a pen. ife,in a cell in Bridewell . .  where she was plarced for begging. According to that superior organ, the New York Serald, " Sir Hawkins" took part in the Battle of Flowers at Nice. But who on earth is  "Sir Hawkins ? " A barque wax sunk by collision with asteamer ' off Dungeness on Monday morning. One of the barques's Crew was drowned and one injured. The remainder landed at Folkestone. Mr Mark Beaufoy, Olailstonian Liberal. and Philip Beresf Hop ,Conservatii o were today duly nominated candidates for the I:caning-ton  A telegram from the Hague states that a remarkable and totally unexpected improvement has taken place in the condition of the King of the Netherlands. A report reaches Clonmel that Bantam Police Barracks were attacked on Sunday night. The assailants were driven off by the police reinforcements from Tipperary. Seven rioters where apprehended. A Central News telegram from New York says :—News from Caunow City, Wyoming, states that a party of French tourists numbering five persons have been scalped and killed by Indians in Yellowstone region. Their guides escaped. It appears that the attack on Bars-ha Barracks arose from an attempt by the Harley football players to rescue some drunken and riotous comrades from custody. The barracks windows were smashed, and Sorgt. Griftiu and his s,n were severly injured. A Rangoon telegram says :—Khama, the capital of the Lepu Kachyens, has been destroyed by Lieutinant O'Donnell'n force. The troops travenel a difficult country, burning ' seventeen villag-is and destroying a large quantity of corn and provisions. A Calcutta telegram says :—The Ameer of Afghanistan is anxious to establish a small arms factory. His European engineer has lately purchased the necessary plant, which will be immediately set up in Cabul. In a letter to the Daily News, on Monday, Mr Frederic Harrison contends that the Government are morally bound to purge themselves of the Attorney General, in view of the turn affairs have taken before the Parnell Commission. The English are heavy losers at Monte Carlo. ' One Englishman a Mr. W has lust ienr £12.000. The good luck which at first smiled I upon the "Leviathan" bookmaker, Mr. Charles Head, . deserted him at the fast moment. Amongst this long record of losses it is agreeable to find some one who has come off a winner, an old friend is about £7OO to the good. I Will he part? At Liverpool,on Monday, Mary Langen, was charged with causing the death of Elizabeth Goffney, by strildng her on the arm with a glass, causing the wound from which she bled to death. The women quarrelled while drunk, and after Goffney was wounded, she continued fighting with the prisoner till she fainted from loss of blood. The prisoner was remanded. Martyrdom ! It is a tine word, with very delicate shades of meaning. We know what it used to signify in the sixteenth century and we know what it signifies now. In Dr. Tanner's case it means being stretched upon the rack of a comfortable arm-chair and being tortured at intervals with sandwiches, cigars, and—worst of all—whisky. No wonder, says a London contemporary, martyrdom is popular, when the victims are " treated " in this manner. Sir John Bennett, who has recently retired from the Corporation and the School Board, is about to be presented with a testimonial in recognition of the public service he has rendered in connection with those and other bodies during the past half-century. The movement is initiated in the Ward of Cheap, from the representation of which at the Court of Common I Council Sir John has, after many years of active I work, finally retired on St. Thomas's Day last. I The death is hourly expected of Dr. Ullathane, who on his recent resignation of the I Roman Catholic Bishopric of Birmingham, was created Archbishop of Casaba. Dr. Ullathorne, who is 83 years of age, was the first Roman Catholic priest is vita Norfolk Island,for which he was instrumental in obtaining a bishopric. He was influential in warring the abolition of transportation, and wrote many important works on theology. Two children' named John and Maggie Crane, aged three and two years respectively, died on Monday morning in the Belfast Royal Hospital, from the effects of suffocation. The parents I went shopping, Saturday night, leaving the ' deceased asleep. On their return home later: although no fire was burning, the house was full lof smoke, and the children insensible. The I police are investigating the mystery. I Josiah Jones, Melincrythan, was, on Monday, remanded till Thursday for assaulting P.C. Heel on Saturday night at Melincrythan. The eon- I stable, when trying to arrest the prisoner for taking fish and putting it under his coat, was struck by prisoner in a meat savage manner. The constable's face was frightfully disfigured, and his finger knocked out of joint. Bail was accepted, the prisoner in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each. According to all accounts the season has been a flourishing one in the little laud of the Grimaldi& Equally flourishing was the deathrate, and many pious people in England will be positively shocked to hear that during February sixteen suicides were reported at Monte Carlo. while in or near the same beautiful inferno fifteen duels, resulting from quarrels at the tables, took place. During the carnival the croupiers raked in a little trifle of twenty millions of francs, or £