The Herald of Wales. — 1888-05-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

CASE.  HE WANTED TO BE PRAYED FOR. At the Manchester Assize on Monday. • railway clerk named Benefield was cued by Miss Hannah Munelow for breach of promise of marriage. The parties met at a sehool treat in 1886, and became engaged, and in November last the defendant decided that the wedding should take place in January. On 'December 8, however, he wrote:—''When at Chelford last time but one, I expected to be promoted, but since then my master has said he would stop my promotion. I don't know whether to stay or not. I have been thinking seriously of our position now and in the future. What our lot is to be Ged only know.. At all events, in the meantime pray, do pray for me. If it I. Gol'e will that I should be married to you in January next, He will supply the means to do His Holy will. Ido feel wretched in this unsettled state. Whatever I do, or whatever I don't do, will always be at the advice of as confeseor, whom I alway consult upon sueh important subjects, and if it should be, Annie, that you say, 'Do not marry,' then we will always be friends. At least I always will." The letter concluded," With fondest love hem Jim," and another request that the lady would pray for him. The plaintiff met the defendant by appointment on the 31st December, when he made ems" and suggested that ebe ha o shown his letter to Timone people, and that they never could be happy together.—The breach of promise wea admitted, and the jury awarded the plaintiff £IS damages.  , The Daily News of Tuesday says :—The re 1901111 for Count Karoly resigning his poet are altogether of a private nature. His successor will be Count Wolkenstein, at present Ambassador at fit. Petersburg. The steamship Benbrack brought to Cardiff on Thursday night the crew of the barque Julius, of Leith, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the 9th inst. The crew drifted for 32 hours in open boats, and were much exhausted when picked ap. At the B wansea Marine Board examination held on Thursday, Mr Edwin Bevan, 46, Gorse lane, Swansea, passed his examination as ordi • nary a aster (from only mate) on his first trial. He was prepared for examination, which includes magnetism and the deviation of the , compass, by Mr David Harris, F.8h.8, oert)Statted teacher of navigation, magnetism, ete., at the Navigation School, ft, Mansel-street, Swansea.  • serious accident happened to Mr Carew, a gentleman rider, at the Hambledon Hunt Raose, on Thursday. Mr Carew was riding Stonehenge, which was the favourite in the United Service Steeplechase, and en reaching the distance the horse fell and rolled over Mr Carew, who was picked up insensible. It was found that his eollar-bone was broken, and he was removed flom the field in an anoonscious ' state.  The tour of the President of the Rep übli continues to be satiefaetory. At Agen there was great enthusiasm, but the wet weather spoilt the effect of this illuminations. While the President was laying the foundation stone of the new Lyceum a stand upon which there were 600 people gave. way. A good many persons were hurt, but net seriously, and nobody was killed. The Lower House of the Convocation o Canterbury has endorsed the ;opinion, of the London DlOOBBll/1 Conferenee, and ssed a resolution in favour of admitting "ministers of religion" to the County Councils. The ministers have in logic an unassailable case. To leave the parson ex-ofgaio chairman of the pariah council and not to allow him even • seat on the Count! Council is • palpable absurdity. And from a point of view of policy, the case is equally strong. As Canon (lapel Cure said, ministers of religion are specially entitled to have their say on education and lieenaing, and to exclude them from the new local bodies would be as unwise es illogical. An influential petition is about to be presented to kfr W. H. Smith, as First Lord of the Treasury, praying for the sontinnanoe to !Matthew Arnold's widow of the pension geOeutly granted out of the Civil List to her husband. Mr Smith's only groned of haliteMon in this ease, am in that of Mrs Riehard Jefferies, will, I imagine, be the smallness of the fund and the number of legitimate demands upon it. It is this pressure which makes the retention of pensions by authors in affluent circumstances so inexcusable. If a man is making £4,000, or even £6,000 a year, by his books, it is scandalous Olathe should cantinas ! to draw a pension. It too often amounts veep literally to devouring widows' hotness. The performance in the Victoria Colonnade Pavilioa, Leamington, where Mr Simpson Webb's circus eompany are appearing, has been interrupted by an unusual and amusing episode. One of the special features of the performance is the clever riding of • young lady known as Vera, and when she entered the ring on her splendid steed she was hissed by an iq,diacreet young gentleman in the promenade. The young lady looked upon this uatevourable demonstration am a great insult, and the ringmaster ofiered any one a sovereigu who would supply him with the man's name. Thereupon ' a young man, about 20 years of age, son of a Leamington trad.sman, stepped forward and remarked that he was not ashamed of what he had done. The young lady at ones dismounted and proceeded to the promenade, where she toot hold of him by the coat toiler, and gave him a sound thrashing with her whip, and only desisted when a number of the audience interfered. The offender then left the building a sadder, but probably • wiser, man. The affair created great arausemen At Sandbach on Monday, Samuel Shaw, a dwarf was charged with attempting to murder Mary Goodier, at Hennes Chapel, and also with attempting suicide. The evidence showed that the proeecutrix and the prisoner had been keeping company for fifteen years. In July last the wished to terminate the engagement. She had had some money left her, and the prisoner had no work. Prisoner refused to break of the engagement, and in a letter said, "Revenge in sweet." He went to her place of service on February 29th, and asked if she still wished to cut him. She said she did, and that he was not in • fit state to be married. The prisoner then pulled a pistol from his pocket, and shot her in the side and arm, and the', discharged another in his own mouth. For • time he lay in a precari9us condition, but the slug was extracted. Although veg weak the prosecutrix is now recovering.—The prisoner questioned the prosecutrix as to whether she told him to discontinue his visits, and she said she wrote to him to that effeet, and added that he was not fit to be married.—The prisoner was eornsaitted law Ida.