The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1888-10-19 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  Lady Martin (nee Helen Faucit) has reached her "three score years and ten." She was born on  October 11th, 'lBl9.  The death is announced from Paris of M. Feyin Perrin, a painter whose works are well known in France.  Miss Bowers, of the New hut, East Molesey, was found drowned in Molesey Lock on Sunday afternoon.  A Dewsbury correspondent says: A Liberal Unionist candidate will probably be brought out to contest the borough when Sir John Simon resigns.  The number of fresluneu entered this term at the val ious colleges at Cambridge is 879, against  902 last Michashits&  Three Englishmen now have statues in France— Lord Brougham, at Cannes; dewier, at Boulognesur-Mer ; and Shakespeare, ill Paris,  Quarter-master Huggins committed suicide in the Linenhall Barracks, Dublin, about ten o'clock on  Saturday morning, by poisoning himself. Edward Edwards, cowiceeper, at the Greenwich Police Court, has been fined £5 and costs for keeping his cow-hous.:s in an unclean condition. Count Hatzfeldt, the German Ambassador, who has been ou leave of absence in Germany, arrived in London, on Saturday, to resume his diplomatic duties.  Lord Randolph Churchill has not benefitted in health from his holiday so much as his friends had hoped. He is declining public engagements on the ground of impaired strength. The church of St. Banutbas, at Tunbridge Wells,  was opened on Saturday. IL has been erected at a cost of about £16,000, towards which £ll,OOO, have already been contributed.  During the third quarter of the year the Life Saving Society of France has saved the lives of fifty-eight persons, nineteen by means of' lifeboats, and the remainder by mech tnical apparatus.  The Star devoted an article on Saturday to the health of the Speaker, which, it was Leald, is such that his resi6uation.at a compaiatively early date is inevitable.  A fisherman named Thomas Bee quarrelled with his wife, at Grimsby, on Saturday night, and threw a paraffin lamp at her, causing injuries which, it is feared, will prove fatal. A break has occurred in the Cornwall Canal, obstructing the transportation of grain along the St. Lawrence River. It is estimated that it will take three weeks to repair the damage. The Prince of Wales on Saturday gave a luncheon at the Grand Hotel, Vienna, to the members of the British Embassy in the Austrian capital and his suite.  On Saturday, at s luncheon given by the Mayor of Belfast on the occasion of opening the new Free Library, the Lord-Lieutenant announced that the Queen had conferred the title of city on the town.  The Lowestoft boat Young Linnet was run into on Saturday morning by the Belgian trawler 0. 12. The crew, thinking the vessel would sink, took to a little boat, but afterwards returned. The Belgian sailed away without offering assistance. At Jarrow, on Saturday, a child named Niel, four years of age, was pulling himself up by a stone mantelpiece, when the structure gave way, crushing the little fellow so dreadfully as to cause his death.  Mr. Matthew Anderson, for many years Crown Solicitor of Dublin, has died at his residence in that city, at an advanced age. He had charge of all the important State prosecutions for the past thirty years.  Mrs. Henderson, who had been for many years housekeerer to the Queen, died on Saturday morning, at the Castle, Windsor, from bronchitis. The deceased was attended in her illness by Sir William Jenner.  The Exhall Colliery, which was inundated about eighteen months ago, has at length been freed from water, and work was resumed on Saturday. The work of pumping the mine dry has proved exceedingly troublesome and expensive. A Limerick telegram states that James Hartagan, late rate-collector, of the Limerick Board of Guardians, was arrested ou Saturday, charged with embezzlement of rates. His defalcations are expected to reach £l,