Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1880-05-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  A pet of the St. Gothard Tunnel, 6,303 metre' item the south en,runoe, te,l in on Frictsy week kir,g three workmen and injuring th7e3 others  M. Leon Say, the French Ambamitdor, preesobtd his lettere of appointment to the Queen at indsor on Monday, Lord Granville introdnoing him.  Mr. Ph:lip Wells, one of the Ccrieervetire member' for the City of London in the Met Parliament, ditd on Scarflay after it Long illneea. Mr. Wells did not 'tend et the general election.  At a mass meeting of ooasting seamen, held at Aberdeen, it has been resolved to demrind on immediate advance in ',ogee of 10s. per month, snd failaw compliance, the men IA port will strike work.  The Daily News bee remota to believe that Bill for the settlement of the burials quertion wid be cue of the messures promoted by the Govern. meat durbig the present necessarily brief minion of Parliament.  The Liverpool Schcol Board has resolved to give instructiontoprac deal 000kery iu toe school, under their °horse. A specially qualified souther is to be appointed, at a ealsry o AoSO, to superintend the classes.  A memorl•l has been I: roared for presentatinn to the Government ask: g for a grant oa behalf of the relstives of the late Mr. W. Junket:is, ur':, fell with Sir Louis Oavagnari and awn other Europeans in the Cabul mammon. On Friday week • coroner's jury, at Thurlseton. returned a verdmt of " wilful murder" against Henry Davies for the murder of his wife, and of " suicide whilet of unsound mind" in the case of Davies himself, who, after Lit:l3g hie wife, out his throat.  Five walled tombs, each containing a etrete*n, have been discovered at Chamblanles, Canton Vaud, Switzerland. From the sheen% ornaments and other uldicatimat they are suppored to belong to an age prior to that ot bronze.  A Constantinople corrinandent telegraphs that Mr. Whittaker, editor of the defunot Leeini HetiLi, ban lett the Turkish capital. The coos 1 Lad sentenced him to IS months' imprisonment, but Sir A. B. Layard refused to recogniae the sentence.  Fifteen scree of f arse lo the Forest of Fontsinebleau were bulot down on Sunday, it is believed through the etrelsesncss of • smoker. Most o! Ito trees were among those killed by the frost of Jannary, 1879. and none of the old picturesque ornaments of the forest suffered.  Milee WiHan was oommittel, at the magistrates court on Monday, to take his trial at Lancrster Quarter Sections. on a charge of stealing .klu worth of clothirg, the prop]rty of John Smith. Lard week Willan eloped with Smith's w auld took the property with him. A complimentary dinner IVY given on Saturday at the Bridge House Hotel, London, to Mr. Henry Broadhurst, the newlyelsourri member for Stokeon-Trent, by the London Trades' Council, in ems'motion with the Operative Stone Mums, of the Society of which Mr. Broadhurst is a memoer.  ------Doricif the last six months the quantity of to taken out of bond bee been nes•ly 25 per oi,t. less than the quastity delivered dining the c,r,. spording sir months of the pore' iing yes, Tine his bc in s Ir•ge fabinir off in the qnsatity t then for home oonsuroption, se well se for exp,ristion.  At the town council meeting held at Wolverhairtton on Monday a reeolution wee poised authorising the free library committee to espeui a sum of .43,000 in the enlargement of the build. irgs, so as to provide more acelmmodatiou for members of the arta and sc.:once daises and the general readers.  Mr. Frederick Lowden, a retired draper at Easter, jumped from • remind. fl tor window at him residence, and alighting on hi. heed was inatantly killed. The deceased was suffering from comumption, which affected the brain. The window. were screwed down, bat Mr. L)wdea jumped through the glass.  _ The torpedo dip Heels hAa been ordered to Bantry Bay, to carry out with the shpe of the Ck mune' squadron a eerie' of experiments in submarine mining and torpedo attack. A new entem of defence fa to be tried,and theobject of chooeiry Bantry Bay am the scene of operations ii to prevent its blooming known.  A social tragedy was enacted on Saturday at yeanee, where • young couple have be. living together for some time. Recently the ROMS, annonnoed her intention o! marrying, and left her lover. The young man tried to diesnade her, and failing to do so, he shot bar in the heart and then blew out his own brains. Ir for mation het been received by the pollee at Minnie that the bank at Ballyfeard was, during hide', week, robbed of a large sum of money. The pereon on guerd was gagged and blindfolded by a party of men, aho carried hini 14 way into a field some distance from the bank, and than re. turned and set fire to the premises. hir. Aehton lars to be the first of the new member' who has brought forth a Bill. Mr. Mike has given notice of a Bill for dealing with the hours of poliing, lard hae, it ii soppniei, in this indicated his intention to take charge of the meseure with which Mr. Chamberlain has hitherto been eonkectei.—kincliester Geardicm.  A return to so address of the House of Lk.4s show., tLat the annual coot of beigsde deXits, tLe pornerent staff of mths,. sotaelly keened, is £561,160, of wrbioh £G11,270 io for pay, so., of eh nines Z2th,olo for prov.enai, I oreign, fort, light, tresedens expenses lodging allowances, &o, sou .Cl9,ond foe clinking had meet-marks.  Ileum Blades, who murdered hie wife at Shir• ton, Yorkshire, by etrangling her, was brohget before the magistrates on Seturde.y, and committed for trial on !tar capital charge. a fund is being reined for Lie defence, and mock symitsthy is felt for the prisoner on amount of the proemslion he had misfired from the druakeu hebitr of his wife. He had been evelirg her at VSti3ol puLliol mime on the sight of she murder. Ths Loud of Tiotri ieuairy into the lore of the buturre-o'l,tre, ou ,to 9oti, Lae of o,g trim, rare conalcded at MidOleaboroagh 03 Jdoedsy. The Court font] that the ,hp was preamturely thsaiistad, that ,Lo was ova:in:en 02 matting, a. it that her 'mini.: ut cargo @teethed her all over. 'fro Court sea if .....•ciah that Oh tuvt, might hate kto...i bog by taking her to ilinootti water. Hie 1321:ifi,rta rens aharowled for sir m them. but tho Ca.hrt would recommend the Baud of Ts also to past • Ilate'll 0110.18.31111.