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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-12-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

IRVING AT DUBLIN. Swansea arri 8 20,4 30 Llantriseant. ..... - 2 ... 2 32 constable Shorter, of the Berke police force, being . • . day school scholars were tempted to a music saloon or ford said the sledge journeys of th 6 expedition hail Holmes, without ary:provocation, rushed at him with aOn Saturday, Mr. Henry Irving was presented with Dlanelly„ 8 474 44 Pakten foully and brutally murdered by a gang of poachers- might be purged, He was sever been paralleled: and the gallant- and never-to- knits and said, "You , this will have to go into 9 221 St. Fagans who, ft is believed, laid in wait for their victims and [dancing Place, these nlacesan address from the graduates and undergraduates of coerrs'", ism 9 3714 16 Ely suddenly attacked them before they had time to defend; not One of those ascetics who said that dancing was a se-forgotten conduct of Lieut. (now Captain) Parr- you. He struggled to cut the prosecutor's throat, but sin. Ile danced himself when he was a ,cheers)-who set out to Wallr'3o miles blinded with failed in this; he bit the flesh off his right thumb, Trinity College, Dublin, amid great enthusiasm. Mr. Whitland Edward Gibson, QC., M.P. read the address, from 10 13.6 48 Cardiff Haverirdweet, ..... 10 506 26 Newport 3 SO 9 SO themselves. Their staves were found still in their damning Johnston 11 616 Chepstow 4 121 968 red young man. He was not going to say that dancing mow, and with nothing better than the steps of a stray smashed the windlw with his head, bit the prosecutor's which the folios ing are extracts • -"The engagement pockets when their lifeless bodies were discove . 6 22 10 47 The *hooking tragedy was brought to light at was a damning sin, nor that a music saloon might wolf to guide him-a walk lattirig 22 hours, etethout left thumb, and attempted to throw him through the you 'bring to a conclusion to-night has given the Milf6r6 - ... --- "I '" Gloucester Newliilford about eleven o'clock on Monday night, when Pollee- not be a place of lawful entertainment. If he were rest or sleep-so that be might obtain succour for his Window. As he could not manage this he sprang liveliest pleasure to the graduates and undergraduates to say that dancing was a damning am, he would be lying companions, was a feat more heroic, in his eonstable Golby was walking along the Turnpike ' through himself, and when the train stopped he tried of Trinity College. To most careful students of Shake- The Down Mail runs as on Week Days. road leading from Hungerford towards Shetford.ltelling all the fashionable people who go to the Assent- mind, than anything in the annals of war or of hard to commit suicide by putting his neck on the mils spree, you have by your scholarly and original biy room in the Cheethant hill road they were going • ravel. (Applause.) - Captain Name, on the In front of the train. He was found to be mad, interpretation revealed new depths of meaning in
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-06-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DIABOLICAL ACT. immediately." . Large numbers of Whitsuntide excursionists were Doctors of the English and other embassies testify i jeopardised on Monday by the diabolical act of some that the deposed Sultan committed suicide by cutting one who placed obstructions on the metals of the Great the arteries of both arms with a pair of scissors. lie : Western Railway, near Buckfastleigh. The stoker died at the Tcheragan Palace at ten o'clock in time , saw something ahead as the train was rounding a sharp morning. He was buried at Mahmoud the Second's , curve, and warned the driver' but before they could tomb in the evening. , pull up the engine crashed over two formidable It has been generally remarked this evening as boulders. Fortunately the knowledge of ;he Miscreant strange that the Sultan, who has always shown him. , who pot them there was not equal to his malice, for self so feeble, should have suddenly displayed so much they were placed on the lower metal. Had they been energy, and that, on the other hand, his death was of ,on the higher rail the engine would inevitably have so little importance to any one that it seemed repug- I capsized. Soule clue to the culprit has been obtained. nant to Attribute it to others. I _ [Loudon Tete-graph Despatches.] PARIS, June s.—According to the utmost generally I credited report, the ex-Sultan committed suicide by opeoing a vein in his arm. I understand that this is • the official account of the occurrence. But it sum il I not surprise you to learn that a great many conflicting rumours are current on the subject, and that one uf these ascribes the death of Abdul Asia to assassination. While recording this sinister suspicion I sin bound to add that I cats trace it to no authentic source. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 3.—1 am informed that the hoarded treasures of the late Sultan, which may be said to have been at the bottom of a great deal ot the trouble that eventually overtook Abdul- &six, aid which are variously estimated at several millions sterling, will be applied to national purposes. Upon this auto of money there will be large demands in the shape of arrears of pay for the troops and the civilian officers of the Empire. At present, however, nothing is definitely stated with regard to the uses to which it will be put.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-09-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DEFALCATIONS OF THE EXTREASURER OF HULL. SUICIDE OF THE ASSISTANT TREASURER, A shocking tragedy took place on Tuesday at Hull as one result of the recent discoveries made respecting the defalcations by Mr. Bolton, the ex-town treasurer. Connected with Mr. Bolton in the transaction of the financial business of the town was the accountant, Mr. W. Brooke, who has been in the service of the Cornoration for about twenty-five years. Since the discovery above referred to, and the confession of Mr. Bolton that he had embezzled .EIO,OOO of the town's money, an account of which was published a short time since, the Amalgamation Committee have been investigating the accounts, with a view of ascertaining the amount that had been embezzled, and Mr. Brooke has been undergoing an exanination before this committee for two or three days. He denied all knowledge of the defalcations, though he had virtual charge of the office for the last nine years, the treasurer being old and infirm, and not able to attend to the duties always personally. On Tuesday, last year's auditors appeared before the committee, and one of them requested to see Mr. Brooke. A message was sent that he was temporarily absent in another part of the Town Hall, where the investigation was taking place, but he would return in a minute. The committee waited about an hour, and as he did not appear, search was made for him, but he could not be found. The committee had ordered that he should be watched, but it appeared that he had escaped from the hall, and intelligence was received that he had tone home and blown his brains out. He was about forty years of age, and leaves a widow and nine children. He was captain in the Hull Artillery Volunteer Corps : and was also an active Freemason, and highly respected. The defalcations are said to be about £ll,OOO, and the affair is causing the utmost sensation In the town.  rho reservoir recently constructed by the Wear(lale and Sheldon Waterworks Company, near Consett, burst on Monday, flooding the surrounding country. No lives were lost. -  A gunpowder explosion took place on Tuesday in the Dudley Colliery Company's pits, through firing cartridges with a naked light. Several men were dangerously burnt. "I never complained of my condition but once," said an old man, "when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes ; but I met a man without feet, and became contented."  A man who can sit with his feet in hot water, and a yard of flannel around hie throat, and not feel the sweet influence of spring, is dead to the subtle instincts which link humanity to nature.  _ Among the deacons ordained on Sunday last by the 81-hop of Worcester w,ro two who had formerly been Dissenting ministers, namely, Mr. Kentish Bache, for several years minister of the Unitarian chapel, More tonhampstead, Devon, and Mr. J. Arthur Wentworth Twlggins, formerly a Moravian minister. TIIE Curses,
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-07-07 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MARRIED WITH ASSAULT.—At Liverpool, on Tuesdny,William Bennett, a gaoler, was charged with assaulting John Grace, who stated that on the 2slh ult. he was arrested for drunkenness, and on being taken to Bridewell Bennett struck him several times, and broke his jaw with a key. Another gaoler stated that the policeman who apprehended Craw had struck him in the Bridewell, and the case was adjourned for this man's attendance.  ELOPEMENT AND Staerria—A young man named John Idle boa committed suicide at Hampstead. About a week ago, the deceased's wife eloped with a man named Robert Sheetle. Idle shot himself on the right side of the chest—the second rib being fractured and the lung perforated—but before doiug this he wrote the following note :—" I, John Idle, do hereby give notice that Robert Sheckle, comnaonly called Grimwood, Surrey, bas broken my heart. I have not time to say more. 3.7 mu."  Mr. Baden Pritchard, of the Royal Laboratory, Woolwich, has introduced a pract:wal system of microphotography for maps. The maps are photographed on ,heets of white glycerine. and fifty or more charts will go in a depth of half an inch. They can be exadd.,ei like transpreet stereoscopic slides. RezenCy, 1)r. Joseph P. Thompson, an American clergyman, living id Berlin, delivered in London a series of six lectures oa the American Centenn al, w ich had been deliveredin Berlin, Dresden, Florence, and Pazis. These lectureF are to be publis led in volume lr Lonuon :LW Boston.  Mr. Parjeon's "Home, sweet Home" is romising, but not quite satisfactory. The stsge is hardly the place upon which to fight the ba.tle of Capital and Labour, nor can Mr. Farieon be • eld guilt!, es of the fault of dramatic improtsbility. Still, as a first at. tempt, it is a creditable one, and the author has no re.ason to complain of the reception of his play.---, Fiearo.  .0 , I It itEA .
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-08-18 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE RRAVO ENQUIRY.  On Friday the jury empanelled to inquire into the cause of the death of Mr Charles Delauney Turner Bravo met for the last time at the Bedford Hotel, Balham. The inquiry came somewhat suddenly to an end on Wednesday, and an adjournment for a day took place, to enable the assessor, Mr R. Burleigh Muir, to prepare his summing up for the jury. The proceedings commenced at half-past ten o'clock, when the jury were in attendance, the Treasury Icing represented by Mr Poland and Mr Thomas, the other counsel present being Mr George Lewis, Sir H. James, Mr Murphy, Q.C., and some of the juniors. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, said the jury would have no difficulty in coining to the conclusion that the deceased died from the effects of antimony, on the 21st of April That being so, the question which remained for their consideration would be how that poison came into Mr Bravo's body; and the inquiry into that subject naturally divided itself into three heads: Did lie administer the antimony to himself? Did lie take it inadvertently? Or was it administered to hint by another person or by other persons? After deliberating about two hours and a half, the jury returned the following verdict: " We find that Mr Bravo did not commit suicide, and that he did not meet his death by misadventure, but was wilfully murdered by the administration of tartar emetic ; but there is not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt on any person or persons!' A reward of £250 is offered by Government to any person who shall give such information as shall lead to the discovery and conviction of the murderer or murderers of Mr. Bravo. The 4ecretary of State will also advise the grant of her Majesty's pardon to any accomplice not being the person who actually committed the murder, who shall give such evidence as shall lead to a like result.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-08-25 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE EXTENSIVE FORGERIES BY A HULL MERCHANT. On Tuesday, at the Hull Pollee Oonrt,:fames 0. Ward, who is charged with forging • bill of lading for £r2oo and other document*, and who had been apprehended in Fiji, was brought up en remand. Dr. 'toilet appeared for the prosecution, which is carried on by lifesars. Broehner. of Hull. He stated that the prisoner had obtained sums of money, amounting altogether to £14,000, by means of forged documents, blank forms for the making of which were found in his desk after he had abseonded. In all cases the ships he described in the forged papers had no existence, or they did not convey cargoes such as he had described, and for which he obtained money. On his arrival at the Fiji Islands, prisoner passed by the name of Ellis, and when the detective trom Hull arrived there in pursuit, he denied that be was Ward,and affirmed his name was Ellis. While there the legal gtntlemen he employed placed a yacht at his disposal to give him the means of escape, ' and he bad actually got on board a steamer for the United States when he was taken. On the voyage to England Detective Trafford found a letter in his bed, In which he intimated his intention of committing suicide, and gave suggestions for the di, posed of his affairs. He said be pi eferred the discemfort of a few moments in the water to those of life in • po'ice cell. A bottle of chloroform and a knife were also found concealed on his person, and on the vessel approaching England the detective discovered a conspiracy amongst those on board to conceal the priiioner and aid his escape on arriving at London. Prisons. had, therefore, to be Oared in irons and closely watched.— After the evidence had been completed the prisoner was formally remanded.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-12-22 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

CONTEMPORA MC OP' N EON. his been said, and much has been written, as to the Killed by falls hilellelf Pleaded the very awkward eircum• her of the parishioners to seek re-eleetion. He had as suspicious character of some testimonials, and in Suicides 32 is vfhieh he had been placed in consequence much personal interest as any one in the place, but -- others where the bona jides are beyond question,so much Murdered • tempt refusal to grant him a licence. He it was the business of the members of tne burial NOBLE LANDLORDS ! HAPPY TENANTS! . Richmond d lavish praise is bestowed that the recipient if Overlaid, ' i 8 Poisoned • - 3 'rigged several eminent actors, who were here board to do the bast they could to promote the in. The friendly meetma of the Duke of an possessed of a 'particle of modesty must feel that for Scalded Gordon with his tenants at Chichester brings into re- a time he is put in a public pillory. It should be Essex & a to, de anything. The Stipendiary conferred terests of the parish (hear), As to the advisability Smothered . - 1 a lief some of the best andieleasantest sides of English remembered brother magistrates, mid then, producing of undoing what the Board bad done at Liao, it rural life. The farmers on the Goodwood estate pre- Stunned 3 "That praise underscrved, • • oi. Suffocated 5 white,. praying that the licence should not be was a question whether they could draw back. The rented their landlord with his portrait, and we :an see is censure in disguise" pied by several hundreds of the towns- burial holed had been formed for the purpose of that in &Aug so they were giving genuine expression 6 I was led a few days ago when reading your paper of . Norfolk and Lincol. intimated to Mr Warren the unanimous 1 providing burial ground at Lisa, but the law was to their esteem. He spoke of them in return as inemthe Bth inst., to consider within myself whether 1 had
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1876-01-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A FRIENDLY S'ICIETY'S SECRETARY.—On Sunday a man named John Beacon Bilston, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. The injuries he inflicted upon himself proved or so serious it char.cter that, notwithstanding the medical assistance rendered by Mr. Ilancov, surgeon, he died on Sunday morning. The deceased was the secretary of two hebes connected wi!h the Ancient Order of Foresters in Bilston, Courts "Forest Pride" and " lland-inBand." Some time ago the books of the Forest Pride Court were examined, and it was found that certain sums of money were deficient, and the same had passed through Benvon's hands. For some time he has been confined to his bed. Whether or not the fact of his being suspended from all benefits of the order, pending an inquiry into the defalcations preyed upon his mind is mot known; but he was evidently in a low way. On Saturday morning the deceased sent one of his children for a knife, in order that he might cut his corns, lie retained possession of the knife the ' Mode day, and about live o'clock in the evening his wife, hearing a noise upstairs, went to see what was the matter. Upon going upstairs she found the deceased in a pool of blood, with his throat cut.  A GERMAN Siatims.rtc.—A Brussels Intramontane paper announces that Louise Latent], the "stigmatic," is dying. and has received extreme unction. On January 11, the case of Miss Ernestine Hauser came on before the Civil Court of Breisach, Grand Duchy of Baden. Miss Ilauser is the young lady who stated to her parents and her physician that several priests had induced her to wear a tight rope round her loins as a sure means of pleasing the Deity. When on the brink of the grave by this constant torture, an attempt was made to cup her feet and produce stign iata. The skin being filled with blood owing to the pressure exercised by the rope, this cupping, accm-ding to medical opinion, would be sure to produce prolonged Ideexling,. One of the two priests concerned in this affair and mentioned by the young lady in her late confessions brought an action for libel against the physician who bad published the story. The action, however, was withdrawn previous to trial. A little later the o her priest stied the girl for telling the physician falsehoods at his axpense. The case was tried four days ago, and endhg in the Dario tal of the young lady, virtually led to a judicial corroboration of the alleged attempt to prodare another Louise bateau. During the trial counsel for the Crown expressed regret that the priests could Hot be nrosecttled without the consent of the lottos lady, which he had failed to obtain.  BiNTS 01? 11017..-A representation meeting of the 11..nds of Hope societies was held in Birmingham on Monday, to consider the .advisability of uniting into
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-07-04 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

TURNOR.  DEATH OF LORD LAWRENCE.  We regret to state that Lord Lawrence died ot Friday night at his residence, 23, Queen's Gardens, Keneington, in his 78th year. His services in India exended from 1828 till the period when he- was Governor-General of India, prior to Lord Mayo's viceroyalty. Lie was, in 1856, made a K.C.B. for his work in the Punjaub, and in 1857 he was promoted to the dignity of G.C.B. for his services on the outbreak of the mutiny. In 1858 he was created a baronet. He was made a member of the Privy Council, and on the institution of tho Order of the Star of India was created a K.S.I. The court of directors of the East India Company granted him a life pension of £2,000. a year, which, under a special Act of Parliament, he continued to enjoy, together with his full salary, when he became Viceroy of India. Ile succeeded Lord Elgin in that poet in December, 1563, arid held it for the usual period of five veers. In April, 1869, he was created Baron Lawrence of Punjaub and of Gateley, in the county of Southampton. After his final return from India, Lord Lawrence took a prominent part in philanthrophic and educational movements in this country. On the formation of the London School Board in 1870 he was chosen to be its chairman, and he hold the post till November, 1872, when he tendered hie resignation. In questions of Indian politics he continued to take an active interest, and within tho last year ho published numerous letters upon the Afghan policy of the Goverrimont. Lord Lawrence had four sons and six. daughters. The F.ldost son, John Hamilton, of Brocket Rail, Welwyn. Herta, who succeeds to the title, was born us laid, and married in 1872 Mary Caroline Douglas, daughter at the late Mr. Richard Campbell, of Auchinbreek, Argyleshire.  The 500 remount,' recently lospatchea for Natal reached St. Vincent without a casualty.—Army and ?Cat y Gazette.  The Mayor of Liverpool has consented to call tuion'a meeting to consider the Sunday Closing Bill.  The new Portishead Dock at Bristol has been bpened for the first time, and the Portiahead Coin. tally's steamer admitted.  An mqueet has been held in London, on Jona McAndrews, under sentence of seven years' penal servitude in Millbank. He strangled himself with a bandage in his cell. Verdict " Suicide while of unsound mind.  It is stated that Messrs. Baring Brothers have followed the example of the Camptoir d'Eicompte, and accepted from the City of Gategow Bank Aid Association a composition of theit claim upon the bank est*te at the rate of 18s. in the pound. A Irs.veller named Henry fell down dead the other day, in the yard of the White Hors Inn, St. Albans. He had been surering from consumption and while he was sick be brote a blood-vessel. An inquest is not considered necessary.  At the Bedford Quarter SeEsions, Archibald TeHer, of gentlemanly appearance, his been sent to „•ntol for !Moen months, with hard labour, for fraudalently e4taining various auras of money frow 3Ssittford inlitagn lar-wa 01 =aka atom.