The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1889-12-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL NEWS.  On Sunday the church of St. Mary-le-Strand, Loudon, which has been dosed since July, 1887, was reopened for public worship. Mr. 'Whistler, with eight other foreign artists, has been appointed a Knight of the French Legion of Honour. Dom Pedro arrived at St. Vincent on Saturday. He refused altogether to discuss the revolution but declared lie had been throughout the whole proleedlugs treated with kindness. Probate of the will, with codicils, of the late Sir Daniel Gooch, chairman of the Gre.it Western Railway Company, has been granted. The value of the personalty is £653,492. The Hon. 11. W. Petre is in a very serious cone dition of health, causing his family great anxiety. He is staying at the iettuor House, Writhe, near Chelmsford.  ----Saturday was the forty-first anniversary of the birth of the Princess of Wales, and the twentysixth that her Royal Highness has spent at Sandringham. The bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society has been awatcled to n young Jersey man named Edward Touzel, who has beau instrumental in saving seventeen lives. The Londonderry Corporation have decided to present an address of loyalty and congratulation to the Earl of Zetlaud on his assuming the LordLieutenancy of Ireland. At Oldham an entire family of the name of Simkinson have been poisoned by eating unwholesome meat. Two of the tamtly have died, and two others lie in a critical condition in the infirmary.  - • By the recent death of the widow of the late Alderman Fernworth, timber broker and shipowner, Mayor of Liverpool in 1865-66, local charities and various damn schemes will be beuefitted to the amount of £22,000. The court-martial on Sub-Lieutenant G. F. S. Nugent termivated at Portsmouth on Saturday. The prisoner was found guilty of irregularities in the gunroom mess 'exeunt, and was sentenced to lose 18 months' eeuiority and to be severely reprimanded. Intelligence was brought to Queenstown on Saturday by the Cunard mail steamer Umbria that the steamship Fearless was lost on the 2Oth•November, on the Oregon coast, in a hurricane, her crew of fifteen hands ueiag lost. Public memorials to the late Berwick Baker, of Hardwicke, founder of the reformatory schools, and the late Gambier Parry, the eminent artist who painted t e vaulting or Ely Cathedral, were opened at Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday. A young man named J. Rotherham has died in Wigan infirmary from injuries received by the explosion of Jr, brass time which he and two other young men were utiluriug as a "cannon" on the sth November. On Saturday, at Clarence House, the Duke of Edinburgh presented a valuable gold watch and chain to Mr. John Gardener, who has ever since , the Duke's marriage been attached to his person lie the capacity of Inspector of Royal Household Police. Sitting in the Queen's Bench on Saturday, the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Bowen made absolute a rule for a writ of habeas corpus ordering Dr. Bernardo to bring up a boy whom he had allowed to leave his Home in the care of a Canadian gentleman. A coroner's inquiry into the circumstances attending the deaths ot Mrs. South and her two daughters at Dalstou, showed that the mother was insane at tae time she murdered her children and also when she committed suicide. In order to enlarge their station at Grautham the Great Northern Railway Company find it necessary to purchase the local workhouse. The directors have offered £13,500 for the building, but the Guardians desire £14,000. On Saturday morning, Joseph Higgs (12), &newsboy, was found in a dying conditiou on a cinder mound, near the Cyclops Works, The Plea, Walsall. Higgs makes the fourth, at least, who has been suffocated by the fumes or burnt to death there. On Sunday Lord Monkswell, in the absence of Cardinal Manning, presided at a meeting at the Royal Victoria Hall, London, at whioh a resolution in favourof obtaiuing for shop-assistants a twelve-hours day and a weekly half-holiday was carried. Lord and Lady Brooke are going to spend the winter at Beaulieu on the Riviera, where they have taken a villa for some mouths. Lady Brooke's last act oil leaviug was to give a cheque for £lOO to Mr. Curzou, of Colchester, to be distributed among the poor in the town. ' Mr. Walter Tupper has received a telegram fron's Sir !leery Pousouby statiag that her Majesty had been much grieved by the news of Mr. Tupper's death, aud expressing her siuo,re sympathy. As at present arranged, the funeral will tako pla.:e at Albury, Surrey. , The magistrates of the city of Prague, after discussing the question of erecting a statue to John Huss, resolved to devote the central space of the great Wenoe.slas Square to a monument for the great Reformer. A number of priests who were present during the discussion did not speak a word. In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday Mr. Nathaniel Cook, a wine and spirit agent residing at Holloway, recovered £450 from the North Metropolitan Tramway Company as damages for injuries sustained through being thrown from one of their cars when getting aown from the top. Twenty-three British vessels (including two lost with ell on board) ware reported WI shipwrecks last week; also eighteen foreign vessels (including two lost with all frauds). Collisiou curies numbered thirty -two, of whirrO twenty-four took Plsch off the British counts. A Iferinau steaure: was lost with eleven persons.  8633  ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Oizans, in either sex (ieguired or constitutional), Gravel and Pains in LEI Back. Guaranteed free Mercury. 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