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The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-09-26 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PARNELL'S PROPOSED CON.  VENTION,  The Irisksaa newspaper subjects Mr. Parnelra Conrcntien of Three Hundred and the Shilling Franchise idea to an arithmetical test. It says that if the absurd plan struck out trheuid be adopted, there "would be an enormous aecumu ation of 30,000,000 votes!" and adds: "Surely the Council of the HOl4O Hale League has not considered the consequence of such a deluge of votes coming inupon the unfortunate committee which is to arrange the preliminaries of the convention. It would take a large apartment to contain all the letters that wadi cense, and a eonviderable staff of clerks, sor, tees, and porters to arrange them." The consequence would be, we are told, that "10 clerks, working 10 hours daily, would complete the work in 16 years; or 100 clerks would complete the work in one year and nine months. To expedite the matter, let 200 clerks be set to work, and then the task can be completed in 10 months and o half." Another successful feature of the tiffair would be that if every elector paid Is. £5,000 would be collected, and a special resolution adopted at the Hotly:do retained control over the "surplus," whereas the expenses of the clerks for 45 weeks would be £9,000. The iend.ms, therefore, scouts the Convention as a " helter-skelter scheme."  A HORRIBL,n  The St. Petersburgh Zeitung publishes an account of a suicide recently committed in the town of J hitom r under exceptionally appalling circumstances. A few days ago a well-dressed Davtiler arrived at the Hotel de France of that city, stating that he WAS Mr. Joseph o—, a colonial agent, and that he wished to stay a short time in Jhitomir upon business. A room on the second floor of the hotel was assigned to him, and he spent two or three days in walking about the streets, although the weather was unusually wet and stormy. On the fourth evening he retired to hie room early and locked himself in. Next morning he Was called at his usual hour, but returned no answer to the summons. Alter a good deal of futile knocking and shouting, the hotel proprietor became alarmed at his tenant's protracted silence and caused the door of the room to be broken open. 4 terrible apectectle presented itself to the assembled household. hotly was lying on the bare bedstead,from which the mattress and bedclothes had been removed; :MO of the sheetelpartly covered the iegs of the corpse, which was otherwise in a state of nudity, its loft hand pressed tightly upon the region of the heart, and its right hand convulsively clutching the hair. The eyes were wide open, fixed in a glassy deathstare, and the feateres distorted with agony. An THE LAND TENANTS' AGITATION IN oppiessive odour, as of scorched fat, pervaded the
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-11-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT LLANHAREY.  At the Cowbridge Police-court, on Tuesday last—before Mr. G. W. Nichol]. (mayor), Colonel Ballard, Mr. Thurston Bassett, and Sir Joseph Spearman John Morgan, labourer, Argoed, was brought up charged with having attempted to commit suicide by hanging, on Thursday, November oth. John Ratcliffe, labourer, said that be was called out of bed last Thursday night, 4hont two o'clock, by the wife of the defendant, who asked him to go with her, as her husband was hanging. Re went, and found defendant. lying fiat on his face on the ground. There was a piece of a cravat round his neck, which witness at once drew off. The other part of the cravat was hanging to a nail in the middle of a joist on the top of the room. There was no ceiling there. The piece of cravat was tight round his neck. Defendant ws.: unable to speak at all. Defendant% wife' him over on his side. Witu4Se was with him three or four. minute; he then went back to his own house. Defendant did not appear to be sensible up to the time the witness left. Saw defendant the same morning at 6.30 a in. He was then outside of his house. Asked him W,bY be cli4 toic4 a tI4Og. When defendant 'wide ock reply. Wet** 040,41 c Oopet:lnteki. 00,uld Wit hay clOgn.(lit24 44 he dtiokinit tifo previous 4ay"-Me oravat wao vtrY om" ititOcat did not tbink it ow.. dant to ha.'"  and -6 enough for defen.. “ung himself by it. Did not see  Lae cravat after. Police-constable James stated that on Friday last, the 7th instant, witness, from information received, went to defendant's house to make inquiries, at six o'clock in the evening. Defendant was then in the house. Defendant's wife was also present. Witness told defendant that he had heard that he had tried to commit suicide by banging himself. Defendant answered, "I suppose I did. I was drunk; I do not remember anything about it." His wife told him in defendant's presence that defendant came home drunk on Thuasday night, and began to quarrel with her, and told her that unless she went up to bed, that he would strike her. She went upstairs to bed, and just as she was getting into bed she heard a strange noise and the words, "Goodbye," from the prisoner. She instantly came down, and saw her husband hanging to the beam by the cravat. She ran out directly to Eateliffe'S house, and called him in. Before they came back the cravathad broken, and the man was lying down senseless. Defendant's wife said that he was often coming home drunk, and was then very violent. Witness inquired for the cravat, but defendant said he had burnt it. Defendant, who expressed sorrow for the deed, was committed for ttial at the quarter sessions.  A
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-11-21 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ENTERTUNMENTS.—A meeting of kind was held at Nab 3 Chapel, Cefn Cribber. Monday evenihg. A very interesting evening '  spent. THE INDEPENDENTS at the above place their meetings of thanksgiving for the harreft, the dOth instant. The Rev. D. WilliAnis, r of the place conducted the prooeediags.  MISCELLANEOUS AN D DIsTRICt " Morien " met with an accident on 1, night by falling lute a quarry. lie was for souse hours. On Thursday, the Lord Chief Justice Mice judgment in the suit of Lawson-Labousbere, rule belts. discharged. The Home Secretary has commuted the tenee of death passed on John Whelan et Manchester Assizes, for the murder of his de. A telegram from the weather hureau of I New York Herald states that s: disturbance' arrive on the British, French, and NO Loasts between the 23rd and 25th instants. Park Hall, now, Breshatn, the seat of Yarmouth, M.P., has been destroyed ny damage amounting to about £15.000. It is staten, though on what authority (10/ appear, that Messrs. Booker's works atnd l'estl' Melingriffith, near Cardiff, will soon be' started.  ---- On 'Wednesday night a young ---- si udoit, murdered his uncle by striking hisk the head. The murderer afterwards juaredr a well and was drorned. The quarrel arose dispute about money matters. On Sunday, the Church of St. Benef* aul'a Wharf, London, was tsansferred tO, Welsh Churchmen residing in the Nletroyolil Rev. ...van Jones (the minister), Bishop CIO ton, and the Rev. Dr. Walters, Llanwainlq?' elated. St. Benet's Church is the first Church in London. . It is stated that the English Church Dniel, .esolved upon a policy of resistance t ent of the Arches ourt in the r:t. Albll9 the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie has (16.1,01 willingness to go to prison; and it is under' that t.,e churchwardens and congreption prevent any other clergyman from olfijat''''' cept with Mr. Mackonochie's consent. , A terrible suicide took place on Wc'L morning at the Chateau Barracks at 06' young soldier named Clerc, taking his bayonet from the rack, placed it on the g point upwards, and, after several atteniPt!' corded in running himself through the expired soon afterwards. A WOMAN El
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-03-28 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OP A REJECTED LOVER. On Monday an inquest was held by Mr. Taylor, coroner for Bolton, touching the death of John Andrew Sykes, aged 25 years, of John Taylor street, who had committed suicide under the following eireumstances:—Deceased, who worked in the timber yard of Councillor Norris, was thrown out of employment last week, and this, coupled with the fact that about the same time he was rejected by the object of his affections—a servant engaged at a public-house in Bolton—had a most depressing effect upon him. On the 21st, inst. he called at the ()liver Cromwell beerhouse in Bridgeman street, and expressed his determination to drown himself. He also said that he had a penny, and as it would be the last drop of beer he should have on earth he would have a penny gill with it. The Landlord, Mr. Joseph Barrow, sympathetically remarked to deceased, that if he was going to make such " straight work" of himself he should have pint of beer for the penny, and at once supplied him with it.. Deceased invited the company to drink with him, and as he was about to leave the bowie he was asked to leave something by way of legacy. He then emptied his pockets ef their contents, which he distributed amongst the company, giving to one a knit° and to another his pipe. The landlord expressed a desire to have a lock of hair, but deceased appeared reluctant to grant that request, and gave him a brass button which had come off his trousers. This the landlord nailed up in the taproom as a memento, and then advised Sykes, as the water was so cold, to find a warm water lodge In which to drown himself. Deceased then left the house, and appears to have gone and thrown himself into the warm water lodge of Messrs. Marsden and Sons, in Cochrane street, where his body was subsequently recovered. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-08-08 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.  The total value of imports into the United Kingdom during July amounted to £.3086,000, as compared with £35,861,000 in the corresponding month of last year. The exports are —£16,600,000 against £16,400,000 during July last year.  A severe shook of earthquake has bean felt in Akx.andra. The Sultan of Zanzibar intends to pay a second vkiL to Europe next summer. The Queen of Saxony hail arrived at Bapts• when she proposes to make a stay of some duratioh. it is now generally understood that no judgment will be given in the Clewsf appeal cue beton the holidays. • The Co/ogne. Gazette announcer that Prince Bis• whtek will go to Kiseengen between the 12th and VAAL inst.  The Philadelphia Ledger says wheat is ripening rrty favourably in all the eastern counties ot l'consylvania. Mies Neilson's brief engagement at the Haymarket, prior to her return to America. commences on &tura day next. The rent magistrates have awarded ISO id Metropolitan Police for service* rendered in mime& tion with the Princess Alice disaster. The Prince of Wales has blooms a patron of ilia Railway Guards' Universal Friendly Society, and has contributed twenty guineas to its funds. A gipey, named Pother Dieter, is in mistody, _64 Dorking, on the charge of haying murdered her child and afterwards attempting to commit suicide. The Bra says the Gaiety company will return to their old house on July li, when the holiday season will open with "Boulogne" and " Pretty Esmeralda."  The Musical Review understands that the 'agar tight of the opera " H.M.S. Pinafore," for Australis and New Zealand, has been sold for the sum of 800 ruineas. The death is announced, at the ago of 78, of 811 William Fothergill•Cooke, the celebrated eleortician. Deceased had enjoyed a Civil Lid pension of £lOO oar annum sacs July, 1871. Mr. A. APArthur, M.P, has laid tbentsmorial &tope of a now Methodist chapel about to be smiled at Leicester.  The Committee of the House of Commons to en. quire into the Law of Libel have appointed tlit Attorney. General as their chairman. During the late session of Congress atteitoirillirttot 3,287 bille were introduced, 77 only elo, the others going over till next emsion. The Hull Town Council, have by 37 votes to 71 carried a resolution to petition Parliament in !evens of Mr. Stevenson's Sunday Closing Bill. The Mayor of Winchester has been presented with a gold chain and badge, which bad been pt.& vided out of a publio subscription amounting ti £2OO.  During May last the Fishmonger's Company seized at Billingsgate Market, u unfit for human fed, 52i tons of fish which had been oonsiened then baSW naa ins neon launched from the Clyde shipbuilding yard of John Elder and Co., a steamer of the immense length of 460 feet. Her displacement at draught will be 9,600 tons, and her horse-power is 6,400. She was named the Orient. At Oxford, the other day. Dlr. C. 8. Collier,
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1879-05-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE AT LLANBLETHIAN.  On Sunday, an aged man named Thomas Mordecai, living at Llanblethian, was discovered by his daughter hanging by the neck from a beam in the stable adjoining the house. The unfor. tunate man has been in a low state for some time and took advantage of his wife's absence at church to destroy himself. On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Reece, coroner.  ---- Mary Mordecai, of Llanblethian, daughter of the deceased, deposed: Thomas Mordecai was my father; he was a labourer, 71 years of age. He has not been well for the last eight months; he has appeared very low; he has not threatened to kill himself lately, but some years ago he used o threate a to do so, and my mother used to watch him. I last saw him alive at ten minutes to twelve o'clock on Sunday last in the day time. lie was then in the house and seemed more cheerful that morning than usual. I asked him to go as far as the pig stye to see if the pig had victuals, he went out and came back afterwards and walked in the yard at the back of the house. About ten minutes afterwards I went to the stable to get some coals, and I saw him hanging to a beam behind the stable door by a piece of rope. I ran at once for a neighbour, Mr. Gifford at once came and cut him down. My father was dead when he was cut down.  Jeremiah Jennings, sergeant of police, said on Sunday last I passed the house of the deceased at about ten minutes to twelve o'clock; about a quarter of an hew, afterwards I was called back by a neighbour of deceased's and I went back and into the stable with Nathaniel Giffard, and there I saw the deceased hanging to a beam by a thick piece of rope which was put round the beam in the stable, he had reached the beam by getting on a ladder which was close by. I cut him down at once; he was quite dead. Verdict "Suicide while in a, state of temporary inintnity."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-04-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AMKRICAN SIMILES.—An American writer says "A woman will cling to the chosen object of her heart like a 'possum to a gum tree, and you can't separate her without snapping strings no art can mend, and leaving a portion of her soul on the upper-leather of your affections. She will sometimes see something to lace where others see nothing to admire; and when her fondness is once fastened on a fellqw, it sticks like glue and treacle in a busby head of hair."  fIuME-SICKNkBS.—A case of suicide has occurred in the 3rd Battalion of Rifle% located in Delhi. The unfortunate victim, after an aberration of Intellect, brought on by free use of ardent glint% was seized with a fit of despondency, because he had been thwarted in his views relative to Oil England, whi k he longed to visit again. The realisation of his longing appearing hopeless, favoured by the darkness of night he cast himself from the ramparts.  A MOW 311,NT IS ON FOOT to establfSli a betting exchange in Edinburgh. All the principal bonk•nuthers and betting men in town have signified their intention of becoming members. This Tattersall's, on a small scale, will be the first establiAment of the Sind in Scotland, and shows that a taste for the turf is every year growing stronger anungst a large portion of the community.  THIS NOTICE appears in the window of a beerhouse at Halifax :—"Notice is hereby given that all persens indebted to me W. Hodgson does not pay the same to me within six weeks of this date April 9th 1869 will be exposed in this window and the amount, name and trade and where it is they works except agreed before that time. This notice is for the dishonest for thoes theta (meat wheats no jerking."
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-09-24 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SINGULAR DEATIL—An inquest was held on Mon. day by Dr. Lankester, at the Clondesley Arms, Islington, on the body of Henry Harashire, aged 67 years, who died under very singular circumstances. Harriet Hamahire, a daughter of the deceased, deposed that she resided at 89, Clondesley-road. Her father was a retired butcher, and had been failing in his intellect since February. About two months ago he made use of expressions showing that he was about to commit suicide, and a man was then obtained to be with him. He had been getting worse ever since. He retired on Thursday night in his usual state, and on the Friday morning her attention was called to him, and she found him lying dead in the bed. There was blood on his hands and on the bed. He was a very sober man. The man who slept with him, named Hanney, said deceased was always very quiet. They both got up at half. past 5, and again retired, but on waking up about Bhe found deceased in a pool of blood. He knew of no knife in the room except a small pocket knife, which was in witness's pocket all safe when he got up. He could not acconnt at all for the way in which deceased died. Dr. Allen stated that he had attended deceased, and recommended his friends to have some one to look after him. He was called to the house on the morning in question, and found deceased dead. Ile did not think it possible that the wound could have been inflicted by the pocket-knife of Allen, and neither could it have been caused by a bursting of the varicose veins on attempting to get from the bed. It would have been a jagged wound if such had been the case, but this was a clean cut by a sharp weapon. The Coroner's officer went to the deoeased's house in order to find the weapon, but to no avail, and, after BOMB conversation, the coroner adjourned the court for a week in order to give a further opportunity of search. tag for the weapon, which has disappeared in a some. what mysterious manner. An order was given for the burial.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-05-14 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The Council of the Royal College of Surgeons having accepted from Mr. Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S ,the munificent sum of £5,000, together with a fine collection of drawings and models, for the endowment of Ea Professorship of Diseases of the Skin the committee appointed by the council will, on Thursday next, present a scheme, which has been agreed upon in concert with this benevolent gentleman, for the chair of dermatology to be thus founded. The first series of lectures in connection with this chair will be delivered by its founder. SUICIDE THROUGH Taounra.—At an inquest on Mary Stockting, at Weymouth, the husband of the deceased said he was a bricklayer, and had four children, all of whom, with the exception of a baby, hors about a month ago, were ill with fever. Last week he went to bed as his wife was about to give the children some medicine, and fell asleep. Soon after he was in bed he was awoke by the baby crying. He called his wife. Finding she did not answer, he went downstairs, and , found her hanging from the door dead. Dr. Griffin said deceased had a slight attack of fever too. She said she 0 was lost, and did not know what she was doing, throagh anxiety about the children. The jury returned a verdict ; of "Temporary insanity." A RAILWAY COLLISION of a disastrous character 0 took place on the Glasgow and South Western Railway ; on Saturday morning. A goods train was being shunted at the Gretna-green station, to make way for an express • known to be almost due, when the latter suddenly came ; up, and dashed into the goods train, smashing several r of the trucks in pieces. Fortunately no lives were lost. On Sunday a collision under nearly similar dreamt stances occurred between an express and a goods train near Think station, on the North Eastern Railway. In • this case also the collision was unattended with loss of life.
The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-04-23 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE.—At the Cavalryßarracts, Cokheker, Richard Plloll'oBB, a lanc.-tergeaut in the 3rd Dragoons, was last week found on his teed, the left band graspiog a carbine, and Lis head and face trghtlolly shattered, while the walls were laspattered with btr oil and braise, and shore wee a pool of blood upon the ft or. On a table Mose by were two letters, onti -addressed to the decease-I'a father, and the other to the schoolmistress of the regiment, and in both of which he spoke or his speedy deato, givieg ass cause that he had been subjected to a great deal of "persecution and an. Repines" from the colonel of the regiment, and he could stand it no longer. Ile also said that a "mania" had seized him, and he felt "compelled to take this course."  A KLErroarAiirAc.—At Hammersmith Police. cow t, Leah Yoke, the wife of a respectable tradesman at Notting.hill, was charged with stealing an artificial fierier, value Is. Id., from the shop ot Mr. Minter, a draper, of Hlgh•stre et, Notting-hill. The prisoner, who is a young woman near her confinement, was allowed to be seated in the dock. She entered the shop to look at some artificial flowers. She did not purchase any, but woe observed to secrete one under her jacket. She was followed out of the shop and given into custody. On being searched a chemiee belonging to Mr. Field, a draper In the Clarendon.road, Notting-hill, was found upon her. Both prosecutors expressed a wish not to proceed further. Mr. Hayman dealt with the case as one of unlawful possession, and fined her 40s. AN Amb.RICAN AI RONAUT IN RoM Wells, an A9ll-tiCall aeronan', at present in Rome, mar,e a trial trip on Sunday morning in a balloon on the Diontgolrer principle. The balloon was tall td with the smoke of hay and word, in the Vdla Borglrese, and Mr. WePs ascended succes-fully a short d stenee from the earth, to which the balloon was moored by ropes held by men blow, accuding to the orders of the D,rector of Police. Impatient ef such leading strings, Mr. Wells cut the towdines, and soared off like an esgie escaped from a cage, leasing the astounded pollees gazing up at hies, and affording an unexpected spectacle to the inhabitants of the city. At 6.45 he descended safely near Benevento, about 40 miles north-east o. Naples, and 120 from Rome as the crow thee. A LEAP FOR LIFE AND LIB b