The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-04-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HENRY A. W. RO'l  The Crown Prince of Germany suffers from sa attack of measles.  Mr. Richard Shepherd, late les el of Sun( y Theatre died on Wednesday moraine,.  A letter from London to Berlin, containing 87,000 marks, is suspected to have been stolen in London.  The Cunard liner Pavonia passed Queenstown, on Monday, with Mr. James Russel Lowell on board  Lord Eludeley has granted land allotments to labourers on his eetatea at 'l'regynon, North Wales.  Gunner Thomas, an artilleryman, oommitt4cl suicide at Dover, on Thursday, while on sentry duty, by shOotini, himself through the eye. ,  A middle aged man named Budge, threw himself from Bt. Vinoent's F•3lm, Bristol, on Thursday, but still liyes.  The decapitated body of a commercial traveller, named Charge Riley, haa been found in a railway tunnel at Hatherlet, near Cheltenham.  The conference at Lord Hartington's resideno• broke up al ortly after two o'clock. The proceeding. were strictly private. A farmer named Bowed, at East Grinstead, has just left for Paris te be inoculated, as the virus of • mad dog had entered his hands through some scratches.  A telegram in the eeeend edition of the news of Tuesday Aye :—" There is reason to believe that an emiseary is on his way from Khartoum with proposals of peace." It is a fact not generally known that the roof of the White House at Washington, the official residence of the President of the United States, has just been oovered with Gilberteou's terne, which was manufactured at the well-Imam tinplate works of Messrs. Haber:eon and Co., at Pontardewe.  A woman named Elisabeth Seeds was charged at Sheffield Potion Ooart, on Wednesday, with being a proeuress. Evidemoe was given showing that • domestic, servant, aged 16, was met at a railway station on Saturday night by another girl, who took her to • er's house. A gentleman came and ma prisoner, "Is this the girl?" and she said, "Tee." Ultimately the girl was dragged upstairs, and, when she had become exhausted, was criminally assaulted. Prisoner wail remanded.  Many years:x, while in Russia, Limit was commanded to y before the late emperor at the palace of sarskoe-Selo or Peterhof! (we do not remember which), and while in the act of improvising some sublime piece or other his majesty held wavers° with the Empress and other members of the Royal Family, this in a I I sufficiently low tone to irritate in no mall ;degree the nerves of the composer. Liszt, suddenly stopped, and the Emperor noticing the general !deuce (usually _ooasequent upon such an occasion) requested the executant to go on. Liszt rose from his seat, and making a profound bow to the emperor eakl, "Sire, plead lee rob; parlemt tout dolt se trim.' The Czar, who wee quick to catch a witty "mot," felt the ding—since Liszt oonsidered himself "le roi de l'art" in music if theCzar'was "ref d'une nation" —and the musician was handed his passport the following morning, the meaning of which implied a courteoue request to cross the frontier. A crowded and enthusisetie meeting of Communists and Socialists was held a few evenings ago in the Salle Levis, Paris. Citizen Valliant, municipal cotmcillor and a prominent member of the Commune f 1871, presided, and the platform was occupied by a d tzen other notorious Revolutionist agitators. The most enthusiastically cheered and violent of the speakers was Citizen Chabert, a municipal councillor, who, in the course of his remarks, glorified the actions of the miner, in France and Belgium an the fruitful outcome of the good seed sown by Socialists throughout the two countries. He carnet* exhorted his hearers to go on propsgating the gospel of Socialism more and