Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

FLINTSHIRE ASSIZE2. On Frid IlY, Mr. Justice Bruce arrived at Mold by the three train. He was [net at ti,e by tl)e High Sheriff of be county, Sir Pyers W. Mostyn, Btirt., of Talicre, and his chaplain, the Rev. Father JMostyo, of the Church of our Lidy, Birkenhead, and the Uuler Sheriff, Mr. T. T. Kelly, and nccom- panied by a posse of police proceeded to the County Hall and opened the commission.

THE BHYL SHOOTING CASE. His Lordahid, in addressing the grand jury, said that, as far an he knew, there was only one case to be placed betore them. He ventured to think that it WHS a matter of considerable congratulation to the gentlemen of the county that in a region where mining and other industries were carried on there should be only one charge to inquire into at these assizes. He should like to mention the fact that the accused person was not a resident of the county, or of the Principality. Alfred Brown, 47, share dealer, Manchester, was indicted for having on the 16th of November, feloniously shot at Francis Henry SarwDs. with iutent to murder him. Mr. E. H. Lloyd prosecuted, and Mr. F. Marshall, Q.U., defended. Francis Henry Sarsoue said he was a dentist, and he and the prisonor bad married two tisters. Oa the 16th of November prisoner came from Manohcster to Rhyl, and tried to get aimitUnco to the house of his wife, who lived separately from him.. Prisoner, after being refused admittance, went to witness's house, and had some tea. He statv.d that it was his intention again to try and gain admittance lo his wife's houl'o, and if he failed he would go back to Manchester. Witness aud his family tried to dissuade him from going to the house, but iu vain. Prisoner asked witness to accompany him to his wife's house, and he con- sented. On tte road the prisoner complained that witness called prisoner's wife "Lizzie" and did not call him "Alfred." After ringing at the door of Mrs. Brown's house, and getting no answer, prisoner went away a short disttnee, leaving wit- ness by the railings in front. He came back, and immediately fired a pistol at the head of witness, so close to him that his hair was singed. Witness fell down, but got up again immediately, and struck at prisoner with a stick. rhe bullet had not yet been extracted. Inspector Williams, Rhyl, said on the night of the 16th November he found the prisoner at the police iltation. He was drunk, and he did mot con- sider him as in a fit state to be charged. Next morning he charged him with shooting with intent and with causing grievous bodily harm Prisoner replied "I did it in a fit of madnees it was n:>t premeditated. I have had the pistol for some time." Dr. Wm. Thomas and Dr. Eyton Lloyd gave evidence as to the nature of the prosecutor's wound. The defence was that the pistol had been fired with the intention of frightening the inmate-i of the house, and not with the intention of hurting anyone. Counsel also oontended that the prisoner only fired a blank charge. Dr. Summerhill, Rhyl, and Dr. Pindor, of Lower Broughton, were called in support of the defence, and the two were of opinion that the wound in Sarson's head was not caused by a bullet, but there was some foreign substance in the wound. The jury found a verdict of unlawful wounding, and the prisoner was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The bullet was extracted' from Mr. Sarsons' head on Tuesday.

ST. ASAPH. PBPPBR'S QUININE AND IRON TONIC developea marked Bodily Stiength, increasing l'uisp Circulation and Vital Force. Shilling Bottles. UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION. On Thursday night a Unionist meeting was held in the National Schools, St. Asaph. Colonel Howard the Unionist candidate for Flintshire, presided, and was supported by Mr. Pennant, candidate for the Flintshire Boroughs; Mr. V. Hussey WAIgh, of the United Club, London; Colonel Hore, Mr. Owen Williams, and others. The Chairman, referring to the bad trade, said his endeavours would be to improve it to the best of his ability. Trade never was so bad as at the present time. Since Mr. Gladstone had come into power trade had gone down, and the probable explanation of that was that capital became thoroughly frightened. People would not invest their money in industtial concerns, but preferred to keep what they had got in their pockets. That want oi confidence was the fault of the Government. Another cause for the want of confidence was foreign competition. Roughly speaking, one third of our meat supply came from abroad, and two-thirds were produced in this country. He did not object to that, and under no circumstances would he be a party to put a tax on the people (cheers). Still.they had no right to be deceived into paying tenpence for what they could get for sevenpence. He considered that farmers should be given compensation for unexhausted improvements, and that they should be protected in a case of sale. He was of opinion that the owners of land should be largely increased, and contended that the Ashbourne at, now in force in Ireland, should be extended. Under the conditions imposed by the three F's the landlord in this country would become a mere land receiver on his property, to which he bad a very strong objection (applause). Mr. Pennant said the Home-rule bill at present was dead, and having received such a tremendous knockdown blow it would be a long time before they could raise it up azaia (applause). With regard to the employer*' liability bill, thay were all agreed with it up to a certain point. At present it any employe was injured through the negligence of his employer or foreman he could be compensated, aud the bill provided that he was also to be compensated even if he was injured through his own negligence (applause). He fully agreed with that addition- (applause)—because the injured man was often less able to bear the loss that such au accident entailed. Speaking of disestablishment, lie said they knew what bis views were on that subject (cheers). He thought that the real opinion of Wales was expressed when she uttered defiance against the suspensory bill. He brlieved that if the bill was passed it would create a wound in the Principality tt at would take longer to heal than any other act of Parliament could possibly inflict (ipplause). Mr. Hussy Walsh said the present was a critical moment for Wales. If the Church in Wales was disestablished, what was to be put in its piace? If some Christian religion could fill up the gap he would not be disposed to regard its disestablishment as such a srreat calamity, but he ventured to qups tioft whether either the Methodist or the Raptis churches would be prepared to take the position therefore as a Christian tlnuuh not a member of the Welsh Church, be asked them to pause before they attacked the Christian character of their country (cbeers). But, after all, he believed the Welsh Church wa-a secure, for this cry for disestablishment and disendowment Wall by no means a popular cry. There was, thank goodness, a second chamber in our Parliament who would never tolentesuch a measure and as long as Llhurchmen in IVates stood side by iside with those wll,) desired the recognition of the riati,,n,l religi.,n and of the national Christianity, all determined to work for one object, disestablish- ment would never become law (applause). Alluding to Home Rule, the speaker said, they did not want it in Ireland. Thry wanted to be left alune (cheers). If Ireland had Home Rule England and Wales would lote five rmlli.tue a year, or in other words, it would cost a,-b voter an additional 25s. a year in order to ruin Ireland (" Shame.") On the motion of Mr. Owen Wiliams, secooded y Dr. Davies, a vote of thanks was passed to the chair- man for presiding.

MOSTYN. PKPPKR'S QUIXIKE AND 11\ TOXIC. Quinine being less costly 'epper's renowned TolllC for the weak and ailing s nuw sold in bottles is., Next size 2s., I argest 3a. 6d. The Etirl of Denbigh. Lord Mostyn, and Lord K ^nyoti wt-re among the Uuioirst peers who attended the conference held at Lord Salisbury's residence on Friday. By the kind permi-wion of Lord Mostyn, the annual choral festival of the Welsn Congregational Churches iu the Holy well district will be h .11 in Most yo Park on the 20th IIf June next. The con- ductors will bel Mr. J. E. Pierce, Holywell, and Mr. W. R Jones, Flint.

£ 5,OCO BoNCs would not be thought too large an amount to,pay for the blessing of health by many wretched sufferers who by day and night are tortured with the racking pains peculiar to gout and rheumatism. Relief, however, can ba procured at a much less cost by the aid of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. The former are of Po purifying a nature, that a few doses taken in time are an effectual preventive against an iff i '■* 1 ;f either, The Ointment should be thoroughly rubi<<: lo the parts affected at least twice a day after they have • l.een sufficiently fomented with warm water, which opens the pores and facilitates the introduction of the Ointment to the glands,

CONNAH'S QUAY. A FAIR, BEAUTIFUL SKIN.—Sulpholine Soap gives the natural tint and peach-like bloom of a perfect complexion, makes the Skin smooth, supple, healthy, comfortable, 6d, Tablets. Everywhere. PETTY SESSIONS THUBSDAY.—Before Messrs. Charles Davison (in the chair), J. Watkioson, Horace Mayhew and James Reney. KXTRAOBDINABY CROSS SWEARING. Fred Jones, who was not present, Wm. Ruscoe, James Hughes, Thomas Jones, John Aston, George Aston, Etnrys Roberta, aud Thomas John Roberts, were charged with being drunk at the Hare and Hounds, Connah's Quay, on December 26th, Mr: Richard B'omley, (Holywell) prosecuted, and Mr. T. W. Hughes (Messrs. Hughes aud Hughes, Flint) defended.—Sergeant Pagan said that he went into the Hare and Hounds about 9.40 p.m., and, hearing a noise, he went into the tap-room, where the defendants were all drunk. There were glasses on the table containing beer, and he drew the attention of the landlord to their state, and in their presence. He replied, I have stopped the tap for some time." Witness went out, and the landlord, Mr. 0. Elwood, followed him. In about five minutes the defendants came out of the house together, and their conduct was disgraceful. He went along and passed some of them.—By Mr. T. W. Hughes He saw R. Jones there, and a man from Mostyn, and he was positive about Thomas Jone* and all the defendants. When he came out Emrys Roberts staggered, and his appearance was that of a drunken man. He never had any row with the landlord, and he had been in the house many times, but the last time was on the 25th November, when there had been a football match. He then had occasion to call the attention of Elwood to a man who was in, Elwood did not deny the fact, and witness did not ask Elwood then for a drink. Neither did he threaten him.- P.C. Daniel Jones went to the Hare and Hounds with the last witness. He saw a brother of the landlord talking with Roscoe in front of the house, and say to him talk to me when yon are sober." He saw all defendants in the tap-room. They were drunk, and there were glasses of beer on the table. The landlord, on being spoken to by Pagan, said "I have stopped the tap some time back." The Sergeant then went out followed by the landlord. The defendants came out afterwards. They were drunk and using filthy language. The Sergeant and witness arrested Fred Jones, who was not present, when Roscoe, Hughes and Thomas Jones, came and tried to rescue him.—Mr. T. W. Hughes having addressed the Bench for the defence, called the landlord, who said that Pagan had asked his opinion of the state of the defendants, when he said be thought they were sober, or at least could be served as to P.C. D. Jones he did not come into the house at all. Thomas Jones was not in the tap-room, and the two Astons were standing at the bar, while Thomas Jones was in the parlor, and not in the tap-room at all. At quarter-past ten Pagan came in, and told him he had locked a man up.- By Mr. R. Bromley No one was drunk in his house. Sergeant Pagan had threatened him on the 25th November, and on the 27th November, P.C. D. Jones told him that on the previous night Pagan must have been drunk or mad. He never said he had stopped the tap.—Thomas Jones, one of the defendants, paid he was at the Institute till 9.15, and he was not drunk, neither were the others, but he did not see F. Jones. He was a biother-in-law of Ruecoe.-George Aston, another defendant, said Thomas Jones was not present. Witness was at the bar, and witness went home with Emrys Roberts, who was sober. They left at a quarter to ten, but he could not say why they left at a quarter to ten, instead of staying till ten, as they all had a right to do. Mr. W. Fenwick, Shotton, was in the house, standing at the bar, about half-past nine, and saw the Astons and J. Jones. In his opinion they were not drunk. He left soon after.-Emrys Roberts, one of the defendants, said he was not drunk, and walked home with the Astons, who were not drunk either.—Their worships retired to consider their decision, and on their return, the Chairman said the evidence was so conflicting as to cause a doubt in their minds of which the defend- ants should have the benefit. The case was then dismissed. DRUNKENNESS. John Williams, charged by P.C. D. Jones, with being drunk and helpless at Connah's Quay, on the 30th December, fined 6s. and costs.—Wm. Hughes was charged by P.C. D. Jones with being drunk and helpless at Corinah's|Quay, on the 18th January. Fined 5". and costs.—John Williams, charged by Sergt. Pagan, with being drunk and disorderly on the 20th, at the Quay, did not appear, and a warrant was ordered for his apprehension.—John Hughes, who was in company with WilIiams, was also charged by Sergt. Pagan with a similar offence, and fined 5s. and costs.

A CLERGYMAN who had just performed a wed- ding ceremony, and was filling out a blank description of the parties, asked the husband what his business was. I am a wine merchant and a shoemaker," was the reply. Yes," chimed in the bride, so you can set him down as a sherry cobbler." FRENCHMAN: H Madame, you charge ver mooch too big price for zat room." Landlady Oh, you know, we at the watering-places must make hay while the sun shines." Frenchman (indignant): Madame, you sail nevara make ze hay ofme. You must not sink zat because all flesh is grass zat you can make hay of me." A YOUNGneck-or-nothing Oxonian prevailed on his uncle to accompany him tor a drive in his dog-cart. The old gentleman observed that he was paying his nephew a great compliment; for that was only the fifth time he bad ever been in a dog-cart in his life. The nephew replied that his horse beat him hollow, for he had never been in one at all before that day. BROUGHAM one day, speaking of the salary to be attached to a rumoured appointment of a new judgeship, said it was "all moonshine." Lyndhurst, in his dry and waggish way, remarked, May be so, my Lord Harry; but I've a strong notion that, moonshine though it be, you would like to see the first quarter of it." A SHORT time ago the driver of a mail-train managed to b&ck the end of his vehicle over the plat- form of a Scotch railway station as a train came steam- ing in. As was to be expected, the train bad the best of it, carrying away the back door of the van. The driver, on being asked to explain how it happened, delivered himself thus: Weel, the horse it gaed backety, backety, and the train it gaed fuffety, fuffety; and there we were!" WHEN Sheridan was in distress in early life, one of his resources was writing for the fugitive pub- lications of the day, in which he was materially assisted by his wife and many years after his entrance into the sphere of politics he WM heard to say, that if he had stuck to the law, he believed he should have done 88 much as his friend, Tom Erskine; but," continued he, I bad no time for such studies. Mrs. Sheridan and myself were often obliged to keep writing for our daily leg or shoulder of mutton." One of his friends to whom he confessed this, wittily replied, Then, I per- ceive it was a joint concern." A PARTY of wits once stopped at a tavern. When the feast was over, one of the number called in the hostess. Angelique," he said, "lam going to give you a lesson in astronomy. Have you heard of that great Platonic year, when everything must return to its first condition ? Know then, that in 16,000 years, we shall be here again, on the same day, and at the same hour. Will you give us credit till then?" The hostess, however, had her reply. "I am perfectly Willing," she retorted, but it is just 16,000 years since you were here before, and you left without paying; settle the old score, and I will trust you on the new." LISZT, the celebrated pianist, fell in love with a jeweller's daughter. A Prague journal thus describes the courtship: "One morning the jeweller, coming to the point with German frankness, said to Liszt, How do you like my daughter ?' She is an angel!' What do you think of marriage?' I think so well of it that I have the greatest possible inclination to it.' «What would you say to a fortune of three million francs T I would willingly accept it.' Well, we understand each other. My daughter pleases you; you please my daughter; her fortune is ready—be my son-in-law.' With all my heart.' The marriage Waa celebrated the Rowing week."

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LITERARY GLEANINGS. --+-- HENRY IV., of France, was standing one day with some of his courtiers at the entrance of a village, and a poor man passing by, bowed down to the very ground; and the king, with great condescension, returned his salutation just in the same manner. At this, one of his attendants ventured to express his surprise, when the monarch finely replied to him "Would you have your king exceeded in politeness by one of the lowest of his subjects ?" AFTER the revocation of the famous Edict of Nantes, when the Protestants were persecuted in every part of France, an English Ambassador demanded of Louis XIV. the liberty of all those who were sent to the galleys on account of their religion. "And what," answered the royal bigot, would the King of England say were I to require the release of all his prisoners in Newgate ?" Sire," returned the ambassador, "the king, my master, would im- mediately comply with your requisition if your Majesty interposed for them, not as malefactort, but as your brethren AN IRISH GENTLEMAN.—The seats were full, but one was occupied by a rough-looking Irishman. At one of the stations a couple of well-bred and intelli- gent looking young ladies came in to procure seats, but seeing no vacant ones were about to go into a back car, when Patrick rose and offered them his seat with evident pleasure. But you'll have no seat for yourself," said one of the ladies, with a smile, and with truest politeness hesitating to accept it. Never ye moind that," said the Hibernian, yer welcome to it. I'll ride upon the cowketcher any toime from here till New York for a smoile from such gintlemanly ladies," and retreated into the next car amid the applause of those who witnessed the incident. VBRY LITERAL OBEDIENCE.—" People are always making fun of us Russians for taking things so literally," said a Russian major, in whose company Mr. David Ker was ascending the Dnieper and not without some reason, I must admit. You remember that story you told me the other day about a man who had a china cup given to him as the model for a complete set, and finding that it had been cracked and mended, turned out the whole set cracked and mended in the very same way ? Well, I could find you half a dozen men in any Russian town you like who would do the same thing themselves." Very 11 likely," said his companion, "thovir I doubt whether they would carry their literal obedience quite so far as did the American printer who was told to follow his copy,' and when the copy blew out of the window jumped after it and broke his leg." "Well, I can match even that," laughed the major, much amused. Did you ever hear how the telegraph line between St. Petersburg and Peterhoff was left unofficered ? Well, you know, before the electric wires were laid, we used to telegraph in the old fashion, by signals, and all along the Peterhoff road there were signal stations planted just within sight of each other, and at each station a clerk, with strict orders to repeat exactly any signal made by his right-hand or left hand neighbour. One day, the first clerk on the line, in a fit of despair at having lost all his money, hanged himself on the nearest telegraph post. His next neighbour, seeing this, took it fer a signal, and instantly strung himself up in like manner, and the end of it was that all the clerks on the line hanged themselves in regular rotation." Well," remarked his companion, that's no worse than the story of the order sent from Peking to the authorities of a great Chinese town, commanding that a certain native merchant should be • hung up in his counting-house and then, after his execution, somebody discovered that the words should have been translated 'sus- pended in his office. COMETS OF ANCIENT HISTORY.—In ancient history some very remarkable comets stand recorded. One is mentioned by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, in 371 B.C., with a tail extending over a third part of the sky. Many great comets are recorded at even more ancient dates in the Chinese annals; for that strange people kept an official record of all the remarkable stars, meteors, and other celestial appearances for more than a thousand years before the Christian era; and, what is stranger still, that record has been handed down to us, and seems dependable. A great comet was seen close to the sun 62 years before Christ during a total eclipse; and one, which appeared in the year 43 B.C., soon after the murder of Julius Caesar at Rome, was seen by all the assembled people in full day- light. Such a thing, though very uncommon, is by no means singular it has happened several times, and in one case quite recently for the great comet of 1843 was seen at noonday quite close to the sun, both in Nova Scotia and at Madrid, and before sunset at the Cape of Good Hope. Of course it is only the brightest part, or the head, of a comet that can ever be so seen. The faint light of the tail has no chance of contending against broad daylight. CHOOSING A PROFESSION.—Upon one's choice of an occupation depends very much the content or discon- tent of his future life. The momentous question, how- ever, is too frequently decided in the most off-hand way, as if natural abilities and disposition were of no account whatever, and as if any business would suit anybody. Thus it is we often see a fine philosopher snuffed out by the routine of the counting-house, and one who would have made a keen merchant beating the air as a fifth-rate theologian. A QUEER Cou-RTsuip.-A more singular courtship, surely, never took place than that thus described by a writer in the Overland Monthly: And yet, as we drove through the mouth of Echo, my memory was keenly alive to some of my past experiences there. It was only a year before that a wedded couple (Mormons) took me out for a drive, and for two hours I sat between the two, each of them holding a hand, and both earnestly courting me for wife number two. The lady excused her part in the wooing by say- ing she could not prevent the coming of a second into the family, and as both were pleased with me the drive had been planned with a view to getting my consent to the union. They were people of intelli- gence and education, yet my very good reason for declining their offer was easily disposed of in their minds, my husband being a Gentile, and my marriage with him not necessarily binding by Mormon law. I took no offence, therefore, at the peculiar situation in which the kindly couple placed me, knowing that no offence was intended." SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT OLD GARDEN HERDs.-Borage from since the days of Lycurgus has been supposed to give courage, or, in the language of Lord Bacon, 11 repress the fuliginous vapors of dusky melancholy." Thrif, the old garden plant, was invariably planted before a new house in Old Connecticut" days to bring to economy and wealth. Eyebright was so thoroughly believed in that no housewifel, who valued her vision dare neglect to cultivate it in her garden. No one, in far away days, dare to pull or dig the root of the mandrake, because, though it was grown in the herb-bed for the use of the leaves in medicine, it was deemed murderous to touch the root. AN ARCH-BANDIT.-Napoleon as a master of French legions was an accident. France swallowed Corsica in the year of his birth, and, like Eve when she swallowed the apple, knew not eating death." Corscia was an island peopled of old by exiles and outlaws, an island of savagery, brigandage, and vendettas, out of the pale of moral civilisation. Napoleon was an incomparable general, and a great administrator of the imperial and bureaucratic kind; but in character he was a Corsican, and as completely outside moral civilisation as any brigand of his isle. He had several thousand Turkish prisoners led out and butchered in cold blood simply to get rid of them he poisoned his own sick for the same purpose. Never did the most hideous carnage, or the worst horrors of war, draw from him a word of pity or compunction, while Marlborough, hard-hearted as he was, after witnessing the slaughter of Malplaquet, prayed that he might never be m another battle. Lord Russell saw Napoleon at Elba, and he used to say that there was something very evil in Napoleon's eye, and that it flashed when his visitor spoke to him of the excite- ment of war. In other things this man was equally a moral savage. His passions were under no restraint of decency. He took a lady, as M. Taine tells us, from the dinner-table to his bedroom. When Volney said something which displeased him, he gave him a kick which laid him up for days. For truth and honour he bad no more regard than a Carib. A Corsican lust of war and rapine was and remained at the bottom of his character. Master of France and her armies, this arch-bandit, by his personal barbarism, prolonged a series of wars which otherwise would have closed with the subsidence of the Revolution and the repulse of the allies. It is true that a policy of glory was up to a certain point adapted to the military vanity of France. But Madame de R4musat tells us, in her memoirs, that the heart of France went out no longer with the armies after Friedland; and in 1814 Napoleon, on his way to Elba, was afraid to pass through the South of France because the people would have torn him to pieces.- Goldwin Smith, in Mac- mtllan s Magazine. To every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. Without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency I

DR. TALK AGE'S WARNING. Thrre are few men in America so well known as Dr. Talmage of the Brooklyn Tabernaole. He weekly addresses, through the press, 30,000,000 people, who are impressed by what he says, because it is a result of continuous observation and deep study clothed in rhetorical eloquence. In speaking of the evils of over-work he says Oh, what an altar! What a sacrifice of body, mind, and soul! The physical health of a great multitude is flung on this sacrificial altar. They cannot sleep, and they make that an excuse for using chloral, morphine, &o." Is there not some safe means by which we can make life easier? It would be a peculiar coincidence if there was no worthy remedy for this particular waste of vitality. It has been conclusively proven that Warner's Safe Cure is the remedy par excellence." It is a valuable tonic, a nerve-food to the over-taxed and weakened nerves giving them new life and vigour gnd sustainirg this invigoration by purifying and enriching the blood and regulating its circulation. Mrs. Lizzie Jackson, Dartiogdon House, New College, Eastbourne, writes: For fully two months I was kept awake nightly with severe pains in mv back, between and under the right shoulder, oftentimes so severe that I was obliged to get up and pace the floor. Other times the pain was intensified by the slightest movement. Doctors, their medicines and various liniments, I tried, failed to relieve me, and I was persuaded to try Warner's Safe Cure. After taking three bottles I am thank- ful to say, I have lost these dreadful pains and am able to sleep well at night, for which I am most grateful."

A WHISTLER in red and brown-The winter robin. BBST footing for a Scotch bank-In the stocking. BURNED at the steak-the fingers of the girl who was cooking. DOBBS says tailors would make splendid drageons; they charge so. READy-made-The young lady waiting for an offer. AN attorney's business is from ten to four > his pleasure strand-eight. BEAUTIFUL ile of the sea," as the sailor said when cutting up a whale. SONG of the baker-If I knead thee every hour." The first note of the song is dough. IN the stomach of a cow, recently killed, were found seventeen wrought-iron nails. She bad cowhide outside and oxide inside. A YOUNG lady was asked which she preferred of two brothers. She said, When I am with either of them, I prefer the other." NOTHING is easier than to become rich. We annex the recipe Every time you spend a crown earn ten shillings. MIKE, if you meet Tom tell him to make haste." Shure an' I will," said Mike; "but what shall I tell him if I don't meet, him." YOUNG housewife: What miserable little eggs again! You really must tell them, Jane, to let the hens sit on them a little longer." SOMEONE says of a certain congregation that they pray on their knees on Suridavo, and on their neighbours the rest of the week. PLAGIARISTs are a species of purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away or attempt to destroy the Lasket. SOMEBODY says, in allusion to corporal punish- ment, that the pupil most to be pitied is the pupil of I the eye, because it is always under the lash. ■ ■+■

THE FLINT AND DENBIGH HOUNDS WILL MEET Saturday, Feb. 3rd ..Trelogan. At 11 a.m.

HALKYN. To EXSURE A PLEASING APPEARANCE.—Sulpholine Lotion clears off Spots. Blemishes, liedness, Koughness, Tan, Un- sightly Skin Disfigurements, allaying all irritation. Shilling Bottles of Sulpholine, perfectly harmless. VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT.—A grand vocal, instru- mental and variety entertainment was held last Tuesday week at the Halkyn National Schools, in aid of the funds of the Halkyn Cricket Club, Llew. J. Henry, Esq., J.P., Lygenywern, being chairman. The room was crowded to overflowing, there not being even standing room. The Chairman in open- ing the entertainment, spoke in high terms of the game of orioket, and concluded his address by wishing the Halkyn team a successful season. The first part of the programme was commenced by the capital Foel Gaer Brass Band, who played the maroh The Contest," outside in the school yard, they then entered upon the platform and played Ora pro nobis," in excellent style, and it can well be stated that great praise is due to the bandmaster (Mr. Ll. P. Jones) for the excellent way he has trained the members. Mr. Evan Hughes then sang "0 tyr'd n'ol fy geneth wen," in his usual excellent style. Miss Ellis sang "Mam a'r baban," with very good effect. Miss Gwladys L. Harper's song was Wont you buy my pretty flowers," this youthful vocalist quite entranced the audience with her sweet voice. The next item was a clarionette solo by Mr. Samuel Roberts, termed "The Village Chorister," with violin and pianoforte accompani- ment, which was a novel and pleasing feature of the programme, and was executed with great skill. Miss E. J. Roberts then sang Gwlad y delyn," although this was the young lady's first appearanoe on a platform, she showed sterling qualities as a promising public vocalist. This was succeeded by a brass instrument "Quartette," which continued to show the excellent training the band had under- gone. The next name on the programme was Mr. W. J. Harper, an old favourite in Halkyn, who showed by his singing the comic song Where did you get that bat," that he still continued to greatly please the publio. The last item of the first part was a Welsh duet by Messrs. Roberts and Jones called 'Y ddau hen lane," and was very well rendered. The second part of the programme was monopolised by the noted Kentucky Coons," under the management of Mr. W. H. Grallager, who for over an hour and a half fairly kept the audience in roars of laughter by their comic songs and jokes, the whole entertainment was concluded with the scream- ing farce, entitled the Hungry police-nan and the rabbit pie," and a more ludicrous piece so well rendered has never been witnessed in Halkyn before. The proceedings concluded with the singing of the National Anthem. The accompanists were Miss Jones, Henblas, Messrs. Harper, Jones, and Noel Morgan. The proceeds amounted to L16. The members of the Halkyn Cricket Club desire to thank all^jAg had so kindly taken part iD the entertainment.

HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED ANY DAY. There was once a man, who, on account of his religious convictions, was arrested by a despotio government and thrown into prison. Looking at the strong stone wall that shut him in, he naturally concluded that he must spend the rest of his days in this lonely and dismal plaoe. Yet wretched as the prospect was, there was some comfort in the thought that he was a victim of oppression, and not undergoing punishment as a violator of any good and righteous law. All the 'same he would have been glad to get out, as he had a right to do if he could. Nevertheless there he stayed and languished for sixteen years. At nearly the end of that period it occurred to him one day to climb up on a projecting stone in the wall and take a peep through the window above his hea,i. He did so, and found the iron bars removable and the sash not fastened. An idea strnck him, of course. Why not escape P He opened the window, jumped six feet to the ground, and left that district immediately. He might have done.so at any time during his protracted occupancy of the place, if he had only been blessed with a more inquiring mind and not taken so much for granted. Now here comes an incident both like and unlike that of the martyr like it because there was loss of free action, unlike it because the sufferer was not imprisoned as he was. The story is in the form of a letter, one of those letters we all prefer to get—short and made up of bhort words. The writer, a lady, says: For the last sixteen years I have been greatly afflicted with bilious complaints and weakness. I was always tired, weak, and low-spirited. I had no appetite, aud when food was placed before me I could not touch it. For days I oould scarcely eat anything. At times I was troubled with sickness and heaving at the stomach, spitting up a thick phlegm. I bad a troublesome cough, with pain at my chest and difficnlty of breathing. I got very weak and could scarcely drag myself in and out of the shop. In December, 1891, I began to take a medicine I had heard well spoken of by many of my customers, called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. After I had taken only a few doses I felt relief, and I had not used the medicine for a fortnight when I felt tetter than I had done for years. Thus encouraged, I kept on with it until I was restored to good health. My son Arthur had suffered off and on for a year from pain and heaviness after meals, with a sinking it-cling at the pit of the stomach. He was induced to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup and the result Wlti the same as in my own case. I know several persons in this district who have been cured by the Syrup after all other means had failed. You are at liberty to publish my letter if you think it might bu of benefit to others afflicted as I was. Yours truly, (signed) (Mrs.) M. Ward, 174, Ilkeston Road, Radford, Nottingham, April 1st, 1892." We congratulate Mrs. Ward upon her deliverance from a distressing and dangerous disease. What a pity she did not sooner learn how easily and certainly she could be cured. Sixteen years is too large a slice out of one's life to be spent in bodily and mental misery. Very few of us can have wealth in any case, but health should be a blessing common and universal st3 sunshine. And it might be if everybody knew how to preserve it when they possess it, or to regain it when lost. This lady's disease was of the digestive organs—indigestion and dyspepsia—the most afflictive and perilous of all because it involves every function of the body, scattering its poison at every point through the medium of the blood; Nearly all ailments are but the differently named results and symptoms of this prolific parent of evil. That the remedy she mentions should have cured her will not surprise those who know its well-founded reputation. Many worse cases constantly yield to it. Our friend the martyr abode in his cell a weary time because he was ignorant of the simple way out. If the reader of these lines is a captive to disease he has no excuse for remaining so. In her short and honest letter our correspondent points to the open door.

Josn BILLINGS says: "When yu find a man who it very solisitus about the welfare ov everyboddv, yu kan safely put him down az one who is hunting for a misfortune." WIlY are some folks like a waggon wheel ?— Because they are generally going 'round and are always tired. THE people of Wyoming don't know whether to call their female judge a justicess of the peace or a justice of the pieces. EllIE NEFF, a bright little flaxen-haired seven-year- old daughter of Mr. Wm. Howard Neff, has a pet kitten that she very carefully puts to bed every night in a closet in her father's residence on the Warsaw pike. One morning recently, at about six o'clock, And while it was yet dark, she was awakened by her protege jumping on the cover-lid. She arose, and taking it child-fashion under her left arm, started out of the room for the cat's resting place. As she stepped noiselessly into the hall she came suddenly upon a roughly-dressed burglar, to whom she immediately put the question, What do you want, man ?" The stranger, startled at the apparition, turned and incontinently fled down stairs, followed as far as the head of the flight by the little innocent, who stood there in bare feet with cat in arm, and gazed in wonderment at the individual as he went down the steps four at a time, and vanished out of the front door. When daylight came a gunny-bag was found in the house near where the man had effected an entrance, it being the intention to use it for carrying off the plunder.-New York World. Do you mean to say ?" said a traveller to Missouri sheriff, that a man was shot here yesterday because he was caught in the act of carrying off rope?" "Yes," quietly answered the sheriff-' there was a horse at the end of the rope." WHEN does mortification ensue ?" asked a MEDICAL examiner of a bashful student. "When a lellow proposes, and is rejected," was the reply.

RAILWAY TIME TABLE. FEBRUARY, 1894. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Doww Tba.ins. SUMU*8. HOLYHEAD ATO ('HESTER RAILWAY .—Up Tbaiitb. Suwdatb. lkIvb a.m i i.m a.m a.m. a.m. a.m p.m. p.in • p.m p.m g p.m p.m i p.m: p.m i p.m.. p.m a.m, a.m a.m p.m lbavb a.in a.m a.m a'm. a.m a.m p.m pin p.m P.m pja p.rn, p.m p.m p.m p.m p.m m a.m a.m p.m. LP.m. CHESTER.|6 30 18 45 10 0 1145 2 30 3 10 5 5.5 10 g I. 6 15 |8 33 8 45 1120 2 38 9 351115 6 0 HOLYHEAD. | 7 45 I |12 0 •• •• 3 151 6 0 8 5 6 5 1140, 8 5 Sandycroft .6 41 |8 56*1 1156! 3 21| !o 21j"S j 8 56jH3l 9 46 6 10 Bangor (dep).. 6 0 7 56 ;9 0 1045 1 9 !4 25 7 11, » 3| 6 55 1212 ..9 3 Queen's Ferry.6 45 *# • • i9 0 • • • • 12 01 • • 3 25. • • |5 25: • • 9 01135 ••9 50t«.6 15 Aber G 10 • • 9 101055 • • i • • lid • • •• •• # • 14 35 •• 7 27| • • • • J • • •• Connah'8Quay. 6 50 '9 5' 12 5 3 31! |6 30 j? 6 31 9 5 1140 9 55 6 21 Llanf airfechan. 6 15 8 9, 9 15 11 0 j 1 25 i :4 41 7 341 I 7 9| Flint 16 57 •* 9 12! •• 1212,: ^3 37j 16 37: £ !6 38 9 12 1147 10 3 6 29 Penmaenmawr. 6 21 8 15! ;9 2111 6 I 33 & !4 49 7 41 7 151 Bagillt |7 2 9 17( •• 121s' |3 43 6 43 J | 9 18 1153 10 8 |6 35 Conway 6 31 8 24 |9 311116 I 43 8 4 69 7 53 9 26' 7 25 1 3 9 26 > HOLYWELL. 7 9 •• !9 22 • • 1224! 3 49, 5 50 |6 49 9 251159 1016 6 42 LlandudnoJun. 6 38 8 3l| !9 39 1125 I 1 51 | 5 ;5 8 8 1 9 341 | i Mostyn '7 17 • i9 30 •• 1231 ( 3 56 Q 5 57 & 1 \6 561 9 32 12 6 1024 6 50 ColwynBay. 6 49 8 41 9 52 1135 j 2 3' 5 20 8 14 7 36 1 18! Prestatyn 7 231 •• 9 42 •• 1212 4 8, 6 7 ,§ ,7 6 |9 9 9 *2 12l7i 1036 7 2 Colwyn 6 54 9 57 1139 I J 8 I ft '5 25 8 19 7 40 RHYL !7 37 '9 50 1040 1250 3 13 4 17 5 52 6 15,-g |7 15 |9 16 9 50 1225 3 18 1044U54 7 9 Llandulas 7 2. L. 10 4 IH7 j !2 14 .5 35 8 25* Abergele 7 49 •• |l0 4 105l' •• |l 7 3 27 ..6 5 ..if }7 29 9 27 •• £ | 17 18 Abergele 7 7 8 52 |1010|1153 1 2 20 5 43 8 34 I 7 55j Llandulas 7 57 •• H012 •• ll 15 3 35 i" •• |7 38 35 •• -g | j RHYL 7 21 9 29 40 102( 1210 1250 2 35 3 45 I 5 40 5 58 8 48 10 4 8 5:1 46 5 20,10 4 Colwyn '8 5 •• H020 ll 21 3 43 6 17 •• ij. j7 45 9 40 1 I? 31 Prestatyn 7 29 9 10,9 48 1032 1258 2 43,3 53) { '5 48 6 6 8 56 ,c 8 14; 5 28 Colwyn Bay. |8 9 •• 1025 11 4 ll 26 3 48 6 22 jg 7 50. 9 45 & !7 36 Mostyn 7 40 ,9 22 10 0 1230 ;1 8 2 55 4 4 5 59 6 18 9 7 8 25, i5 39) Llandudno Juu 8 25 •• 11041 1118 1 42 4 4 6 31 g •• 18 7 9 58 « 3 49 17 48 HOLYWELL. 7 49 9 31 10 9 1052 |l 16 3 4 4 13 I 6 8 6 27 9 16 8 34 2 105 48 Conway 8 29 • • |1045 1122 I 46 4 8 6 38 '■§ 8 11 10 2 g 3 54 12l7|7 52 Bagillt 7 54 | 1015 ll 21 4 Itj j 6 14 G 33, 9 2i| 8 4l! \5 54 Penmaenmawr 8 38 1055 1131 jl 55 4 18 6 47 ■« .8 21 lOll -g !8 2 Flint 8 0 9 20j 1020 1242 1 26 4 2# I 6 19 6 39 9 27! 8 48 6 0 Llanfairfechan. 8 44 'll 11138 j2 1 4 25 6 54 « § 8 27 1017 » |8 8 Connah'sQuav. 8 8 9 26( 1028 jl 33 4 31 6 26 6 47 9 34 8 55' 6 7 Aber 8 50 |ll 6 2 6 4 31 | j8 33 Queen's Ferry.. 8 13 9 3l! 1033 (1 38 4 38 6 31 6 53 9 39; i 8 59 6 12 Bangor 9 10 Ill 16 1159 2 30 4 50 7 9 q. ? 8 53 103» 4 25; 1242 8 40 Sandycroft. 8 20 9 37' 1039 jl 43 4 44 I 6 35 7 0 9 45 I 9 4 !6 5i Holyhead 1010 1255 3 45 5 48 i « £ !9 61 5 5 1 20^9 32 Chester 8 30 9 47 9 56 1050 1120jl 5 I 53 3 35 4 541 !6 45 7 15 ,9 55 1050 9 20 2 50 G 30 1060

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