The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

TIPYN 0 BOB PETH. "'V'V'"V' The North Wales Slate Trade is said to be very slack. The Master of the Love-lane Board School has been granted a pension of B20 by the Education Department. Conway Suspension Bridge will be transferred to the Corporation in September. m m The Directors of the Bala and Festiniog Railway are advertising for tenders for the construction of the line. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Morgan have been spending the "Whitsuntide Recess at their country house, Brymbo rial J. Mr. W. Rathbone, M.P. has taken Glyn, near Dol- gelley, for three weeks. On Monday, June 10th, it was finally arranged to run a working men's train between Bangor Quay and Bethesda Mry. On the night of Wednesday, June 5, the Boys N atlOnal School at Hawarden was broken into, and the sum of thirty shillings was stolen. The Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway will come under the management of the London and North-Western ?h?JOTeMo°meriy assistant bailiff at the Conway County Court, has been appointed high bailiff, in the room of Mr. R. L. Morgan, resigned. On Tuesday evening, June 4, a youth named Edward Atkin Jones, a clerk, sixteen years of age, was drowned whilst bathing in the canal near Chester. It is stated that the memorial gates at the entrance to Hawarden churchyard have been erected in memory not of the late Lord Lyttelton (as was reported) but of the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart.. The Chester District Enrolled Pensioners have just undergone an eight days' training. On Wednesday, June 5 they were inspected on the Roodee by Colonel Tyacke. The corps was disembodied on Saturday. < „ r A composition, bearing the title of 44 Jeremiah, from the pen of Owain Alaw, is about to be published. The work is divided into three sections, and deals with the re- bellion, captivity, and emancipation of the elect of Israel. At the meeting of the Llandudno School Board, on May 29th, the Chairman made the satisfactory statement that two honour certificates had been gained by scholars in the Board School. The appeal of Mr. Assheton Smith against the assess- ment of his slate quarries at Llanberis by the Carnarvon Union resulted on Saturday, June 8, m a settlement. The ratable value of the property is to stand at £ 24,500; and this assessment is not to be disturbed for five years. A correspondent of the North Wales Chronicle deplores the fact that, while the number of National Schools in the Kingdom has doubled in the last ten years, in the diooese of Bangor there has been a decrease of twenty per ^Huch Jones, Groes, Dwyran, has been committed for trial by the Menai Bridge Magistrates on a charge of criminally assaulting his daughter, a child of thirteen. The girl was severely cross examined by prisoner's advo- cate. The magistrates offered to take bail. On Whit Monday the annual Whitsuntme meeting of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists of Liverpool was held in Heneler's Circus, which was crowded in every part. It is estimated that there are 11,098 adherents m this dis- trict, the communicants numbering 5,042. The recent School Board election for the Llangynog and Pennant Ucha U.D. (Montgomeryshire) resulted in the return of the Rev. John Lewis Davies, Mr. Robert Owen, Mr. James Thomas, Mr. Cadwaladr Jones, and Mr. Owen ^A^committee has been appointed, with Mr. T. Clayton as Chairman, to take the necessary steps for the erection of a church at Broughton, near Wrexham. Mr. Clayton has liberally offered a site of two acres in an excellent The Rhyl Commissioners have been discussing a pro- posal to admit the public to their meetings. Several of the members warmly advocated the proposal, but one of them thought "it would not be very edifying for the public to hear their discussions The matter was referred ^A m^^ss^has been made that Wrexham should^ be supplied with a one o'clock gun signal. Ihe signal would be connected with Greenwich by wire, and would be heard, it is said, a.s far as Holt, Bangor Iscoed, Gresford, and Ruaben. There would also be an electric clock at the post- office -and the cost would be B40 a year. A young man named Thomas Feirney, from Liverpool, went to ba.the in the river (Jonway, near Llanrwst, a few days ago, and was drowned, after attempts had been made in vain by one of his companions to rescue him. He was a good swimmer, and it is supposed he was chilled by the colfi currents. There is a rule among the inhabitants not to 'bat'he in the river until after the New air (June ^1-) At their meeting, on Friday, June <, the St. Asaph Guardians had under consideration the fever hospital for -the Vale of Clwyd, and passed a motion that the Denbigh Corporation be invited to call a conference of re- presentatives of sanitary authorities throughout the Vale of Clwyd with a view to provide such an hospital at Den- **The funeral of Mr. Thomas Dixon, head of the banking honse of Dixons and Co., took place at Christleton on Tuesday, June 4, and was attended by the Mayor and Corporation of Chester, several of the city and county magistrates, and a large number of the inhabitants ot Chester. All the princiral shops in the city were par- tially closed during Tuesday morning. On Friday, June 7, Dr. Pierce held an inquest at Den- bigh on the body of John Foulkas, a well-known horse- breaker. Deceased and his son were riding two colts, be- longing to Mr. T. Foulkes, Kilford Farm, and when near Llandyrnog, the horse on which Foulkes rode suddenly bolted, plunged two or three times nearly upright, when the rider was pitched violently off, striking the ground With his head. The skull was fractured, and death tøoiC place in a few minutes. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." 1-1 At Denbigh Whit Monday was observed as a holiday, and many visitors came to the town and castle from all part8. At Ruthin the Foresters and two other friendly societies held their anniversary, and after a procession dined toge- ther at the clubhouses, the afternoon being spent in festi- vities of various kinds, visitors being numerous. At Rhyl theve were unusual festivities, and hundreds of visitors were brought in by special trains from the midland coun- ties and elsewhere. The winter gardens provided all srts of special amusements. At Abergele the local societies held their annual demonstrations, and many excursionists arrived. „ At a Ruri-Decanal Conference held at Chester on Thursday, June 6, under the presidency of the Itev. C. S. Upperton, rector of Ince, a resolution of regret at the death of the late Rural Dean, Canon Barker, and condo- lence with his family, was adopted. The Rev. Lionell Garnett. rector of Christleton, read a paper on Workmen's Clubs, in which he said he thought highly of them, but should not recommend their indiscriminate adoption. He did not think them likely to succeed in the country, but in towns they should certainly be tried, not to the exclu- sion of cocoa houses or coffee rooms, but in conjunction th them. A discussion followed. r On Friday afternoon, June 7, a sad case of drownm., took place at Rhyl. It appears that a lady waking along the shore about five o'clock, found the clothes ot three boys on the sand; and no boys being visible an}- •wbere she raised an alarm. Assistance was speedily ob- tained, and the body of one of the boys, John Thomas, aged 23, son of Mr. David Jones, joiner, Queen-street, was found and taken home. Subsequently the bodies of John (10), and Richard (12), sons of Mr. John Edwards, û, Plaelsirion Terrace, were found. It appears that the poor boys went straight from school to bathe. Their satchels Were found with their Clothes. On Thursday, June 6, the Caergwrle magistrates im- posed a heavy fine on a local publican for the offence of permitting drunkenness. He had twice previously been conrlcted of the same class of offence. The Bench fined him £20. Their intention was to impose a penalty ot and endorse the conviction on the licence, but it was pointed out to them that the endorsement would disqualify the <3efendant from holding a licence for five years, and practically close his house, and in the latter respect the landlord would be the greater sufferer. The Bench there- fore increased the fine, and abandoned their intention to endorse the licence. At f- meeting of the Chester Board of Guardians on Wednesday June 5, the recommendation of the Building Committee'that £ 90 be expended in sinking a well and other works for the water supply of the workhouse was brought forward. Mr. Bird opposed it, saying he had made inquiries in regard to the waste of water, which in- volved 1he Guardians in a water-rate for three months ot £60; and had found that in one month half a million gallons of water had been wasted, while in the next month, after attention had been sailed to the subject, ouly 150,000 gallons Siad been drawn, some of that also having been lasted. After discussion, it was agreed to refer the matter back to the committee. The Charitv Commissioners having requested the Cor- poration of Denbigh to appoint two Governors besides the Mavor as-ex-officio Governor of Denbigh Grammar School, Under the new scheme for the government of the school, the scheme has been discussed by the 1 own Council, and was strongly condemned by the Hayor and others, and it was eventually agreed that the Council call the attention of the Charity Commissioners to the exclusion by them of fee Bluecoat Chanty as y-io- posed to he dealt with by the scheme of 1872, and *he Council, therefore, recorded their entire disapproval of thc proposals, IiJS the charity named is not dealt with by tj8 scheme. The Council will further consider it when a is received from the Commissioners. Mr. Churton, county coroner, held an inquest at Dou- leston, near Chester, on Saturday evening, une 8, on the body of Mr. Arthur Bowers, of the Gorstella Farm, Dod- Ueston, and son of Alderman Bowers, of Chester, who was hound in liis bedroom with his throat fearfully cut, on the previous night. It appears that the deceased l ad been in lew spirits for some time past, and during the week com- -P3.med of pains in his hea(1. On Friday night he went to Kic room about ten o'clock, and shortly afterwards his Stater, who lived with him, went upstairs with some refreshment for him. She found the door locked, and re- ceiving no answer to her repeated calls, she had toe door foreui open by one of the servants, when the deceased was found lying OR his bed in a pool of blood which flowed into a bacut on the floor, and his throat nearly severed. A razor. with blood on it. was found close by. The jury returiiei a verdict to the effect tha.t the deceased had com- mitted-suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity.

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1 FROM THE PAPERS. A fire at the paper works of Messrs. Collins and Co., Darwen, early on Monday morning, June 10, caused damage estimated at £30,000. On Saturday, June 8, the Glasgow Apothecaries Hall was destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at .£30,000. A project, signed by Prince Bismarck, for the dissolution of the Reichsrath, was on Friday, June 7, presented to the German Federal Council. The attendance at the Paris Exhibition on Sunday, June 9, notwithstanding the unsettled weather, reached the highest point yet obtained, the visitors numbering 140,709 persons. The report of the enquiry into the conduct of Suneman Pasha has been presented to the Turkish Minister of War. It simply declares that he acted without sufficient foresight, and it is thought that Sulieman will soon be set at liberty. An explosion, attended with fatal results, occurred on Friday, June 7, at Silverdale, North Staffordshire, In this case the explosion was produced by the ignition of a dense body of gas accumulated in the workings, live men were instantaneously killed, and a large number were injured, many it was feared fatally. The Rev. Dr. McKerrow, ex-Moderator of the Jrres- byterian Church of England, died suddenly last week at his residence, Bowdon, Cheshire. Dr. McKerrow was well known in Manchester, where he was distinguished thirty years ago by his advocacy of temperance and of the National Public "Schools Association. He was seventy- five years of age.. On Sunday morning, June 9, a few minutes after six, a waterspout was observed rising from the river Mersey, apparently a short distance beyond New Brighton. Rain was falling in torrents at the time. The waterspout rapidly traversed several miles in a south-easterly direc- tion. A number of old seafaring men who witnessed the phenomenon from the landing stage at Liverpool, stated that they had never seen anything so remarkable in these latitudes. The Athenaeum says it is understood that the Postal Congress, held the other day at Paris, has agreed on an amended treaty, to come in force on the 1st of April next, by which the limit of weight of books to be carried by the Postal Union Mails is raised from 21b. to 41b. Nothing appears to have been agreed upon that will hamper the free delivery by post in America of English books, 'lhis will probably lead, sooner or later, to the abolition of duty levied by the United States on books. Jonathan Parrer, who attained 100 years of age on Sun- day, and is founder of the Ancient Order of Britons in Oxford, the other day took the chair as Grand Cross in Lodge No. 4, at the invitation of the Order generally. In honour of the event Parrer, who is quite blind and slightly deaf, was presented with a silver medal by the members, and afterwards obliged the company with a song. The Australian team have won their first match against odds in this country. The play at Ellaad terminated on Saturday, June 8, in a decisive victory for the visitors, who have won successive triumphs over Marylebone, Yorkshire, Surrey, and the strong Elland eighteen. Sir Rutherford Alcock, chairman of the London com- mittee of the North China Famine Relief Fund, pub- lishes a telegram from Shanghai stating that 100,000 families are receiving relief, and that distress must in- crease until October. The local committee's funds are exhausted, and they appeal for a prompt transfer of £5,000. Sir Rutherford Alcock adds that in the present state of their finances they are utterly unable to send more than about one-sixth part of the sum asked for. On Thursday, June 6th, on the arrival of the 1.36 train at Crewe station, the discovery was made that one of the carriages contained the corpse of a man who proved to be James Ralston, aged 44, who was returning home to Glasgow after a voyage of 13 months' duration, to Callao and other ports, he having received his discharge from the ship Isabella Ure in Belgium. What makes the case more painful, is that deceased had telegraphed to his wife from Euston that he would reach home by the train arriving in Glasgow at six p.m. The supposed cause of death was apoplexy. The trial of the prisoners connected with the alleged frauds in the Albion Life Assurance case was concluded at the Central Criminal Court, London, on Saturday, June 8. The prisoners Wood, Northcott, Thompson, and William Shaw were found guilty on all the counts of the indictment; Slinker was found guilty of conspiracy, and George Shaw and Thomas Shaw were found not guilty. A sentence of five years' penal servi- tude was passed upon Wood, Northcott, and Thompson while William Shaw was sentenced to two years' imprison- ment, with hard labour; and Slinker to nine months' im- prisonment with hard labour. The mutilated body of the young woman found some days ago in a wood at Dinmore, between Hereford and Leominster, has at length been identified as that of Miss Jane Jay, whose friends live in tlt-e village of Kimbolton, near Leominster. Miss J ay left Kimbolton in September last, and took up her residence at the Kerry Arms Hotel, Hereford, where she remained up to February, when the landlord presented his bill. Miss Jay left to go to her friends to obtain the money to pay it, and was never seen alive afterwards. How she came by her death has not yet been discovered. I am not surprised (says » contributor to The World) that some of our statesmen who have spent their lives in the bustle and worry of town should elect, when they die, to be buried outside of it. Lord Russell, in his preference for a rural resting-place, only followed tke example set by some of the most illustrious politicians -of this century. Richard Gobden, for example. I drove past his grave, a mile out of Midhurst, the other day. It if; in a terraced churchyard, which is carpeted with thymy moorland grass, planted with yew-hedges and with broom, now in flower, and placed on a hill, with a fragrant pine-wood at its feet and the blue Southdowns in the far distance. The grave itself is almost ostentatiously rimple, and bears nothing on the granite slab except the name and date." Three or four boating and bathing accidents are re- ported. Mr. Edward Spender, of London, chief pro- prietor of the Western Morning News, said two of his sons were drowned on Sunday afternoon, June 9, while bathing at Whitesands near Plymouth. They were washed under by a wave while standing on the sa.nd in shallow water, and were not afterwards seen. At Fleetwood, on Monday morning, a party of ferrymen, boatmen, and friends were going to Lancaster in a boat, when it capsized, and six of them were drowned. One man, who saved himself, swam a distance of two miles to land. Two young men were drowned while bathing at Tynemoufth. A mass meeting of operatives numbering some 7 or 8 thousand, was held on Tuesday afternoon, on Bhvkley Moor. The promoters of the meeting were respectable operatives acting independently of the Union Committee, with a view of testing the question cf going to work, but the opponents of any settlement wepelargely represented. It was moved and seconded to end the strike on the ground of the great suffering it is causing, and calling upon employers to open the mills and give those who were willing, a chance to return to work. The resolution negatived by a large majority. Apart from this mass meeting, about 200 workmen have formed themselves into a committee to bring about a settlement of the dispute. The Annual Movable Committee of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows commenced its session at Exeter on Monday, June 10. In his inaugural address, the Grand Master congratulated the unity on'its improved financial condition. He condemned the 23rd clause of the Poor- law Amendment Act, 1876, as an attempt to interfere with the right of self-government, contending that legislation in reference to such bodies should be solely directed to the protection of their funds. There had been an increase of 8,432 in membership disring the year, the total on the 1st of January last being §26.802. He added that several lodges had" taken steps to distribute -portions of their sur- plus capital by way of bonus to their members, a course contrary to the provisions cf the rules, and in violation of the Friendly Societies Act, and warned them that such irregularities could not fail In the end to lead to disaster. On Tuesdaj7, June 4, the new statute, the Matrimonial Causes Act, was issued. Xtcontains an important provision as to wife-beating, and police courts will now become sub- sidiary divorce courts. The clause was added by Lord Penzance, and, as amended, states that "if a husband shall be convicted, ^summarily or otherwise, of an aggra- vated assault within the meaning of the 24th and 28th Vie., c. 100, sec. 43, upon his wife, the court or magistrate before whom he shall be so cCimvictedlllay, if satis lied that the future safety of the wife is in peril, order .that the wife shall be no longer bound to cohaHt with her husband and such order shall have the force and effeei in all respects of a decree of judicial ,separation on the.ground of crsielty and such order may further provide as Ito her suppart." The magistrate may order a weekly allc-wance for her support, which may be altera^- and for non-pay- ment Buch orders may be enforced as orders of affiliation. The wife is, in the discretion of the court or magistrate, to have 'the care of children under ten years of age, c nless adultery is proved against the wife or unless the oience has been.condoned. The Act further provides that "all orders made under this section shall be subject to at»^eal to the Probate and Admiralty Division or the High O&urt of Justiee." The Act came into operation after the r<jj:al assent on 6he 27th May.

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CONCEITS, KNACKS, TRIFLES. An Aberdeen wit says there is no reason why the phonograph should not be spoken off as "she." It repeats everything. A Chicago man wants the thief who stol* his well bucket and rope to come back and take the well, as it is of no use now. The Chicago reporters are tender of the feelings of the unfortunate; and so the daily papers of that city recently announced that "two ladies and three gentlemen left for the penitentiary last evening under official escort." Josh Billings says, When you hear a country church choir singing, There will be no sorrow there,' you con- clude that either the aforesaid choir will not be there, or they will not be permitted to sing." Mr. Emerson gave a lecture in Boston the other night, which was an argument for temperance in language. Superlatives," he said, are diminutives, and weaken. The positive is the sinew of speech; the superlative the fat." A SPIRITED ANSWER. Minister: "Janet! Janet! Drinking again! Don't you know where all the drinkers go to?" Janet "Ah could na say what ithers do, but ah aye gae where ah ken—(hie)—ah'll get the best cheapest!"—Punch. A Milwaukie man has applied for a patent ona fountain pen, which, by the pressure of the thumb on a small rubber ball, projects a stream of ink through the holder and into the face of the fellow who is looking over your shoulder while you are writing. A Lancashire paper states that a lay preacher in a chapel at Leigh recently expressed a wish in the course of his address, although he was not desirous of saying any- thing unkind or unbecoming," that the Lord would at once convert Lord Beaconstield, and then take him to heaven before eight o'clock that very night. ENCOURAGING.—George (who has just engaged himself to the girl of his heart) breaks the happy news to his friend Jack (who has been married sometime).—Jack: well, my dear fellow, marriage is the best thing in the long run, and I can assure you that after a year or two a man gets used to it, and feels just as jolly as if he'd never married at all!"—Punch. Neal Dow, the well-known American temperance re- former, was recently called iuto the Portland police station to confront a tipsy book agent, who insisted that they drank brandy and water together on a Sound boat. When the irate apostle of teetotalism got there, the fel- low explained that he drank the brandy and Dow the water. In Paris a fare of seemingly foreign aspect, and speak- ing with a strongly-marked foreign accent, hails a voiture, and desires to be driven to the Trocadero. The cabman observes, "Twenty francs, Milord." "Aoh, yes," the apparent Englishman is made to observe, but on arriv- ing he drops his sham insularity, and informing him with the most perfect Parisian accent that he has mistaken his man, hands him the exact legal fare, and leaves him to his reflections.

MORE WEATHER LORE. MAY. A cold May and a windy, Makes a fuUlJarll and a tindy. May, comes she early or comes she late, She'll make the cow to quake. Beans blow-before May doth go. A May flood-never did good. Shear your sheep in May, And shear aU away. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. Look at your corn in Iay, And yeu'll outne weeping away. JUNE. Look at your corn in June, And you'll come home in another tune. Calm weather in June Sets corn in tune. JULY. A swann of bees in July I Is not worth a. lly. A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, Is worth a. plough of oxen, and all belongs theretiU. No tempest, good July Lest corn come off blew by.

FROM LONDON LETTERS. Since the commutation of the death sentence passed upon the Stan tons the committee who interested them- selves in their behalf have been active in their exertions in endeavouring to obtain rebutting evidence in the prison- ers' favour, and thus to make out a case for a full reprieve. Some affidavits were drawn up, and it was at first intended to see if a new trial could be obtained. Various statements, however, made in the affidavits have since been inquired into by the police, and have been found so utterly at vari- ance with known and established facts as to cause con- siderable surprise that such affidavits should be made. The committee, latterly acting on legal advice, have for the present abandoned the idea of moving for a fresh trial, and in place of it have resolved to assist the convicts in submitting a memorial to the Crown praying for a further revision of their case. The committee state that they have collected further important" evidence, andhave also obtained separate statements from the convicts themselves. —Liverpool Courier. The British Cabinet have to-day {Friday) had a final consultation prior to the starting of the plenipotentiaries for Berlin. A strong belief prevails among Ministerialists this evening that the difficulties of the Congress will not lie between England and Russia, because a sort of prelim- inary treaty as been privately arranged by the Russian Ambassador and Lord Salisbury. The terms are not known, though they are guessed at; but the fact that a private understanding is in existence is no longer doubted. The Congress has, therefore, had the roughest part of it work done in London beforehand.—Liverpool Post. The air is still thick with strange rumours as to the policy of Lord Beaconsfield at the Congress. I have already called your attention to the project of establishing. an English protectorate in Asia. The idea still forms the subject of much Parliamentary comment. It is not for me in this place to pursue the arguments for and against such a policy. I merely note that it still forms a current topic.—Birmingham Post. You will have seen that one of the projects of the German Government is to take advantage of the presence of the Congress in Berlin to propose a general and Euro- pean crusade against Socialism. I cannot suppose that English Ministers will have much inclination to join in measures of Bismarckian character on such a question. But there de a suspicion in well-informed quarters that one of the magnificent ideas of Lord Beaconsfield in the coming diplomatic campaign is, in case such a proposal should come from the German Government, to put forward a rival scheme. He is said to have hinted agreement in the opinion that German militarism is partly responsible for the Socialism of Europe. His intention, therefore,— of course, I only repeat current rumours—is to propose that there Should be a general disarmament. I can under- stand how the prospect of such a mighty achievement would dazzle the imagination of the Premier, but the whole thing appears to me a dream. Germany may be tired enough of her huge army and its crushing expense, but neither the Crown Prince nor Prince Bismarck are likely to reduce it in obedience to the bullets of assassins. —Birmingham Post.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRYNMALLY COLLIERY. Theadjournedinquest on the body of Evan Williams, who was killed by the fall of a quantity of coal at Forsygo Pit, No. 5, on Wednesday, the 29th of May, was held at the Cress Foxet, Pentre Broughton, on Friday, June 7th, before Mr. B..H. Thelwall, coroner, and a jury of which Mr. Ishmael Jones, Moss, was foreman. It appeared that the deceased and another man were working at a pillar and came to a fault twelve inches deep. They were cutt- ing the bench coal away in order to clear the face of the coal, when a portion of it fell upon them, accompanied by a portion of the tolunch or rubbls between the caal seam and the roof. It turned out that two feet six further back there was another fault, accompanied by another fall of nine inehes, and the slit going up the seam is supposed to have been the cauce of the fall. Mr. Owen Price said he was certificated manager of the colliery, ;3,nd knew the deceased who worked at Na. 5 pit on the main coal. He produced a tracing showing where the accident occurred, also a tracing showing a section of the faee of the coal. The depth of the pit was 160 yards, and the spot where the -accident occurred was about 600 yards from the shaft. The deceased was employed in cutting up the benda, a thin seam underneath the main, and wnile so doing a portion of the main and clunch fell upon him. There WKS another mac present who turned for < moment aacd the accident occurred just at that time. In answer to Mr. Hedley, witness said that timber would not be of the slightest use on the spot. The rock was twelve yards thick, and was as good that morning as itwasonthedayinquestion. ThemeRwere engaged ingot- ting away a pillar which bethought must have been crushed by thesuperu-'cumbentw-eight, and there beinga slight fault, it would give the coal a natural incliis&tion to fall. The men were alvays instructed to sprag" when cutting un- derneath. 'fhe quantity of coal and clunch which fell was from two tons to twu and a half. Mr. Hedley said that as a general rule the r&of should be timbered, whether it was considered good or mot, to preventisinall slips. Robert Parry, fireman, .engaged at tfee pit. He was down the pit ok the 29th of May and examined the whole i workings, and f&snd them correct. The sp where the ac- cident took place was about two or four yards from the road and feelow it. Hie examined tfee place about half-past four. about five minutes after the accident he examined it ags&i, when there were two tens or there- abouts of coal and clunch upoa liim. They had the de- ceased taken out almost immediately, and he died soon after lift was taken tome. He did not think that any sprags were required, as the men were holeing." He believed the man would have beea killed had there been any number of props, as the fall c&m<e from the face And not from the roof. Samuel Williams said ke wischarter-niaster, and worked with the deceased when the accident occurred. As they went to work they spoke to the firentiu, who told them he had tried the place and found it right. They were get- ting down to the "slip," and the upper face gave way and fell upon the deceased. They were not aware of the second slip," and as they did not go underneath the coal, he did not think there was any necessity for sprag'ging, and in similar circumstances he would not sprag the next day. The face was not quite upright, aud it overlay-it may be a few inches altogether.—This was all the evidence, and after a few remarks from the coroner, the jury returned a verdict of" Accidental death." Sir. Hedley, Government Inspector, attended the in- quest, and at the conclusion the Coroner informed the jury that Mr. Maule, Q. C" Government Commissioner. would attend the adjourned inquest on the four men who met their duath at the explosion, and that it would be held on Tuesday, the 18th June. We are glad to understand on Tuesday, the 18th June. We are glad to understand Uiat all felie ftur.ivvr* are progressing very favourably,

BYE-GONES. NOTES, QUERIES, and REPLIES, on subjects interesting to Wales and the borders, be addressed to ASKEW ROBERTS, Croeswylan, Osrwestry." Real names and addresses must be given, in confidence, and MSS. must be written legibly, ,¡ one riM of tM paper only.

JUNE 12, 1878. NOTES. CWM CERWIN.—There is a place near Dinsylwy, Anglesea, called Nant Dihenyd, where tradition says the Romans killed the Christians by putting them in barrels having long iron spikes through, and then rolled them over the precipice. There is a similar tradition connected with GlOm Cericin, about Nant Nantlle, Carnarvonshire, which was given in the Carnarvon Herald, July 24, 1847. If anyone who can gain access to the tiles of this paper would copy the tradition for Byc-goncs it would be in- teresting. I don't think it appears elsewhere. G.G. QUERIES. HUGH THOMAS OF HENDREF.—111 reading Real Pictures of Clerical Life in Ireland I have come upon the following passage to which perhaps you will give a place in your Bye-gones. I feel no doubt that the young officer here spoken of, who met his death in a duel, was Mr. Hugh Thomas of Hendref, Llwyngwril. I have often heard my mother speak of him, and of the manner of his death. He was, I believe, a gentleman commoner of Jesus College, Oxford, at the same time as Sir Robert Williames Vaughan and his two brothers, Col. Salisbury and Col. Vaughan and he had a large property, which must have been divided into many shares at his death. I imagine that the gentleman who went in search of his grave must have been Col. Anwyl of Bala. One October evening at Kinsale, a stranger called at the vicarage, and introduced himself as a Welshman, who finding himself in Ireland, had run down to our quaint old town with the intention of discovering, if it were possible, in what portion of the large churchyard of St. Mullose might be found the grave of a kinsman of his family, who some 6Q years before had been slain in a duel by a brother officer, and who was buried there. He had to return by the evening train to Cork, and our search firoved ineffectual: however, 1 ascertained that a very olcl man. iving in the Gift House, an institution in whose rows of small houses some poor, old, respectable, yet decayed personR, lived, and were supported by a small weekly grant, could throw some light on the subject. Poor old Thomas Hyatt was reading his large Bible by the aid of glasses and a tallow candle, as 1 en- tered. He was an aged shoemaker, one of the happiest, most simple-minded believers that I have ever met. Hyatt was ex- ceedingly deaf, and when we both entered his little room, and asked whether he remembered the circumstance referred to, he at once said that he did, and told that the poor officer was buried in .the corner of St. Mullose churchyard, as you enter from the large gate. An old officer also recollected the oc- currence. It was too late for the stranger to stay, so I found out the grave, and oopied the inscription for him, aud sent it to him. The slain officer was a young captain in a regiment of foot, and the man who shot him was a captain in the same regiment; the latter ws a wild, reckless, dissipated man. Some trilling dispute lI.ooutone flf their servants, led to a challenge and they botD. met. The murdered officer wa. of quietgentlema.nly demeanour, and much esteemed in the regiment. His opponent was afterwards killed in a duel in Paris. I remember well the funeral of the young officer 1\:1 it came down the Barrack Hill; many a tear was shed that day for the poor young fellow, and the churchyard was filled to overflowing. Ah, sir the sight was a sore one to think of that fine young man hurried into the awful presence of his God." And old Hyatt crossed his hanis on his knees, and relapsed into meditation. If your valuable correspondent W." can give any con- firmation of my surmises 011 this subject, and still more, if he can furnish further particulars he will add much to the interest of the extract I send you. M.A. REPLIES. MACHYNLLETH-The Mansion of the Owen family (May 1, 1878).—The house of John Owen is not known to exist. He was Mayor of Machynlleth in 36 Eliz., and a magistrate for Montgomeryshire in 44 of same reign. His eldest son Richard, who died in, or im- mediately about, 1627, was of Morben, now called Morben Lodge, near Machynlleth. The pedigree of John Owen's representatives will be found in the supplement to Burke's Landed Gentry, edition of 1849, page 206. By his second wife, Gaynor, dau. of Rees Thomas, Esq., of Car- narvon, he was ancestor to the Pughes, of Cwm Rhaidr, in the parish of Machynlleth. W.

TERRIBLE COLLIKRY EXPLOSION IN LANCASHIRE. The Lancashire coalfield has been the scene of an appalling disaster, by which the lives of about 200 men have been sacrificed. The scene of the explosion, one of the most terrible in a ghastly catalogue, was the Florida seam of the Wood Pit, Haydock, the property of Messrs. Evans and Co. On Friday morning, June 7th, the men descended the pit, and all weLt well until about a quarter-past eleven o'clock, when the neighbourhood was startled by an explosion which shook the earth for a mile round, and enveloped the mouth of the pit in a cloud of smoke which was driven up the upcast shaft. A descent into the mine realised the worst fears of those on the bank, for of ten men rescued alive one died almost immediately, and the remainder of the colliers in the pit, with the exception of eight in an adjoining working, were discovered dead by the exploring parties. The fierceness of the blast was such that one body was blown to pieces, while other; were headless and mangled in a manner terrible to behold. The exploring parties were up to midnight engaged in the mchncholy t:1.k d collecting the shattered remains, and the pit bank wn" crowded by weeping widows, orphans, and other relatives of the dead. The calamity is without parallel in the district, and so great a loss of life has not been known in the county for many years. The last colliery disaster at a.ll approaching it in magnitude was the ex- plosion at High Blantyre, near Glasgow, in October, last year, when over two hundred lives were sacrificed. A large proportion of the victims were married. The most terrible domestic bereavement reported in connection with the catastrophe is that of a family who have lost no fewer than seven members. A rumour was current that some of the men had come out alive, but this proves to have been unfounded. Thove best acquainted with the circumstances of the disaster de- clared from the first that there was not the faintest hope for the escape of any of the men. The work of disen- tombing the bodies was attended with the utmost diffi- culty and peril from the constant accumulation of gas, and, indeed, on more than one occasion the exploring parties were completely stopped. The cause of the acci- dent remains unknown, and the few survivors can give no explanation, as the pit was well ventilated. Steps are being taken for the relief of the widows and orphans of the victims. In a day or two a meeting will be held at St. Helens, under the presidency of Lord Derby, for the purpose of raising funds. In an appeal for help which has been issued, it; is stated that 100 widows and 300 chil- dren have been left destitute.

MR. GLADSTONE ON T'KIEMDLY SOCIETIES. Mr. Gladstone presided this evening at a public meeting of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, whose Moveable Committee are holding their annual gathering at Hawar- den this year. Speaking about the friendly societies in general he said that they were becoming a most important and telling feature in the constitu ion of English society; he attached particular value to them because they had been so spontaneous in their growth. So long as they existed, he might say without using language of exaggeration, that there was no fear of the country going very far wrong. Apart from their value, monetarily speaking, they had a moral influence on the people which taught them to rely upon their own exer- taons, and to say they would rather starve than submit to a.,dependence upon the workhouse. After all the purpose for which men were born was to develop all that was good ÎItl their natures, and to exclude everything that was bad. In these societies he saw a means which tended to strengthen and develop this purpose, and it was for that neason that he could say with all his heart God bless them.

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It contains four times as much nourLshmetft as meat. It is likewise the only recognised food to rear delicate infants successfully, asd to overcome all in- fantine difficulties in teething, weaning, measles, fevers, rest- lessness diamhoea, eruptions. Fed on this food infante tnrive better^han on nurses' milk, and the most restless even sleep soundly all night through It saves M times its cost fn drugs, Important well-deserved and world-wide reputation of Dtt Barry's Food has led soniie speculators to putt up all kinds of foods. However, Mr. Pye Henry Chevase, F.RC.S., author of Advice to a mother," analyzed 16 of these, and declared Ot Barry's food to be the best Likewise Dr. B. E. Routh phvuicaan to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children,' declares Among the vegetaWe substances Dsi j Barry's Revalenta Arabica is the best, as it contains all the ele- ments of milk and that under its influence many womei, and children affected with atrophy and marked debility have com- plete) v recovered." Dr. William Wallace Elmslie, of 7, beaheld Brl"hton W., writes to the Lancet:—" Du Barry's Food is worth its weight in gold." Cure No. 89,915:.—"Twenty-five year* incredible miseries from chronic dyspepsia, nervousness, sleeplessness, low spirits, debility, and swellings all over t« doul £ e my natural siae—miseries I endured, and for which I tried the best advice in vain. For live months IlutVe lived en- tirely on Du Barry's Revaknta Arabica Food. I never felt so well in mv life as 1 lio now, ail the swelling and nervousness hav- ing left me. sleep well aud feel happy. CHARLES Tiiso.v— Aloninouib, 30th of August, 1S70/' Du Bany's Retiilenta Ara- bica Food (suitably pricked i'lmill climates) sells: In tins of lb. at 215. lib, 3s. (}d. lb., 611.; Glb., 11s.; 121bs. 32s. 24Ib., 60s. Du .HARll r's REVALENTA ARABICA CHOCOLATE.—Powder in till canisters for 12 cups at 2s. 24 cups, 3s. (3d. 48 cups, 6s. 283 cups, 34s.; S7« cups 64s. Du BAJIRVS UKVALKXTA Bisci;rrs.—They soothe the most irritable stomach and nerves, in r>:uisea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, heartburn, and the feverish- acid, or outer taste on waking up, or caused bv tobacco or drinking.—lib., 3s. 6d.; lb., Cs.; Sib., 15s.; 121b., 32s.: 241 b., 60s. Du BATUIY AND CO., LIMITK;), No. 77, Regent-street, London, through all Grocers and Chemists in the world.—Sold ill this district: Carnarvon Mr. Roberts, grocer. Pugh and Pritchard, 8; Pool-street Festiniog—11. Parry, general dealer, ] ,tHnvst-Jos Finchett, grocer. Machynlleth—T. Brees, grocer. Tlios. Ket's, grocer. fcewtown, Mont.—R. Uoyd, jun., grocer. BUSINESS ADDRESSES. ^^ABERYSTWYTH^ E. JONES, COACHBUILDER, Moor Street, Aberystwyth. CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER Repairs executed by First-class Workmen. JOHN BAKER, B « ^Rhydypenaii Farm, Bow Street. Y the request of numerous friends has been in- duced to take a VALUER'S LICENCE, and he will be happy to attend to the commands of gentlemen leaving their farms or requiring a Valuer's services con- nected with land or stock. BINDING OF ALL KINDS CHEAPLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY EXECUTED. ORDERS RECEIVED BY J. GIBSON, 3, QUEEX'S-ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH AGRICULTURAL SEED, 1878. E D W A R D ELLIS, 7 & 8, PRINCESS-STREET, ABERYSTWYTH, BEGS respectfully to return thanks for the kind support given him during the last 25 years in the seed trade, and calls particular attention to the splendid stock he holds this season of all kinds of Agricultural gleeds, Seed Potatoes, Early and Late. E. E. begs to acquaint the nobility, gentry, agricul- turists, householders, and others, that he holds an Auc- tioneer and Valuer's Licence. SALES AND VALUATION UNDERTAKEN WITH CASE. 2200 to E400 may be had on mortgage on freehold property.—Apply to E. ELLIS, Auctioneer and Valuer. FOR SALE, 800,000 BRICKS, Ready for delivery at any station on the Cambrian o Manchester and Milford Ralways. Also GLAZED AND COMMON DRAIN PIPES, RIDGE AND FLOORING TILES, COAL AND LIME, &c., &c. APPLY TO WM. THOMAS, Wholesale Merchant and Commission Agent, STATION YARD, ABERYSTWYTH. Sole Agent to the Powell Dyffrvn Coal Company, whose Coal will be forwarded to any Station on the above Railways. A Cargo of WHITE'S CEMENT will arrive shortly. MRS. E. EVANS'S DINING AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS, 8, Market-street, Aberystwyth. Hot Dinners daily at one o'clock. Roast and Boiled Joints, Chickens, Ducks, &c., always readv. Mrs. Evans begs to call attention to her Pies, Puddings and Tarts, made daily or to order. 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