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LONDON LETTER. Specially Wired. By Our Gaiiery Correspondent. Lo-NDox, Friday Night. The pertinacity with which Tory speakars bring unfounded accusation against the leading men of the Liberal party, is again illustrated hy the contents of the paDsrs to-day. Mr Bright, for by no means the first timo in hi; life, charges a Tory lec- turer with lyin;, and for the twentieth time a correction liai had to be made of a mis- statement respect ing the mode of conducting the business of Messrs Chamberlain at Bir- mingham manyyearsago. SirWatkinWilliams Wynn, M.P., who made this unfounded assertion, is a very young man, having suc- ceeded his uncle only a few months ago, and was at once elected a member of Parliament. He knows very little of the world and nothing of the amenities of public life. The lesson which has now been set hun ought to do him good. It occurs to many here that to-day's conference at St. James's-hall and to-mor- row's demonstration in Hyde-park are a trifle late. The Criminal Law Amendment Act has been passed, and if it is imagined that the question will be at once re-opened by the new Parliament on its reassembling, enthusiasm goes further than reason. Other r questions will arise to demand the attention ,f the new House of Commons. The con- duct of the Pall Mall ova? the Sir Charles Dilke incident, in the matter of its contents bill, indicated to what extent it tinds sensa- tions pay. It had better try its hand on a new one. For this purpose the navy is played out, and so is the condition of our loastin., stations. M. Henri Rochefort is no doubt mad, but ft madman of this incendiary kind at large amongst SCt. excitable a people as the French might do immense mischief. The licence of language under the Republic is cer- tainly a very wide one when it goes to the length of inciting the people :)f Paris to attack the British Embassy. Of course if the Embassy were assailed, Rochefort would hear of it, but it seems a pity that such a hopeless lunatic cannot be taken care of. The lies which Rochefort tells in his paper sufficiently indicate what manner of man he is, but he ought not to be permitted to menace the British Embassy with the fate of the house of Jason. Lord Salisbury leaves Hatfield to-morrow for the Chalet Cecil, Dieppe, where he will remain a little time. He exchanges the closo atmosphere of Arlington-street for the breezes of the Channel. He looks as though he had been in office two years instead of two months, and to require a holiday. If the outside public at the formation, of the Ministry wondered at the iccuracy with which political movements were recorded, it may be stated that directly 'opposite the entrance gates of the house in Arlington-street is an hotel, in the bar parlour of which the reporters took up their position, and knowing the men who went in and out were enabled to send in the details of the movements with which newspaper readers were made so familiar. There is not much of political activity in London just now. Even Mr George Russell, with every anxiety to enlighten the body politic by the frequent expression of his Iriew.s, cannot, it i. feared, much longer stand this stagnant atmosphere and the depressing influences of the gloomy weather. At the same time, he is a very energetic politician, and nothing could better attest this fact than his presidency of to-day's conference at St. James's Hall. He is often confounded with Mr Chas. Russell, the eminent Queen's Counsel, both in parliamentary debates and at public meetings. With the conference and demon- stration over, members of Parliament, like Ministers, may be expected to take wing, and, leaving London for a time, seek that recreation required for the autumn work. It will be heavier than any known during the past half century. The American Press is justly proud of the extraordinary and costly exertion made by some of the New York papers to get their Sunday editions about. These Sunday editions, more particularly the New York Tribune's, are marvels in themselves. Some of the English provincial weekly papers need not shrink from comparison with the Tribune in the matter of diversified and interesting reading. Certainly we have nothing like it in London. It is only of late years that this system of issuing seven daily papers in the week has obtained in New York, and has apparently proved so lucrative that no efforts are spared to make the Sunday edition attractive. The latest development is the special trains going at top speed to carry the papers to populous watering-places. Saratoga Springs and Newport are the two places where New Yorkers congregate on summer Sundays, aiiii- the Herald and the Tribune literally run a race to be there first with their papers. The Tribune has, every Sunday, a special train to Greenport, a distance of 95 miles, and thence a special steamer carries the precious bundles of papers to expectant Newport, which thinks itself ill-used if it has not its New York paper on its table at breakfast time. The train consists of an engine and a single car, which leaves the neighbourhood of New York at three in the morning, and does the 95 miles in an hour and forty-three minutes. Saratoga Springs is a much further distance, the railway trip at top speed being four hours and a half. But the papeis reach Saratoga at eight in the morning. 0 The great speed attained on these iour- neys is much more noticable in the United States than it is in England. The feat of 95 miles in an hour and 43 minutes, which is thought worthy of a paean a column long in the New ^ork press, is quietly done every day in the year by the Great Northern Railway, and is approached by half a score of the other English Railways. Every day a Great Northern train leaves Grantham at 4.17, reaching King's Cross two minutes under the two hours, having run IOSJ miles, maintaining a level speed of 532 miles an hour. The Tribune's Sunday express con- sists of only the engine and single carriage, with no other freight than the newspaper bundles. But the Great Northern, of course, performs the ordinary duty of a passenger train. Where the sensational feat of the A merican newspaper trains oeat the ordinary English railway service is in the matter of the long run. On the journey to Saratoga the newspaper trains run rom, New York to Albany without stopping, and Albany is just 147 miles from New York. The Great Northern run, already mentioned, of 105 miles, is the biggest, as it is the fastest thing done in the English railway service. The next most rapid run is the Great Western flight from Paddington to Swindon, the pace maintained being 53;t miles. The next longest run is from St. Pancras to Leicester, on the Midland Rail- way, a distance of ggi miles.
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I OLD STORIES RE-TOLD -p- I Y HENRY G. BUTTERWORTH.) I The Witch of Berkeley. [From William of Malmesbury's Chro/iicle3.] The wonderful stories invented by the monks in medioeval times by way of revenge upon de- ceased persons, and as a warning to survivors, being frequently repeated and accepted as gospel, true as proofs of holy writ, became so engraf- tsd on their minds, and written in their chronicles, that to disbelieve, or question, them would be un- orthodox, if not actually heretical. A similar story to the following is also told respecting Charles Martel, the conqueror of the Saracens, who is said to have appropriated church property for the purpose of paying his soldiers his corpse was taken out of his tomb in the church of St. Denys by evil spirits and never seen afterwards. w About the time when good King Alfred ruled England, there lived in the town of Berkeley a woman, who, skilled in ancient augury, was las- civious, gluttonous, and a debauched liver. She was not aged though fast declining in life and she was a witch. Now this: woman kept as com- panion a young jackdaw. On a certain day, as this woman was at dinner, this bird, which had perched on her shoulder, commenced chattering much louder than it was wont, on hearing which she let her knife fall, and growing exceed- ing pale, moaned forth, "This day my plough has come to the last furrow, I shall speedily hear evil tidings, for some dreadful calamity is hang- ing over my head." Even as she spake, a messenger in breathless haste entered the house, I bring news," he said, your son and all his family are killed by a sudden accident." Making no reply, she took to her bed in great trouble, a disorder laid hold on her vitals, and she per- ceived her end approaching. Now the craft of this woman had led her whilst she received service from Satan, to take such measures as she hoped would secure her from his toils when the time came that he would claim his stipulated reward. To this end she had caused a son to be brought up a monk, and a daughter she had placed in a conveut as a nun. In her utmost need she hastily summoned these good children to her bedside, and thus addressed them: My good children, as you know to your sorr,)w, I have spent my wicked life in the practice of demoniacal arts I have been the sink of iniquity, and every vice I have taught others in most alluring shape still I have ever dwelt on hope of pardon, even through your pious prayers. I have rested all my hopes on you, and now I trust you will aid me against the devil and all his angels; be you my safeguard and ITy help in this time of peril; by these breasts which gave you suck, by fie love you once bore me, at least try to soften my afflic- tion. The sentence passed on my guilty soul you cannot revoke, but you may rescue my body by the means I shall show you. Wiien I am dead, sew my corpse up in the skin of a stag, then lay it face uppermost in a stone coffin put on the lid, and bind it with iron bands, run molten lead into every crevice, place on it a large stone, the heaviest you can get, and bind it up with three chains, the strongest made: sing psalms for fifty nights, and say masses for as many days, and I hope by these to be secure from the attacks of the enemy. Should I escape for three nights, on the fourth day you may proceed to bury your mother, deep, deep down in the ground, but, all woe is me, will the earth which has borne my wickedness receive me into her bosom ?" She died, and her good children complied with her injunctions so far as lay in their power.' Alas,.all their prayers, their tears, and vows were of little use. The woman's guilt was so great, as also was the devil's violence. Now, on the first two nights while the priests were singing their psalms around the body which had been removed to the church, the devils came one at a time, and would easily burst open the door the strongest bolt could not keep it fast. Then they would strain at the chains around the coffin and soon broke two of them, but the third being wought extremely heavy resisted every effort; but on the third night at cock crow, the whole monastery was shaken to its foundations as though by a mighty blast, the clamour of the approaching enemy, and a form appeared more terrible than the others, of loftier stature, more fearful to behold, and with one effort broke the massive gates in shivers. The priests, terror-stricken, with hair standing on end, were ipeeohless and powerlfess. The demon, ad- vancing to the coffin with haughty steps, in a loud and horrible voice commanded the dead to arise. I cannot," the woman replied, the chains keep me." You shall be loosed," said he, and with a single wrench he snapped the strong chain as though it were of tow, and with his hoof beat off the stone-lid from the coffin, and giving her his hand, led her from the chmch. At the door stood a powerful black horse, breathing flame from his nostrils, and the clang of his hoof-i on the stone flags, struck still greater terror on all present; iron hooka covered his back on which the woman was placed, the demon leaped up be- hind her, and with a terrific neigh the black steed vanished amidst a flaire of fire. But long did the shrieks of the wretched woman ring out on the night.
The Wandering Jew. I
The Wandering Jew. I [From the Chronicles of Roger of Wendover.] Several impostors have at different times assumed the name and character of the "Wan- dering Jew one appeared at Hamburgh in 1547, who stated he was a Jewish shoemaker at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus. From this circum- stance the famous ballad in bishop Perry's collection was written When as in faire Jerusalem Our Saviour Christ did live, And for the sins of all the worlde £ f's own deare life did give i-? TJn .Jewes with scoffes and scornes Did dailye him molest. t That never till he left His life. Our Saviour could not rest, &c. But the source of the following narrative is of rplehritnH T* related by the historian of the celebrated Benedictine abbey at St Alban's. Roger de Wendover died in 1237, and his works are incorporated in those of Matthew tbe Pari- siene, ^better known as Matthew Paris. In the year 1228, the archbishop of greater Armenia arrived in England, on a piWimaee and visited the sacred places to view the relic^of the samta there deposited, bringing with him letters ot intreduction from the Pope, la which all Churchmen were enjoined to show him resnect and to honourably entertain him. On arriving he appears first to have visited St. Alban's, and there the abbot and his monks received him with all kindness and respect. Being fatigued with his journey he remained here several days with many followers, and in course of conversation which was carried on through interpreters, he made many inquiries respecting this country, and the observances here paid to religion he also related manv strange things concerning eastern countries On one occasion some of the monks asked him whether he had ever seen or heard of a man called Joseph, of whom it was said, he was present when our Lord suffered and who had spoken to him, and who was reported to bs still alive, bearing evidence of the Christian faith. Then a knight, who acted as interpreter for the bishop made answer, My lord well knows that man, and a little time before he departed for western countries, this Joseph ate at the table of my lord the archbishop, in Armenia, and he has often conversed witth hinl. further ques- tioned, the knight related the following circum- s tan ccs: „ "JAt the time Jesus Christ was suffering, the Jews laid hold on Him, and led him before iriiate the governor, in his hall of judgmeut, so that He might be tried on their accusation, and be judged of Pilate. But he findinguo just cause why He should be condemned, said, Take Him and judge Hun according to your own iaw." But the clamour of the Jews increasing, he did, at their request release unto them Barabbas, who was a r°.nd Jesus was delivered up to them to be a ow»as the Jews were dragging Jesus away, and were passin,- the gate of the judgment name Cartan^in date's service, one by hS, 's<ire ^r"1 his juidtor. why do you U'rrvT E "MM Took" J *u'n ? m°U wi11 Wait till 1 return and so this Cartaphilns still lives, and is waiting tor tbe return, or second comW of our T rH ,L Now the tip* of o„t Lord'. ™d„ was thirty years old, and when he had attained the age of one hundred years, he returned back to the same age again, as on the day he impiously struck Him, and so he has gone on for the last twelve hundred years. After Christ had suffered and the Catholic faith had spread, Oartaphilua sought the Apostles, and was received in baptism by Ananias, who also baptised the Apostle Paul, and was called Joseph. He sometimes lives in Greater, sometimes in Lesser Armenia, at others in many countries of tlie East. He passes his time amidst the bishops and prelates of the church, I he is of holy conversation, <lnd religious, of few words, strict in his conduct, and never speaks to any man unless questioned by bishops, or religious men, then he will tell the events in the olden time, of the sufferings and resurrection of our Lord. He will speak of those who knew Him, Lord. He will speak of those who knew Him, and witnessed His miracles, and rosurrection, of those who met with Him whon He rose from the dead, and again appeared unto men. He tells of the holp apostles and their preaching, and he r speaks as a man who is acquainted with sorrow he never smiles, or is guilty of light speech, but behaves as one who is constantly looking for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; so that he may not find in anger Him whom he had when on his way to suffering and death provoked to just ven- geance. People flock to see him from all parts of the world, they enjoy to hear his conversation, and delight in his society, they are of authority h eplains sreely any subject on which they question him. He never will accept a gift the simplest fnod and light clothing suffice for his wants, and finally he hopes for salvation, that though he ignorantty sinnl-d, yet the Lord prayed for all his enimies thus :—"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
HOW THE BUCKSTONE WILL BE…
HOW THE BUCKSTONE WILL BE RESTORED. Our Monmouth correspondent writes CI A short time back you informed your readers that her Majesty's Commissionera of Woods and Forests had decided to restore the celebrated Druidic rocking-stone, Buckstone. On Thursday afternoon I proceeded to the office of Messrs Payne and Son, Lamb's Quay, near Coleford, to find out how it was to be done. Almost the first thing I was told was thit the rock must not be further broken." Two cranes will be placed on the hill above where the stone originally stood, and two cranes on the lower level. The chief mass weighs about 40 tons, and lies from 20 to 30 feet down the hill the top slab (strata) has slipped off, and fallen just beyond the stone right side up, while the stone is upside down. The projecting corner has been broken off, and is of a triangular shape, about 10 feet wide, and lies but a short distance from its original position. The pivat upon which it rocked it still on the founda- tion, having slipped only about two feet 10 inches downthetablerock. Chains for the four cranes will bo first attached to the chief mass, which will then be "skidded" up baulks of timber to a posi tion near where the broken corner lies. The corner will be affixed by means of a special kind of concrete, in which glue and wax are used (tbe ordinary concrete being liable to burst in frosty weather). The stone and corner will then be bound with iron, which will, however, be removed when the concrete has set. While the latter process is going on, a key-stone will be let in the original base, which will then be placed in its original position. But what about the pieces which visitors have taken and sent to nil parts of the world ?" I asked. The answer was, "We shall grind up some rocks iying near of exactly the same trap nature, mix it with concrete, and fill in the vacancies in accordance with photographs taken from different points when the stone stood in its original form. "Of course," I said, "the stone will never rock again?" "No," was the reply, &I and it will be railed in to prevent future mischief." I may add that Messrs Payne and Son are stone merchants in a jarge way of business, and have the best appliances at hand for lifting heavy stone.
A HORSE IN A TURKISH BATH.…
A HORSE IN A TURKISH BATH. I Curious Incident at Cardiff. I An extraordinary occurrence, which might have been attended by serious consequences, happened at the Turkish Baths, Charles-street, Cardiff, on Thursday night. The cold-plunge bath, which affords » great luxury to bathers after the roasting experiences of the hot rooms, abuts upon a yard in which some stables are located, and communicates with the yard by means of an ordinary wooden door. On the night in question this door was suddenly burst violently open,and at the same moment a frightened horse plunged into the water. Fortunately the bath was unoccupied at the time, otherwiso some injury would have resulted to a bather, for the hath is only a sftiall one, and with a horse and a man in the water the latter would be likely to get the worst of it. The water wa4 a pretty good depth, and the horse kept itself afloat by swimming. The animal was harnessed, and ap- reared to have broken away from some carriage. The difficulty which presented itself was how to get the frightened quadruped out. In a short while one of the attendants got into the water, and passed a stout rope, covered with sacking, beneath the animal's belly, and by this means it was hauled out of the water, about a dozen men taking part in the work of extrication. The horse was very much cut sbOLIts having come in contact with the stonework of the bath, and some of the appoint- ments of the latter were damaged. The animal is said to belong to Mr Hurnian, of the Taff Vale Railway.
THE PROTEOTION OF GIRLS.I
THE PROTEOTION OF GIRLS. I Conference in London. I A national" conference was held in St. James's- hall, London, on Friday, to promote the movement for the protection of girls, and the suppression of vice.—At the morning meeting, Mr G. W. E. Russell, M.P., took the chair at eleven o'clock, being accompanied on the platform by Viscount Lymington, M.P., Mr Stansfeld, M.P., and others. Admission was by ticket, and the great hall was about one-fourth full. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said hitherto all attempts to obtain organised and public effort m the suppression of vice had been put down, lhe press, the pulpit, parents and teachers had, from mistaken motives, ignored the subject. The Criminal Law Amendment Bill had passed, but that it had passed, and in its present form, was due to the manner in which the national conscience had been awakened during the last few weeks. The bill did not meet all their wishes, but they had strengthened it by the insertion of many amendments. Their great objectnow should be to obtain the enforceinont of the act, and it was to this object the conference had to address itself. As embodied in the resolutions to be submitted to the conference, he thought this object could be secured best by the formation of a National Vigilance Association. (Cheers.) Re. ferring to the Jeffries' case, he thought the pro. ceedings in that case—particularly the private interview of the judge with counsel-were very unsatisfactory. Quoting from The Echo, he ex. pressed the opinion that when such an influential and respectable journal so severely criticised the administration of justice in the case, there should be an investigation so as to vindicate or commit the guilty persons. (Cheers.) Mr STANSITKLD, M.P., moved the first resolu- tion, recommending the formation of a National Vigilance Association of men and women for the enforcement and improvements of the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality. He regretted that he had failed to carry some of Iris amendments to the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, especially that to include alcoholic liquors in the term "drugs." But he had no doubt that, as the result of the movement they were now engaged in, he should succeed in ^"yiig those amendments at a later period. vCheen.) Ia the act they had gained a great principle—that the State should no longer recog- v'ce as • human|necegsity. (Applause.) i„n ~^N-TAOUE CooKaoN, in seconding the reso- r.fnnini^ might be a difference hpt>n taWon3? e wisdom of the means that had part, 'he was^coTv^ced ho^i'ty^and sff (ChXrof "iitor ot"" m" Committee was already i» e,!fi £ "» T views,Mr H. Kuwiands* Sreta^TthJ'ca" drivers' Society) declared that the establishment of Mrs Jeffries had existed for ten years without hindrance within sight of the residence of the chairman of the Central Vigilance Committee. He attributed much of the vioe prevalent to poverty and overcrowding. (Cheers.) The resolution was unanimously carried. Lord LYMrQTOX, M.P., moved the second reso- lution in favour of the affiliation of all existing bodies to the new association, and the acceptance of the assistance of all persons offering it to the association. In the evening a public meeting, presided over by the Right Hon. James Stansfeld, M.P., was held, at which resolutions, affirming the necessity of establishing a National Vigilance Association, and approving the action of the conference, were passed. The Rev Mr MURPHY seconded t' le resolution, wn.ch was also adopted.—The Conference then adjourned till three-o'clock. ock.
-YANKEE YARNS. I
YANKEE YARNS. I GOOD RECOMMENDATION. I A coloured man applied to an Austin gentleman for work, but was asked for references from his fortner employer. Dey's all right," was the reply. I worked under de oberseers at de Huntsville Penitentiary for ten years, and, boss, dey jest worshipped me." SCRHOLASTICITEM I Col. Yerger has just been paying a number of bills which his hopeful son, who is a student at the University of Texas, had contracted. I had no idea," said the old man to his son' "that studying was so expensive." Oh, yes, it costs money," replied tho youth, and I didn't study so very much, either." MERCANTILE ITEM. I Ho% do you sell these peaches?" asked Gil- hooly of a coloured woman who had them for sale. "Six for a dime, boss." Gilhooly began picking out half a dozen of the largest and finest. You can't do dat, boss. Yer can't pick out de biggest ones onless yer buys 'em all." PREFERRED A CROW. I Pops Sixtus V. detested flattery. He said one day to a nobleman who had flatterred him excessively:— I prefer to deal with a crow than with a flatterer." When asked to give a reason for his preference, he said A crow lives on the dead, but a flatterer lives en the living." GOOD FOR CROPS. h I What a wonderful thing the electric lignt is." Yes, it is wonderful. I expect after a while it wdl be used to make the crops grow instead of the ¡;un." "There are some crops now that thrive by electric light." Nonsense." No nonsense about it. There are Jots of young men who sow most of their wild oats by the electric light." COMMERCIAL HOVKSTY. I Sam Benson was a young man who hau em- braced merchandise as a profession. Ho failed m business, but not discouraged he sold a little pIece of land his wife owned, and started up again, but disaster again overtook him. He then went to New York, and applied to his uncle, who was a successful merchant, for a small stock of goods. You are no good. You will never amount to a row of pins," was the reply. But, uncie, I think I can avoid the rocks on which I split, and by honesty and industry 1 can establish myself firmly in business." You have frittered away your opportunities. You have failed in business twice, and you have not got anything to show for it. When a man negiects his opportunities as you have done, there is no hope for him. There are some men born without any business sense, and you are one of them. I'd like to help you, Sam, but as long as you cling to the foolish notion of being honest and square in your dealings, it's not safe to entrust you with money or goods."
,THE SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR…
THE SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAR CARDIGAN. On Thursday evening an inquest was held on the body of Jonah Davies, at the Fishguard Arms, Bridgend. From the evidence it appeared that deceased, who was 34 years of age, had been a breaksman in the employment of Messrs Ap- pleby and Lawaon, the constructors of the new railway, since October last. On Wednesday after- noon he was, in company with two others, riding on the engine to Cilgerran station, where a ladder had been placed at a height of about four teet across the platform, and within a foot of its edge, so as to prevent the public trespassing. When nearing the platform deceased put himself in a position to jump off the engine on to the pfatform, and leant over the side of the engine for that purpose. He came in contact with the end of the ladder, and was thrown on the line, and one truck went over him. The engine was immediately st OP pf that could be done to stop the bleeding was done by means of a strong bandage. The unfortunate man had his left leg cut clean off above the knee, his left arm broken near the shoulder joint, and several extensive cuts on the scalp. He expired in about four hours and a half. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.
-HEALTH OF SIR EDWARD AND…
HEALTH OF SIR EDWARD AND LADY REED. We lettrn with much regret that Sir Fdward J. Reed, K.C.B., the member for Cardiff, and Lady Reed, have been undergoing great anxiety, in consequence of the illness of several mem- bers of their family. Lady Reed has herself been suffering from a severe and prolonged cold, and Sir Edward has been much distressed by neuralgia; while three out of four of their daughters have been more or less seriouslyill,an(j are but slowly recovering. Mr E. T. Reed, the only son of Sir Edward and Lady Reed, has. happily recovered from the effects of an accidental injury to the knee which prostrated him for several weeks this summer.
REV. FATHER RICHARDSON'S I…
REV. FATHER RICHARDSON'S REMOVAL FROM CARDIFF. The Rev. A. Richardson, who for about seven years has been one of the priests connected with the St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Cardiff, will, at the end of the present month, leave that church for the Roman Catholic Church, Rugbyi the place of his first Roman Catholic mission. will be succeeded at St. Peter's Church by ? Rev. Father Macguire, formerly of St. „ Church, Cardiff, but now of Rugby. The *J°the of a priest at Cardiff are very onerous, »n .yj Rev. Father Macguire, after labouring at for years found it necessary to wev> Rugby. This is the case now with R0Ven Father Richardson, who requires rest alee years' labours among a large Irish P°PJ~ Rev. A. addition to the dnties of priest, the j Richardson, about four years suice, succe Rev. Father Bruro as member of the School Board, and up toa ^Xi^rndcom- regutar in his attendance at the b?a^ho {ormed mittee meetings. Among the people Church he the congregation attending bt. from tf)e is much respected, and bis sefpaCardiff will be Roman Catholic population members o{ much regretted, and by mimswr alfj0 geoeral]y other religious esteemed.
-=-WELLS' CHARITY.1 -EL-
-=- WELLS' CHARITY. 1 -EL The Payment of- Fees. meeting-pf this charity was he d on Friday at the Town-hill, Mr Councillo^Sanders presiding, and there being present Pr. *is Williams, T. Kees, and A. Thomas On the motion of Dr Paine, Mr Uaniel Jones was an. pointed arbitrator between the chanty and tfie Great Western Railway Company in connection with the purchase of an *cre ofland r^mred by tbe latter for the extension • ilr J. Arthur reported that P August 20th there were m Pr0^e" of. build- ing, 74 houses completed, 94 total 168.- The Chairman gave notice that at the next meeting he should move that certain clauses in the leases be expunged. He considered it very unfortunate that they s'u con n.to exact fees which were not specifically provided for. It was both cruel and unnecessary, ^Qd was of all the more importance seeing that the greatest landowner in the district had given instructions to his new agent that, at all events for the present, he would not make such an exaction. As public body, the c,r>ty oUfcht not to require such payments. Mr Rees said he should like the town clerk to look into the matter to see how those fee" arose.—The Town Clerk said, so far as he was concerned, any- thing he could do to meet the wishes of the governors as to altering the leases to be granted in the future, and not enforcing oertain cove- ns^8 .,n the lease" already granted, he would witn pleasure assist in carrying out.—The Chair- man said it was not altogether the payment of f 6f u demanded, but the unpleasantness M vY'*ETHer a man mortgaged his property or sorn it, the fact must be published and the owner pay for the publication. Certainly the leases to he sr.iutcd to lessees should be altered, and the chaige of iQs 6d eliminated.—The discus- sion then c!ose(l. „
FACTS AND FANCIES.
FACTS AND FANCIES. A man who had a very little nosa jcked another whose nose was very largo. The latter exclaimed, What are you so severe on my nose for ? Do you think it was made at the expense of your!. A young husband says that, when his wife wants trinkets, she bruoch-es the matter in his eanng, as she is de-pendent on him for the cash. Although he takes care to lock-it up, her per- suasion is so great that he generally with a fond em-brace-lets her have it. He is a jewel of a husband. SAUCE.—She was a shrewish-looking woman, &n-j ma?istrate eyed her suspiciously as he said, You are charged, madam, with violence towards your husband." "Am I a worm," she responded, that won't turn when it's trod on ? i think not a d she glanced round the court as If to discover the individual bold enough to challenge the veracity of her declaration, Did he give you any provocation ?" continued his worship, in a lower and more conciliatory tone. "Plenty of it. He called me his shattered idol, sir and, as I never did take sauce from no man, fi ? him." The magistrate gently observed that the lady would have to be bound over, FRANK.—Patrick Murphy was tried in a Dublin police-court for stealing the contents of a grocer's ft ?e *°°kecl 80 dejected that the magistrate thought lie was penitent, and resolved to improve the occasion. It's a sai thing," the judge said, Ie to see a young man of your age fall into evil Hayea't you a family to look after you ?' 1 lie praties thimselves," replied Pat, are not more numerous." "And had you any employ- ment. "Slime ivvery hour was illegantiy divarted." And I presume you had prospects, and hoped to rise in the world ?" Thrue for ye, yonr honor. I expicted to lave ivvery mother's son bctitthe me." "And now," said the magis- trate, you've lost character, prospects, every- thing, and all for fivepence-farthing." "Shure now, your honor, that wasn't my fault at all!" said the victim of circumstances. "It wasn't?" queried the magistrate. No, your honor. How was I to consave that there'd be only a dhirty foi.vepence-farthing ? Shure, and didn't I clane out ivvery blissed farthing I could foind." CURIOSTIES OF EXGLISK SCHOOL BOARD EXAMINATIONS. A morning contemporary invites the attention of the ratepayers of London and the provinces to the report of an examina- tion for school board scholarships. The Treaty of Utrecht," observed one sapient historian, was fought between the Zulus and the English." Soma remarkable and original information was vouchsafed too as to Chaucer, Spenser, and Swift, from which we learn that the first named per- sonage wrote ^Esop's Fables," the second wrote the Wealth of Nations," while the third, who lived in John's reign, was a great astronomer and joker. The three estates of the realm were defined as being respectively England, Ire- land, and Scotland; but the most curious of all perhaps were the answers to the papers on Jinglish grammar, among which were the follow- ln8 .-lhe plural of colloquy?" "Colleagues, colloquise." "The feminine of bachelor?" "Old JJ^'d, widow." "The feminine of gander?" liosung, ganderess." Abstract names formed from man ?" Manners, manly, management, mansion, boy." "Chief parts cf teach?" Teacher, taught." "A watershed is a mountain like a cave, by which the river flows." "A steppe is a rather important shipping port in Rome." "A steppe is a mountain in France." Perhaps the most novel and interesting informa- tion of all, however, is that "we can go from London to Liverpool by the Brighton and South- coast line." A curious form of German humour appears in a book published at Berlin, under the title Sehultze and Mitilcr in Lmidon. Here is a passage" At 5.45 o'clock we went to the great post'office. The squeeze was tremendous round the newspaper-box, where the newspapers are thrust in in bales; and it is indeed on a grand scale, since the Times alone has ten million subscribers. I warned Schultze not to go so near the crush but he did not hear me. As he was standing there, there came a great shock of news- paper cfys running with bales of newspapers, and throwing them i„ afe the window. 1. j newspapers hits Schultze on the bead; he loses his balance, and i forward into the bureau. Half a dozed f,8tamP him in the stomach, and happy Schultse is despatched in an unpaid thTwj. I ihe Provi°ces. At this moment and im « a snaP* I ""h against it andery, Schultze Schultze!' But it is too late-your unhappr son-in-law is already packed p e P"st-cart. I run into the bureau of the tmaster and demand back your son-in-law. I is your friend addressed?' he asks. No,' I answer. Very well.' says the Englishman, M. Schultze will remain in the bureau, and, should no one apply for him, he will be burned as a dead tetter."
DARING. BURGLARY AT GOWERI…
DARING. BURGLARY AT GOWER I I ROAD. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Thurs- aaynight the home of MrEvan Howells, amason, living near the Gower Inn, was broken into and £ 25 in gold stolen. The family retired to rest about ten o'clock. About twelve o'clock Mrs H-sweils was awakened by a noise, and At ouca aroused her husband. The latt0r»J1<?wev^'Pn.t-pd d ji, »|chh.^d str01wsasfc entered ^>y the kitchen window by breaking a «ane of glass iu order to enable them to undo gash by which it was secured. Once inside they did their work most effectively. By the light of a lamp which stood upon the mantlepiece, they found their way to the parlour, ransacked a cbest of drawers, and there secured £ 25 in ffold. They afterwards appear to have gone to a back ^tchen and helped themselves to two quart bottles of gingerbeer. The police constable had passed a little time previous to the discovery of the robbery, and noticed a light in la?nIddUaIit7°fthethieVeS haS 80 &n
-COLLISION BETWEEN GOODS'.-,"TRAINS.
COLLISION BETWEEN GOODS'- TRAINS. Kimtsf^rd^tation^on th^Cf? ^ursTd.ay n&h.t,near between two goofo ?!"re Lme8 ^jlway> of the trains v! ,ns' It appears that one out of !buntei <»•to th» up-Iins, Chester Passenger train from Matt- from Norfh u"J exPress goods and salt train bv « -1 he drivers and stokers escaped damacJpH °?" Both locomotives were much b^inJ«— several trucks smashed, traffic o«ng greatly delayed.
-., ACCIDENT TO THE DEAN OF…
ACCIDENT TO THE DEAN OF I ST. ASAPH. Whilst driving on Friday afternoon in the j neighbourhood of Tcefnant, the Dean of St. Asaph and Mrs Bonnor were thrown from the carriage, owing to the horses taking fright at a passing tricycle. The dean escaped compara- tively unhurt, but Mrs Bonnor WI8 somewhat seriously injured. The coachman was kicked by both horses in addition to being thrown, and sustained severe injuries.
A NOVEL EXHIBITION."I
A NOVEL EXHIBITION. I r In view of the International Exhibition of travelling by land and sea to be held on the "e Lane estate of the Liverpool Corporationt it has been determined to at once start clearing levelling up the site by giving employment to a very large number of unskilled hand po of work m Liverpool—a result of trade depres- sion.
A FOOLHARDY VOYAGE.
A FOOLHARDY VOYAGE. Two Eastbourne young ™n; Downs have iust returned from a Channel ?o55? in a6 ^eighteen feet Ion* They crossed from Eastbourne to St Valery, in France, in twenty-two hours, and made the return passage to tbe Sussex w»ast in sixteen hours. They took with them sufficient provisions for the double voyage.
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THE SWANSEA MURDER.
THE SWANSEA MURDER. The Adjourned Inquest. [FKOM OUR OWN KEPORTES.J The inquest on the body of William Graham Smith, grocer, aged 69, of Llangafelach-street, who was murdered on Saturday night lsst, was resumed on Friday, at the High-street Police- station, before Mr Edward Strick, county- coroner. Before taking the evidence Mr Strick addressed the jury, and again cautioned them against being influenced by what might be said outside. According to the papers mnny categorical ques- tion had been put to the man Jeikins on whom very strong suspicion falls. As to the taste of those who put tiiern, he might say it was very questionable, and he thought it more question- able taste still on the part of those who thought it necessary to publish them. It was not a practice which was to be coir.mended in this country. He had also been told that songs had been hawked about which, it is supposed, emanated from Bristol. If so, he could only say it was an act which showed a great want of sense and a great disregard for the feelings of the parties. However, this is a free country, and he supposed people considered they might do and act as they pleased. At the same time he must say that in this case they had taken the full extent of the liberty offered them, and he only wished they had thought it necessary to keep more within bounds than they seemed to have done. He urged the jury to pay no attention to anything said apart from the inquiry, but to arrive at an honest conclusion on the evidence elicited. Dr. Davies was the first witness called. He said: On the evening of the 17tii August last I, in conjunction with Drs. Hall, Sibbering, and Charles, made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased. The body was well nourished, and inclined to corpulency. Cadaveric rigidity was passing off. No external marks of violence were found with the exception of an abrasion of the right elbow, which was of recent occurrence and covered slightly with blood and a small circular blackened jagged wound,' evidently a gunshot wound. This was situated about 11 inch above, and to the left side of the left nipple, and about one inch from the nipple line. and lying in the space between the second and third rib-3. A probe passed in followed a track for about 3 inches in a direc- tion downwards and inwards towards the mesial line, under the skin and soft tissues. These latter being reflected revealed an opening into the chest between the fourth and fifth ribs, about three inches from the middle of the breast bone. On further examination we traced an opening into the right ventricle, and found a superficial rent of about two inches in length, and lying between the external and internal intercostal muscles of the last rib was the bullet now produced. There was consider- able effusion of blood in the cavity of the chest, especially on the right side. Corresponding the wound on the chest were perforations in the shirt and waistcoat worn at the time by the deceased. I think, taking into consideration my investigation, I can now say with greater certainty that the wound was not self-inflicted. The Coroner Was it a wound likely to have produced death instantaneously ?—Witness I think so. Would it have been possible for a person with that wound to have walked from one room to another ?-No; I think not. It would seem impossible. Had he any other wound ?-No all the other organs appeared to have been healthy. Dr. Davies then submitted a diagram which illustrated the course taken by the bullet. The Coroner If the deceased had fired the shot, would not the garment have showed some signs of powder ?—Witness There was some. Sufficient to shew it was fired near ?—It evidently was fired near. If the wound had been self-inflicted, would the garments have been burnt or blackened ? There was blackening, I think but I believe there was no sign of burning. The garments are here, if you would like to see them. By the Head Constable The bullets produced by P.C. Parnell are of similar calibre to the one I found. Mine exactly fits an empty cartridge case taken from the box produced by Parnell. Mr John Beynon, ironmonger, of 1, Wind- street, said The box of cartridges produced bears my own private mark. I can t eay when they were sold. The Coroner Do you think you could identify the person who bought them } No; I don t think I could. I sell a good many boxes during the year, chiefly to far n gbpte. We sell revolvers such as the one produced, with the exception that those we have now haw no name On them. I have asked my assistant if he has sold any cartridges lately, and he has no re- collection. I have sold a couple of revolvers within the last month, but I can't say to whom. By Capt. Colquhoun: When I sell a revolver I usually sell ammunition. The revolver looks as though it has not been long out of the shop. It was worth, I should think, a guinea. Dr. Hall said: I assisted Dr. Davies in making the post-mortem examination of the body o Wm Graham Smith. I have heard the evidence given by Dr. Davies. and r6aS°nS he has assigned as to the cause • Till ia C!lA.rk a voungf woman of aoout ±0, wno was dSisS' f/ moSrning. was next ^worn. She said: I have been hvmg at Pontygla^ street, having been in the service of Mr and Mrs Smith for about twelve months. My age is 18 years. During that time a young man nam„j Walter William Jenkins has been in th* ° n}ed of Mr Smith. He was there as a!h„ Cmpl°? also lived in the house. The .10Pman» and sisted of deceased, his wife 19ma',e3 c°n" ten. I never saw i Lh ,a lifctle b°y of deceased and Jenkins wa 1 show me thafc The only thine thp'L not on fr,endly terms« about was that of ? any "^Pleasantness Deeply ,> 1 cre(ht—giving too much credit, businpec P ained to Walter about this. The u„rri 'he shop was principally attended to Sm'fi never heard Walter threaten Mr k" all. We all took our meals together, and t ceptwhatIhavemeDtioned we were all on friendly terms. Last Saturday I was, according to my usual custom on market day, in the market at- tending to the stall. About four o'clock in the afternoon I was in Temple-street I spoke to Walter and asked where he was going: he said he did not know—he might go into the market later on. When 1 got back I found him there. I was not surprised at that, ag he had been to the market several times on Saturday afternoons. I don't know what could take him out. He had only to say he wanted to go out and he could do go any time. I had gone to Mr Caskill, the hairdresser's, and I left the little boy at the stall. When I found Walter there on my return, Itold him he must send me a good supply of cake, as we were getting short. He replied, "You must come home early you shall have plenty next week." I turned to serve a customer, and when I hadfinibed he had gone. He never stayed long whenever he came to the market. I stayed at the market a good bit, because I was to meet Mrs Smith. I have no fixed time for leaving the market. It depends on how my sale goes. I sold more cake last Saturday than ever before I sent up three times, and the last time Walter said we were getting short at the shop. When I met Mrs Smith, I went shopping with her on my way home. When we reached home, I went in first, and a. woman told me a man had been there a long time waiting for an answer. I went into the door leading into the parlour, and saw Walter stretched on the floor on his face and hanas. A man was in the shop. Did not speak to him, but ran in through the shop laughing, and saying, "I will see where they are now." Mrs Smith and I were laughing as we camr along the road to the shop. At the parlour door I saw Walter lying on the floor. I called out, and he said something—I could not hear what—and then the man in the shop and Mr Smith ran in. I saw him lifted on to the sofa, but I can't say who helped. « wu his face. Someone asked him, What !s the matter?" and Where is Mr V rJ lrard,^n 8ay. He's in the kitchen, dead. That is all I heard him say. I went out to try and see a policeman, and when I got out a Mr Strick got hold of me and held me back, and took me^ to his house. I went again at eleven o clock in the evening, and he said, K.iss me, Julia," and not one of them would let me Mrs Smith said, "Let her kiss him," and hflu I did. When I ran out for a policeman 1 said Mr Smith was dead. There was a great crowd outside. After I had been in the house a few minutes, I went to fetch my mother, because Mrs Smith had no friends. I stayed at home. I did not often kiss him. I was not engaK to him. It was in the halfpenny paper, but it 18 not true. The Coroner 1 A letter was 1'\ (°jfewent A. Yes; but we were on good term^ and after for a walk to the cemetery with hun, bufc we that I had the name of keepiug compny, u wd were not engaged. He haa four ye&vs to another y°™« "anything peculiar ^*4 na^r "^sometimes to be very low- about him. He used somet o{ R spirited, but we took no not t fat his brother's death. A ne ,unnt. rol; was affected. K £ .!w«y«M. T«tament. nnd lie would ask me questions on it. He also used to write sermons. We went to the same chapel, and be got me to be a member. This was just after Gipsy Smith camei here, The Coroner It has been said Walter said he shot Smith. Is that true r Witness: He might have said it, but I did not hear it. Some people have told me they heard him sly so, but I did not. People have been trying to persuade me to say he ,aid so, but I <hall only say what I heard. I shall say no more to please even the Queen. Walter often said il. liked Mrs Smith, but did not care for Mr Smith. Mr Smith had a hot temper, but it was over in :t minute. He was like a father to Walter and me. When Walter gave notice to leave, Mrs Smith asked me to ask him the reason. I did so, and said if he wanted more money he could have it. Walter replied that he would live on a. crust if he could be comfortable. He wished to go into the ministry, but he had no means. He wrote to his uncle for some money, but he had an answer that lie could not have any, and they say lis was in a bit of a temper about that. A J uror: Have you seen him ? Witness: Yes. A Juror: Has he said anything to you? Witness: Only what he has told other people. He asked me to go into the kitchen, and then he said, What did you see there?" I said Mr Smith is dead." Ho said nothing, and appeared to be going asleep. E,i-y one who came ill he seemed to know, an J told them to go into the kitchen to see what they could see. I have not seen him since he left Mrs Smith's house. The letters produced are in his hand writing. That, he said, pointing to the state- ment in the letter addressed to deceased, that Smith had "filled het. heart with sorrow for ever," is an untruth. I am sure he had done nothing that causes my heart to fill with sorrow. But he has done it now. I am disgraced and people cal out after me. There is p.enty in the evening paper. I should like to know who has put it in I would make him suffer. It is only a money-making job, 1 know. The coroner complimented the witness on the manner in which she had given her evident*, and said he had found that it tallied precisely with the statement made to the police. William Merrill, a haulier, in the employ of Messrs Spiller and Brown, said they were in the habit of supplying flour to the deceased. On Saturday iiight last, between 7.30 aud 8, he was sent to the deceased's house. The shop was open, hut no one was there. His business was to deliver the invoice for the month. He knocked at the counter and waited nearly a quarter of an hour. He then went into the bakehouse thinking they might be there. No ^1°* he came out he saw the woman who lived in the front part of the bake house. She came around with him, and just aft(-r they reached tho shop door Mrs Smith and th little boy came in. He told them he could geu 110 answer, and Mrs Smith and Julia Clark ran in. He followed, and saw Jenkins lving on the floor. He picked him up, ana wiped the blood off his mouth. The first words he used were, Kiss me, Julia." Mrs Smith asked, Where is Mr Smith?" He stopped a moment, and said, He is in the kitchen—I shot him." He spoke quite distinctly, but rather low. Catherine Linham said she went into the par- lour the same time as Merrill. Mrs Smith shook Jenkins and said, "Walter, tell me what is the matter ? Where is Mr Smith ?" And I heard him say, He is in the kitchen, dead; I have shot him." Witness then went into the kitchen, and found Smith lying dead. Ann Griffiths, a married woman, corroborated. Mrs Smith, she said, asked Jenkins three times what was the matter without obtaining an answer. She then said, "Where is Mr Smith?" He replied, He is in the kitchen." What doing there asked Mrs Smith and Jenkins said, He is dead; I shot him." The Coroner then informed the jury that he had come pretty nearly to an end of the evidence, but the policeman had yet to be examined, and he fancied his ^tory might be" rather longer than was expected. Then it would be rather desirable that Mrs Smith should be recalled. No doubt gshe, would be a little more collected than on the last ojcasion, and one or two apparent discrepancies could be cleared up. He therefore thought an adjournment necessary. Jenkins was in a very critical state, Drs. Hall and Davies infoimed him, and in any case there would be no possibility, unless they waited fora long time, to get him here. Another thing was, there was no necessity in this inquiry that he should be present, because that was a court in which no one was charged. It was for the jury to say how the deceased came by his death, and by what means, and it they considered it was by means of Jenkins, then he would be charged. The inquiry was adjourned till Monday morning. At mid-aight Jenkins was not quite so well, and he complained of increased pain. The" doctors don't yet like to express ao M to his condition.
ROBBERIES BY A GROCER'S MANAGER.
ROBBERIES BY A GROCER'S MANAGER. .At the LittIedean &e.court on Friday Ricliard Hackwortli, late in the mplov of Mr S^nes' s'0'ea 'rom the branch shop of his f T c ^°^owiug articles:—33 £ lbs. ham, four •ns beef, one dozen blacking, two dozen baking powder, 2i Ibs. tea, two tins condensed milk, three jugs jam, a box, a quantity of tape, cotton, and starch, altogether of the value of 22 3. 44d.— Prosecutor deposed that the prisoner had been in his employ about three weeks. He engaged him in the name of J. Dicks, of Bermondsey, London. On the second day after prisoner came prosecutor's suspicions -were aroused, and he communicated with the metropolitan police, and discovered that prisoner had obtained his recommendations by fraud. On the 16th prosecutor went to the adjacent railwiy station and discovered a box addressed to Richard Hackworth, 46, Whimsey-street, Bermondsey, London. The box was taken to the police-station and prisoner was apprehended. He admitted the offence, and said he took the goods because his wife and family were starving in London. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and electing to be tried by the bench, was sent to prison for two moutbs with hard labour. °
SIR WILFRIFLAWSON ON LOCAL…
SIR WILFRIFLAWSON ON LOCAL OPTION. The following letter has been received by a Welsh Local Optionist from Sir Wilfrid Law- son, M.P.:— Brayton, Carlisle, August 20th, 1885. Dear Sir,—In reply to your query into what principle of delimitation of boundaries would be contemplated by advocates of Local Option, I should say that probably such advocates hold many different opinions on the point which you mention. The House of Com- mons has thrice affirmed that it is unjust that licensing authorities should be allowed to force drink shops on unwilling districts. The marking out of districts, whether wider or nar- rower, is a matter of detail, which must be left to the Government to suggest as soon as they can be compelled to bring in a bill for carrying out the resolution which I have mentioned. Sir W. Har- court has truly said that it is a question of areas. ( My impression is that the earnest advocates of local option will not quarrel over the areas so long as bona fide powers are entrusted to communities, large or small, to boycott the traffic within their borders.-Yours, &c., WILFRED LAWSOS."
PENWYLLT MOUNTAIH RAILWAY.…
PENWYLLT MOUNTAIH RAILWAY. This'railway, commenced W8ek* fego, is rapidly approaching coioP^f der the man agement of i\lr Wm. ^mX ?r' of Neath. The total length is '^work rem* 0n'^ a few hnndred yards of ear down TU t(?- 1 before the metals »r • The line is the I and X? sand.^valuable for steel works' The existing line, and has been vS' T engineers of note. The plai ^'fced bJ been jointly made by Mr T and sections have and Mr D. M. Davieg, enines» ^contractors lot of needless opposition r' Neath. A moner in Brecon again.? ^as ralsed by a OOUJ*' caused them to incur a 8 Promoters, which expense and trouble TT'grieat deaI of unnecessary have all been overcomf 0rt"nately. the difficulties expected from Penw^i'u n? a la^e,trade m.a* be this branch. ylIt through the opening ot
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