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MRS. GRUNDY'S JOTTINGS.

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MRS. GRUNDY'S JOTTINGS. A certain young lady much seen in Holton-road, Barry Dock, will shortly open a tobacconist's shop in Thompson-street, and she confidentially told a fair companion that she would depend entirely upon her handsome face to captivate the young gentlemen of the district to buy her goods. —o— Mr D. Cornwell, although a somewhat talkative member of the Penarth Local Board, does not know the reason why he was not allowed to vote at the last Local Board election in the Barry and Cadoxton dis- trict. Why, Mr Cornwell ought to know that we only allow duly qualified ratepayers to exercise this privilege. -0- The public are evidently thoroughly satisfied with the exemplary sentences of imprisonment passed upon the five ruffians who conducted themselves in such a barbaric manner at the Royal Hotel, Cadoxton, on Tuesday evening, the 24th ultimo; and there is a general feeling that when Carr comes up for trial for the cowardly assault on Miss Milward, he will be further taught that the law will not tolerate such in- human conduct on the part of a gang of drink- besotten sailors. —o— There is a decidedly upward tendency in the price of Barry stock, and it is fully expected that the move- ment will continue to a considerable extent. —o— Ocean liners seem to be enamoured of Barry Dock, the last arrival being the fine Anglo-Australasian passenger boat, "Port Denison," which came in on Saturday for bunkers. —o— During the week ended Wednesday last upwards of 100,000 tons of cargo passed in and out of Barry Dock. —o— During the same period nearly 330,000 tons were dealt with at Cardiff, Barry, and Penarth. —o— Another explosion of the entrance difficulty. The captain of the "Port Denison," the splendid passenger liner plying between Great Britain and Australia, says he entered Barry Dock without the slightest possible difficulty last Saturday. -0- Mr W. H. Morgan judged the foot racing at the Cardiff Harlequins Athletic Sports last Saturday. — o— The specimens of water submitted by the medical officer at the last meeting of the Health Committee at Cadoxton were simply hideous. -0- I would suggest that the directors of the Water Company be asked to take one draught—only one !— of tne horrid stuff which the poor people of Sydenham-street, Barry Dock, have been obliged to subsist on. —0— It has been reported to the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board that Police-inspector Rees has declined to band over to the Board's officers the books in his possession as deputy-inspector of seamen's and com- mon lodging-houses in the district, and legal opinion is to be taken on the matter. —o— A contemporary last week, alluding to the death of a certain gentleman connected with the Vale of Glamorgan, said The body was brought to his ancestral home on Wednesday, where it was met by a deceased brother! —o— The number of electors who are entitled to vote in a parliamentary election in the parishes of St. Donatt's St. Athan, Eglwysbrewis, Flemingstone, Gilestone, Llanmaes, Llanmihangel, and Llantwit Major are 368. —o— A well-known Cadoxton townsman, Ben Bennett, confident that he possesses athletic ability of no mean order, has entered for the 120 yards local handicap at Cadcxton Sports next Monday, and, being in active training, he says he is determined to win. —o— The annual jneeting of the Barry District Trades Council will be held on Friday evening next, the 10th inst., at the Victoria Hotel, Barry Dock, and not last Friday evening as was anticipated. —o— The splendid brass band of the 2nd Glamorgan Artillery Volunteers will, on Whit-Monday morning, head the procession of members of the trade and friendly societies of the Barry and Cadoxton district, which will parade the district previous to the opening of the Cottage Hospital Eisteddfod at Cadoxton Market Hall. —o— Another object lesson for non-advertisers. Mr George Hopkins, of the Hayes Market, Cardiff (a strenuous advertiser in the Barry Dock News), on Thursday last booked the largest retail meat order ever given in Wales. It was for 1,000 quarters pf prime beef, to equal 100 tons in weight. Of course, it has been executed. -0- Mr Arthur J. Williams, M.P. (the sitting member) and Sir Morgan Morgan will be the candidates for the representation of South Glamorgan at the forthcoming general election, and there will be 12,481 voters called upon to determine the issue. —o— Cadoxton theatre-goers evidently cannot appreciate at its proper value good musical humour, for the coming man and another were actually hissed when they appeared on the stage last Saturday evening. Shame! —o— A young sailor in one of the swinging boats off Holton-road last Saturday evening accidentally fell out and came down a cropper. Fortunately, he was not hurt, and on getting up to remount the boat he re- marked to the bystanders that he would Call for the pieces to-niorrow —o— There is a person in the Barry district who describes himself as a certified undertaker I What does the man mean ? A dramatic bill last week announced that a member of the Barry and Cadoxton "Historic" Society would make his appearance at a ceatain entertain- ment, and that a Skekch would also be performed. The printer must have been funning." -0- The phonetic shorthand competition in connection with Cadoxton-Barry Whit-Monday Eisteddfod will again be a specially interesting feature of the pro- ceedings, for nearly a hundred compositions have come to hand from phonographers in all parts of the country. -0- Mr Arnold, postmaster, Barry Dock, conducted Divine service and preached at the Barry Dock Mission Church last Sunday. -0- The father of the Rev R. Usher, B.A., curate of the Barry Dock Church, died a few days ago in the North of England. The greatest sympathy is'jfelt for the rev. gentleman, Mr Usher being highly respected in his new home. —o— Miss A. Lewis, of East Barry, well known in her useful capacity as accompanist at the Public Hall concerts, will shortly sail from Great Britain to America, where her parents already reside. -0- There are three Welsh causes worshipping in the proposed new hotel opposite the Central Police Station, Holton-road, Barry Dock—the Calvinistic Methodists, Wesleyan Methodists, and the Church of England. —o— The Penarth Observer last week stated :—" It used to be the fashion of the Barry Dock News to twit the inhabitants of Penarth upon their lack of moral sense of right and wrong, because so many offences were brought up at the Police Court here. On glancing over our record this week we feel that most decidedly the boot is upon the other leg.' There is no lack of petty crime, but it occurs at Barry, or rather Barryton, as the Western Mail has it. We are getting quite ashamed of our big neighbour." —o— Inspector King is of a contrary opinion, for he in-, formed a representative of the Barry Dock News last Monday that there is still a larger amount of criminal business done at Penarth than at Barry Dock. I do not envy him the privilege. The Western Mail hears that Cowbridge husbands kave been closely watched by their wives for the last few days, and the un married ladies have been in a state of perturbation. The reason is that two Mor- mons have been distributing glowingly-worded circu- lars over the district, and the women folk were frightened that bright promises would win away the men folk." —o— Amongst the members of an influential deputation which waited upon the Postmaster-General in the conference room of the House of Commons last Mon- day evening, to urge further postal facilities for South Wales, was Mr John Robinson, M.Inst.C.E., chair- man of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board. --0- The public works committee of the Local Board have this week passed plans for the erection of a new hotel on Barry Island for the Marine Hotel Company. The new hotel will be some distance from the existing Marine Hotel. There will be trains running to Cadoxton every half-hour on Whit-Monday, so that ample railway facilities will be afforded strangers who intend being present at the eisteddfod and sports at Cadoxton. --0- A certain member of the Dinas Powis Highway Board stated last Wednesdy that "The well was so dangerous that a child, falling into it, would not be taken out alive until it was drownded Mr Oliver Thomas, Greave Farm, Wenvoe, while not an advocate of the Egyptian method of making bricks without straw, he certainly was a strenuous opponent of the suggestion made last Wednesday at the Dinas Powis Highway Board meeting of supply- ing the day men in the employ of the Boord with tools at the expense of the ratepayers. -0- On Monday morning next, at nine o'clock sharp, the members of the Cadoxton Company of Artillery Volunteers will parade at the Drill Hall for the pur- pose of forming a guard of honour to the Right Hon. Lord Windsor, on the occasion of his Lordship's visit to Cadoxton, as president of the morning meeting of the eisteddfod. Official announcement is given to the fact that Sir F. H. Jeune, justice of the High Court, has been ap- pointed president of the Probate, Divorce, and Admisalty Division, in place of the Right Hon. Sir Charles P. Butt, deceased. The new president was formally leading counsel for the Barry Company in connection with its parliamentary bills. The Right Hon. Lord Windsor, being honorary colonel of the Second Glamorgan Artillery Volun- teers, the splendid brass band from headquarters will escort his Lordship to the grand eisteddfod at the Market Hall, Cadoxton, next Monday morning. Nearly 22,000 tons of coal and coke were shipped at Barry Dock last Monday. —o— Although there are nearly eighty teachers in the employ of the Barry District School Board, there were not twenty (visitors included) who felt disposed to attend the opening game and tea in connection with the tennis club last Saturday. Portraits and biographical sketches of Mr T. H. Morgan, ex-captain of the Cadoxton-Barry Football Club, and his brother, Mr A. W. Morgan, are booked for publication in the Cardiff Advertiser. —0 — It is probable that the town clerk of Cardigan will be amongst the audience at Cadoxton-Barry Eistedd- 4 fod on Monday next. -0- As the result of the performance held at Cadoxton last week by the Cadoxton-Barry Histrionic Society, a donation of 24 has been handed over to the funds of the District Nursing Association. —o— What a nice man Mr W. M. Douglas is, for at the football club supper at Cadoxton last Tuesday even- ing he called me "an estimable and popular old woman, whose column of jottings in the Barry Dock New, are a general favourite." -0- I am very sorry that the Welsh temperance meeting at Cadoxton on Tuesday evening was so thinly at- tended. With so a great an object in view the chapel should have been crowded. -0- My foot has again slipped. I said last week there was a man in charge of tne billiard table at the Cad- oxton Recreation Rooms. This, if not quite in error, is certainly premature. -0- The members of the Barry and Cadoxton Football Club will do well to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the scathing remarks of Mr J. H. Nelmes, secretary of the club, addressed to the absentee members. —o— There were two bran' new box hate worn by two bran' new young spooners at Penarth last Sunday evening, and, judging from the tumultuous reception they received at the hands of the enthusiastic young townspeople, it is probable those box hats will never be worn again, but be put up for what they are worth —o— Ye, Barry "Kiss-hers," beware! At Aberdare police-court on Tuesday last, Thomas William Dunn was fined 20s for kissing a young woman, named Sophia Alllle Evans, on the canal bank at Cwmbach -of course, without the young woman's consent. —o— Why will not the Barry School Board emulate this example ? At their meeting this week, the Llandy- fodwg School Board unanimously decided to direct the teachers to give lessons in the fifth, sixth, and seventh standards in Welsh. The Welsh lessons are to include writing, copying, dictation, translation, and grammar. —o— Dumb animals are treated with greater considera- tion than human bodies (and even souls for all that) at a certain drinking club, for, standing on the street in front of the building referred to last Saturday evening-and hearing a din, O a horrid din !—I saw, in bold characters in the doorway, the announcement Dogs not allowed." Of course, drunken dogs are excluded. On her way to a dance in the Barry district very recently a young lady I know very well purchased a most becoming yellow turban, which caused her to be for soire time the object of merriment to the whole room, owing to the fact of the shopkeeper from whom she had bought it having forgotten to remove from behind it a large ticket bearing the printed inscrip- tion, Very charming, only 3s 6d." —o— Mr Valentine Trayes made his appearance on the Bench at Penarth Police Court last Monday after a lengthy interval. —o— A married woman with a rosy black eye was h"ing- cross-examined by Mr Jones-Lloyd at Barry Dock Police Court last Thursday, when the offended daughter of Eve indignantly remarked "I don't want to speak to you; I am speaking to the jury." The woman was staring straight into the Press box. —o— Echoes of the near past. "Darling of my heart Only marry me, and you shall have a carriage and pair!" She morried him; and now she's got the carriage and pair—(twins). —o— While a young couple were lovingly wending their way up Regent-street, Barry Dock, one day last week, the fair damsel's father suddenly made his ap- pearance upon the scene. He happened to be wear- ing on the occasion a pair of boots No. Ifi, and quickly he crept up behind the ardent swain. I will not pur- sue the incident further. The young lover suddenly left, and he has not been well since. —o— Preaching at Zion Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Cadoxton, last Sunday evening, the pastor, the Rev W. Williams, earnestly appealed to the con- gregation to consider whether it was proper for them to attend the annual athletic sports at Cadoxton next Monday. -0- Any person who may visit Holton-road, Barry Dock, and turn into a field on the right, will notice what may be described, literally speaking, as a dead horse, which has been lying in the field for about ten days. The nasal organ may be left at home. -0- The members of the Barry Quoit Club are proving themselves redoubtable this season, for, not content with winning the matches, they almost invaribly make the highest possible scores. —o— The children connected with the Bible Christian Chapel, Court-road, Barry Dock, will receive their annual treat on Monday next, Mr J. J. Williams, Tynewydd, having very kindly placed one of his fields at the disposal of the Rev. J. Honey for this purpose. —o— Last Sunday evening the Rev J. Honey made a strong appeal to the congregation in aid of the 10,000 poor people who are starving owing to the stoppage of the furnace works at Cleveland, consequent upon the Durham colliers' strike. —o— Even members of our Local Board are human. While business was proceeding at the public works committee meeting at Cadoxton last Monday evening some one observed.that a fight was going on outside. Business was at once suspended, and a general rush was male to the window to catch a glimpse of the struggle. -0- Only one round was fought, lasting scarcely a minute, but it left an imposing black eye, which has since been carefully padded. o— Monday next (Whit-Monday) being the ordinary meeting day of the Barry District School Board no meeting will be held. -0-- The splendid rendering by the Barry Choral Union and the Barry Company's Brass Band were un- doubtedly the most enjoyable items of last Monday evening's concert at Barry Public Hall. -0-- If the former will give an equal rendering of the test piece at next Monday's eisteddfod at Cadoxton, well, the four other choirs will not have a look in." I Mr Tom John, one of tha gentlemen who spoke so effectively at the Chamber of Trade meeting at Barry Dock last Wednesday evening, is the Member for Wales" in connection with the N.U.E.T. A member of the Barry District Trades Council has taken a sudden turn for the turf, and attended the Derby last Wednesday. He staked, it is said, 100 to 1 on the favourite, but, alas it did'nt come off. -0- Mr R. Evans, general manager, and Mr J. Robinson, resident engineer, of the Barry Railway Company, have this week visited London on import- ant business. —0— Visions of Home Rule made their appearance most strikingly at the public meeting held at Barry Dock last Wednesday evening, for one of the speakers sug- gested that Mr D. T. Alexander should be president of the Board of Trade. The speaker meant Chamber of Trade. --0- The members of the Buffalo Lodge, Barry Dock, have this week removed their meeting place from the Victoria Hotel to the Barry Dock Hotel. -0- Penarth (through its local press) now calls Barry its biff neighbour, very true Whit-Monday will be observed as a general holiday at Barry Dock. -0- Barry tradesmen have determined to close their business establishments on Whit-Monday, and up to one o'clock on the following day. —o— FROM CORRESPONDENTS. THE CHUBCH DANCE. DEAB MRS. GRUNDy,-In your last issue we saw that the Belle of Holton was missed at the dance held at Barry Dock Public Hall a fortnight ago. I should like to know which belle did you mean—The Natural Belle, the Painted Belle, or Isa-belle?— Yours truly, H. J. P. —o— "ANTIPAS, F.D." DEAR MRS GBUNDY,—I have a son in my family whom I consider a bit of a genius. After evening service last Sunday week he attended the open-air service at East Barry, at which" Antipa.s, F.D. delivered his extraordinary harangue. Returning home the boy asked me "What is meant by F.D., father?" I replied pleading ignorance. "I do not know what it is," added the boy, "unless it means 'Father of the Doubtful! —Yours &c., "A FATHER." -0- BARRY SONS OF TEMPERANCE DRUM AND FIFE BAND. DSWB MRS. GRUNDY,—I am glad to see that the Sons of Temperance in the district have given the order for the instruments for their fife and drum band to a local tradesman, the cost for which will be up- wards of £ 12.—" SUCCESS," Barry, May 31st, 1892.

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