The Tenby Observer Weekly List of Visitors and Directory

SINGULAR FOX-HUNTING INCIDENT. .A curious story is going the round of hunting Cii'clc2 which; if really true, accounts for the mys- terious disappearance of some foxhounds oelor.giag to the Old Berkeleys. While in full cry about a dozen years ago in the Cliveden district, near laplow, five of the leading hounds suddenly dis- appeared, and although the country was searched aild inquiries made at the neighbouring kennels nothing further was heard of them. A few days ago the pack was hunting again in the same district, When the fox made for a borrow in a chalk pit. It Was determined to dig it out, and on the men open- ing the place they discovered the remains of the ounds that had been lost, and which, having ollowed their quarry to earth, were unable to extricate themselves, and died from suffocation or starvation.

LON DON HOUSE, T JE N BY. W. G. TURL Respectfully states that lie is now making an IMPORTANT SHOW OF ENGLISH AND FRENCII MILLINEiiY AT A GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. Hats and Bonnets, Caps, Fichus, and Lace Goods; Flowers, Feathers, ^ilks, Velvets, and Velveteens, Plushes, Ribbons, Gloves, Hosiery, and Trimmings; also some very special lines in Dress Materials, Mantles, Jackets and Ulsters, Mackintoshes, Fur Capes, Fur-lined Cloaks, &c., MARKED AT PRICES TO CLEAR. A visit of Inspection is respectfully solicited. W. G TURL. London fiouse, TENBY.

Sir W. (lull on Saturday presided at a meeting of subscribers to the Helen Prideaux Memorial Fund, held at the rooms of the Medical Society of Loudon. Referring to the death of this lady while acting as house surgeon to the Paddington-green Children's Hospital. Sir William remarked that he had at first opposed the admission of women to medical studies, in common with many of his most distinguished colleagues, but he had subsequently felt it his duty to take quite another position and in the best spirit of chivalry to promote the medicaf education of women. The work of women con- ducted as Mi s Prideaux and others of her colleague had shown it could be, would favoilrably re-act upon the whole profession.

PEMBROKE AND TENBY RAILWAY. The fifty-third half-yearly report of the direc- tors, f for the half-year ended 31st December, states that the receipts amount to f 14,759 17s. -id., as compared with £14,711 10s. JOtt. for the corre- sponding period of last yeai;, being an increase of £ 47 178 6d., a result which the directors consider satisfactory, taking into account the great de- pression in trade. There is a decrease in the expenditure oi s-164 lûs. lid., the amount being £7878 19s. 5d., as compared with £8043 18s. 4d. The whole of the debenture bonds issued by the company have now been called in, and replace:I by the issue of debenture stock, the greater por- tion of which bears interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The directors recommend a dividend, after providing for the interest on all fixed charges and on loan capital, at 31 per cent. 'per annum on the preference shares of the com- pany for the half-year, carrying forward a balance of jE35 Is. 4d. to next account. This is an increase i of i per crfnt. per annum as compared with the cor- responding period. -———————— .—.

WELSH VERACITY. The statement made by Judge Horatio Lloyd re- cently, to the effect that the Welsh were a nation of perjurors, has naturally excited a great deal of comment among those who profess to be "'innate Cymro." Burke said it was impossible to draw up an indictment against a nation. His Honour Judge Lloyd evidently thinks differently. Instead of bewailing that "all men are liars," he makes a sweeping accusation against the Welsh nation alone. There is no doubt that there is a deal of perjury committed in courts of law. It is generally useless, but ignorant people think they are bound to be believed if they make a statement on oath, and without taking into account the great ex- perience a tribunal has had in lying, they pile falsehood on falsehood, which finally descend on their own heads. But there is no reason to believe that the Weish are more disposed to this practice than thair English brethren. Mr Osborne Morgan, however, draws a distinction between Welsh and English lying, which, apart from the moral prac- tice at all, is certainly favourable to the Cymru. "If I draw a distinction," he says, "between the two, I should be disposed to say that if a Welshman lies, he as often as not lies from good nature and to help a friend. When an Englishmen lies, he gene- rally lies to ewrre hit own interests."

IS DANCING RIGHT OR WRONG ? It is curious to notice how old controversies all revive from time to time. and how variable the public mind is upon the subject. Whether dancing is a proper and permissible means of social amuse- ment is a question which still agitates some minds. Byron declaimed in a poem against the indecency of the valse but Byron was lame, and hence his antipathy. And so it is, for the lIJ(¡;,t part, with the general mass of those who object to dancing— they cannot dance themselves, and so hare no sympathy with those who can atvl ,h. Sheer ignorance is responsible for much of the opposition. On the other hand it must be remembered that there are many whose disliko for dancing is due to honest religious scruples, which all must respect. Monsignor Goddard, of St. Mary's, Chislehurst, has been attacked because he a; Sowed dancing on week evenings in the school-rooms nnder his charge. But he claims to be above the reach of adverse criticism. The reproaches of such men." he writes, "fall lightly on me, and I M1) l-M-qred rather than dishonoured by them. No half-d used women are seen at my little entertainments.; no men hot with excess of eating and drinking so much, I fear, can scanty be s.ij.l of the parties that the mockers fraqi;cr»6 or u: The feeling of the Puritans on this subject of dancing was intelligible—if grotesque. They forbade dancing as "heathenish," not without cause in their day, because it was preceded and followed by many objectionable customs moreover, it was generally practised on Sunday. But the curious relics of pagan ceremonies which clung to it are quite lost now. Our quadrilles and waltzes and the rest have absolutely no meaning besides a pretext to bring youths and maidens together in a familiarity most desirable for the interests of the State, hardly to be obtained by any other means. 6.

A GOODS TRAIN HURLED DOWN AN EM- BANKMENT. A luggage train dashed into a goods train, which had been shunted into a siding at Burnley Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, oil Mon- day morning. The advancing engine, with twelve wagons attached, was hurled down an embankment and smashed to pieces. Several other wagons were also damaged. No one was injured, 'the signal was against the advancing train, but, owing to the slippery nature of the rails, the brake was of little service and the train was unable to stop.

SIR EDWARD REED AND THE LONDON "ECHO." The London Echo, which is certainly entitled to precedence in the ranks of Radical journalism, deals thus with the appointment which Sir Edward Reed has been good enough to accept at Mr Glad- stone's hands:—"The appointment of Sir E. J. Reed as a Junior Lord of the Treasury is about as infelicitious as anything of the kind could be. Sir E. J. Reed is an authority on ships and Admiralty necessities, and, lo and behold he is, by the wisdom that inspires Cabinets and directs adminis- tration, made a Junior Lord of the Treasury, and placed on a par with the Hon. Mr Spencer or Mr Leveson-Gower who are sufficiently fortunate to be nephews to their uncles, who are peers and Cabinet Ministers. There is another phase of Sir E. J. Reed's appointment which imparts to it a CQmical air. Sir E. J. has long nurtured a passionate dis- like of the Irish party in Parliament and ail their ways. And now he is a member of a Government in which concession to Irish demands is to be the crowning glory of the session. Veriiy the whirligig of tune brings many changes."

When the Netherby Hall burglars were executed at Carlisle, it was reported that Berry's assistant was a well-known south-country baronet. An account of an interview with Sir Claude de Crespigny appears, in which he admits the soft impeachment. This is by no means a solitary instance. Often before have gentlemen tried to gain a new excitement by helping Jack Ketch in his grim office, and the memoirs of the Sansons, the family of hereditary executioners in France, tell of several executions at which Monsieur de Paris was assisted by distinguished amateurs. It is sincerely to be hoped that this example will not be extensively followed. Society is only too prone to take up anything which will afford a new sensation. It is not so long since ladies and gentlemen in high degree flocked in crowds into the slums of London, not so much, we are afraid, for purposes of benevolence, as to gain a fresh sensation. Perhaps it may become as much the the fashion to-day to extend executions, in a pro- fessional manner as it was not long ago, to go to them as spectators but we sincerely hope not, Executioners may be, and we hope are, perfectly respectable, well-conducted citizens but though t'aeir office is most important and useful, yet there is no doubt that it is degrading and repulsive. Sir Claude justifies his new departure by the fact that he may some day be Sheriff of Essex, and "that he could not order a man to do what he was afraid of doing himself." This is a very laudable con- sideration on his part, though to carry out such a theory consistently would plunge him into countless difficulties. But it is not desirable that all the sheriffs of England and Wales should go and do likewise and, fortunately, it is not even possible, for there would not be enough executions to "go round." So Sir Claude will probably remain in undisputed possession of his latest sensation.

Lord Randolph Churchill is to be the principal speaker at a meeting organised by the Manchester Conservative Association, to be held in the Free Trade Hall, on the evening of Wednesday, the 3rd of March.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH FROM SUFFO- CATION. An aged sea captain, named John Ruxton, of 68, Vincent-street, Swansea, on Monday morning met with his death under the following circumstances -It was his custom to place a lighted candle on his pillow at night. On Sunday night he was seen in bed with the candle in its usual position, and on his landlady going into the bedroom, the following morning, she found the room full of smoke and Captain Ruxton lying on the bed dead from suffo- cation. The bed clothes and curtains had caught fire and smouldered with the result described. i. "laa

THE HEROINE OF THE COLUMBINE. The woman, Elizabeth Mouat, who was cast ashore on the Norwegian coast in the smack Colum- bine, arrived at Hull on Tue day morning in the steamer Domino, from Bergen. Mr E. H. Wilson, M.P., had instructed that she should have free pas- sage from any port at which the steamer might touch. She left. Hull by the eight o'clock train for the north. A communication was received at Hull from a place of amusement offering her liberal terms for an engagement. Miss Mouat said that before she decided on anything she would go home and see her friends. She had with her many pre- sents in money and clothes made to her in Norway.

FACTS FOR THE WORKING MAN. To the Editor of the Tenby Observer. SiK.—It is a fact that Mr Gladstone and the members of his late Cabinet, during five years of office, never acknowledged the deplorable state of trade, which has affected capitalists and all others by whose energy and talents public undertakings are promoted, industries are developed, and fields of labour provided for the working man. It is a fact that Mr Gladstone and his Govern- ment always pooh-poohed the idea of there being unusual distress in the labour market; nay, more, when the Conservative Government came into office, and sought to inquire into the reasons for the present depression, even those of Mr Gladstone's supporters whose help in the inquiry was hoped for were induced by Liberal wire pullers to with- hold it. It is a fact that Mr Gladstone's Government gave many contracts for the supply of Government stores and for the manufacture of various articles to Germany, America, and other countries, whilst our own working men were starving. It is a fact that when the deputations of working men met last May to lay their grievances before Mr Gladstone's Government, the doors of the Home- office were shut in their face; they were not even > courteously received, and all they got was a dis- couraging reply from an Under Secretary. It is a fact that afterwards, when a deputation went to the Conservative Government, Lord Salis- bury himself saw them. entered into their grievances, and sought to remedy the. remissness of others during Mr Gladstone's tenure of office in allowing a. bill for large public works to fall through. Had Mr Gladstone not encouraged the House to turn out the Conservatives, those works would have been begun by this, for the bill would have been passed at once in the interests of the working man. It is a fact that during the last five years of Mr 10 Gladstone's Goverumeut the condition of trade and of the working classes has been getting worse and worse, and nothing has been done to prevent this on the contrary, not only have Government contracts been given out of England, but nothing has been done to prevent the English market being flooded by foreign manufactured articles supplied at a slightly lower figure than the British working -man can possibly manufacture them at. It is the essence of Conservatism to take care of our own people and their own interests to see that they have some chance at home in the struggle with the foreign manufacturer, who in more than one i nstance is helped by his Government bounties. If articles made abroad are sold in England (to people who can afford to pay for them) at a price at which the British working man cannot make tha-n, must the British working man starve, or should not the Government put on a protective duty upon those articles so as to divert the money of the consumer from the foreigner's pocket into the pocket of oar own working man, and thus pro- tect him from the foreign manufacturer who is ruining him ?* In most cases Is. duty in the pound would mean life to our own working men, and would bring back to our own shores mauy British manufacturers who have taken their money and machinery to France and Belgium, and who employ foreign labour there, sending the manufactured articles back to England thus putting the bread into the mouths of foreigners which should have been given to our own working men. All this would have been altered by the Con- servative Government, which was supported at the elections by the great trading and manufacturing districts, and the greater part of the boroughs, where intelligence and learning are general; but unfortunately Mr Gladstone was supported by a. small majority of 2,000,000 of new agricultural labourers, many of whom being less educated, and in some cases unable to read, have been easily duped by numerous paid agitators and so it comes to pass that so called Liberal members of Parlia- ment are more numerous than the Conservative members of Parliament, and Mr Gladstone, thinking as little of the working man now as he did from April, 1880, to June, 1885, and wishing to be in power, has turned out the Government elected by the intelligent town constituencies, and on the very anniversary of the day on which Gordon was killed -having been abandoned by him (Mr Gladstone) till it was too late to save him. — Mr Gladstone has already proved himself as bad a friend to the working man as he was to Gordon, and the intelli- gent portion of the electors who voted a.gainst him must now insist, ere it be too late, on his giving up that power which he so long wielded without a, thought for the British working man. —Yours, &c., Feb. 17, 1886. A SCOTCHMAN. Th<? sniploads of American house fittings, furniture* and other large imports are examples, and there are others as well; for it is not generally known that for certain manufacturedarticles é}f houspb.:1d consumption, which m;ght easily be made in England— as many were until lately—no less than thirty-fight. UiTiions regularly flow every year out of the pockets of English merchants into those of the foreign producer, iustead of circuiting between British manufacturers and British working- men. „ °

A large number of members of both Houses of Parliament on both sides of polities have applied for tickets to the banquet to Lord Iddesleigh, in connection with the testimonial.

THE BEST DRESSED WOMAN.—Who is the best dressed woman in Europe no European would dare dressed woman in Europe no European would dare to say, but an American lady, Miss Lucy Hooper, having recently been allowed to inspect some of the latest miracles of Worth's, ventures to declare that the first place must be given to the Queen of Italy. This daring lady further ventures to describe some of the dresses which dazzle the eyes of the guests this winter at the Quirinal. First in order was a dinner dress in faille of the palest and most delicate shade of green. It was made with a long train, the skirt being slightly draped at the side and opening to the waist at the other over an underskirt of cream-white faille of the richest possible texture. This underskirt was caught in full folds half way down the skirt by a cluster of cream-white ostrich feathers. The green over- dress was bordered around the opening with a band of cream-white velvet, on which were set rows of fringes in crystal beads, intermixed with flat oval imitation sapphires, and a row of this fringe edged the cream faille underskirt. Nothing can be imagined more beautiful and delicate than the combination of colours—the pale green, the rich cream-white, and the blue lustre of the sapphires, Another dress had the train in gold-yellow satin striped with wide stripes of white velvet. This was met at each side, just below the waist, with a large full puff of plain gold-yellow satin. Below these puffs were wide-pointed revers of cream- white pekin, in broad alternate stripes of satin and velvet. The front of this dress was in cream-white satin, embroidered all over with circular figures in minute gold spangles. A third most lovely dress had the corsage and train in moss-green velvet, The train was drawn back over an underskirt of cream-white satin, slightly draped in front, the drapery being held in place by rosette shaped ornaments in passementerie of silver and crystal beads. The sidas of the train were bordered with a band of large orange leaves in moss-green velvet in applique work on cream satin. Down the sides j of the underskirt were bands of crystal passemen- terie, upon which were set long trails of exquisite roses, with velvet foliage, from waistband to hem. The front of the skirt was crossed with a deep- plaited flounce of cream satin edged with a wide fringe of crystal beaus on this flounce were placed curved garlands of roses and leaves. In this toilette the fair Marguerite looks like a veritable Queen of Rosea.