The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

RHmmDA JOTTINGS. (BY RAMBLER.) # The Rhorddaites were pleased to lenrn that te Higrh Sheriff (Mr Fred. L. Davies) bad chooren the Rev. Mr Lewis, vicar of Yetradyfcdwg, as bis chaplain at the laet Assizes. The attendance at our various chapels and Sur- dRY Schools on Snndny was meagre, owing to the absence of members, teachers, &c., from bOJYe. They were reported to be at the Sf aside, &o., for their annual holidays. They say that, mary ycurg- ladies complain of being molested by some persons who amuse them- selves by pa-mitie remarks upon the fair sex aa 1 hey walk along the rrincipal thoroughfares. This sort of thing ought to be put a etop to. People feel that measures should be ndopted with a view of irduciDgr the Taff Vale Railway Company to place en their tickets and signboards at Ystrfld station Ystrad for Pentre." Many stmrpers are confused by the two names. The difficulty would be obviated if the above sugges- tion received the favourable opinion of the railway authorities. A new Workmen's Club has been established at Llwvnifia. The railway brnnch which has been extended from Penvgraig to Clvdach Vale could be made to join the Swansea Bay Railway. One thin? is cer- tain, a npw station is needed at Clydach Vale, and could bi erected at a small cost. Why not ask the Great Western Company for one ? I bear very often complimerts paid to the burial beard and their officials for their care and taste in keeping the Treorky ard Trealaw cemeterie ins such an excellent condition. The Rbondda is still without a public park- This formed the subject of a very peasant dis- cussion at one of our Chamber of Trade some time ago. Hitherto, however, nothing has been done to carry the idea into prac-tical form. Surely the matter should not be left in abeyance, because a public park is mnch needed in our midst. Aber- darians were very fortnnc-te in this respect, and I cannot see why tre Ehonddaites cannot follow suit. It is said that no less than 50 persons hold cer- tificates of merit as colliery managers in Treorky and Ystrad. There are three things too prevalent in this Valley, viz., cruelty to animals, furious driving, and coarse language. < They say that slackness in trade is inevitable. The interruptions so often experienced must have a bad effect upon the present ccal trade generally. Some ministers of the Gcspel advocate open air meetings. Years ago much good was done in this way. It should be further encouraged by friends of the Gospel. I hear of a few ministers that have adopted the praiseworthy oonrse of preparing sermons for the guidance of the children in the paths of virtue. If this could orly be done generally on an anniver. sary of the Sunday School no doobt it would have a beneficial effect.

CRICKET. ST. MATTHEWS v. CILFYNYDD. The first elevens of these teams met at the Cilfynydd pitch on Saturday afternoon last in exceptionally fine weather. Consequent upon the excellent arrangements the ground conduced to some excellent cricket. Both teams were placed at a slight disadvantage by the loss of some of their best men, and on the whold the game went on smoothily. Cilfynydd started the batting to the bowling of Messrs Hemsworth and Rogers. The following are the scores CILFYNYDD. W. Thomas c. Hill, b. Hemsworth 0 A E. Leyniour b. Hemsworth 0 Sam Evans b. Rogers 7 Charley Holley, b. Rogers 0 y 11 T. J. Rees, b. Rogers 5 George Gibbs, c. Rogers, b. Hems- worth 2 Frank Holley, c. Hemsworth b. Rogers 3 Oliver Holley, c. A b. Hemsworth 11 Harry Bower, run out 0 J. Chivers, not out 4 G. Leyniour, c. Harris b. Hensworth 0 Extras 6 Total 38 ST. MATTHEWS. I Hemsworth, b. F. Holley 5 I Rogers, b. F. Holley 0 G. Harry, st. C. Holley 9 D. Walters, b. Frank Holley e 1 Harris, b. Chi vers 2 C. Harris, b. Chivers o P. James, not out 2 G. Hill, c A. Leyniour, b. Chivers 0 Trivett, st. C. Holley, b. Chivers 0 Davies, b. Chivers 0 Extras 4 Total 23 Cilfynydd men were put in again and worked up a score of 5'.) to the bowling of HeinsWorth, Rogers, and James, of St. Matthews, and at the fall of the last wicket time was called leaving the match drawn in favour of the Cilfynydd I team. t

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A NORTON BRIDGE NUISANCE. TO THE EDITOR 01' THE Sir,-Will you with your customary couresy insert the following remarks,in the hope that they will bring pressure to bear upon the proper authorities. There is in the yard formerly occupied by the old distillery at NortonBridge a scene which must be stigmatised as an unmitigated nuisance. The ground is used as a receptacle for the rufuse of tire-neighbourhood. Not only is there constant tire-neighbourhood. Not only is there constant accumulation, but several drains have to make their course through it to the canal. But these are entirely choked up by the heap of filth. The result can easily be imagined. The odour arising is unendurable and poisonous, and is a danger and menace to the health of the inhabitants. As it happens it is situate immediately outside the boundary of the Pontypridd Local Board. Here possibly is an argument in favour of tha "exten- sion scheme." At any rate the attention of the rural authorities ought immediately to be direc- ted to the removal of this public scandal. Yours, ti-c., D. ARNOTT, Hon. Sec., Pontypridd Ratepayer's Association.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY. j TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHROXILLE." SIR,—The preceedence accorded to Cardinal Manring before the Lord Mayor of London has aroused public attention to the remarkable energy new displayed by the. Roman Catholic hierarchy in their effort to advarce that religion in this country, an effort in some measure festered and aided, strange to say, by a section of her heredit- ary opponents, the Protestant Cburch of England. The main argument of the Anglo-Catholic" sec. tion of our Church, viz., that the Romish religion is of older date than the Protestant Church of England, falls however entirely to the ground when examired in the Ii bt of history, and with your permission I would venture, as briefly as possible, to prove that the pure ard apostolic ancient Christian religion, a religion identical in every respect with the Protestant reformed religion, existed in Britain centuries before the dogmas of tranpubsteintiation of purgatory, of the invocation of Saints, and of the Romish innovation?, had been invented, or before the Bishops of Rome had arrogated to themselves the spiritual control of Christendom. There appears to be a consensus of opinion, which is supported by Clemens Romanus, "the fellow labourel of St. Paul," by Irenceus, Ensebius, ) and others, th*t St. Paul first preached Christian- ity in t.he^e islands, and there appears also to bp little ^doubt that Joseph of Aiimathea, Simon Zelotes, Aristobulus (mentioned by St. Paul in his epistle to the Romans, and who is stated by D,,r. othens to have been the first Bishop of Britain), also preached the Gospel in Britain. These views are bourne out by Jerome, Tertullian, Theodoret. and other writers of the first centuriea, and also by an ancient M.S. in the Vatican quoted by Bar- onius. There is also abundant later evidence that Christianity existed in Britain for the earliest times. The British historian Gildas the Wise, who flourished in the fifth century, states that it was introduced before the defeat of Queen Boadioea by Suetonius, A.D. Gl, and this is con- firmed by several jaathors, and is implied by a passage in Tacitus (annal lib xiii c 32). It appears that Christianity must have spread with considerable rapidity throughout the land, and that a large portion of the country had been converted previous to the invasion of the Saxons, who, it must be remembered, were at that tim3 heathens, for in A.D. 304, a great number of Christians" (one authority says 1 700) "were stayn by the wicked pagans at Lycbfield, whereof that towne toke name as you wold say,' the field of dead corpses," (Hollingshead lib IV. p. 88) These idolators after a time completely vanquished the Celtic inhabitants, and drove the remnant of them into Cornwall and Wales endeavouring to extir. pate Christianity from the land, apparently with success with the exception of these two principal- itiep, where the ancient faith was still maintained with increasingpiwer. (Vide Usher, Brit. Eocl. Antiq, Trelawny, Co'iios, &c.) Liter on the Saxons themselves were converted myinly by St. Augustine (" the masse prieste") not St. Augustinn the son of Monica, who flourished nearly 200 years previously) and others, but so many novelties and strange innovations had erf pt intothe Church thattheCeltie Christians, both Cornish and Welsh, refused to affiliate themselves with the Saxons in matters of religion, "and, esteeming the religion of the Saxons as nothing, the Cornish would no more communicate with them than with pagans, accounting that of the Welsh and themselves the only true Christ- ianity." (Usher Brit. Antiq. p. 1,152). These early CbrIstians appear to tave continued their vigorous protest against popery, and to have been fcuccessful in holding the pure apostolic religion until the death of Alfred, A.D. 005, when the see of Bodmin was founded, principally for the reduction of the rebellion Cornish to the Romish rites "-(Jullers Ch. Hist. Cent. X. b ii. p. 4)-,tfter which time the whole coontry appears to have been overrun with m .oks, and the new Romish doctrines and usuges prevailed throughout the land. At this early time, however, the introduced intothe Romish Church appear to have been comparatively inconsiderable compared with those new doctrines and dogmas which later on were added one by one by successive Popes and Councils. Purgatory was made a religious dogma by Gregory I, A.D. 590-604. The great dogma of transubptnutiation was broached in the days of Gregory III, A.D. 731, but gave rise to endless divisions in the Church, and was not finally adopt- ed and promulgated until the fourth Sateran Council A.D. 1,215. The celibacy was injoinedby Gregory VII, and was officially confirmed by the Council of Placentis A.D. 1,095. The dogma of the immaculate conception was suggested as early as A.D. 1,389 but it was not until A.D. 1 854 that Pins IX issued a Bull deciding it to be an aiticle of Faith, and lastly hoped infallibility was adopted and promulgated A.D. 1870. And this mutable and ever varying and innovat. ing man-made religion is the religion which it is claimed, is of such vastly oleer date than our venerable Protestant Church of England! When the ancient Church of St. Piran in Sabulo (known in lator times as Perranzabulve) which had lain barried in the drifting sand of the Corn. ish Coast for many centuries, as effectually as Pompeii was hidden by the overwhelming Veslivian 1ava was at length discovered and disentombed, in I this Church which is one of the first of the stone- built sacred edifices which superseded the mud- wattle i wall of the first British Chftrchei (Ecclesia Virger, Spelman Cone. I p. 17), were found none of the later accessories of Roman Catholic Churches, no rosd-loft, no images, no pyres, no crucifixes nor other romish devices, apparently proving that the simple religiotisiservicei astangbt by the Apostles, and again re-satablishei at the 1 Reformation, were pra'cised by those early and earnest Christiana, Chrift ans who founded the primit ve C'lui ch oo England, and who proteatel against the Dsarpations against the usurpations aga'nst the same arrogating power; though un- happily the struggle* ot those early Protostantf were not attended with th- a-inn mea-ure o- snccess as "ere the longsustaine-i and trijmphant y victorious contests of the Reformers. lial its been so what a glorious record would our Church have had—a Church in direct line and unaltered in I doc'r'ne, in principles, and in creed, from tbe v-ry I ime of the Apostle?. But a as! how long is this pristine purity to re- main? How long will our Chuich withstand the insidious efforts cf the Romish party in her midst to engraft upon it t-h-j var ed inventions of the dark age,, th i uiulean c nfeas onal, the invocation and interception of sainta, the worship of the blessed Virgin, the awful doctrine of transubstand atior, and tho oilier innovations which they now fondly hope are in a fair way of being adopted by it? Surely, Sir, th,.timehag c m" for th.* people of Engbnrl, for the thira time, to make a vigorous and emphatic pri test against this pr peiy and, their ancestors, to event their strn-th in'a great and supreme effort to maintain the purity of lelhÓon in our Clmicli. and to hold the faith m in- fr ]y snd coora ;< onsly against all the Onslajtrhts and aggression.? of these teachers of False Doctrite. Your Obedient Servant, A BANKER.

11 1 ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER AT J,LAN WON NO. At the Assizes on Monday, Lewis Price, 27 collier, was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Trevor Roberts, at Llanwonno. Mr L Sor^ M-P-, prosecuted and Mr March- ant Williams defended the prisoner. The fatality in this case appeared to be the result of a fight. At the time the parties were outside White Thorn Inn, between Penrhiw- ceiber and Aberdare Junction. They had quarrelled in the inn, and the deceased was heard to saytothepnsonerthere,1^ rather try (i.e., fight) you than stand a pint." Thev wmt m. hill for about 120 yards, and prisoner threw off his coat and waistcoat, and proceed to spar before the deceased, who attempted to defend himJlf but |°t knocked down b/prisoner', 'T0„d bTow and fell on his head. His head came in contact with some sharp stones on the road, and his skull with some sharp stones on the road, and his skull was fractured in two places. He never recovered consciousness afterwards, and died after being attended by Dr Richard W. Jones, Penrhiwceiber The evidence as to the fight was given chiefly by two men named Davies and Green, and tended generally to show that the deceased changed his rwlf«ryulthehill'and said he would ,1.1 The prisoner, however, said that as he had come so far he would have it out. 3 £ e off.his coat and waistcoat, but the deceased did not. One witness Raid hp nt-. tempted to do so, but afterwards buttoned his coat again Some of the witnesses said Roberts when confronted by the prisoner, "shaped to fight in order to defend himself, but all the wit blow. d attemPfc to » Mr Marchant Williams, for the defence, asked the jury to say the occurrence was accidental, tW hi deceased provoked the fight, and result m a rough place and died as the caS riiSer ofPtb« snr".min8 UP> said that in this animosity to^s^^aJSE^bS ^eTng*^ caqses,ove/the me^sT trifl? It wast very'sad and very serious case, but the dnt,- nf • was clear. If the deceased came to his death "by to" 13™ Mm "° p™ but to find him guilty. He must rule that such a fight as was described was an unlawful act 1+ had been indulged in purely through drink, but they must remember that if there wire no intem LemSrreow 6" N^l °f thefr ga°ls m^ht sh^up aro?e fromdr?„t y e™ry Ca8e in the The jury found prisoner guilty, and recom- mended him t. mercy. The Judge said he entirely agreed with thp verdict. It was impossible to deny that prisoner had broken the law. If the prisoner had spent k m a,.ratlonal way his friend would still have been alive. He was in great trouble as to the case. He wished to vindicate the sacred- ness of human life and at the same time not to be too severe. He sentenced him to three calendar months'hard labour. calendar

GLAIORGANSHIRE fiSSIZES. Before the Lord Chief Justice. A BOY BIRCHED. 2uUtavVitdr,WiU\a.m Wiltahire' a b°y of 14, pleaded a il !,anf attemPt to assault Mary Ann Powell, a girl of four, at Llantrisant.-His Lordship ordered him to receive eight strokes with a birch rod. ALLEGED CRIMINAL ASSAULTS ON CHILDREN AT HAFOD. criminal M°rgau 2?' CoIIier' was for Ann w!l?S ^\UPu01?, two girls< named Sarah Ann Walley and Isabella Dodd, of the age of 12 ciwaTdTn M",T;Msr0hant William's pr„L: found tvr Davni Lewis defended.—The jury the off? gullty of attempting to commit reserved tf °n I?abella Dodd' and hi« 'ordsWp proceld 'enCe- The Prosecution did not prisoner fiecond indictment, charging prisoner with assaulting Sarah Ann Walley. A FILTHY OLD lIIAX. ofSio Hvan3' an ?lderly man- was convicted North road p" a hfctl« girinamed An™ Jones at nrosecuSfw ?orth—Mr T" Marchant Williams tude for five y^ars™61" mt° pe"aI servi- BIGAJIY. mSvMilu-aCrh' 32'.hau-ier' Pleaded guiIty to 3?vell YShlS ~lfe Phoebe Jane being DreviolI y ?d,Wgr"Pris0ner' who had been to five veai-a" g i ■<?r je dealing, was sentenced to nve years penal servitude. I INDECENT ASSAULT. muK i6'indicted for feloniously as- found^nm ?^ .7' aged 10' at Cymmerf was iZIS y ° attemPt-~The judge, in pass- i r ho i f' sad Pnsoner been under the age of was the fVe gIadly,5ad him whipped, as it labour 8entence would be six weeks' hard HEAVY SENTENCE FOR INDECENT ASSAULT. fei?n?ousWVanS a ,Collier' was indicted for feloniously assaulting Elizabeth Davies, atPonty- f, f.Mr Stephen prosected.—It was alleged [nmP uner waylaid prosecutrix as she wasjgoing from her master's house to Penycoedcae.-He penal servitude^ SentenCed to eight years CAUTION TO BOYS. Thomas Williams, William PhilliPs- Thomas firS Robbins were charged with sett- the itr6 v?3 Danygraig. st. Thomas, thoucht?n^ °f^rd Jersey-—His Lordship thought justice would be met by prisoners being bound over m their own recognizances, to come up for judgment when called upon. P SETTING FIRE TO GRASS Eobert Haynes, William ™ Carpenter, Charles Matthews, an- ry Short' charged with setting fire to growing grass at Llanownno, were sentenced to 21 days' hard labour, Short to seven

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The Brutal Oatrage by a Cnw- i bridge PolicM. TRIAL OF PRISONER AT SWANSEA Assizes. [SPECIAL HEPORT.] » At Glamorganshire Assizes (Crown Court) on Thursday (before Lord Chief Justice) William Evans, on bail, 'vas indicted for "feloniously wounding and causing grievous badilv harm to one William Martin, with intent to maim, dis- figure, and disable him, at Cowbridge," on April the 9th. r Arthur Lewis and Mr C. H. Glascodine ap- peared for the prosecution, and Mr Abel Thomas and Mr Tudor Howell for the defence. Mr Arthur Lewis in opening the case said that Marten was a sergeant of police stationed at Cow- bridge, whilst the prisoner was a constable, who was engaged to be married, and looked forward to the privilege of having charge of a police station. The prosecutor had to report hin twice for neglecting duty, but prisoner only became sulky and still more neglectful. About eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of April Martin; met Evans near the Eagle Store, in the principal street of Cowbridge, and again remonstrated with him, this tim for the absence from duty that afternoon. About midnight the same night they again met near the Eagle Stores. Evans was in company with a man named Roberts, who had a grudge against Martin, and argued it out with him rather noisily. Evans and Martin then walked to the police-station and back, and there ensued n altercation, during which Evans sprang at Martin twice and laid him on the ground. The prosecutor would tell them that when he was on the ground the prisoner at once made for his eyes and succeeded in tearing out the left one, le ving it hanging on his cheek. A Mrs Trott pulled the prisoner off, and saw the shocking result of prisoner's attack. The line of defence suggested before the magistrates was that the gouging was caused by a fall against the knob of the door close by. The evidence of Mrs Trott, the medical evi- dence, and certain evidence as to what prisoner had been guilty of on a previous occasion, however, would throw light on the prisoner's in- tention. At this stage Mr Tudor Howell formally pro- tested against evidence as to any other act of prisoner's being tenderee. His Lordship said he and his brother were clearly of opinion that such evidence was receiv- able, but he was willing to hear the question argued at a later stage. The prosecutor gave evidence of the assault. He said that the prisoner when near the Eagle Stores objected to his saying he would lock Roberts up if he didn't move. He said, "You don't know your duty, threatening to lock up a man for no offence. You are not fit to be a sergeant. I know my duty better than you, and am a better man." Expostulations of the same kind occurred up to the time of the assault. He called upon Roberts to assist him, but he did not do so. Mrs Trott then came to his assistance. An argument here ensued as to whether witness should be examined as to his knowledge of prisoner having committed a similar assault previously. His Lordship quoted authorities showing that evidence of such acts was admiqsible, but he ruled that it should not be elicited from that wit- 6In cross-examination prosecutor admitted having drunk brandies at Cowbridge Arms and the Bear Hotel. He told Roberts that he (Roberts) was the worse for drink, and Roberts replied, "I am not half so drunk as you are." He did not call Roberts "a nice Mrs Trott, landlady of the Globe Inn, Cow- bridge, said that she saw no blow struck. The prosecutor and prisoner struggled and fell, and she then heard one say "Oh don't! don't! She called to her husband and they pulled prisoner off. She said Oh, God, his eye is on his cheek." Mrs Rees heard prisoner say that Martin was not fit to be a sergeant. Sergeant Davies said that the prisoner gave him- self up after the affair occurred, and stated that the sergeant was drunk, and that they had a scuffle, in the course of which he lost his eye. Dr Miller, of Cowbridge, saw prisoner and Roberts after the occurrence. Prisoner told him that he saw prosecutor having an altercation with Roberts, and when he arrived prosecutor ordered him to take Roberts into custody. He declined to do so, whereupon prosecutor knocked him down and a struggle ensued, with what result he did not know. Witness was confidently of opinion that the eye had been completely gouged out by fingers. There were marks above the left eye also as of fingernails. Prosecutor had not been drinking, but prisoner had. I MrAbe Thomas addressed the court on prisoner's behalf, arguing that it WLS an accident, that the eye was gouged out by a single finger in the struggle, and that the sergeant did not after the occurrence suggest that the prisoner had done it. Mr Edward John, implement merchant, Cow- bridge, said the row occurred outside his shop, and after being knocked up twice he went down and saw prosecutor and prisoner fighting. They were standing up scuffling and both fell on to the pavement and against his show-room door. Evans immediately got on to Martin. In cross-examination by Mr Lewis, the witness could not say whether the time was quarter past twelve, as he said before the magistrates, or quarter to twelve, as he now said. It did not affect the truth of his story at all. He would put it at twelve. I Mr Lewis Do you do that to accomodate me ? His Lordship You are an alderman of the borough of Cowbridge, but you are also a witness before a judge of the High Court; and you are not to be the judge as to what is material to the case. Now, oblige me by answering the question. Witness Well, it was twelve o'clock. Mr Lewis Then why did you sa\1 quarter past twelve before the magistrates and half-past eleven to a quarter to twelve here ? I further cross-examination witness was accused by Mr Lewis of varying his story in certain particulars from that given before the magis- trates. Mark Roberts was then called, and stated that Martin struck him and told prisoner to take him into custody, but he refused, Martin then struck him and a scuffle ensued. They fell against the door and rolled across the pavement into the gutter. Evans called out "Roberts Roberts I" They were on their knees when they fell by the door. In reply to the judge witness admitted that he thought it only a joke when Martin threatened to take him to the station. William Morgan, ostler, said that Sergeant Martin was drunk on the evening of the assault. Mr Thomas Spencer, landlord of the Duke of Wellington Inn, Cowbridge, said he remembered Martin coming to his house in the evening in question the worse for liquor. He recommended soda water, but Martin asked for port wine and brandy. He gave him port wine, but not brandy. He staggered over the step in going out. Mr Lewis: You say he was drunk, but you gave him something to make him worse. Witness I gave him port wine. That would not make him much worse than he was. Mr Abel Thomas then addressed the jury, con- tending that in the fall and struggle the sergeant who was the worse for liquor and had provoked the attack, had his eye accidentally gouged out. The Judge summed up for over three-quarters of an hour. He remarked that there was no doubt the eye was gouged out, and if not by prisoner, by whom ? Whether it was done acci- dentally or intentionally was for them to. con- sider, but he had from the beginning watched most carefully for one fragment of regret ex- pressed by the prisoner for this horrible affair. Was it possible that a man could be so inhuman as, when face to face with the shocking results of the scuffle, even if they had been accidental, not to let fall one syllable as to the wrong he had done. The jury, after a brief conference, returned a verdict of guilty. His Lordship, in passing sentence, referred in strong terms to prisinor's conduct. He had dis- graced himself and his uniform. He could not come to any other conclusion thar that the out- rage was intentional. Even is if the sergeant was drunk it was, of anything, still more atrocious to main him in his helpless condition. He regarded this as the most ferocious crime short of murder over which it had been his unhappy lotto preside. He sentenced prisoner to fifteen years' penal servitude. r

WELSH GLEANINGS. His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence and A vondale has expressed his intention of visiting Breconsh-re :n September next, and his desire of attending the County Agricultural Shuw. ,Ilr INIrtin Edwards, the district coroner, has held au inquest at the Town-hall, Newport, touch- ing the death of Hannah Lloyd, aged 38, wife of Hebry Lloyd, of M'Carthy's-court, Commercial. street, who was found dead by poisoning in a fiald near ChnVchurch Cemetery on Tuesday evening. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned °a verdict of Suioide whilst temporarily insane." At the Glamorganshire Assizes at Swansea wag. heard an action brought by Mrs Watt, Cardiff, against Mra Copper, Cardiff, for libelling her on postcards. At his lordship's suggestion a verdict for plaintiff, with five guineas damages and costs, was agreed to, defendant unreservedly withdraw ing all imputations and expressing regret for hav- ing mada them. Madame Patti-Nicolini and a party from Craig. y-Nos Castle, visited Neath last week, and gave a grand concert on behalf of the local charities, and *■0 est'ma';e^ the proceeds will reach £ 800. At Glamorganshire Assizes the slander aotion of t e Rev. B. D. Johns, Mertbyr, agairst his deacon, David Davies, travelling fl anoel dealer, oonclud in a verdict for the plaintiff with damages 220. At Cardiff the foundation stone of the handsome new market it is proposed to erect in St. Mary- etreet, has been laid. The Lord Mayor of London, Archdeacon Farrar the Bishop cf Bangor, Sir R. Williams-Bulkeley, Bart., Sir J. Pulestow, M.P., Mr W. Rathbone. M P-, and Sir C. Tupper, Chief Commissiontr of Canada, have consented to act as presidents of the National Eisteddfod of Wales which is to be held at Bangor next month. Mr J. M. Child, of King Edward's Sohool, Grantham, has obtained an open scholarship at Jesus College, Cambridge, of f,40 a year, tenable for three years and a school exhibition of f,30 a year for the same peried. He is the youngest son of the late Mr James Mark Child, J.P., and D.L., for the Counties of Carmarthen and Pembroke' and was tormerly at Haverfordweat Grammar"- School. The next competition for the scholarship, estab- lished by "Pencerdd Gwalia," will take place at the Royal Academy of Music, London, on vVednesday, 24th of September. Intending competitors, who may be either male or female vocalists, under 18 years of age and of Welsh nationality, must send in their Lames, with certificate of birth, to the seoretaiy on or before the 15th of September. Last week as Mr James Weeks was coming down the hill at Hengoed with his horse and oart a hive of bees, from which the Rev. T. Batstone was taking the honey, swarmed ont and settled, stung Waeks and his horse. Both were badly Last week the Deputy Coroner (Mr Edward Powell) opened an inquiry at Feath touch. ing the death of Hannah Maiawaring, of Jenkin- court, Neath, whose death is alledged to have been caused by Janet Bray, through striking her on the head with a brick. The jory having viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned until Monday. A post-morten examination was directed to be held in the meantime. In the course of the demolition of some old cottages at the rear of the Dock-street Post-office Newport, a man named Bengimin Wheeler of Birmingham, was killed by the sudden falling of a wall. Another working-man, named -Elijah Gilbert received servere injuries, and was taken to the in- firmary, where his condition was annouced to be critical. The removal of the cottages had been undertaken by Mr William Jones, builder, Pill. gwenlly, and is inteuded to afford space for the more adequate accommodation of the teleeranhic staff at the Post-office. s pnic On Thursday afternoon, after the olose of the. concert given by Madame Patti, the movements of a man who was mingling with the crowd out-side the halljn a supicjous manner attracted theattenfc ion of the Head Constable (Mr Evan Evans) and P.b. Jones, who were so Bolicitous for his welfare th°y "rested him. A silk handkerohief, con- cerning which the prisioner manifested the great. est anxiety, was afterwards identified as the property of Mra Lewis Arnold. He gave his name as Jones, and said he lived at 72, St. Helen's-road Swansea. » At the half-yearly meeting of the Docks Com- pany last week a dividend at the rate of 3t per cent, per annum was declared on the ordinary shares, after providingfor an interest on debenture stock and dividend at the Four per Cent. Prefer- encs Shares. A balance of £ 11,656 was also carried over. A sad and fatal railway accident occurred near Neath on Saturday night. It appears that a gangernamed James Harris, in the employ of the Great Westeni Railway Company, was retrunimj to his home at Briton Ferry-road, on Saturlav niaht accompanied by his grandson, nine years of ace' and when between Neath Abbey and Briton Ferrv he was run over and killed by the 9.80 p.m goods train ex Swansea his watch stopped at 12.23. The tie boy, who happily escaped, is said to have warned his grandfather of the approach of the train He afterwards informed his grandmother of the occurrence. The body was found in a fearfully mangled condition, and conveyed home. Madame Patti, it will be remembered, caught cold in the spring of this year, and feeling some- what nervoua as to the condition of her throaf, she a short time a<?o consulted Sir Morel{ Maoker ztj n London. 1 he eminent specialist msds a carefi l e xamination, atid expressed himself ta8 perfectly satisfied that there wasabBolatly no cause for alarm. The possessor of such a throat in his opiniorj should never lose her voioe. Sir Morell MackeLzie has been invited to Graig.y-Nos Castle and is expected there on the 18th or 20th of August. Abontt^ o clock on Saturday morning, whilst inspector Morgan, Aberdare, and two others were proceeding to Merthyr on a Great Western Rail- way engine near the approach to the tunnel they saw a cask containing naptha, lying across the line. As the engine could not be stopped in time to avert a catastrophe, the men being unable to romove the obsacle, the engine was quickly enveloped in a blaze, and the inspector and his companions were severely burned, Mr Morgan was conveyed to his residence at Aberdare and injuries were attended to by Dr. Rhys Thomas. The other men were sent on to Merthyr.

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