... At tho county police-court, at Coventry, yes- terday, Oliver Ford and Arthur Stew, miners. Longford, were summoned for cruelty to a tame pigeon. Ford pleaded guilty, Stew not guilty. Superintendent Prosser stated that on Sunday morning last, in consequence of hearing shots fired at clie back of Salem Chapel, Longford, he went into a field, in which he saw the two defendants, accompanied by ...

... The proceedings of the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain were con- cluded at Birmingham yesterday, Mr B. Picard, M.P., again presiding.—The President stated that the federated coal-owners had arranged to meet the Miners' Federation in London on the 21st inst. to discuss the eight hours' question. It had been arranged that the representati ves of the miners should ...

... Richard Ha.n a.nd Geo P'n'y, both collif.rs of Newbridge, were brought up under remand at the B, ood t?o!ice-coi:rt, yesterda-y, charged with being engaged in a, prize tight at Newbridge on Monday morning- !.it. Prisoners pleaded guilty to fighting, but not to prize fighting. P.O. Wiilia.ms, of the Abcl'cørll Policp, s.ud th:tt he heard it rumoured on Saturday night a. ...

... A Meeting of the MelingrifStb tin-platore, who are OQ strike, was held to-day at the bead- quartftr8, the Fox and Hounds Inn, Whitchurch. Several addresses were delivered. Mr Wm. Guy, a member of the executive of the Llanelly dis- tr ct, being the chief speaker. The men were exhorted to remain firm, and unanimously de- cried to do go. ...

... AV APPALTFD GUEST. This happened in th b&ck'.voods or Arkansas. A tourist gc)iBg o\'pr the State o':r horseback stopped for the night at one of the popular hotels of a certain locality. The hotel happened to be a log and affair of three 1'0ûms and the sme number of b,c1, v/Iiile the proprietor was the proud pf.rent of nine wild a.nd woolly-looking sons under 12 yea-ra of A Her a supper of ...

... FACTS AND FANCIES. It costs more to revenge injuries than to beM them. Men are a,pt to pllW with their health a.nd their li ves as they do with their clothes. Every great a.nd commanding movement in the ?tnna.b of the wortd is the triumph of enthusiasm. A paper recently started in Idstho has for its motto Grasp all in sight, and hustie for more. Happiness, in its fuU extent, ip the utmost ...

... Alarming Accident to the Orient Express. I [REETKR'S TELEGRAM. ] CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday. Last night the Orient express, the train which conveys passengers direct from Constantinople to Paris and vice verm, was thrown off the'line near Tcherkesskeni, a small town in the mountainous district between this city and Adrianople. The derailing of the train was the deliberate work of brigands. The ...

... DESPERATE STRUGGLE IN AN EXPRESS TRAIN. A desperate struggle occurred in the 5.30 ex- press from Chester to London on Saturday night. After leaving Wellington the only passengers in one of the compartments were Ellen Johnson, aged 17, Talbot-street, Kidderminster, and Alfred Jones, discharged soldier, Avondale-road, Peck- ham. Jones commenqed an assault, and in the tunnel between Wellington ...

... At a monthly meeting of the Baptist Churchet of the -Aferti-iyr district, hld at Carinel, TroGdy. rhi\v, on Monday, under the presidency of Mt D. Da,vics, ]Merthyr. The following resolutioa wa.s unanimousiy parsed :— we heg to encer our most sincere and solem protest tg--Linst the inhuman practice of rabbit cours- ing so prevaleiit in this neighbourhood. The brutish and manner in WhIcn these ...

... THEFT AT THE WEST DOCK. At the Cardiff police-court this morning—be- fore Sir Morgan Morgan and Alderman D. Lewis, deputy-mayor)—Thomas Davies (18) was charged with entering the forecastle of the schooner Ebenezer, lying in the West. Dock, and stealing therefrom an overcoat, an undercoat, a vest and a pair of gloves of the value of £ 2 10s, the property of William Evans, seaman, on the 24th ...

... DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT A MILL. The Press Association's Ramsgate correspondent telegraphs :-At an early hour this morning Hansom Mill, in the occupation of Mr Cuswick, was entirely burned down. The mill contained a large Quantity of grain, which was totally destroyed. The damage amounts to several thousand pounds. ...

... The London committee formed for of aiding-the movement in favour of lishment of a department of medica. working with considerable persistence success. Lord Tredegar, on the und. that the project goes forward. has, wi generosity, promised the handsome I £100, a figure which we also find agair of Lord Aberdare. Mr Arthur J. M.P., and Dr Theodore Williams a!- the more recent subscribers, and ...