... The Detxoit papers give many particulars of the disaster to the steam propeller Brooklyn. The vessal, which be- longed to the Northern Transportation Company, and was bound from Buffalo to Chicago with a cargo of g -ncra'i merchandise, exploded her boilers eight miles below Detroit, and sank almost immsdiately. The Free Press says: — There was only an instant's warning. Passengers and crew ...

... WOUNDING CASK.—At the petty-seasiens on Monday, before Mr U. H. Page and Mr G. Phillips, Thomas Riley, on remand, was charged with unlawfully wound- ing James liyan, a labourer, of Mary Ann-street, on the night of the 20th of June, with a poker. Inspector Thomas said that the prisoner stated that he inflicted the wound in defence of his sou. The charge was reduced to that of common assault, ...

... ACCIDENT ON THE TRAMWAY.— On Saturday evening a fatal accident took place on the company's tramway here. It seems that an engine was coming along with some iron ore, when by some chance it got off the rails, and was forced into a mine clump. The side of the engine-box was forced in, and smashed the trucks all to atoms. The stoker escaped, but the driver, a married man, received such injuries ...

... CARDIFF BOROUGH EXTENSION. THE PURCHASE OF THE GAS AND WATER WORKS. LORD BUTE AND CATHAYS PARK. REMOVAL OF THE TURNPIKE GATES. A special meeting of the Cardiff Town Council was Wd at the Town Hall, Cardiff, on Thursday, foe- the .purpose of determiaiag whether « Bill should fee pro- moted in the ensuing session of PacGament for the exten- sion of the municipal pwrposes, the enlargement of the ...

... THE INFLUENCE OF TRADES' UNIONS AND CLERGYMEN. Mr Macdonald, M.P. for Stafford, was present at a meeting of ironstone miners, held in Glasgow, and com- menting on the importance of trades' unions, he said they were the source of more charities, and had done more to make comfortable the homes of the poor than all the clergy of England and yet the clerical influence was the first to denounce ...

... THE CHEMISTRY OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. Perhaps one of the ablest and most entertaining lec- tures of any that have been delivered under the auspices of the Cardiff Naturalists'Society, was that which claimed the attention of a crowded audience in the Assembly-room, Town-hall, Cardiff, on Thursday night, under the presi- dency of Mr Franklen Evans. The subject was, The Chemistry of the Breakfast ...

... N OMINATION OF SHERIFFS. • The following gentlemen were nominated on Thursday uLSheriffs FOB CABH \BTHENSHIBB. — Howard S. Morgan, of Tegfywydd James Buckley, of Castellgorvod; Robert Parnell, The Cottage, Llanstephan; FOR GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Morgan S. Williams, Aber- pergwm near Neath; Thoo. P. Turberville, of Ewenny Abbey; John Homfray, of Penllyn Castle, Cowbridge. FOB BRKCONSHIKK.—James ...

... BEFORE you Purchase a Sewing Machine, 7°? u* vitcu t«*ll aud seo the HUWK SBWINO M^CUOSS. on eas.v tenuis of payment tt the Utpot, Smart-lK1- Two or three dosetÍ daily ot PEl'l'¡:B'S Qt1.UU: AND IKON causes a WOI.derful improvement to weak or liKirdered state ot health and Buffering 'i^m P* sl™ £ on ot itreii&th, narvous derangement, nenr»h5'c aec~™f' &nd pain* of ev«ry kind, sluggish ...

... latest Jflarkets. CO N. CARDIFF MARKET, SATURDAY. -We had a quiet market for both Kntlish and foreign wheat to-day, without quotable change In prices. Malting barhy d ill; grnndinp in better dmand. and fid per qr. dearer. Maize Am, with a fair enquiry. Oats also firm jieans unchanged. (iLOUCESTEK CORN MARKET, SkTURDAT.-At our market to-day there was le s Eng'ish wheat on offer, with trade s ow ...

... TELBGEAMS- ITER'S A. A K WS TELEGRAMS. ILLNESS OF OUUNT ARNIM. Thursday.—Count Ariiim by order of E METROPOLITAN court is now confined to his own He was not, when arrested, taken to the P°hce station. The Police Commissioner Bormann ppered at the counts residence with a. warrant HIS arrest. The counts physicians certified hat the state of their patients health was such HAT his removal and ...

... PROBABLE DISPUTE IN THE NAIL TRADE. She t nailmakers of Bromsgrove yesterday decided to DP.6 Masters fourteen days' notice of an advance of fcent in their vuges. ...

... SCHOOL BOARD FOR PEN ART# A public meeting of the ratepayers of Penarth was held in the National Schoolroom last evening, called by overseers and churchwardens, pursuant to an order fr the Educational Department of the Frivy Council, that school board should be formed at Pera- th without in consequence of the required school a commodition 0*5 having been provided, and Ihe meeting was called ...