... SOME wretch has the audacity to remark that the ladies deck their hats with flowers in memory of the men who have been killed by milliners' billa. ONE of the most unexpected and spirit-drooninr things is to borrow an umbrella and find the pro- ^netor s name indelibly attached to the handla. A COUNTRY PAPER llays: 'A child was run over wagon three years old, and cross-eyed, with knick- ...

... .,„TT2ENHUNDRED AND SEViSNTli. ] EIGHT. AiLo^' tiier it hall >>een an unsatisfactory year, and ji mlny respects unfortunate and even disastrous. So ws arrive at the end of it with a certain feeling of relief, and in the fervent hope that the new year will be very different. War, plague, pestilence an famine, battle, murder, and siiiden death—formidable as the words sound—scarcely include the ...

... 1\rB. GLADSTONE'S SIXTY-NINTH BIRTH- DAY. The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone cele- brated the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birth, at Hawai in Castle, on Sunday, and the event happen- ing or..Sunday there was no public demonstration of any i nd. Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone, and Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., and his wife, walked from the castle to the morning service at ...

... An extraordinary disclosure has been made at the petty sessions at Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire. Joseph Mason, a shoemaker, 70 years of age, was charged by the parish authorities with leaving hit wife chargeable to Aberisthwith Union. It was shown in evidence that the old man lived far up on the mountain top, miles away above the lead mines of Gogigan, and that when an officer went to the ...

... THE ARREST OF A KING. Some further particulars of the dispute between King George of Bonny and his chiefs are brought by the mail steamer Senegal, which has arrived in the Mersey. One of the laws of Bonny forbids him ap- pearing at any of the markets which are likely to be influenced by his presence. While amusing himself by going up and down the rivers in the steam-launch with which he was ...

... The Standard imderstands that it has been decided to make preparations at the dockyard for eome im- ortant additions to the strength of the navy Two mproved Inflexibles and another ship of the torpedo am type will probably be laid down very shorth a ad the names that they will bear are the Maiestic' the Conqueror, and the Colossus. The Crown Prince of Germany met with a sliVVif accident on ...

... THE CHURCH GUILD.—On Monday evening a well- attended meeting was held at the St. David's School- room, of the members of the Merthyr Church Guild, under the presidency of the Rector, for the purpose of making arrangements for the distribution of a large number of garments which had been made by the ladies of the Dorcas Society during the past year. The Rector complimented the ladies upon the ...

... On Tuesday night, a grand soirde was held in th* Gwernllwyn Schoolroom. There was a fair attendant, and a splendid programme was gone through. ThS room was very artistically decorated for the SdoiC THE usual watch-night services were held at a number of the places of worship in the town on New Ywt'ff when sermons were Dreachtvi in = • »-»ave, crowded audiences. m sotne noe^ to SIR IVOR GUEST, ...

... On Thursday evening a boiler explosion, by which five persons were injured, occurred at the house of Mr. John C. Hamilton, Standy Torrace, Preston. There was a parly, and in the midst of the merry- making a violent explosion shock the house and loud screaming was heard coming from the kitchen. Mr. Hamilton and his friends ran into the kitchen, and found one side of the room wrecked and five ...

... Mr. C. Phillips Bevan writes to the Timet:—The fear 1878 has been a memorable and a sad one in the knnals of trade and industry. For months past there has been the same dull monotony of falling markets, wages reduced, workmen discharged, mills closed, fur- naces blown out, and collieries laid off, and 1879 opens imid universal depression and distress, suoh as the present generation has seldom ...

... A tale almost worthy of a place in the Arabian Nights is reported from the suburbs of Paris, where a gentleman had resided quietly and comfortably until a few months ago. In an auspicious hour this good man set out upon a journey, dismissed all his servants and leaving his villa in Neuilly in charge of a con- fidential agent. When he returned from his travel he repaired to Neuilly, intending ...

... One of the most severe storms experienced in the United States for many years took place on the 9th and 10th inst. The rainfall being unusually heavy the rivers became swollen, and in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England railway tracks were washed away, bridges and dams destroyed, buildings driven from their foundations, and cattle drowned. The etorm caused much damage in ...