... COUNTY COURT. A sitting of this Court was held at the Town Hall on Wednesday, before J. M. Herbert, Esq., Judge. The following were the only cases of interest:— JUDGMENT SUMMONS. Catherine rugh, formerly a licensed victualler at Varteg, was summoned at the instance of Mr J. G. Williams, brewer, of Blacnavon, for failing to comply with the order of the Court. In August of last year, plaintiff ...

... LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS. THE MONMOUTH ASSIZES will commence on Monday, the 28th of July. TIME FOR REFLECTION AND PAYMENT.—On Monday, at the Town Hall, William Screen was charged before the Rev J. C. Llewellin with being drunk on Saturday night, at Abersychan. Sergt. Lewis supplied the evidence against him, and he was ordered to pay a fine of 10s. and costs.—He applied for time and was allowed ...

... (Before E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq., and Rev T. EVANS.) CRUELTY TO A HORSE. Thomas Morris, a haulier, of Pontnewynydd, was summoned for cruelly ill-treating a horse by work- ing it in an unfit state.—P.c. Gardner deposed to having seen a son of the defendant's driving a horsp. in Sebastopol; he examined the animal, and fonna under the collar two large raw wounds, which must have caused intense pain ...

... The county Dublin Grand J ury,on Monday, passed a resolution, by fifteen to six votes, sanctioning the proposal of the Dublin Southern District Tramwav Company to use steam power on their Blaekroek line. A labourer named Hugh Maguire has been charged at Manchester, with biting his wife's lip off. Prisoner and his wife had been drinking, and in a quarrel he seized her under-lip between his ...

... A French statist has come to the conclusion, after very laborious examination of the number of leaths from railway accidents in all parts of the world, that if a person were to live continually n a railway carriage, and spend all his time n travelling the chances in favour of his dying from -ailwav accidents would not occur until he was 960 fears old. John Martin Wall, accountant, was charged ...

... The special correspondent of the Cape Town Daily Telegraph, in a despatch says :— The Colonial wal with the rebel Basutos is causing both anger and grief here. It is only the wisdom of the policy which sustains the popularity of Government. Officers in Basutoland, as in Zululand, seem incapable of doing anything the only difference is that in Basutoland we fight and are defeated, and in ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. The Proprietor docs not hold himself responsible for the opinions of his Correspondents. The columns of this paper arc at all times open to the ex- pression of opinions on subjects of a public character. Correspondents are requested to write on one side or the paper only, and to avoid personalities; and must enclose with the letter their OWN names and postal addresses, not ...

... To heal the sick and alleviate the sufferings of poor frail humanity, is the grandly beneficent office of the physician; and few there are among us who have not, at some time or another, found it necessary to call into their aid the skilful ser- vices of some one of the noble band who have undertaken the self-sacrificing duties of a profes- sion which demands, more than any other, that their ...

... The Wesleyan Conference commenced its 136th annual session on Tuesday morning at Birming- ham, and was attended by about 600 ministers. Dr. Rigg, the President, occupied the chair. There has been considerable diversity of opinion respect- ing the President for the ensuing year, but when the vote was taken it was found that the 'number for the Rev. E. Jenkins was 75, and for the Rev B. Gregory, ...

... At Pentre Police Court, Rhondda Valley, on Monday, several members of the Salvation Army, including Misses Mary and Louisa Lock (one of whom is only 14 or 15 years of age), were summoned by the Superintendent of Police for obstructing the highway on Sunday, the 24th ult. Mr Williams (Hollier and Williams) prosecuted, and Mr Walter ^?an defended. Evidence of the obstruction was Sergt. Noot, of ...

... (By Archibald Cameron, author of Musings in an Infirmary Ward,$r. I saw in thee a bud of hope. I pictured thee a woman grown, To be to me a stay and prop When age had marked me for its own. But, oil! how transient earthly joys There came two angels bright and fair, In search of some sweet floweret prize They plucked one from that little chair. One year hath flown but where art thou That once ...

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