... THE PBOPOSED RAILWAY STATION AT YNYSOWEN. THE intelligence which reached the Merthyr Board of Health last Wednesday, that the Taff Vale Railway Directors would reconsider the Board's suggestion for the erection of a railway station at Ynysowen, formed a pleasant surprise. The Taff Vale Company have rarely, if ever, shown a want of sympathy with public wants, and their secretary, Mr Marwood, ...

... AN EXPENSIVE KISS. At the Rufford Petty Sessions, a young man named Thomas Pickavant has been charged with assaulting Emma Blackstone. Mr. Brighouse, of Ormskirk, defended.—The complainant, a young lady of twenty, stated that en Sunday evening, the defendant over- took her and her sister as they were walking home, and kissed her twice without her-consent. She admitted to Mr. Brighouse that she ...

... SATUBDAY.—{Before John Bishop, EIq,) A PEBFECT DEVIL OF A WOMAN.—Harriet Dacey, certainly not a very formidable looking personage, appeared to a summons charging her with misbehaviour in the Workhouse Infirmary, of which she was a pauper inmate.—Mr J. L. Ward, house-surgeon, upon being sworn, stated that the defendant who could be got to behave nowhere else, was put into the syphilitic ward of ...

... MERTHYR BOARD of: guardians. The weekly meeting of the Merthyr Board of guardians was held last Saturday. There were present T. Clark (chairman), Mr R. H. Rhys (vice- chairman), Rev Aaron Davies, Messrs W. Williams, J. Johns, J. Gabe, R. Griffiths, B. Kirkhouse, D E. Williams, J. Williams, D. P. Davies, W. L. Daniel, T. ^awards, G. Martin, C. E. Matthews, W. Beddoe, «/• Jenkins, W. Smyth. ...

... LEAP FOR LIFE. During the siege of Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in 1777, Major McCulloch rode through the Indians in- vesting the place, with forty mounted men, and reached the fort. The men, though closely beset by the Indians, made their way into the gate, which opened to receive them. But McCulloch was the last man, and was cut off from his men, and nearly sur rounded by the Indians. He wheeled ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT ON SNOWDON. On Sunday afternoon a party of five young gentle- men, staying at Penygwryd, left the hotel for an as- cent of Snowdon. When some distance from the summit, one of their number complained of fatigue, and his companions proceeded with the ascent, ex- pecting that he would follow or return to the hotel. After waiting some time at the summit they descended the mountain, ...

... A man named William Haines, who had been ap- prehended on a charge of felony, and pending ; ...

... A deputation, introduced by Colonel Mure, con- sisting of nearly forty members of Parliament, waited on the Colonel Secretary on Friday, to press on the Government the desirability of establishing telegraphic communication with South Africa.— Sir M. H. Beach, in reply, said the time had now arrived when the necessity for 'the establish- ment of a cable was almost unanimously ac- knowledged in ...

... ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. A man named Thompson, a boiler maker, end hit wife, are now lying at the Hull Infirmary, with theit throats cut in a shocking manner. They had only been married a few months, and in consequence at her husband's misconduct Mrs. Thompson was com- pelled to leave him, and go into service. Late 011 Saturday night he met her near the place where she lives. He asked her ...

... IN PARLIAMENT, SESSION 1879. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. RHrMJSEY RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of the Merthyr Tydfil Local Board of Health, the govevning body for the district of Merthyr Tydfil, within the meaning of the Municipal Corporations (Borough Funds) Act, 1872, will be held in the Board Room, situate and beiug No. 71, High Street, in Merthyr Tydfil, on Wed- nesday, ...

... Whosoever will not in his turn serve those who serve him will go under, and as in the small so in the great. A true friend is one who will tell you of your faults and follies in prosperity, and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity. There are few things in life more interesting than an unrestricted interchange of ideas with a oongenial spirit; and there are few things mopo rare. The ...

... ROSBACH WATER.-Best Table Water known. I prefer it to the other Mineral Waters before the public. (Professor ] Wanklyn's Report.) Sold everywhere. Retail 6s. per dozen Pints 8s. per dozen Quarts. Original packages, containing 50 i Quart Glass Bottles, 29s.. or 100 Pint ditto, 4Hs—The Rosbach Company, limited, 35, Finsbury-circus, London, E.C. The medical profession order Cadbury's Cocoa ...