... On Tuesday morning the work of examining the voting papers and reckoning the votea given in the election of members for the Merthyr Local Board election was commenced, and during the afternoon the result of the contests in all the wards was made known. In four out of the five wards there were contests. Mr Thomas Jenkins, who retired for the Dewlais Ward, did not stand, whilst Mr D. Davies, ...

... These Sessions commenced on Monday last at Swansea, on which day the county business w?s transacted. On the following day (Tuesday), the criminal business was proceeded with, when the follow- ing cases from this locality were heard and disposed of. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES AT MERTHYR. Mary Gowman, (on bail,) was indicted for obtaining by false pretences fram Mary Flaberty, a pair of boots, the ...

... ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. THE VAYNOR SCHOOL BOARD. SIB,—1 beg to thank you for your kind and compli- mentary remarks on the occasion of my retirement from Vaynor School Board, and I hope that you will allow me thus publicly to testify how great has been the help accorded to the members of the Board by their indefatigible and clever vice-chairman, Mr William Jones, to whom by right belongs the ...

... A great trades demonstration was held in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. Among the trades re- presented were the amalgamated engineers, the furriers tailors, hatters, boilermakers, bookbinders, pattern- makers, railway servants, and ironfounders, number- ing in all about 15,000 persons. A temporary platform was erected in the vicinity of the Reformers Tree. Mr. J. Burnett, who was unanimously ...

... t m16 of revivalism was witnessed it Manchester on Sunday. Handbills had been dis- nbuted announcing a series of special revival ser- .ices to be held in the Grosvenor Street Mission Hall n that city by The Salvation Army, and the fol- owing characters were announced to take part in Way s services:—Captain Booth, with his ifheld P7 Bill^nd Qlory Tom> W .!l j Shaker Bill, from Blackburn and a ...

... THE LAW ON BREACH OF PROMISE 01 MARRIAGE. On Thursday, an action in the Exchequer Division Reece v. Lupson, was heard before Mr. Under- Sheriff. Burchell and a jury, at the Middlesex Sheriffs' Court, for breach of promise of marriage, it which judgment was allowed to go by default. Mr Purvis was counsel for the plaintiff, Annie Reece and Mr. Glyn for the defendant, Frederick Lupson. a ...

... To the Editor of the Birmingham Daily Mail. Sir,—I regret having to occupy some of your valu- able space for this letter, but the palpable error you committed in Monday's Mail, ought not to pass un- noticed. Mr. William Whiteley, the well-known London tradesman, who has some eight or nine shops in Weatboume Grove, waa summoned on Saturday (or eellingcoala of abort weight, by a certain Mr. ...

... Are pretty women fools necessarily ? Is not the prettiness the cause of their folly, rather than then folly the cause of their prettiness? I it meant tha the moment they began to use their intelligence the;, would lose their good looks ? We remember aver., clever but plain woman, to whom we were extollin cleverness, suddenly exclaiming, evidently from th depth of a long and bitter experience, ...

... Local Electioneering Experiences in 1879. Dramatis Persona: Mr. Doctus. Mr. Pharmaceuticus. Mr. Publicus. Mr. Absentius. Mr. Legalitus. ELBGTION MomnNa.—Scene 1.—The High-street. Mr. Doctus and Mr. Pharmaceuticus meet. Mr. Pharmaceuticus Ah Doctus, my dear Doctus, how are you ? I hope you are;pretty well, Doctus that Mrs. Dectus is pretty well, and that all the little Doctuses are in an ...

... WARNING RECKITT'S PARIS BLUE.—The marked supe- r ority of this Laundry Blue over all others, and iie quick appreciation o! its merits bv the Public have been attended by the usual results, viz a flood ot imitations the merit n the latter mainlr consists in the ingenuitv exerted, not simply in imitating the quare shape but making the general appeaer anceo th wrappers resemble that of the ...

... A PROPOSED AMERICAN WELCOME. A plan has been submitted to the directors of the L'mon Pacific Railroad for a grand excursion from Uashing-ton to San Francisco, about the 1st of August next, to receive and welcome ex-President Grant on his return from his lony tour. Many sena- u .rs and representatives are understood to be wanplv In favour of the idea, and it is thought that from ->0,000 to ...

... THE PRIZE DRAWING for the valuable musioal box given by the Rev J. B. Sanders, D.D., took place on Monday last at the Catholic Schools, Merthyr. The winning number was 157. OPENING OF THE AMERICAN PROVISION STORES.— Mr J. W. Gunn's establishment in High-street was, on Friday and Saturday, the scene of crowds of people who wished to possess themselves of the American fresh meat sold there. The ...