... Sunday afternoon. An unwearied pall of cloud muffling the sky from zenith to horizon. A pale tired-looking girl seated drearitily before a wood fire. Myself ? Moralizing again, I am afraid, for although a step is on the threshold, I fail to hear it. I am sitting in a small ante-room, adjoining the chamber of death, into which I can see through the open door. The nurse has left everything in ...

... 1ST ThIox. ARTILLERY A OLUNTKKKS.—Four gun detachments of the Panteg Artillery left Griffiths- town by the 2.4 p.m. train on Saturday last, to carry out their annual practice with the (jJ lb. R- M. L. guns on the East Moors, Cardiff; Major Lyne, and Lieuts. Steedman and Head being ijre- sent. Captain Owen, R.M.A., and orcester Artillery pra/^ 1 c ON annivt preachea in the morning 6 in the ...

... THE TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. R. JONES. To the Editor of the Free Press, Sir,—In the last issue of your valuable paper a sea- sonable reference was made to the fact that the Rev. R. Jones, of Pisgah, Talywain, intends shortly to leave the neighbourhood for Australia, and that he is necessitated to adopt this course of action from domestic considera- tions which will secure both for him and his ...

... [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] 'TWIXT CUP AND LIP. BY NANNIE LAMBERT, Authoress of Spring Leaves, Tlwughts on the Talmud, 4-c. CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) I'ciiicb does not write. I know not whither h. has gone. If he communicates with Mrs. Daring, or Carl, they keep their own counsel and nobody is one bit the wiser 'tpon the subject. I long intensoly to ask. I hunger and thirst for tidings of him, ...

... Tho South Australian papers mention an incident which may be usefully noted here. On one afternoon in May last, Dr. Parker, of Port Lincoln, was about to start upon a fishing excursion with Mr. Charles Inderwick, who had recently arrived in the colony. Through carelessness or oversight, Dr. Parker found himself launched alone in his boat with but one car. This he used for some time, but ...

... BATHING AT A TYROLESE WATERING- PLACE. Ignorant of the excessively long time these pcoplo in thoir tubs (says the author of Gadùings with a lnmlb ve. People) we put off our breakfast in enjoy a good dip in the invigorating waters °i e enter the crazy old doorway giving entrance to the log-built bath-house intent upon our anticipated plunge; but we proceed no further, for rooted to the ground ...

... [ALL RIOHTS RE?EnVED.J D-v N' ANN IF, T, \MI;RRT, Authomt Spring Lave, Thought, on the Ti:lmud, ft, CHAPTER I. A French Railway Station, miimay between Paris and Pau, Xight Atrnc»pLcro—bitter Snow on tho ground—in the air--darkcning the hanging heavens. A cheerful fire burning in the waiting-room of the station, around which three persons are sitting, awaiting the train which is to carry ...

... THE members of the 11 League of the Cross, with numerous Catholic friends from Newport, visited Caerphilly Castle on Monday last. The ar- rangements made for the comfort and amusement of old and young were unusually good, embracing games of all kinds, and a plentiful supply of cheap and good refreshments. The procession was of a lively and most imposing character, and extended for more than ...

... THE 'BISHOP OF NATAL ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. The following is an extract from a sermon preached by the Bishop of Natal on the occasion of the death ot Prince Louis Napoleon:—Our noble sons fell u. Isandhlwana and the bones unburieu show how they fought around their gallant leader, and lay down with him in death, as God willed it and with Him is their reward who spared not ...

... GARIBALDI has made a demand for the annulling of his marriage with Signora Raimondi, and the lady has mado a similar demand. ...

... NO. II. THE LEGEND OF PIRATES' POINT. Where the fast-broadening river bends In its long passage to the main, As if, in fear of ocean storms, Inland 'twould softly wind again. Where tall ships seeming sail the land, And straying storm-birds dip the wing, Where the scant sea-weeds fringe the shore, And o'er the waste the shrill winds sing,— On yonder point of mournful marsh, Where strong-built ...

... George Hicks, of Talywain, was sualmotied for as- saulting John Price, a young lad, by wilfully putting a dog on to bite him.—Mr Greenway appeared for the defendant,-The boy stated that on the previous Saturday he was playing near his mother's house, when the defendant set a dog upon him, which upset him and bit him behind.—In cross-examination, wit- ness stated that other boys were playing ...