... NEWPORT BOARD OF GUARDIANS- The ordinary meeting of this Board was held at the Union Workhouse on Saturday, when there were pre- sent:: Mr. P. Woodruff (in the chair).; Mr. W. Jones, Cefullogell, (in the vice-chair); Messrs. C. Lyne, TE. LatchrS. Scard, E. Cross, J. W. Bebell, M. M. Cope, R- Nurse, E. Thomas, J. H. Hillieiy H. L. Morgan,, W. Prioe, and J. Brown. STATISTICS. Newport Union ...

... A SCHOOLMISTRESS FINED FOR CRUELTY. Last week. at the Rochdale Police Court, a respectably-attired young woman, named Annie Belliqin, schoolmistress of St. Patrick's Catholic Sohool, was charged with illtreating Bridget Mnl- leran, aged fourteen years, an orphan. Mr. T. Wheathead appeared for the complainant. — Mulleran stated that her cousin, a little boy, was beaten at the school a few days ...

... The Pall MaU Gazette of Monday says :— The more cheerful feeling in the iron trade continues. The reports from all our manufacturing districts and from abroad speak of amelioration, and more confidence in the future is everywhere being shown. The North of England and Cleveland pig iron trade at the beginning of last week had an upward tendency; the business showed considerable animation with ...

... The ordinary meeting of this Board was held on Saturday, at the Union Workhouse, when there were present: Mr. P. Woodruff (in the chair; Mr. W. Jones, Cefnllogell) in the vice-chair); Revs. D. Roberts, and F. B. Leonard; Messrs. R: Stratton, J. W. Bebell, C. Lyne, S. Scard, E. Thomas, P. James, Rees Keene, Edgar Morgan, H. L. Morgan, E. Cross, M. M. Cope, W. Price, J. H. Huxtable, and James ...

... RATS. Whem, as Boswell relates,. Dr. Grainger read poem. on. the Sugar. cane, .r at? the house of Sir J osb Reynolds, and after much blank-verse pomp, gan a. new paragraph with § Now, Muse, let's-sing-of rats. J all the assembled wits burst into a laugh whereOK he expunged the direct noun substantive, but har bettered matters by substituting, for it the no ludicrous periphrasis of the ...

... The petition for the winding up of Jones Brothers, Middlesbrough, will be held in the Chancery Division, High Court of Justice, on the 24th inst. The meeting of creditors is fixed far the 22nd, The company had a capital of £ 80,000. The works stopped pn Monday. ...

... MR. MITCHELL HENRY OX MR. PARNELL'S CONVENTION. The following letter of Mr. Mitchell Henry to the Secretary of the Home Rule League lias been published in Dublin:— Without my concurrence, or even any previous communication with me, I fiud myself placed on a committee for the purpose of getting together a national convention, the avowed object of which is to alter, enlarge, or suppress the ...

... COUNTY (NEWPORT DIVISION) BREWSTETS SESSIONS. (To the, Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin.) Sirt-I notice with much surprise in the report, un- der the above heading, contained in your issue of the 5th instant, a statement by Inspector Sheppard with reference to the Cyprus Inn, Risca, and should like to ask, through the medium of your paper, by what right does Inspector Sheppard take the ...

... The Racecourse Licensing Act, which received the Royal assent on July 3rd last, will create a great change with respect to the holding of metropolitan and suburban races. Section 2 of the Act provides that from and after the 25th March 1880, it shall not be lawful that any horse race be held or take place on any pretext whatsoever within a radius of ten miles from Charing Cross, in the city of ...

... At Marlborough street Police-oourt, last week, a man named John Pearce was brought up on a warmnt charged with unlawfully assaulting and beating his wife, Sarah Pearce. The parties have been married about eleven years, and of late the wife had been subject to very severe ill-treatment at the bands of the prisoner. In June, 1877, she brou ...

... Mr. St. Clair-Bedford held an inquest at the St. Martin's Vestry Hall, Charing Cross, last week, concerning the death of a male child that was thrown over Waterloo bridge. — In- spector Hodson, of the Thames Police, said about twelve o'clock on Monday week he was at at the Thames Police-station, Waterloo pier, when he heard a splash in the water, as if something had been thrown from Waterloo ...

... | THE LADIES' COLUMN. > To PREVENT THE SMELL OF NEW PAINT.—tjl a little chloride of lime on some hay put int0 room, and the door closed, will remove the pleasant smell. To SOFTEN HARD WATER.—Boil in an or^D sized kettle of water a two-ounce phial, an^h4 boil much quicker. TINCTURE OF ROSES (a valuable ...