... r> A Man Killed. f last Mj a Cl^sh at Shrewsbury railway station, 'hingf^John Harrison, of Harboriie, Bir- kjjjgj ^ ...

... THE BLUBEARD OF COLOMBES. i A Domestic Tyrant. This week the Bluebeard ot Colombes—a Hi»t ...

... FIRST GLAMORGAN ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS. In consequence of the liberal response of the county to the appeal of the officer commanding the Glamorgan Artillery Volunteers, for funds to enable him to offer suitable prizes for great gun and also repository competition, we are informed that six prizes, amounting to L45, are offered for great gun practice between the 17 batteries of tbe brigade at ...

... Glamorganshire Assizes. I THIS DAY'S TRIALS. [SPKCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE KCHO.] I At the assizes to-day, Evan Griffiths, a collier, charged with committing an unnatural offence at Cymmer, was acquitted. Margaret Rogers, a woman of ill-fame, pleaded guilty to stealing some money from the pocket of a Norwegian at Swansea. She was sent to gaol for three months. ...

... SERVANTS SWEETHEARTING. I I At the Bolton county-court yesterday, Judge Hutton told a grocer's assistant named Joseph Cook, who sued his employer for wages, that a tradesman bad a right to give a servant notice if his love-making interfered with work. Cook admitted that the cause of the dispute was that be bad fallen in love with a servant, and the defendant would not have it. Ultimately an ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARDIFF, Early this morning Richard Joint, a man aged 76, employed at the Gloucester Wagon Works, died at the Cardiff Infirmary. He was engaged on Friday in greasing wagons, wl ^n lie was knocked down by a passing truck and severely injured. He was taken to the infirmary and attended to, but succumbed to-day. An inques will be held in due course. ...

... MIND YOUR HEADS/' A Cardiff Bridge Raised. That large section of the population of Cardiff which has occasion to pass through Bute-street three or four times in a day on top of an omnibus or tramcar will learn with considerable satisfac- tion that, when they proceed to the Docks this morning, they will find the Bute-street railway bridge raised at least a foot above its previous dangerously ...

... I ART THOU WEARY P Mr Gladstone has replied as follows to a Welsh gentleman who recently asked his opinion on the authorship of the well-known hymn Art thou weary?:—Dear Sir,—I thank you for your enclosure. I regret that I can only very briefly answer your question. Dr Neale was the translator, St. Stephen of Saba the author. Being of the Eastern Church, his name does not appear in the ...

... Latest Scratchings. Messrs Weatherby officially announce the following scratchings Huntingdon engagements—AT c and Ringlet ...

... Mr Millard, coroner for the district, has con- cluded an investigation into the singular circumstances surrounding the deaths at Bala, North Wales, of Edward David (7) and Margaret Aiice (4), children of Mr Watkin Jones, flannel manufacturer. The children died within half an hour of each other. Dr. Williams stated that on Sunday, when he was called in to see the children, the girl was dead, ...

... I Cambrian Archaeological j Association. I FOURTH DAY, The meetings of the Cumbrian Archaeological Association were resumed on Thursday. The weather was fine, and the excursion proved very pleasant. There was a larger attendance of members and visitors to-day, the ancient town of Llantwit Major and St Donat's Castle evidently proving attractive. We started the day's operations about 10 o'clock ...

... THE SWANSEA MEETING. The Glamorganshire Show, which closed at Swansea on Thursday, was the greatest success on record. The weather, in striking contrast to that of the opening day, was on Thursday delightfully fine, and consequently there was a great con- oourse of people in the Victoria Park, the spacious (,pen space placed at the disposal of the Glamorganshire Society by the corporation of ...