... The Man About Town. The County Council elections, so far as we are immediately concerned, will commence in all earnest to morrow, and the time is not yet too short to say a word of advice to my Liberal triends in both counties. The first suggestion is that all qualified persons should go early to the voting place, and that they should muster beforehand, if they get hold of them, the needful ...

... IMITATING JACK THE RIPPER IN SOMERSET. A case has just occurred at Yeovil showing the effect the recent tragedies has on the minds of some young people. It appears that two boys enticed a little fellow into a lane called Red Lion Lane. It is alleged that they threw him down, and that whilst one of them held him down the other drew an old rusty sword across hie throat. The weapon only made a ...

... I SPORTING I i EMS. Humewood is on offer to a French breeder. Wagering on the Waterloo Cup is still a dead letter, H.R.H. the Prinoe of Wales is exp&oted at Nice on the 25 h inst. Jack Wannopoffers tofightany man in America with small gloves. There are now five stud bonks for horses and four herd brroks for cattle in France. Gildseeker has been entered lor almost every race for which his ...

... The boy Duncan Johnson, who was seriously injured by falling from a train on the Great Northern Railway, near Grantham, last week, is progressing favourably at the Grantham Hospital. Beyond the terrible injury to the skull, no bones are broken, but he has extensive bruises all over the body. There are intervals of consciousness, when he can speak, but nothing intelligible as to how the ...

... AN INTERESTING LETTER BY THOMAS CHARLES, OF BALA. The Evangelical Magazine is the oldest magazine of its kind issued. We have been favoured with a copy of a letter addressed by Mr Charles nearly 90 years ago by the Rev D. B. Hooke, late of Rhyl, to the managers of the magazine. It contains some facts which will bo of special interest to those who are interested in the history of Welsh ...

... GERMAN ACQUISITIONS IN SAMOA. I of State, is renoU h ?ayu r Bayard» Secretary to the rpc^nt n -r ° 6 (Jcclareti> in reference Nwth Grrmn-n °n ^arnoan affairs in the writer, ^TZr h8 ...

... Mr Vaughan Williams, barrister, was called within the bar this morning, the Lord Chief Justice expressing his gratification at seeing Mr Williams take a position to which his merits, entitled him. ...

... SERIOUS CiiARGE AGAINST A MONMOUfll PUBLICAN. At Monmouth borough police-rourt on Thurs- d'^y—i;efr»n ...

... EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY BOYS. Four boys—William Stott, Frank Skuse, Henry Eley, and Frederick Bliss tho three formor of Freeling-street, Caledonian-road, and the last- named of Burton-crescent — were charged befote Mr Horace .Smith, at the Dal- ston polics-court, yesterday,, with stealing a bag containing £ 15 in silver, the property of Christian Lewis Heiser, a baker, of 22, Seven Sisters' ...

... Glamorganshire Quarter Sessions. THIS DAY. The Glamorganshire Quarter SeAikioua were opened to-day in the court-house at the Town- ball, Cardiff, at one o'clock, when the following magistrates were presentMr J. T, D. Llewellyn (in the chair), Mr L. LI. DiUwyn, M.P., SirHussey Vivian, M.P., Rev C. R. Knight, General Lee, Mr Henry Lewis, Sir J. L. E. Spearman, Mr R. A. Valpy, Mr M. B. Williams, ...

... A BORDER BULLY. The killing pf Joe Hall, the rowdy, roysterer, gambler and all around border rough, by Herbert Reynolds, the cowboy, at Whitman, this State, one year ago, was a sensational murder, and one that created much excitement at the time, at- though but httie about the affair was ever heard of through the Omaha press. Joe Hall, the victim of the tragedy in ques- tion, made his ...

... THE LIBERAL SUCCESSES. Mr S. D. Waddy writes :—Bye-elections have occurred in 58 constituencies. Twelve of the vacancies were caused by the gift of peerages or judicial appointments, and were of course held in places which the Government considered to be safe seat-s. If therefore we were to exclude these from our calculation, we should still be fair. But even giving the Government the benefit ...