... ACTIVITY IN THE LIBERAL CAMP. The Date of the Polling, CARMARTHEN1, Saturday. The date of the polling for West Carmarthen- shire is definitely fixed for Wednesday, the 17th 'instant, not the 15th, as has been announced. The counting will take on Thursday, the 13th. The election campaign is proceeding apace, and is being conducted with considerable spirit. The time for marshalling the forces is ...

... A meeting in support of Mr J. Lioyd Morgan, which was in striking contrast to the feeble, flabby character of the Tory gatherings, was held in the new schoolroom of Laniinas-street Chapel, Carmarthen, on Saturday afternoon. The ground floor was crowded, and the Ralleries were well filled by a thoroughly unanimous and enthusiastic audience. County Councillor T. Evans (Treventy) presided, ...

... THE READING IRON COMPANY. [CENTRAL NKWS TELEGRAM. 1 NHW YORK, xuesaay.—The plant of the Reading Iron Company has been put up to auction, and purchased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Ccmpany, who intend to com- mence operations very shortly. ...

... Forty-three Men Summoned. I At Ystrad police-cnnrt on Monday, forty-three colliers employed at the Cymmer Colliery, Porth, were summoned for absenting themselves from their usual work on Saturday, June 22nd. Mr Simons (Messrs S:mone and Plows), Mertbyr, appeared for the company. Mr Simons said that in conaequence of the ielay in serving the sum- ni'mses upon the defendants, be was obliged to ...

... A terrible accident happened at Portsmouth on Wednesday, by which three men were killed. About two years ago the corporation erected a tripod shears on the lower quay, capable of bearing a strain of 30 tons. On Wednesday the boilers of the old Euchantress; formerly the yacht i of the Lords of the Aimiralcy, autj now ia pro- cess of breaking up, were being removed, and tha largest, having been ...

... YELLOW FEVER AT RIO. I Accordiug'to a Lloyd's telegram, tho Norwegian barquo Herman Lehtrikulri, which arrived at Cardiff from Rio Janeiro on Friday, reports that four of her crew died 9 while at Rio Janeiro of Cardiff from Rio Janeiro on Friday, reports that four of her crew died awhile at Rio Janeiro of ...

... FACTS AND FANCtES. Charity .and personal forca are tho on!y iuvest- meuts worth having. Nothing: great waii ever achieved without en- tbmiasm.Emerson. The morct W . ...

... CORKSCREW BAYONETS. 60 per Cent. Condemned. A Portsmouth corro.-poiiilent telegraphs :—In order to test the qualiry of the bayonets now being served out to the troops a number of weapons were indiscriminately selected from among'those in use by the Inniskiliing Fusiliers, and some sensation 1 Was occasioned in the garrison 011 Wednesday when the reports from the testing experts in London were ...

... YANKEE YARNS. A STORY FOR DEBTOUS. Opie P, Read, the genius of the Arkansaw Ttaveler, is so very excellent a financier that lie usually manages to end each month a little deeper in debt than he began it, says the Wa&hingteti Post. Yet nobody ever loses by bim. In soma manner, though his geoeral mdebtednoHs keeps piling up, he manages not to let any individual debt stand long. We shouldn't like ...

... Overcrowding a Channel Steamer. THE BUSH FOR THE LAST BOAT I I All the Fault is at Weston. At Cardiff police-court, this morning, William James, captain of the tug-boat Earl of Jersey, was summoned under tho 313th section of the Merchant Shippiug Act, to auswer a charge of having permitted overcrowding of the boat, ou July 18th. Mr Vachell, who appeared for tha defence, offered a plea of ...

... On Tuesday evening a comet was discovered at an Australian observatory, and as this celestial wanderer is coming northward at the rate of 21 liugreett daily, our Greenwich correspondent writes that it is expected to be seen at the Royal Ob- ...

... |SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] I At Halesowen this afternoon an important point under the Vaccination Act was raised. Enoch Harper, milk dealer, anti-vaccinator, residing at Qninton, near Birmingham, was charged with refusing to have his child vaccinated, and General Pitilps, who represented the defendant, urged that his client wa- justified in refusing, peeing that one child's health had ...