... THFRIGHT WAY. A liberal Gloucester merchant. purchased five hundred tickets for one of the festival services last week, and requested the Dean to distribute them amongst the poor. Dean Spence, with bis characteristic large-mindodness, placed fifty at the disposal of the Romau Catbolios and sent one hundred to the Nonconformists. The daily lunches at the Deanery wore one of the pleasantest ...

... Oa Tuesday afternoon Mr Arthur Cloatte, head master of the Plympton Grammar School, was killed by being run over by a train on the main line of the Great Plympton.Station. Mr Cloatte, who was about 50 years of age, and had been head master for five years, visited Plymouth in the. morning, returning to Plympton by the mid-day train. Oa leaving the station, instead of taking the road leading to ...

... Tom Mann, the origaniser of the strike on. the Surrey side, and one cf the ablest of the strike leaders, is, like Burns, an engineer, and has been a son of toil all his days. He began the business of life in a colliery, and you may see on his wrists the deep indentations which mark his old calling. He is a socialist, and a very strong advocate of the eight hours movement, on which he has ...

... THE STRIKE DYING HARD. Our London correspondent, writing on Monday, says :-People had not ceased congratulating oue another on the settlement of the strike when the news came this afternoon that there was a renewal of it. So far as it can be ascertained at present, it is alleged tbat the directors have not kept faith with themen. It was adietinctunderstandingthat work was to be resumed in the ...

... PAINTINGTHE'BABY. William Bates, a diminutive lad, 14 ypars old,, living in Jacob-street, Bethoal-greeu, was charged at Worship-street police-court on Mon- day with the following extraordinary maltreat- ment of a female child, aged 1* ttsonths.—Kate Steptoe, mother of the child, liviQg in the same street as the prisoner, said that ha jyas sometimes in her bonse. On Saturday flight be was there ...

... AN EXCURSIONIST DROWNED IN CARDIFF DOCKS. A fatality under unusually painful circum- stances took place at Cardiff on Monday. A young man named Wm. Cross, aged 21, came to the town from Ebbw Vale by excursion train in the morning, aud proceeded with one or two friends to the Docks to see tbe shipping. In a playful mood he announced his intention of swimming across the West Bute Dock, opposite ...

... THE DISCOVERT of a vegetable preparation called Rbeuo. recently made by Wee. E. Cooper and Oe, London, for the cure of Rheumatism, is nndoutiiocDr one ofthe most marvellous yet recorded in the medical world. Sbeuu Till not cure every disease under tbe sun, but rheumatism only, of all kinds, in old or yoaog Sufferers should cau npon the local agents. Kvans and Co., 7. High-street, Cardiff, ...

... REMEMBERING the abrupt stop put to the issue of the Mystery of Edwin Drood by the death of the author while the story was yet running, readers of the Cardijf Times have begun to ask themselves if Eliod Love, the last of Wilkie Collins's productions, is to meet with a similar fate. Had the author of Blind Love been as improvident in a literary sense as poor Dickens, then the world would have ...

... The rent audit of the^*&|a^tt Estate, belonging to Mr David P«W»H or E.st Carmarthenshire, was held the Z9tb ult. Mr Pugh generously remitted to his tenanta 25 per 88.t. of their rents. ...

... DEATH OF MR FIRTH, M.P. A Press Association correspondent states that Alderman Tathain, of Leeds, received a telegram from Switzerland on Wednesday afternoon,stating that his son-in-law, Mr J. F. B. Firth, M.P., had died from sunstroke. Mr Firth, who was born in 181-2, near Huddersfield, graduated L.L.B at London University in 1875, ond was called to the bar in 1876. Upon the formation, under ...

... The Great Strike, DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK. APPEAL TO WORKING MEN. The Press Association is informed that at Caeeting of the strike committee, held at the Wade Arms, Poplar, late on Saturday night, the whole situation was reviewed, and careful con- sideration was given to the financial position. Various proposals were discussed, but every one was in favour of continuing the struggle. It was ...

... A Novel Point at Tredegar. At the Tredegar annual licensing session on Tuesday, a novel point arose in connection with the Sunday Closing Act. Certain portions of Brecknockshire bave recently been transferred to the adjacent county of Monmouth and MJ T. G. PoweU, solicitor) addressing the Tredegar magis- trates on Tuesday, said be had been instructed, on behalf of the whole of the innkeepers ...