... CHARGE OF KILLING A CHILD. At the Somerset Assizes at Taunton, before the Lord Chief Justice, Rhoda King (45), and Annie Bartley (22), laundress, were indicted for killing Mary Amelia Bartley, aged 11 months, at Frome. The infant was the illegitimate daughter of the younger prisoner, who lodged with King, and paid her 4s. a week for looking after the child while she (Bartley) was at work ...

... NEWBRIDGE. TnEFT.—At Newport County Police Court on Saturday, before Messrs. A. C. Jones and P. James, Frederick Gingell, collier, Newbridge, was charged with stealing a watch and chain, the property of John Phillips, a collier, at Ponty- wain, on June 28.-Police-constable Love, Aber- carn, said on the 9th inst. he took prisoner into custody at Abercarn, and charged him with the theft. ...

... COMPULSORY VACCINATION. At the last meeting of the Executive Commit- tee of the London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination, the following resolu- tions were unanimously adopted :—1. That the Executive Committee calls the attention of the public and the new Parliament to the critical state of the vaccination question at the present time, and especially to the following facts : ...

... ™ XTLLTTO TO OOOKe. A French woman has discovered a new and eminently ladylike: employment. She goes from house to house among her clientele, and tastes dishes that are being prepared for break- fast, luncheon, or dinner. If the dainties pre- pared for the table are not sufficiently delicate or well-flavoured she hints to the cook how they may be improved and suggests a new way of preparation ...

... M. Pasteur, has had a relapse, which causes the greatest anxiety to his frienus. The Queen has appointed the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood to be au extra Gentleman Usher to Her Majesty. The Skinners' Company have made a grant of ten guineas to the headquarters' fuud of the Church Lade' Brigade. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has entertained the members of the Ladies' Working Society at a faraen ...

... 01, Mrs Thomas, what splendid bread you hav. I wish we could get some like it.— Well, Mrs Jones, you only have t. oder .Fun,Low'lS 'HOUSEKEEPERS; I find it always ] good.Adt,t. PK.VRS' rure, fragrant, refreshing—-fw Toilet and Nuisery. Specially prepared for the delicate n of ladies anol liiuirfn. and otheis sensitive to the weather, winterer suiii-i-t r. l'revenls redness, roughness, and ...

... THE MEMORIAL SERVICES AT ABERSYCHAN. To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir —Your report of the Memorial Services at Aberaychan, Feb. 6th, reads that the congregation of the English Congregational Church in the morn- ing numbered not more than about 80 persons, of whom there were not more than half a doze colliers present. In justice to the underground men, I make a correction to the effect ...

... SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. A shocking domestic.tragedy has been enacted at Twickenham, resulting in the death of one child, the attempted murder of another, and the suicide of the mother under peculiarly painful circumstances. Mra, Beresford, wife of the steward of a local club, her husband having gone to a.neighbouring doctors to fetch some medicine, at about noon suddenly attacked her ...

... THE BEST PREVENTIVE & CURE FOR THE PREVALENT INFLUENZA is JACKSON'S ANTIZYME,' The efficacy of which, in the case of the Epidemic Disease, has been proved by thousands. Sold in Bottles, at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d., by W. & G. WOOD, CHEMISTS, PONTYPOOL. Wholesale Agency: Barclay & Sons, Limite d Farringdon-street, London. Proprietors Jack- son â: Sons, Baictry, Yorks. CRANE STREET, PONTYPOOL Next ...

... ABERSYCHAN. POSTAL.—We are informed by the Postmaster of Pontypool that the additional mails for Aber- sychan and Pontnewynydd, announced in a pre- vious issue, should be as follows :-An_ inward parcel and letter mail on week days, which will be available for callers only, will arrive at the Abersychan Post Office at 5.45 p.m. daily. outward mail from Pontnewynydd for parcels and letters, ...

... At the Jjambeth Police Court, Henry Dew (alias Davies) was charged on remand with carrying on an illegal lottery.—Mr. Sims now attended to prose- cute on behalf of the Treasury, and Mr. w. H. Armstrong defended.—Mr. Sims briefly opened the case, and said the prisoner could be charged under two Acta of Parliament, one for keeping an illegal lottery, and the other for selling lottery tickets. ...

... A correspondent sends a funny stery aboutJlm old lady at Margate, who went to a poulterer's shop to purchase a goose. She wanted to buy a fine plump bird, but the poulterer's girl, who was alone in the shop, said she had been distinctly forbidden to sell it if the purchaser did not take over at the same time a more meagre specimen of goosehood that dangled by its side. The old lady at first ...