[FARMING ENTERPRISE IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. OPENING OF AN EXPERIMENTAL SILO. During the past year or two there has been not a little controversy respecting the value of ensilage as food for farm stock, but only a few agriculturists have entered upon the experiment of constructing a sil

The monthly meeting on Friday was attended by Mr. C. Lyne (chairman), Rear-Admiral Foote, Messrs. H. Beynon, T. Colborne, H. J. Davis, G. Hoskins, G. I. Jones, J. Lawrence, C. H. Lonsdale, J. Moses, J. Murphy, W. Pickford, D. Pryce, T. Pugsley, J. E. Ward, and P. A. Williams. LA

The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says :-As compared with the amount of shipbuilding on the Merefey in 1883, the returns for the year just closing are highly satisfactory. The tonnage launched amounted in all to about 45,000 tons, being in excess of last year by 2000 tons. The ya

DKTKRHINSW SPICXDB.—A young labourer named Charles Stone committed suicide at his lodgings, Hewell-street, Grange-town, early on Sunday morn- tag, by hanging himself. He was suffering from a certain diseas* and had been refused assistance by the Board of Guardians. This circumst

LORD TRED EGA"R S HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Dec. 22 Castell-y-Bwch. rriday, £ )ec. 26. Wainvawr. Each day at Eleven. LLANGIBBY ANDTHEPSTOW HOUNDS WILL MEET ON WednMdi^Vu? Llantarnam Station. FSTD^21 Crick. xnoay.irto.ab. Llangibby Park. Each day at Half-past Ten. THE MONMOUTHSHIRE FOX

DKATH OF MRS. DOBELL. -The Cheltenham Bx' aminer of the 10th instant says-We regret to nounce the death, on Thursday last, at her resideOoe, Detmore, Charlton Kings, of Mrs. Julietta DobeIl, widow of the late Mr. John Dobell, of-Gheltenham. She had reached her 81styear,but until

NEWPORT POLICE INTELLIGENCE. COUNTY POLICE.—SATURDAY. [Magistrates T. BEYNON, R. F. WOOLLETT, and EBENKZER LEWIS, Esqrs.] A DISHONEST TRAMP.—A vagrant giving the name of John Jones was charged with stealing a frail and other articles, the property of George Vincent.—The prosecuto

THE ENGINE-ROOM STOWAWAY. A stormy night in the Channel, the water black as pitch and boiling like a cauldron. Just the sort of night to test Mr. Shield's experiment ci pouring "oil on the troubled waters," and to make a snug bed at an hotel preferable to a passage in the Folkest

,Tr,„ AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS 1 NOBODY GOOD." TALB OF ST. VALESl'ISlfi'S DAY. By J. E. AYIMER- ■11 be revenged. AG GIVEN to XN^^RAMATIC speeches, and ET tb mere decision than precision. BPOKE^1 GOWNED and uobody shall save me," "1 R Iftotber looking round. » NOW Eth, said B.D#R CA

The Oxford Liberal Three Hnop^ have selected Mr. Fyffe as their candid^ The trawler Celt was burnt to th. «dce »t h«m.oringB last week in Ki,g,t £ ^^e.rboa An Anti-Corn Law League, ilkejy t0 as9Ume geats. proportions, u in course of formation in The Rev. H. Ward Beecher has denie