ABERYSTWYTH.-Shocking Occurrence. -A very dreadful circumstance happened on Friday se'nnight at a place called Pennant, in the parish of Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, in the county of Cardigan. It appears that a man of the name of John Morris had, for some days previously, very high words with his wife, and a ridiculous custom prevails in this part of Wales, whenever it comes to the ears of the lower or common order of people, of any serious domestic strife happening in a family, to go to the man's residence or to whatever other place they are likely to find him and by force to put him upon a pole, termed a wooden horse, in Welsh Ceffyl Pren, and in this position ( a straddle over the post ) to carry him around the neighbourhood, exposed to the hootings and derisions of the people.On the present occasion, the unfortunate object of their frolic had been attending an auction, and, it appears, was returning home therefrom, when he was surrounded, and an attempt was made to seize him, and place him upon a hurdle, which he resisted (and it is reported drew a knife upon his assailants), upon which a dreadful scuffle ensued, and Morris received several very severe blows about the head and body, which caused his death in about three or four hours afterwards.
The Cambrian was the first weekly newspaper to be published in Wales. It was established in 1804 and published by Thomas Jenkins until 1822. The Cambrain Newspaper Company bought it in 1981 and it merged with The Herald of Wales in 1930.