Cardiff Giant

the name given to a rude statue 10% feet high, dug up, in 1869, at Cardiff, N. Y., and exhibited for months as a petrifaction. The persons who thus deluded the public at last confe ed that the “ Giant” had been cut from a block of gypsum quarried at Fort Dodge, Ia., sculptured at Chicago, conveyed to Cardiff, and there buried and “ accidentally discovered.” Cardigan, James Thomas Brudenell, seventh Earl of, born in Hampshire, Oct. 16, 1797; sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1837, when he succeeded his father. He entered the a in 1824, and rapidly bought himself into the command of the 15th Hu ars, which he resigned in 1833, on the acquitial of an officer whom he had illegally put under arrest.. He commanded a cavalry brigade under Lord Lucan in the Crimea, and led the famous charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava He was inspector-general of cavalry. 1855-1860, and died in Deene Park, March 28, 1868, Cardigan Bay, a_ semicircular bend at St. George’s Channel, on the W. coast of Wales, 54 miles wide from N. to S., and 35 miles deep, with a sweep of coast of 130 miles.