The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1886-07-09 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BAD CONDITION OF A CLERGYMAN'S  WIFF. Mrs. Catherine Pennington, a lady of education and good address, was brought up on remand at the daryleboue Poli e C London, on Tuesday, charged with being drunk and di-orderly.— She was seen by a c instable in e..impany of a strange man, late at night, in a dark part of a street in Marylebone, and for her pi otection he advised her to co home. He then found that she was intoxicated, and as shit wouid no go away lie twk her into cumtody.—ln her defence the pri,ontr tsild a pitiable story. She was the widow of ihe Rev. Mr. Pennington, who was clergyman at St. liensington, and who died insane. She had made strenuuus efforts to provide tor herseti, but had experienced great difficulty.—A lady from sisterlio -id now attended the court, and said the prisoner's was a very sad ease, and as she was wiling to go to Lady W lames home, she (the lady) was ready to take her.—Mr. Cooke said he had heard a great deal from a lady about the prisoner. No doubt Item was a distressing ca e. She had seen better days, aid had been the wiia of a &orgyman, but from what. be could bear she had given way to habits of int-roperance. Tie discharged her on the owna tion that she wmld consent to go to the home. -The prisoner, who i•aitl that the restraint of a horn., was very hard to bear, th n left the court with the ester.  The, revenue of New South Wales for the past I year amounted to £7,50,000, being an increase of £oB,ootlas compared with the precious year. The I Custom. reoe pta increased £lo(1,000, and the laud reveo us decreased £280,000. The Duke of Cambridge has just homed a general ordir to the arm, which directs that vacancies which occur amotibet an tag adjutants f regimental dopots are in future to be tidal by adjutants of militia iii thou cases in which the headquarters of a militia battalion are at the same station as the depot. The coroner's jury have r turned an extraordinary verdict in the case of John Carey, one of the three men shot by a young man named Je no, whom they lad molested while with his sweetheart. 'rho young woman gave evidence that deceased and his companions attemptid to levy blackmail on Jeans, and because the latter refused to yield any r they threw stones at them. He simply fired In self-iefenne. The, jury returned a verdict if " Juatiliable homicide.' The other evening, as this 7.45 train from Ludgate Hill to the Crystal Palace was running iiito Latighboroug.i Junction Station at full speed, a young man openrd the door of a carriage, and immediately fell between the platform and the foot • boat d. He was dragged some yard., and then fell through to the ground, and lay by the side of the permanent way, escaping in a remarkable manner further injury. He was found, however, when picked up to have sustained shocking injuries to his face and limbs, and he was eventually removed to his home at last Dulwich. Serious floods have occurred in the Purjaub, and over twin y-five milea of the railroad tracks between Sharanpore Umballa have been washed away. A man named Augustus Stanley, while under remand at Holloway Gaol, Loudm, on a charge of stealing property belonging to St. Olave's Union, Rotherhithe, leaped over a balcony into the courtyard, and was killed instantaneously.