The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-05-13 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUMMARY OV NEWS.  The teacher within the bruits of the Poulytei Id Union, if tact v lilacs the comity of GIwIDONNII. is Mr T. T. Davies, of the Gunnies Felrool`• ii', we are informed, 75 years o: rige, and liss been engaged in tesching iii the paiieb of Llentrissiii for 47 years. lie is a hale old man. active for bis years, and the only evident sign of his years is a slight stoop. This doyen of the profession is a firm di.ciplinar tan, not quite so severe in his notii.ns of law aird order anion children as lie was in Lii younger days. Ws itfinerce over I i. young scholars was plainly seen by the general manifestations of respect wili which the little children greet the advent of a vbitor. The sight of a whole school simultaneously rising as a mark of respect was exceedingly pretty, end showed that the • old band" bed some Pensibie lotions of I raiumi, very different t, (tie democrat.° rudeuess and want ot manners shown iu many schools in our midst. The lads in their reeitatiens acquitted themselves a ith raiifying Mi Davies is certainly entitled to retire upon a pension after so many years of arduous labour ; tbe amount of pension IN so small, however, that be does not feel himself equal to taking advantage of it. We wish a continuance of Nigorous health to the "grand old tutor," and we throw out the suggestion that the old boys' that have been under him may before he goes hence pay hjw a tribute of respect to cheer his declining years. The Pontypridd Workhouse, like other similar Institutions elsewhere, has stories to tell of a class somewhat different in its surroundings to the ordinary type of poverty stricken old age, tn. helplesily infirm, and those who willing to work are unable to get it, and are compelled by starvltion to seek the shelter of the big house One Of the sad cases of a mis-spent life outside the &asses we have described is that of Catherine Jenkins, a wastrel on the streets of P.antyprithYvho was commonly known as Catherine Boyer. ..1212is young woman in her frequent enforced visits to the Pontypridd Police court always pleaded that she had a pass for Amer ion, and would, if let off. betake herself there, but She never wm,t, Ultimately she so shattered her health by drink and di,,sionion that she had to retire from the haunts of her companions to the seclusion of the House. Here she attempted suicide by falling out of the siodow to a distance of between 25 and 3) feet below. A nurse in the room caught her by her feet and managed to keep her, the whole of her body head downwards, prevented from falling by the strength of the hold, until the Master, Mr Grovee, succeeded in coming to the rescue and get, big her hack. It was a marvelous escape. After this indication of insanity she was removed to the county asylum, where she now stays. It is a sad story, and effords a pitiable object lesson O. her unfortunate sisters still troubling the highways of Pontypridd.  A sad aftinel to a &Large of wounding preferred against a man and woman at Treforest, who were committed for Cis' last week, is reported. Not btiog able to find bail, they were taken to pti,ou. A somewhat pretty lookiug girl, a daughter of one or both prisoners, was left behind. She pined away and vex.at after her mother, and this week was hulled in Glyntaff Cemetery.