... BURNING A WIFE'S CHEEK WITH A HOT IRON. A Cardiff Husband's Protest Against Ironing Clothes at Tea-time- At the Cardiff poiice-court this inorttl;iig-beft)re Mr T. W. Lewis nnd Dr Taylor— Geotge Brown (47), of 3Z, Tressilian.terrace, was charged on a warrant by Inspector Heywood with assaulting his wife, Mary Blown, Oil the 21st instant. Mr J. H. Jones defonded. )1r Brown said the prisoner ...

... 'This morning the Newport magistraw had before them a case in which two women named Bridget Mainey and Margaret Smith were summoned for being disorderly in Dock-parade. /A young officer, hurrying up to the sounds of crockery flying, spoke to the behaviour of the women, and said one afterwards paraded the streets with au effigy or image in her arms. Standing side by side on the defendants' ...

... A MANSION DESTROYED BY FIRE. The G ...

... STREET ACCIDENT AT NEWPORT. Last evening a child, named Evan Davies, whose parents reside in South Market-street, was plnying in Dock-street when he was knocked down by a cab, And sustained injuries to both legs. The little sufferer waB attended at the infirmary, and afterwards removed home. ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. ) It is worthy of note that the crack two-year-old seen out at Ascot were all homebred. This year Henley Regatta, the L.iwu Teunl Championship, and the Uuiveisity Cricket Matcl are yet to clash. Tiie Lord Mayor must have in his elr-mPiV among the wrestlers on tSaturiiay. As a younf man he was a good wrestler and a capitai ail round athlete. The King James- commission for the ...

... This morning the body of a man was found floating in the Old Sea Lock by P.C. Kinsr, who c.'Used it to bo removed to the mortuary. Tiie deceased was a man ot about 4 n in height, and had the appearance of a navvy. The body has not yet been positively identified, but it is believed to be tbat of a man kuown iu the neighbourhood as Slen. ...

... A bill has been introduced into tho House of Commons by Sir Edmund Lechmere and other members for the purpose of providing for the appointment of a public executiouor, who shall be under tho direct control of the Home Office. The principal clause runs as follows The Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment shall from time to time appoint an officer to be called the lJUbiic executioner, ...

... ILLEGAL DISTRAINT NEAR NEWPORT. At Newport county court on Friday, Judge Oiven xvas engaged some hours in hearing the particulars of „;in action to recover damages for illegal distraint on the New House Farm, JJettw*, near Newport. The plaintiff was Mr John Hodgkinson, and in larch, 1886, he became tenant under Mr Morgan Attewell, at a rental of L60 per annum, payable in February and August ot ...

... SIR PRYCE JONES ON I ENGLAND'S GLORY. I The Tory candidate for Montgomeryshire, Sir Pryco I'ryce-Jones, m a speech just delivered, remarks:— The game of billiartis is a national game, an old English g;i»ne, and for God's sake do not let us destroy otir old national games ami national institutions, which are tho bulwarks and the main props of tho greatness and glory of Kngiishmt n. ...

... (BY OUR NCWMILLLKET CORRKSPONDKNT.) I NEWMARKET, Friday. — On the Kacecourse side, Marsh's Scottish Fusilier ami Evangelist were sent a mile Oddfellow, Mon Droit, and Beaulieu goinar mile; OddfeIlow, Mon Droit, and Beaulieu goinar six furlongs. John Dawson's, jun, Ham, Homemade, Lutzen, and Estafette galloped a mile and a quarter. Rvan's Evergreen. Jxia. and Helioscene negotiated six furlongs ...

... I COACHING FOR A WAGER. Mr Scott Drives from Folkestone to London and Back Under 15 Hours. Veterdpy Mr .J. P. Scotr, the well-known whip OF the Folkestone and Citattrb,Y coach, performed the utror(linary fe?t ot driving for J a waper a brake and pair of liorset-, with a full: comi-ilemont of passengers, from Folkestone to Lor!d(,n :,nd back within fonrteeu and a half hours. Scott mounted-lhe ...

... IRKCTKR'S TELEGRAM. I I VIENNA, Monday.—An explosion of tire-damp bas occurred in the Alfred Colliery, in the Resicza Banat, belonging to the Austro- flungarian State Radway. Seven miners were killed and several injured, two of them seriously. ...