The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1877-10-12 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

OOO. Of course, he could not pay her—poor Horace could never Pay anybody; but when his fair creditor began to dun him, he hit on an ingenious expedient for squaring accounts. He offered to marry her, and after • little hesitation she accepted her debtor's hand. Thus were the two united. Melly knowing absolutely nothing of her husbands proepects. As matters turned out, to everybody's sureties), Hones Pitt fell heir to the earldom of Rivers, and poor Melly 'Holmes suddenly found herself • real Nee mantes'. She never forgot her Poor friend's however; and, having lier money xirefully settled on herself, she provided for her sister's child, the poor creature who has met with such a shocking death at Penes " The announcement to the two male convicts that they have only seven or eight more dai s to live does not appear to have wrought any material effect upon their minds. they centime, to read the whole day through, with the exception of the customary intervals for meals end for separate exercise in the small yard near their cells allotted to the use of prisoners undergoing solitary confinement Ills a very small enclosure, and the exercise consists in walking round and round until the hour haa expired. It opens into the debtors' yard, but the hours are so arranged that but one of these enclosures is occupied at a time. Every morning the male convicts are visited by the governor or deputy-governor, the surgeon, and the priest. They answer freely the questions put to them. They maintain good appetites, and look altogether hotter in health. Mrs. Patrick Staunton and Altos Rhodes also employ their time principally in reading, and the latter sews occasionally. The number of tracts and pamphlets addressed to the convicte has demented considerably since the intimation that they were withheld from Ahem, but the governor of the prison has been lectured in anonymous communications for the asides which he haelthought well to take in the matter. He has also received poet cards of various kinds. Meanwhile the .....A. agitation for a commutation of the MINNS gOie On. Extracts from the daily and medical Prank in of venous shies, are posted prominently upon UM er left at the doors of ths inhabitants. At the ment of the week an advertisement Icumegeat • be public meeting would shortly held in the but , hitherto the promoters have contented thetheethes with Issuing placards asking "whether Mvidetone is to be digressed by the execution of four persons whose guilt has , not been satisfactorily proved. The pethion in the , principal street has received 70 signature.. Among the other towns where • similes' movement is on foots petitions urging • commutation of the sentence on the con-1 vkta are being exhibited in Brighton. with which place, , it is understood, the unfortunate woman Harriet Staunton . was connected by family ties. The petitions, which lay , stress on an alleged absence of incentive to murder, and 1 on the character Of the evidence given by Clara Brown, , suggest that on the whole the cunt of the convkta is too • probleusaHosi to Justify the carrying out of the capital 1 sentence. As yet they have not met with any [ able support.