Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1880-10-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

VIIKKPTON.  LARGE SALE AT FRAMPTON.—liesers. Duke and Son add the farming stuck of Mr. W. Comben, of Southover Farm, on Monday last. The attendance was large, and included shout 200 gentlemen from various parts of the county. The prime were good, end the tale was altogether, a very successful one. The horn flock. numbering shoat 1,600, made a speedy sale, the ewes sold for grazing purposes realiming 341. 61 td 465. 6.1. ; wether lambs. 204 6d. to 265. 6i ; chilver lambs, 21s. to 25..; and horn wethers, 335. to 455. The dairy cows made £l2 to £lB 5..; the in-calf heifers, £lO to £l3; and fat heifers, 14s. per score. The horses made from 26ge. to 46gs.  A meeting of freethinkers, held at Paris, wee dissolved by the Commissary of Police. A child has bebn scalded to death at Bristol through upsetting a dish of boiling gravy. The Manchester Corporation have made a profit of £6OOOOO out of the gas this yekr. The body of a woman has been found at daybreak at Cherbourg, with the head almost severed from the body. The Australian cricketers left the metropolis on Tuesday for Venice, upon their return journey to the AntiThe Rev. James Carter, of Jarvis Brook Congregational C Rotherfiekl died very suddenly at Eastbourne on The''ixobequer returns from April I to September 30 show: Receipts, £36,632%600. and expenditure, /.40,3541,30L It is stated that a Mahommedan at Cabul who murdered a Hindoo goldsmith has been blown from a gun by the Anaser's orders. Within the pest ten days Messrs Steele and Co, of Grecaock, have signed contracts for new steamers repro. sentsng ten thousand tons. Col. Baker, late of the 64th Regiment, was found dead In Leigh Woods. near Bristol, on Sunday afternoon. His death is attributed to apoplexy. A WOUIIIIII mania Broadky was on Sunday found dead at Port Glasgow, the body bearing marks of violent usage. Her huslaad bee been arrested. The fanetialan of the Catholic clergy In Belgium has now gone so far that in several instances recently they have refused to "data the King as godfather. At PilicriC. near Spalding, on Monday, a man =ratto criminally assault a little girl, who ran home ger mother. The latter instantly dropped down  At • meeting held at Sittingbourne on Saturday on the Sunday closing of public-houses a licensed victualler, in moving an amendment to a resolution, expressed his regret that " the dear old Church of England" was joining In the crusade against them. A woman had a narrow escape from death at the Spa. road Station. Gresnvrich, on Monday. She rushed across the metals in front of • train and was pulled on to the platform as the engine brushed her dress. Sir Bartle Frere landed at Southampton on Tuesday evening, and was presented with an address of welcome from a numerous body of Cape merchants now in this country, who expressed approval of his policy Inspector Williams. chief clerk at Leeds, was on Satur day taken into custody, under a warrant. on the charge of having embezzled the sum of £ll9, which he ought to have forwarded to the Government Inspector of Reformatory Schools. During a service of the Salvation Army at the Bristol Circus on Sunday evening 800 people assembled outside theldensely-crowded building, and made such a determined struggle to get in when the doors were opened that numbers fell and wore tranipl-d upon. A telegram from Paris reports the death of M. Offenbach, the famous composer of Madame Favart and other well-known operas, and creator of the modern comic opera. M. Offenbach was born at Cologne in June, 1819, and was consequently in his 62nd year.