The Poole Telegram. — 1883-09-07 (Poole, Dorset, England)

OOO. Tut tact c nnot ba too generally known that "treasure trove" in no case belongs to the person who finds it. In copyhold property it usually belongs to the lord of the manor, in other cases to the Crown. The Crown hab dually returns the money to the finders, but it occa,ionally vindicates its rights. In the Salford case, where about £5O hi sovereigns was discovered buried under a tree, the C •o-vn returned the money to those who had en it up. bui refused to return any where a portion of the amount hail been sent by the parties. The Crown has power to prooeed either by civil or criminal process against those who convert" treasure trove" to their own use.  Tug American papers chronicle the career of a M • Elizabeth Gloucester, a negro lady, who lately died worth £lOO,OOO, and is Pu 1) posed to have been ilia wealthiest 'ingress in the United States. She began life as a servant, saved out of her wages, married a negro Congregational minister, and invested her savings so judiciously in house and land property in New York that she became a hun• drcl-thousand pounder.  HAVING made a precedent in the case of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Prime Minister has now granted another CHI List pension of £250 per annum, the recipient Whig this time Mr, Matthew Arnold. Now, whatever Mr. Arnold's services to literature may have been, it surely cannot be maintained that he is in real want of the mono. tary help thus supplied. Seeing he is one of the five senior Inspector of Schools, who receive MX) per annum, and must be, in addition, in receipt of an appreciable sum every year from his literary work and copyrights, he certainly does not seem to be in such a position as to require this new source of income. Rev. Sydney Boucher, principal of the Training College, at Carnarvon, whose refusal to admit, on the recommendation of the Yjcar of Conway, a student who had been baptized by a Nonconformist minister, formed the subject of a question in the House of Commons, has resigned his appointment.  _ Ig 1801 the death penalty was abolished in the State of Maine, U.S., and the crime of murder made punishable by imprisonment for life. After an experience of six years, during which it is claimed that crimes of violence have increased to a marked degree, the death penalty has been restored with such provisions as to make its infliction certain._  THE first instal ce of the trial and conviction by court martial of a warrant officer since the establishment of that grade in the army has just occurred at Chatli..ni .;arris4 n, the accosed, Sergeatit•ldajor Thomas Mitch, 11, ,if the 2nd battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment, having boen arraigned before a court-martial on a charge of drunkenness. The Court, which was presided over by Lieat.-Colonel B. Blood, Royal Engineers, convicted the pris nor, aid sentenced him to forfeit his warrant, and to be reduced to the rank and pay of a sergeant. AT the Rtiabou Lkensing Sessions, the magistrates stated that they have nu, piwer to refuse to renew licences, and in future intend to avail themselves of that power in all cases of infringement of the licensing laws. AT the Northampton police-court, Joseph Travill, of Calverton, Bucks, Wiil.l sentenced to one month's imprison meta, and ordeted to pay .C 3 costs, for selling to a Noithamptoa hutch. r carcass a beef which was unfit for human food. The prisoner had been previously warned that the float was bad.  MR. JOHN MATH EWS, editor and proprietor of Dundalk tmiacr and Louth Advertiser an Irish National paper, was'drowned on Thursday nieht when bathing about three miles fr.,m Dundalk. kilo body Wan found Friday five mile= away, his clothes being discovered on the beach the treviaus night.  .