Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-09-07 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

OOO. THE tact clunot be too generally known that "treasure trove" in ns case belongs to the person who finds it. In copyhold property it usually belongs to the lord of the manor, in other (mires to the Crown. The Crown hale itually retort's the money to the finders, but it occasimally vindicates its rights, in the Salford case, where about £5O in sovereigns was discovered buried under a tree, the C sva remelted the money to those who had given it up. b 11 refusel to return any where a portion of the arnouot ol been sent by the parties. The Crown has power t.o Irl either by civil or criminal process against those who csnvert "treasure trove" to their own 11Se.  THE American papers chronicle the career of a Mis. Elizabeth Gloucester, a negro lady, who lately died worth £lOO,OOO, and is supposed to have been the wealthiest negress hi 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 Rroperty in New York that she became a bun. dre,l-tboueaud pounder.  HAVING made a precedent in the cue of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Prime Minister has now granted another Civil List pension of £250 per annum, the recipient b.:ing 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 monetary help thus supplied. Seeing he is one of the five senior Inspector of Schools, who receive MO per annum, and must be, in addition, in receipt of an appreciable suns 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. Tills Rev. J. Sydney Boucher, principal of the Training College, st Carnarvon, whose retinal to admit, on the recommen,lation of the Vicar of Conway, a student who had been baptized by a Nonconformist minister, formed the Belied of a question in the House of Commons, has resigned his appointment.  _ IN 1876 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 sit years, during which it is claimed that crimes of violence hive increased to a marked degree, the death penalty has been restored with such provisions as to make its infliction verta;n.  THE first instal:Ca of the trial and conviction by court martial of a warrant officer since the establishment ot that grade in the army has just occurred at eliatloao larris. 11, the :weasel, Sergeant-Major Thomas Mitch, H. the 2,1-1 battalion of the East Lancashire Begimcot, having b.,er, arraigned before a court-martial on a charge of drunkenness. The Court, which was presided over by Lieut.-Colonel B. Blood, Royal Engineers, convicted the prisoner, aid sentenced hin: to forfeit his warrant, and to be reduced to the rank and pay of a sergeant. AT the Ituabon Licensing Sessions, the magistrates ht,tod that they have naw leer to refuse to renew licences, aid in futur-• intend to avail themselves of that power in all cases of infringement of the licensing laws. AT the Northampton police•court, Joseph Travill, of Calvecton, Bueks, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and oidered to pay X 3 coats, for selling to a Noithampton butcher a carcass of beef which was unfit for human food. Tile prisoner had been previ ~ sly warned that the twat was bad.  MR. JOHN MAThEWS, editor and proprietor of Dundalk Er enabler "I tooth Adrertixer an Irish National paper, was, drowned on Thuniday night when bathing about three mihoi fr. in Dundalk. His biAly was found Friday five mile: away, his clothes being discovered on the beach the revises night. Dewy:yen IN A