The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-11-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

STAYNER. "The health of Private LEONARD ROBINSON," who had taken an active part in establishing a gymnasium at the drill hall, was proposed and acknowledged. The next toast was "The Mar.er,', Private BOLTON responding. " 'The health of Mr. and Mrs. Frost" was proposed in the warmest terms, Private FROST a..AI Mr. FRosr, sen.. replying. " Our next Merry Meeting" followed and brought the proceedings to a close, and, as the clock struck 11, the members of the corps dispersed in the best of spirits on account of the evening's happy proceedings.  The Earl of Dufferin, the late Governor-General of Canada, arrived at L indonderry on Monday. William Parkinsoneieth Regiment, has been drowned at Jersey while swimming for a wager. There have been 12,000 deaths fr •rn yellow fever in the Southern State, out ut a total of 30,000 cases. Dr. Herbert Kynaston.Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and one of the most learned Latin scholars of the day, is dead. Her Majesty has decided to erect a statue at Balmoral in memory of the late Sir Thomas Biddulph, keeper of the Privy Purse. The Esrl of Chichester has resigned the post of First Estate Commissinner of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The salary is £1 200 a year. Mr. Southern, the act n-, is said to he suffering from illness of a "mist serious" character. He was to perform at Birmingham Theatre Royal this week, hut cannot appear. A telegram says :—Mr. Southern has been examined by Sir Wm. Jenner and professor Simpson, and both demand his absolute retirement for six months. Positive denial is given, in a telegram from Copenhagen, to the statement made in a London newspaper, that the King's consent to the marriage of Princess Tyra was only given on condition of the Duke of Cumberland abdicating all his rights in the Crown of Kanover. Edward Payson Westson, the American pedestrian, has filed a petition in the Bradford Bankruptcy Omit, and his liabilities are estimated at £1,300. The Chief Constable of the Nort Riding of Yorkshire was fined £lO at the Darlington P 'lire-court on Monday for fishing for salmon wiiheut a licence. The Rev. Orby Ship'ey, of Brighton, and St. Albans, Holborn, a well-known ritualist., has joined the Church of , Rome, having been baptised on Saturday by Monsignor Cape).. A young Hindle° was murdered a short Vine ago at Manipuri, in India, and it has been discovered that he was killed by some of his co-religionists as a sacrifice to the goddess Keli. The Rev. Robert Collier, the eminent Unitarian minister of Chicago, has in his study the anvil up in which he hammered in the English town %here as a youth he learned the trade of a blacksmith. The Rector of Falmouth on Sunday. in preaching on behalf of the national schools, complained of the small amount of tee usual collection, and of the number of buttons, useless foreign coins, and other articles put into the offertory bags. A general strike of agricultural labourers impends round Saxtuundham, Siffelk, because on one farm the wages have been reduced Is. weekly, Moncley night ani on Tuesday morning a violent northerly gale swept along Banffshire. Tiee coast ground is partially covered with en :w, and the sea is running very high, but there is no damage reported. Sir Cape). Fitzge: all, who was charged with stealing the jewellery of an abandoned woman voila- whem he had ormed a liason, has been scqui ted at the Old B Italy has just been the vette of a great bank robbery. The sum of 1,500,000 e (£101,266) forwarded by the National Bank to Ancona, was abstracted in transit. Three of the servan. s of the benk have been ariested, At the Bow-street Police-court on Monday, a man named William K-rnp was charged with selling p toile:lets of an objeetionabie nature. Upon ex •minatiou one of the books was f :mid to be a tranalation of some parts of a Chinese Bible. Mr. Fl iwers said as far as he coeld see it might be a religious tract in disguise, and discharged the accused. CURES OF ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, RHEUMATISM, COUGHS, AND COLDs BY DR. LaCOCK'S