Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-01-14 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MDLLE. SARA BERNHARDT on Saturday completed her fiftieth performance in her American tour, her success aontinuing undiminished to the end. THE dismantlement of two of the forts composing the famous Quadrilateral in Italy is reported to have been ilecided upon. ON Wednesday, near. Glasgow, a trairl from Beith, :Tossing a junction Lugton, ran into another train, throwing the engine and three carriages Gff the line. THE Mayor of Scarboro' (Mr. T. Whittaker) has been presented by the teetotallers of Preston with an Illuminated address, cougratulating him on his elevation to tile mayoralty and ori his advocacy ot teetotalism for many years. THE books cf the Morgue in Paris show that dining the past year a total of 806 bodies, the results 4lf crime, oricide, and accident, were deposited in that grim est/0. ri-lrinent. These figures show au increase of 96 over those :eferring to tl.e year 1879. IT must have been a very remarkable dinner-party op bristmas-day at 38, Berkah,y-iLluere, London. Lord Ind Lady Lcndesborough enter ta:ned the male and female mites" now exhibiting at the Plecadilly Hall. Hie lordship had the furniture, di-hes, and plates made •peeially to suit the size of hoi little guesis. Tbe food do corresponded, everphik.g being of the most minute size.  'A REMARKABLE cane of reiuscitatioo he 'tied occurred Worcester, where a man named Charles Davies tut his :luon.t in a carriage manufactory in which he was emiloyed, and after being prono•ineed to be dead was re:floved to the mortuary, nearly a mile away. Here some ioubts began to be entertained es to whether he really .vits dead, and ultimatcly the supposed corpse heaved • :cep sigh, and Ty.oved one of its legs. The man was them ;a:en to the Infirmaty, and has now sufficiently re-,.t ered to b. abb.: to tr-mmunicate in writing to the house airgeou.  A SMALL contractor at Leeds has boa:: committed for rid on a charge of practising a novel bit of cheating. lie :ad piclued up a 3rd e1...8s ticket for which 4s. lid. had -Jeen paid, and t.king .• to the office said his journey had Jeeu countermanded, and he would be glad to hayo the ticnoy back. .When asked what he had paid for it, he .aid he did not obse: ye, as he put tho change into his ~,eket without counting. When apprehended he asked. ' Won't paying do!" AT Entro Rios, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, 301 uersouP, who were returning froui the funeral of a gentlenan who haul Da • murdered by four slaves belongingto lie father. buist into the prison in which the slaves were •onfined, and. after dragging them into the street, hacked  hem to pieces. _ A TELLGitAIf from Rome gives the text of tbi, letter tddressed by the P•pe to the Atebbisbop ot Dublin. lus Holiness maintains the eouvel already given to the [Fish peo; le, ti obey the powers that be, and only to lefend their cause within the limits of law and justice; n a word, to listen to the voice of their bishop.% It. leplores their miserable condition, and ardently desire. :hat it may cease, but at the same time he again reminds :hem that they are no/ justified iil disturbing public )rder.  -- • THE Bradford Cori oration have recently Prected, at a ;:ost of £5,000, A' • destructor," which placed at their refuse works. There are /six retorts, which are charged every two hours with about three and a half tons of refuse matter; but it. is intended to erect mix additional ..etorts, together with ',wt.) .:irgiries and boilers and form inortar mills, so that the material after it has left the :v torts may be ground down and mired with lime. ACCORDING to a Parliamentary return issued on Saturlay there were 10,657 persons ovicted from their holdings in Ireland in 1880. Another return shows the total number of agrarian outragem iii Ireland reported between January let and November 30th, 1880, to have been 1,718, convictions being obtained M 73 cases, and 47 offenders are auaitink trial. ON Friday morning the lace factory of Mr. Joseph Zeartiehl, at Stapleton], Nottinaam, W 14 iletoroyed by ire. The factory contained an iuite,eti,e ,-rock of lace goods and cotton yarns._ as well as a large number of ostly machines. The damage is estimated at about i. 60,000 part of which is covered by insurance. Two hundred work-people will be thrown out of employment. THE skeleton head of the famous racer "Blink Bonny has been presented to the York Museum by Mr. I'Anson,, of Melton. a