Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-03-07 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SALE AND MART AGAIN—At the Central Criminal Court, George R. Short, carpenter, George Sumby,bricklayer, George Edmondson, barber, and Henry Kerr, butcher, were charged with conspiring to obtain by false pretences from William Pullin and other persons a silver watch and other articles.. The prisoners obtained quantities of property by advertising on the ..le and barter principle. They had in twelvemonths committed 147 trauds, and made 51 attempts. They had obtained property value £3oo.—Eighteen months hard labor. QUEEN IMARGARET'S COLLEGE, Glasgow. has received the gift of Hillhead Park House to be used asa college for women, by the munificence of Mrs. John Elder. AN amusing incident occurred at the MacclesfieldGuar tlians' meeting on Monday. At the previous meeting two guardians, in the course of an altercation, threatened to have it out '"uind alluded to pistols as fitting weapons. During the meeting two cups of coffee and a brace of pistols were delivered from " A Ratepayer." The production of the weapons caused excitement at first, but imusemeut followed. They were unloaded. A REPRIEVE was received at Warwick Gaol on Friday morning from the Houle Office for James Lloyd, who was sentenced to death at the recent Warwick Assizes or the murder of his wife at Birmingham. Upwards >f fifty thousand signatnres were attached to a memoral praying for a commutation of the death sentence.  - THE Home Secretary has also respited Sarah Malinton and Samuel Smart, who were condemned to death et the Liverpool Assizes for the murder of Louisa Brierley, at Broughton, Manchester. They were to have been executed on Monday next for causing the death of the woman by an unlawful operation. GEORGE HUTCHINGS, A butcher, of Poplar, was summoue(' before Mr. Lushington for creating an obstruction by beating a drnin and ringing a bell to draw custom to Ms shop. The defendant kept calling out "Hi. hi ! ti en chops," and other objectionable remarks. He was fluid 10s. and 2s. costs  MR. HENRY CURREY, the arbitrator appointed to dt•termine the amount to be paid by the Aletiopolitau bud Metropolitan District Railway Companies as corn per-milieu for the well-known Weigh House Chapel, near the monument, has now given his award. The area of the site was about 7,010 feet • the amount of claim was £72,00 ; the witnesses for the railway company valued the vroperty at about £32,000. The arbitrator has an aided £37,410. The Central News learns that Saturday morning a sus• ions-looking black bag, of American cloth, glazed, was found in the cloak-room at Ludgate•hill railway etato. The police on duty sent for Inspector Pitney and I),i. ctives Taylor and l'almer, who conveyed it to the chikl thee of the City Police. There it was found to o,•pt:dri forty-five imckages of dynamite, and also a tin I ra, the contents of which have not at present been ruined. The box was wrapped up in two handkerclock and a new cokred shirt. Among the contents of tl.i• Was (tattier a puitiou of an alarum cluck of Amenii the whole apparatus being, so far as can la. judged at present, very similar to those discovered at Cho, ing-clOSs and Paddir gtonQueen has conferred the dignity of a viscounty op I, aid Itigbt Honourable Sir Henry Bouverie W. Prail, G C. 11.. late :speaker of the House of Commons Th( ti le by which he will be elevated to the peerage will 3c that of Viscount Ilanopden, of lilynde, in tho.sounty if 1-ISael,