Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-09-14 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

IVIR. CLARANCE SMITH and Lieutenant-Colonel Phiness Cowan, the Sheriffs elect of London and Middlesex. will be formerly admitted into office shortly. Mr. Smith,who is the eldest son of the late Rev. Dr. Gervais Smith, exPresident of the Wesleyan Conference, is • member ef the firm id Clarence and Grevase Smith, stock brokers, and Lieutenant• Colonel Cowan is one of the firm of J. ooWlirl and Sons, of the Hammersmith Soap Works. A LADY was travelling in an omnibus and next her was seated another lady, who wore an handsome diamond ring. The first lady soon got out of the omnibus, and on alighting found to her dismay that her pocket had been picked of her purse. She could not surmise how the theft had been commuted, as the only person next to her was the lady with the diamond ring. All enquiries about the purse were fruitless. A few days elapsed, and the lady's maid was shaking out the dregs she lied worn on this morning in question, when out of the pocket dropped a diamond ring. In her occupation of relieving the lady a the purse the omnibus thief had evidently disengaged the ring from her finger, and it had dropped into the pocket. The ring proved worth £lO-- not • bad etehange for a purse containing 30s. ALTHOWIit the papers have said little about the typhoid fever scare in the not th-west of London, the affair is • very serious one The medical men of the district held • sort of informal meeting last week in order to divide the work, which liar/lanes them night and day There are hundreds of cases in the immrnediate neighbourhood id High street and Park street, Camden Town, both among the poor and among the artistic and professional colony, whieh has settled about Gloucientercrescent. Regent's park-road anditerrace,and soon down east to Primrose hill and west as far &II Haverstock•hill. The local physicians believe, and their seems little doubt about the fact. thee the state of the Regent's Canal is the primary urea@ at this lamentable disease. Cormixe, a magistrate and landowner, was nom rnitted for trial at Tullamore on Saturday. charged with subetantiating fictitious claims by his tenants under th• Arrears of Rent Act, and being privy to the production of false evidence. Bail was refused. Mae. IIuNWiCE, residing at 14, Richmond plate', Holloway, shot herself on Thursday evening with • revolver, inflicting a dangerous wound in the breast. The billet, however, was intercepted by one of the ribs, and lodged in the side, fortunately without fatal result. The bullet has been extracted. Mrs. Huuwick has been placed under the surveillance of the polioe, a plaiu clothe constable being on constant duty at her residence. Carrain T. E. lIIHRT, of the A Company of the 2ffi4 Volunteer Battalion West Riding Regiment, has just passed through his course of instruction at Aldershot with great eclat. having obtained the highest position in his class, with 1,176 marks, only 24 short of the highest possible number and obtained s field officer's certificate. with the highest number in the *class namely, 492 out of a possible 500. FOUR deaths arising from fights have occurred within the last few days ROBERT WHITE, inmate of the Haddington District Lunatic Asylum, was murdered on Thursday night by another lunatic named Andrew Buchanan. THi mother of 17 children poisoned herself in Bethnal green last week. She was only 39 years of age. MR. RICHARD SMARTS, son of Captain Sadleir. of Lake Allen lodge, Druinhatubo, near Carrick-on-Shannon, was yachting on Thursday evening on Lake Allen, with a ser• vent by named James Trap, when a gale came on and the vessel capsized. No help could be rendered, and both were drowned. ON Wednesday Mr. John Smith, the brewery, Tadcaster, received a telegram from the British Commissioner at the Amsteriana International Exhibition informing him that he had been awarded the gold medal in the doss for beer at that exhibition, in:competition with forty-eight other brewers from all parts cf the world. The jurors in this class were selected from Belgians, Spain. Germany, France, end Holland. THE Trinity yacht Galatea arrived at Stornoway on Saturday afternoon, having on hoard Mr. Charoborlain, President of the Board of Trade, Sir Thomas Farrar, Secretary, Mr. Richard Chamberlain. Ao. The Galatea will proceed to the Orkneys on Tuesday. MR.GLADSTONE and party embarked on Saturday on the Pembroke Ciodle, a hich sailed on a northerly Course, in the direction of the Point of Ayr, with every indi,-ditiett of • pleasant voyage ...nit fine weather. The Peemierr looked hearty and w.. 11. Pembroke Castle is z. new Ammer, the gat and loogeEt in Sir Donald Currie's fleet, and is, in fad, the lougest of any of the Om* sifiamerg.