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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1879-05-16 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SHAFTESBURY. MR. BeNrrr-SrANFosn, M.P., has returned 10 per cent., and in some instances 20 per cent., of his farm rents in Wiltshire, due Lady-day last.  THE Medical Profession are now ordering Cadbury's cocoa Essence in thousands of cases, because it conmore nutritious and flesh-forming elements than my other beverage, and is preferable to the thick starchy Cocoa ordinarily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence be sure that you get it, as shopkeepers often push imitations for the sake of extra profit. Makers to the Queen. Paris Depot: 90. Faubourg St. Honore.  THOM THE WHITSHALL I am informed that the Co-operative Stores have hit the gun-makers with exceptional severity An eminent maker, not a hundred miles from St. James's Street, assures me that he sells now oue pistol only where ten years ago he used to sell a &hen. Tuis is hardly calculated to ensure excellence of workmanship, and men who value a really superlative article will act wisely by extending • liberal support to • branch which cannot be cheap without becoming also nasty. &mousy in gunnery is • fallacy, if not a vice, The Array Clothing Derartment have I feu, succeeded In rendering the Government detestable. The poor women who have manufactured our brave fellows' tun CO and trousers have suffered not a little owing to the scarlet cloth, which is injurious to the eyesight. and they have hitherto made a decent sum each week by obtaining assistance from their relations in the work. N,w that they are unable to take the cloth home, but are compelled to OW its the factory, they not only hate money, taut they overtax their eyesight, and have the prospect of bandr.ssa and the workhouse. This is • hard measure, and will alienate the working men.  -Row 'a it dens! It is an open secret to those behind the scenes that at the St. Petersburg Admiralty may be iluipected the complete drawings of the Agamemnon and Polyphemus, the two men-of-war which have just been commenced at Chatham Dockyard. In Engtand the drawings are not to he had for love or money, and many featutea of the Polyphemus and its machinery are supposed to be otly known to the constructors th weave:. Yet here is a cue in which drawings rigorously kept secret from our own naval otfie-ra are fully known and made use of at the Russian Admiralty. Has the Russian Ambassador friends whose sources of information are aupepur to those of the ordinary British officer I  -I learn from Yalta that even the Czar's di taut retreat In the Crimea is not free from the Nihilists. A few days ago, as His Imperial Majesty entered the pilaus, a letter flutteted from an upper window and fell at his fat t. One of the attendants P prang forward and presented it to the Czar, who, seeing it addressed to himself, t3ro it open and reading it. He had not roue tar when he tun el began would have fallen had not Count Adlerberg hurtled to his tide and supported him. The letter was a communication from the Revolutionary Committee threatening to murder the Countess KotuarooslO.  " A
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1879-04-11 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

INTERESTING TRAVELLER.  A correspondent writes—We rub our shoulders against strange People in railway carriages, and last Saturday I met a curious customer in my journey from Rridport to London. At Maiden Newton I found myself seated next to a decently-dressed man, whom I should have taken for a sailor 'bound for home after a lang voi age. How often we are deceived by appearances I " Excuse me making free, sir," said my fellow traveler, " but this is the happiest day I've had for many years." I am glad to hear you say you are happy; but what makes you unusually so to-day?" I replied. "Because lam &gentleman," he added," I shall haves better dinner to-morrow than I've had for five long years an i a half. It is not many can tell what they'fli had for dinner every Suwlay for such • time as that, but I can; I never had anything else on Sundays but bread and cheese, it never altered for • single Sunday, always the same," My traveller told me a long story how he was sentenced to seven years at Portland and he had suffered for another man. He informed me that he was fond of a' little drop," and that be was • smith and lived at Leeds. A man had stolen Some iron and they arrested him, and found him guilty. But he protested his innocence, his conscience he said was clear, and he was going back to his friends at Leeds, who knew him to be innocent During the time he had been at Portland his conduct had been good, and he had one year and seven months of his sentence remitted. The authorities had given him. £6 instead of Al, the usual amount, and they had given him • suit of clothes of the best material they used for prisoners who had conducted themselves well There were many villains yonder, this man said, but there were one or two who he firmly believed were suffering for others. When we think of Hebron, who would never have been ieleased had it not been for the arrest of the villainous murderer Peace, how do we know that the words of this traveller may not be too true He was greatly surprised at the 'hinge which had Laken place in the iron trade. He knew comparatively nothing of what bad gone on during the time of his Imprisonment, and the little knowledge he had of things which have recently taken place was very cui bus to thciae who heard him. He seemed very crest-fallen when he heard of the depression in the iron trade, with which he had been connected. He spoke of the time when he earned high wages, and had a splendid dog weighing 19 lbs., who would tackle any badger, and which was altogether as good a creature as ever" ran before his tail." This strange companion assured me he should never indulge in badger-hunting, pigeon-flying. or the like again. Although he had eufferel for another man, his imprisonment had taught him to lead a different life to th.st of former years. —Siterborne Journ d.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1879-12-12 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  Wolves are making in Russia greater ravages than they did last year. Horse-breeding is much encouraged by the Government of France, who last year gave £50,000 to races. A great tire at a Pantechnicon furniture store in Bristol, destroyed 1.5,000 worth of goods on Friday, and another iire.lspo.or £6OO worth of oils and colours.  -- ----The lad who threatened the Queen of Sweden has been forgiven by the King, who is going to charge himself with the lsd's education. A well-educated woman has been summoned for troubling the clergyman of St. John's, Hampstead, by singing in a high voice, before or behind the choir. She said her whole heart was in the services; but she was warned she might be fined £.5. The summons was adjourned. Sir Arthur Guinness has reduced his rents 30 per cent to tenants under -tat, and 20 per cent to those between £2O and £5O, and says he would have done it before but for the land agitation. Three Europeans and three Chinese from a trading vessel have been murdered by the natives of Cloudy Bay, New Guinea, and H.M. schooner Beagle has gone to punish the offenders. Thirteen canisters of nitro-glycerine were in the bag of is revolutionist arrested in Russia. The Chilian Government declare they are in possession of the deposits of guano and nitrate of soda, and will not recognise any contracts relating to those substances, made since the declaration of war. 964 sovereigns were found last week in a house in Dublin, by a locksmith. They were in a tin case, found in a safe-room. Italians are getting very angry about the protests raised in England against the "restoration' of St Mark's. In Ireland the land agitation was on Thursday thought to have decreased. The Austrian army on a war footing has been fixed at 1,800,000 men till the end of 1879. About eightpence two parties were ready to dispute with witnesses at Walsall County Court; but on their agreeing to leave the matter to the judge, his Honour paid plaintiff the Bd. out of his own pocket, and the parties did not seem to like it  .£.50 was given at Leicester to the Sir Rowland Hill Memorial Fund. 1004 on Armstrong guns have attracted the attention of our War Department, which is said to have decided on having some. Scarlet fever has so spread at Bedminster that the medical officer proposed to exclude from the schools children from infected houses, or to close the schools. Wild fruits are unusually scarce ; with the exception of holly berries and haws there are scarcely any on the bushes and trees. . . . . . .  Mr. Forster at Westmoreland found that in the local dialect a Tory means a "worrier," and considered it an accurate meaning. General Roberts has appointed Afghan governors of three districts ; but one has been murdered, and the others threatened by the Afghans. Old railway iron, recently sold a the rise, has brought the London and North Western a profit of .CZ,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1879-07-18 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ALLEGED MURDER OF A WIFE. At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, John spawn, 37, house decorator, of 41, Barclay-street, St. Pancras-road, was charged before Mr. Hannay with feloniously causing the death of his wife Elizabeth, by violently assaulting her and striking her on the face and body with his fist on Saturday night last —Alfred John Stanton, aged twelve, son of the prisoner, on Saturday night, was awoke by hearing words between his mother and father, who were quarrelling in the next room. He got up and saw his father strike his mother on the chest with his hand. He saw nothing more, as he ran upstairs to get out of the way. He had not seen his mother since. --Samuel Stinton, aged 10, saw his mother on the ground, and his father tread on her whilst she was down. He heard him say "Can you speak now." But his mother made no answer—Mrs. Martha Bryant, residing in the same house,said one of prisoner's sons asked her to goin,as his father was knocking his mother about She opened the door and went in. The prisoner was sitting on • chair, his wife lying on the floor. She said "Stinton, what have you been doing r And he replied "What the—is it to do with you!' The deceased was insensible. Her face was greatly swollen, and streaming with blood ; her mouth was wide open, and her jaw had dropped. She fetched Dr. Smith and a policeman, when the prisoner was taken into custody and his wife was removed on • stretcher to University College Hospital. The deceased died on Monday at 11 o'clock.—Mr. Hannay said, as the prisoner had got no legal assistance, he would remand the case for eight days. On Monday afternoon Dr. Hardwick° held an iquest on the body at the University College Hospital.—Police Sergeant Thomas Keeler, 5 Y Reserve, said on Saturday evening he went to 11, Barclay-street, Somers-town, and in the front room found the deceased lying down on the floor before the fireplace, insensible. She had one of her eyes much swollen, and blood was coming from her mouth and ears. There was a pool of blood on the floor near where the deceased was lying. He went and fetched Dr. Edwards, and on his return took the husband in custody, who then made no reply. The clothes were all smeared with blood. The room was in great confusion, and he found on the table a pair of tongs smeared with blood, as also the handle of a shovel.—Dr. Charles Mayne Maxwell said that the deceased was admitted to the hospital on Saturday evening at 12 o'clock, and was in an insensible condition, having symptoms of compression on the brain. There was a large bruise on the right eye, which extended back to the ear, whilst there were two bruises on the back of the head, the lower jaw was broken in two places, there was blood coming from the mouth, nose, and ears, and there were numerous bruises on the body and legs. She died the next day from her injuries. —The jury adjourned the case till Wednesday next for post-mortem examination.  STRANI,I:sa)ri-r
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-12-28 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE STATE OF IRELAND.  THE MURDER NEAR GALWAY.  Further details concerning tho shocking murder of the unfortunate farmer Mos,lan are to hand. One who has visited the scene and collected the facts' writes :—The victim is a man of 48, named Thomas Moylati, and it appears that &bout three yobs ago he left Ireland for America, leaving his wife behind him to manage his email farm, and leaving also in her charge five children. He from time to time pent money to his wife and children to help t 3 support them, and it is understood that on his return, ahcrit six weeks ago, he brought with him a considerable sum of no mey. His wife had c intinued to occupy the farm during his absence. Moylan's residence is within a few yards of a police hut. which was established at Clonboo, a small viliao) about seven miles from G alway, on the road to Headfort. On Wednesday night Moylan and his wife were returning from visiting his brothet-in-law, about nine o'clock. and on their way, while passing along a boreen, a shot was fired, and then, his wife says, a second shot. Both appear to have taken effect in the forehead just above he left eye. He fell back into the arms of his wife, who was just behind him, and fell helpless on the ground. She proceeded to turn no nil to sneak to him and then found her hands were covered with blood. The wan who had fired the shots. sod who b,f ere firin4 Lad called out twice, "I, this Tom Bro., n e jumped over the ditch, and, seizing the woman, pulled her back from her husband, and taking a piece ot paper from his pocket placed it on the breast of the i ying man. This paper, on examination, bore the words " To•_u Brown,' and there was also writing inside, the imbalance of which the police think it advisable not to disclose for the pre.enr. The rent of Moylan's holding was about £lO, and he had recently got it reduced in the Lend Court to £7 10s He had been in po•seseion of the farm all his life, having come into possession of it on the death of his father . His wife is about 35 years of age. There are m3uy reasons given tor the murder, though no one can t Il absolute y the cause of it. One rumour is that Moylan hoe been known to he connected with the extreme Nationalises before he left and ace while in America, and that he was suspect ad of having given some informarion „bout their doings. Another statement is that he took land that had been lying idle, and from which people were evicted. An ingueet was held on Friday at Clonboo on the body of John Moy lan. The Jury found a verdict f Wilful Murder against some person Cr oersons unknown. The following are the cont nt, of the letter said t ) have been placed on .he body :—" Not cc to Thos. Brown.—l heard about your work at Cre. duff. air don't put met) any trouble any more. I don't Ike to disgrace your friends. Don't put me to any more trouble, for you ought to give up before I give you the double-barrel gun."
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-01-26 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE EXECUTION AT TRALEE.  Sylvester Pod and Thomas Barrett, the two men colvicted at the last Cork aiSiZe of the murder of a farmer named Thomas Browne, at Uastleisland, on October 3rd, in broad daylight, were on Tuesday morning executed in 'Laden gaoL Browne was a husbaadman or good repots, who held a farm at Drown Man. near Castleisiand. under Mr. Robert Fitzgerald. On the dat3 in question he was working in a held near his house when two men, subsequently identinad ss the now executsd criminals, went up to hire, and, apparently without any warning, shot bun dead. A boy named Vt.:minor witnessed the occurrence, Welen took place in the attetnoon, in &neighbourhood where many persons were passiog to and fro." Both men were tried at Cork Assize last month, before Air. Justice Barry, and after tracing been twice tried, the jury in the first trial having disagreed, they were con• vieted and sentenced to death. Marwood, the executioner arrived at Tralee on 'rhureday last, and at once directed the erection of the scaffold, which WM built by workmen from Dublin, no local men being obtainable for the purpose. It was situated in the east angle of the gaol yard, and was a substantial structure of about 1211. high. ine two wretched men did not puns a very restzut nigut. Barrett rising about six o'clock. and Pod three.quartere of an hour after him. Neither took any breakfast or I any refreshments. but at seven o'clock they were waited upon by the Itay. Father Riordan, who administered the sacrament to them and celebrated taus in the chapel of the hospital. Toe culprits were couclucted into the presence of hiarwood a few minutes before eight o'clock. Whilst they were being pinioned, Pod cried out, " I declare before my God that I am innocent of this murder. I never murdsred Brown, or took airy part in it, but I forgive them that have sworn against Llle." Barrett made a similar statement, declaring that he neither murdered Brown nor took part in any outrages. After the process of pinioning had been completed, the culprit', each accompanied by a warder and preceded by the eub-snertf and the sub-govornor of the gaol and the chaplain. walked from the cell lathe hospital, whera they had been pinioned, to the scaffold, a distance of about eighteen paces. Each matt was attentive LO Lbs exhortations of the priest, and ierventlY repeated the resp ruses as the crevice for the dad as read by the Rev. Fattier Rio.dan. They mounted the steps of the ecadold unassisted, and took their places on the drop without making any further observations. Mu-wood quickly accomplished the, final opsrations of strapping me legs of the calprits. ands; Live minutes past sighs toe brit was drawn, alien the min appeared to die iustaataneously. Tee black flag war immediately hots ad on the wall oi en out-building in the yard. The wife of the man Foil was near the gaol when the black flog was run up. Alter the bodies bad remained hanging for an hour they were cud down, and the customary inquest was I held.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-05-04 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE REMARKABLE MURDER AT WINFORD.  At the Somraset Assizes at Taunton, on Monday, Joseph Wedlake, a young man of 30, deecribed as a farmer. was trio I before Mr. Barn Huddl aton for the wilful mur ler of Mark Oox at Winford, in the coal districts of Somerset. Cox ia only 17 years of age, and WAS a miner in th !erode aof the Ironworks Company. Ma had been in the hah:t of going to his work very late on Sunday night in order to begin the first thing on M mday morning. For some time peeit he has gone to his work htsitatiogly, expressing his fears that some calamity would befall ivm. On the night of Sunday. January 7th, he went to work about midnight, having nrevjously expressed increased reluctance at going. The next morning about five o'clock his body was found on the road, with his skull spit across. There were two sets of terriele iujuries, either one of which would have caused it is heliev,d instant death. Ti re havirg bean BUMS ill blood Letween him and a man named Thomas Wedlake, the brother of the prisoner, the former was taken, and some h'ood Was found on his clothes. He was detained till January 23th, when he made a statement, inculpating his brother, the Prisoner. The prisoner at fleet endeavoured to oast the blame upon another Wedlske, named Job, but after he had been a little time in confinement he m lode a remorkable admission that he had killed the man with an axe in mistske for an ther named Thatcher, of whom be was jeal irs. re the house of his uncle, with whom Joseph Weilake, on the farm, served as assistant, there-lived a Miss Pearce, for whom be had formed a violent attachment quite unknown to her. She was keeping company ostensibly with the young man Thatcher. Oa one occasion Joe Wedlake held a lantern in Thatcher 's face saying "Let's see whether you are good looking or no!" Prisoner tell the police superintendent he was jealous of Thatcher, and should not have done what ha did but he Lai had a drop of drink He c..mmitt4d the deed with the axe which his uncle used to kill the pigs with. He had had it on hia mind ever since, and should not have been able to keep it any longer, for he fancied all the time he saw the poor young man he hal killed. Although prisoner was defended, there was no excuse for him, and the fact that he had taken one life when he had intended to take another of course makes no difference in the eye of the Eaglish Law. This the judge plainly told him when the jury returned a verdict of guilty. He was sentenced to be Lung.  Mr. Johesm, in his Chemistry of Wmmon Life pointed out that Cocoa had long reached the consumer with too much of its own fat, or loaded with a variety of farinaceous substanees. producing a soup rather than a bpverage. The Cocoa bean affords admirable nutritive fle,h-forming qualities, mid staying power. In CA hury's ,s, E.sence these are retained and concentrated, ling an exhilarating infusioa, nota duchy soup,"— .1 to Householder',  'arising/