Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-11-24 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BEIR."—A "drop of leer" was the excuse tendered by George Williams to the diolve at Winchester A size in reply to a charge of indecently assaulting a child of 7. The penalty was 1.0 years' peual servitude.  FASHION is growing sensible. A gentleman who milled ft rich young lady last week, and received a heat) of pre, nit., found among them a tea and coffee service, salt cellars, and a mustard pot.  THE election of Mr. Seeley to a Professorial Fellowship at Caine College is the tint event which will bring home to the pnblic the fact that the new statutes are in °per. ation at Cambridge. THE directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigatios Company recommend a dividend of 31 per aent. for the half-year ended the 30th of September last, with a bonus of 2 per cent, from the underwriting account, making, with the interim dtvidend of 2i per cent, paid iu June, a total payment of b per cent. for the year.  - A MAN of unsound mind was kilted en Sunday by leap. Mg over the Dean bridge, at Edinburgh, which is about 120 feet in height. Amino:loon on Saturday, while a tratnear was driven down Union street, Glasgow, a gentleman who was riding an the top rose for the purpose of .lescanding, but he iver. balanced, and fell into the street, killing himself almost instantaneously. THE Prefect of the Sine is about to remove from the gates of cemeteries crosses and other symbols] not accepted by all religions. Families will oda be at liberty to place such symbols on the tombs of relatives; but the divisions between Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish graves being about to disappear, under a recent law, the gates or other memories will henceforth be uffla neutral character. AN actor at the Grand Theatre, Marseilles, having had his engagement cancelled, his partizans organised on Thursday night at the end of the performance a eiormy manifestation, and insulted the manager of the house. The Mayor of Marseilles had to clear the theatre by force. The disturbance continued until midnight iu the streets, and several persons were arrested. WINTER commenced in Berlin on Thursday in earnest All the streets of the capital were found covered with snow, which up till evening showed no symptoms of melting again. This full early for winter in Berlin. ON Friday afternoon, as Themes liolt, clerk, employed at the Vale Paper Works, near Bury, was proceeding with L'7s, which he had drawn from the bank for the pnr• pose of paying wages, he was attacked by two men, one of whom preser.ted a pistol and the other threw a quantity of cuyenne pepper into Holes eyes, causing him to drop the hag in which was the money. The men then ran away, but Holt was able to give a description of both of them.  A FEARYUL tragedy is reported from a village in the Bulcovina, Austria's most eastern province. The head of a band of gipeies, encamped near Kurczurmar, cut his son's throat, whereupon he was himself in turn murdered by his own sister, who killed him in his sleep, and then backed him into small pieces. Another brother then attacked the sister with a knife, and tried to take her life, but the police arriving in time, interfered, and prevented him accomplishing his purpose. They took the woman into custody. A particularly horrible murder was corn. witted in Vienna a few nights back. A workman killed one of his children, a boy of sir years, with a hatchet, mutilating him in the most shocking manner. The police had the greatest difficulty in preventing the crowd from lynching the murderer.  AT Nottingham Town-hall, on Thursday, Tom Carroll, the once fathom. joiker, wn talmn before the magistrates charged with being destitute. On the previinis day he was Keen wandering about the town in A deplorable condition. He entered a publichouse, and on refusing to leave it, was conveyed to the Police•stat' . The magistrates ordered him to be sent to the workhouse.