The Poole Telegram. — 1884-03-07 (Poole, Dorset, England)

SALE AND MART AGAIN.—At the Central Criminal Court, George R. Short, carpenter, George Surnby,bricklayer, George Edmundson, barber, and Henry Kerr, botcher, were charged with conspiring to obtain by false pretences Iron i William Pedal and other persons a silver watch and other articles.. The prisoners obtained quanti. ties of property by advertising en the s..le and barter principle. They had in twelvi months committed 147 traude, and made 51 attempts. They had obtained propetty value 300.—Eighteen months hard labor. QUEEN IMARGAReS COLLEGE, Glasgow. has received the gift of Hillhead Park House to be used as a college for women, by the munificence of Mrs. John Elder. AN amusing incident occurred at the Macclesfield Guar aians' meeting oil Monday. At the previous meeting two guardians, in :be course of an altercation, threatened to "have it out ',and alluded to pistols as fitting vveapons. During the meeting two cups of coffee and a brace of pistels were delivered from " A Ratepayer." The producdon of the weapons caused excitement at first, but amusement followed. They were unloaded. A. REPRIEVE was received at Warwick Gaol on Friday morning from the Ileum Office for James Lloyd, who was sentenced to death at the recent Warwick Assizes or the mutder -of his wife at Birmingham. Upwards fifty thousand signatures were attached to a memor. al praying for a commutation of the death sentence. THE Home Secretary has also respited Sarah Madin. ion and Samuel Smart, who were condemned to death at 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 SUMmulled before Mr. Lushington for creating an obstruction by beating a drnm and ringing a bell to draw custom to lie drop. The defendant kept calling out "Hi. hi! r. tten chops," and other objectionable remarks. Ile was fintit 40s. and 2s. costs MR. HENRY CURREY, the arbitrator appointed to tl, tei 'aline the amount to be paid by the Metiopolitau end Metropolitan Dietrict Railway Companies as clam peroation for the well-known Weigh House Chapel, near the inonunielit, has now given his award. The area uf tlw site was about 7,0L0 feet; the amount of claim was ; the witnesses for the railway company valued the I roperty at about £32,000. The arbitrator has an aided £37,4F,0. The Central News learns that Saturday morniug a male, iouslooking black bag, of AttieliCSll cloth, glazed, was found in the cloak-room at Ludgate.hill railway Ate tiou. The police on duty sent for Inspector Pitney and 1). t. ctives 'Taylor and Palnier, who conveyed it to the I thee of the City Police. There it was found to torty-fite p:.clieges of dyuarinte, and also a tin Is x, tic content. of which have not at present been -ioined. The box was wiapped up in two hamikerWeis nod a new colt roil shirt. Meow: the contents of t I .a is fort Osl a poi tion of an a larinn cluck of Aweri. in auufacture, the whole apparatus being, so tar as can I. 1,..,ed at present, very similar to those discovered at tii,ing-vioss usual Ptah& gton. 1.1: Qui. en has conferred the dignity of a viscounty ..p ii lio Reda Iluncurable Sir Henry Bouverie W. 1:1:10i, (.; C. 8.. lute :speaker of the House of COURROISS Ii le by which he will be elevated to the peerage will at: that of Viscount Hampden, of tilynde, in tbe.county bueaes,,