Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1878-08-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

STOCK PRIZES FOR 1879.—0 n the motion of Colonel Luttrell the sum of £2,070 was placed at the disposal of the Stock Prize Sheet Committee for the Exeter Meeting : this amount, being £7O in excess of that offered at any previous Meeting, having special reference to the claims of breeders of Channel Islands Stock.  Robert Kelly. one of the Irish political prisoners, was liberated from Mountjoy gaol on Saturday morning, owing to his bad health. During a quarrel, on Saturday night, a Leeds labourer, named J. Barker. so ill-used his wife that she died a short time afterwards. He has given himself up to the police. The real work of the Volunteer Artillery meeting commenced at Shoehuryness this morning with fine weather and fair prospects. A boiler smith, named William Simpson, is in custody at West Hartlepool, charged with murdering his paramour, Jane Turner. The pair quarrelled, and then Simpson is said to have so severely beaten her with a heavy stone that death ensued. The Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan police has issued an order with reference to the agitation for increased pay, advocating patience. Men may prssent legitimate petitions, but unseemly conduct will be put down with a strong hand. An excursion train to Southend collided with a Wool wich train at Stepney Junction this (Monday) morning The driver and stoker and three passengers were injured. Traffic was resumed at noon. THE Medical Profession are now ordering Cadbury's Cocoa Essence in thousands of cases, because it contains more nutritious and fiesh-fonxiing elements than any 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 I shopkeepers often push imitations for the sake of extra profit. Makers to the Quedn. Paris Depcit 9l). Faubourg St. Honore. On Wednesday night the Dundee police visited the house of a Mr. Maclean, provision merchant, and found his wife in a crouching position on the floor, with a heavy iron chain round her neck securely padlocked to a fifty-six pound weight, which stood at some distance. Macfean was apprehended, and the officers forced him to unlock the padlock and release his wife. Mrs. Macfean then preferred a charge ef cruelty against her husband, who was on Thursday remitted by the police magistrate to a higher coart. Song for the Admiralty d propos of the Eurydice:— THE FIRST LORD SINGS, If at first you don't succeed, • Mull, mull, mull again! Of your f allures take no heed, Mull, mull, mull again! Use no ropes that are not weak, Bungling men be sure to seek, If our praise you would bespeak, Mull, mull, mull again! Hawkins, in addition to rapidly acquiring a character for a vindictive harshness, that one would hope had passed away with Scraggs and Jefferies, seems also destined to earn a reputation for a otierile affection for judicial-stage pronertiPs when he performs in the celebrated force of "Justice." At Derby, a day or two ago, the High Sheriff appeared in ordinary morning dress, as he had no right to wear either a uniform or a court dress, and 'Arry threatened to fine him £5OO. He would listen to no excuse, and the sheriff was obliged to borrow thesclothes of a volunteer captain, and then 'Arry looked as pleasant as he could manage to do.