Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1880-08-06 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BRABLAUGII ON THE AFGHAN SLAUGHTER. Speaking to nearly 30,000 miners at Durham on Saturday, Mr. Bracllaugh asked his audience to bear with him while he entered his solemn protest against the cry for blood-vengeance which the Ntrendard and other Conservative papers were now trying to raise. If the e wanted vengeance it should fall on Lord Beaconsfielnlle head, and Lord Lytton and Sir Bartle Frere, the tools ; it should come on the late Government, which had brought us into conflict with the Afghans. There was a time when the Houses of Parliament impeached the Earl of Strafford, • grander man than any gingerbread earl, and he now asked them to record the shame, horror, and disgrace which rested on a Government which the voice of England had driven out, but which they had not adequately punished.  SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL An inquiry was held on Saturday at the St. Martin's Yestry-hall. Charing-cross, as to the death of Minnie Kneel,Men, 17, who was found dead, in the Thames on 'Thursday last Mr. Joseph Knowlden, the father, deposed that he last saw his daughter alive at nine o'clock on 'Sunday morning, when she was in good health and spirits. -She had lately been in the habit of keeping very late hours, for which witness was continually remonstrating with her; but notwithstanding this, her "young man" would keep her out until two or three in the morning.— "Mrs. Elise Knowlden, wife of the previous witness, deposed that at half-past six on Sunday evening the came home, and asked for something to eat Vl:tressed asked her where she had been, and she replied that she had been out for the day with her young man, 'and neither of them had had anything to eat Witness ' then gave her some bread and meat, and she left the house, taking the food with her. The deceased told witness on the previous day that her young man had published the beans of marriage between them. —Martha Johnson -stated that at 10.30 on Sunday night she met the deceased In the lionsaferry-road ; she was alone and crying. Witness asked her what was the matter, and she replied, " I have got trouble on my mind, and I don't want mother to know. She then walked in the direction of the Houses of Parliament, and told witness that if she would go and fetch Jack she would not drown herself. She had wetiously threatened to destroy herself.—Eliza Bull, who stated that she had known the deceased for so roe time past, said that she met her near Lambeth-bridge at a little before 11 on the same night, when she said she was going to throw herself into the river. Witness advised her not to do that, but to go home to her mother, who was waiting for her, and she replied, "Never mind my mother. I won't take this disgrace home to her." They then walked along the embankment, and the deceased twice attempted to drown herself, but witness prevented her. Witness left her to try and get a policeman, but before she conld And one the deceased uttered a scream and leaped off the parapet of Lambeth-bridge. The body was not discovered until Thursday morning, when Constable Howe, of the Thames police, found it floating under Waterloo-bridge. —The jury returned a "erdlet uf Suicide while in a state of unsound mind."  DR.