The Poole Telegram. — 1881-06-03 (Poole, Dorset, England)

JOHN BRINTON, M.P. for Kidderminster, met with a serious acrident on Saturday morning. While riding along Itegent-street he was violently thrown from his horse and narrowly eseal.ed being runover. He sustained oecides a severe chock to the system a number of bruises. Tug Him. Harold ."-Itithorne Hirdy, son of Lord Cram brook, is lying daticterously ill at Low Moor, near Bradford. lie ruptured a blood vessel a month ago, and since then he has suffered from lung disease. 'rue altar-cross, candlesticks, and other articles cf iihureh furniture, which mystci b.uly dies ppear d from St. James's, Hatchatn, in 1877, has been found by Inspectcr Itelf (who hail received certain information). buried beneath one of the seats in the church.  Mn. jAMEM LOGAN, junior member of the firm of Logan Fletcher, and Co., and general produce brokers, Liscrisiol, committed suicide on Friday at his residence, West Kirby, Cheshire, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He had suffered from attacks of paralysis. ON Friday morning the body of a married woman named Beedon, thirty-seven yeats Old, who Ived with her husband in Pollard-street, Bowling., BrAdford, was taken from a dam in connection with the ,lyeworks of Messrs. Edward Ripley and Son. She had been in a depressed state of mind for some time past, and on Thursday about noon she lett home, taking with her a child abont three years old. She was seen walking along a road close to dm dam, but nothing more was seen of either her or the child until next morning, when their bodies were found in the dam.  WHILN a number of competitors where firing at No. 3 butt, Wormwood-scrube, from the GOO yards lange, the signal of danger was raised in the butt apparently to test the value of a shot. Simultaneously with the raising of the flag at the butts a competitor discharged his rifle at No. 18 target, and the bullet named through the stomach of the marker in charge, named Penfield, who unfortunately came out at the moment without raising his flag. AN action was brought against the Loudon Tramways Company on Friday to recover damages for mei-hula injuries sustained by Mrs. Redford. whose husband was clerk and time-keeper to a builder. The charge against the company was that they left their road open; but a subsequent question was raised whether they or their contractors, Messrs. Mowlem, Burt and Co., are liable. The jury gave the plaintiff damages to the amouat of £l,llB. THE fund now being raised in memory of the late Mr. J. J. Mechi, for the benefit of his widow and family, lia reached nearly £5,000.  MR. J. M. RICHARDSON, a gentleman rider, who scored two Grand National wins no Disturbance and Reugny, is to be married to the Countess of Yarborough, the mother of the present Earl. AT Reading a intrty of commercial men, after dining at one of the hotels in that town, drank the Queen's health with great enthusiasm, and despatched a telegram to her Majesty, at Balmoral, offering their humble but hearty congratulations en the fact of attaining her sixty-sece.id year, and wishing her many happy returns of the day. A reply was sent from Bahroral, acknowledging the receipt of the telegram, and expressing the gratification of the Queen with the contents. A crinfous case came before the Leeds County Court last week. The defendant had some English gold books for sale, plaintiff was in want of some and offered to give him a diamond ring worth £9 in exchange, which was agreed to. defendant saying elome 4,f them were foreien but he had separated them. The price of foreign gold leaf is about 6d. a gross and that of Lnglisit 8s a gross. When the books were reviewed they were found to be mostly foreign. Defendant would not take them back but offered to give I:2 to settle the matter. A verdict was given for plaintiff for £9, to be reduced to a Is. if the ring was returned. A SERIES of diabolical trade outrages have been perpetrated at Messrs. Thomas Stainforth and Sons' sickle grinders works, which were partially blown up by gunpowder in February. The lives of the partners were also threatened in letters signed "Grinder Joe." Two constables secreted on the premises early on Sunday morning seised two men in the act of laying anti lighting a charge of gunpowder in a bottle in the engine-house. The prisoners made a desperate resistance.  LANDBROOK MILL, at Orrell, near Wigan belonging to Mr. Widdows, was burnt down early on Saturday morning, the damage being estimated at £20,000.  A sicremsr, who was taken into custody On Friday for riding his vehicle at the rate of twelve miles an hour, wait Cued 10s. at the Thames Police-court, London. GENERAL BURNABY'S representations to the War Office with the object of reducing the costs of a soldier's funeral, which now falls upon the friends or relations of the deceased, have 80 far prevailed that an order has been issued directing that in future a gun-carriage shall be placed at the disposal of the friends of the deceased, ,-ith the view of saving the cost of a hearse. .. _  ON Saturday Morning Mr. William Longshaw, Jun., about 30 years of age, member if the firm of Longshaw and Sons, Warrington, drank from a bottle which contained carbolic acid, but which he supposed contained beer. He was driven rapidly to the Warrington Infirmary, but died immediately after admission.  So greatly did the Queen admire Lady Brooke's wedding-dress, that she insisted on her dining in it at the Castle ; and, after dinner, her Majesty told the lovely bride to " walk about," that she might "see it better." The result of these peripatetic movements being that her ladyship was "commanded" to be photographed therein.  FORCERS of cheques are giving bankers a good deal of trouble at present. A tirm suggests the importance of buying cheques backed at the part where the signature comes with a tablet of some very opaque nature so that it may not be visible when held up to the light. Forgers Are now taking advantage of the transparency of most ..hrques with considerable success. It also behoves bankers to be more careful than ever not to supply chequebooks except on a printed form, or unless they are quite ~tistied that the signature of the order is a genuine