Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-04-25 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MRS. ANN STUMP, of Columbus, Ohio, bas fallen a victim to her love for a pet dog. She could not bear the thought of dying some day and leaving her dumb friend to the persecut on of an ungrateful world. So she poisoned the dog with strychnine. Afterwards repenting she p isoned herself. ON Friday evening the Mayor and Mayoress of Leeds entertained upwards of 1.200 of the aged woolen and men in the Town-hall. After tea, came a concert, a few ipsecbes, and a distribution of remembrances of the day. A SAD accident took place at the funeral of Miss Wilson. daughter of Mr. W. R. Wilson, farmer, Thorpeandte-Stone, near Richmond. The procession was going up a dangerous mountainous toad, for lludswell church. Deceased's mother was riding on the hearse near the driver. When passing an awkward point the hearse overturned, throwing the driver and Mrs. Wilson to the ground. Mrs. Wilson sustained such injuries as to prevent her from proceeding further, and she had to be conveyed home. The coffin was taken oat of the hearse to the churchyard. _ _ '  _ THE Calcutta Englishman says that several proclaimlions of the Mandi have been seized by the police in teat country, and that his agents have succeeded in dietributimg the proclamation in many parts of Persia and Arabia. A DISASTROUS lire occnrred at Rangoon on Wednesday lest, over 40 houses having been burut, and the dam. age being estimated at from 10 to 12 lakhs of rupees. The fire originated from someone dropping a lighted cheroot upon a bundle of canes in a rattan store. A DESTRUCTIVE fire has occurred in Mandalay, and the great temple of Grandams has been completely dest oyed .All the gold leaf stuck on the braes image of the Ginidama Buddha by successive genet ations of worshippers, and valued at from eight to ten lakhs of rupees, has been melted off by the heat. This re tilt of the fire appears to have caused great consternation, being held by the superstitious to be a sure sign of the downfall of the Burmese Empire. AT Darmstadt society is, of course, engrossed with the subject of the approaching wedding, but another absorbing topic of conversation has been furnished by the attempted suicide of a beautiful girl of 18, the daughter of an officer, from unreturned love. _ _ . .  -- ------ . AT a sale of greyhounds in Barbican, on Saturday, a litter of seven saplings by Alec Halliday out of Glen Rcsa, made 315 guineas. - - • • •  - - THE body of a boy of ten years, was found hanging hy his cravat to a nail in • wall at Bentley, Hants. The nail was only 4 feet 7 inches from the ground and the boy was 4 feet 11 inches high. Be was spoken of as a bright cheerful boy and no light could be thrown on the mystery. 'THE Duchess of Argyll. who is a great invalid, is unable to take carriage exercise except in a closed brougnarn, for the smell of a horse brings on a species of asthma which affects her breathing. Lord Salisbury's youngest son is atdicted in the same way. . .  Two beds, which have been manufoctured at the Castle works, were deepatched last week from Windsor to Portsmouth and Darmstadt. One was to be placed in the 4ii,en's cabin on board the Osborne, and the other in the bedroom which sbe is to occupy in the Neue Schloss, at Darmstadt. Her Majesty invariably sleeps on a bed made kfter a cereain pattern, and one is olwaya sent in advance or her nee when she is going to a strange place. By the death of the Duke of Buccleuch the Premier bail on.aher garter to bestow, and also the Lord Lientenancies if Ittidictbian and Roxburshshire. The Lord Lienten. HuLtingdon and Merionethshire still renn.in at . disposal, whose patronage is dal tut tht r by the death of the Bishop of Ripon. 'fltE.Archtsshop of Canto bury has presented the Rev. W t-,cott Robertson. Hon Canon of Coatosbury, to Um tying of Tbsowloye KW'