Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1884-05-30 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ESSENCE OF NEWS.  Robert Breroton, a geode driver, has been killed by • pasaing train at Llendurine. Spain has recently shipped 4,000.000 vine cuttings and AOOO poring olive trees to Mexico. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the firet halves of bank notes for £l2O for Income Tax. Several persons in Scarborough have been rendered seriously unwell through having partaken of certain brawn." All the persons showed symptoms of poison. F. Archer lam this season won 60 races out of '43L°' Wood 31 out of 129. and S. Loates 28 out of 134. 'The last-named during the week has scored 11 wins out of 22 mounts It is stated at Portsmouth that the Duke of Elinburgh intends to bring up his son Alfred to the naval profession, and will take him to sea in the forthcoming cruise of the Channel sqiiadron. At the Liverpool Assiz ea. Jane Warwick, • milliner. was awereed £lOO as demazes for breach of promise of , marriage on th o pa.'. of Joen P eenall. a draughtsman in the service of the Mersey Docks Board. It is estimated that there are nearly 5.000 miles of house.top wires in the city of New York. By the explosion of a boi er at Dubuque, lowa, five persons lave been killed and seven eounded. The will of the late Mr. Michael Theiese Bass has been proved, and tee DP rson.ty sworn at £2,000,000. The woman Ryder, sentenced te death at the Old Bailey the other day for the murder of her child near Uxbridge, has been respited. *Louise Michel pessei her time in prieon in writing stories for children.' A great many persons in this country who write stories for children are not passing their time in prison, but they would be if they had their deserts.--Jersey City Journal. The man Beasley, who wipe time ago was so fearfully Injured by the straw roller at Cioydon that both legs had to be amputatee, has been fitted with a pair of artificial lege, on which he can walk without the ei i of a stick. The Corporation will find him suitable employmeet. What is practically a new Groan, only the pipes of the old tuetrument having been utilised by Messrs. Hill and Son, was used for the fitet time at Westminster Abbey en Saturday. It stands much higher than the old organ, and all its action is on the tubular pneumatic principle, and it has ne trackers. It ie blown by one of Otto's gee engines. A notification from the Home Office was on Tuesday received by the G ivernor of Kirkdale Prison that Robert Black, condemns i to death at the recent A-eras for the murder of Mary Jane hi acnamera by throwing a lighted lamp at her, was rempited until • (anther signification of her Majesty's pleasure.. Mr. William Daveneort, solicitor, of Holborn. London. °committed suicide on Sunday afternoon by hanzing himself with a pocket handkerchief to one of the bedroom doors. He was about 65 years of age, and his brain had been affected for some months, past. On behalf of the Government of Ontario, Professor William Brown, the well-known chief of the Ontario College of Agriculture, Guelph. Ontario, has just selected from -leading British herds and flocks a large number of very choice and highly bred cattle and sheep. The collection includes specimens of nearly all our more Important brows of cattle and sheep, no fewer than 17 breeds—eighi of cattle an i nine of sheep—being represented. The total cost will, it is estimated, be between £6.600 and £lO.