Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-08-04 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

CHURCHILL, M.P., underwent an operation on Saturday last. Tho operation was nuist 'wormed, and the patient is going on as favoulably al celd be desired.  MIBB ANNA PARNELL, sister of Mr. Parnell, M.P., is seriously ill in Detain, the news of the death of herehter, Miss Fanny Parnell, baring prostrated her. Turmapar mm-ning, on the arrival of the 10.30 train at the Waterloo Junction, the officials were informed that • gentleman was dead on the seat of a firet.class carriage. It appeared that Mr. David T. Childs, an architect, lag at Kingston, took a ticket for London. As the train arrived at 'Wimbledon the deceased appeared very pale, and on being examined by Dr. G. Thompson, of Surbito' n who happened to be a passenger by the same train, that gentlesian pronounced that life was extinct_ Tug Montrose railway station was on 'Thursday after. noon the scene of a painful accident. A gentleman and his wife and family, who had been visiting some fu leads in Montrose, were leaving by the afternoon train to return home, and when the train Aarted one of the children, a girl six years of age, was leaning against the carriage door, Some person opened the door to allow • late passenger to get in, whereupon the girl fell out, and, ebbing off the platform on to the line, was cut in two. The father jumped out and almost lost his life in attempt. lug to save that of his child. •  intim are signs that young negro boys are coming into use as pages of fashionable ladi.as in Paris. It is presumed that the contrast of colour heightens the effect of their compiexioas, and pager are to be worn as beauty Spots used to be. A rooisd sweep at Totues took up a dynamite cartridge on Thursday and struck it with a hanunar. The cartridge exploded, and blew his hand literally to pieces. Ma. Bgargetuem, at the Town-hall, Northqmpton, has denied having any connection with the FrecittiB4cr. A COMPANY of twenty-five American working people were received by the Right Hon. John Btight at his reddeuce on Wednesday morning, and subsequently the Lord Mayor entertained the party at luncheon. 8.-let speeches of weleome were made by Mr. Bright and the L. r.I Mayor, and recited to by Mr. E. D. Jordan, under wleisu guidance the Americans are travellins. They are youltg !not and women chosen from the various departmeuts ot tne drapers' stores of Jordan and Marsh at Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest establishments in America, employing some 3,000 persons. The proprietors have arranged to send twenty-five of their enaployda abroad every year, making them a free gift of the trip through Europe. The aim is to familiarise their " helps ' wich tha manners, customs, and institutions of the Old World, as well as to give them a few weeks of the enjoyment of eign travel THE schooner Magnet, of Adelaide, has been totally lost while on a labor cruise from Queensland. Off the coast of Tann& island, owing to a dead calm, she was set by the current on shore, and a heavy swell lifted her over a ledge of rocks into 18 inches of water. The natives immediately seized the ship, drove the crew overboard into the boat that was towing, and then pillaged her. The ship is breaking up and the natives are stacking the fragments on shore for firewood.  CirrawAyo arrived at Madetra on Friday, on board the Uaion Company's steamer Arab. The ex-King ig in good health. During the first part of the voyage he was unwell.  Peoreaion HOLLOWAY contradicts the report that he has built& convalescent Home and offered it to the medical profession, by whom it was refused. The Home, he Ban does not exist, and he has had no communication with the medical profession.  WILLIAM BRADBURN, who was condemned to death at th Mancimater Awizes last week for the murder of hie itep-dangliter and son at Farnwerth on the 3rd of May, has been reprieved. Bradbarn was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury. A YOUTH named Farrant, aged twenty, and a girl named Hickman, aged 17, endeavoured to commit suicide at Uxbridge on Friday night by tying themselves together with a handkerchief and jumping into the Frays, • branch of the Colne. They were both unconscious when dragged from the stream. ON Saturday morning a fire broke out at the Macardles Cotton warehouse, Oriel-street, Liverpool, and a woman and a girl working in the place were burnt to death. Carraix VALESTINs was eased with hie watch at Goodwood by some of the light-fingered gentlemen, but a disagreeable incident was rendered agreeable by the promptness with which certain gentlemen subscribed a handsome sum to make good the loss to the energetic Manager of Goodwood.  AT Brighton on Saturday, Charles Harris Franklin, of London, a visitor, was committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of a lad named Charles Patrick. On Tuesday the deceased was bathing off the Pier, and the prisoner, presumably unaware of the lad's presence in the water, threw an empty bottled beer-box into the water, which struck deceased, causing him to sink. The body was recovered on Saturday.  A noaniu.s discovery ;vas :uade on Sunday at North Shields. Ellen Bernard, a ship captain's widow, living alone in Grey-street, being misaiug for some days, sui *ions were aroused, and the house being entered by tho police a shocking sight presented itself. Mrs. Bernard was lying dead at the foot of the stairs amidst a pool of blood. The right side of her face was knocked fiat, awl her right eye was also knocked out. She was partially dressed. The supposition is that she fell downstairs. GBOUSI disease has appeared in Roeshire in an aggrpvated form, and very bad accounts come from other moors.  ARTHUR ORTON ham been removed from outdoor labour to the carpenter's @bop in Porton& Prison. TBi Bishop of Durham has entertained at Auckland Castle all the clergy he has ordained —some eighty in number.  AN action for libel haa been entered by a well-known officer of the Guards against a fellow officer. The case, which is a somewhat remarkable one, arises out of a paragraph published in a weekly journal. Ore Saturday Mr. Carttar, West Kent coroner, held an Inquest at the Upton Hotel, High-street, Bexley-heath, on the body of Grace Harriet Butcher, aged 20, wife of Herbert Butcher, medical student. It appeared that on Thursday night the deceased retired to bed suffering from toothache, and to relieve the pain her husband rubbed some chloroform on her gums with his finger. He then retired to rest himself, and, on being called by his sister the next morning, he found Mrs. Eutcher lying dead by his side, with the empty chloroform phial, which was twothirds full overnight, in her hand. A verdict that deceased died from misadventure was returned.