Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-04-08 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

RAISING AN TIIONCLAD. —The French ironclad Richelieu, which on the 29th of December took fire and was scuttled in 1 anion harbour, was re-floated on Thursday, after three months' efforts. The preliminary stages consisted of the lightening of the vessel by removing the iron plating of the turrets, the hermetic closing of all openings, the pumPing out of water, and the pumping-in of air by immense tubes. On Wednesday '.egan the refloating proper. Three pumps were placed capable of pumping out $OO,OOO litres per hour. Three hundred and sixty barrels:each containing 1,000 litres of air, kept the vessel in trim, and on the pumps being set to work the vessel gradually rose. HOME Ruta....-It is stated that Mr. Parnell will be married shortly after BAtst3r to a young American lady of great beauty and wealth, There will now not he a single reason for Mr. Parnell to continue his inflammatory speeches, and it is to be hoped, for that gentleman's good and that of his country also, that the lady in question will turn out to be an out-and-aut Home Ruler. What rejoicings there will he in some quarters when it is an accomplished fact that Mr. Parnell is really "settled I"— Fun. On Sunday evening some alarm was caused on the Suspension-bridge by a man being seen to climb up the Clif ton railings. He was promptly seized by a gentleman who was passing close by; he struggled bard to be released, and asked why he was meddled with. The more he struggled the more firmly he was held by the bystanders. At length, after some blows had been freely exchanged, he was secured and laid on the ground. It was explained he was not making a desperate attempt to commit suicide, but was simply the lamp-lighter, and had climbed up the railings as usual to light the lamps! A strike of telegraphists throughout the country is an event which few persons would like to contemplate: but such a crisis is by no means outside the range of possibilities. The telegraph clerks in the provinces have long been dissatisfied with their position. Again and again they have appealed to the Postmaster-General for redrese. For a time matters looked hopeful for them, but their recent interview with Mr. Fawcett has dashed all their hopes to the ground, and a strike is freely spoken of. It is scarcely possible to realise what would happen if, even only for a few days, the whole country was cut off from electric intercommunication. The aspect of the London daily papers, moreover, would be simply pitiable, for it would be safe to say that more than half of what appears in a morning paper passes over the telegraph wires. .EXTRAORDINARY DISMISS AMONG DEES —An unknown disease, resulting already in the death of over a hundred valuable animals, has broken out amongst the deer herds In the Duke of Portland's park at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. More deer are dying daily, and at present no means have been found to stop the spreal of the affection. A post-tnortem examination of one ef the bodies has been made by Mr. Henry Moore, veterinary surgeon, of Worksop, and he states that be found a small thread-like worm infesting the bronchial tubes of the lungs and small intestines, the irritation of which caused congestion and Inflammation of both organs, the symptoms being ag grs• 'sated by the late prolonged tiv and eivere west her. Tbe parasites are white, no thic the a hair, and an Inch long. It is reported that: v( sew has bro kea out is other Bull& deer parka