Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-03-04 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT. —On Sattrulay night a married woman named Millett v, as killed at New-street station, Birmingham. Just as the train was starting she jumped out of the carriage to find her husband, whom she thought had been left behind, and, stumbling, fell between the platform and the train, her body beilig cut through and fearfully mangled.  The report of the Great West Ern Railway Company was issued on Friday. It states that the revenue of the past half-year amounted to £3,589.138, being £56,000 more than in the corresponding period of 1880. The expenditure wee £1,814,383, or £39,247 ruorP. The balance, after paying preferential charges, is £428,732, and after providing a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent., a balauce of £25,729 will be carried forward The diminution of receipts owing to the great snowstorm is er timated at £50,000. A powerfully argumentative "memorandum" by Sir Garnet Wolseley, deprecating the retention of Candahar, appears in the Blue Boek on Afghan affairs, issued on Friday. Sir Garnet terms Candahar "a white elephant capable of ruining our Indian Empire by the cost which the necessity of supporting it would entail upon us." No military advantage, he adds, would be secured by retaining it; on the contrary, we should incur considerable military risks. The Duke of Cambridge has also forwarded a paper, which supports the views cf the "forward" party. A deputation cf Scotchrnen, headed be the Duke of Sutherland, waited on the Secretary for War on Wednesday, and presented a petition for the retention of the tartan dress hitherto worn by the Highland regiments. Mr. Childers, in reply, I,aid it had never been his intention to abolish distinctive tartans, but when it became neceasary to consider whether larger regiments should not be substituted for the linked battalion system, they had to consider how, without making unnecessary changes, they could form regiments with the same uniforms out of the existing battalions  A case of cruelty to a horse came before the county magistratt sat Bradford on Thursday. A farmer and an innkeeper, occupiers of adjoining field, had a dispute about a horse, which one had contracted to buy and the other to sell, and an appeal we made to tl-e County Court Judge to decide in whom the ownership of the animal was vested. The farmer was declared to be the owner, but he turner' the horse Qin t of his fild into that of the innkeeper, the result being that it was kept without food for fifteen days. The disputants were both now charged with cruelty, but only the farmer was held to be Ile was comitted to prison tor two mouths.  The Rev. Benjamin Speke, Vicar of Dowlish Wake, Somerset, committed suicide km Wednesday morning by drowning. His wife died on the previous day. Mr. Speke was the clergyman whose mysterious disappearance some years ago caused so much anxiew. Some weeks aftcr his disappearance he wrs discovered in Cornwall, employed as a c title drover. Mr. Speke was the brother of the late Captain Speke, the African explorer. The inquest on the body was held at Wakehill-house on Thursday. The medical attendant expressed his belief that distress and unrrst, occasioned by the death of his late wife, t whom he was fondly attached, so affected the mind of Mr. Speke that he became insane, end while in in that state et mind he committed suicide. The jury retm ned a verdict to that effect.