Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-09-22 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

BOO.  MES.UA, ROTHSCHILD, have just presented to our troops in Egypt twelve tons of tobacco and five thousand pipes •  STEPS are being taken at Windsor by the officers of the Household troops to organise a grand military tournament and awault of arms for the benefit of the families of u r wounded or killed.  AT Chester an inquest has been held on a boy named James Pavey, who was found hanging dead to his bedroom door. A person employed with the deceased said the boy was fond of reading sensational literature, such is the "Boys of London," the "Boys of York," and Dick Turpm." Mrs. Pavey, the boy's mother, said that in her opinion the deceased simply intended to frighten ler. He was given to reading "low literature." He was taking in "Dick Turpin " in penny numbers. Verdict, " Suicide while in an unsound state of mind."  AT Milford petty sessions, before Captain Peel, R.M., he Earl of Leitrim charged Ellen Hannaway with ntimidation under the Crimea Act. The defendant said co his lordship, "You should do more good to the poor. rake care of yourself, or you'll meet the same fate as your uncle." She afterwards asked his lordship's pardon. rho prisoner was remanded for 9 days. A TERRIBLE accident occurred at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday. Some workmen were engaged in under pinning a flying buttress when it gave way and fell oartly` through the roof, the rest falling into the street, iecapitating a woman and crushing two children RC eriously that they died on removal to the hospital.  AT Leicester a young lady, a "materialising medium,' held a private seance, in which she undertook to call up a spirit in a material form while she was tied up in a cabinet. The spirit duly appeared in the darkened room, and was seized by a gentleman. Tbe gas was turned up, and the "spirit" turned out to be the lady medium in white gauze. The company felt that they had been fooled, and left the room wiser if not sadder people. PREVIOUS to the departure of the Guion Line steamer Alaska from New Yore on Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out among the Australian mail bags, numbering 300, which was not extinguished until after 10 sacks of newspapers and 2 of letters, including a portion of the registered mail, had been destroyed. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is supposed that the mail bags, which are never opened in New York, contained combustible matter.  AT the Thames police-court Robert Hall was sum atoned for not sending his son, 12 years old, to school. The mother appeared, and said she sent the boy to school for 7 years. He had named all the standards up to the sth creditably, and had about 16 prizes. His father was sickly and she thought it was only right the boy should help to support the family. Mr. Lushington said he AO forced to convict, and fined defendant ld. AT the meeting of the Mailing Board of Guardian application was made by a woman named Goodall% llvin at Aylesford, for relief. A fortnight since her husband, a laborer, boasted that he could drink any quantity of spirituous liquors, and as a result several persons took him to a public-house, where he drank half a pint ol whisky, six quarterna of rum, and other spirits, as well as beer. In the evening he was taken ill, and eventually he was removed in an insensible condition to hospital at Maidstone, where two days later he died of alcoholic poisoning. SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT 'has arrived at Balmoral Castle, as Minister in attendance on Her Majesty. THE Prince and Princess of Wales and their family, accompanied by the King and Queen of the Greeks, left Marlborough House on Friday evening for Scotland.  A NEW railway between Preston and Southport %VW opened on Friday by a trip over the line. The first section of the line from Southport to Hesketh Bank was opened in February, 1878. The railway opens out a district purely agricultural, but fairly populated, and it brings to very close communication Preston and Southport.  A DUBLIN telegram says that a proposal has been made to raise a subscription to purchases sword of honour for presentation to Sir Garnet Wolseley on his return from Egypt. It was at first suggested that subscribers should he confined to the residents of Monkstown, near Dublin, where Sir Garnet passed his youth and was educated, lilt it is now proposed to make the subscription a general ~,e.  Al a special meeting of the Tow. Council of Truro, on Friday, at which some ilfluential citizens were asent, it was unanimously resolved to forward the tol-1 %Mg telegram to Sir Garnet Wolseley, at Cairo : Ale City of Truro, Cornwall, offers heasty congratulro ti is to Sir Garnet Wolseley, on the success of th, II itish forces in Egypt." The INlayor and several other nwrobers of the Council spoke in the highest teams of tlo ga'lantry displayed by the British troops.  THE subscriptions to the Royal Colbga of Music have nnw touched the sum of a hundred thousand guineas. But it must he candidly admitted that there seems only a very faint chance of the 1:300,000 ever being icali,,.l hich we are t,dd is the sum necessary to comic,. .. I Heinen with.  THE full repoi t on the Scotch census of 1881 ha ii !won issued by the Registrar-General. The populAtion Scotland is aacertained to be 3,735,573. In 1871 the p pulation WM 3.360,018, so that the decennium shows an increase of 375,555 persons.  ON Saturday evening Mn,. Redhead, wife of the viol) • Thurnby-cum-Stoughton, was thrown from a dog-cart ;lutland-street, Leicester, and was killed almost indent dieously. She was driving home with Mr. Hoste, fi( iner, when, just after leaving the Wellington Hotel, tho horse fell, smashing the trap and throwing both occuts out Mrs. Redhead never afterwards spoke, and almost immediately. ( iv Thursday afternoon, during a heavy thunder sturrn, :-,.(ing man named Pearce, about 18 years of age, while (•.. (-dug a meadow, at Skinner's Farm, Isle of Wight, Ii a saw in his hand, was struck in the breast by lightn No., causing instantaneous death.  REPLYING to a resolution passed by the Stanninalei Reform Club, Mr. Gladstone says he wishes his thanks to In ronveyed to the members for their expression of rinifi• ih lice in Her Majesty's Government, and, as regards the extension of the county franchise, joins with them in the hope that the question may be dealt with by the present l'ai !lament.  MIBB FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the Crimean heroine, a,,ired last week at Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, where she nds staying for some few months for rest, after being bo-ily engaged in arranging for and sending out nurses for the sick and wounded at the East.