Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-06-03 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

JOHN BRINTON, M.P. for Kidderminster, met with a serious accident on Saturday morning. While riding along Regent-street he was violently thrown from his horse and narrowly escaped being runover. He sustained besides a severe shock to the system a number of bruises. THE Hon. Harold aathorne Hardy, son of Lord eranbrook, is lying dangerously ill at Low Moor, near Bradford. lie ruptured a blood-vessel a month ago, and since then he has suffered from lung disease. THE altar-cross, candlesticks, and other articles church furniture, which mysteriously disappeared from St. James's, Hatchatn, in 1877, has been found by Inspectcr Relf (who had received certain information), buried beneath one of the seats in the church.  MR. JAMES Lou/it junior member of the firm Of Logan Fletcher, and Co., and general produce brokers, Li v ertool, committed suicide on Friday at his residence, West Kirby, Cheshire, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He had suffered from attacks Of paralysis. ON Friday morning the body of a married woman named Beedon, thirty-seven years old, who lived with her husband in Pollard-street, Bowling, Bradford, was taken from a dam in connection with the dyeworks of Messrs. Edward Ripley and Son. She had been in a depressed state of mind for some time past, and on Thursday about noon she left home, taking with her a child about three years old. She was seen walking along a road close to the dam, but nothing more was seen of either her or the child until next morning, when their bodies were found in the dam.  WHILE a number of competitors where firing at No. 3 butt, Wormwood-scrubs, from the 600 yards range, the signal of danger was raised in the butt apparently to test the value of a shot. Simultaneously with the raising of the flag at the butts a competitor discharged his rifle at No. 18 target, and the bullet paised through the stomach of the marker in charge, named Penfield, who unfortunately came out at the moment without raising his flag. AN action was brought against the London Tramways Company on Friday to recover damages for serious injuries sustained by Mrs. Redford. whose husband was clerk and time-keeper to a builder. The charge against the company was that they left their road open; but a subsequent question was raised whether they or their contractors, Messrs. Mowlern, Burt and Co., are liable. The jury gave the plaintiff damages to the amount of £l,llB. THE fund now being raised in memory of the late Mr. J. J. Mechi, for the benefit of his widow and family, has reached nearly £5,000. MR. J. M. PICHARDSON, a gentleman rider, who scored two Grand National %ins on Disturbance and Renguy, is to be married to the Countess of Yarborough, the mother of the present Earl. AT Reading a party of commercial men, after dining at one of the hotels in that town, drank tbe Queen's health with great enthusiasm, and despatched a telegram to her Majesty, at Balmoral, offering their humble but hearty congratulations ln the fact of attaining her sixty-secwal year, and wishing her many happy returns of the day. A reply was sent from Balororal, acknowledging the receipt of the telegram, and expressing the gratification of the Queen with the contents. A CURIOUS case came before the Leeds County Court last week. The defendant had some English gold books for sale, plaintiff was in want of some and offered to give him a diamond ring worth in exchange, which was agreed to, defendant saying softie of them were foreign but he had separated them. The price of foreign gold leaf is about 6d. a gross and that of English 3s a gross. When the books were reviewed they were found to be mostly foreign. Defendant would not take them back but offered to give £2 to settle the matter. A verdict was given for plaintiff for £9, to be reduced to a is. if the ring was returned.  --A SERIES of diabolical trade outrages have been perpetrated at Messrs. Thomas Stainforth and Sons' sickle grinders works, which were partially blown up by gunpowder in February. The lives of the partners were also threatened in letters signed "Grimier Joe." Two constables secreted on the premises early on Sunday morning seised two men in the act of laying and lighting a charge of gunpowder in a bottle in the engine-house. The prisoners made a desperate resistance. LANDBBOOK MILL, at Orrell, near Wigan, belonging to Mr. Widdows, was burnt down early on Saturday morning, the damage being estimated at £20,000. A BICYCLIST, who was taken into custody on Friday for riding his vehicle at the rate of twelve miles an hour, was tiled 10s. at the Thames Police-court, London.: GENERAL BURNABY'S representations to the War Office with the object of reducing the costs of a soldier's funeral, which now falls upon the friends or relations of the deceased, have so far prevailed that an order has been issued directing that in future a gun-carriage shall be placed at the disposal of the friends of the deceased, ,-ith the view of saving the cost of a hearse. ON Saturday morning Mr. William Longshaw, jun., about 30 years of age, member of the firm of Long-haw and Sons, Warrington, drank from a bottle which contained carbolic acid, but which he supposed contained beer. He was driven rapidly to the Warrington Infirmary, ' but died immediately after admission. So greatly did the Queen admire Lady Brooke's wedding-dress, that she insisted on her dining in it at the Castle; and, after dinner, her Majesty told the lovely bride to " walk about," that she might "see it better," The result of these peripatetic movements being that her ladyship was " commanded" to be photographed therein. FORGERS of cheques are giving bankers a good deal of trouble at present. A firm suggests the importance of having cheques backed at the part where the signature comes with a tablet of some very opaque nature so that it may not be visible when held uo to the light. Forgers are now taking advantage of the transparency of most cheques with considerable success. It also behoves hankers to be more careful than ever not to supply chequebooks except on a printed form, or unless they are quite -:atistieu that the signature of the order is a genuine me.