Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-03-19 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  For the third time this year, Lake Ulleswater is frozen over. In answer to an advertisement for a bass singer for the choir of Hereford Cathedral, 317 candidates sent in their testimonials I  The Han. and E. E. Carr Glyn, Vicar of Kensington, has been ordered to Bournemouth for the Weft of his health. Witham Dixon has just died at Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire, at the age of 90, while the ages of the five mnbera of his family average 92 years. Another large spot on the sun has been observed, this time at Copenhagen. It appeared to be a little above the centre, and was visible to the naked eye. The chief ofo rs of the Salvatik n Army are actively making arrangements for a great International Congress, to be held in London in the week commencing May 28th. The E berfelder Zeitung states that the Boys Orphanage at Voerde, in the district of Hagen, was destr )yed by fire on Friday night. Five of the inmates perished in the flames. Lord Esme Gordon received on Thursday night, at St. Ives, Hunts, a handsome silver salver from nearly' two thousand working men, who contributed one penny each, in recognition of the earnestness with which he contested the division of North Hunts. Mica !I Scrivener, of Harpham, near Driffield, committed suicide in bed on Thursday morning by cutting his throat. His son, who was asleep with bur, awoke to find himself lying in a pool of blood. At the Hull Police-court on Thursday, John W. Brewo, tobacconist, was fined £l6l, John Hyde £39, an i a sailor named Burnist,on £5l, for smuggling tobacco, so th It the "deal" was hardly a profitable on.. No one seems to have reported Lord R. Churchill's "aside" during Mr. Labouchere's speech on the House ,of Lards. When the member for N orthampton said the House of Lords "sat like sheep," Lord Randolph said in demi-voice—" How do sheep sit Lady Oilke is seeking to forget her troubles in litera...ure. She has in the press a volume of tales, under the not very lively title of " The Shrine of Death." She is known to be a lady of literary taste an power. A girl named Hannah Perry was the victim of a fatal accident at a colliery near Sedgley, on Saturday. A pAieein ni interfered with a number if persons who iv:Tel stealing coals, when the deceased fell down an e.n'xinkm •nt and b oko her neck.  Tne N.:110..11er Jane, of Lowestoft, from Swansea for Pratewm, arrived at Penzance on Saturday night, and her mate reported that early that morning, when off the Lizard, the master, William Tozzard, committed mlicide by jumping overboard. A life bony %cis thrown to him, but he was not again seen. The County Court grand jury on Saturday awarded £l,olho as compensation to Police-Inspector Connaughton, who in October last, while preserving the peace at a National League meeting in Kingwilhainstown, received sericus injuries at the hands of those taking part in the demonstration. Thomas Ashworth, plumber, of Great Horton, Bradford, died at the Workhouse Infirmary on Friday from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a terrier in January, and was subjected to the usual treatment. He felt no ill effects until last Wednesday, when he suffered fearfully. The official list of victims of the chs,astrous collision near Monte Carlo is published; and. contaips• tie • English or American names. The stationmaatat Roguebrune has disappeared, and it is pli.id..be has committed suicide by throwing hitaself uttb-1130  The Court of Appeal, Dublin, on Friday decided . that the objection taken by Mr. Nolan, M.P., to the security given by Mr. Philip Callan for the costs of North Louth election petition was valid, and directed that Mr. Callan should within five days lodge £l,OOO as security. The "es-incubator," which "hatchne chickens by machinery," is still one of the sights of Regent-street. In America, however, they do not have to stand at shop windows to watch the process. The egg-incubator has become the fashion in New York, and no household is complete without it. Among young ladies it is quite the rage. "l'he Coroner for Deal on Friday investigated a case of death from starvation. The victim was a woman named Minter, aged 69 years. It was stated that during the winter the poor woman had not had the necessaries of life, and that she bad during the last month lived entirely on bread and water. The medical evidence was that death resulted from want of nourishment.  A