Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-10-26 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SIXTY-TBAHE inmates of the Peterborough Union have voted against fish dinners and three for therm The guardians tiied the experiment of fish once a week for a few weeks, and then took a poll with the above matins  CANON WiLHEHYOHCH has quite brolun down his health by his prolonged "Blue Ribbon' stumpings. lie has been ordered to take a complete rest for several months, and a sea voyage has been recommended. MR. JOHN NAYLOR, MU& Doctor of Oxon, organist of All Saints, Scarborough, has been appointed organist of York Minster, vice Dr. Iqt:wk. resigned. The position is worth £7OO per annum, but out of this Dr. Monk, has a life pem sion of £3OO. - - -  - -FRANK WEBB, an election agent, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of causing false declarations to be made relating to voting claims in the parish of Marylebone, was brought up on Thursday morning before the Common Serjeant and sentenced to pay a fine of £2O. MR. WILLIAM li. VANDERBILT, the American Million• aire, while driving a pair of fast horses in Fleetwood Park, New York, on Wednesday afternoon, ran into a passing waggon, was thrown violently out, and picked up insency. ble. He afterwards recovered, and was reported to be feeling quite well. THE Citizen says that Bartholomew Binns, public executioner for london and Middlesex, visited Newgate Gaol on Saturday last for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the arrangements for executions at that prison, and spent over an hour in practice at the gallows. lie returned to Dewsbury the same day.  AT Keighley, George Holmes, laborer, Haworth, charged with being in possession of game-nets on the 14th inst., was fined ss, and costs, when he eaid, "1 will go there and do that again; see if I don't." The Chairman called him back, and said, "We will not take any impudence from you or anybody else. We will make the fine 20s. and costs."—Prisoner: Thank you, air. THE directors of the Midland Railway Company have just completed the purchase of all the l'ulman drawing. room cars running on their line from London to Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. A scheme is under consideration by which these cars will be URA ad first-class carriages without any extra charge. Ma. HUBBLE, the headmaster of the Board School at Dartford, has reported to the School Board tha'. a child has been sent to school with a large chain and padlock attaohed to his ankles, ostensibly for the pin pcsa of preventing him from running away after school-hours and staying out all night. The mother of the boy had been requested to remove the manacles, but she had refused to do so: Mr. Hubble added that he had declined to admit the boy while wearing the chain and padlock, as it was calculated to throw the school into uproar. The Board approved of the master's action. ON Saturday, at Omagh, Ireland, a woman attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. The gatekeeper ran to her rescue, and endeavoured to pull her off the rails, but at that moment a train rushed past and both were killed.  NOTWITHSTANDING the order of the Archdeacol that St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, should remain closed, the Rev. E. J. Fitzroy entered it on Sunday morning, at half' past 6 o'clock, and administered the Sacrament to seven persons. The people's warden endeavoured to gain admission, but could not do so, as the doors were locked on tbe inside. When the verger entered the church in the afternoon it was found that the cross and vase* on tho altar had been overturned and smashed, the drapery of the pulpit torn to shreds, and other minor damage done. Mr. Fitzroy visited St. Jude's in the afternoon, and on leaving had to claim police protection.  AT the Huntingdonshire Quarter Session a land aur. veyor, named Joseph Ward, was charged with stabbing a man named Papworth, with whom it was alleged he had quarrelled.—The jury returned a verdict that the prisoner used the knife only in nelf•defence, and the counsel for the defence claimed this as a verdict of acquittal.—The Chairman: Do you say the prisoner was justified in using the knife ?—The Foreman: Yes. —The Chairman • What? Use a knife in England ?—A Juror: Yes; because he had no other weapon to defend himself with.—The Chairman: Then you decide that Englishmen may use knives in quarrels.—The Juror: Yes, in emergency.—The Chairman : lam afraid this is a verdict of not guilty. It is a serious thing in Huntingdonshire if people are permitted to use the knife.—Another juror rose and said that be did not agree with the verdict.—The Chairman discharged the jury, and said he could not congratulate them on the way in .which they had performed their duties.  Tin will of the Yen. William Clive, Archdeacon of Montgomery, was proved to upwards of £94,000; of Mrs. Susanna Imbert-Terry, of Regent's-park and of Strawberry-hill. Lympstone, Devon, to over £71,000; Mr. George Hodgskin, late of No. 67, Redcliffe-gardens, upwards of £69,000: Mr. James Buckley, late of Penyfai Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, brewer, over £63,000; and Mr. George Francis Marx, late of Arlebury, near Airesford, in the county of Southampton, over £31,000. ON Saturday morning, at Hartlepool, a lighter, heavily laden with slag from the Malleable Ironworks, was being towed to the head of the old harbour when the lighter shipped a quantity of water and sank. At the time of the accident 7 men were on board. One of them, named Thompson, was so severely crushed between the side of the barge and the tug as one of the crew of the latter was endeavouring to haul him up the side, that both his legs were torn off above the knees, and he survived an hour only. George Leng, the man in charge of the barge, was taken out of the water dead, as also was another man, named William Hardison, the others being rescued. ONCE more the condition of the Bishop of Peterborough gives cause for the greatest anxiety. ME.