Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-09-15 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

TRU PLANTING.—It may not be generally known that tTte Duke of Athole is one of the most extensive tree danters in the world. Every year the Duke plants from 00,000 to a million trees. During this season a plantation asering 2,000 acres has been c ompleted. It may he membered that the Duke of Athole s plantations were ..oinned ol 80,000 trees by the gale which destroyed the jy Bridge. When ti,. Planter Duke began operations o a ;sage scale, in 1774, the Donkeld hills were almost me. During his life the Duke, who may he described as • true benefactor to his country, planted 27,000,000 trees, : owing 15,000 acres. ON Friday afternoon, a married woman, manned Mary ‘•iii Hill, who was visiting Leicester Ranee with some ...iends from Loughborough, suddenly dropped down ,!.ile the Qnorn Plate was being run for.  l'wo Sheffield steel workers named Ditton and Wood. •.,.11413 have been sentenced by the Sheffield magistrates to .svo months' hard labour for having lttacked and severely . . .  wked two men belonging to the Toledo Steel Worke, ,ho had not gone out on strike with the other wen. .LADY, named Miss Silk, was shot on Thursday in a • •• •  at Galway while in the act of removing a revolver in the hands of a child. The revolver woe loaded iu four  . . ..viabers. The owner of the weapon cannot be traced, o I it is not known how the child came into possession of An. H. DRY, a surgeon, and his assistant named f;field, were prosecuted at the Worshijnstreet policec dirt by the Medical Alliance Association for an infringe. ment of the Births and Deaths Registration Act. Upfield, who is not a qualified medical practitioner, gave a car W D iest* of the death of a child, and Mr. ry signed it nithout having attended the child. Each of the defend. thts was fined £lO -the full penalty. A. GENTLEMAN residing at Baloombe, named Alfred Er-land, met with an accident of a most singular nature .t. Brighton on Friday morning. He called at a large rapery establishment in North-street, and, Afton .aileacting his business, was leaving the shop hurriedly to •,atch a train, when, believing that the open door Wm ire him, he crashed through an immense pane of plait ,cc in the shop-front. The force with which he %no ...i.tg carried him clear of the shop-front before the beat) 'deceit of glass fell, and a slight cut on the forehead was die only injury he sustained. ettit SUNDAY evening, while fishing on the Bucks shore of the Thames, in the vicinity of Black Potts, the rivet of Dr. liornby, an angler was seized with a fit. and •.Wing into the stream was drowned a few minutes diet immersion. J. WHAT, a private in the Royal Irish Rifles, was found at Dover on Saturday afternoon shot under somewhat sterious circumstances, lying on the roadside adjoining . meadow. The back part of the head from the ear was otirely blown away, the brains and portions of the Asti clog about the road. Near the deceased was diecovitred box containing bullets, powder, and cape. The mane Ito is married, is supposed to have committed suicide. New material known as "mild steel" was introducied be 'lie Admiralty live years ago with results which the (est of experientre now declares to be moat fiatisfactozyi lids material is ao extremely strong and tough that Wa I, a ill:tided sidpliiiildeis to save 'di per treat. in the I of each shin with a correaleiniling increase in its a vying capaciiy, The a, t fact since de. ii”l -to Atril is that iii the case ii couliiion the aide 'of • essel covered with mild steel has been found to yield we bulge several feet without showing say sagas of rupture.  I