Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1883-08-24 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

OOO. DEATH Tilltoooll THY tiger. —On Thursday evening Mr. Langham held an inquest at SI. George's Hospital on the holy of Maurice Rhodes, aged -17, a laborer, who died suddenly while at work in a field at Fulham. The medical evidence showed that deceased suffered from a weak heart, and that death was accelerated by exposure to the intenvo heat which prevailed at the time of his death. A Lanonatt named Kelly, in the employ of the Dahlia Corporalion, at an early hour on Thursday moroing observed two men breaking into a house at Nicholas. street. On seeing him they fled, but Kelly pursued and captured one of them. Tho burglar closed with his captor and stabbed Lim six times with a knife; but Kelly gallantly clung to him until tosistance arrived and the burglar was oveiv.Avet.,d. Kelly was conveyed to the hospital. ON Friday afternoon, a woman named Roston, wife of a policeman at Darcy Lever, near Bolton, was knocked down and killed on a level railway crossing by au exprcs/ train, and her child was fatally injured. AT Woolwich a girl, aged 19, has committed suicide by poi,am. It appeared she had received an anonymous threatening letter because she kept company with a young man, who was himself led to break off hii engagement with her because of aspersions on her character, which were now proved to ho unfounded.  A mom) YOUNG INCENDIARY, only twelve years old, Edward Williams, was charged at Holywell, on Tuesdsy, on his own confession, with setting fire to two haystacks on Penymas, • belonging to Mr. W. Davies, coroner, Flintshire, on Sunday night. The ricks were not insured. Prig iner confessed to his sister-in•law, and afterwards to the police, that be set the haystacks on fire with Mcßae matches to make a good blaze. Ile was ordered to receive six strokes with a birch rod, to be com• rnitted for a mouth, and then to a reformatory for four years. The young rascal sang comic mange whilat in the Iwk•tip, and lavg,ied and made grimaces when More the magistrates. THE eases of Sir R. Mengel MAIM], Bart., and Sir E. H. Meredyth, Bart., were before the Bankruptcy Court. on Friday. In the latter ease, upon the application of Mr. Rosenthal, his Honour annulled the adjuilicatiou of bankruptcy. TIIE Rev. W. Kelly, aged only 26, persisted in an attempt to reach the top of a Scotch mountain near Braemar, and perished from cold and exhaustion. Ile was a Congregational Minister at Dundee, and has left a widow and tour children, the youngest of whom Ito per. formed his last ministerial act upon by baptising it just before leaving for his fatal holiday (!) THE Duke and Duchess of Connaught opened the put. ple's park at Grimsby on Friday.  RICIIESTER CASTLIC, 0110 Of the finest Norman relics ha the country, is about to pass from private ownership into the hands of the coryoration of Rochester. who are to pay the present owner, the Earl of Jersey, £B,ooo for the struc. lure said suirininding grounds. The corporation have for some years had a lease of the at an annual rental of £240; and the grounds are laid out as public gardens, r whi• ti purpose the Earl stipulates that theylarelto be maintained, while the castle is to be kept as a rnio. Josgeu Fowhsa, the Drontield town crier, was killed by so esic-ess train from Sheffield to I oeclen wLen cross. jug the line to his house. He was literally cut iuto pieces. Are 11nfOttuuate lunatic, John IVaddingtou, of Preston, aged id, es,:aval from Lancaster Count, Lunatic Asylum about three weeks ago, and all enquiries respecting bum proved fruitless. Ma dead body has baen found on NVyreside Fells, where ho had evidently wandered and died from exhaustion.. . . .  AN American preacher has just soured in ho:oosi. A few Sunday morning ago .he delivered a very `.• • ant earnest sermon ageiust the cruelty of "cock-fighting." Then he went beam and thrashed his wife "within an inch " of her life becauie the dinner was not ready.— Sportsman. A. RATHER novel scene was witnessed at tho House of Commons last week. Mr. Arthur reel. M.B. ft Warwick. hail engaged to take forty of his constituents over the House. On Monday morning he was surprised to learn that one train had left with three hundred persons, and that another was leaving with an equally extensive freight. On the arrival of this body of peoplo at We,-t-minster the impression for the moment was that th: y formed a provincial detnonstretion in favor of Mr Brad. laugh. The members of tho party, includiug niany women who carried children in their arms, were conducted is relays by Mr. l'eel through the principal apart. mania of the Ifou,e.  Og cmrse the magistrates are quite right to recf ,rnnet. the Government saving.' banks as the only proper ones but there is a legend extant of an ignorant sercant-gir who paid two shillings into the Post-office and spelt he name incorrectly. When she wanted to get it out she spelt it correctly, and having had six letiol3ll her hand writing had altered. So she had to identify herself, sto wont to the workhouse where she was born, but the toaster who knew her was dead. She called en the clergy. man who christened her, but he failed to recognise her. She had been keeping company with a soldier, and he had seen her deposit the money, but his regiment was in Egypt. Eventually, I believe, eha uroeured an assisted passage to Australia in an emigrant ship. Somewhere there she has a second cousin who remembers her falling in the lire as a child and burning nor arm. She hero, to bring him back to swear to the scar before Professor Fi.wcett, and then she feels sure the authorities will be convinced she is herself, and part with the florin. Oa Saturday morning Mr. P. Sanders. a young militarT ofFerr who had loc-ent:y returned frcm India on civil duties, and who had served in the Afghan and Ettypslan campisiges, was drowned at Saltbarn-hy the-Sea while sti-nipt:rig to recite a bather who was in danger, Vi;ipn three b.o•here n )rn Tfaxe7,-, of London, were hat;.7 . aleig it Skegress, snout them was 'elm; •bitl. emu:. 1.••,1 was drowned within • very short, distance 01 Ebbw/thus.  A