Lord Charleville, whose other name was James Mitchell, after living sumptuously everyday with his wife at the Marine Hotel together with his wife (sic), and robbing Mr. C. P. Hutchings of £40 by means of a forged cheque, was conveyed to Lewes, where his ingenuity was rewarded with 12 months hard labour.
The Capt. Beecham who rode off with Mr. Hodd's thirty-guinea horse, together with a silver card-case and a three guinea telescope, had (like "Lord Charlevill") more than one name, and as "George Gordon" he left the horse at the Green Dragon in London, whilst he proceeded to Pudsey, near Leeds, where Supt. Glenister found him in his surgery as Dr. Hepworth and brought him to Hastings.
Jim Myers of equestrian notoriety, being on his way from Hastings to Battle with his traction engine, and steam train, was denied passage through the Magdalen turnpike gate, except on payment of a sum that was not on the list of tolls. Jim got his "dander" up and smashed the smashed the(sic) gate. This was a more violent course than the one previously acted upon by another circus man who left his elephant in pawn at the same gate or at the Tower gate because the sum demanded was not on the list of tolls. In that case, the elephant well knew his business, took the gate clean off its hinges, and followed his keeper with a majestic step.
A Beautiful Meteor was observed on the night of Sept. 28th. Its appearance was in all respects similar to that of a magnificent rocket darting out from the heavens southward of the zenith and traveling in a northerly direction over a space of about 40 degrees. It then exploded with a sharp crack, the detonation being distinctly audible, and the scattered fragments descending a short distance not unlike the pyrotechnic "gold rain". The wind was blowing fresh at the time from the south west, whilst in the south east there [were] occasional flashes of lightning.
A Parhelion of rather unusual character was observed soon after sunrise on the morning following the meteor-flight. As viewed from a field on Gensing Farm it was a strikingly beautiful phenomena. The object first appeared as a brilliant white disk, somewhat larger than the sun, and placed on the south or right-hand side of that body. In a few minutes a small object was again visible. The disc had now become less effulgent, and the inner edge prettily tinted with soft colours, but not prismatic. In a few minutes more the solar reflection being still visible, a chromatic appendage in the shape of an immense fan or scollop-shell presented itself. The colours were extremely vivid, graduating from an intensely bright yellow to a chocolate red at the apex. When the phenomenon had lasted about ten minutes an immense mass of vapour -
