The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1879-12-12 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  Wolves are making in Russia greater ravages than they aid last year. Horse-breeding is much encouraged by the Government of France, who last year gave £50,000 to races. A great fire at a Pantechnicon furniture store in Bristol, destroyed £5.000 worth of goods on Friday, aud another tire £5OO or xt.:oo worth of oils and colours. The lad who threatened the Queen of Sweden has been forgiven by the King, who in going to charge himself with the lad's education. A well-educated woman has been summoned for troubling the clergyman of St. John's, Hampstead, by singing in a high voice, before or behind the choir. She said her whole heart was in the services; but she was warned she might be fined £5. The summons was adjourned. Sir Arthur Guinness has reduced his rents 30 per cent. to tenants under 0, and 20 per cent to those between £2O and £5O, and says he would have done it before but for the land agitation. Three Europeans and three Chinese from a trading vessel have been murdered by the natives of Cloudy Bay, New Guinea, and lI.M. schooner Beagle has gone to punish the vtfenders. Thirteen canisters of nitro-glycerine were in the bag of revolutionist arrested in Russia.  The Chilien Government declare they are in possession of the deposits of guano and nitrate of soda, anti will not recognise any contracts relating to those substances, made since the declaration of war. _ . _ .  -.-964 sovereigns were found last week in a house in Dublin, by alocksmith. They were in a tin case, found in a safe-room, Italians are getting very angry about the protests raised in England against the "restoration" of St. Mark's. In Ireland the land agitation was on Thursday thought to have decreased. The Austrian army on a war footing has been fixed at 1,800,01/0 men till the end of 1879. About eightpence two parties were ready to dispute with witnesses at Walsall County Court; but on their agreeing to leave the matter to the Judge, his Honour paid plaintiff the Bd. out of his own pocket, and the parties did not seem to like it. .C5O was given at Leicester to the Sir Rowland Hill Memorial Fund. _ _ .  100-ton Armstrong guns have attracted the attention of our War Department, which is said to have decided on having sonic. Scarlet fever has so spread at Bedminster that the medical officer proposed to exclude from the schools children from infected houses, or to close the schools. Wild fruits are unusually scarce; with the exception of holly berries and haws there are scarcely any on the bushes and trees.  Mr. Forster at Westmoreland found that in the local dialect a Tory means a "worrier," and considered it an accurate meaning. General Roberts has appointed Afghan governors of three districts ; but one has been murdered, and the others threatened by the Afghans. Old railway iron, recently sold a the rise,has brought the London and North Western a profit of A:25,000. SEarten BEFORE YOU Accust:.—A gentleman at the West End, fancying his servants were robbing him, sent to his solicitor ; but the lawyer searched the library, and found in various books and crannies, cheques and notes value £2OOO, which the gentleman had put away and forgotten. Two dealers poached a stag in Suffolk last week. It had taken refuge from the hounds in a barn, whence the dealers carried it off in a cart, and cut its throat. Fined £lO and costs. A lady declares that a gentleman made her unconscious in an Irish waiting room, and robbed her of jewellery and £4OO. The secretary to Mr. l'arnell's National Land League was arrested on Friday in Dublin, on charges of making a seditious speech at Balla, and endeavouring to seduce the Irish Constabulary from their allegiance. The clericals and the seculars are now striving for the control of education in Holland. Two lady thieves have been sentenced, one to six months, and another to 12 months' hard labour, for stealing from London shops goods including long pieces of lace, cream-coloured silk, eleven pieces of white lace. 31 gray squirrel skins, 37 pairs of gloves, 35 ladies' ties, bottles of Eau de Cologne, three ladies' wrappers, 10 pieces of riband, and other articles, but beyond these there were found 97 yards of silk in a cupboard where coals were kept. THE lIIRMINGITAM CATTLE AND DOO Snows.—At the cattle show the number ot visitors is less by 27,Z14 than at last year's show. The decrease in money taken at the doors is about £