The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-11-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BEER."—A "drop of beer" was the excuse tendered by George Williams to the Judge at Winchester Assize in reply to a charge of indecently assaulting a child of 7. The penalty was 10 years' penal servitude.  FAsuioN is growing sensible. A gentleman who mai ried a rich young lady last week, and received a heap of presents found among them a tea and coffee service, salt cellars, and a mustard pot. THE election of Mr. Seeley to a Professorial Fellowship at Caius College is the first event which will bring home to the public the fact that the new statutes are in operation at Cambridge. THE directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company recommend a dividend of 3 per cent, for the half-year ended the 30th of September last, with a bonus of 2 per cent, from the underwriting account, making, with the inte.im dividend of 21 per cent, paid in June, a total payment of 8 per cent, for the year. A MAN of unsound mind was killed on Sunday by leaping over the Dean bridge, at Edinburgh, whicli is about 120 feet in height. AnouTinoon on Saturday, while a tramcar was driven down Union-street, Glasgow, a gentleman who was riding an the top rose for the purpose of descimdine, but he overbalanced, and fell into the street, killing himself almost instantaneously. THE Prefect of the Seine is about to remove from the gates of cemeteries crosses and other symbols not accepted by all religions. Families will tlil be at liberty to place such symbols on the tombs of relatives; but the divisions between Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish graves being about to disappear, under a recent law, the gates or other acessories will henceforth be °la neutral character.  AN actor at the Grand Theatre, Marseilles, having had his engagement cancelled, his partizans organised on Thursday night at the Pin d of the performance a siormy manifestation, and insulted the manager of the house. The Mayor of Marseilles had to clear the theatre by force. The disturbance continued until midnight in the streets, and several persons were arrested. WINTER commenced in Berlin on Thursday in earnest. All the streets of the capital were found covered with snow, which up till evening showed no symptoms of melting again. This full early for winter in Berlin. ON Friday afternoon, as Thomas Holt, clerk, employed at the Vale Paper Works, near Bury, was proceeding with ir(s, which he had drawn from the bank for the pus,oe of paying wages, he was attacked by two men, one of whew presented a pietnl and the other threw a quantity of cayenne pepper into Hoit's eyes, causing him to drop the bag in which was the money. The men then ran away, but Holt was able to give a description of both of them.  A FEARFUL tragedy is reported from a village in the Bukovina, Austria's most eastern province. The head of a band of gipsies, encamped near Kurczurmar, cut hie son's throat, whereupon he was himself in turn murdered by his own sister, who killed hien in his sleep, and then hacked him into small pieces. Another brother then attacked the sister with a knife, and tried to take her life, but the police arriving iu time, interfered, and prevented him accomplishing his purp3se. They took the woman into custody. A particularly horrible murder was comwitted in Vienna a few nights back. A workman killed one of his children, a boy of six years, with a hatchet, mutilating him in the most shocking manner. The police had the greatest difficulty in preventing the crowd from lynching the murderer. AT Nottingham Town-ball, on Thursday, Tom Carroll, the once fatuous jockey, wa• (,;. on before the magistrates charged with being destitute. On the previous day he was seen wandering about the town in a deplorable condition. lie entered a public:house, and on refusing to leave it, was conveyed to the Police-station. The magistrates ordered him to be sent to the workhouse.