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Weekly News. — 1890-10-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TIHBET.  The following description recently received from an officer in Thibet, of the game as played there by the natives will be read with interest by polo players in this country: “We spent a very pleasant day at a place called MaIIAM, about 10 miles from Simla, towards the interior. While out there I met a number of Ladaki men going to play polo after the regular Thibetan fashion, so we followed to see the game. The ground is up a very steep hill, and was a piece about 15yds. broad by SO or 60 long, and, as you can imagine, by no means level. The men who play are very good fellows, all from Shadoo, close to Gilgit, and who spend their time here as wood carriers; in fact, the ponies they play on have to carry heavy loads of wood for six days, and thee, ty way of a holiday, on Sunday they play polo. They asked us if we would play, and, as I thought they would like it, I joined in on one of their ponies with a high Thibet saddle. What put me out most was U' very short stick they play with, which is only Us' sire ol a common walking-stick, with a great end fastened on to it. About 14 or 15 men play at the same time, and they all charge down anyhow Oil the ball from all directions. The ponies, however, apparently know the game and stop when they get on the ball, when a general scrimmage ensues in which the ponies' legs generally suffer most. They start the game by throwing the ball up in the air, and then hitting it before it touches the ground. It was really fun ng they were all so keen, and, with their long hair flowing behind, looked a real wild set. Of course the usual 'Extrga,' consisting of a tom-tom and horrible pipe, played at interavls to encourage the players."  great  watchi  A great conflagration has wrought damage to the extent of 600,000d01.. at Mobile, Alabama. The lire broke out in a and spreading rapidly destroyed 6,000 bales of cotton, three steamers, 17 railroad cars, the of two coal yards, three cotton conipre...r.. .io,ht large storehouses, and many smaller along the river front. The Evraud trial will be full of dramatic inciflenhi. Maitre Henri Robert, tiabrielle lionipard's counsel, has resolved to summon Dr. Charcot and Dr. Voisin to give experiments of hypnotism in open court, in order to prove that the female prisoner was under 0,0 influence of Eyraud, and therefore not respo 10, her share in the murder of M. )uflM wor unique  warehouse,  Contents  building;  Mr. Stemlaws work Is in many ways unim. civilisations and races the field of his ri•sear,' subject is entirely coveries a of fication ot Poly  all arcluvological exploror e. The remains of vanished iu the Pacific Islands Were 1. To European readers the Many of Sterndale's disinterest; and his identi-onts and architectural  ..... relics now existing in India, itral America, are full of new the prediistoric age. It insy . traveller's brother, /dr. IL ten a short sketch of these  ianuacnpt record is contained r-writtea voltUneS.
Weekly News. — 1890-12-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.  At Newcastle-on-Tyne. on Saturday, George Walls was charged with causing the death of an old man named Dennis O'Neil, waste paper merchant, who lived alone, and who was found in his owebouse fatally stabbed. The deceased had twice been insane. The prisoner surrendered to the police at Sunderland. Superintendent Huish stated that, in reply to the charge. the prisoner said: "Ile would have stabbed me if I had not got the knife out of his hand. We came sprawling downstairs after it was done. I was on the top. It was done with a table knife. I don't know where it went up. He must have had a lot of money about the place soniewhere. I only took what was on him, and pledged the watch at Byker." The witness then went to a pawnbroker's at Byker and took possession of the watch. The prisoner, who asked no questions, was remanded for a week.  The inquest was held on Saturday night. The following letter. which bad been received by a relative of the prisoner, was read:—“Enear Friend,1 write these few lines to let you know what I have done, though lam very sorry for it. A row took place between me said O'Reil. I saw what was going to take place, he having had me in prison before. I knew I would have to defend myself. I spoke about it. He got wild about it, took up a table knife and said what he would do. He started shouting, and I went for him. I clicked the knife from him and cut the palm of my hand in doing so, and he went into me that much that I would have been taken. So I took a piece of inn and hit his head twice with it He got the knife again. A struggle took place, and I got the best of the poor old now, so I went in and stabbed him twice as lie stood. He ran downstairs for protection. I braved him on the head until he was dead. If any one had come on the scene, he would have got the same, tor I was mad. I believe. So I barred the outer gate till I dressed myself, for I was covered with blood. The poor dog was watching me, but had not the sense to turn on me for doing what I had done to its master. I had no money, and I robbed him of his match and I2s. I pawned the watch tor Is. It was a brutal trick to do, but I land to do it, or I would have been taken a prisoner. I could not get away from him, because I would have bad to run the streets. It is done now, and lam sorry. So I eonclade my letter with my best wishes to all, and hoping mother gets better. There's no doubt I have been a bad young moan through drink, and this is what it has come to. My own life is short. for I intend making away a ;ill myself. lam drinking heavily now for the purpose of doing so to-night in the dark in the river Wear. I hope none of you will think any inn, of it. In tli,•re's on • .110 lb blame but myself. So I finish up writing, for Ow tears acne rg. So good-bye to all, hoping roi will reach heaven, for 1 don't think I will now. S., no mom. lam thinking of father and little Jenny most. I can't see hardly now for tears. tioal . good-bye. lief yourselves in drink. Ciaal-t Yours truly, 6.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-01-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

STACEIIENTB. The London correspondent of the Edinburgh !MIN Review says :—The truth about the statements, briefly told, is that in all three have been written—two by Ifenry and one by Thomas. Both brothers wrote separate statements within a few days of their conviction— Thomas denying complieity in the act, hot alleging that his brother murdered liarrier Line, and that he assisted in disposing of the Isidy ; ILII,I Henry denying the crime imputed to him, and, witlueit mentioning his brother Thomas, mysteriously pointing to a nameless third party as haying subsequently cast the burden of the ilead body upon him. These were the first state aients mode, and it Was upon these, written without collusion, that the Lord Chief Justice anti tin, lonie Secretary delilsi rated in considering whether there were any grounds for staying the execution of the law, Subsequently Henry was informed that Thomas had made a statement directly implicating hint, and thereupon he, casting aside all his former theories and explanations, deliberatly and circumstantially denounced Thomas as the murderer, and described himself as an fin' fortunate and unwilling accessory to the fact. That is the whole truth about these " statements." A friend of mine possesses an interesting memorial of this cause celebrc in the form of Henry Wainwright's dishonoured acceptance for LlOO. The bill was drawn for goods supplied in the way of business, and Wainwright Math) no secret of his expectation of being able to meet the bill mit of funds that were to be supplied to him by the Sun Fire Office as compensation for alleged loss of property by the tire in the Whiteehapel-road. When the bill fell due, and was not taken up (the excuse given being that the insurance office had not yet paid the claim), my friend, who is a large insurer, with the San Office called upon the secretary to ascertain the actual state of affairs. He was informed that the company intended to dispute the claim, and in the course of further iuterwiews he learned that they were prepared to meet it by a charge of arson. Wainwright's claim was for £3,000, and there being at the outset no grounds of suspicion, the sum would probably have been paid in due course. Bat Wainwright's precipitancy ruined him. Shortly after the fire he called upon the secretary, and, representing that he was hard up, offered to take £l5OO in cash in full settlement. This unsolicited proposal to abate his claim roused suspicion, and inquiries were set on foot, with the result that the company found sufficient evidence to justify them in withstanding the claim. Amongst other things they diseovered that on the very night when the fire broke out Wainwright had deposited with the barmaid of a publichouse opposite a parcel of papers, which he asked her to take care of for him. In the month of September, the toils of the Law were slowly lint surely gathering round Wainwright, and it he hail not been arrested on a charge of murder, he would certainly have stood at the bay indicted for arson.
Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-11-05 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE WAINWRIOH:IN IN PRISON.  , The London correspondent of the Whipped(' News of Saturday gives the following account of a visit to the prison in which the Wainwrights are confined:—" I was one of a party who made a tour of inspection yesterday of the interior of the Ohl Bailey. The prisoner Thomas Wainwright, charged with being accessory before and after the fact murder of Harriet Lane, was seen pacing rapidly round the exercise yard jll file with other prisoners under committal and awaiting trial. He was dressted in the dark tweed suit in which he has appeared' at the Southwark . police-court, and his appearance manifested deeply mental anxiety. His aspect was that of a man who had newly , awakened from a west's delieuck Of _course, no inference adverse to the accused entail be dechwed from such a fact. The circumstances in which he so unexpectedly finds himself, and the dreadful nature of the charge 'imaging over him, and which he most answer before the Ivry. would in themselves—and all the more if he were perfectly innocent—be likely to involve the effect which it is evident his imprisonment liud position have produced upon him. The new and dismal place of execution, within the (dosed yard close to the eourt-houee, and the graves thereof the convicts who have suffered tho last penalty of the law, or on the adjoining public thoroughfare, were also : visited -; and in the course of they ronad. %he patty were taken to the condemned cell, where Henri Wainwright, who stands charged directly with the capital offence, was Hamad. Thd visit was, as it ought Ilk -bays Wm ~. very brief one, lasting, indeed, but a second or two ;and of thc presence of the oflitials only, whose (Bite it was to inspect the cells; was the prisoner iaware. - He sva.s • tire as narefully as when he firmly pleaded 'Not guilty' the o er day at the bar of the um Bailey, and sat at small ta de, whit* is atteched.te and turns against or lets down from the wail. Pre looked pale, and wore an aspect that spoke rather of resignation than of apprehension. A gas jet burned immediately Over the table, and by its light, leaning his head on his left band,- he appeared to be reading a book, which rested on the table before him. Once only lie looked up, and the glance was but a momentary duration, his former oecupation being at once resumed. His seat was what is familiarly known as a three-legged stool, and on a similar seat beside him sat a warder. He is not left alone day or night, a fact which has been already made public, with a reason for it which it was obviously unfair to mention oven if it were true, as it seems to assume, contrary to a well recognised principle, that a man whose guilt has yet to beestablished is not innocent of the crime, with which he stands charged. I mar add that the trial wffl take place in about four weeks from the present thou, and that those who have patronage of places in the Court are already inundated with applications for tickets' of adinissiosi th,the seats at their disposal from all sorts and conditions of men, anti from not a few ladies as well."
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-07-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE IRISH LAND BILL. House ov Commorrs, Friday Night. The struggle with the Irish memhers did not last long after the Premier had put his foot dawn. Stung to retal'ation by the protracted and unblushing ohdruction of Messrs. Biggar, Healy, and Leamy, Mr. Gladdene rebuked th,.se gentlemen in the early hours on Friday morning, in a speech of such vigorously denunciation that it literally carried the assembly away. Mr. GI idston's case was catteinly a good one, Mr. A. M. Sullivan had openly and vigorously reprobate d the course pursued by Messrs. Healy. Biggar, and Learay. Mr. Parnell had marked his sense of the impropriety of these gentlemen's taetics by taking little or no part in the proceedings. Even Mr. Callan withdrew Ha amendment, almost as soon as he had moved them. The Irish IN nches were reduced to some ha f-dozen noisy, professional imconcilables, and the whle demonstration against the emigration clause was one of open and studied n 1 81rUction, despite a whole series of important G.vernment concessions. Mr. Gladstone wrs in a raze. He literally hurled thunderbolts of condemnation into the midst of the little band of obstruc.ives, amid thunderb Its of cheering from Conservativts as well as Ministerialists. The Government had mad) a-r..ngements to sit all night in order to carry the clause. Mr. Gladstone Brit ee-, however, rendered th's unnrce :Entry. It literally Cow d and deinoralistd the little facton, and the clause was carried at daybreak. So good krt effect did this have. that in the afternoon of Friday, when the Bill as regulated (the Emigia-ion Clause having been carried in early morning, by 126 t) 23) ten clau,e3 hr. I been discussed before the evening sitting. When the House rose at a cpiarter-past one en Seturday morning the 42 id Clause bad been passed.  In West Middlesex, West Surrey, E tst Berke, and S.Jut'i Birks, most of the hay crops have been harvested in splendid condition. Midhat Pasha, it is asserted in Turkish "official circles" confessed, in apimaling for pardon to the S Um. that he Ind been Aooes4ory to the murder of Abdul A zi.4. 'Yery natural ffissatisfaction is felt by surgeons to prisons at a resolution pass, d by the Prison Conference, and strongly urged on the Horne Sacretery, to the effect "that all post naortem examinations in prisons to male by en ledependent medical man." If the surgeon of a prion is fit to bo trusted to treat a case during life he must be fi-, to be trusted to give a proper account of it after death. The solicitude of m ,g'strates and others responsible for the proper care of prisoners in sickness should expend itself in making the best appointm 'nt possible, but ther,:aft r they should confide in the officer selected, either for the treatment of a case or the report of a post mmt oro. In cases of difficulty, or where suspicious circumstances have arisen, no doubt the prison surgeon would welcome the co-operation of an independent medical practition,r. Tux LATE Slit
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-10-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CAXTON."  the ninth anniton," 1.0 GT., dozsn an I half mcester-street top of the room nce orators. The  &eters, welcome .nd cheerful stylus  scl. when they sang seful voices and a ly applauded. ced that he underthan s-rvico. and to-night, on, was :mental function. us to gay anything wou'il get that er (Mr. Wirt in); ,sure in the noble le when a kind of vs. and when tits onz, rather t 3 the or is now of their good w rk is done but din ctly they us remember the gas ever trIII the re affected the conthe statement if the diminution of it the streams are plied thwe Owes so 1 triply to our ins the 1-eislative en greater imp irtwere very eai aged till i 4 not its high solitary supporter. Lee sl Opium last o hear c.f. C•tion pinion of the Palk IMOU4 thht lUS we have tore. Little on our own the B-itish itecode rue at something— as nothing to be are perfect success such a moral seistiare. (Apolaute.) ormed a pianoforte Liss Freeman sang a very ch .rmittg warmly attplanded,, glig as she ought. aid his excellent ng ; still we fancy full display of his twfore. Miss Cook " rather warm, and who try to have all ver t-s Sister C:•ok, Arne some fractious ig a good o'd hymn zen new hymns Atte the old hymn to ite ter, and Power sang 'Red-cross knight." with encouraging .quid Gem,* which idence.  .mlar, of illiddlesee, al, but never heard to get rid of him. ,f the solo—" There he singing, in the in the chairman— the eabject, and it o•day ; but to-day's of what was sown .used to hear ahJut if they were all a e over in a big ship ligion we-e all he'd ern a hoe of 15, and &Luse.) Ent to see mime platform is, in he prayers of people nil, le now who could commoti-sen-,e that be drink. The terngiments, and he WPB it is the only perfect ; you can be 9 tern' r, but not a Templar or woman out and hpsthy ti the poor ,p others from falling he work ; but that ort, to be kept shut nkards. (Applause.) as if he one of an ;ted ; if he was they is a manufactured in palaces and publicled and supply the You must close the tease. Drunkenness s b 'coming more and becoming more and to be whether a lasses ; but we have hall we take any or ak 1" Which is the asked the waY no way you co ; is nearly 25.000 we and a half. Oh l o history has shown m used, in that prole of the highest ut all have fail, d to e fe't it to be a bitter it, it has been wed s, rich and woe, and of misery, wretched" ion ; it has crossed them. it is doing so lur %tic asylum, has broken the hearts of aught re, and found , murder by a young lay, look at the double on went out under two men Who leery of those crimes? , until it was mended tenors and a watcher n ; but would it he here was a hole, and rain lines, Tint swervyou'd's% fall in. No ! people off; then let , and put watches to Elam mersmith bridge
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-02-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER OF A LITTLE GIRL  IN KENT.  There is no longer any d. Wit that tbe remains of the little airl f .und iu the river Medway, no Sunday at Ya'dlug, near Maid.tone, are those of Georgina *mt., who bias beau miv.ing front her home at Pimlico, London, since December 20dt last. Toe bo ly was found fi ,ating sit the river Medway within 200 yards of a cottaze inhabited by • perion tamed Either Pay, a married woman, aged about 35 years, who p.living apaq from her hos'iand, whose residence is hat 57, We dmorelana-street, Some six weeks Niece the woman absconded from her borne; and it is stated that the police authorities had, in consequence of the abduction ot the little girl, beau rusking inquiries as to her whereabouts. It was only that when the body of the d ceased child Was found in the Medway on Sunday, clothed as descril .d in the printed blue that had been general circulated, that Mrs. Pay was cligeoverel by the polic,. Inspicter Marshall and Sergeant Coz .na, from Roctiester•row police.ststion, viiited )(siding on Tuesday, and there recognised 'the woman Pay. She was taken into custody by them and hrotuht to Lluclon, and will be charged at Weetmirs. ter Police-court on suspicion of having caused the death of the little girl.  Barnum, the Atuericin showman, has bought for the mum of .£2 OC9 the large male African elephant, which has for many years formed one of the principal attract i no in the 'gardens of the Z aologic al Society in the it e..t'-ps.k The purchase has het n made upon the understanding that the animal ifi to he remove' and shipped to America entirely at the risk of tho porch tat r. To those who ktntw t e siz weight. end itrength of thia wuderous creatare (certainly the largest elephant in Eump. ), the undertaking is one of serious difficulty and not unattended with some danger.  Mdl.. Nilsson has just met with a terrible calamity, which cannot fail to arouse the symp .thy of her numerms admirers. M. Roezeau, the husband of " the Swedish nightingale," has gone out of his mind. Same say it is owing to unkrtunate speculations at the Bourse. Anyhow, he was seized on Friday with a sudden hallucination, and began to talk to everybody about the millions of money he had inherited, and what hu was going to do with them. In fact, he had already given orders for carriages and horses, and made other extravagant commands, when the doctor was called in and advised h removal to a maieon de sante . M. Romani allowed himself to be conveyed to the asylum, under the belief that he was going to insp.tct a liaga mansion for himself. A Ca.—To all who are suflaring from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, lose el manhood, &c , I will send a rec ipt that will core you, Free of Charge. This great remedy was disc ,vered by a missionary in South Africa. Send a self.addresided envelope to the Riff.
The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-07-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

STRAMERS.—The thin] time thil met has ben male that the ,tea make an excursion to Lulwort thir 1 time it Tuesday the in hal to be disaprointed owing wLd being S.W. she c ml,l Alt'ealgh a zraat many knew a;) u: 70 we Aing their way p, i 1 eti • :mu. awl th to .1( them round to the new ugh Heal, and then bick and across t an hour or tvvo. and, by his obligit them all. All went home satisi that he may s,on be able to ta!, Cove.  LAST WEEK the interment o Young stone mas.,n, of Herston, tr_en 111 for about tine months, si: in Dorchester Hospital, from whi discharg d incurable. He died oi 110 0 ilk Mil OEM ol 91 years,  lay helpers. The lady who • Bible Society, so that she r A:300 for her Bible classes on ales labouring in Paris, redals for being the 11134113 rch has a congregation of gerreraby in the Athe'stic a piper read by thossa.,r•g, ) master." It is the Church 1 to the Atheistic halls; but DI) the Gospel, and the in n atisties their cravings. The Ely°li, had a service, auil, .cC ill's system, they hail a [ been called a eine qua non, ign of getting on,and ar ter Li • is re for ..£5O. All the mon there it many cause up, and give irod they had received :nun uf a poor old Catholic woman, ug woman, who had Ix eu to opted in the Beloved." Mors o finished her education in English girls, and form Vio vs d a Scotch girl one day say in at bscomas of me," Misa 13.3 e she talked to her, and use present as a sign of thankful •t a Home for English girls, he home, now to be soieoo— -1 ; Given ot God, My, 1875" . the Home for English Girls •rel wills her father went to French ; she fell ill of cot.. Lee's home, and before she ✓ heavenly Father's forgiv— irthly father. Though it was life %est.,' nearly snapped—Al e ation, who would not let ho r o also would not let her stay, 3 Guy's Hospital, where she S.scie(.y makes free grants which are for the barn fit food which is for the eternal g of Ireland, he had seen sage of peace to Ireland,' esaage of peace to Ireland, for utrages, the murders are not there they have the Gospel In at and south, where Pat has the Gospel there, Pat will be oats. We talk about COlisligo, owa the tt ue courage—look t Alec*, who have died in tee he speaker went on to ter of working hard at his books at or a vs ark, sat on a rock, mud, lod's Word, be found the tide which he was sitting. There calm, and touching declares beautifully written, perfectly at he met death with resignsr him drowned. He loved his ; home he lunged for. Let is and more we love that buok see it our duty to make known ause.)  -----v Bummed up, and they sang ier the benediction. le. 41  MIMMUIIMI ...+ .+.FLON,IriII•