Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-04-10 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MEN AS WOMEN SEE THEM.  Speaking in support of Women's Suffrage at a meeting at the Foresters' Hall, Clezkenwelt, over which Mr. H. Spensley, M.P., presided, Mrs. Fenwick Miller said she did not entirely approve of the Women's Suffrage Bill at present before the House of Commons, because that bill sought to keep up a rex disqualification by excluding from the franchise married women. This she could not agree with as long as married men were not similarly excluded. To get married was so stupid an act that she quite admitted that there was a reason for denying the franchise to those who had committed it. (Laughter.) But, to be just. women should not be made the sole sufferers. Even the kindliest of men had • sort of idea that women were. not as sensible as they might be. It was • temarkable fact, however, that women entertained precisely the Caine idea with regard to men. (Laughter.) Men were superior in some things, but in others they were only like great boys, and women looked in wonderment upon some of their amusements. There was no real difference in the capacity and intelligence of. the two sexes, though the mind was not cultivated in the Caine way in both cases. Whenever the intellect of men and women was cultivated in the eame way, they had so far an abundance of proof that women came off the best. How th,n could they reasonably place the de,tiniea of this country in the hands of the agricultuial labourer, who, from the want of opportnnity was unlettered and lived a life of hard work in the fielde, and at the same time exclude women who wrote books or newspaper articles, who conducted large businesses, or had the care of the educetout of the young.  At Zagazig eight brigands have been sentenced to be hanged, 21 to penal servitude for life and 40 others to various terms of imprisonment with hard labour. News has reached Dublin that Mr. Howard, brother-in-law to Messrs. John and Williani Redmond, M.P.'s, has been drowned off Villefranca while pitching in the Mediterranean.  Mr. Townshend, of the Bache Hotel, Chester, has received the melancholy intelligence that his son,who went to Australia in IgB2,has been murdered by blacka. In October young Townsbend,ace,mpanied by another young man named Murdock 11I'Leud, who communicates the news, went from Brisbane up country to Port Crofton, where Townshend, It ie be. heved,was cruelly murdered by the natives and hie body carried off.  The late Rev. it. G. Greystone, of Tankerton Castle, Whitstable, whose death occurred in London the other day, is seed to have left property to the value of k 4,000,000.  Lord Saltoun, replying to representations from the tenants on his estates, refuses to grant an indiscriminate valuation of farms, saying £1.2,000 is a fair estimate of the loss on his property this season. A shocking accident was reported 'on Thursdo from Llanelly. A labourer named William James ascended a crane at the Mode Works for the purpose of taking down a rope attacked to the top. While thus engaged, another workman, named Williams, attempt, dto climb the rope, when a beam gave way, and James fell on his head, a depth of 40 feet, and was killed. Williams also sustained serious injuries, and others sac had narrow escapes.  Printed and Published by Edward Derhain, at his Printing Works, Sheep Market Hill, Blan,lford Don-et, Saturday, April 10, 1886