The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-09-07 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO. THE tea cannot be too generally known that "treasure trove" in n,f case belongs to the person who finds it. In copyhold property it usually belongs to the lord of the manor, in other cases to the Crown. The Crown bah. itually returns ths money to the tinders, but it occasion. ally vindicates its rights. In the Salford case, where about £5O in sovereigns was discovered buried under q tree, the C ivi reiarned the money to those who had given it up, bo!, refused to return any where a portion of , the amount 1:,t.l he en sent by the parties. The Crown has power to proceed either by civil or criminal process apiust those who convert" treasure trove" to their own  THE American papers chronicle the career of Me, Elizabeth Gloucester, a negro lady, who lately died worth £lOO,OOO, and is supposed to have been the wealthiest negress in the 'United States. She began life as a servant, saved out of her wages, married a negro Congregational minister, and invested her savings so judiciously in house and land property in New York that she became a hue. dred-thousand pounder. _ .  HAVING made a precedent in the cue of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the Prime Minister has now granted another Civil List pension of £250 per annum, the recipient being this time Mr. Matthew Arnold. Now, whatever Mr, Arnold's services to literature may have been, it surely cannot be maintained that he is in real want of the mono tary help thus supplied. Seeing be is one of the five senior Inspector of Schools, who receive 000 per annum, and must be, in addition, in receipt of an appreciable sum every year from his literary work and copyrights, he certainly does not seem to be in such a position as to require this new source of income. Tim Bev. J. Sydney Boucher, principal of the Training College, at Carnarvon, whose refusal to admit, on the recommendation of the Vicar of Conway, a student who had been baptieed by a Nonconformist minister, formed the subject of a question in the House of Commons, has resigned his appointment. Ire 1876 the death penalty was abolished in the State of Maine, U.S., and the crime of murder made .punishable by imprisonment for life. After an experience of six years, during which it is claimed that crimes of violence have increased to a marked degree, the death penalty has been restored with such provisions as to make its infliction certain. THE first instance of tho trial and conviction by coed martial of a warrant officer since the establishment et that grade in tiro airily has just occurred at Chathue "4arrim n, the :vermeil, Sergeant-Major Thomas Mitchell, of the 2nd battalion of the East Lancashire Regimeet, having been arraigned before a curt-martial on a charge of drunkenness. The Court, which was presided over by Lieut.-Colonel B. Blood, Royal Engineers, convicted the prisoner, and sentenced him to forfeit his warrant, and to be reduced to the rank and pay of a sergeant. AT the Ruabon Licensing Sessions, the magistrates stated that they have nave p iwer to refuse to renew licences, and hi futon. intend to avail themselves of that power in all cases of infringement of the licensing laws. AT the Northampton police-court, Joseph Travill, of Calverton, Bucks, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and ordered to pay costs, for selling to a Northampton butcher a carcass of beef which Ives unfit for human food. The prisoner had been previously warned that the no-at was bad. MR. JOHN MATH EWS, editor and proprietor of Dundan Er4miner and Louth Advertiser an Irish National paper, was drowned on Thursday night when bathing about three miles from Dundalk. Ills body WAS found Friday live mile, away, his clothes being discovered on the beach the previous night. Ditowlem IN A