The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-06-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BRITON, M.P. for Kidderminster, mel with.a serious accident on Satnrday morning. WWI' riding along Regent•street he was violently themen from his horse and narrowly escaued being run° ver. Eli sustained besides a severe shock to the system a number of bruises,  THE Hon. Harold Jathorne ardy, son of Lord Cm. brook, is lying dangerously ill at Low Moor, near Bradford, Ile ruptured a blood-vessel a month ago, and since thee he has suffered from lung disease. TnF: altar-cross, candlesticks, and other articles _ .  • church furniture, which myeterionsly disappeared - -fro— St. James's, Hatcham, in 1877, has been found lf)1; Inspectcr Reif (who had received certain information), buried beneath one of the seats in the church. MR. TAMES LOGAN, junior member of the firm of Logan Fletcher, and Co., and general produce brokers, Liverpool, committed suicide on Friday at his residence, West Kirby Cheshire, by shooting himself through the head with ; revolver. He had suffered from attacks of paralysis. ON Friday morning the body trf a married woman named Beedon, thirty-seven years old, who lived with her husband in Pollard-street, Bowling. Bra(iferel, was taken from a dam in connectiou with the (lye works of Messrs. Edward Ripley and Son. She had been in a depressed state of mind for some time past, and on Thursday shore noon she lett home, taking with her a child about three years old. She was seen walking along a road close to the I lam, but nothing more was seen of either her or the child until next morning, when their bodies were found in the dam. WHILE a number of competitors where firing at No.B butt, Wormwood-scrubs, from the GOO yards range, the signal of danger was raised in the butt apparently to test the value of a shot. Simultaneously with the raising of the flag at the butts a pompetitor discharged his rifle at No. 18 target, and the bullet passed through the stomach of the marker in charge, named Penfield, who unfortre nately came out at the moment without raising his flag. Ate action was brought against the London Tramways Company on Friday to recover damages for serious injuries sustained by Mrs. Redford. whose husband was clerk and time-keeper to a builder. The charge against the company was that they left their road open • but a subsequent question was raised whether they or their con) tractors, Messrs. Mowlern, Burt and Co., are liable. The jury gave the plaintiff damages to the amount of £l,llB. THE fund now being raised in memory of the late Mr. J. J. Mechi, for the benefit of his widow and family, has reached nearly £5,000. MR. J. M. RICHARDSON, a gentleman rider, who KIM two Grand National wine on Disturbance and Rengny, is to be married to the Counteas of Yarborough, the mother of the present Earl. AT Reading a party of commercial men, after dining at one of the hotels in that town, drank the Queen's health with great enthusiasm, and despatched a telegram to her Majesty, at Balmoral. offering their humble but hearty congratulations on the fact of attaining her sixty-second year, and wishing her many happy returns of the day. A reply was sent from Bahr oral, acknowledging the re oeipt of the telegram, and expressing the gratification of the Queen with the contents. A (rumors case came before the Leeds County Court last week. The defendant bad come English gold books for sale, plaintiff was in want of some and offered to give him a diamond ring worth £9 in exchange, which was agreed to, defendant saying serne of thorn were foreicn hot he had separated them. The price of foreign gold leaf is about 6d. a gross and that of Lnglieh 3s a gross. When the books were reviewed they were found to be mostly foreign. Defendant would not take them back but offered to give £2 to settle the matter. A verdict was given for plaintiff for £9, to be reduced to a Is. lithe ring wee returned. A SERIES of diabolical trade outrages have been perpetrated at Messrs. Thomas Stainferth and Sons' sickle grinders works, which were partially blown up by gun. powder in February. The lives of the partners were also threatened in letters signed " Grinder Joe." Two constables secreted on the premises early on Sunday morning seized two men in the act of laying and lighting a charge of gunpowder in a bottle in the engine-house. The prisoners made a desperate resistance. LASHBROOK MILL, at Orrell, near Wigan, belonging to Mr. Widdowe, was burnt down early Oil Saturday morn) ing, the damage being estimated at £20,000. A sicecusT, who VW taken into custody on Friday for riding his vehicle at the rate of twelve miles an hour, was Iced 10s. at the Thames Police-court, London. GENERAL BURNABY'S representations to the War Mee with the object of reducing the costs of a soldier's funeral, which now falls upon the friends or relations of the deceased, have so far prevailed that an order hae been issued directing that in future a gan.eaesiege shall placed at the disposal of the friends of the deceased) ~tb o! the view of saving the cost of a hearse. ON Saturday morning Mr. William Longshaw, Poo about 30 years of age, member of the Grin of Loagshaw and Sons, Warrington, drank from a bottle which 5)13: tained carbolic acid, but which he supposed centered beer. He was driven rapidly to the "%Farrington Infirmary, but died immediately after admiesion. d Castle; deg rr; ee saa and, greatly h adatifdts theafter re dinner, insisted Queen :wen: ttei admire )ie diningat dyyt Bo lirdno otik.ht ee: lovely thes de l bride to "walk about," that she might "see it be le. 'trahhei eyr resulteaihni.p of was th e om m aperipateticnde d na,,o vt oe m e innt s beingpb nthat e p la e FORGERS of cheques are giving bankers a good d b of t ~ trouble at present. A firm suggests the itupor, o eihatrarnnemv ienialergmwcnilotitehtaqbkaueientsvagibbslacadiebtlk:,oeafdun,sthoasemgtneet hhoeveefl pertdrtyhuep w o pt wraqabtii3anes peer elamingt also wit let reergeO cheques with considerable success. It Ise! 7 u_u_ne. bankers to be more carefnl than ever not tn ar.IPPIS books except on a printed form, or unless tii,e3" are qn satisfied that the signature of the order is a genstlS .ne.