Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1874-10-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

NOVEL SWIMMING APPARATUS.  Captain Boyton, the American swimmer, exhibited his patent apparatus in Queenstown Harbour on Monday afternoon, swimming with the greatest ease. It is stated that he intends crossing St. George's Channel.  Fever at Damascus is causing forty deaths per day. Italy has no less than 151 schools of art, technical schools, and trade schools. Thirty thousand copies of Mr. S. C. Hall's temperance poem, "Sir Jasper," are said to have been sold. Prussian police have recently begun to prosecute monks begging for alme. An alarming fire has broken out in Tiflis. Upwards of one hundred houses have been burnt. The I egitirnists are said to be strongly urging the Comte do hambord to lose .no time in coming to France. The whaler Esquimaux, which has arrived at Dundee, reports hat the vessels beset in the ice are all safe. One of the cashier) of the Turkish Government at Aidin, near Smyrna, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling £0 000 An informal intimation has been given to the public that the anomalous representation of England at tha Papal Court is at length to cease. At Swap a quarryman, early on Monday morting, cut his wife's throat and subsequently committed suicide. Six children have been left unprovided for. It is announced that it is the intentien of the Lords of the Admiralty to reward all the blue jackets employed during the late Ashantee war with thirty days' pay. General Miles is doing.,his work througbly in the Indian territory of the United States. He has just captured an entire camp, and the redskins, quite demoralised, have sought safety in flight. A private in the 42nd Highlandars discharged a bullet through his hand while on sentry duty at Portsmouth, for the purpose, it is supposed of avoiding foreign service, having recently been married.  Chaim  near  _ A man named Thompson has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, at Hull, for stabbing Phwbe Ward, his paramour. Be had on a former occasion tried to drown the woman. For the new Lord Mayor's banquet on the ninth of November, several Ministers have aCcepted invitations. Mr. Disraeli will, of course be present, also the Earl of Y almesbury, the chancillor of the Ekchequcr, the Earl ot Garnarvon, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Gathonie Hardy, and Mi. Ward Hunt. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol considers the greatest dangers in the Church at the present time are, the increasing difference of sentiment between the clergy and the laity, the serious differences of opinion prevalent with respect to the Rubrics, and the antagonisms likely to arise out of the operation of the Public Worship Act A proposal to convert the tomb of Augustus at Rome into a theatre is likely to be carried out. The Archasological Commission declares the place of no importance. The owner of "Apology" it is said, has adopted the usual legal steps for resigutng the livings which he holds in the Church. The Duke of Abercorn has definitely accepted the grand mastership of the Irish Freemasons, and will be installed at the next meeting on the Ist of December. The emigration statistics show that 310,612 persons emigrated during 1873—a number greater than that of any previous year since 1854. At a short distance from San Martino, near Palermo, exists a mine of fluid sulphur, which issues from fissures in the rocks at the rate of from 400 to 500 quintals a day. A farmer, named Laffan, from near Templemore, sold ten barrels of barley a few days ago, being the produce of one rood of land, which is equal to 40 barrels to the