Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-04-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

NEWS IN A NUT-SHELL.  The Qteen will open the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington on the 4 Ii of May. In a fire which broke out in a farm byre at Newmill of Gray, near Dundee, 14 mulch cowe, two oxen, and two calves were toasted to death. One recent duel in France has ended in the death of a ell-known writer and novelist, M. Robert Cam, who was wounded about a mouth ago. The chess match for the championship of the world and 4,006,1,1 has end-d at New Orleans in a victory for Mr. Steinittz, who won 10 games of the 20 played. A boatman's galley returning to Deal struck on a sunken steamer and eank. The men, who were in great peril, were rescued by a boat from the shore, The German Reichstag has rejected the Spirit Monopoly Bill in detail, after having negatived the essential provisions of the measure by a large majority.  _ A I).inish brigantine has boen wrecked off the Scily Isles. The captain and chief officer were drowned; the rest of the crew were rePcued after suffering great urivations. - . . . _  Mr, Abraham Osbarne, a farmer in good po.ition at Crewiterne,-hao hangedl himself Presumably through lossee in business. He leaves is widow and four or five young children. The Panama •slar and fferall bee been suspended for 60 days, for declining to publish certain correspondence emanating tram tlio Government of the United States of Colombia.  The C,mp,ration of Fordwich. Kent, formerly sr limb of the Cinque Porta, has just become defunct. It ill stated th,t the valuable plate belonging to the Corporation will go to the British Museum. A determined act of suicide has been committed at Dorking, when a man named Bade, about 63 years of age, slashed himself in his right arm with &razor, and then inflicted fatal injuries on his throat.  M. Paul Bert is about to return to Saigon, after having had several private conferences with King Norodom, of Cambodia, who received him with much distinction, and organised various fetes in his honour. The Czar has conferred the Order of St. Anne of the First Class, set in diamonds, upon Astan Akul Beg, the special envoy from the Ameer of Bokhara, and has also decorated the other members of the mission.  Intelligence has been received in Buenos Ayree from Monte Video that a revolution has broken out in Uruguay. General Arredondo, at the heal of 1,000 mcn, has landed at Gnaviyu. A semi panic prevails at Monte Video.  A memorial window to Shakspere will shortly be placed in the church of St. James, Shored itch, which is opposite the spot where the Curtain Th. atre used to stand. The Lard Mayor of London will unveil the window in May.  During a squall a shrimp heat, manned by two men, named John Mens and William Joseph Read, capsized in Yarmouth Roads. Mens was drowned. Read was saved by a boat from a schooner which was at anchor near the spot. The c nviction of Sidney Herbert Cronmire for misappropriating a cheque entrusted to him for the speculative purchase of North British Railway stock bee been affirmed by the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved. .  The orders of the Minister of the Russian navy for several vessels from the Motala Works in Sweden have been countermanded. The Motsla Works now demand a beivy indi.rnnity, and are ettergetically supported by the Swedish Government.  A seizure of cattle ha .a been effected by a large body of police in the nei..hbourhood of Fines on the lands of tenants on the Kenmare estate, who refused to pay the last May rents unless they got a reduction of 30 per cent. The seizure was quite unexpected.  A telegram from St. Petersburg eta es that orders have been issued to all the chief commanders in the southern military ddtricts to keep the tro,ps ready in sufficient numbers to occupy at any moment the railways between St. Petersburg and the Crimea. Two boys of the neighbourhood of Bilston scraped away the soil from the base of a large block of furnace cinder, with the view of sheltering themselves from the rain. The cinder, weighing about a ton, toppled over and crushed one of the lads, named Elisha Brasaington, to death. Several howes of farmers in Tralee were broken into the other night by armed and disguised moonlighters who Inquired whether the occupants bad paid their rents. Among those visited were tenants to Lord Ormathwaite, who refuse to pay unless they get an abatement of 30 per cent.  The Income Tax Commissioners have required the Dublin Corporation to pay income tax upon the sale of water by meter in £3,000 for lik3 4, and £2,000 for 18.54 71. The claim will be resisted. The Commissioners b,,se their claim upon a decision in the case of a Scotch Corp rata Several landowners in North-west Herts have set out allotments, which have been eagerly taken up. Chi at Church College has within the last few days consented that some of their land nt Longmarstone should be similarly treated. The allotments average 20 poles each, at a rent of 41. per pole, free of all rates.  Her Majesty's ship Seahorse and the tug Ocean have left Queenstown for the west coast of Ireland with SOO sacks of seed potatoes to he distributed among the destitute people on the islands of Clare, Arran, and Achill. After disposing of her present cargo, the Seahorse will return to (2.l...enstown for a second consignment for distribution. The death is announced in Berlin of Julian Schmidt, the" Nestor of German literary historians." He was a critic and historian of the polemic order. His chief woi ki area history of Romanticism and a history of German literature in the 19th century. A few weeks ago he published the first volume of a history of German literature from Leibnitz to the present time.  The Earl of Egmont, presiding at a Loyalist demonstration in Portsmouth, pointed out the terrible condition into which Ireland had been brought by the National League. Our Government, he said, were now wringing their bands in the helplessness of despair, and were propoAng to hand over to this League the hi,es, hb.rties, and pos4essions of two millions of loyal subjects of the Crown.  At a book sale in E linburgli two commonplace books, containing