Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-08-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.—MONDAY. Nearly 5,000 beasts of which about half are foreign. Trade firm at 4s. to 6s. 2d. About 21,000 sheep. Market rather dearer at ss. 6d to 7s. 2d. Lambs firm at Os. to 88. Calves is. 6d to be. Bd. Pigs 4s. Oil to be. 6d. At Deptford there are 180 Spanish sheep.  There are 30,000 acres containing 30,000,000 grape vines in California. Cardinal M'Closkey, it is said, is the bearer, of £20,000 from America to the Pope. Two huge breech-loading cannon have just been placed in the fort of Mont VaWien. An American harvesting machine has just won the highest prize at a great trial in Germany. The swallows have taken their flight southwards from Neuchatel, after a clamorous gathering on the roofs. Prince Leopold has been admitted a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.:Andrew's. The most cheering accounts continue to arrive from all parts of the country with reference to the Irish harvest. At Bordeaux. during the last few days, the barometer rose to 43 degrees centigrate (110 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade. Wild boars and wolves have re-appeared in the forests of the Jura, whence they fled in 1870-71 at the approach of General Bourbaki's army. A small yellow-spotted lizard, destitute of the organs of vision, was found to be the tenant of a large water-melon recently opened at Dallas, Texas. The War Secretary and Mrs. Hardy are staying at Braemar. Mr. Hardy will be Secretary of State in attendance to the Queen. The John Bull says the name of Canon Baynes, vicar of St. Michael's, Coventry, is mentioned in connection with the vacancy in the vicarage of Halifax. The Prince and Princess of Wales and children arrived at Balloter, on Saturday afternoon, and drove thence to Abergeldie Castle. At Bristol, a young man of Wooton-under-Edge, has been sentenced to two months' hard labour for indecently assaulting a girl of 13 in a Midland railway carriage. Eighty negroes have been arrested in Georgia, on a charge of being concerned in a conspiracy for a general massacre'of the whites. A parcel left in a train running from London to Birkenhead was found to contain a dead female child. The face was covered with wool, which had probably suffocated it. Extraordinary heat has been experienced in Russia since the 23rd of last month, and the forests in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg look as though they had been fired. The ship Ocean Mail, from London for New Zealand, lost her jibboom and sustained other damage in a collision on Wednesday with an Italian barque off Portland. The barque lost her mizeninast. A dreadful suicide has occurred near Athy. A man named Healy. a lunatic, who was in charge of a keeper, cut his throat by means of scissors and pieces of looking glass, intlicting'a fearful wound. A Professor of Law in a New York College. who was sent over to represent that institution at the O'Connell centenary, has been, remanded by the Dublin magistrates on a charge of burglary. The race for the £2OO prize offered by the Royal Albert Yscht Club has been won by the Vol-au-Yeut, which came in nearly two hours before the other competitors. The Corinne was second, and the Gertrude third. A tradesman's wife, at Barnstaple, her mind afflicted by ' drink, fancied a man was constantly following her urging her to drown herself, and on Wednesday she jumped in the river, but was rescued. Three girls of a distinguished Florentine family, named Polonio, have committed suicide with fumes of charcoal. Their minds had been diseased by inordinate reading of wild romances.  In order to facilitate the sale of foreign cattle, several landowners from Oldenburg have come to England to procure the ro-opening of the Islington Cattle-market for foreign cattle. There is such a scarcity of skilled shipwrights at Chatham Dockyard that an official has been despatched by the Admiralty to the principal iron shipbuilding firms in the North for the purpose of obtaining qualified workmen. An excursionist from Elmira, New York, who made a trip under the Horseshoe Fall at Niagara, a few days ago, found, upon returning to the mainland, that his sense of hearing was completely gone.