The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-08-04 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CHURCHILL, M.P., underwent an operation on Saturday last. The operation was most successful, and the patient is going on as favourably as cold he desired.  Miss ANNA PANNELL, sister of Mr. Parnell, M. P., is seriously ill in Dublin, the news of the death of her eister, Miss Fanny Parnell, having prostrated her. THUTtSDAY naprninii, on the arrival of the 10.30 train at the Waterloo Junction, the officials were informed that a gentleman was dead on the seat of a first-class carriage. It appeared that Mr. David T. Childs, an architect, reinling at Kingston, took a ticket for London. As the train arrived at Wimbledon the deceased appeared very pale, and on being examined by Dr. Cr. Thompson, of Surbiton' Who happened to be a passenger by the same train, that gentleman pronounced that life was extinct. Tim Montrose railway station was on Thursday afternoon the scene of a painful accident. A gentleman and his wife and family, who had been visiting some friends in Montrose, were leaving by the afternoon train to return home, and when the train started one of the chil&en, a girl six years of age, was leaning against the carriage door, Some person opened the door to allow a late paseenger ro get in, whereupon the girl fell out, and, ling off the platform on to the line, was cut in two. e father jumped out and almost lost his life in attemptlog to save that of his child. THERE are signs that young negro boys are coining into use as pages of fashionable ladies in Paris. It is presumed that the contrast of colour heightens the effect of their cowlexions, and pages are to be worn as beauty Spots used to be. A YOUNG sweep at Totnes took up a dynamite cartridge on Thursday and struck it with a hammer. The cartridge exploded, and blew his hand literally to pieces. MR. BRADLAUGH, at the Town-hail, Northampton, has aeuiedAtiming any connection with the Frcelhiloter. A COMPANY of twenty-five American working people were received by the Right Hon. John Biight at his residence on Wednesday morning, and subsequently the bird Mayor entertained the party at luncheon. Rid speeches of welcome were made by Mr. Bright and the Lord Mayor, and matied to by Mr. E. D. Jordan, under wli,.se guidance the Americans are travelling. They are young Yam and women chosen from the various departments of the drapers' stores of Jordan and Marsh at Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest establishments in America, employing some 3,000 persons. The proprietors have arranged to send twenty-five of their employds abroad every year, making them a free gift of the trip through Europe. The aim is to familiarise their " helps" with the manners, customs, and institutions of the Old World, as well as to give them a few weeks of the enjoyment of foreign travel. Tile schooner Magnet, of Adelaide, has been totally lost while on a labor cruise from Queensland. Off the coast of Tanna island, owing to a dead calm, she was set by the current on shore, and a heavy swell lifted her over a ledge of rocks into i 8 inches of water. The natives immediately seized the ship, drove the crew overboard into the boat that was towing, and then pillaged her. The ship is breaking up and the natives are stacking the fragments on shore for firewood.  • Cwrswavo arrived at Madeira on Friday, on board the Union Company's steamer Arab. The ex-King is in good health. During the first part of the voyage he was unwell.  PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY contradicts the report that he has built a convalescent Home and offered it to the medical profession, by whom it was refused. The Home, he says, does not exist, and he has had no communication with the medical profession. WILLIAM BRADMAN, who was condemned to death at th M.suachemter ASSi7,43B last week for the murder of his step-daugliter and Ron at Farnworth on the 3rd of May, has been reprieved. liradburn was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury. A Yount named Fvrrant, aged twenty; and a girl named Hickman, aged 17, endeavoured to comtnit suicide at 'Uxbridge on Friday night by tying themselves together with A handkerchief and jumping into the Frays, a branch of the Uolne. They were both unconscious when dragged from the stream. ON Saturday morning a fire broke out at the Macardles Cotton warehouse, Oriel-street, Liverpool, and a woman and a girl working in the place were burnt to death. CAPTAIN VALENTINE was eased with his watch at Goodwood by some of the light-fingered gentlemen, but a disagreeable incident was rendered agreeable by the prompt. nese with which certain gentlemen subscribed a handsome sum to make good the loss to the energetic Manager of Goodwood.  AT Brighton on Saturday, Charles Harris Franklin, of London, a visitor, was committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of a lad named Charles Patrick. On Tuesday the deceased was bathing off the Pier, and the prisoner, presumably unaware of the lad's presence in the water, threw an empty bottled beer-box into the water, which struck deceased, causing him to sink. The body was recovered on Saturday.  A HORRIBLE discovery w". as made on Sunday at North Shields. Ellen Bernard, a ship captain's widow, living alone in Grey-street, being missing for some days, suspicions were aroused, and the house being entered by the polioe a shocking sight presented itself. Mrs. Bernard was lying dead at the foot of the stairs amidst a pool uf blood. The right side of her face was knocked fiat, and her right eye was also knocked out. She was partially dressed. The supposition is that she fell daWßStitirS. GROUSE disease has appeared in Rosshire in an aggro.. vated form, and very bad accounts come from other