The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-05-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ESSENCE OF NEWS.  The bi Ational Lifebo it Institution saved 952 livui is 1883  1 he If ,alth Exhibition was opened on Thursday with Imposing ceremony. Revised reaulatiove for the Volunteer force have been approved, end will shortly be i sued. A. tftlear itn from Ot awe stat s that doting the last 10 days 6.500 immigr.ants have landed tiC scads  Mr. Chrles .15'a-on—n;.r",- -01'14"; .Y;rii","7 ronjneflt lawyer,is dying at Nantucket._ Maserhußett..  Earl Dionysus hss made a re.turn of 40 per cent. to hie Liucolnehire tens try on their last year's rents. A disiolee has app ds-ed at a village near Adrin. Greece. causing ten destl.s in six ho ire. Its nature is unknown. Tho Loris have pagsed a Bill for the consul,. ion' maintenance, and regulation ot a pl. r and HA at Folkestone. The strike at Klmberly is quieting down, and woiD has been resumed at the mines outside Kimberly under armed p7otect'on. The fruit crops in Walt s have been consid, r.bly damaged by the easterly and north-aasterly winds sal the recent severe !roe's.. _  A miner named Amnley has renver:d £45 dame from two doctord at Hartlepool, for negligent and unskil• fill treatm. nt.. _  Ms re Litch, Patten, and Co., sugar brokers. of Greenock, have au Tended pm merit. The liabilities are st sted to be £70,000. Whale a fishing-bast bet inging to Embri Sutherland. shire. was returning from finhing on lifednaaday it capsized, and five men were drowLcd. At Warwick Assize J.ihn O'lisre (26). bricklay,r, was senten-ed to five years' pe ral ssrvitude and 30 !ashee for robbery w'th vielenee at Birmingham. Tbe thenecum i-ays the Duke of Matlbcro igh lam offered 12 ot his pictures, incidling tati Bulbul uti Rithens "Family Picturcs." to the nation for £400,000. The Comte de Preston, a grandson o' Lri Gormanaton, a peer of Ireland, has died at his ci dean of Sch.nnie-k, in Belgium, at the age of one hundred ytars nd eight months. The death is announced, in He 71st year, 0 ins Bti shin+ of the Oh,raudnersau Pauirn Play. To an Allinver. a wood carver, who filled this role in 1800, In, and 1.880. An Id Balaclava been. named Thomas Caek, has last died at Canto! bury. The d«ceased was takt n prisour by the Russian., and a'ter 12 multiage incarc ration vu allowed to return to Ensi-ind.  The alarming consumption of alcol in Svitsetind has induced the Gove, =cut to proposs fresh legiaitios on the ktali,Ct. A prohil jive tax will he put cn lesion. Special sittings have been held to deal with the matte!. . . .  Dosing a fog at Chic ago on Monday, a goods train on the Grand Trunk Railway ran into the rear of a passenger traiu on the same line, which was standing at a Mahon in the suburbs. The coa-hea were telesc)ped, two passengers being killed and 15 more injured. A freehold budding site of 1,755 iguara feet, at the corner of Eaetcheap, Lmidon, was on Tuesday lei by auction on a building lease by Messrs. D,benham, Tam son, and Co.. at £1,220 a year. The price is about Hs, per square foot. The Novoe Vre *wet. states that the Russian War Maid. ment haa succesetully completed an experiment with telephones at the Sweaborg Ports, and pr. pales the adoption of this paeans of communication en fortresme generally. The judge of the Liverpool County Court loam refused to grant tho discharge of two debtors, on the ground that they had continued to trade alter they had become insolvent, and had net kepi their books in a proper manner. A fine of £5 and costs has been imposed by the eti• pendiary magistrate of Salford on Mr. James Brown, a gr cer, trading 89 Down and Co,. at 114, Cresadane, tar selling the article known as bu terine when butter was asked for by the customer. The Midland Railway, following the examp's of the Great Northern and Great Eastern, era about to make a great reduction in the labour they employ. N. x week all the hands employed at the extensive works at Darby I will be put upon short time—namely, four days a week I instead of six. At Newcastle a Baptist minister bat been playing " that the editors of oho local p.ess may be converted ti Christianity or else dismissed from their situation," which leads one of them to obierve that "statesmen, and S wereigns, and magis.rat s, and sailors are prayed for, and thciAs do not need it ha f so much." A Mormon missionary WAS wrested at Vienna swim time ago, aad on Wedni sday sent' need to a monthk imptisonment. Ile tr ed to pt apagate the Mormau faih, and baptised a man and a wo min in the Danube can in such cold weather that the man took to flight and the woman fainted. _ . a _  At Menai Bridge on Monday John Jones, farmer, Bronheulog, near Beauznaris, wee remanded, charged with the wilful murder of his illegitimate child, wheel heady was found in an orchard, 50 yards from the hems. Prisoner's housekeeper, the mother of the infant. alleges that he murdered it and afterwards buried it where found. Two additional enieides, arising out of losses at the Monaco gambling tables, were reported on Mondey morning to have taken place at Ni.•o. whore he v crns wale sp.-niting a holiday. One get tleman blew out bit brains, and the other shot himself through the heart. Both were Austrians end manila:ire of good families. While the ap ieial devotions for Fie month of May were being refebratad on Wednesday evening, in till chap of S. Ant many, in Trieste, t e decorations of the altar caught ere, causing a terrible panic among the female Portion of the congregation. In tie rush for the dem which ensued, several pereons were very seriously injure Intelligence came from St. Petersburg of a terrible occurre_nce at a Nihilist trial there oa Tueedav evening last. Suns members of the go-called Black Bind were undergoing their trial before the District Court, when two of the prisoners, Dubetzki anil his daughter, tempted to commit suicide. Dabetzki wounded himself mortally, but the female prisoner was lees seriously injured. The proceedings were immediately sitsperd id. The insurance companies have offered Mr. Wheel), £70.000 in eettlement of his claim for a quarter of a million. The offer of a mere fraction of the amount of the claim is no new thing of late. Indeed, it seems to be getting into a regular practice with several of the fire offices to haggle over a c'aim and reduce it to the smallest amount.