The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-09-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

BOO. Messes, ROTHSCHILD, have just presented to our troops in Egypt twelve tons of tobacco and five thousand pipes STEPS are being taken at Windsor by the officers of the Household troops to organise a grand military tournament and assault of arms for the benefit of the families of 3ur wounded or killed. AT Chester an inquest ham been held on a boy named James Pavey, who was found hanging dead to his bedroom door. A person employed with the deceased said the boy was fond of reading sensational literature, such as the "Boys of London,' the "Boys of York," and " Dick Turin." Mrs. Pavey, the boy's mother, said that in her opinion the deceased simply intended to frighten tier. He was given to reading "low literature." He was taking in "Dick Turpin " in penny numbers. Verdict, 'Suicide while in an unsound state of mind." AT Milford petty sessions, before Captain Peel, R.M., the Earl of Leitrim charged Ellen Hannaway with ntimidation under the Crimes Act. The defendant said to his lordship, "You should do more good to the poor. rake care of yourself, or you'll meet the same fate as your uncle." She afterwards asked his lordship's pardon. rhe prisoner was remanded for 8 days. A TERRIBLE accident occurred at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on Thursday. Some workmen were engaged in I under pinning a flying buttress when it gave way and fell partly through the roof, the rest falling into the street, ' lecapitating a woman and crushing two children se -eriously that they died on removal to the hospital. AT Leicester a young lady, a "materialising medium,' held a private seance, in which she undertook to call up a spirit in a material form while she was tied up in a cabinet, The spirit duly appeared in the darkened room, and was seized by a gentleman. The gas was turned up, and the " spirit ' turned out to be the lady medium in white gauze. The company felt that they had been fooled, and left the room wiser if not sadder people. PREVIOUS to the departure of the Guion Line steamer Alaska from New Yoric on Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out among the Australian mail bags, numbering 300, which was not extinguished until after 10 sacks of newspapers and 2of letters, including a portion of the registered mail, had been destroyed. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is supposed that the mail bags, which are never opened in New York, contained combustible matter. AT the Thames police.court Robert Hall was slim moned for not sending his son, 12 years old, to school. The mother appeared, and said she sent the boy to school for 7 years. He had passed all the standards up to the sth creditably, and had about 16 prizes. His father was sickly and she thought it was only right the boy should help to support the family. Mr. Lushington said he was forced to convict, and fined defendant Id. AT the meeting of the Mailing Board of Guardian.. application was made by a woman named Goodale, living at Aylesford, for relief. A fortnight since her husband, a laborer, boasted that he could drink any quantity of spirituous liquors, and as a result several persons took him to a public-house, where he drank half a pint of whisky, six quarterns of rum, and other spirits, as well as beer. In the evening he was taken ill, and eventually he was removed in an insensible condition to a hospital at Maidstone, where two days later he died of alcoholic poisoning. SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT 'has arrived at Balmoral Castle, as Minister in attendance on Her Majesty. THE Prince and Princess of Wales and their family, accompanied by the King and Queen of the Greeks, left Marlborough House on Friday evening for Scotland. A NEW railway between Preston and Southport was opened on Friday by a trip over the line. The first section of the line from Southport to Hesketh Bank was opened in February, 1878. The railway opens out a district purely agricultural, but fairly populated, and it brings into very close communication Preston and Southport. A DUBLIN telegram says that a proposal has been made to raise a subscription to purchase a sword of honour for presentation to Sir Garnet Wolseley on his return from Egypt. It was at first suggested that subscribers should Is, confined to the residents of Monkatown, near Dublin, where Sir Garnet passed his youth and was educated, hut it is now proposed to make the subscription a general one. AT a special meeting of the Town Council of Truro, tield on Friday, at which some iafluential citizens were wesent, it was unanimously resolved to forward the following telegram to Sir Garnet Waseley, at Cairo : " The City of Truro, Cornwall, offers hearty congratulations to Sir Garnet Wolseley, on the success of the British forces in Egypt." The Mayor and several other members of the Council spoke in the highest terms of the gallantry displayed by the British troops. THE subscriptions to the Royal Collsge of Music have now touched the sum of a hundred thousand guineas. But it must be candidly admitted that there seems only a very faint chance of the £300,000 ever being reali.est which we are told is the sum necessary to cowmen., business with. THE full report on the Scotch census of 1881 has now been resoled by the Registrar-General. The population of Scotland is ascertained to be 3,735,573. In 1871 the population was 3.360,018, so that the decennium shows an increase of 375,555 persons. ON Saturdayasvening Mrs. Redhead, wife of the vicar of Thurnby-cum-Stoughton, was thrown from a dog-cart in Rutland-street, Leicester, and was killed almost instantaneonsly. She was driving home with Mr. Hoste, farmer, when, just after leaving the Wellington Hotel, the horse fell, smashing the trap and throwing both occupants out. Mrs. Redhead never afterwards spoke, and expired almost immediately. Osr Thursday afternoon, during a heavy thunder storm, a young man named Pearce, about 18 years of age. while 'Tossing a meadow, at Skinner's Farm, Isle of Wight, with a saw in his hand, was struck in the breast by lightning, causing instantaneous death. REPLYING to a resolution passed by the Stanningley Reform Club. Mr. Gladstone says he wishes his thanks to be conveyed to the members for their expression of confi'fence in Her Majesty's Government, and, as regards the extension of the county franchise, joins with them in the hope that the question may be dealt with by the present Parliament. MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the Crimean heroine, arrived laid week at Lea Ilurst, Derbyshire, where she intends staying for some few months for rest, after being busily engaged in arranging for and sending out nurses for the sick and wounded at the East. Pashawur. The Hon. Ivo Blight is Captaiiiaidnr