The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-06-01 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

AND MRS. DION BOLCICAULT have by mutual con. sent withdrawn from all the legal suits in which they were engaged, and will appear again together on the stage. THE will of Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls. was pebted on the 12th instant, the value of the personal estate aMounting to upwards of £225,000. The will of Dona Rosalie Arancebia de Abreu was proved upwards of £134,000. The personal estate of the late Mr. A. J. Knapp, late of Clifton, amounts to £57,000; that , of Mr. T. Chandless, Q.C., £56,00C; that af Mr. G. 0. Edwarda, banker, Bristol, £43,000 ; that of Mr. W. D. Bushell, £31,000; that of Mrs. W. Abercrombie, late of Springfield, Gloucesteeshire, £25,000. THE Parnell Fund now amounts to £10,195 ss. 2d. The new beggarman has taken a leaf out of the book of the old sal 0. THE executive and general committees of the Leeds , Musical lestical have resolved to accept a nearly.completed cam ass by Mr. Alfred Cellier, the words taken from Gray's itegy. A correspondence with Mr. Gye, the husband of Mduie. W.i9 read. Mr. Gye required 500 guineas for Mdme. Albani's services at 4 perform- ! ances, or 600 guineas for 5. A counter-offer was made of the same terms as those paid at the last festival, namely, 400 guineas for four concerts, but Mr. Gye refused to abate a single guinea of his original demsnd. It was resolved,.", That, in consequence of the exorbitant increase In her terms, the services of Mdme. Albani for the Leeds Musical Festival be dispensed with. A cultiorsaincident happened at the Colle2ge de France on Tuesday. M. Brown-S6quard, the eminent physiologist, in the course of his lecture, began the vivisection of a young monkey, and, as the poor animal shrieked with pain 'Udder the knife, was about to quiet it effectually by sevetieg the vocal cords. Upon this a young lady, carried away by her feelings of compassion, sprang forward and struck the professor violently across the face with her , JOHN Bum sheriff's clerk, of Orkney, and ahoy named Henderson have been killed by falling over the cliffs in the Northern Islands. A MAd'SIFICENT sturgeon was caught on Monday at the mouth of the Nith, in the nets of a Dumfries tacksman, who despatched the "royal fish" to Marlborough House as a present to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Ma. C. H. BELTEEL, of the firm of Bulteel and Co., Naval Bank, Plymouth, committed suicide on Tuesday. Deceased was under the surveillance of an attendant, whom he eluded, and went into a wood and hanged himself. TOTTN6 Indian law student, Animdras H. Badhan, a native of Bombay, shot himself in his lodgings in the Eustonsroad last week. His sight was failing, and he left a letter in which he said "life without sight would be worthless." A iirEL, attended with a fatal result, was fought at Vienna on Thursday in the cavalry barracks, between the editor of the Vedette, a military journal, and LieutenantColonel Schlayer, commander of the Railway Regiment. The editor of the Vedette was wounded in the leg, and Lieut. Colonel Schlayer was killed. A COMPANY of men,all of whom are six feet or over in heights have founded a town in Montapa, which they have named Giantville. Lots in this town will be sold only to men six feet or more in height, who have wives five feet and eight inches at least in stature. THE Ude for frogs' legs is now spreading rapidly in the United States. One of the largest dealers in the country, Mr. J. M. Beck, of Boston, has set a hundred expert frog-catchers at work in the New England States, and estimates that the demand this summer will be double that of last year. An experiment in breeding bullfrogs in England is about to be made, and a considerable sup- . ply of spawn will be sent over for that purpose next month. THE Home Secretary has had under consideration the memorials that have been presented to him for the release of Messrs. note, Ramsay, and Kemp, now undergoing imprisonment for Haspheme, and the Central sews 'understands that, acting on the reports that have been made to him as to the health of the prisoners, he has decided not to interfere with the sentence. He will, however, give tirections for the relaxation of the most strinsant prison rules in the case of these Prisoners. A POLICEMAN named Alexander Lamond, of Kirkcaldy, died on Saturday morning from injuries inflicted upon bim at midnight. Dimond, with another policeman, went into a house for the purpose of quelling a diiturbance, and, seeing that they would require assistance, Lamond despatched his companion for aid. Immediately Lamond was assaulted with a fender, and his skull fractured. Your men and three women have been apprehended. THE medal of the Royal Humane Society has been presented to Miss Emily White, aged twelve years, the daughter of a member of the Nottingham Town Council. A younger sister having fallen into the canal at a datigerons part, Miss White jumped into the water, and encceedeil without assistance in rescuing her. 3.150 N GOODCHILD, well-known over all Scotland as a omecessful repairer of steeples, was killed on Monday at Lochee, near Dundee. He was engaged on a mill "stalk," a rope being fastened round his waist. Somehow this slippid. and Goodefiiid came to the ground with great forte, falling a di,itance of between forty and fifty feet. Vitivr. picked up life was extinct. Deceased, who was an Englishman, was an intelligent man, and his antiquarian collations were frequently sent for public exhibition. Mn.