The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-04-25 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MRS. ANN STUMP, of Columbus, Ohio, has fallen a victim to her love for a pet dog. She could not bear the thought of dying some day and leaving her dumb friend to the persecut on of an ungrateful world. So she poisoned the dog with strychnine. Afterwards repenting she p deemed herself. ON Friday evening the Mayor and Mayoress of Leeds entertained upwards of 1,200 of the aged women and men in the Town-hall. After tea, canir a concert, a few speeches, and a distribution of remembrances of the day. A SAD accident took place at the fuueral of Miss Wilson, daughter of Mr. W. R. Wilson, farmer, Thorpeander-Stone, near Richmond. The proceasiou with going up a dangerous mountainous read, for Hudswell church. Deceased's mother was riding on the hearse near the driver. When passing an awkward point the hearse overturned, throwing the driver and Mrs. Wilson to the ground. Mrs. Wilson sustained such injuries as to prevent her from proceeding further, and she had to be conveyed home. The coffin was taken oat of the hearse to the churchyard. Taw Calcutta Sayluthman says that several proclamations of the Mshdi have been seized by the police in toot country, and that his agents have am-vended in distributing the proclamation in many parts of Persia and Arabia. A Dreatgratotte fire occurred at Rangoon on Wednesday lain, over 40 houses haring been burnt, and the damage being eettubsted at from 10 to 12 'akin+ of rupees. The fire originated from someone dropping a lighted cheroot upon a bundle of canes in a rattan store. A. thanyrenertvx fire bas occurred in Mandalay, and the great temple of Gandams, has been completely destoyed OAR the gold leaf stuck on the brass image of the Guadmans Buddha by successive generations of worshippers, and rallied at from esght to ten lakhs of rupees, has been melted off by the heat. This result of the fire appears to have caused great consternation, being held by the superstitious to be a sure sign of the dOwnfall af the B' armese Empire. AT Darmstadt society is, of course, engrossed with the subject of the approaching wedding, but another absorbing topic of conversation has been furnished by the attempted suicide of a beautiful girt of 16, the daughter sf an officer, from unreturned love. AT a sale of greyhounds in Barbican, on Saturday, a litter of seven saplings by Alec Halliday out of Glen Rcea, made 315 guineas. THE body of a boy of ten years, was found hanging by his cravat to a nail in a wall at Bentley, Hants. The nail was only 4 feet 7 inches from the ground and the boy was 4 feet 11 inches high. Be was spoken of as is bright cheerful boy and no light could be thrown on the mystery. Tee Ducheas of Argyll. who is a great invalid, is unable to take carriage exeicise except in a closed brougnam, for the smell of a horse brings on a species of asthma which affects her breathing. Lord Salisbury's youngest son is afflicted in the same way. Two beds, which have been mannfoctured at the Castle works, were despatched last week from Windsor to Portsnioaath and Darmstadt. One was to be placed in the queens cabin on board the Osborne, and the other in the bedroom which she is to occupy in the Neue Schloss, at Darmstadt. Her Majesty invariably sleeps on a bed made after a cereain pattern, and one is °Brays sent in advance lot her use when she is going to a strange place.  BY the death of the I)uke of Buccieuc-h the Premier has snnther garter to bcstow. and ale° the Lord Lieutenancies 0 Midlothian and Roxburchshire. The Lord Lieutenirc..e of Huntingdon and Merionethshire still remain at iladstcne's disposal, *hose patronage is still further ntrea)ed by the death ot the 13i)hop of Ripon. Uui Arehtnahop of Canterbury has presented the Rev, W. Scott Robertson. Hon Coma of Coator bur y, to the iv* Ilesswiei,