The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-08-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO. DEATH THROUGH THY HEAT.—On Thursday evening Mr. Langham held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Maurice Rhodes, aged 47, a laborer, who died suddenly while a work in a field at Fulham. The medical evidence showed that deceased suffered from a weak heart, and that death was accelerated by exposure to the intense heat which prevailed at the time of his death. A LABORER named Kelly, in the employ of the Dublin Corporation, at an early hour on Thursday morning observed two men breaking into a house at Nicholasstreet. On seeing him they fled, but Kelly pursned and captured one of them. The burglar closed with his captor and stabbed him six times with a knife; but Kelly gallantly clung to him until assistance arrived and the burglar was oveip-Aven.d. Kelly was conveyed to the hospital. ON Friday afternoon, a woman named Roston, wife of a policeman at Darcy Lever, near Bolton, was knocked down and killed on a level railway croseing by au express train, and her child was fatally injured. AT Woolwich a girl, aged 19, has committed suicide by poison. It appeared she had received an anonymous threatening letter because she kept company with a young man, who was himself led to break off his engagement with her because of aspersions on her character, which were now proved to be unfounded. A WICKED YOUNG INCENDIARY, only twelve years old, Edward Williatne, was charged at Holywell, on Tuesday, on his own confession, with setting fire to two haystacks on Penymae, belonging to Mr. W. Daviee, coroner, Flintshire, on Sunday night. The ricks were not insured. Prisoner confessed to his sister-in-law, and afterwards to the police, that he set the haystacks on tire with limiter matches to make a good blaze. Ile was ordered to receive six strokes with a birch rod, to be committed for a month, and then to a reformatory for four years. The young rascal sang comic songs whilst in the look-up, and levelled and made grimaces when bafore the magistrates. TIIE eases of Sir R. Mansel Mewed, Bart., and Sir E. H. Meredyth, Bart., were before the Bankruptcy Court, on Friday. In the latter case, upon the application of Mr. Rosenthal, his Honour annulled the adjudication of bankruptcy. THE Rev. NV. Kelly, aged only 26, persisted in an attempt to reach the top of a Scotch mountain near Braemar, and perished from cold and exhaustion. He was a Congregational Minister at Dundee, and lies left a widow and four children, the youngest of whom he performed his last ministerial act upon by baptising it just before leaving for his fatal holiday (?) THE Duke and Duchess of Connanght opened the people's park at Grimsby on Friday. RectiFSTElt CASTLE, one of the finest Norman relics in the country, is about to pass from private ownership into the hands of the coryoration of Rochester, who are to pay the present owner, the Earl of Jersey, 23,000 for the structure and surrounding grounds. The corporatian have for some years bad a lease of the at an annual rental of £240; and the grounds are laid out as public gardens, i'or whi--h purpose the Earl stipulates that theylarelto be maintained, while the castle is to be kept as a ruin. JOSEPH FOWLER, the Dronfield town crier, was killed by an exprees train from Sheffield to doedon when crossing the line to his house. He was literally cut into  pieces. AN uufortuuate lunatic, John Waddington, of Preston, aged 43, escaped from Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum about three weeks ago, and all enquiries respecting him Droved fruitless. His dead body has been found on Wyreside Fells, where he had evidently wandered and died from exhaustion, AN American preacher has just scored in hmeeee. A few Sunday mornings ago he delivered a very ••••• and earnest sermon against the cruelty of "cock-fighting." Then he went home and thrashed his wife "within an inch" of her life because the dinner wae nut ready.— Sportsman. A RATHER novel scene was witnessed at the House of Commons last week. Mr. Arthur Peel. M. P. for Warwick, had engaged to take forty of his constituents over the House. On Monday morning he was surprised to learn that one train had left with three hundred peraone, and that another was leaving with an equally extensive freight. On the arrival of this body of people at Westminster the impression for the moment was that they formed a provincial demonstration in favor of Mr Bradlaugh. The members of the party, including many women who carried children in their arms, were conducted in relays by Mr. Peel through the principal apartmeets of the House. OP course the magistrates are quite right to re cowmen. the Government savings banks as the only proper ones but there is a legend extant of an ignorant servant-gir who paid two shillings into the Post-office and spelt he name incorrectly. When she wanted to get it out she spelt it correctly, and having bad six lessons her band writing had altered. So she had to identify herself. She went to the workhouse where she was born, but the master who knew her was dead. She called en the clergyman who christened her, but he failed to recognise her. She had been keeping company with a soldier, and he had seen her deposit the money, but his regiment was in Egypt. Eventually, I believe, ehe yroeured an assisted passage to Australia in an emigrant shin. Somewhere there she has a second cousin who remembers her falling in the tire as a child and burning bar arm. She fumes to bring him back to swear to the scar before Profeesor Fewcett, and then she feels sure the authorities will be convinced she is herself, and part with the florin. ON Saturday marring Mr. P. Sanders, a young military ofeeer who had reocutry returned from hale on civil duties, end aim bed served in the Afghan and Egypsien cateleg.es, was drowned at Selthern-by the-Sea while att-tepcmg to reccue a bather who was in denier. WHILE three h,othirnry II 5 91?t1 Maxey, of London, were ,n , Sleepless, one of them was aeire,, itb erstne eed was drowned within a very eball, die'iance ot hie brothers.