Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1876-01-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

INTELLIGENCE IN PIG. —A correspondent of the A niolaZ World writes :—" A tenant erected a pump in his piggery to pump the whey out of the cheese-room. One day I saw an old pig deliberately take the handle of the pump into its month and pump itself some whey." A hall porter at the Midland hotel Mt. Pancras named Victor. tieba.stian, committed suicide in a horrible manner. Having ripped up his stomach, he jumped from his bedroom window into the courtyard below. He was taken up quite dead. Mr. Frederick P. Lempriere, a grandson of the author of the "Classical Dictionary; is now living at Churchstreet, Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire, and endeavouring by bill-sticking or other light work to earn a living for his six children. The establishment of the Alexandra Palace as a permanent place of entertainment for the public may now be looked upon as on fall aceampli, since the directors' contains such satisfactory items as a balance of .423,024 18s. 4d. . . .  Stephen Blundell, the Southampton undertaker on whose premises the bodies of fifteen infants were foun& has recently died, and the Home Office has resolved not to proceed with the prosecution against Mrs. Blundell and a journeyman who was employed by the deceased. The report of Captain Shaw, of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, presented to the Board of Works on Friday,. showed that the number of fires in London during was 1,668, a decrease of 41 compared with last year. Thu number of lives lost during the same period was 26. One of the ballet girls, Marion Oldale, who was burnt in a fire which occurred en the tfi of December at the Alexandra Opera House, Sheffield, has died in great agony from the burning she then received. The girl was suspended in a basket of flowers in the transformation scene when the tire broke out, and before she could be rescued the flames burnt her horribly about the head, face, and legs. At the Carnarvonshire quarter sessions Friday, Mr. Walter Winston, late assistant-surgeon at the Llanberis hespitai, was acquitted on a charge of stealing two sovereigns from Miss Humphreys, the matron, whose bedroom he entered at midnight while in a semi-intoxicated condition. Mr. Winston is a native of Breconshire, and well connected. A bag containing over £l,OOO in notes and gold has been. stolen from William Barrett, of Tunbridge Wells. It appears that Mr. Barrett placed the bag on the counter of a public-house in Billingsgate whilst partaking of some refreshments, and having taken his eyes off the bag for a few minutes, it disappeared, and he has not been able to get any tidings of it. Preparations are being made,•for the opening up of a new fine of communication between England and the Australian colonies, by which it will be possible for a traveller to leave Liverpool, visit New York, San Francisco, and Hong-Kong, and return to London in 71 days. Five new steamers are being sent to San Francisco, and it is estimated that from that place they will reach Auckland in 21 days, and Sydney in 25. At the Sheffield Quarter Sessions Mary Ann Bennett, until recently employed as a nurse at the Rotherham Workhouse, was charged with having ',laced a naked boy, under two years of age, in a tub of boiling water up to its neck. The poor child wa-. horribly scalded. The chairman, who characterised it as the most horrible offence he had ever tried, sentenced her to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.  The powerful iron-clad turret ship and ram, the Rupert, is now complete in the first division of steam reserve at Chatham, and ready for commission. She has a displacement of 5,144 tons, and her engines work up to 4,034 horses' power. She carries in her turrets two 111-ton. 10-inch guns, throwing 404 pound shot, and on her upper deck two smaller guns. lier complement when commissioned will lie :2110 officers and men. . _  Members of Parliament fur Falmouth, who, with the Mayor, magistrates and councillors, attended service at the Parish Church on Sunday morning, were quite unprepared for the reception with which they met. The junior curate preached a long sermon filled with unsparing denunciation of every class consoicuonsly represented in the congregation. Members of Parliament were declared to he time selvers, magistrates to be prejudiced, lawyers to be venal, journalists to he blind, policemen to be bribed, tradesmen to be fraudulent, and society in general utterly rotten. The "distinguished visitors" present were both enraged and amused. . . . .  Some Bayswater burglars have made rather a had shot of it. Having broken into the house of a well-known doctor in the neighbourhood, they were disturbed in the act of attempting to break open the plate chest, and had to make off with the first thing they could lay their hands on—a suit of clothes. Unfortunately for the thieves, this suit was one specially kept by the doctor to be worn when visiting cases of malignant fever, and, if ignorant of this,. the burglars have been "trying it on," the police will nut have much difficulty in securing them.