The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  A fatal fire occurred on Saturday night at 38, Lothair.street, Battersea, Mrs. Sarah Roberts receiving such severe burns that she died on Monday morning. The upsetting of a spirit lamp did the mischief. An inquest was held at Cheltenham Hospital on Friday respecting the death of Mr. George W. Toogood, of Leckhampton. He died from injuries received through failing from his horse in the hunting  The General of the Jesuits has published the 11. atistics of the Order, showing that it counts 2,500 missionaries, and that it can boast of having had 248 saints? 1,500 martyrs, 13 popes 60 cardinals, 4,000 archbishops and bishops, and 6,000 authors. Alfred Wain Furness, aged 78, who for a number of years has carried on business as an accountant at Derby, was on Monday morning found suspended by the neck from a beam in the cellar of his residence. No reasen is assigned for the apparent suicide. Dr. Clifford, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, in answer to questions, says Catholics are free to join the Primrose League or similar associations of political shades, provided they be equally loyal to the Queen, true to the Constitution, and not opposed to religion or morality. Major Little, of the Bengal Staff Corps, on Friday observed in the Bathampton Canal, at Bath, the body of a young lady whose bonnet and umbrella were fmnd on the towing-path. The body was taken out, and proved to be that of Miss Jessie Louisa Hill, who is supposed to have committed suicide. A Glasgow labourer, named M'Clay, and his wife Barbara, received a number of friends on Saturday evening at their house in Welban-street. The company drank to excess, and in the quarrel which ensued the husband is alleged to have killed his wife by knocking her against a chest of drawers. He is in emitody. The eighteen Russians who were bitten by a mad wolf, and have been under M. Pasteur's treatment, are progressing favourably. They will probably retarn to Russia on the 31st inst., with the exception of the Itrissian Pole, whose upper lip was torn by the wolf, end who will remain in the hands of the surgeon for some time longer. The Shetland Conservatives, who less than a year *go started a newspaper in Lerwick to su,pport their political views are now being sued by the editor c f . the journal in question for £l5O, as damages for wrongful dismissal, his services having been RUMwarily dispensed with immediately after the eleetion. Was he dismissed because a Liberal got in ? An excise prosecution which created a good deal , of interest came before the Nottingham borough : magistrates on Friday, when Mr. Matthew Minns, a shopkeeper, appeared to answer a summons charging him with selling "Summer's Botanic Beer," a wellknown beverage, without having a license. As on a previous occasion, the i'ench dismissed the case, and notice of appeal was given. A novel occurrence has taken place at Araglea, near Fermony. Two bailiffs who were serving writs were seized at one house and compelled to give imp the writs in their possession. A crowd having collected in the meantime, the bailiffs were compelled, before being released, to eat the writs that remained nnserved. Evictions on the estate of the Earl of Kenmare, which recently led to so much disturbance in Kerry, are again te be resumed. Disappointed lovers who determine to vindicate themselves at the adored one's door, are apt to make a mess of it. Not long ago, an Italian Count shot himself, but by no means mortally, on the pavement before the mansion of an obdurate, at least to him, millionairess in New York, and was carriedaway to the hospital ; and the young gentleman of Bristol, who on Wednesday eve hung himself up by his handkerchief to the knocker of his would-be father-in-law's door, was promptly cut down by that hard-hearted gentlem,an, who had forbidden him his house, and prosaioally handed over to the police, who conveyed him to the infirmary.