The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-10-05 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

RELIO OF PARBARI-M.—While msking the nrcesaary axe avationa for the surf ace drainage at the create roads, near the Great Western Station, Mr. Jety's men exhumed a q lantity of human remains, with reference to which considerable speculation has been rife. Some old inhabitants assert the bones to be those of a murderess named Grant, who killed her grandfather at Moreton many years age, while others say (and which is the most reasonable conelusion)! they are the remains of a suicide. The body had been buried in sawdust, and had been interred with all the b ,rbar .11s degradation of a century ag "ra in this WI century do not pretend to have attained to the acme of civilization. hut we ara rortlinlY little in advance of the enlight.med Christians whrt marked their disdain and abhorrence of the wretched suici le by driving a stake through the body, and consigning him coffinless to the ground at the crossroads at deed of sight,  VOLUNTEER INSPEcTIoN.—CAmrI Merollall, commanding the Reeltuental District, rn ede his yearly inspection of Company on Thuredey, when there was 3 capital mnater. The company, headed by their hand, march el to the Depta'; Itarracka at Fix o'eleelc, where the iospectine Ales r WAS received with the general salute. Lieu-. Anrlrewe next put the cornpuny through the meansl and firing exorcise. After Major Holies s heel put the men through a few movements. Cohn el Marshall addressed them. He was very pleased with their capital turn-out, and else with their numbere. They he] gone through their drill steadily aud well. Ha had b ,en glad t bear that the General under whose e anereod they were at Allershet, General Walker, had given the battalion such great maid-. The company w. re then marched to the High-street, where they wer a dismissed. IN he Rev. Dr. Pres, who died so ldenly in Edingburgh on Saturday last, his reas,ed away the in .at remarkable man in the Free Kirk of Scotland. One of the worthMe vele) 'went out" in the disruptien of 1843, his whole life has been devoted to waging war against innevatiens in Church practice and the relaxati .4 hi ie-b und creeds. To him oreans—" kiere o' whistles" be delighted ti call them—were as the abomination of desoletion, and long teed stubbornly he fought agaiost them. Sore, indeed, must have b :en the blow he eustaiued on the occasion of the lest G meral Assembly, when al oppertuniet ree dud 4.1 wee carried giving a sort of approval to instrument il mesic Fr eve 4 in t,h Fee Kirk—prob thly the most bigoted feud i t to-rant of all religious ho lies— there has been a very in irk ti anemet of progress in recent year;. The younger generation of mini,tere know not B egg ; :end now the gr.at otronghold of the extreme party is in the far North, when° s annually cam 3 the " Hight and host" at the beck end call of D. Rage and Dr. Kennedy of Dingwall. Oa the latter will now thee n 1 the mantle of his departed leader. Our Coneregetional readers recently hal an opportunity of hearing an address full of thought from Dr. Kennedy. WESLEYAN QUAIMELY MEETlgG.—rhi quarterly meeting of the D irchester Circuit, was held at Whitechurch on M nday 1 est. Tile ministers an 1 Intl preachers met at 11 a.m., all tr aresecte I. the usual bliiiaeßS It was imanieneusly re-; Avoid that " the recommendation of Confe:mn se mix ing the sec and Sunday in Deeember, being Het aeart fir epeeial reference to th ) prevailing evils of intemperance, in all Wesleyan pulpite and Seulay Schools be printed on the plan." At 1.15 the meeting adjeuene 1 to dinner, and jultic e was lie to an excellent spread, kindly p mvi lel by tme Whit,chureh frie ale. At 3 p.m. business Was resumed. Tee state of the circuit is very f tir, and the pr sps.ctes for the future are very bright. Special anew in Ts for prayer and preaching %tell lea held during the win er, aid mission try meetings will be c Invened in every preaching place In the circuit. Tee WAS providel at 5.30, at which about 120 eat d writ, after which a public meeting was held under the presidency of Mr. L. Riggs, of Piddlehinton. The chapel was well filled, many friends from King3ton, Bare Reels, Tolpuddle, Dewlish, and Abbey Milton being present. Addresses were delivered by the 11,v le. J. Levi.; anl J. H. Rogers, Messrs. Davii, Manning, and Wright, jug. The choir sang at invervale. The tone of the Meeting Wa9 deeply spiritual, and the doxology brought a very pleasant and a very profitable day's proceedings to a close.