The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-12-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CQT.9NEL WOLSELEY, a brother of Lord Wolseley, ban been appointed an aide-de-camp to the Queen. Tma Hon. Conrade Dillon, one of the new members of the London School Board for Lambeth, is a clerk in Somerset House.  _ MR. ANDREW GARDINER, who by an appropriate :coin. cidence is, or rather was, a gardener at Dumfries. went out to America a fortnight ago to take possession of • operty worth more than £3,000 a year, to which he has unexpectedly been pronounced heir. And now the town• crier of Kirkcudbright has just come in for £3OO per annum, also from an American source, He "cried," pro. fessionally, for the last time, it seems, on Monday, when the event was invested with a ceremonial character, half the town having assembled to heargbim.  ANOTHER trooper of the 4th Dragoon Guards, who bad been invalided home from Egypt, dial last week at Brighton, and was buried with military honors. • • •  JAMES MARGERISON, 64, a (striker, commited suicide while in custody at Blackburn.  AN elderly farmer, named John Bell, of Kinaldie, to Forfarshire, was returning home on Thursday evening, when the was accidentally thrown out of his dogcart, and sustained injuries which resulted in ItisAeath. MR. JACOB TAYLOR, a gentleman of independent means, has just died at Macclesfield from hydrophobia. Although bitten in May last, Mr. Taylor felt no ill effects from the wound until within a few days prior to his death. AT bhetlield on Tuesday a family of eight persons had a narrow escape. A beerhouse occupied by Harry Hale was discovered in flames while the inmates were asleep. Dale escaped by a ladder, but the children were thrown from the bedroom windows, and %vele caught by the police. The tire.escape got involved in the telephone wires which stretch over the street, and could not be brought up in time.  TOUTHFUL horse stealer, Robert H. Hindmarch, only eleven years old, was detained last week that inquiries might be made of the Home Secretary as to what could be done with him, he having been brought up at Bishop Auckland charged with stealing a pony from the railway station on the lath ult. A reply having been received, he was, on Monday, ordeied to receive six strokes with a birch rod and to be committed to prison for one mouth with hard labour. THE Carmarthen magistrates had before them on Saturday a novel prosecution, instituted by the Inland Revenue Commissioners. A farmer was charged with using an unlicensed carriage, it being alleged that during a journey he carried a quantity of household furniture in an agricultural cart, lie was able to prove, however, that on the same journey le carried butter to market, and upon hearing this explanation the commissioners issued instiuctions that a conviction was not to be asked for. irhe prosecution was therefore withdrawn. .4% MAN who had married a young wife, James Triiscoe, sixty, miner, was charged at Sedgley, the other day, with shooting himself. Prisoner's wife died about four months ago, and a few days after he married a young wife. He subsequently became desponding, and shot himself in the region of the beast, shattering his chest and blowing a '.f his :mu off. The magistrate said it W. ruirasolums that KiLiZr WIN &Ili% and ordered ilia renovatiotherlii