The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-04-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CIRCUMLOCUTION. —Some time age an officer found that his favourite chair was in a shaky eomlition, and require:l either the tightening of a screw or the application ef a little glue. lie spike to the care-taker who thereupon laid before him for eignature a f••riti of requisition for repairs, addressed to the Board of Trade. The document was then copied and despatehed ; end, a week later, a gentlemanly-looking man arrived, inspected the chair, and departed to report upon it. Ten (I.:ys passed. One miming two individuals appeared upon the scene, and hell a consultation. After a quarter of an hone./ examine; in and conversation, they too departed, promising that tlic matter should be seen to. Another fortnight elepsed ; and finally my friend's chair was satisfactorily mended, lie tells me that lie estimates that he could have had the eperation performed for 2d. Mu. E.: r vu:;, ‘iec-cltair:ll:,l3 if Cie L Shoal Board, was on Elides elected chairman in euceession to the late Sir (belles Reed.  MAY, a soldier stationed at Chatham, has been pent to penal ber.dtude for five ysars for stealing wearing apparel at Mratoinf.rbary. MILVERTuN, near Leamington, must be a pleasant place to live in. It po,4sesses 3 Bench a Magistra'et who recently fined a boy because the pony he was rifling 'lashed and ran away with Min, and -imposed upon t miller tile highest penalty they could inflict for shooting rt4ing which bad gtacked his children and servants at well as himself. T.  TIIERE was a strike of barristers at the Montgomery shire Quarter Sessions on Thursday. The mazistraieF '4-muted an application of the solicitors to be allowed t,. plead, on the ground that there were so few barrister' present, whereupon the barristers present left the Court. bdubsequently there was a collision betwen the Bench ane a solicitor. The latter was cross•ekamining a witness, and was told by the Chairman that he must conduct hn ease like a barrister. The solicitor said he would,give uL the case, hut ultimately proceeded.  - A PAINFUL case, which has caused great commotion in fashionable circles, was brought to a close in Paris or Friday. M. and Madame Friedman, both well-known Ilereenages, were charged with forgery. Madam( Friedman is the daughter of the late Duke de Persigny the celebrated Napoleonic Minister. In a moment Qi temporary difficulty she and her husband put the name ol Pie Princess de Moskowa'to bills to the amount of one hundred and eighty thousand francs to pay their creditors e Princess, who died a short time ago, was the cram& other of Madame Friedman. She was notorio4B for he) 11 reilnopy, and refused to pay the bills. The affair fall. g into the hank of the police the young covple wen Arrested en the death of Madame de Moskowa. Hei ifiimeneo fortune was inherited by the Duchess dE Peraigny, who is understood to have paid al the bills ale majority of which were discounted by thi Rothschild firm. The jury brought in a verdict of no 4 Pffity. ,I 4 A amfaxvic double suicide was committed in the Bob to Boulogne, Paris, on Friday. A young L.dy and gentleman took a cab, and, after dining at a restaurant, resumed heir drive. ,The cabman had got into the middle of the /mod, and, hearing no sign of life in the vehicle, he Icscendel from his seat, and, ono pening the door, founi cth occupants dead, . They had poisoned themselves. ,PEurencis Louisa painted the panels of her doors is 11164 c and sets at tlogic the footling of " iatepsity,"