The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-05-06 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

WAGES-CLERK in'-the employ of the Southwark Nut and Bolt Company left a bag containing £1,200 for a moment on a table on Saturday and it was ,len.  A CLERKENWELL painter has been unable to destroy himself, though be first tried half-a-pint of paraffin oil and then opened a vein in his arm. A PIECE of utter rascality occurred at SanS.)wn on Thursday. In the County Hurdle Race, Robert I'Anson, the jockey, was thrown with great violence, and carried off insensible. lie was scarcely down ere a shabby thief stole his pin from his scarf. It has, however, been :ecovered.  WILLIAM HuTrltixs(W, a labourer of nmeth, wh9 was sentenced on the ISth inst. at the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, held at Swatiham, to tWelx e months' imprison. 'pent for sheep stealang, has been liberated from Norwich Castle, having received a free pardon from the Home Secretary. SERIOUS disturbances, having their.origin in the snperstition of the peasantry regarding the Jewish Passover rites, have occurred at Elizahethgrad, in the province of Kherson. The popular excitement against the Jews led to an attack upon the Synagogne, Which was destroyed by the mob. The aid rr the military-was called in to repress the disturbance, and a large number of the rioters were killed by the troops. IN a fire at the box factory at Greenpoint, United States, twenty persons were injured, four of them fatally Or body has been recovered. EARLY on Friday morning. Ashburton-lodge, at Send, near Guildford, the residence of Captain E. C. Noel, "was burnt down. All the inmates es:mped, with the exception of the adopted daughter .of Captain Noel, aged Si': years, who was Imurnt to deith, Tug Missouri River has overflowed a large pot:th,n ~f i Kansas City, driving 7,000-people from their homes. Fl I persons were drowned. At AtAison, Kansas, the river overflowed and 1.000 persons are homeless. At St. Paul, Minnesota, the Mississippi has overflowed; a large portion of the population are living in temporary sheds hastily built. The spring freshets are higher than has ever been known because of the heavy snowfall during . the winter.  AN overflow of the Fox River at Elgin, having earned awny the bridge, the people procured is ft:St boat for a ferry, working it by means of .ropea. TisiS boat, when loaded with misnomers, capsized, and flit? persons were drowned, including 41.1 children. ON Friday Mr. George Vergette, of Penkirk, neat Peterborough, wan found shot dead in a barn belonging to his fann. lie left home, carrying a gun with him m a sack, on which he was discovered a few hours afterward with his brains blown out, and the weapon, discharged, lying by his side. The deceased, who ,was 12 years of age leaves a widow and 12 children. It is feared that tin stemmed statkof agriculture preyed upon his mind arr, canned him to c.onmit suicide. AT the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free ITIIIMPII4 on Wednesday. the Eat I of NI was appointer Senior Grand; Warden. Mr...thstice Cave Junior, tin Dean of York and Lev. W. ~lu,loose I tall Graiii Chaplains, Sir Jewess Raini.len and Major Clarks Senior Grand Deoconts. Two stablemen have been fined 10s.. each and eniti#a. Mariborougkatreet Police.com t, for biting oil the tails 0 several fox.terrier puppies, an obviation popularly sup posed to be in high degree favourable to the headth of young dogs, but condemned an cruelty by a veteriutb3 surgeon who appeared as a witness. Mu. JOHN BROWN, fiihmonger, of Portmea, died in th hospital on Thursday from severe injuries received In .beilkg tossed by a diullock on the previous evening. Th animal was brought from Chichenter market by tail. tem on arrival at the Portsmouth Station in a very infuriate( state rushed out •01 the cattle yard and unto a roac adjacent, where it encounteund t.ht, cleceaavd, awl at Qua wttAcked  .1 sjiLa, _tion