The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-05-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ESSENCE OF NEWS.   Robert Brertoo, a goods driver, has been killed by g pasuing train at fu:undtpinn Spin has recently snipped 4,000.000 vine cuttings and 3,090 young olive trees to 111oxic°. The Coaucel:or of the Exch.:vier acknowledrot4 the receipt of the drat halves of bank notes for 4:12U for Inctune Tax. Several pawns in Scurburough have been rendered seriously unwell through hiving partaken of certa:n brawn." All the persons shuwed 83,11114)ms of poison. in,. F. Archer hal thia season won eo races out of 143, (3. Wood 31 out of 129, and S. Loatts 28 out of 131. The bust-owned during the week has Scored 11 wine out of 'mounts. _  It is od at Portsmouth that the Doke of E linburgb intends to bring up his sun Allred to the naval protessioo. and will taki hint to boa in the forthcoming crows of tee Corinna squadron. At the I‘verpool A3diZ fig. Jane Warwick, a milUor, was awarded £lOO as damages for breach of promioe uf marriage on th part of Join Po wndli, a draugutamen in toe service of the Mersey Docks Board. It is estimated that there are nearly 5,000 miles of house.top wires in the city of New York. By the explosion of a boi or at Dubuque, lowa, five persons Lave been killed and saven e ounclrd. The will of the late Mr. Michel To u, Buss has been proved, sod t au personat, sworn at £2.000,000. The woman Ryder, sentenced to unaili at the 0:d BAties the otner day for tho murder of her child near Uxbridge, has Wen raspited. . . .  ' Loui—so. chel peas 7-s her time in prison M writing stories tor ch,tdri.n. A grew, many perces in this country who write stocies ior childr,n ere not pumas their tims in prison, but Mot, would bs it they had thsir cleserts.—Jsrsey City Journal.  The man Boas ley, wtao some time ago was so fearfully iujured by the it iam roller at Cmydon that both legs had to be amputated, has been fitted with a pair of artificial loge, on which he can walk without the sit of a stick. The Corporation will and him suitable employmeut. Whit is practically a now organ, only the pipes of tie old instrument having beau utilised by Messrs. Hill an Son, was used for the first time at Westwineter Abbey in Saturday, It stands much higher than the old organ, and all its action is on the tubular pneumatic principle, sod it has ILO trackers. It Is blown by ono 01 Ot;0.8 gas engines. A notification from the Home Office NU on Tuesday received by the Governor of Ktradato Prison that Robert Black, condemned to death at the recent A,illEf tor the murder of Mary Sane Mecnieuara by throwing a lightgl lamp at her, was reapited until a 1 urther eignilication el her Majesty's pleasure. Mr. William Davenport, solicitor, of Holborn, London, committed suicide on Sunday afternoon by hanging himself with a pocket handkerchief to one of the bedroom doors. He was about 65 years of age, and his brain had been affected tor some months past. On behalf of the Government of Ontario, Profeisor William Brown, the well-known chief of the Ontario College of Agriculture, Guelph, Ontario, has just selected from leading British herds and docks a largo number of very choice and highly bred cattle and sheep. The collection includes specimens of nearly all our more important breeos of catt.e and sheep, no fewer than 17 breeds—eigh; of cattle an a nine of sheep—being repro. seated. The total cost will, it is estitn it ad, be botween £6,600 and e;10,000. Tue Bradford magistrates on Tuesday sentenced a butcner and eating-house keeper, named John Hopkinson, to torus mantas' imprisonment for having in his pulkladaloll aquant.ti of diseased meat iutende-d for sale. I.a was siaateo t eat the pri,oder made a quint ty Or soap, and that whoa the dioo.ateo meat VidauSed In tine way it C .111,1 11 t be dettCted. .  _ A. euucding cerriage accideut occurred on Tuesday inui ding a. Stidfiditi. Mr. Alfred Warden, an estad agent, was being driven trAn t 1 renidence iut, the town, when the puaetou c eine into coilirioa with a cab, and the herdd bolted. Tae coachman jumped off, with toe intention ot stopping the horde, but failed. Mr, Dearden then jumped ud, and fell heavily upon nis heed. lile was taken up in an unconscious condition, and died sofa afterwards. _ _ .  Emma Appleby is in custody at Balper for an outrageous aasaula on an old lady named Caliadine with whom she and her husband had lodged. Mrs. ()Aladin° had told them they muet leave because of taeir dissipated habits, and before Song so the woman attacked tee laii. lady, kicked her, almost gouged her eyes mit, and put her on the fire, causing severe injuries.