The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-01-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO. REPUBLICAN LIBEHTL—The annual mass for Napoleon 111, was solemnized on Friday at St. Augustine's. A woman selling violets was arrested for crying Vice 1' utpereur ! and a former Sub-Prefect, ordered to move was apprehended on replying that hesould not go faster.  ON Thursday morning as the train from Goole, due at 10.10 was entering the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's station at Wakefield, and was within 200 yards of the platform, it ran into an engine and brake-van which were leaving a siding in front of the train. The passenger engine was thrown off the metals and about a dozen passengers were injured.  - A HORRIBLE murder was committed on Thursday in the Rue Jacob, Paris, by a concitrge, who had received notice of dismissal, but had been allowed 3 months to find another place. Imagining that the son of the proprietor of the house had been the cause of his dismissal, a young man, a doctor of medicine, who had attended him in illness and had treated him very kindly, he seized an opportunity of firing a gun at his supposed enemy on the Aaircase, wounding him so seriously that he expired a few hours afterwards. He fired a second time, wounding a lady and a grocer's boy, who tried to stop him, and then endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He im expected, however, to recover from his wounds.  ITN consequence of a vote of confidence in the Directors given at a meeting of the shareholders of the United Telephone Company, the Rt. Hon. E. P. Bouverie, vicechairman, Viscount Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel Webber, nd Mr. W. P. Bouuerie have resigned their seats at the Board. The secretary, Mr. Arnold White, has also resigned. This company is composed of two concerns, the Edison Telephone Company and the Bell Telephone Company, and it appears that much dissatisfaction has ~een felt by Mr. Bouverie and his friends at the present management.. The public has a certain interes+ in this quarrel, inasmuch as toe .cost Office seems to be in treaty w;th the United Company for the use of its patents.  _ SINCE Cetewayo has been in prison he has learned to write, and now proudly signs his own name in printed characters, which he regards as an artist does a work of his highest science. Bishop Colenso has sent home gOnali of these autopaphs to the Aborigines' Protection Society. The writing is firm, epen, bold, and clear. ON WeJuesday a man named John Harris was attacked by a lion in Bingley-hall, Birmingham, where Messrs. Sanger have been giving a fancy fair. Harris, while attempting to clean one of the lion cages, was bprung upon by a powerful lion, named Wallace. The animal seized H:ilrisl by the shoulder, and he wonld certeinly have been killed but for the timely and courageous assistance of the lion.tamer, All Macouse, who entered the cage, and, after firing at the lion with his pistol without any effectrstruck it with the butt-end of his whip with such force that the beast loosed Harris. He was nearly unconscious, his shouldet being seriously injured. -  MR. CHARLES GRIERSON, steward on Prince Leopold's Claremont estate, Esher, was on Thursday fined £2 and 188. costs by the Kingston county bench for not having :fiven notice to the police that a herd of 63 of his Royal Highness's cattle, under his care, were infected with footand-mouth disease.