The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-09-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

YOUNG LADY DROWNED IN A WEIR.—A young lady named Fanny Trevor, who had been on a visit at Reading, has lost her life under very distressing circumstances. On Saturday afternoon she and her mother took a walk, accompanied by a youth, and proceeded to the riverside by way of the public recreation ground. Close to this spot there is a weir, known as the "Clappers," and a few yards below is a foot-bridge across the river, but only broad enough, ' excepting in the centre, for one passenger to walk. The rush of the water caused the mother to feel giddy, and she turned back, calling her daughter to follow her, but to her horror she saw her in the water. The mother's screams brought assistance, and a young man named Richard Talbot jumped into the stream, and his gallant example was followed by two or three others, but the young lady disappeared before they could reach her. Not for from the "Clappers " are the sluice-gates, which being open caused the stream to be very swift, and this produced a strong circling eddy near the scene of the catastrophe, and lido this eddy two or three of the young men were quickly drawn. They cried for help as their lives were in peril. , Knight, a nephew of the lock-keeper, with a rope fastenei round his body, jumped into the water to rescue them, and a boat was launch into the stream. By these means the young men were brought safely to shore. Every effort has since been made to recover the body of the young lady, but without success. She was 28 years of age.  The Right Hon. J. G. Hubbard, MP., is reported to be seriously iudieposed. Three men have been drowned by the capsizing of a boat outside the Mersey. The Pope, for economical reasons, will, it is stated. dismiss his Swiss Guard. Bread has been lowered in price from 61 to sid per quarter at Taunton. A publican named Morey of Oxford commited suicide on Monday through political matters. A strike has occurred among the cabinetenakers in Paris, 2,000 of whom have ceased work. The Lyceum opened on Saturday with the "Corsican Brothers," Mr. Irving in the dual character. Pleuro-pneumonia among cattle and swine fever are reported to be spreading no Lane ,shire. It is officially announced that Essad Pasha has been apeointed the Turkish Ainbasenelor to France. The subscriptions to the Seaham Explosion Fund amount to £2,000, ahnoet entirely from local sources. The Rev. T. Dearlove, a well-known Primitive Methodist minister at Bradford, died suddenly on Sunday night. The Australians defeated the players of England in a two-days match on Monday and Tuesday, at Bradford, by 87 runs. Colonel Joicey, MP. for North Durham, has signified his intention of giving £2,000 to the Newcastle-on-Tyne Bishopric Fund. A Capetown telegram of Tuesday's (late states that the Tambookies have combined with the Basutos against the British forces. A large and beautiful fountain, said to he the best in England, was on Tuesday afternoon thrown open to the public at Leeds. According to a telegram from Amsterdam, the war in Acheen, which dates from about the time of our own Ashantee quarrel, lingers yet. At Leeds, on Monday, a tramcar conductor was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for embezzliug 2d. which he had received from a passenger. The English Good l'emplare in Wales met in the grand lodge on Tuesday at Ne ton, Montgomeryshire. A satiafacto. y financial report was reed. Fifty-seven tons of Greek marble have been delivered in London, free of all charges by the Greek Government, for the e)edestel of the Byron monument. A woman named Partri,lge hue ‘lied at Birmingham, mainly from injuries inflicted by a policeman whilst taking her in custody for using improper language. A telegram foes Queenetown states that the Inman steamer City of Chester has met with a mishap about 150 miles from Cape Ciear, the crank shaft having broken. Bridget Gavel!, hawker, at Manchester, has been sent to gaol for six months fur wilfully neglecting to feed her child. The child only weighed 181 b, and was four years old. A man was charged at the Maryleborne police-court on Monday, with threatening to shoot the Prince of Wales. lie was removed to the Workhouse as being of unsound mind. According to a New York telegram of Tuesday's date tee largest quantities of wheat and corn ever received on the Produce Exchauge in that city were announced on Monday. The ship Paul Boyton, of the United States, 1,097, drove on the Goodwin Seeds at midnight on Sunday night and became a total wreck. The crew and captain were saved by lifeboat. At the Sedgfield Asylum Durham, a female lunatic named Curry, whilst out walking with an attendant plunged headlong into a quarry, a depth of 150 ft. Death was instantaneous. A serious strike amongst fisherman exists on the east coast of England. In the course of a week it is feared that 3,000 men will cease their avocation. The fish markets are likely to be seriously affected. The defaulting cashier, Alexander Slidl ell, who was on Tuesday arrested, disguised as a peieet, in Ireland, was brought to Liver, 00l on Tuesday. The prisoner's &Mica tions are estimated at £25,000. The death is announce(l, at a very advanced age, of Mr. W. B. Whitinarsh, who for the past hail-cen,ury has filled the post of coroner for North Wilts. The deceased gentleman was seized with apople sy last Friday. The reeeipte into the Exchequer from April 1 to September 18 were £34,657,891. against £33,834,240 from April 1 to September 20 in 1879. The expenditure for these respective periods was £36,488,561, :,gainst £38,212,320. Another outrage has occurred on the property of Mr. Blennerhaesett, in the county of Clare. A number of men broke into the house of a pr eess-server named, Martin, tied him down in his bed with ropes, and deliberately slit his ears. It is now becoming manife-t that Prince Bismark is bent upon bringing HARs4a and Austria to an agreement in respect of Turkey, with a view to their dealing with that country as was done in the case of Poland.—Pall Nall Gazette. In London last week 2,382 births and 1,434 deaths were registered. A:lowing fur increase of population the births were 43 below, whereas the deaths exceeded by 87, the average numbers in the corresponding week of the last ten years. A terrific hurricane passed over the Bermuda Islands on August 29 and 30, exceeding in violence the historical hurricane of 1839. Churches. houses, aud groves of cedar were blown down, vessels wrecked, and the entire fruit crop of the islands destroyed. In a limehouse kiln, at Low Walker, near Newcastleon-Tyne, there was found on Tuesday an iron clog, a tooth. and some small bones, being the remains of a young man, ' named Ridge, who a few days ago accidentally fell into the furnace, and was literally consumed by tire. Two