Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1874-11-27 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

IMINI.  The Bank rate remains 5 per cent The Marquis of Townsend is a total abstainer. her Majesty the Empress of Russia is now quite restored. . . . .  A transLation of Othello in Hebrew has been published in Vienna.  The village of Mayan, in Cuba, bas been destroyed by an I inundation. Sir Charles Dißre is, it is said, about to undertake a ' journey to the East. The building trade in New York is said to be hi a very unsatisfactory condition. The London carmen are proposing to commence business on the co-operative principle. During the first year of their introduction into America, 112,043,500 postal cards have been issued. The ship-builders and engineers on the Clyde have agreed to reduce the wages of their men. Captain Clark has succeeded the Hon. Eliot Yorke as equerry in waiting to the Duke of Edinburgh. Mary Finegan, aged 102, is still alive at the Armagh Workhcuse Hospital, her only extra being a little snuif. The second balloting in Rome, resulted in the return of caribaldi for the first and fifth electoral districts of that city. Ihe Midland Railway shareholders, at a general meeting, have approved the policy of the directors in abolishing secondclass.  There are at present not less than 90,000 of the mechanic and labouring classes out of employment in New York. .  Numerous accidents are reported in consequence of the dense fog which has prevailed in London during the past two days. The investigation as to the identity of the prisoner who calls himself Nana Sahib continues, but it becomes increasingly doubtful whether hens the right man. The Mayor of Birmingham has received from the Prince of Wales a cheque of £lOO, as a donation to the building fund of the Midland Institute. The Court of Common Pleas has decided that a militia sergeant is not entitled to vote in respect of a house occupied by him in that capacity. Pepperall, the leading choir 'boy at St. John's Church, Kingston, has been committed for trial at the assizes, charged with sacrilege by robbing the alms box. There is considerable excitement in Washington Territory over discoveries of gold and silver, and an expert has been sent from California to examine the mines. The Archbishop of Canterbury has contradicted the statement made in some High Church papers to the effect that he had been baptised by a nurse, A woman, ski years of age, living in Smithfield, haa attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat with a table-knife. Six thousand monuments for the graves of unknown soldiers of the Union army have just been shipped from the marble yards at Sheffield (Masa.) to New Orleans. The workmen have begun to lay the foundation of a new Royal Aquarium and Ftthibition Palace at Westminster. An astronomer and three staff officers have been sent by the Russian Government to Persia for the purpose of watching the transit of Venus. A union of landlords, farmers, and labourers has been formed at Leamington to counteract the National Agricultural Labourers Union, A German colony is now en rota. for Virginia, where they will settle upon a large track of land lying on the banks of the James River. above Big Island. The use of Bishop Martin's Roman Catholic Catechism, hi which the Pope is designated supreme ruler of the world, haa been prohibited in Germany. The medal struck by the corporation of London to commemorate the visit of the Shah appears, from a report just issued to have coat £441. The number of medals produced was 400. A daring adventurer, named King, has at length been found to 'point" the upper part of St. Mary's tower, Taunton, without scaffolding He came froin Wiveliscombe. "I shall awaken in Paradise with ' me love,'" wrote a fair young girl before she took arsenic. But she took too much for a death dose, and awoke with a stomach pump down her throat. Two warders at Gloucester county prison, named Holmes and Miller, have just been convicted of violating the prison regulations; by supplying prisoners with beer, tobacco, and food. Holmes wee sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and Miller was fined £lO and costs. Vice-Chancellor Bacon has made an order for the repayment Of £2,000 sold out by the trustees of Lady Tichborne's marriage settlement, for the benefit of Roger Tichborne, with interact from Lady Tichborne's death. Addressing his constituents Mr. Fawcett declared that, whereas Disestabliahment twelve months ago was looked upon as a dream, the question now was only when, how, and by whom it should be carried outs Mr. T. B. Stokoe, who practised as a physician in Dumfrieshire, has been fined £7 for appending M. D. to his signature without being registered under the medical act. The defendant's diploma was granted by American universities. For the first time within the memory of man the Car of Juggernaut has ndt figured at the annual festival. It is old and decayed, and the authorities have forbidden its use, lest the heavy idol should cause it to break down. The Standard understands that the authorities at the Local Government Board are preparing a bill to deal with the question of the purification of rivers, and also a bill on the subject of local taxation, the special object of which will be the reorganisation of county boards. The Scottish American Journal says—" Over 50,000 artisans in New York were reduced to pauperism and beggary last winter, and thousands of them got their meagre supply at the Soup-houses every day, and slept in the palm stations at night. There will be a still worse state of thing* during the coming winter. A farm labourer, named Poplett, 44 years of age, was charged at Kingston, on Saturday, with the wilful murder of his wife. Both were at work upon a farm at Thames Ditton, when the prisoner stabbed the deceased, whom he had found in company with another man. Poplett was committed for trial. A letter has been addressed by the Pope to Cardinal Cullen acknowledging the receipt of £2,600 in "Peter's pence," and bestowing the highest praise on those bishops in Ireland who have raised their voices in condemnation of the "nefarious doctrines " lately delivered to the public by unbelieving men, "under the pretence of promoting science." We have received a copy of "Hymns and Tunes for School and Sanctuary," issued monthly, eight pages, price one half-penny, by Masers. Haddon and Co.. 3 Bouveriestreet, EC. It is published in both the Old Notation and in the Tonic Sol-fa. When complete, this—the cheapest Musical Publication yet issued—will form a collection of the most popular Hymn Tunes, Chants, and Anthems, suitable for Public Worship, Sunday Schools, Anniversaries, &c., as well as for the Family Circle.