The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-03-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

AIR. PATRICK CAHILL, editor of the DrEnster Leader, and Mr. Edward O'Connor and Mr. William Statutes, town councillors, were arrested on Friday at Nati' under the Protection Act.  A FIRE broke out on Tuesday night in the goods shed of the Berlin terminus of the Stettin railway, in consequence of the explosion of an infernal machine enclosed in a case which had been deposited for tr ansmission by a commission agent of that city. The case was insured for a large amount, its contents being declared to be velvet, feathers, and furs. The perpetrator of the outrage has been arrested. IN the Hohenzollern Museum at Berlin there was re cently deposited a marble bust of the German Empress. It was universally acknowledged to be a striking likeness and the execution of the work is excellent. It is now announced that the bust is from the chisel of the Crown Princess —our Princess Royal. A SERIOUS outbreak has taken place at the Warwick. shire Reformatory for Girls. For some time past there has been a feeling of discontent on the part of some of the elder girls, whose time of detention has nearly expired, and at a committee meeting, the girls were allowed an opportunity of ventilating their grievances. One of the girls used very offensive language to Lord Leigh, lord. lieutenant of the county, and after the interview nearly the whole of the inmates were in a state of insubsordination. Eventually the police were sent for, and three of the ringleaders were lodged in the lock-up.  ABOUT one o'clock on Friday morning -a Cardiff policeman found in the street the body of a man stabbed to the heart. The police believed that the deceased interfered in a quarrel between a foreigner and a woman in order to protect the latter, and that the foreigner thereupon stabbed him. A Dutchman named Peter Nelson has been arrested, and a second man. The murdered man was identified as Owen Furney, a local sailmaker.  THE United States Senate on Friday passed the bill placing General Grant on the retired list of the army, with a salary of 10,000 dols, a year. THE Earl of Fife and Lord Rowton went to Windsor on Friday, on a visit to her Majesty. Two of the crew of a Deal pilot cutter, named Pike and Rye, were drowned on Saturday morning at Dungeness while putting a pilot on board the steamer Venetia. The screw of the steamer cut the boat in halves.  WHAT is the moral difference between shooting pigeons at the Gun Club for £l,OOO a side and playing skittles at a public-house for a pot of ale and a shilling? The former, as we all know, is a fashionable, if not a res. pectable, amusement ; the latter not unfreouently lands the players in the police-court. A WOMAN was brought before Sir Robert Carden on Friday on a charge of attempted suicide. She had cooke. a pork chop for her husband, which did not please him, and because of his displeasure she .tried to poison herself by drinking paraffin oil AT a recent fancy dress ball, a lady assumed the character of a bottle of champagne! the skirt dark, the bodice of silver like the capsule, and a label occupying the place of an apron. ON Saturday a respite was received by the Governor of Norwich Castle for Henry Stebbings, who was found guilty at the recent Norfolk Assizes of the murder of a little girl named Hannah Brett, at Soham Toney, Norfolk, in October, 1881. The respite was granted on the ground that the convict is subject to homicidal mania. He was to have been executed on Monday, and Marwood had arrived in Norwich.  CONSEQUENT on the obstructiveness of the big elephant Jumbo, the Persian Monarch steamship, in which he was to have been despatched to New York, has sailed without him, but a berth has been secured for him in another vessel of the same line, the Lydian Monarch, in which it is arranged that he shall take his departure on Saturday next.