Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-04-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

LOGIC.— 0140 H DOMOHRIVIHOT : " I don't eare whether he's Orton or Tishbolf eremite or who he is, he' I don't like-t' see a po'r man kep out of 's projity !' Second Orton Demonstrator: "Jesh aho !* (They retire tisrefresh).—Puiseh. A memorial is being circulated among clergymen of the Charch of England for signatuai, expressing earnest lipprowal of the recently issued pastoral of the archbishoes an bishops and sincere loyalty to "the church and her chieftastors." Charles Orton, who " peached" upon his brother Arthur, the woeild.be Baronet, when the monthly hushmoney, was steppecf,.has been removed from the Camberwell workhouse, of which he was for some time an inmate, to the sister establisament in his native Wapping. A member of the Illinois State Legislature has taken a decided' step against the "Let's Liquor" fashion in the shape of'a bill proviteling that any Lemon asking another person to. drink any :ntoxicating Bauer shall be tined no. less that 20 dole., nor more than 100 dies The fast that an iramense multitude of persons. estimated at 200,000, all with heads supposed to be furnished with brains on their - shoulders, attended a KenealyOrtonite demonstration is almost sMicient to make us. despair of the raetropoliian portion of the human ram. With reference to the anbi-adulteratioa bill, it is stated that many thousand chests of tea quite 'unfit for human consumpticseare known to be stored in the bonded warehouses, and should the tresent opportunity' of inspecting the warehouses be lout this results might be calamitous to  A coroner's inquiry took place respecting-the suicide, on. Sunday morning, of James Alexander, a Liverpool shipowner. For some time previously deceased had been sleepless and .tritable, caused, as he himself believed, by having suddenly given up smoking. Verdict "Temporal mental debilityi?' Jean Baroilkt, who was found guilty of murdering his wife, at the Garonne Assizes, under what the jury Was pleased to consider circonstansea estenuatils. exclaimed, on being sentencedlo hard labour for life, "Well, that is not too dear for the pleasure I had in bleeding and burying her." Dr. Kenealy hue-offered a bait, more or less tempting, to those who join his Magna Chorea Association as subscribing members. AU who give El will receive a red card, signed by himself in full, whilst those who bleed less freely, will get a card of another colour, authenticated by his initials only. The advocates of Woman's Suffrage were this year defeated by only a- small majority, viz., 35. In 1872 the majority against tke measure was 79, and this number has we believe, been steadily declining every year since. At a similar rate of progression, the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill, will in a a few years pass the Commons. At Nantvrich, Hairy Madders, farmer, of Sharington, was charged with cruelty to seven cows by starving them, one of the animals having died from sheer starvation. For the defence it was contended that there must be "active operation,- such as thrashing, to secure a conviction ; and the mtgistrates, taking this view, dismissed the case. Sir John Gray, M.P., died at Bath on Friday morning, after a painful illness. He was born in 1815, and in early life graduated as a doctor of medicine, but he subsequently became connected with literature, and has for many years been principal proprietor of the Dublin Freeman's Journal. In polities he was an advanced Reformer and Home Ruler, At Sidmouth, William Ball, a young man, placed some pieces of rock and an won rail across the main line of the London and South-Western Railway. The express, travelling forty mile* per hour, dashed through the obstruction, and the train oscillated violently, but kept upon the line. Charged with the act, he admitted it, and said he expected to hear a great noisier when the train went over. He was committed for trial. ORTON Demoesnleteore.—The following remarks by an eminent writer, "A. K. H. B," have a present interest in the extraordinary Orem demonstration with which the country is threatened to he afflicted ;—" There are a , certain set of people who in case of strife between the reputable and the disreputable will always take the side of the disreputable simply because, such By necessity of their nature and position they will become the vehement partizans of a man iramediately on its being made plain that he is a drunkard, a forger, or a swindler. Not necessarily because they feel that thus his character approximates to theirs, though this consideration has its weight : hut broadly because they must needs take the side that is opposed to law and order, and to the way of thinking of the educated class. He was a practical philosopher, that American statesman, who finding his popularity waning with a large stratum of his constituents, revived it by stealing a sheep. This, being made known, set the better class against him: and instantly excited the wannest regard for him on the part of the worst glass. He was an Miura man, the victim 01 calumny, the true cause of his restored popularity being the secret conviction in the hearts of his friends that the calumny was quite true.