The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-02-29 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

HEALY, M.P., has gone to Dublin in order to be present at the examinations for the Irish bar, and will probably be detained in Ireland until the frth of Mar li. We should be glad if he had gone for examination at flie bar, and were likely to get his deserts,] MeAshßs have become so prevalent in Macclesfield tha the Schoo) - Beard and local sanitary authorities, at the suggestion' of the Medical Officer of Health, issued a circular to the mansgers of schools requesting them to close for a fortnight to assist in suppressing the epidemic, A similar request has been made to the Sunday wheelie LORD FALMOUTH has become the recipient of a hand. some testimonial from his late .trainer and jockey. The gift to his lordship consists of a massive silver salver of large dimensions, bearing the following inscriptiou " Offered for the kind acceptance of the Right on, the Viscount Folmentle by his trainer and jockey, Matthew Dawson and Frederick J. Archer, as a token of gratitude and esteem to the best, kindest, and most generous of masters, on his retirement from the turf, January, 1884. Ie is reported that some of the minor City Companies are taking steps to realise and divide the property they held before Parliament can take any action in the matter; THE Duchess of Albany. completed her twenty-thiru year on Sunday. It is said that the Duchess was pre vented attending the fancy costume ball at Hampton l3ourt Palace by interesting family reasons, A STRANGE version of the text " Shuttle off this mortal hae Leen announced this week, namely, an attempt et suicide by swallowing a rove. He had not given him. self quite rope enough when he was discovered, and an emetic produced the required result' AT flognaston, near Derby, a man committed suicide by drowning. His wife a few days ago died from expo. sure whilst intoxicated. TENDERS have been invited for stores and provisions for twelve months from next April for the Egyptian army of occupation, which will be raised to 10,060 men. THE boiler of the steamer Koteai exploded on Sunday while the vessel was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Macao. Seventeen of the passengers were killed, of whom eight were European, and the remainder natives. l'he steamer has become a total wreck. A SHOCKING tragedy occurred on Monday at the Mill. road Hospital at Liverpool, where sick paupers belonging to the West Derby union are accommodated. Thomas Rutherford, about forty years of age, formerly an inmate ef the workhouse, obtained access to the establishment Detween two and three o'clock in the morning, and, making his way to the room in which Ann Grove, a nurse, dela, lie with a razor cut her throat from ear to ear, and :hen attempted to destroy himself by cutting his own throat. Grove screamed out loudly, and her cries brought to her assistance several officials of the house, who found her lying in a pool of blood, evidently dying She saw. rumbeil to her injuries shortly afterwards, but her assailint still lives, though in a very precarious condition. PEOPLE will be wary about trading in Tottenham Dourt-road if all the tradesmen in that long and wonders ml thormiehfare follow the example of a ffian named Burdge„:" This shopkeeper kept a ham and beef establishment, and was talking on Friday morning with some ;ustomers in the shop, when he suddenly raised a knife he tied in his hand for the purpose of his business and cut his throat. A more sudden and terrible suicide has not taken place in London for years.