The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1886-03-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  For the third time this year, Lake Ulleswater is frozen over.  In answer to an advertisement for a bass singer for the choir of k I eieford Cathedral, 317 candidates sant in their testimonials !  The Rm. and Rev. E. Carr Glyn, Vicar of Kenhas been ordered to Bournemouth for the Lose& of his health.  —William Dixon has just died at Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire, at the age of 90, while the ages of the five in unbcrs of his family average 92 years. Another large spot on the sun has been observed, this time at Copenhagen. It appeared to be a little above the centre, and was visible to the naked eye. The chief o'fc ;Its of the Salvath n Army are actively snaking arrangements for a great International Coagress, to he held iu London in the week commencing May 28th. Tim E;berfelder Z.'itung states that the Boys Orphanage at Voerde, in the district of Hagen, was destroyed by firo on Friday night. Five of the inmates perished in the flames. Lord Estne Gordon received on Thursday night, at St. Ives, Hunts, a handsome silver salver from nearly two thousand working men, who contributed one penny each, in recognition of the earnestness with which he contested the division of North Hunts. Mica ii Scrivener, of Harphatn, near Dri tfield, committed suicide in bed on Thursday morning by cutting his throat. His son, who was asleep with him, awoke to find himself lying in a pool of blood. At the Hull Police-court on Thursday, John W. Brown, tobacconist, was fined £l6l, John Hyde £39, an 1 a sailor named Burniston £3l, for smugglino. tobacco, so that the "deal" was hardly a profitable one. No one seems to have reported Lord R. Churchill's " aside " during Mr. Labouchere's speech on the House .ef Lords. When the member for Northampton said the House of Lords "sat like sheep," Lord Randolph said in demi-voice,=" How do sheep sit Lady Dilke is seeking to forget her troubles in literature. She has in the press a volume of tales, under the not very lively title of " The Skirine of Death." She is known to be a lady of literary taste &nil power. A girl named Hannah Perry was the victim of a fatal accident at a colliery near Sedgley, on Saturday. A policeman interfered with a number of persons who were st,•aling coal, when the deceased fell down au eas'Enskin ait and b oka her neck.  s"nocuer Jane, of Lowestoft, from Swansea for Peritewan, arrived at Penzance on Saturday night, and hr mate reported that early that morning, when off thy Lizard, the 'neater, William Tozzard, committed suicide by jumping overboard. A life bony wog thrown to him, but he was not again seen. The County Court grand jury on Saturday awarded £1,009 as compensation to Police-Inspector Connaughton. who in October last, while preserving the peace at a National League meeting in Kingwilliamstown, received seriens injuries at the hands of those taking part in the demonstration. Thomas Ashworth, plumber, of Great Horton, Bradford, died at the Workhouse Infirmary on Friday from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a terrier in January, and was subjected to the usual treatment. He felt no ill effects until last Wednesday, when he suffered fearfully. The official list of victims of the disastrous collision near Monte Carlo is published, and eontains no 'English or American names. The stationmaster of Roquebrune has disappeared, and it is said he has committed suicide by throwing himself into the Be%  • The Court of Appeal, Dublin, on Friday decided that the objection taken by Mr. Nolan, M.P., to the security given by Mr. Philip Callan for the coSts of North 'Louth electi 3u petition was valid, and directed that Mr. Callan should within five days lodge £3lOOO  as security. The "e -incubator," which "hatches chickens by machinery," is still one of the sights of Regent-street. In America, however, they do not have to stand at shop windows to watch the process. The egg-incubator has become the fashion in New York, and no household is complete without it. Among young ladies it is quite the rage. The Coroner for Deal on Friday investigated a case of death from starvation. The victim was a vicuna!' named Minter, aged 69 years. It was stated that during the winter the poor woman had not had the necessaries of life; and that she had during the last month lived entirely on bread and water. The medical evidence was that death resulted from want of nourishment.  A