The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1885-09-18 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DEATH OF AN ARCHBISHOP. Mgr. Forcade, Archb;shop of Aix, France, has fallen a victim to cholera. Five deaths from cholera occurred in Toulon and six in Marseilles on Saturday. The number of cases in Spain on Friday was 1375, and deaths, 473; on Saturday there were 1464 cases and 428 deaths. In Palermo, Sicily, two deaths were registered on Friday, and four on Saturday. Throe deaths have also occurred in the Italian province of Farina.  A photographer, named Robertson, is in custody at Brighton on a self-preferred charge of murdering his wife four years ago. Mr. It. Gardener, solicitor, aged 77, suddenly expired during service in Wishart Presbyterian Church, Dundee, on Sunday afternoon. An artist named Nicholson and two boatmen have been drowned whilst crossing a ferry, at Cromarty, Scotland.  The body of a woman was found floating in the sea at Dover on Sunday, and it is supposed that she committed suicide by jumping over the cliffs. It appears from some figures compiled by the *cord (Church paper) that no fewer than 403 Liberal candidates-now before the constituencies are pledged to the principle of disestablishment. The 432 Conservatives in the field are to a man opposed to disestablishment. An inquest has been held in London on the body of Mr. A. W. Catmur, a journalist, aged 41 years, who cut his throat at the Observer office. Evidence was to the effect that deceased's brain had given way, and the jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity. The body of a Lewes man named Frederick Smith, employed in France as a jockey, has been found in the Seine. He had evidently been murdered, and a man has been arrested wearing the deceased's clothes, The French police have communicated with Smith's relatives in Lewes.  A coroner's jury at Liverpool on Friday returned a verdict of wilful murder against the coloured seaman, George Thomas, who shot a woman named Askin with a revolver on Wednesday. He was committed for trial on the capital charge. An inquest was held at Bampton, Tiverton, on Friday, on Richard Pearse, a tradesman, who died from injuries sustained by a fire caused at his horse by the upsetting of a petroleum lamp. A verdict of accidental death was returned.  On Friday Mrs. Ann Perry, wife of Mr. Perry, of Badminton, who had been in a desponding state of mind for some time, took her infant son, aged about 12 weeks, and drowned it in the pond in Badminton Park. She has been apprehended and conveyed to Chipping Sodbury Police-station, and the coroner communicated with.  The returns of the American Department of Agriculture show the condition f the cotton crop has deteriorated in every State. The condition of spring wheat has also been impaired since August Ist. Wintei wheat, however, has slightly improved. The general corn average is 93, compi red with 9 in the preceding month. Prospects are still favourable, the crop being ulihtly above the average. An accid -nt happened at Chesterfield on Saturday which terminated in instant death. A traction engine drawing two trucks laden with stone was going down Brewery-street towards the Midland Railway station, when Mr. Leonard Margerison, who was accompanying the engine, ran between the trucks to take the brake off. In doing so, the left fore-wheel of the hinder truck caught his foot, throwing him down under the wheel, which passed over his head, crushing it into the ground, and killing him instantly. The body of the young man, who is the son of the proprietor of the engine, was removed to an adjoinhoul. where it bet awaiting Ulu inquest.