The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-06-23 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TOTTENHAM COURT-ROAD and its neighbourhood h suffering just now from a plague of sewer rats. Wk understand that H.R.H. the Duke of Conrraughf has been obliged to seek relief from one of the attacks ol epastoodic asthma, to which he is subject, in a sea voyage, A MAN named Congdon, a gamekeeper to Sir John Shetiey, fell down dead in the Agricultural Show ground/ at Launceston ob Wednesday. AFTEP beibg out a month, the blast furnaces of the Ruabon, iron Works the most extensive in North Wales, were lit on Wednesday, and several hundred men set to work. A RAILWAY engine exploded on the Pontop and Jarrow Railway iDurbam). Singular to state, the fireman ant driver, though thrown into a gutter, escaped with trifling injuries, while "the bottom of the boiler was torn like a piece of paper." WALTER SELLARS, a man who has led a most dissolute life. has committed suicide in the cells at the Sheffield Police-station. He was in custody on a charge of committing a criminal assault upon his own child. Sellars was a ron-turner by trade, and earned £5 per week when at work. THE personalty of the late Earl of Wilton has been sworn over £230M00; and the personalty of the late Sir Henry time at £7,000. ANOTHER sad death is announced. Joshua Rogers, portrait painter, aged 28, died last week in an infirmary to winch he had been removed from a police cell. He had been pima up drunk and with bruises about him caused by tumbling about when in a drunken condition. WHILE Major 1). F. Allen, Governor of the Gosport Milhary Prison was inspecting the morning parade on Thursday, a soldier, now undergoing two years imprisonfaig, rusned at him and gave him a number of violent %we in rapid succession upon the head, Major Allen fell •to the ground senseless. The prisoner kicked the tiftio'er, and was continuing his ill-treatment when he was Secured by the warders. [A nice state of things to be gassy:fie in a Government prison !J -:A111. DARWIN'S will was proved at upwards of £146,000. The 'testator leaves to his friends, Sir Joseph Dalton Hohlterand Thomas Henry Huxley, £l,OOO each, free of legacy duty. The residue of his real and personal estate ikto be held upon trust for his wife for life, and at her deign as to twelve seventy-fourth parts for each of his AYe sons, and as to seven seventy-fourth parts for each of Ito two daughters; certain advancements made to his chin:dee are to be brought into account on the division. WmiN an excursion train, filled with the workpeople of B Messrs. Allsopp and Co., urton-on-Trent, was passing Cunneen Hall-bridge, near Northampton, on Friday, at tile rate of about forty miles an hour, Mr. Lye, one of the paesengers, fell out of a carriage. The train was stopped, and the an was removed to the Northampton Infirmary, Where he died. Mn. WILLIAM Davies, traveller, in the employ of the Pontypool firm of Davies and Sandbrook, waa found on Fkiday in a lonely place, known as Glory Hole The body was lying face downwards. The back of his heed was battered in with some blunt instrument, and the rigor hand grasped the watch pocket, which contained a Watom 9. small sum was also found on the body, but this snould have beta much larger, he having collected eeverai accounts during his journey. There were also sigps et a scuttle having taken place. A COMMERCIAL traveller, named Edward Johnson, is charged at Birmingham with causing a terrible injury to a barman. The prisoner was being ejected from &public. house, wnen he made a lunge at the barman's face with his umbrella. The ferrule pierced the face, between the rigor cheek-bone and the nose, and penetrated to the mourn. The barman was immediately removed to -Lie hospital, where he lies in a very dangerous state. The magistrate remanded the prisoner, who a &Jetted that the occurrence was purely accidental. Tli.pius is a report that the unexpected appearance in of a husband who was supposed to have been killer' about ten years ago in Australia, has thrown into dismay and consternation two well-known establishments in Lontion. In the first of these, the lady who presides does so upon the strength of her second marriage, some three years ago, when she was fully persuaded her first husband had "joined the majority," and her feelings may be better imagined than described on hearing of the re. iipnearance of her first lamented lord in this "vale of teers.:it Pontefract, on Thursday, Ann Tobin, of Hull, was sefitlo prison tor six months. Prisoner, a reputed thief. Was seen at tne Horse Show at Pontefract attempting to Mel: pockets. While thus engaged, her five children were snrrounding their mother, to conceal her operations from view. _ _  lie. J. H. TUBE, during his recent visit to Connemara, et no rawer than 1,100 persons from that district to the United States. The fund which Mr. Tuke has administered was rai.ed at a meeting held at the residence of the IZt. of Bedford. It WHOLE family has just perished at Mureaux, Paris, through the indiscretion of mistaking toadstool 3 for mush. room'. _  alroestac, of the Belfast HoTital, urges preens WI)) tall into deep water to move their bands and feet alternately, as the dog moves his four paws. So long as one floes this it 15 impossible to sink. When so immensely important a fact is sufficiently well known people will cense to drown. In all bathing places, by sea, or river, or lake, wherever people boat or skate, or slide, placards should be stuck up, " When you find yourself in the water tremt water as the dog treads it, and when tired throw yoUr head back and float." Any quadruped, when in the water snows Us the way of approximate, if not absolui safety._  AN Irish judge relates that at one of the assizes at which lie presided he had to try a prisoner for a most violent 'and brutal outrage. He considered that the oficrice was proved up to the hilt, and summed up the evidence accordingly, but the jury acquitted the man. The nrfsoner VOIR again before him as defendant in a case of viblent assault. This offence WO3 also proved, but the jury refused to conv:ct. Next morning the judge, on looKing At the jury in the box, recognised the same man as one of their number. He remarked to the clerk of arraigns, "Is not that man in the front seat the same as was before me yesterday as a prisoner?" "Ledad, my Lord, it is," said the astonished clerk. From the dock to the jury box at the same assizes is surely a rare transformation even in Ireland. The prisoners at that assizes had evidently the full privilege of being tried by their peers.