The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1882-03-03 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

YUAN. Assizes, was brought to Cork, charged with attacking the on. Robert 'l'. White while the latter was serving writs on his tenants ne sr Glengariffe. Lshame was ons of the tenants, an! he was returned for trial for having engaged in the assault. The cases were adjourned to the sprin.; assizes. After the adjournment lothane had a oonversation, in width it w..s suggeste I that it would be good to :eiho t Mr. White, and that it would save the trouble of a.rain going to Cork to defend the case. Suet id in alleges that Lehane made him an offer t exrcu-As the work. Shedd n w a dissati,fied with th offer. Lehane's wife said thtt the neighbours would point out Nit.. White, and that Sheri lan sh ,ul,l live in the district for come time. A sort of sciety was formed having for its object the carrying out of " Moonlight " outrages and intimidations. Lehane has been arrested. He was brought before Mr. IVarburton, R.M. He was intientified by Sheridan, and remanded.  A shocirieg tale comes from Pive Acres, near Oleford, where an o!d woman he.,fr turatiy years lived iii appart nt poverty and chit fly by mendicity. See became paralysed a few clays ago and died. In her bed wair fount a canister containing 00 in cash. In allot er room was fined a girl, abut 17 years of age, in is ir sate. She hat been shut in this room for three sears, and had nevo.. left it during (ha'. perio.i. '1 he girl has become quite an iinleesile, and has been removed to Alonmouth Union; even the neighbours ha no idea of the gie.'s existence hitherto. Benjamin Evan, a boatman, to:d some 6eherinen he was g leg to drown hilusrir io the Towy. Tlny informed a constabla, who, fo lowin; the etc a .eo, foun I him standing in he wotei. Evans said his wife's !xi conduct had driven him to suicide, and told the peliceman to • taint off. The latter dashe lat the deco sed, who plunged into deep water. here faltered, and swam towa.d 4 the rhere, but th 1 heavy flood fr ,en the reoent rains canted him away, the swirl in thing him help', s and the same cau,e frestrating a rescue atte mpterl hi co' acles. I PtColl4.d, wh se wife lives with an .ther man, att united euicide by eir.tirg his throat some time ago. UNDKir the Employ. r..' Liability Act £lO9 damages and co.is w, re on Tneeday Miming awarded to a lad named James Wall, who claimed £l5O utter the Employe s' Liability Act from Mears. Burnyeat, and Ca., his late ea,ployers it Aberoithe Colliery, Rh nods Valley, in cons quence of an amputii. ion of his a in r n lei d Ic, :veto' thiough a r accident at the def infants' colliery a little while ago. Insdequacy,of safeguuris and breach of regulatio,.s nd r the Act wet° amongst the cootentions of ths pl iintiff ; whilst the defendants charged the id anti!! eith gross contrinutory neglect. This is he lir,t decision under the Act in South Wales.  Eisen IN W‘kknousis.—Untjutcionably the a.,e I inmates in workhouses require veer. it is AU act, of fAtious cruelty to try to enforce total ab,ttii. nee on th poor in their declining years and in the days of their humiliation, such hutniliation as remits from the sen-e of dependence. Dr. Dunlop, the meildtal superin endent of the St. Pancr..s workhouse, was ariply justified in the opinion he express ti at a recent inque..t. "The doctor said that he was perfectly satisfied that be, r was a necesea, y adjunct to the dietary of Al paupers, and he was very eorry to know that it had been discontinue I." 'lbis is our o anopiuion. the result of a judgment matured a ti frequent y expre-sed in these column'. Madinat officers of workhouses are not justifi d iii experimenting in teetotali-m on the aged po .r.—Lnocet.