The Poole Telegram. — 1881-02-11 (Poole, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEM 8.  The Irish State trials cost from A:15,000 to £20,000. Thousaude of acres of land along the course ot the Upper Thames are submerged. Mr. Frederic Charles Thynne. eldest son of Lord Charles Thynne, and brother of the Countess of Kenmare, has died at Brindisi. In Macedonia and Thessaly numerous bands of brigands are said to be ravaging the country. The whole of Lower Albani t is in a state of tumult awl revolt. An alerruiug 'modelle has occurred at the Isle of White. At Blackgang on Friday night thousands if tons of cliff fell, and many houses are in iniminent danger. At the Central Criminal Couit, on Thursday, Frederick Meyer, a butcher, lor stabbing his former employer with a knife, was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude. Sixteen thousands miners have etruck work in South Yorkshire, demanding an advance of 10 per cent, in wages. The masters have proposed arbitration, which the colliers have rejected. During the stamping of letters at Poitamouth, on Friday, the stamp used by one of the clerks struck a hard substance, which exploded with is loud report. Fortunately no serious injury resulted. The tunnel at Wattingen. on the St. Gothard line, was opened last week. All the minor tunnels are expected to be complet el before July, but the line cannot toe utilised for the mails before October. It is believed that some infernal machines have been despatched from America for some part of the United Kingdom, and precautions have consequently been taken to prevent their toeing put to nefarious uses. At a meeting of the Court of Common Council a report of the Epping Foreat Committee favouring a scheme by the Great Eastern Railway Company for a branch line front Chingford to High Beach, taking ten acres of the Forest, was adopted. Sensational rumours have been current in Berlin to the effect that cerlain Roumanian Nihilis's have endeavoured to kidnap Prince Williams of Hobeuzollern, the henpresumptive of Roumania, who is now studying at Dusseldorf. On Wednesday, at Slough, Mr. Tait, farm bailiff to the Queen, at Windsor, was tined 21e., ',lauding costs, for sending a calf and six swine to the Slough Cattle Market without a license, 'Buckinhamshire having been declared an infected district. At Sheffield a gas pipe burst in the drapery establishment of a Mr. Donelly. An assistant was blown up t the ceiling, and a young lady thrown ts the other end of the shop, out neither was seriously injured. A. plate-glass window was smashed, and considerable damage done in the shop. A return issued on Thursday of Irish agrarian offences reported during November, 1880, shows that the number for that period was 561, convictions being obtained in thirteen cases. The largest number of offences, 2.55, was committed in Molester, and there were seven convictions. A broker, named Donald, has been committed for trial by the police magistrates at Hammersmith, for assaulting Jane Roberts. The assault consisted in taking possession of her apartments amid turning her out, so that she hail to spend on the doorstep the bitterly cold night of ties 3rd ult. A letter was read at a meeting of the Ystradfodwg •Burial Board on Thursday from Mr. Osborne Morgan in reply to an inquiry, which was to the effect that the expense of consecration, being part of this legitimate expenses of furnishing the cemetery, would have to be borne by the ratepayers generally. Captain Wolegenerof t, late a "Captain in the Salvation Army." has been committed to gaol for three months at Chesterfield for stealing a watch and chain from ahem* In which he was st syiug while directing the operations of the" Salvation forces." The "Captain" was apprehended whilst taking part in a prayer meeting. A shocking murder was committed in Liverpool, on Thursday, by a men named Heury Edward Taylor, who lives with his parent,. He suffers from epilepsy, and his wife is in a lunatic asylum. Taylor was sonstantly watched, but on Thursday morning he eluded observation and cut the throat fit a girl six years old, living in the house. The girl died immediately. The Turkish Baths, at Salisbury, opened about fourteen months ago, were totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday monainz. The fire originated in the hot-nsom, it is supposed from some linen being bung up to dry too near the pipes. loss is more th on £l,