The Poole Telegram. — 1880-04-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

EXPLOSION AT PETROLEUM WORKS.—A still blew up on Monday near London, sending the roof of the works 140 yards, kiliing eleven men, injuring others, and setting the premises on tire. Lord Lytton is said to have resigned the Vice-royalty of India. A tram-road engine cut off a man's head last Saturday, near Swansea. The poor fellow had got drunk. Distress among the Forest of Dean miners is very great, 700 miners having lately been thrown out of work by the stoppage of the Park End pits. Tuilarnore, King's County, was the scene of an ell. ction riot on Sunday night, when the constables charged a mop who were stoning the police and magistrates. In this " illegant shindy" eleven men were hurt. Sir S. Morley, M.P., says the coming Liberal Government will satisfy reasonable temperance people on the  Sunday closing question. _ _ A benzoline dealer has been fined £lO for selling light oil from a van in the streets. He gave notice of appeal. The Empress Eugenie arrived at Capetown at midnight on Thursday, on her way to Zululand. The bereaved lady is said to be in good health. The total receipts of the railways of Prussi in 1879 were 530 million marks. or £27,500,000. The working expenditure was 310 million marks (45,500,000) leaving 240 million marks, or £12,000,000 for distribution among the shareholders. This is equivalent to an average dividend of 4.9 per cent, on the capital invested. Eighteen persons have been tried at Odessa for political offences, Sixteen were sentenced to various terms of hard labour, one to transportation for life to Siberia, and one was acquitted. In three cases the GovernorGeneral of Odessa substituted deportation to Siberia for _ .  hard labour. At Pesth on Wetinesday a man named Takacs was hanged at Raab for the murder of two women. He was cut down after the execution, and the medical man declared life extinct. The body was then brought under the influence of an electro-galvanic current, and after a few hours Takacs completely recovered, and became so violent that he had to be secured. He died the next morning.  THE LAST FEt.—lt is related by an eminent physician that a wealthy citizen, who had the misfortune to require his visits, was in the custom of having the gold always ready in his hand to electrify the doctor when he felt his pulse. One day it happened, on the doctor's making his stated call, that the servant informed him, " All is over " Over? "re-echoed the doctor, as the remembrance of the accustomed fee flashed on his mind. "Impossible !he cannot be dead yet: let me see him—some trance or heavy sleep, perhaps" The doctor was introduced into the sable apartment; he took the hand of the pale corpse, applied to that artery which once ebbed with life, gave a sorrowful shake of his head, while, with a trifling leg mlemain, he relieved from the grasp of death two guineas, which, in truth, had been destined for him. " Ay, ay, good folks," said the doctor, "he is dead; there s a destiny in all things," and, full of shrewd sagacity, turned upon his heel.—Leisure Hour.  THE Medical profession order Cadbury's Cocoa Fe-s -nce, because it contains more nutritious and fleshforming elements than any other beverage, and is preferable to the thick starchy Cocoa ordimsrily sold. When you ask for Cadbury's Cocoa Essence be sure that you get it, as shop-keepers often push imitations for the sake of extra profit. A