The Poole Telegram. — 1881-09-23 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN ITALY. Foot and mouth disease still prevails to a considerable extent in Lombardy and the Venetian Provincee, Umbria, and tho litc cher. From the province of Aquila the weekly bulletin report.) 7,500 cases.  It is not often that a congregation sees the heir to a peerage in the choir•stalls and pulpit, and a peer at the lectern. Such was the luck of the people at St. Mark's, Woreley, on Sunday morning. Lord Mulgrave intoned the service and preached, and Lord Ellesmere read the . . . . .  Welsh Good Templam have their own way of manifesting enthusiasm At the oppening of a grand lodge at Llanelly reference was:made in one of the reports read to the passing of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act, whereupon the whole lodge rose and sang the Doxology. Of course, we ought to delight in the spread of temperance, but the people who object to State provision for religion wish to make people abstain by Act of Parliament. At Wolverhampton, on Thursday, Thomas Ellis, aged 55, labourer, was charged with attempting to murder Mary Sneward, an aged lodging-house keeper, of Salop-street, with whom for 23 years he had lived as her husband. The assault was committed on August 20, and since then prosecutrix had been in the hospital. She was paralytic, and on the date mentioned the prisoner attacked her, as she ley in bed, with a table-knife inflicting serious wounds over the right eye and temple. He then attempted to cut his own throat. He was committed to the assizes. An inquest was held on Thursday at Tipton, on the body of William Cook, farmer, Yeaveley, Derby, who was killed at a level crossing of the London and NorthWestern Railway by the Liverpool express. There was no official at the crossing, or on either platform, to warn the deceased. Li returning a verdict or accidental death, the jury appended an opiuion that the railway company had been guilty of great neglect. A novel swimming watch took place on Thursday in the sea off Southsea. Twelve members of the Lelia branch of the Portsmouth Swimming Club competed for the ladies' championship of the club. The distance was 88 yards, and twelve ladies started, plunging off from the club's stage. Tim prize VIM won by Miss Beatrice Levi san, who completed the distance in Imin. 55sece, Miss Hudson was second, being two yards behind; and Mrs. Genders, the wife of a Baptist minister, third. Hundreds of spectators witnessed the contest. We are informed that the Queen has given a second donation of £lOO to the Hampshire Diocesan Society, which is the chief promoter and helper of spiritual agencies in poor and populous parishes, of church buildings, and Caurch of Ragland education in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and our readers are aware that she joined the ladies of the diocese of Winchester in contributing to a pastoral staff. These illegal ornament.' are the rage after this, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells IS to receive one. We shall live to see Royalty subscribing to provide the Bishop of Liverpool with the Episcopal vesture prescribed in the Ornaments Rubric.—Chureh Review. Tax CHURCH IN Weess.—A visitor to Ltanduduo, writing to the Church Bogey, says :—The following hymn would be suitable for use in MDR of the churches in this nsighbourhood Oh Lord with shame and sorrow We open now the door; The parson charges threepence To tread this hallowed door."