The Poole Telegram. — 1880-08-20 (Poole, Dorset, England)

GENERAL ITEMS.  Sir Bart'e Frere returns on September 14. Parliament, it is hoped, will be prorogued about September 3rd. A Saxon cemetery has been discovered close to Rochester cathedral. Spanish Government clerks are said to have forged large quantities of their Treasury bonds. The telephone has been tried with a cable between Brest and Penzance, and with satisfactory results. A revolutionary paper has reappeared in Russia, and contains accounts of the movement in Kieff. About 400 stand of the best arms have been bought by Fenian agents in Dublin within the last few days. From Basutoland we hear the friendly Letsea has surrounded the rebel chief Masupha, and occupied two towns. A labourer was killed last week by falling from a reaping machine, and being mangled by the knives, in a field at Stowe. Tinned beef is believed to have caused the poisoning of six children and a servant girl. It was a 21b. tin; the sufferers have recovered. The Marquis of Granby, a posting house at Epsom, has been burnt by a tire which began in a carpenter's shop, and destroyed several thousand pounds' worth. A balloon in Ohio broke loose from the ropes and carried off a country man and woman, who knew nothing about the management, but who were in the car. Guarding the liquor department on Bank Holiday at the Alexandra Palace a policeman got drunk, and was arrested. He was the only one intoxicated in the place. John Wakefield, who horribly murdered Eliza Wilkinson, aged nine, was hanged on Monday, at Derby. Marwood killed him instantly by a drop of over nine feet. Jesuits are arriving in Spain, and aiding the revival of Carlism and Ultramontanism. Fortunately the parties have quarrelled ; but the Primate of Spain is trying to heal their breach. TURKEY AND INDlA.—Large qnan.tit'es of printed matter, intended to excite the Indian Mussuimans against the British Government, have been sent from Constantinople to India, and circumstances indicate that these inflammatory publications have been forwarded with the knowledge of the Porte. At a fate, in behalf of church funds, at Wood Green, three young fellows, said to be "gentlemen of good position in the City," got drunk, were saucy to some ladies, and attacked the police. They were marched handcuffed through the street, and fined about five guineas each next morning. The conduct of the House of Lords in throwing out the Compensation for Disturbance Bill has produced a feeling of intense exasperation in Ireland. Not only hls it produced a feeling of exasperation, but it has deepened immensely the want of faith in the best efforts of Parliamentary agitation. Thirty ladies were in the Bridgenorth Floating Bath last week, when too many sat on one side, and capsized the bath, which sank, carrying down their clothes. The ladies were able to swim ashore, raced with little or no clothing on to a cattle shed, and were brought home in borrowed blankets and sheets. Bolivia is said to have sued Chili for peace. If she succeeds, Peru, her ally, must also give up the contest. The last striking incident was the blowing up of the Chilian transport Loa by a Peruvian torpedo boat, disguised as a fruit-vessel, and exploded by machinery when she had been picked up, and was under the Loa's bows. BROUOFIT To