The Poole Telegram. — 1882-11-24 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE PRIOR OF A "DROI. OF BEICR."—A "drop Of teer" was the excuse tendered by George Williams to the Jed ;e at Winchester Assize in reply to a charge of indecently assaulting a child of 7. The penalty was 10 years' pond ler v itude.  FASHION is growing sensible. A gentleman who mai ried a rich young lady last week, and received a heap of pre.ants, found among thew a tea and coffee service, salt cellars and a mustard pot. THE election of Mr. Seeley to a Professorial Fellowship at Caius College is the first event which will bring home to the public the feet that the new statutes are in ()per. ation at Cambridge. THE directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company recommend a- dividend of 31 per cent. for the half-year ended the 30th of September last, with a bonus of 2 per cent. from the underwriting account, making, with the interim dividend of 2i per cent, paid in June, a total payment of 8 per cent. for the year. A MAN of unsound mind was kilied on Sunday by leap. ing over the Dean bridge, at Edinburgh, whic4 is shunt 120 feet in height. Anoirrooon on Saturday, while a tramcar was driven down Union street, Glasgow, a gentleman who was riding an the top rose for the purpose of desconding, but he overbalanced, and fell into the street, killing himself alamet instantaneously, THE Prefect of the Seine is about to remove from the gates of cemeteries crosses and other symbols not accepted by all religions. Families will still be at liberty to place such symbols on the tombs of relatives; but the divisions between Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish graves being about to disappear, under a recent law, the gates or other acessories will henceforth be offs neutral character. AN actor at the Grand Theatre, Marseilles, having had his engagement cancelled, his partizans organised on Thursday night at the end of the performance a siorrny manifestation, and insulted the manager of the house. The Mayor of Marseilles had to clear the theatre by force. The disturbance continued until miulnilst in the streets, and several persons were arrested. WINTER commenced in Berlin on Thursday in earnest. All the streets of the capital were found covered with snow, which up till evening showed no symutorns of melting again. This full early for winter in Berlin. Os Friday afternoon, as Thomas Holt, clerk, employed at the Vale Paper Works, near Bury, was proceeding with 2.75, which he had drawn frian the bank for the purpose of paying wages, he was attacked by two men, one of whom presented a pistil and the other threw a quantity of cryenne pepper into Hoit's eyes, causing him to drop the hag in which was the money. The men then ran away, but Holt was able to give a description of both of them.  A FEARFUL tragedy is reported from a village in the Bukovina, Austria's most eastern province. The head of a band of gipsies, encamped near Kurczurmar, cut his son's throat, whereupon he was himself in turn murdered by his own sister, who killed him in his sleep, and then backed him into small piecee. Another brother then attacked the sister with a knife, and tried to take her life, but the police arriving in time, interfered, and prevented him accomplishing his purpose. They took the woman into custody. A particularly horrible murder was coin. nutted in Vienna a few nights back. A workman killed one of his children, a boy uf six years, with a hatchet, mutilating him in the most shocking manner. The police had the greatest difficulty in preventing the crowd from lynching the murderer. AT Nottingham Town-hall, on Thursday, Tom Carroll, the once fatuous jokey, wa• talon bei.,:e the magistrates charged with being destitute. On the previous day he was seen wandering about the tewn in s deplorable condition. lie entered a publichousc, and on refusing to leave it, was conveyed to the Police-statiou. The magistrates ordered him to be sent to the workhouse.