The Poole Telegram. — 1881-01-21 (Poole, Dorset, England)

OOO. REPUBLICAN LIBERTY.—The annual mass for Napoleon in. WM solemnized on Friday at St. Augustine'e. A woman selling violets was arrested for crying Vice /' illpfreur I and a former Sub-Prefect, ordered to move was apprehended on replying that he could not go faster, ON Thursday morning as the train from Goole, due at 10.10 was entering the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's station at Wakefield, and was within 200 yards of its platform, it run into an engine and brake-van which were leaving Raiding in front of the train. The passenger engine was thrown off the metals and about a dozen passengers were injured. A noinunLa murder was committed on Thursday in the Rue Jacob, Paris, by a concierge. who had received notice of disniissal, but had been allowed 3 months to find enother place. Imagining that the son of the proprietor of the house had been the cause of his dismissal, a young man, a doctor of medicine, who had attended him in illness and bad treated him very kindly, he seized an opportunity of tiring a gun at his supposed enemy on the staircase, wounding him so seriously that he expired a few hours afterwards. Ile fired a second time, wounding a lady arid is grocer's boy, who tried to stop him, and then endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting his throat. He is expected, however, to recover from his wounds. :IN consequence of a vote of confidence in the Directors Oven at a meeting of the shareholders of the United Telephone Company, the Rt. Hon. E. P. Bouverie, vicechairman, Viscount Anson, Lieutenaut-Oolouel Webber, and Mr. NV. I'. Bouuerie have resigned their seats at the Botud. The secretary, Mr. Arnold White, has also resigned. This company is composed of two concerns, the Edison Telephone Company and the Bell Telephone Company, and it appears that much dissatisfaction has wen felt by Mr. Bouverie and his friends at the present management. The public has a certain interest in this quarrel, inasmuch as the Post Office seems to be in treaty ‘rith the United Company for the use of its patents. SINCE Cetewayo has been in prison he has learned to write, and now proudly signs his own name in printed eharacters, whicli lie, regards as an artist does a work of nis highest science. B shop Coleus° has sent home some of these antogiaphs to the Aborigines' Protection Society. lbs writing is firm, cpen, bold, and clear. ON Weilucsday a man named John Harris was attacked I y a lion in liingley-hal:, Biriniughain, where Messrs. Sanger have been giving is fancy fair. Harris, while attempting to clean oue of the lion cages, was sprung upon by is powerful lion, mined Wallace. The auimal seized Maris by the shoulder, and he would certainly have been hilled but for the timely and courageous assistslice of the lion.tainer. All M:icousa, who entered the cage, and, sfter firing at the lion with his pistol without oily effect, struck it with the hutt-end of his whip with such force that the beast loosed Harris. He was nearly unconscious, his shoulder being seriously injured. MIL CHARLES CRIEmISON, steward on Prince Leopold's ; hirement estate, Esher, was on Thursday tined £2 and Ihs. costs by the Kingston county bench for not having given notice to the police that a herd of 63 of his Royal Ilighness's cattle, under his care, were infected with footand-mouth disease. ELIZABETH HAWS has died at Leicester from exhaustion. •iinsed through her swallowing her false-teeth and their fastenings. THE Premier has returned to his tenants on the Hower. leis estate 10 per cent. on their rental, in addition to the per cent. already allowed. THE German Emperor is still obliged to keep indoors, •Ithough his majesty continues to improve. Sr) large an amount of gold has flowed back Auto the imperial Bank of Germany during the last few days that it is probable that the rate of discount will be reduced. :reil itipoßrrtedshdaunrdinfgorteiiigenpaswrtecwkees, ko.f.wahkiic.llll246 compared with the corresponding period of bet year. t''OetirealliztßtitfEritilivi:hfroe, r the present year, or an increase of 29 an The approximate value of property lost was £3,900,000. including British £2,800,000 Mn. T. BRASSEY, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, has just given to Hastings a reference library, at a cost of between 22,000 and £3.000, ON Saturday the first sod of the Hull and Barnsley Railway and Dock was turned at Hull. A SUNDA, CLOSING BILL, limited to Wales, has been re-introduced by Mr. Roberts. NOTICES were posted on Friday at Festiniog and other slate quarries in Merionethshire, to the effect that full time would be immediately commenced. For some months they have been working only four days weekly. IA COBBV4PONDENT writes from Tipton, Staffordshire : "The distress here is still as bad as ever. Some of the children cannot come to their one daily meal for want of rlothiug. They are shoeless, and wear pieces of rag pinned round them for deems." A BRIG, supposed to be the Lumley, of South Shields, was driven on the rocks at Upgang, near Whitby, on Saturday night, and her crew of ten men drowned, though the Whitby and I.7pgang lifeboats made unsuccessful efforts to rescue them. The ship has gone to  pieces.. Tim English Church at Kirkwall, Orkney, was partinily destroyed by tire on Sunday forenoon, the damage living chiefly done to the chancel end of the edifice, where the roof, altar, ttc., were burned. The building is insured for £12.000. Two boiler explosions red on Saturday at Southp. rt, killing a little boy and seriiiusly inj-ring a cook, at centlernan's house wince she wea employed.