The Poole Telegram. — 1886-03-19 (Poole, Dorset, England)

GIINERA.L ITEMS.  For the third time this year, Lake Ulleswater is frozen over. In answer to an advertisement for a bass singer for the choir of Her&ord Cathedral, 317 candidates sent_ in their testimonials! The Wei. and Rev. E. Carr Glyn, Vicar of Kensington, has been ordered to Bournemouth for the benefit of his health. William Dixon has just died at Skidbrooke Lincolnshire, at the age of 90, while the ages of die five mscibers of his family average 92 years. Another large iyut on the sun has been observed, this time at Copenhagen. It appeared to be a little , above the centre, and was visible to the naked eye. The chief oFe TA of the B.ilvati, n Army are actively making arrangements for a great International Congress, to be held in London in the week commencing May 28th. The /Verfrld-r Z:itene states that the Boys Orphmage at Voerde, in the district of klageu, was &atr eyed by fire on Friday eight. Five of the iumates perished in the flames. Lord Es:no Gordon received on Thun4day night, at St. Ivea, H9nts, a handsome silver salver from nearly two thou ;and working men, who contributed one penny each, in recognition of the earnestness with whickhe contested the division of North Hunts._  Micha Scrivener, of Harphem' new Driffield, committed suicide in bed on Thursday morning by cutting his throat. His son, who was asleep with low, awoke to find himself lying in a pool of blood. At the Hull Police-court on Thursday, John \V. racwo, tobacconist, was fined £l6l, John Hyde £39, sal a sailor named Burniston 2M, for smuggling tobacco, so th it the "deal" was hardly a profitable . . .  No one seems to have reported Lord R. Churchill's " aside" during Mr. Labouchere's speech on the House of Lords. When the member for Northampton said the House of Lords "sat like sheep," Lord Randolph bald in detni-•,. "How do sh6ep sit Lady Dilke is seeking to forget her troubles in literature. She has in the 1)1'033 a volume of tales, under the not very lively title of " The Shrine of D.Mh." She is known to be a lady of literary taste and liower.  •oice—  A girl nanw 1 Hannah Perry was the victim of a ut colliery near Sedgley, on Saturday. A policeintn interfered with a nuniher of persons who ir re stealing enal,4 when the deceased full down an o.oankmint and b oke her neck.  The sjillWiler iaua, of Lowtstoft, from Swansea ft,r Pentewan, arrive.' at Penzance on Saturday night, and her mate reported that early that morning, when ol the Lizard, the master, William Tozzard, commEted guicide by jumping overboard. A life bony •wa thrown to him, but he was not again seen. The County Court grand jury on Saturday awarded gt,on as compensation to Police-Inspector Connaught m who in October last, while preserving the peace at a National League meeting in Kingwillminstown, received sericus injuries at the hands of those 'Eakins part in the demonstration.  Tlinci;as Ashworth, plumber, of Great Horton, Bradford, died at the Workhouse Infirmary on Friday from b,ydrophobia. He WU bitten by a terrier in January, and was subjected to the usual treatment. lie felt no ill effects until last Wednesday, when he suffered fearfully. The official list of victims of the disastrous collision near Monte Carlo is published, and contains no English.or American names. The stationmaster of Roquebrune has disappeared, and it is said he has committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea.  The Court of Appeal, Dublin, on Friday decided that the objection taken by Mr. Nolan, M.P., to the security given by Mr. Philip Callan for the costs of North Louth electi ma petition was valid, and directed that Mr. Callan should within five days lodge £l,OOO as security. The "egg-incubator," which "hatches chickens by machinery," is still one of the sights of Regent-street. In America, however, they do not have to stand at shop windows to watch the iirocess. The egg-incubator has bewine the fashion iti New York, and no household is complete without it. Among young ladies it is quite the rage. The Coroner for Deal on Friday investigated a case of death from starvation. The victim was a woman named Minter, aged 69 years. It was stated that during the winter the poor woman had not had the necessaries of life, and that she had during the last month lived entirely on bread and water. The medical evidence was that death resulted from want of neurislnnent.  A Simi.