The Poole Telegram. — 1884-04-25 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MES. ANN STUMP, of Columbus. Obio, has fallen a victim to her love for a pet doe. She could not bear the thought of dying some day and leaving her dumb friend to the persecut no of an ungrateful world. So she poisoned the dog with ~frychnine. Afterwards repenting she p isritned herself. ON Friday evening the Mayor and Mayoress of Leeds entertained upwards of 1.200 of the aged women and men in the Town-hall. After tsa, eatue a concert, a few speeches, and a distribution of remembrances of the day. A SAD accident took place at. the funeral of Miss Wilson. daughter of Mr. W. R. Wilson, farmer, Thorpeand r-Stone, near Richtuond. *The procession was going up a dangerous mountainous load, for litelswell church. Deceased's mother was riding on the hearse near the driver. When passing an awkward point the hearse over. turned. throwing the driver and Mrs. Wilson to the ground. Mrs. Wilson sustained such injuries as to prevent her from proceeding further, and she had to be conveyed home. The coffin was taken out of the hearse to the churchyard. Tug Calcutta Englishman sass that several proelemafinite of the Mandi have been seized by the police its teat ceuntry, and that his agents have succeeded in distributing the procleination in many parts of Persia and .1 I able. A DISASTROUS tire occurred at Rangoon on Wednesday last, over 40 houses having been burnt and the damsee being estheated at ftoin 10 to 12 lakhs of rupees. The fire originated from someone dropping a lighted cheroot upon a bundle of canes in a rattan store. A DESTRUCTIVE tire has occurred in Mandalay, and the greet temple of Gautiama has been completely destoyed All the gold leaf stuck on the brass image of the Guftdama Buddha by successive generations of worshippers, and valued at from eight to ten lakhs of rupees, has been melted off by the heat. This result of the tire appears to have caused great consternation, being held by the superstitious to be a sure sign of the downfall of the Bnrmese Empire. AT Darmstadt society is, of course, engrossed with the subject of the approaching wedding, but another absorbing topic of conversation has been furnished by the nttempted suicide of a beautiful girl of 18, the daughter ef an officer, from unreturned love. AT a sale of greyhounds in Barbican, on Saturday, a litter of seven saplings by Alec Halliday out of Glen Hess, made 315 guineas. Tim body of a boy of ten years, was found hanging by his cravat to a nail in a wall at Bentley, Hants. The nail was only 4 feet 7 inches from the ground and the boy was 4 feet 11 inches high. He was spoken of as a bright cheerful boy and no light could be thrown on the mystery. TIIN Duchess of Argyll. who is a great invalid, is unable to take carriage exercise except in a closed brougenin. for the smell of a horse brings on a species of asthma la hich Affects her breathing. Lord Salisbury's youngest son is Afflicted in the same way. Two beds, which have been manufoctured at the Castle works, were despatched last week from Windsor to Portsmouth and Darmetadt. One was to be Placed in the Qu, en's chin on board the Osborne, and the other in the bedroom which she is to occupy in the Nene 'ecl,loss, at Darmstadt. Her Majesty invariably sleeps on a bed made biter a cereain pattern, and one is olways st nt in lei% mice or her use when she is going to a strange place. Re the death of the Duke of Bueeleueh the Premier has ine .1 cc g rter to bestow, and also the Lord Lieuteneecies than end }bother:. hshire. The Lord Li eiten--, •,f Ilinitingtlon stud Met iouctllshire still r( nu. in it tie's dasiosal. whose patronage is still fui thee ti l y the tieetl, ,`i Ell„ •: ;;; ' 111 h ,•hop of I 'meet bury hies presented the Rev. e. t Robertson. Hot, Canon of Canterbuty, to the iv iug uf Throwley, Kent.