The Poole Telegram. — 1882-12-08 (Poole, Dorset, England)

WHIL., shooting in Lord Penrhyn's preserves, near Carnarvon,on Thursday,with Lord Seymour,Mr.Bromley Davenport, M.P. and other gentlemen, the Hon. R. C. Vivian missed a bare, and the shots lodged in the leg and thigh!of theilion.Douglas Pennant, Lord Penrhyn's eldest eon. Mr. Pennant was driven to Penrhyu Castle, and medical assistance was called in. The injuries are reported slight.  - kr the Longton, North Staffordshire, Stipendiary Court, Wi.liam Horcap, aged eight years, was charged with setting fire to a model farm at Trentham, belonging to the Duke of Sutherland, by which damage to the extent of over a thousand pounds was sustained. The boy set some wheat-stacks on fire with matches, and the whole of the grain crop of the 80880 D was destroyed. The boy being too young to be sent to the gaol or a reformatory, he was ordered to be birched.  A NAN named Menes was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for stealing upwnrds of £5OO from a Hatton-garden diamond merchant named Gompertz. In October last Gumpertz was visited by a man named May, who introduced the prisoner as • gentleman desirous of selling some diamonds. Gompertz went to the Midland Railway Hotel, and before eeing the diamonds gave the men £6OO. They went out Ito fetch the jewels, but never returned. May escaped, but Menes was arrested the same evening with over £5OO in his possession. -' • - • •  ir appears that sixty-six municipalities and local boards are applying for powers to supply the electric light. There are ninety-one applications for private companies. In thirteen towns companies and coPporations are competing for powers to light the same area. The number of appli• eaticas for private companies, although considerable. is much smaller than was anticipated.  IT appears from a case at the Guildhall to be the com. monest thing in the world for a number of men to come into a house, and for one of them to order beer for the party; this gentlemen, after taking his drink, leaves the house, and the others, being only his guests, refuse to pay. This is the ordinary device but in times of an election to the Common Council there is a more excellent way. Men get hold of one of the candidate's cards and "go about to publichouses stating that they are: members of his commit Lee, and ordering refreshments ad libitum." COLONEL WOLSELEY, a brother of Lord Wolseley, hap been appointed an aide-de-camp to the Queen.  THZ Hon. Conrade Dillon, one of the new members of the London Sehool Board for Lambeth, is a clerk ia Somerset House.  MS. ANDREW GARDINER, who by an appropriate :coin. cideoce is, or rather was, a gardener at Dumfries, went out to America a fortnight ago to take possession of a preporty worth more than 0,000 a year, to which he has unexpectedly been pronounced heir. And now the town. crier lof Kirkcudbright has just come in for £3OO per annum, also from an American source, He "cried," pro. fessionally, for the last time, it seems, on Monday, when the event was invested with a ceremonial character, half the town having assembled to hearlhim.  ANOTHER trooper of the 4th Dragoon Guards, who had been invalided home from Egypt, died last week at Brighton, and was buried with military honors.  JAMES MARGERISON, 64, a !striker: commited suicide while in custody at Blackburn.  AN elderly farmer, named John Bell, of Itinaldle, to Forfarshire, was returning home on Thursday evening, when ihe was accidentally thrown out of his dogcart, and sustained injuries which resulted in his:death. MR. JACOB TAYLOR, a gentleman of independent means, has just died at Macclesfield from hydrophobia. Although bitten in May last, Mr. Taylor felt no ill effects from the wound until within a few days prior to his death.  AT Sheffield on Tuesday a family of eight persons had a narrow escape, A beerhouse occupied by Harry Dale was discovered in flames while the inmates were asleep. Dale escaped by a ladder, but the children were thrown frmu the bedroom windows, and were caught by the police. The tire-escape got involved in the telephone wires which stretch over the street, and could not be brought up in time.  A YOUTHFUL horse stealer, Robert H. Hindmarch, only eleven years old, was detained last week that inquiries might be made of the Home Secretary as to what could be done with him, he having been brought up at Bishop Auckland charged with stealing a pony from the railway station on the 15th ult. A reply having been received, he was, on Monday, ordeted to receive six strokes with a birch rod and to be committed to prison for one month with hard labour.  ..'Flii-VaiTii"%it-lien magistrates had before them on Saturday a novel prosecution, instituted by the Inland Revenue Commissioners. A farmer was charged with tsing an unlicensed carriage, it being alleged that during a journey he carried a quantity of household furniture in an agricultural cart. He was able to prove, however, that on the same journey be carried butter to market, and upon hearing this explanation the commissioners issued instiuctions that a conviction was not to be asked for. prosecution was therefore withdrawn.  A MAN who had married a young wife James Truscoe. sixty, miner, was charged at Sedgley, the other day, with shooting himself. Prisoner's wife died about four months ago, and a few days after he married a young wife. He subsequently became desponding, and shot himself in the region of the heait, shattering his phest and blowing a poitiou .4 his arru off. The magistrate said it mut 'miraculous that eisoner wee klives and ordered Ida Myna to thirt