The Poole Telegram. — 1882-08-04 (Poole, Dorset, England)

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, M.P., underwent an Operation on Saturday last. The operation was most successful, and the patient is going on as favourably as cold be desired. Musa, ABB' k PARNELL, sister of Mr. Parnell, M.P. is seriously ill in Dublin, the news of the death of her sister, Miss Fanny Parnell, having prostrated her. THURADAY morning, on the arrival of the 10.30 train at the Waterloo Junction, the officials were informed that a gentleman was dead on the seat of a first-class carriage. It appeareffithat Mr. David T. Childs, an architect, resid• in at Kingston, took a ticket for London. As the train arrived at Wimbledon the deceased appeared very pale, and on being examined by Dr. G. Thompson, of Surbiton, who happened to be a passenger by the same trail.- that gentleman pronounced that life •was extinct. THE Montrose railway station was on Thursday afternoon the scene of a painful accident. A gentleman and his wife and family, who had been visiting some Mends in Montrose, were leaving by the afternoon train to return horse, and when the train started one of the children, a girl six years of age, was leaning against the carriage door, Some person opened the door to allow a late passenger th get in, whereupon the girl fell out, and, :tiling off the platform on to the line, was cut in two. The father jumped out and almost lost his life in attempting to save that of his child. THERE are signs that young negro boys are coming into Use EA pages of fashionable ladies in Paris. It is presumed that the contrast of colour heightens the effect of their complexions, and pages are to be worn as beauty spots used to be. A YOUNG sweep at Totnes took up a dynamite cartridge on Thursday and struck it with a hammer. The cartridge exploded, and blew his baud literally to pieces. MR. BRADLAUG4I, at the Town-hall, Northampton, has denied having any connection with the Freethinker.  A COMPANY of twenty.five American working people were received by the Right Hon. John Blight at his residence on Wednesday morning, and subsequently the Lord Mayor entertained the party at luncheon. Brief speeches of welcome were made by Mr. Bright and the Lord Mayor, and replied to by Mr. E. 1). Jordan, under wh an guidance the Americans are travelling. They are young m m and women chosen from the various departments of he drapers' stores of Jordan and Marsh at Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest establishments in America, employing some 3,000 persons. The proprietors have arranged to send twenty-five of their employs abroad every year, making them a free gift of the trip through Europe. The aim is to familiarise their " helps " with th 3 manners, customs, and institutions of the Old World, BA well as to give them a few weeks of the enjoyment of fo sign travel. Tun schooner Magnet, of Adelaide, has been totally lost while on a labor cruise from Queensland. Off the coast Of Tanns, island, owing to a dead calm, she was set by the current on shore, and a heavy swell lifted her over a ledge of rocks into 18 inches of water. The natives immediately seized the ship, drove the crew overboard into the boat that was towing, and then pillaged her. The ship is breaking up sod the pathos are stacking the fragments on shore for firewood.  _ errawevo arrived at Madeira on Friday, on board the Union Company's steamer Arab. The ex-King is in good health. During the first part of the voyage he wax unwell.  PROb'ESSOIt HOLLOWAY contradicte the report that he has built a convaleecent Home and offered it to the medical profession, by whom it was refused. The Home, he says, does not exist, and he has had no communication with the medical profession.  WLLLTAM BRAD/MAN, who WAS condemned to death at th Mandaerter Assizes last week for the murder of his Ikm-dal:lighter and AM at Farnworth on the 3rd of May, has been reprieved. Bradburn was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury. A YOUTH named Farrant, aged twenty, and a girl named Hickman, aged 17, endeavoured to commit suicide at Uxbridge on Friday night by tying themselves together with a handkerchief and jumping into the Frays, a branch of the Golne. They were both unconscious when dragged from the stream.  ON Saturday moroing a fire broke out at the Macardles Cotton warehouse, Oriel-street. Liverpool, and a woman and a girl working in the place were burnt to death. CAPTAIN VALENTINE was eased with his watch at Goodwood by some of the light-fingered gentlemen, but a dieagreeable incident was rendered agreeable by the promptness with which certain gentlemen subscribed a handsome sum to make good the loss to the energetic Manager of Goodwood.  AT Brighton on Saturday, Charles Harris Franklin, of London, a visitor, was committed for trial charged with the manslaughter of a lad named Charles Patrick. On Tuesday the deceased was bathing a the Pier, and the prisoner, presumably unaware of the lad's presence in the water, threw an empty bottled beer-box into the water, which struck deceased, causing him to sink. The body was recovered on Saturday.  A HORRIBLE discovery was made on Sunday at North Shields. Ellen Bernard, a ship captain's widow, living alone in Vrey-street, being missing for some days, sus. *ions were aroused, and the house being entered by the police a shocking sight presented itself. Mrs. Bernard was lying dead at the foot of the stairs amidst a pool of blood. The right side of her face was knocked fiat, and her right eye was also knocked out. She was partially dressed. The supposition is that she fell downstairs. GROUSE disease has appeared in Rosshire in an aggrn. vated form, and very bad accounts come from other moors.  ARTHUR ORTON has been removed from outdoor labour to the carpenter's shop in Portsea Prison. THR Bishop of Durham has entertained at Auckland Castle all the clergy he has ordained—some eighty in number.  AN action for libel has been entered by a well-known officer of the Guards against a fellow officer. The case, which is a eomewhat remarkable one, arises out of a paragraph published in a weekly journal. ON Saturday Mr. Carttar, West Kent coroner, held an inquest at the Upton Hotel, High-street, Bexley-heath, on the body of Grace Harriet Butcher, aged 20, wife of Herbert Butcher, medical student. It appeared that on Thursday night the deceased retired to bed suffering from toothache, and to relieve the pain her husband rubbed some chloroform on her gums with his finger, lie then retired to rest himself, and, on being called by his sister the next morning, he found Mrs. Butcher lying dead by his side, with the empty chloroform phial, which was twothirds full over night, in her hand. A verdict that deceased died from misadventure was returned.