The Poole Telegram. — 1880-01-09 (Poole, Dorset, England)

OOO. 'Conning alligator hides is becoming an important industry in the United States. Two children in Pimlico played with matches, set the room on fire in their widowed mother's absence, and were smothered in the fire. A commercial who stole a quarter-cask of whisky from his employers will stay in gaol till Michaehnas. 111 Es. Elvidge, 44, with her husband's help, starved their four children at St. Pancras, two to death, and reduced herself to six stone by abstaining from food while she drank freely. She was sentenced to six months and died in prison. The Coroner said the long course of intemperance produced these terrible consequences. Selling the Suez Canal shares has not relieved the Khedive from being short of cash. They say he tried to borrow 700,000 francs on his jewels, and could only get 500,000 fr., which he refused. A miser died in Pembroke Workhouse from vexation at his store of £lOO being found. It was in a stocking, wound round his body. I. 0171) SINGER ImmeovEp.—The lady who sang too loud at St. John's, Hampstead, has improved, and the summons is now withdrawn. Artificial diamonds have not yet been produced, says Mr. N. S. Ma.skelyne, who examined crystals from Glasgow, and says they were silicates (glass) and not carbon, much less diamond. Grant, a prisoner in Leominster lock-up, escaped by getting up one chimney and down another, so reaching the front door. England is not the only place for reverses tempting to suicide. John Fairchild, of Bristol, in Illinois, U.S. ,suffered losses, and being a jovial fellow, finished his morning's stable work, then hung himself up. When found his work was finished for this life. The German Railway Administrative Union after examining closely he conditions under which the wheel tires of railway carriages break during severe frosts, have resolved to offer a prize, equal to £5OO sterling, for preventing those accidents, or so to adjust the tires that it will be become absolutely impossible for them to become seriously damaged. A steam crane tore to pieces a youth who was cleaning it at Sutton Harbour, Plymouth. He was inside the machinery, when it was started through his foot catching a valve. Many million acres of pastoral land have been discovered in Australia, by an expedition which crossed the north-west. In the colliery where an explosion killed five men on Christmas Eve, candles were used. At the inquest the mine inspector said safety lamps should have been used, or the men withdrawn. Last week the Irwell rose, flooded the lower parts of Manchester, and stopped the trafic between there and Sheffield. In Horrocks's mill last week, a youth tried to put a trap on a pulley, contrary to rules. He was caught, carried round the pulley, and killed. English girls are cautioned against going to Belguim on account of any promises, as there are many cunning traps to get them into houses of ill-fame, whence it is almost inipssihle to escape. Working men in search of employment must not go to London, where large numbers are out of work. The hector of Spitalflelds says :—" None of the unemployed can better themselves in any way by coming to town." Lancet, dealing with "sitting in a draught," and "catching cold," remarks that in the old coaching days facial paralysis was a well-recognised result of sitting with the face to the wind at an epen window.