Weekly News. — 1891-04-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

ITALY AND THE UNITED STATES.  "y  The Rome correspondent of the Journal des haat reiterates the assertion that the Italian Government contemplate the expulsion from Italy of the American Minister in the event of the United States Government failing to give an early reply to the la,e Note of the Italian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington. This correspondent says he is informed on good authority that if no reply be received within a day or two the Marquis di Rudini will carry out his threat, and diplomatic relations between the two countries will be completely ruptured.  ----There has just been caught at Paultons, near Romsey, a monster specimen of the horned eagle-owl. Some of tue Siberian convicts are to be employed i The remains of several tame pheasants having been n constructing the first stretch of the great Siberian seen about, a trap was 'set, and the depredator was Pacific Railway from Vladivostock to Graffsky. found caught fast by the toes. The bird measures The steamer Empress of Japan, one of the three 51t. from tip to tip i of the wings, and is m i grand vessels being put on the Trans-Pacific mail service plumage. It was killed with a stick, and t s now by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, bailed being stuffed by a local taxidermist, from the Mersey on Saturday on the trip round the A telegram from Norfolk, Virginia. states that world arranged for her to make before taking her the yacht Lancashire Witch, of the Royal Dorset place on the station. She had on board 130 Yacht Club,which has arrived there, reports that on passengers. Her course comprises Gibraltar, February 2nd last she picked up the captain and five Naples, Port Said, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Hong of the crew of a British barque which had foundered Kong, Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Vancouver. The at sea. The castaways, who were in all ,maciated passengers will thence be conveyed by rail to the condition,having passed many days with. it. food in Atlantic seaboard, whence they will cross to an open boat,were landed by the yacht at Trinidad. Liverpool in one of the regular liners. IVben doctors bungle, lawyers quibble, A communication was received from the Home Statesmen cant and parsons bibble, Secretary at Newgate, on Saturday evening. respit- A title seems a very blister lug Mary Rowland, the nurse, who was on Thurs- To him who calls himself plain Mr. day condemned to death at the Old Bailey for the murder of her child. The jury's recommendation After particulars.—:-"I tell you, sir," be ex to mercy was endorsed by the judge, who on Fri- claimed in a high voice, "that the country is going day sent a special messenger to the Home Secretary to the dogs:" May I inquire, sir," asked a modest with an appeal. The judge received a r..ply on listener, "if the (legs are of any particular breed? ' Saturday morning. but the official document respit- "Intelligence has just reached me," began Mr. log the condemned woman "until the further signiti- Blodger, as he sat down to the dinner-table. . ation of her Majo,ty'S pleasure" did not arriv, at "Thank Heaven if it ha Aat last!" exclaimed Mrs. Neweate until late in as -lay Blodger. And the food WdA uartaken of in silence.  circumstance.s. "Oh, what is it,James ; what's _ toe reason ?" pleaded Mrs. Botticus, who doarly ei of in silence, loved a scandal. "Why, she's deaf and dumb."