Blandford Weekly News. — 1886-03-20 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

XIII. intends to make a valuable present to the University of Heidelberg. He has orilei..d a catalogue of the Latin arid Greek manuscripts in lie Bibliotheca Palatina, which were transferred in from Heidelberg to Rome, to be prepared and exhn. bited at the fourth centenary of the university wh ch is to be celebrated this summer.  Fearful hurricanes and snowstorms are reported from liukovina. Railway traffic is suspended, Bud numerous fatal accidents are reported. Carriages on the high roads have been literally buried in the snow, and cottages of peasants have shared the came fate. The severe weather has extended from liukevina to Roumania, where several casuxlties have occurred.  The mate of the schooner Jane, of Lowestoft, from Swansea for rent ewan, reports that,when off t he Lizard, the naster, William Tozzard,descended to the cabin, put on his best clothes, with watch and chain, and returning b. the deck, deliberately sprang into the sea from the stern. A life buoy was thrown to him, but, owing to the darkness, the captain was not again seen.  The coroner fir. Deal has investigated a case of death from iitarvation. The victim was a woman named Minter, aged 1;9 years. It Wail stated that during the winter the poor woman had not had the necessaries of life, and that she had during the last month lived entirely on bread and water. The nied:c,l evidence wag that death resulted from want of ii at h ment.  By entering a greengrocer's shop next door, and breaking through a lath and plaster partition, non.' thieves obtained access to the shop of Mr. n Vickers, pawnbroker, at Moorhead, Sheffield. Th. y took froth the shop window nearly 14,0 gold rings of vaiious kinds, and upwards of 50 pairs of gold i-ai rings, besides pencil cases and other jewellery. The robbery was not citscovered till next niorning.  Madame Laivier, the woman who threw vitri-I over her business agent, M. Gallas, during fl lawsuit held at the l'alsis de Justice last October, has just been tried at the Seine assise-court. The aruus. d seems to have taken Madame Clovis Hugues for hir model. A revolver was found in her pocket, with which, however, she avers that she intended to commit suicide. The court sentenced her to six mouths' imprisonment.  Br. E. C. Thompson, of the Tyrone Infirmary, Oniagh, has been presented by Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar with the silver medal recently conferred upon him by the Chapter of the Order ot St. John of Jerusalem, in recognition of his self-devotion in sac. ing the life of a child suffering from malit,natit diphtheria by sucking the diphtheritic membrane out of the patient's throat after the operation of tracheotomy had been performed. Partin Arno Bohlen Holhach has been remanded at Marlborough-street police-court on a charge of having, by means of false retences, obtained money from a hotel keeper. A bank cashier stated that the prisoner had passed cheques for several hundreds of pounds, and all they hail rtctived from him did not amount to £l9O, and that on one occasion,when there was only I:6 to his credit, he drew cheques for large sums of money. A cowardly attack has been made by a party of moonlighters at• Killowen, on the residence of Mrs. Or pen Pahner. About 10 o'clock at night one roan entered the house, leaving others outside, and coming into the dining-room where Mrs. Palmer and her daughters were sitting, presented a gun at them. Her daughter, however, notwithstanding his formidable appearance, closed on hini, and succeeded in pushing him out of the room and down a stone staircase leading to the kitchen, from which he made his escape. Louise Michel, who is going to make a lecturii g tour in America, spoke on Saturday at a public meet • ing at St. Germain-en-Laye. The audience being reactionary, hissed her. She retorted by calling them a parcel if mean hyrocrites. The meeting ended prematurely arid tumultuously. Louise Michel, protected by a couple of policemen, was with difficulty able to get to the railway station. The nob that followed cried, " A la lanterne," which in plain English means " hang her." The Great Western Railway station at Didcot-junetion,which had only just been rebuilt, has been hUTIII d down. The flames broke out in one of the weal! rooms on the down platform, and spread With heir" rapidity that in a very short time the refreshment • rooms, offices, &c., were in a blaze, as well as the platform itself. The wind was blowing the Mimes towards the other platforms, and with a view of preventing the up platform catching fire the middle one was partly torn up by the railway men. As Bostock's menagerie, better known as " Wombwell's," was coming along the Oldbury-road, Sint tiesick, in the direction of West Bromwich, the elephant "Jumbo" became alarmed at an approaching steam tiamcar, and swerving on one side, came into collision with the brake containing the Landsmen. The vehicle was overthrown, and the occupants were pre ciliated in all directions. One of them had hie arm broken, and the remainder were severely bruised and shaken. The vehicle, too, was badly damaged, and so were the musical instruments. The elephant was unhurt.  Forty shipwrecks were reported last week, 10 of which were steamers. Sixteen vessels (15 British and one French) went down i.tf the United Kingdom ; of that number two were wt. :Liners. Total number of Ilritish vessels lost was 24, including eight steamers, Rix of the latter being lost off various foreign ports. Collisions were again very rurnerous, numbering 18, chiefly off British coasts, but resulted iii only three actual wrecks, and in the los, of six lives. Total lives lost for week 55. Vessels lost with all hands, time. Total wrecks for present year 354. The German Reichstag has passe I the bill by which, in future, all lemons, who, after being condemned and suffering punishment, are proved to be innocent, will be indemnified by the State. The Dean of Winchester is about to restore the marble-covered sarcophagus of William Rufus to its ancient place bef..re th • high altar in Winchester Cathedral. The tomb was removed 15 ram ago on the ground of convenience to a place behind the Feretory, or Place of Shrines, and it is now to be replaced where for centui its it occupied a position of honour, surrounded not only by the monuments and remains of the Saxon end Danish Monarchs, but by those of his broth. r nicluird :oid Cardinal 11i-hop de Blois, the Conqueror's grandson, by his daughter Adria, and the founder of the charity of St. Cross