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Weekly News. — 1890-06-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MAIER A CATALOGIIE.  Take twenty-six sheets of foolscap, and put the letters of the alphabet upon thorn; then take the books one by one and enter them under the authors' IIaMOS —the auth;ors whose names begin with A on sheet A, those whose names begin with B on sheet B, and no on, thus  Austen (Jane)—snne and Pensibilite. Buckle (H. T.)—History of Civilisation In England. Cooper (Thos.)—Purgatory of Suicides.  When all tbe books have thus been gone over, the sheets of each letter will have to be gone over, and the authors' names arranged in alphabetical order. This requires • great deal of care, if • strictly alphabetical catalogue is wanted. The works of the authors must also be arranged alphabetically, thus :  Dickens (Charlero—Barnaby laudge. --Donthey and Son. —Martin Chula'exit.  When this is done, and a fair copy made of all the sheete, you will have an authors catalogue. There are, however, many different kinds of catalogues. Some have authors and books mixed up in almost any sort of fashion, and also what is called "cross catalegned." Thus, under the letter II will be :—History of Civilisation in England (Buckle, H. T.); under the IL itet C.  _7 Civilisation in England, History of (Buckle, H. T.) : under the letter E, England, History of Civilisation la (Hackle H. 1`). When an authors' eatalomie has been made, it is nOll so difficult a matter to make other catalogues. Some oatalogues are divided into classes or section, such sc-1, history ; 9, biography; 3, science; 4, l'ut 59 travels; 6, fiction; 7, theology and religion; 44, psesry.i 9, miscellaneous. Of course, under all these lead. UM order mu" be elPbabotical, whether arranged wader authors or otherwite. Some libialMns disapprove of cross cataloguing, becaus, it takes ap room and unnemmarily swells the sire of the catalogue. It mast, however, be admitted that a catalocJe in which cross cataloguing has been oisserved is very much more valuable as an aid to finding out the book or books wanted. Another point that my be noted is that books whisk are anonymous, or bear only the ewes de phone of the author, should be entered tinder the name of the author when such is lmown, with the nom de plume given in brackets, thus Fugue, H. J. (Hugh Conway)—Dark Days. Thom few hint' will, I trust, be cf some use to those who wish to make a catalogue.  LIBRARIAN, London. 998.—Wmix
Weekly News. — 1890-12-18 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

NUMBER OF FALSE CHRONICLER.  The following statement with regard to raspy cherished traditions will astonish and probably I r.tereet not. few:—  Researchen clearly prove that all historical titatemente are not based on facts; that in fact, historiana  are.just to error s .ny writers,  Beginning -• settled  will; the classics, it may now he regarded as se.. that the porters Sappho never committed suicide, but died, quietly in bed. The celebrated three hundred heroes at Therinopyle, have grown to seven thousand. The story of Diogenes, the cynic, with his lantern, looking for an honest icon, is not authorised by early hietory. Virginia did not perish by her father's hand and Lucretia was really "led astray," and killed herself to avoid the punishment of her crime. Some authors contend that Cleopatra died by poison, taken in a glean of wine—not by the asp's sting. Coming doe n to later times, we find a romantic locident concerning Marie Antoinette disproved. It is generally believed that she was one of the children whom Maria Theresa led by the hand when she appealed for aid to her Hungarian subjects. Many historians have swallowed the story with blind faith, and have made it the teat of homilies on loyalty, chivalry, An. Had they remembered that a history" conies from a Greek word meaning" investigation ' or "research," and acted accordingly, they would soon have found the story to be an idle fable. Maria Theresa held the celebrated interview with Hungarian Diet in 1741 : Marie Antoinette was born in 1756.  Milton is said by some writers, to have dictated, in his blindness, " Paradise lost" to his daughters ; while Johnson states that the great poet would not stiffer his daughters to learn to write. The Duke of Clarence was not drowned in a butt of Malmsey, but, after being secretly killed, his body WAR enclosed in a cask which had contained wine, and thrown into the Thames. Richard 111. did not murder the two princes in the Tower, but they afterwards turned up in the world as Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. No such person as William Tell ever lived, and no such person as Geeslier was ever governor of Altorf.
Weekly News. — 1890-01-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE HATTON GARDEN ROBBERY.  In connectiot with the daring robbery that took place from the postman Smalley, at Hatton-garden, it appears that although Detective-inspector Alfred Leach, Sergeant Sewell, and Inspector Brooks have teen furnished with the descriptions of the three men engaged in the outrage sad robbery, up to the present time they hay? not succeeded in apprehending any of them. The postal authorities have been enabled to trace out what the different letters that were stolen contained, and a list of the property has been supplied to the police authorities and pawnbrokers throughout the United Kingdom.  A serious gunpowder explosion occurred recently at Bhiwandi ; 24 persons were injured.  - , A wealthy German who died not long ago, in his will loft the whole of his property to a person whom he had semi every day for years, Nays an exchange. This was a young lady who lived directly opposite his own lodgings. Of this young lady the old gentleman knew nothing whatever except her name, and the grateful fact that for several years he had passed to and fro, she had treated his coming and going with a pleasant friendly smile. Re was lonely in his elderly bachelorhood, and the daily smile i : cheered and made him grateful. No tie, ndeed, : seems to have bound him to any human being except to the fair damsel who thus silently brightened his solitude A terrible affair is reported from Rochester, il3 Michigan, where a certain William Major rose.from his bed in a ztate of dAirium, and shot his wife whilst she lay asleep. Ile then procured an axe,and brained both his daughter and granddaughter as they lay in their beds. To complete this domestic tragedy be committed suicide by hanging himself. The project of boring a tunnel beneath the Channel is again being mooted in Paris, and several influential financial men have undertaken to find the capital required. The Daily Tclegrai,h'scorreepondent hears from a private source that the charms in the synth cat, hare risen considerably during the last two months, and that certain important individuals profess to be confident of success.
Weekly News. — 1889-08-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE KILBURN SHOOTING CASE. Leonard Bowles Handford, 34, a clerk, has been charged, at Hampstead Police-court, with shooting Sarah Elizabeth Handford, his wife, and Elizabeth Deveson, her mother, with intent to murder. He was also charged with attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself—Matthew Henry Marsh, a greenewer, said that on Sunday, the 28th of July, he net a friend named Truscott in Iverson-road, and stopped to speak to him. At that moment he saw Mrs. Deveson and her daughter, Mrs. Handford, going along on the opposite side of the road. They were close together. As they passed No. 26, where the prisoner was lodging, the prisoner came out of the house, and walked towards his wife and motherin-law. Handford then went up to his wife, drew a revolver from his pocket, and shot her, his aim being at her head. After that he shot Mrs. Deveson. The lady screamed, but did not fall. Then he put the revolver to his own forehead and shot himself, and he fell to the ground.—Dr. Alfred Tilly, who was sent for to attend to the ladies, described their injuries. Mrs. Handford had a bullet wound in the right cheek, about an inch in front of the ear. The wound penetrated through the teeth, and the bullet, baying struck the lower jaw, lodged in the back of the soft palate. In searching for the bullet it fell from its position and the patient swallowed it. She was now going on satisfactorily. Mrs. Davison's ease was much more serious. The wound began in the left cheek on a ievel with the angle of the mouth. The bullet passed through the region of the tongue and emerged on the right side of the neck just behind and below the angle of the jaw. Ile could not thy that Mrs. Deveson was out of danger—The prisoner was remanded.
Weekly News. — 1889-10-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. Shillings per Quarter. Wheat red 30 to 33 .... new ...... 255034 white 32 to 38 HlOnr, per sack or 2801 b., town-made, nominal top price . —36 Town-made whites 3O 31 Seconds = -  Households Country households Best Mates . .  Norfolk anti other secondary country makes .... Barley—Grinding, new Is '22 ....malting, now 32 50 Malt, English new 3B 48 ..Dtch — Old — Brown .7'  Osts, Irish ...... 19 26 Rye 20 21 Tarok new .Spring — Beam old 3O 26  ........ !farrow ........., .... ... :•... IV i u t;or Egg. Macagas........ Peas, white ..—........ ..—. ..... ... Maple - 10 33 . Grey —Agrecultura/ Gazette, Oct. 14.  Mr. Barnum is now on his way to England, having sailed from New York on Saturday. Olympia (Kensington) is a scene of great activity, 3041 men being employed day and night completely transforming the seating of the auditorium, and making other alterations necessary for the accommodation of the Barnum Show.  An encounter has taken place in Afghanistan between the Sangu Khel Shinwaris and the Ameer's troops under General Gulam Haider. Several officers and soldiers of the Ameer's troops were killed. Tile Shinwaris are said to have fought bravely. The *meow has been celebrating the recent birth of a mon by releasing some Turkestan prisoners and by & distribution of money in charity. The principal Afghan cities wan illuminated for three days.  rrotessor J. F. Blake has published in the Froteedimo of the Geologists' Association an interesting account of a recent visit to the volcanoes of Italy. After exploring the Campi Bianchi in the Isle of Lipari--the only locality which yields the pumice stone of commerce—lie has been led to oppose the usual view, eirti.:ll regal Is pumice as a loose frothy form of obe;diaii. or I...lcario ani to tuggest that instead of the puniiuu derived [rem obsidian, the oW:than hu ut retitiqi irll wlt:l6 fusion or consolidation of a pumiceous rock.  SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE THAMES; As one of the steamboats of the Victoria Steamboat Company was passing between Blackfriars anc Waterloo Bridge, about 9 o'clock on Friday morning, the body of a man woe seen in the water. The at. tention of the at' endatit on the pier was called, and he pushed off in a boat, and, by the aid of • boathook, secured the body. The deceased was a middlewged man, and it is conjectured that he committed suicide by throwing himself off the Embankment a tbort time before.
Weekly News. — 1889-10-17 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TRAGIC SUICIDES.  Mr. Thomas Rayne Orme, nail -manufacturer, of Derby, committed suicide in his bedroom early the other morning. The deceased, who was a prominent politician in Derby, had been nominated WU a vacancy on the Derby Town Council. lie, however, withdrew his candidature, and allowed his opponent to be elected. He was greatly excited by these events, and during the night he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. There was • terrible struggle in his bedroom with his wife before he succeeded in overpowering her. Mrs. Orme's streams aroused the household, and a doctor was sent for. Mr. Orme when deprived of the razor tere open the wound with his fingers, and when the medical man arrived he was dead.  John Watson, signalman at North Shields Railway Station, has committed suicide hy. hanging himself in the signal cabin. The affair was discovered through a passenger train from Newcastle to North Shields and Tynemouth being delayed entering the station for some time owing to stopping signals not being changed to allow the train to enter the station.  A case of suicide of a very singular nature has been discovered in a dwelling-house at Port Glasgow. James Clark, a bolder-on, returned home from work at the usual hour, and found his wife under the influence of liejuor. Ile went out, and about two hours later his little boy met him in the street and said his mother was not in the house. Clark went borne, and after searching the house he opened the lid of a chest for some articles he wanted, and was horrified to find his wife doubled up in the chest suffocated. Clark got the assistance of some of the neighbours, and had the body taken out and placed upon the floor. Dr. M'Bryde was in immediate attendance, but the woman had been dead for fully an hour before she WM discovered, death having resulted from suffocation.
Weekly News. — 1889-11-21 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TITE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—AIice Cobstick, of Poole, was charged with having, on Sunday last, attempted to commit suicide by putting her head on the railway metals at the East Railway Station.—Alfred Simpson, a railway porter in the employ of the L. dt S.W.R., said he was on duty at the East Station on Sunday night, and at about 7 30, as he was on the up platform, from which a train was due, a passenger directed his attention to the defendant, who was on the line, making a noise. Witness went towards the signal box and told the man on duty there that there was a woman on the line. They went together to find her, and found her lying on the metals, and as they were lifting her up she said, "If you were as miserable as I am you would let me lie here; lam starving." They took her to the booking hall and gave her to the inspector. When they found her she was eight or nine feet away from the platform, lying in the four-foot way. Her head , was on the off metal, and her feet on the near metal, no that both head and feet would have been cut off had an engine passed. Defendant said she had no recollections of the matter.—Alfred Gear, signalman in the employ of the L. & S.W.R.. corroborated the last witness.—P.S. Cooper said he accompanied Inspector Knapton to the East Railway Station, where he saw the prisoner, who was in a very excited state. When the last witness was telling of having found her on the rails, she said, "You do not know how miserable I am. I have a husband at Poole, who is starving and is very ill." She had under her jacket a bag, which contained a quantity of broken food and is Sid in money.—The defendant's husband, a pedlar, made a statement. His wife was unaccustomed to drink, and had always, so far as he knew, been in her right mind. They bad been married four years.— The Bench, after reprimanding the defendant, discharged her, her husband undertaking to take care of her.
Weekly News. — 1889-10-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CONING MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The four town Councillors who will retire on the lot pro:. are Messrs. J. Druitt, E. Lane, J. Preston, and W. Tucker, whe will, we believe, again solicit the suffrages of the burgesses, and in addition to them Messrs. H. Aldridge, G. Maroholl, J. Watton, mid others are spoken of as probable candidate.; but up to the present no addresses hove been published. It be rumoured that Alderman King will be the new Mayor of Christchurch, and that Councillor J. Druitt, the present Mayor, will be made an Alderman • viceAlderman Willianos, and Alderman Holloway will retire, their term of office having expired ; but we believe the letter is willing to continue his Aldermanic duties, if elected. The new burgers poll will eeataio66s names, which is boar less than appeared in hat year's register.  SID Suicruz.—Mr. Druitt, coroner, held no inquest on Friday afternoon, concerning the death of Mary Ann Seymour, a married woman, aged 49 years. The evidence showed that deceased (who wee the wife of a bricklayer named George Seymour. and lived in Stoney Lane), had been attended by Di. Hartford for inflammation of the lungs. On Thursday morning her husband left her in bed when he went to hie work at 5.30, but she was missed by her daughter Emily about seven o'clock. Tom Hinton, a next door neighboar, was told of Mrs. Seymour's absence from home, and he went in search of her across the 6elds towards the river. Her body was recovered in Berlin's Lake, deceased having been drowned in a few feet of water. On the day before she had asked the doctor whether he thought that hospital treatment would ultimately cnre her ailment, but receiving a negative reply, it was thought that it preyed upon her mind. The jnry retnrned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."
Weekly News. — 1889-10-31 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANS. Shillings per Quarter. 25t033 white 29 to 33 Flour, per sack of 2801 b., towromade, nominal top price Town-made whites 29 30 Seconds — Households Country households Best makes_ . 2.4. 25 ' '  siss"sasss Norfolk and other secondary country makes .... 23 24 Barley—Grinding, new 25 30 ....malting, new 32 50 Malt, English new 36 40 .Scotch 37 32 Old Oats, Irish lB 21 . .English Scotch 1424 Rye 23 26 Tares, new —.Spring — Beans ..Tick, old 34 37 Harrow Eng. Manatee 2B 40 Yeall, white 32 36 Maple 34 40 ....Grey ........ 30 32  Reports from Gallipoli, in the Prcvince of Lecce, in the extreme south of Italy, speak of an earthquake as having taken place there. Serious damage and loss of life are reported. A phenomenally high temperature for the tune of year prevails just now in Rome, together with a strong south wind. A young German governess who had been em. ployed in one of the best families of the Faubourg BaintGermain, has just committed suicide in the house of a midwife by smothering herself in a thick bed-coverlet, which she tied tightly round her head and neck. The ill-fated girl had been seduced by the son of her employers, and under pretence of visiting her home in Bavaria for a few weeks she bad gone to the midwife's in order to give birth to • child.  Advices from Hayti state that General Hyppolite was inaugurated Pieeident of the Raytian Republic at Port-au-Prince, on the 16th inst.  The Pathan who recently shot Lieutenant Harris near Chaman has confessed, but expresses great satisfaction at having killed a British officer. Several bakers in Liverpool are reported to be making a vigorous attempt to break down the "bread ring "which has existed in the city for some years. Anglo-mania in New York has extended to the popularisation of fox hunting. One day last week there were three parties engaged in the sport on Long Island.
Weekly News. — 1889-08-24 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A German gentleman named J. Lachmann yea Gamsenfele shot two persons, supposed to have been his wife and child, and then shot himself at a private house at Stratford.oraAvon on Monday. Lachmann, accompanied by a woman supposed tc be his wife and • girl about 4 years old, took apartments • few days ago AA a cottage occupied by a widow named Freeman, near the River Avon. The three appeared very happy and comfortable, and occupied their time in strolling about the town and neighbourhood. On Monday morning shots were heard in their bedroom. The door was burst open, and the man was found lying on the floor, and the woman and child were in bed, the clothes of which were saturated with blood. All three were dead, and all. three had large bullet wounds on the left temple, and s revolver and pistol, both recently discharged, were found near the man, who use wearing only hit, shirt and drawers. The woman and chid were undressed. The room presented the appearance of a slaughterhouse, and the floor MIA covered with pools of blood. The man had in his possession a Pres' pass for the Spanish Exhibition and sonic guidebooks, but only a halfpenny in money has yet been found. A bunch of keys had affixed to them A meta! label bearing the MUMS of the National Safe Deposit Company,Queen yicturia.street,E.C.,and the manic,' 27,434. The man had intimated to Ilis land• lady that he intended returning to Londe!, ' during the day. His supposed wife had the appearance of an actress, and was a finelooking woman, 29 years old. The deceased, whose full name is Johann LACI1111:1011 von Gameenfels, es n native of Prague, 40 years old, and was forto•r:y artillery officer in the Austrian army. ALout years ago he founded the Londoner Journal, and is described as a singularly reticent man. Ho was • man of high education and striking appearance, married, with one child, a boy, to whom he was clevotetUy attached. He had been estranged from his wife for a long time, and had been in the habit of making an allowance of 17s. 9d. per week, for which the boy called every Saturday. On Saturday he made bus call as usual, and was told that his father had loft town on Wednesday. Nothing more was heard of the tray or his mother, and on the receipt of the news of the terrible tragedy it was conjectured that llameeniels' wife and child had followed liitu to Stratford. The inquest was opened on Tueaday, and adjournee for evidence of identification. This, it is understood, will be given by the wife of Herr J. Lachmann vor Garnsenfels. The surgeon who examined the bodies said his theory was that the woman and chill were shot in their sleep, and that the man then turned the revolver on himself.  Later intelligence says that the identity of the murdered woman and child is now clearly established. The woman appears to be a concert-hall singer and entertainer of French extraction, who performed under the name of Madame Lenormand.
Weekly News. — 1889-09-14 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DUTIES OF AN EDITOR.  There has just coins before the Tenth Chamber of Correctional Police the hearing of the " opposition " (nail is celled in French law) of M. TerrailMermeix, editor of the Boulangist Commie, against the judgment condemning him to four months' imprisonment and a fined £2O for having published the depositior, of witnesses heard in the High Court at the recent trial of Messieurs Boulanger, Dillon, and Rochefort. M. Mermeiz called as witnesses 29 journalists, most of whom agreed with his contention Mkt there was a right to buy the 'depositioni. AsJua editor, his professional duty enjoined him to be aa much as possible in advance of everybody el, c with news likely to interest the public. The pre,i. dent of the court maintained that M. Mermeix was guilty of theft in buying documents which had been ~nanifistly stolen from the printer of the senatorill High Court. The " opposition " was then allowed, and the case will again come on before a higher tribunal.  At an inquest held at Coventry, on the body of a servant girl named Lizzie Farndon, who drowned herself in the canal, the police produced a leath,t found in her pocket contaieing the "Planetof a young girl's fortune." The evidence chewed that the deceased, on being reproved for being absent without leave, became very sagry,and committed suicide. The "planet" was as follows "You are of a good and rmiable disposition, but you must not let your kindness or generosity get the better of your judgment. You will have many trials and misfortunes, but you will finally receive good news and a fortune from r. quarter you do not expect. You will live to be years of age." The unfortunate girl was only 18. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while texu• permits insane,  Mr. Henniker Heaton, MP., returns from the Continent at the end of this week, to make final arrangements for his visit to America on ocean penny pottage business. He proposes to be back in England in November, and will then proceed, with Mrs. Heaton, to India, where he will also devote himself to studying postal reforms. The authorities of the Queen's College, Belfast, have resolved upon opening the medical classes to ladies. For some time past they have had before them applications from a number of young ladies who wished to enter medical classes with a view to studying medicine ; and the medical faculty of the college bay. raolvid to accede to tb• reamed.