The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-02-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

TURNING- THE WRONG TAP.—On Friday morning, during the hearing of an appeal at the new Law Court, before the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Liadley and Bowen, their lordships complained of excessive cold, and the counsel sent for rugs and encased their feet in brief bags in a vain attempt .to keep warm. At length the Master of theßolls,declaring the atmosphere to be unendurable, invited the bar into his private room, and the case was proceeded with there. It subsequently appeared that the official in charge of the ventilating apparatus had turned the wrong lever, thus admitting cold air instead of let. A MR. JAMES HARRIS, after amassing a fortune in New Zealand, where he lived for twenty years, returned home. He put £3OO in his pocket for travelling expenses and determined to see life, meet his sister, and take home a wife. As soon as he reached England his sister died. This week he himself died also. There is something terrible about this tragic commonplace. With the wreck of the Cimbria there are surrounding terrors of accidents ; but, in another way, thi, os.alinary cutting short of plans and hopes and lives just on the eve of the fulfilment I,f wishes matured for years, and meetings longed for through half a lifetime, is quite as terrible. A am of very remarkable proportions for Rome, where such disasters are rare, broke out on Friday night in the Palazzo Sforza Cesarini, and destroyed the whole of the upper floor, causing damage amounting to -between 400,000 arid 560,000 francs. It originated in the bedroom of the Duelle,s, who bad only returned from Naples tha same evening, to attend, in her cape city ()I Lady of Honor to It or Majesty, at the Court ball to be held on Monday. Hie had barely time to make her eeca; from the flames, carrying her jewels with her. Her silage tuous wardrobe, valued at 80,000L,was entirely destroyed ; but what is a far greater interest, the whole of the autographic correspondence of Pope Sixtus V., which passed into the p.ossession of the Sforzas through a marriage with the Peretti family, perished also. A. SECRET revolutionary press has just been discovered at Odessa, and the arrest of several Nihilists followed. §nbeeraave procl-le.atleas have recently made their reap THE:ravages .:f dipl.tborta in Russia,which have ea long defied the ttfoits t ductors and sanitary committees, have now been kurpasstd by the fatal Effects El EcDrlatina. Aecording to 4 statistical paper just published, the mortality in St. Petersburg from diphtheria and scarlatina has continually increased from 1878. until during the past year they were no less than 1,323 deaths from the latter, and 1,146 deaths from the former,making the alarmintr yearly total of 2,469 deaths from these two diseases alone, in a population of about 800,000. AN inquest has been held in Sheffield on the body of a boy named Frederick Robinson, 15 years old, who cornnutted suicide. The evidence went to show that the lad was an incorrigible gambler. lie Fstayed away from his home for weeks together and lost his wages in card playing. Sometimes he robbed his parents of nearly everything in the house. Pawntickets were lately found in his pockets showing that he had pnwned all his father's fishing tackle:, and when he was sent with his father's club money he would keep the money, signing the book hiniself. A fortnight ago he attempted to hang himself, I t failed in the attempt. Last Sunday a companion foithd him in an outhouse, hanging by the neck, and he died  , a very few minutes _ A youxo man of 28, a printer at rtockwell, met Inc death in a very singular fashhili la,t week. A gentleman was walking home about one in the morning when he saw a man leaning against a wall, and going up to him found his neck fixed between two iron railings and the man suffocated. Du RING a public snvice on Friday at Dillito/1 Bassett Church, Leicestershire, an alarm of fire was raised, and the church rapidly filling with smoke caused the congregation to rush to the doors. The service was suddenly stopped, and it was found that the wooden floor, near the beating apparatus, had become ignited through over-heating. The lire was put out before Innen damage WM done. THE Board of Works have determined they should ask for powers to retain the ground-reuts they create on their building land in their own hands. It was stated that the Increase in the value of the ground rents was sixty or seventy thousand pcunds a year. D. WITITMARSH, it is said, is going to refund to the Widow of his deceased partner the whole of the amount Which he paid. An action had been threatened. KIRKSTALL ABBEY is rapidly going to decay. The ruins, It is stated, are showing signs (if accelerated decay, unless means are employed tit stay further destruction. THE result of the Vagrancy Aet in force at Halifax is to drive the vagrant, away from the Workhouse. Quite a nest of them is now found in the lodging houses, and on Friday six of them c night begging were committed for 14 days each. - • •  pAsTArint.T attempt VMS 3flade7,to poison the County Limerick foxh,,imds. The meeting took place at Ballinggrace :Railway :-:ation, near lizithkeale, and there was a large muster r:f huntmlen. The (legs had becn io the first covert It tr short time when it was found that three of them were . oisoned, and that five ethers were exhibiting symptoms of poisoning. The pack was immediately wltll,lrawn, and the day's sport came to an abrupt termination.  D 1.1 It DEN'S