The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-16 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

King John of Abyssinia is inarclibig on Egypt with his
main army and forty guns.
Germans are emigrating to 11.1/81b1 nicautly acquired by
Austria from the Terka
Diphtheria is ravaging Russia so that ha part of the
West and South there can be no conscription for years,
because no children are left.
General thaw, with showers of rain, act in in the north
Tof Scotland on ANdar
Floods are again causing great alarm in Transylvania
and Hungary.
Sufferers through the West of England llmb have been
assisted, to tlie number of Kr.' kdo 11) MA received from
London.
A rose diamond, set in a sleeve button, and worn in the
sun, burst with such force that • piece wont into the
wearer's forehead and another into his band.
Great Western goods guards are pressing that their
regular time shall not be more than IU hours • day, slid
more than (10 hour' a weak shall be paid as overtime, also
that their hours and wages shall IA fixed ; the latter
request is refused.
Rev. G. J. C. Brown, of Salisbury, has commenced read-
ing Jeremy's Taylor's sermons, on the ground that parochial
clergy have not time to prepare their own.
The Lead Agents' Record says 15 of the Duke of
Rutland's tenants gave him notice. Ile returned the year's
rent to all who had not given him n tice.
Mr. Bond, cashier of the G. W.ll Company for South
Wales, shot himself on Monday morning, through family
trouble', it is said. He was a widower aged 15, and leaves
several children.
During a fire at Newcastle last week, the fireplurs were
frost bound, and when the water wax directed on the fire,
the ladder WU coated with ice, two poll 'colon slipped and
were hurt, and another man fainted. The other men were
wet through, and their clothes froze With relief parties,
the brigade persevered, and about mid lay the lire was put
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£16.000 damages obtained by • physician against • rail.
way was thought to be excessive, and the company applied
for a new trial; but the application was refused, Lord
Coleridge not being dissatisfied with the amount.
The second Cleopetra's Needle has been lowered, to be
shipped to the United State&
Mr. Philip Wicks, • successful solicitor and pleader at
the bar, tried to climb over a fence to a bridge near
Cockermouth, on Sunday, fell on an iron spike, wounded
his thigh, and bled to death in an hour, leaving a widow
and seven children.
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plague has broken out in Larnaca. Cyprus, ten
bullocks being affected' and several are dead.
Slavery of women has prevailed largely at Hong Kong;
but Sir John Small has pronounced against slavery in any
form in Hong Kong, Sir John thus interpreting toad
statutes according to English law.
On Monday morning the hydtanlie apparatus at the
Rochdale Goods Station blew up with a tremendous
report, owing, it is supposed, to the overflow valve having
become frozen. No one was hurt, but the damage to the
machinery and building was very great.
The river Taff, near Cardiff, has been frozen over
since Saturday. Such • circumstance has not been known
for over twenty years.
At the adjourned inquest into the cire instances
attending the death of Eliza Waters, the wife of a labourer
named Henry Waters, whose body was found last week
In a brook at Llanwern near Newport. Monmouthshire,
medical evidence was given to the effect that the skull of
the deceased woman was fractureil bv a blow, and that
death was caused by suffocation. The inquiry was again
adjourned.
Mr. Whitbread, M.P., addregaing his constituents on
Monday evening at Bedford, doprec sled the deinand for
Protection, and said that but for cheap food we should
not have got through the recent bad times.
The charge ,/f sedition brought against Mr. Brennan,
one of the Irish land agit.stors, was heard before the
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