The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-05 00:00:00

MR. STAN LErs EXPIRITS IN. AFRICA.

ThO—Saforday Reeling says "It is curious to °beer% e
the strangely callous way in which a certain section of the
religious press of this country regards the proceedings of
Mr. If. M. Stanley in Africa. The original object of the
enterprise was of course to upply the traveller's em-
Idoyeni—the New lark Ilerald and the Daily Telegraph
—with sensational correspondence, hut it has since be-
come invested with a sort of missionary halo, and it
seems to he assumed that in such a CAW the ordinary rules
of humanity and morality may be justifiably suspended.
We cannot Ray the record of Mr. Stanley's exploits leaves
exactly this impression on our mind. He appears to have
repeatedly attacked the natives without any serious pro-
vocation. Mr. Stanley has since found that his plan of
conciliating the natives and promoting gospel teaching is
o practical blunder."

The collection in aid of the hospitals commenced in
London on Saturday morning. • number of ladies
standing at prominent street stations with collecting
boxes. A successful collection is expected.
Entered to be sold for f. 50, in the Tradesman's Plate at
Weymouth on Monday, Porridge was disposed of after
her victory to Mr. Parsley for 51 as., leaving a very small
surplus to be divided between the second and the race
fund.
THE Registrar General reports that the mortality last
week was at the rate of 21 deaths per thousand annually,
though it was considerably less in all the metropolitan
cities of the United Kingdom. leimster again showed
the highest rate Id, owing to • large excess of fatal FASO/
of diarrhoea. In London the death rate has declined to
20.5, owing to a decrease in the principal zymotic diseases.
Deaths from scarlet fever, however, show an increase
upon recent weeks.
A Swine., curiously illustrating the manner in which
people who have suicidal intentions 'tate our another,
has (centred in a coffee-house in Paololington. Sonia
person unknown, lout respectably attired, olitainoil a
lodging for the night in the house in question. In the
morning he was discovered lying dead in his bed, with an
open penknife clenched in one hand. A bottle containing
cyanide of potassium—that being the substanth with
which, a short time ago, a barber poisoned himself in a
coffee-house in Blackfriars-road—was found in this room,
and the surgeon who examined the body believed that
death resulted from a dose of this drug.
Me- Gag, the hon. secretary to the Bicycle Club, applied
for advice to the magistrates at Marlborough-street police-
court, under somewhat peculiar circumstances. While
riding along with Another gentleman on their machines
towards Ilendon, • person on a stage caach endeavoured
persistently to overthrow them by throwing at the
wheels of their bicycles a heavy iron ball attached to •
string. In one ease the vehicle was overturned, and the
rider, who was dragged sonic distance along the ground,
was Injured about the body. The passengers on the coach
only laughed at the result of this outrage. The inacistrate
adviscol Mr. Gee, oho had also been whipped by the
driver, to obtain a summons front the local authorities,
and said the proper course for the other gentleman would
be to bring an action for injuries and damages sustained.
SIMPLICITY A PROOF OF PeßrECyloll.—An argument
addressed lo the Irorld's intriligence.—Tho progress of •
great discovery resembles the swelling of the tides ; •
mere ripple on the vitiate at first, it gradually embrace;
a wider sweep and is felt upon the shores of distant
continents. Five-and-twenty yaws ago the name of
Thomas Holloway was but little known ; mane had faith
In his ge s, and predicted for him • mighty future. To-
day we may search thnsigh all lands and continent,,. king-
doms, empires, and republics, and fail to find a spot,
however remote, or • people. however savage, where the
fame of that selfeatne Thomas Holloway is not a house-
hold word at every hearth, a theme of grateful praise on
every tongue. The very simplicity id his systeon is a proof
of its perfection. Whlle others Weed themselves to no
purpose about the thagnostics of particular forms of
malady, Thomas Holloway divided the family of disease
into the two essential branches if external and internal
ailments. For these. he two corresponding
remedies ; and in his Pills and Ointment we have now •
condensation of healing vii tiles, which, if applied in I. e,
cAll never fail to make a permanent and- rapid cure.
Sustained by the approval of the wise and learned,
encouraged and aided by the grateful munificence
a many of the crowned heads of Europe. and
prompted by his own eulightened and comprehensive
philanthropy, he has established a system of agency for
these medicines which embraces every portion of
the inhabited globe. Ile has brought home the means of
health to the doors of all the tribes and nations of
the earth; and it we neglect to profit by these remedies,
it must henceforth be ourselves, and not Providence, we
',Medd blame for the evils tinder which we groan.
Professor Holloway has done all and more than all, his
duty : he 11[1e placed his external and internal remedies in
every country, and we have only to stretch out our bands
to them and be cured. Thee, Is eternal wisdom In that
Spanish proverb that says, Al nor madruga. Dios ft aynda,
and the man who does not alit himself when certain aid is
within his reach, has surely no right to expect that •
niiracle will be wrought.in his favour,' "From none of
the European Courts did this greater restorer of health
receive more liberal eueouragement than from that of
Spain. %%rah Louis phtlippe of France lie may have been
on Lerma of more intimate personal regard ; but when the
Spanish Government repealed it section of the Custom
laws ezgousiorly it, 'armsc of his medicines, anti allowed
them to be imported almost iltity free, it gave an official
ition of the national indelitedneas which was truly
tirc2ATy of the obligathm Raul the cause. It was red
policy, too; for the necessaries of life are the last thinos
that should be Aubject to taxation. Wonderful RA the
properties of the l'ills are; their healing potency—
working invisibly and impreceptibly in the blood —does
not strike the calque' observer with the same astonishment
which the magical effects of the 'Ointment must produce.
The cures of this latter remedy WO can see ea well as feel;
we can Nee akin diseases which have rioted in the system
for years give way to it few applications ; we can see the
white scales of leprosy peel off and the pink flesh re-
appearing "like the flesh of it young child:" and we can
see the worst external indications of scrofula, removal by
the Ointment, while the Pills eradicate from the blood
the original virus of the malady and secure immunity for
the future.— Danner of Freedom.