The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-02 00:00:00

I)oriet Countti Exprei

TITZSDALY. APRIL I. 1873

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

There are strong reasons which must isc/laa the
Czar against war. His own health is said to ex-
ceedingly bad. April 29th is his 60th birthday. That
age has never been attained by • Caw yet. sad
Alexander is said to be full of superstitious fest that
he will die Ixfore he reaches it, all the mores. his
sister, who died • few months ego, warned him that
he would quickly follow her. This 'senses in wtich •
prophecy would have a strong tendency to fulfil itself,
the body being alwaye very much .4th. mercy of the
mind, and the Emp,or being Jost now greatly
bars/seed by other anxieties respecting the war. Thou
there is the financial question,which for Rusidais most
serious There is also the exceedingly straintsicharao•
her of the relations between Bassi t and her le.. allies,
..p.cully B,umaala. which to even now threatening
to forbid the passage of Russian troop. through her
territory. F:titibind, it is clear, would not be without
allies, and though they might not be very puissant
onee, they would give Russia • good deal of trouble.
London Bridge is to be widened at • cost of £75,000.

Our little war at the Cape le ertimatoi by Mr.
Sprig*, to exceed the original intimate of £lOOO,OOO
per month.

In the course of a speech on the Pertnissive Bill,
delivered in Dudley, the other night, Sir Wilfrid
Lawson made the following rather extraordinary
statement, wijkh °limited general laughter :—lf the
Duke of Edinburgh were to shoot his fathet-in.law
now, he would beheaded down to poderity in iniquity
but if war were declared and the Duke shot the Czar,
he would receive a vote of t.,aaks, proposed by Lord
Beaconsfield, seconded by L,nl Granville, and sup-
ported by the Archbishop of Canterbury. There'. aot
much likelihood of the Duke ever getting into such
warm quarters as to enact a deed which perhaps not
everybody would grieve shout.
The Russian G tvernment do not intend to allow
the hostile effusions of foreign journals to exert any
influence upon the public mind in Rued. during the
present crisis. There mocha operands is explained bye
copy of the Tina. which bee been returned to England
NI a curosity. Bv • mech mica' contrivance • speeth
ielivered by Mr. Btavely Hill in the if 'use of Com-
mons on the vote of credit has beet completely
ohliterated, being blotted out with printers, ink.
, Many English newspapers are, Ills stated, not allowed
to enter Russia at all, while even the most friendly
journals are daily ea' jected to this kind of censorship.
Happy, free, and Christian Russia.

Another Burials Bill is on the lapis. Lord Francis
Hervey of Bath and Wells, is the new friend of the
Nonconformists. He has ready a measure which will
in few days probably be printed. It is said to be in
effect Lord rrowby's clause. The Tories evidently
don't like Chi' question hanging over them in view of
a dissolution.
Having beard it contended that the sudden disuse
of stimulants by a person who hae been accustomed
to them for many years may be prejulicial to health,
a North Devon clergyman sends to the Times an
instance showing that such a result does not always
follow. A widow 82 years of we had, lie says, been
accu-tomed to take gin for many yews, changing her
drink fto or beer previously reaching her 80t year.
Upon her attaining the age of 80—that is, two years
vo—she suddenly adopted the total abetaiaing prin-
ciple mach to the surprise and consternation of her
friends, who all prophesied a speedy and sudden
termination of her life for the want of her accustomed
potations. Nothing of the kind. Her ailments
c-ased, and she is a livinv monument of the good
effected by the sudden ad •ption of a non-alcoholic
regimen. She I. in her WM year, and frequently
s elks out into her son's garden or farmyard with •ut
any covering on her bead. Her memory is /zoo lent;
' she can repeat I .ng prayers, and she bide fair to
become a cen,enarian. It is clear that the sudden
change has done her no harm ; but it is also clear that
the gin and beer did not do her moth harm, or she
would not have lived to the age of 82.

If money be power what a force is J. W. Mackey,
who thirty years ago was a penniless boy in Ireland!
Twenty year. ago he travelled through the United
States as a speculative salesman, and sixteen years
ago he we. a bankrupt. To-day, at the are of 45,
Mr. Mackey ,ntroe three-ekhths of the grea Bonanza,
the rivhest silver wine that has ever been discovers I,
and draws nit 4il Neva M a yearly income of
000, which is the interest, at 5 percent., on a
capital of C 55 000,000. Thott,th comparisons are
odi..us. it is carious to note the difference in to
income of fur .4 the richest men on earth :

Buil oF Mimi
ROTH&
•
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i
Nailal ..... 16,000 000 o. 26.600,660 60,000 00 65 000.000
800.000 1:0 I,ono 00 2 000 00 2 760.000
Pm month .. 00 066 of 000001 170.0 mos. 6
or Mir . iOOO 0 3 0001 6,000$ 7,000
Per 11.417 .... 60 01 120 300
Po, minuta 1 101 2 4 5