The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-27 00:00:00

THE TERROR IN RUSSIA.

It is Tewted that judgment in the Kieff political trial,
which commenced on the 17th, was pronounced on the
MM. Oldruiky and Wale. Sophie Leschern von
Hertz('ld were condemned to be dia. Oainsky was
charged with being one of the principal leaders of an
illegal association, with having attempted to kill an °Meer
of gendarmes, and with having forged and need fat.
von Hertzfelcl was &No charged with
attemptedving to kill a policeman. She is described
as of noble birth. The third individual, who is called
Itysohniakot!, Indicted for having circulated publications
inciting to revolution, was condemned to ten years' labour
in the mine& AU were charged with belonging to illegal
associations for revolutionary purposes A number of
Ordni bombs wag discovered at Kieft on the night of
the 11th.

MILITARY SUPPLIES FOR THE CAPE.
An urgent order wee received at the Ordnance Depart-
ment, Woolwich, on Wednesday, for MO tons of stores to
be forwarded, rig Southampton, to Natal. partly to furnish
supplies to the army engaged in Zululand sad partly to
meet the requirementa of the additional troops about to be
sent out The stores, which will be taken out by the
Union mail steamers, consist chiefly of bedding and
ammunition and numerous bales of clothing from the
Army Depot at Pimlico. From Woolwich the goods are
taken in barges to Nine-elma, and from thence they
travel by rail to Southampton. A large number of men
belonging to the Second Battalion Eith Fusiliers and the
fifth Regiment, who have volunteered for service at the
Cape, were on Friday morning medically inspected at Fort
Pitt Hospital, Chatham, as to their knees, when nearly
every man passed On Friday instructions were received
for 11ra0goant. to be made for six hundred volunteers
from ragimenta to be received at Portsmouth for
embarkation for the Cape in the Euphrates. These drafta
are not to be regarded in the light of reinforcements, but
are simply to fill up vacancies caused by sickness love
in action, llic., in the regiments now serving in Zululand.
In addition to the regiment+ %Healy named to supply
volunteers to proceed to the Cape, the 31st Regiment has
now been ordered to open volunteering, and immediately
on the receipt of the order thirty men stepped to the front
and offered their service. No date has yet been fixed for
the embarkation of the reinforcement. The command.
ing °Meer of the lit Battalion of the 11th Regiment of
Foot, quartered at Salford, has received an urgent call
for volunteers for the Cape from his battalion, which to
March last furnished a contingent of seventy men, the
conditions of volunteering being the minimum of two
years' service in the army and twenty TOWS of Lg.
There are not more than 155 out of the whole battalion
which is EMI strong, who can offer themaelves. Up t+
the present only Ore have responded to this wood
cell

Copiers firms or BELLII3IOIIL The belbingere of
Lenoester Church, Coosett, who have been on
nearly eighteen moot* have returned to their post.
Prior to the strike the Wlringers, six in number, had free
WOW to the belfry, where they occasionally, it was
=iltd, indulged in a nie of cards. The remit was
ge
bis belfry door was Locked, and the key could only be
obtained on application. Tbe men struck work, and have
remained on strike until the present week, when their
parishioner, baring telt the district, they
tire is
more taken possession of the belfry,
Pnoascerrino Beilt Dinscrom —Letters have been
received in Bristol from a London arra of solicitors
intimating that the Home Secretary haa instructed the
Solicitor of the Treasury to prosecuM, without delay,
wick ol the directors and other responsible deicers of the
late Welt of England Bank as took part in laming the
two reports of January, 1877, and January. i&i A
inuessons has been taken out for an inspection of all the
books by an accountant The Exeter correspondent of the
Press Anociation taberyanhi —The announcement that the
Hon•011e• had dL • Kmecution against the principal
oWW2 of the lat. West of England and South Wales Bank
has caused much excitement her.; but them Is general
aosetirrence in it.

BURNT iv Baxxotiag—At the inquest
_held at Exeter
is Friday on the body .1 the child Daniel Da. A.'" wh°
was burned to death on Monday through the immune ci
a lamp which was standing as a bracket over the cradle
is which he was tying, ityanspired that the oilman had
supplied the girlwith bineoSin, Instemi of paraffin, sa
aslW for. The miring of the two in the lamp caused an
exploalou. the bufitaditc.iid falling directly into the
cradle,
_which 'Se y • man of flames Before
the child could be extricated mach Works were mused
that deal resaltid la fa. ,ur7
Mused !Indio& ci mcklassial &stk.
wages at maw audios should to iimit-Tp au