The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-31 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY IMPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. JANUARY 31. 1882.

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K GoWesel D.R.V. —The annual dinged our keel
corps of volunteers is to take pies. cm Feb 2nd.
Maniac Arrivals Brightusi, Fails, Jersey,
• Wllliam 12m, Hayward, Hartlepool, coal;
grZtal' Western, lubleiried, Oberboerg, general;
Looks, Lovell, Hartlepool, coal; South of Ireland;
Nam, Chisholm, general; Delight, Nosi,_ St. Brien:,
: South of Ireland, Pea= Cher.
c. general ; Emma, Hawkins, Portsmouth, ;Antler ;
Harlequin, Cole fishier, nil: oat Waiters, Bl
eram-
pied. Chbonei, general; Brighton, Fell., Jersey,
Leelpuri
tear:l;6sec, yrOcrurbarilsegeLener" ; Eli"
Tag Antrum. Dianna ot the officers of our county
volunteer corps took place on Friday at the Roy 4
ogoal4a, when there assembled the following r•--Likut..
Steward, Osicesel Mathews, Major Harmer
Staff-Surgeon Timed, Captains Whitten), Budge,
Hodges, Stone, Lloyd-Jones, Gelder, Bennett, Dash.
wood • Lient•Commaadant George, Liattenaata E.
A. Hriurisedl, Harti•ol2, T. D. B. Rawlius, W. Rawlins,
T. A.4.,=2.84V:,:n Smith. Webster, Weekley.
Liege was left to decide between
Weymouth and Parket...is for the site of the camp this
year.
Maw STUNT? AT TEIIII ROYAL —We announce with
mode pleasure that Mrs. Hesry Everett, of Dornbee-
ter, wit give • recital at the Royal Hotel Amens*
Rooms, Weymouth, ee Thursday 'venial', February
2nd, in aid of the Church of England Nimperaace
Socsetz. Programme as follow." The Angel's
MGM Mire Procter "The Frenchman sad the
Reis ; " The
"The
where the Old Horse Died," Whyte
Melville ; "The Belle of the Bell,' Pined; "In the
Children's Hospital," Tenzysee ; "The Victim,"
Tennyson; "The Northern Gobbler," Teneirsos ;
" The Burial March of Dundee," Aytone ; "The
High Tide an the Coast of Lincolnshire," Jean
Ingelow; "The Charge of Balaclava," Tennyson; •
selection from Mark Twain's, "Trump Abrost"
Cavarterse a. Ammo) to Waaraag.--This was
the subject of $ lecture given at the Royal Hotel
Assembly Rooms on Tuesday evesing by Mr. A.
A 11... The Istorer remarked though we regret the
necessity of war, sod some would ge a long way -to
avoid (without being peaosatesarice me) the
horrors of warfare, yet as Esgibhmen, when we
Ll:tz..we waist to win. The then gave the
sod composition of gunpowder, the discovery
eiTZUA-. he attributed to Roger Bacon. In 100 lb. of
gunpowder are 78 parts of saltpetre, 11 of sulphur,
and 111 of charcoal, and Used propnrtions are not
greatly altered, though tier, ate 'modifications in the
manufacture and the she o/ the grains, fine powder
exploding far too rapidly, and so petting too great •
strain upon large ordnamse. The lecturer took the
trouble tollexplaln that aft is not asellelement—" as
peany.• liners say," said be, and be went rather I
minutely into the merest elsomestary teaching cm this
subject, and indeed occupied sometime with gunpowder,
and the so-called white gunpowder, repastiagitaixferi.
wants of our childhood with chlorate of
The Rumens need white gunpowder (made with
chloride of potassium) in their submarine mines to
defend their harbours, and caused moms fright oc board
the English and Preach fleets. But when chlorite
mines were laid there was no petting Dear them again,
even with hiendly vessels, so they were saLereelled by
electrical torpedoes. These were need la *aside.
Italian wee, sad with great effect In the war betweee
the North and South Stake of America. By mesas of
the camera obscure, the exact Paoe of the torpedoes
was kept in knowledge, arid the officer with the battery
could wait until the imemy's vessel was isnmelsiseterlz
over the torpedo, sad then completing the
circuit, and beating • thin platinum wire, or igniting •
fuss, blow it up. And bere the lecturer blew up •
small torpedo, by means of a galvanic battery (Grove,
four cells) and carisinsel • mall bookie of water on the
Boor, greatly to the delight of the numerals et:sleets
present. He then passed on to explain that the cameo
obscure being only useful by day, it is aconstinme found
better to fire todois by percussion. The galvsnic
battery is isomet.imes also replaced by permanent mug-
nate, by which • current of electricity can be sent by
means of quit* dry apparatus; by addition of the
Induction coil low tension electricity can be converted
into that at high tension, the low tension being used to
find whether the circuit is complete, and the high
tension to find the torpedo; but the lecturer was not
perfectly successful in the experiments to illustrate
firing by pressing various knobs in the magnetic
apparatus. Gun-cotton was also sepia:bed, it being
cotton fibre or texture, exposed to acid, principally
nitric, till converted into pyroxyle, and then washed
thoroughly, in fact, one maker reduced it to paper
pulp, thus giving it a very thorough washing. Wetting
which 'pone gunpowder, only temporarily doss the
same for gun-cotton, which can be dried, and after-
wards exploded or burnt. For mining purposes it is
very useful; but explodes too suddenly for large
ordnance, and in large quantities is liable to develops
the most tremendous kind of explosion, which may also
be produced by striking it very forcibly, and so causing
It to detonate. Various instructive experiments with
gun-cotton were given, 'bowleg its perfect oombustioa
without smoke, and the different ways in which it
buns or explodes. Passing on, the lecturer dealt with
nitro-glycerine, produced by the action of nitric acid
on glycerine. It is • hoary our liquid, which
detonate. with remarkable force. Yet it doe, not go
off so quickly ea people think, and the lecturer
hammered about two drops of eimo-glycerios in
blotting-paper, and showed it is subject to conditions,
and safe when proper conditions are observed. Yet
most frightful accidents have occurred by its explosion.
In a port it wrecked all the ships in harbour and half
the town ; at Newcastle some was found concealei, and
the sheriff went with it to bury it, when he was blown
away, the labourers witnessing that the deceased hit
one of the cans with • spade. But nitro-glycerine had
been much abused; at one plate • man put it in his
lamp to use is paraffin oil. A very great Improvement
was made by mixing nitro-glyoerine to • paste with
p irons earth, as in dynamite. The safety of this the
lecturer showed by mixing trains of gunpowder and
dynamite, and setting fire to them, when the gun-
powder exploded before the dynamite bei burnt. The
proper means of exploding gun-cotton and dynamite is
by means of a percussion cap, which MOON it to go off
with tremendous force, though that force does not
extend far. About • thimbleful of dynamite was
placed in • cartridge, and a hoe lighted, the lecturer
meting be should count 40, and although the fuse burnt
quickly, just as the" 40 " sal pronounced the cartridge
exploded with • tremendous noise, and half of the
lights near the chandelier next the platform went out.
With this big bang the lecturer concluded his remarks
on erpl•isives, at Meet we did not catch anything about
" lithofracteur, the Pirates, and the laboratory at
Woolwich Arsenal ;" but Mr. Allen gave some account
of the use of balloons in besieged Paris. 161 were seat
up, and carried three minims of letters. There were
also an immense number of pigeon flights, and • lease
number of messages were pecked oy photographing
them together in • sheet like the first page of the
Time., when the collodion film was rolled up and
attached to the pigeon. When it reached its destinatios
It was put in • lantern, and the magnified
exposed on a large screen.—At the close, Mr. I4!lar
Groves told how the committee were very desirous to
raise 10 guineas in ceder to have • first-rate lecture,
with illostratkes, on Electric Storage and the Electric
Light.

MR EDWABD3 PA IS THE aosnraz DEBT.

The Mayor has received the following letter from
Mr. Edwards i—" 53, Berkeley-square, W., 21•4
Jantsary.—.My dear Mr. Mayor,—l have read with
much interest the report of the annual meeting of the
Weymouth Hospital at which you presided, and I am
very phased to find it is in such • state of efficiency.
I amino< quite endorse the views of Dr. Moorhead
when he says he is happy in being able to asuman
a greater number of patients by 40 than the previous
year, I would rather In the Interests of staining
humanity the nombers had been lees, but I trust it is
the increaled efficiency of the hospital arrangements
which have enabled • larger number of patknta to
partake of It. benefits than an increase in number of
sufferer• I am very pleased indeed that nurses are
being trained: it Is impossible to estimate too highly
the value of • good nurse. I remember full well how
much Indebted I wee to good nursing in Bt. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital and I will gladly do anything to pro-
mote the carrying out of the system. I sun sorry to
see there is a balance on the wrong side amounting to
128 ss. sd. I hope the committee will allow Me to
rectify such an unplesaant state of things and ace 'Pt
the enclosed cheque for the antount.—Yours faithfully,
HINIT EDICIIILD11."

shoat se mush sharpness as by AO Jubilee Singers
theenesivea It mee se good that the Chairman cleverly
introduced a collection immediately after, and with
, much inocem

VESTRY MEETING AT ST. MAR Y-8.

me first vestry mining since tits arrival of the Wm. J.
H. Scott, al rector, ism livid at the 'miry room an Mon-
day kat. in order to appoint three memiers of the Burial
Bend, sim to appoint auditors, aid name • day fir Pro-
dilation of their account&
ma Rector, RA,. J. II Then Sent p.. dad, and there
wag apr,tty attendams, lnclodiay, among ohm,—
Masses. J. G. Rowe. G. RWri, W. Oratory, J. & CI
Z Leaning, J. IL Robes', J. A. Taltot. It. Dana, K
Knight, rooks J. Tigwell. Wrto A. Bonn* B. Smith,
J. POZ•01114 B. Parents, 7. Brown. Whitten& a WWI,
aw., with Mr. G. Andrews. vestry clerk.
ANDISWI having read the notice convening the
nesting. suited that three promo mrantes in to. Revd
mere chand by the retirement of dm Rev. Talbot 0,..
and Mr. Richard °manias, who had Mit ti•as town. mut
by the bomb of Mr. H. Ragged
It wit proposed by Mr. Rows, secondwi by Mr.
Row that the Rcv. J. H. Soon be appoinsala member
of to. Bo,isl Lard.—asni
Is was propuevd that Mr. J. A. !Innen bemuse •
mmalier„ and Asa another patients Protiossid Mr. J. a.
Rowe.
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The-Fore thry were secosded, Mr. A. Duels movod thet
Mr. W. T. Halabit b•Cola• • member ;b. wail well knows
Is tla tows for some Plan, and he believed would
oommaad Ohs respect of the
This was seconded by Mr. icacgsk rat.
flare was mime thrum as to Kr. Dennis's proposition
bitintPut. ea Mr. Blierresis mime bad bees esistioard; bat
Mr. Beams appeeled to ake amino.. as to whether his
modal was sot la due form, and it was deeded by the
Mittman and Clerk to the Board to be is order.
The Qunutsn then called for s vote os ldr. Dennli's
raritios. whoa 11 hands wore Mid up for it, sad oa the
contrary. 11 also.
Kr. DIXXIS 'Med lb. Chairman as to his motioo, and
the m gentleman said he km, with -r of th• gantlet...a
named, and therotore should not bee tate to give his voto
is favour of the me mistimed Brel—ktr. 11.11•11.
Kr. G. ROIL private& Mr. J. G. Rows, wbo was
memaded by Mr. LWOW&
Bt. Lam= isMrPmed Lead said that b. bad the trotted
possible respect for Mr. sows, sad then was no gentle-
rasa in Weymouth to whom he wee more draws but he
asked the metiag to esstider whether am ought hot to
adhere to the ansagereemt whist, was astand Into at
ill formaitos of tis Board—to aP93MI at* Oatitaba"
and tom Nosomfortsists. TM Board bad always worked
well tamest ; but if the t state of &lairs were
clos=lie was afraid Nosomformista would not
be tad. TM armee:nest. though it hod
bees broken thtuopb, should now be carted oat. sad be
thought Mr. Sharma Aosta Ma the pleas id a.. of the
Nossaformista
Mr. Arinasws earroberated what Mr. Robes+ had said,
sad stated Mat the Ude Mr. therm Oalverwell %Word
was appointed me a Nosomfor ale*. but at lie death, out
of respect to his family, his sou, Mr. G. B. Wetsford, took
lie pt,ae. sad he Wag • Caurchntm, this altered tis
elm of stairs. Now the pressat election alerted
ty of gobs book to the original plea—dr.ta b=lasd four Komostormiets.
Kr. ft Lemma said that Mr. Ra.gadt bed served Us
Board, sad as 1. was now dead, he thought • Diteentat
Mould take hie plam Mr. Blurreses mime has boom
mostiosed, tad he should be plesesd 13 support aim
Mr. J. a Oorm remerked that, Kr. Remtt
deceased, is was My fair Mai lb. tVesleyna body
Is remosated .4th. Board.
Than was • liMla coaysnstke about Diameters and
(arohsoa, whoa the Bactikm said that oily ese muse
wm before —that of Mr. Bowe.
It was this proposed by Mr. Winter that Yr. .1. 11.
tw • m•atber tan Board.
limooded by Kr. L LAXIIIIIO.
Kr. I. G. Rom said that, undo, lb* cdratialittanala ha
would sot allow himself lob. put is opposites, sad would
withdraw.
Wberespos the Ottaitutam oallid for • show of Mao,
and • coseidorabk somber voted for Mr. Blair.., and
seem to the cootrary.
ml Itev. J. a Boost, Mr. W. T. Hallett. sad Mr. J. H.
therms were therefore elected members at the Board.
The next basiasse was the Melba of auditors. It tree
mar Kr. A. DWI% seconded by Mr. 011•Oolli.
unanimously. that Yr. Jethro Styli sad Mr.
Jcemb Tlgwsll be appolated auditors of tho mounts,
and that Wedseeday. the BM April, be appodated for the
production of the amounts
A vote of thanks to the Obairmea tor his kindness in
taking the Malt was duly strried.

Antral. or rtts Ftenr.—About 10 o'clock on Tues-
day morning the Agisoonrt, Achilles, and Northam-
berlehrli 01 the Chhehil tiquadron, arrived from Ply.
in tuth, end exchanged salutes with IL MS. Hercules.
They expect to remain here until thsy are jolasd by
Mieotaur, which in at Present undorgoins rePeire-
They are un ler the command of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. H. Caw Glyn.
AOOll3l/11T 01 TM 81018 INoLOIB. A load of stone
was being lowered down the lferohaate Railway on
Tuesday morning, where, owing to the night frost, the
great weight of the load caused it to overcome the
resistarios of the brake. No pint of the beaks was
broken, and it way spolied am forcibly as the men
could ; but still the lad slipped down fatter, the brake
had no p wee through the slipperiness, and the load
rushed to the bottom, knoaking Dermal waggons oe
the line. At that moment the wire rope broke with
the tremenclout jerk ; but the empty waggon bad
gon• up wat4 such violence, that it dashed at the hones
at the top, and some damage was done but, fortun-
ately, nu one was hurt.

NIVIUNCIS.

The Inspector of Maisano*, reported havieg served
several somas with noires. He bad also got Yr. Hobert
o.mbes to remove a quantity of seaweed from sear ease
biome. the ...weed Wog likely to mum as aeseunalatioa
of stinllot : but Kr. C molten stated him great trouble beton
he rnmo•ed the seaweed. Several home. to Chimed are
abort malt for bnotto h•bitation. and the Inspector asked
whether be should lobe legal proceedings against the
owners with • view of their being either olowi or properly
revs/red! Messrs. R. Climber'. Henry HAgsr. sal
we, deposstmg ref om op the blab road.
Near L"'"' Mt. Thom.. Cornbea'a in High-street. tie street is
to • very hal dila for want of • dra 0 to take tbe marina
water from Guernsey-strew. A merprol and trap were
necessary m the corner of Gueresty-rtreet
Mr. H. Rwon coadromd Me statement about the *cubit
that Mr. RoJert mabsa had Ganged. Hie OIL Scalia's)
hermit was going to Lave, If Yr. Omahas had not
removed the seaweed.