The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-09-19 00:00:00

BRIDPOZT.

Tows Go'MIL—A meeting was held at half-put
seven in the evening on Tuesday, when them were present
the Mayor, Mr. C. Tucker Alderman Reynolds, and
Councillors C. Edmund I Edmund, T. L Edmunds, E. Cox. J. P.
Sumill, J. T. Stesheia, H. N. Gun and D. K. Biddlecombe.
It was stated that damage to the road by Mr. Crokam,
the contractor, was now being repaired by Mr. Cox, at Mr
Crokam's expense.—The seal of the corporation was
aimed to a rate for the ensuing half-year at 10d. in the X
to be made payable on Bob September. —Bills to the
amount of £127 Ws. 6d. were then ordered to be paid.—
Mr. IL Patten, Dissector to the Board, gave to an estimate
of asi, as damages to the pavement lc., by the Water
Cempany and Drainage Works.—The Load Board was
then resolved into a Town Council meeting.—A statement
was reed from Mr. Grinter, stating that the new ropes to
the town clock were now working satisfactory, and
applying for an augmentation of salaiy.—Proposed by
Mr. J. S. Stephens and seconded by Mr. Suttill, that the
Clock Committee be empowered to employ a competent
person to ascertain the condition of the clock. and report
to the Council—Proposed as an amendment by Mr. T. H.
Edmunds and seconded by Mr. K Cox, that Clock
Committee, confer with Mr. Granter, as to condition of
Ara. T. and "Pr' to
the
.
was added to ent
to the mm of the
Mat Conunittee.—By the report of Valuing Committee,
it wee resolved that a weighing machine be provided by
the town, and that repaireand punting to the two market
houses, as sent in by Mr. Nt. 'oodward, be carried out.
BOROUGH POUCH, Saturday—Before Mr. S. W.
Whethlias.
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—Elsa Ai:eerie, 19, was brought up in custody,
with wandering about the streets of the Boroue
.without
having any visible means of subsistence, and as a
common prostitute. She was sentenced to 11 days
ito cot with hard labour.
ornr Poirot, Monday. —Bei ore Mr. B. I'. Gundry
and Kr. J. I'. Gundry.
Elisolreds Pen/off, a young girl, was charged by James
Staples, with *taxiing one towel and • night dress, his
property, at Sisksond Bottom, Wititechurch, on the Bth
mat utor not making an appearance in time, the
gat:was remanded to Bsaminster, on next day.
hard upon the girl./
Boaomia Parte' SEsiloss, Tuesday. Joan Dailey,
ginger-beer manufacturer, South-street, was charged
under the Workshop Regulation Act, by Sub-Inspector
Beadort, for employing Emily Dunford, aged 10, on alst
August, and neglecting to obtain • certificate that such
child had attended school, during the time required in
th=vious week. —He was tined Ss nod 12s, costs—Mr.
spoke of the marked improvement in the carrying
out of the Act since his first visit tußridport,
Gooeyina Andress was summoned by Ellen Loveridge, for
assaulting her on 6th September. Mr. Nantes for defend-
ant There watt id.so • cross summons in this case. After
a great dsal of conflictim evidence on both sides, the
the magistrates considered the justice of the case would
he met, by requiring both parties to find one surety in £5
to keep the peace. The required sureties were forthcom-
ing, and both parties left the court with their friends.
Josses disobey green-grocer, South-street, was summoned
by Henry H. Hill, pawnbroker, South-street, for assault-
ing him on the first of September. —Del =dant who pleaded
guilty, and said he was drunk at the time, or else he
should not have done it, promised not to offend again
Ordered to pay costs Is.
The Heroes of King of Prussia Inn Was transferred
from John Bagg to John Marsh, and the license of Naga
Head Inn, beerhouse. from Charles Dunford o John
Bagg.
Joseph House, Juts Weld, and Jopii, Ali Alts, three
small boys, were charged with stealveg a quantity of
mangold wursel, from a 841 in Harbour-road, the
property of John llounsell,,--Iliamissed with • reprimand

11111111BORNIL
Qff Tuesday a vagrant named George Willey, other-
wise Wheaten, was brought up before Major Falwaseer
at the police-court ou a charge of vagrancy, anal, was
committed to Dorchester gaol for a alma's hard
labour
Gas COMPANT.—The aliarehokkera of this thriving
undertaking held their animal meeting on Monday
last, Mr. W. Inagley tv the chair, and had presented
to them a report t.uoh as the most fastidious could
hardly grumble at, showing a profit of over 10 per
cent, eat the capital, and recommending a dividend of
8 per cent.

NCiTit Inst.—Some beneficent individual, with
an ey!, to the interests of the inmates of the Vilatinan
Hospital, has just presented Co that institution • box
to be placed at the railway station fer the reception of
Pariontls and magazines, which passengers having
read, may have no fuher use for, and may consign to
this box as • socii of entertainment to the patients.
The Merssicterct (New Zealand) Press, which coa•
taila a lengthy notice of the death of Mr. W. Guise
*Juan, an old Sherbondan, who some y(wrs ago was
a inirther with his brother in the iwiewistorship of the
old Sterfarne Mercury. some xi 'rein &V he joined
a band of emigrants know• vs the Canterbury Society
of Colonists, which founded that flourishing colony, in
which he took • leading past, and having castle his lot
with them has remained in that country till his death.

HUNYADI JA.7104 throw. Wares. —The beat and
most agreeable natur....l aperient —" Mope who bare
used pnibm and Frardricksball prefer the Hunyadi
;Tinos wow to either. bemuse the bolt of the 4011111 is
less than either of those waters, sad the action is less
drastic, producing no distress neisasiness."—
Profane( Aitken, P. R,L Protestor of Pathology
Army Medical Whoa, Author of the " Sdescs mei
Prudes el 'medicine." sixth Edition. In
hotline, prise Sp. and Is. 4d., of all aka:alma—A wins
gam fa a dole.

WILLS AND Boancers,
The will of Kr. William Duckworth, late of Onhug
Leigh Park, filomerseishlre, who died on July X b.. was proved on 331 th ult by the It., William
Duckworth and Russell Duckworth, the son.. in I Willie.
Bachelor Coltman, the nephew, and the ezcut
parkPeralaTimt:Lenwiedll:::lftegenbeintlir. ib"lPark,uyn"whhol4uDadied:ilLir4a• jobslytex."l,t7la
was proved on the lath ult., by Samuel Bethink th•
nephew, and Charles Moms limpelstlie executors, the
personal estate being sworn under ,C 000.
The will of Mr. William late of fn. 1a...
Marsh, Lambeth, who died on the 9th tilt, was
under ce,ouo.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.
The eldest son of Professor Roggradwao promising
of 18, and captain of Westminster I, hangedneti
on the 11th instant at Oxford. At the coroner's inn tion, which took place on Wednesday, it appeamd
the evidence that the deceased played cncket mirtj; Monday, and cards at night, retiring to bed earl,. tn.
brother, finding he did not come to breakfast Oil F. Tuesday morning, knocked at his bed-room doooreal
receiving no reply, the door was with difficulty
when the deceased was found suspended from a hoo•
leather belt and • leather strap, the former being II:
round his neck and fastened by a noose, his feet
the grornd and his knees being bent The lad beltukt
the same day to a schoolmaster named J. A. Turner,
of the vicar of Deddiagton, who at tbe inquest said heki
en not aware of anything which was likely to have inch,*
his friend to destroy himself. Mr. Symonds, s4mo,.
testified that the deceased looked delicate on Moody and Professor Rogers housekeeper said that the deaf"(
mwalind.verLThehairproleanevdidhadetece ntoailedt anytotheihngowilhetreuetighblett
cause for the commission of the sad act.

THE THRUSH 13HUTALFrIES.
Sir Henry Elliot has telearaphed to the Foreign (4,
that, on the mtrength of the report of the commissiorn sent by the Turkish Government to inquire into the
excesses committed in Bulgaria, orders have bre issued
for the arrest of the principal leaden of the Rain
Bazooka, who will be brought to trial at once. The
Governor of Adrianople, he further states, has been
mimed Irmo his post Strong remonstrances made by se,
Arnold Kimbell, the BriUsh officer attached Is she
Turkish head-quarters, have been vimorously summed be
Sir Henry Elliot, and orders of the most stringent tin}
have at once been sent to the Coiumanderin.Chief of the
Turkish forces in Sent..
Reports received from the interior state that since the
beginning of the war the Beahi-Basoulcs hallaged eag destroyed about 00 villages in the distrire piA Piot. more than than 30 in the province of Sofia 44 v The deetructi',,,,---,
villages in the neighbourhood at Primp
announced by the Austrian Consul at that
Colonel Horvatorich has addressed a reportlo
d
Tchernareff, of which the follosoir no esti-3,19"rd
August Mo, the whole town of .....; Oa
fire, and out of 50 houses there is rarer.7l:4l
nan not been burnt or destroyed. The awe rarer • most desolate aspect; the church has been beret don. and even the bells have been broken up. The Turks ereg
with their rifles at the root of the church and the= It contained, and all that the hand of ran could •
was actively and ruthlessly destroyed . Corpses herr
been thrown into wells wherever there was
water. A &Titian officer was found tied to. tree
powder magazine and at the side of. corpse. Aare.,
dy was found with the legs flayed, and the bed., of
citizen bore marks of a long martyrdom. Death ',,t
case had been inflicted by mow s/a red kat irea. v...
other citlmens of Kniagevatz named in the re oort-,;,74
found killed after having suffered • martyr dom. The
infection caused by the dead bodies was w, great that
Colonel Horvatovich did not venture to deter n to 11)051
in the town a moment, He took measures to ind,WZ
citizens who had returned to proceed thr ~ne. tin ton
and its environs, and with the aid of • 1 nttelion to h„,y
the deed . The bad odour arising from t'ee
of the dead may be perceived at • due,ance two radii
from the town; there are myriad s of flies in the
environs of Entagevata, showing ttiat there meet re
great number or corpse' in en advanced step g
decompeeition. It is impossible Si. trace the lines of the
houses burnt down, the tress whin a surrounded them rei
withered, and the neighbouring country presents a most
lamentable aspect"

MARRIAGE REGISTER RETURN.
This curious Parliamentary paper is designed to indians
a rough-and-ready way of gauging the relative amount of
ignorance prevailing in different districts. It detaila It,
number of marriages that took place during the lent tee
years in the various countiee in England and Wale,- It
separates those in which either of the parties signed the
register with marks instead of signatures. The defect
It is that it only affords ma means of comparing "all tbe
districta" with those "not containing parliamentary
boroughs," whereas it would have been more interestina
to compare the purely urban with the strictly rural
regions. If we accept non-ability to write ones name is
the marring* register am a teat of ignorance, then we find
that the beet educated, or rather the least ignorant Aga
in England is London. Out of the 4495 marriages that
were solemnised in the metropolis in INS only 31 of the
bridegrooms and 131 of the Midas were unable to sip
their names. Nay, more than that, we And that next to
London in its freedom from caligraphic incapacity stand
counties near her—to wit, Surrey, Kent, Sumer, Hamp-
shire, Berkshire. In this South-Eastern group only lit
per cent of the men and 111 per cent, of the wow*
married last year had to make crosses in the regitters
The most unlettered district in the kingdom seems to be
Wales, where 271 per cent. "of the men and 3/17 of tie
women married in 1874 could not write their signatures
Next to them in this respect figures the West Midland
counties, Gloucester Herefordshire, Shropshire, Stafford-
shire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire—whilst the
Northern Counties figure as being third highest in the
scale of intelligence. One curious circumstance not usually
noticed in connection with these returns is the relative
iragrance of the sexes. In every group with four except-
ions, we find the women lees able to write than the rote,
and these four exceptions seem to point to the fact that
this inability to display educated penmanship on the part
of the brides is not a necesaary consequence of the
emotional influences of the ceremony. The exceptional
groups are the South-Eastern counties, the south.
Midland counties, the Eastern counties, and the South
-
Western comities. There the women seem not so ignorast
as the men. Moreover, this disparity goes throurt a
wide range. In Northampton there is only 'din &soar
of the fair *ex. In Huntingdon, again the bridemooma
, who cannot write are nearly twice as numerous at the
unlettered brides. Roughly speaking, the woman seen
, less ignorant than the men in the agricultural districts,.
but more ignorant in the industrial and manufacturing
districta. Is it poraible that where the demand for femak
labour is greatest, and the widening of the sphere of,
woman's work is most notable, there female education
at its lowest point?

" ENGLISII LIVING."
There can ho no doubt whatever that people nne.
only careful enough of what they eat and cirink otAnna
would be diminished by much more than :ape, ce uts Al
the same then it is obvious that if ain take for his
breakfast • mutton chop, an egg or two, • Naraj of toot
and two or three cups of tea; if ho iedulgv., in anotaie
mutton chop with some bitter beer. og ',n
,to of
dozen oysters with some buttlod stoat, for his lunch; if
he makes what is known as " good w notonome dinner
off soup, fish, entree, joint, game, psitte..y,
and cheese, with
a rea•onable allowance of claire?, champagne, eel
burgundy; and if he then, before eatzejnii for the night,
indulges in some mob modest " finish as • devilled
kidney and a broad:, and beds, be can hardly mewl
coats of his stomach to lar', him well on into middle
age. The simple fact is that the majority of Ent
Rahman habitually over .4 thouil,nivon, Thi, poly,
is no doubt, a natate.od fault The Americans ad
Germans smoke to excess- the Russians and the
Swedes drink to ezcess, and the English eat to excels;
while other natios.sa have other (EMU which we wed
not specify in dee.ail, But, on the other hand, the oree
eating—for we ill not call it gluttony —of the English-
man is to • great extent due to the defects of his cookery
There are tvm things of which the average Fonlinh rook
sheolute7i7 incapable. She cannot send up fish in an/
decent *Ape, and she cannot prepare a dish of vegetable.
All that. she can do with an eel is to cut it in pieces sod
fry it in dripping; all that she can do with a cauliflower
is to boil it and put it upon the table with a great bold
melted butter. In a dinner where fish and vegetables
take their there is no temptetion to over-
indulgence Ptimi Ceriaafted mutton. The fact is that the
cookery of a nation is afar more important factor in ill
health and prosperity than even medical teen would be
disposed to acknowledge. Some few years see a wealth,
brewer was reported to be lying at the point of death. A
friend' a wuntr7 gentleman of the good old irtoil,
looked in upon him to cheer and console his km!
moment.' "It M all up with me," the moribund brewers
reported to bave said shaking his head mournfully
had four new doctors down from London, and l am Is
bad as ever I waa." "Doctors !" retorted his fried,
Th"tccrdnigetil utut Lid turned round of your. duoc.
his
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ma
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rothtwtee
ryarduvic:s..t3;erels. littrareztreidroldfuoelf iii be healthier and tipi

Cuna or 14 Vesta: ASTHMA. In DR. LococK's i'vuoNic
WA P6llll —FMI3I Mr. J. Erkesley, West Houghton. to Nr-
T. Walla, Market-place, Hindley : "My wife can Its,
sleep soundly the whole of the night without beef
disturbed by her cough and shortness of breath, althoeP
for four years site had not been able to sleep more deo
very short time. She is now better than she has It'A
for the last 14 years,"—Tney instantly relieve t'
.a 7.
tion, coughs, colds, rheumatism, and all arrears
They taste pleeaantly. Sold by all Druggists 1;14
2s. 9d, 4s. 6d, and lie per box.