The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

Scarlet fever is 51 present very prwaliall ea
district of Battersea.
Galt Lake City is now within four &goof Mike"
by stage and railroad.
A cl.urch at Louisville has put op a sign eon.
mending "no smoking,"
The latest name in America far noople who defame/
the revenue is" revenue cutter."
There are GO political journals in Madrid, and tbells
number is almost daily increasing.
The unfortunate Empress Charlotte is much bee.
ter in health, and frequently perfectly reasonable.
The supplementary catalogue of the library of
l}e Institute of British Architects has just been is-
•ued.

The pecuniary loos by the recent earthquake at
Fan Francisco will, it is said, exceod are* milliono
of dollars.

A velocipede club, with Mr. P. B. Drinkwater as
president, ham been formej at the Liverpool Oym-
nasiam.
Beata Workey, said to be the third son of the late
Emperor Theodore, is now travelling with an Eng-
lish menagerie.

Tho first bar of tin nuvio on the Pacific roast Was
xr,ently turned out at Tomascal, In the county o/
an Diego, California.

A negro in Cleveland has rerovereel 800 dollars
-damages for having been ejected from a skating riuk
on account of his colour.

There are four steel-pen manufactories in America
fmnloying skilled English workmen, who produce
10,000 gran per week.

The Hungarian residents in the United States
have requested that an American Consul• General
should be stationed at Pesth.
Several English gentlemen have visited the Cha-
teau of 11. Berryer with the view of purchasing it.
Three have already bid for it.
A New Orleans clerk, with • pair of ebony glove-
'trete, ors in his pocket, was arrested the other day
for carrying concealed weapons.

A new magazine is published by Allman, Bedford
n oder tbn title WorimiaLater Abbey;
or Reminiscences of Post Literati:on)."

It is staled that Mr. C. S. Parker, M.P. for Perth-
shire. has been selected by the Government to second
the Address in reply to tie Royal Speech.

'nap inhabitants of Trauent suffer greatly from the
west of water. It is conjectured that the sunray is
cis vff by the coal mince in the neighbourhood.
The expenses of the revers' candidates at the eke-
lion for Bronel fire returned as follow :—Messrs.
Berkeley and Morley, £3,503; Mr. Miles, £2,1188.
In New York, it is suggested that the rewards of-
fered for the rapt nre of murderers he deducted from
the pay of the policeman on whose boat tho murders
soccer.

The Rerserl states that both the curates of St.
Vary'., Soho, have been roreived into the Church of
li.•••••• Th, ;nnior curate was ordained only On hilt
Irinity Sunday.
All the Ports papers publish long acconnts of Its
disturbances which hare cs rurred at Reunion, and
emsiderable indignation is expressed at the loss of
life which 'lgnited.

Three or four well•lmiown members of tho Pula
.lorkey Club have been rinse 1 for default--serntehed
for not raying off their debts. An Englishman is
amongst the number.

CWSINO THE ELBE.—A Stettin teleftTSlTl says
I lint shipping is ire-bound, and a Hamburg telegram
ate, that naritrat ion of the Elbe for sailing vessels
iI entirely closed by ice.
It is proposed to construct a wet dock at Berwick
a,n-Twee.l. The estimated cost of the work is some-
where oliont £2n.000, nnti the depth of water in the
tb k wiU be nineteen feet.

The demolition of the fortifications of Ostend has
been commenced, workmen being enraged in filling
no the moat in the northern part. The whole is to
be termitated by the Ist July.

Orders have been received at the Arsenal of flour-
gee to dispatch a large quantity of muskets to Ear-
smiles, and 4,000,000 rounds of ball cartridge have
been packed for transport by rail.

The quantitv of water in store at Rigington ruler.
voirs last week was 3,136 million gallons, against
2,752 million gallons at the IMMO period last you.,
being an increase of 384 million gallons.
The Bank at Havana, muerte.] to ho suspended,
was only in temporary difficulties, and it is under-
stood that its engagements wefo dal/ met by it.
London agents on Monday.—Daily rfcgraph.

TLe seeurities iodized by the petitioners against
the return of Lord St. Lawrence and Sir R. !Renner.
basset t for the borouirl, of Galway have been declared
insufficient. £2,000 must be lodged within a short
inie.

The St. Petersburg journais speak of Madame
ram d.brit tl ere in the most enthusiastic terms.
She is represented as haring been reralhni forty times
in Ihe course of the performance of the " fionnam-
beht"

Yr. Devereaux, who waa unseated by the judges
of tac. Irish Court of Common Pleas, on petition of
Mu llotte, is again canvassing the eleetors of the
&wow+ of Wexford. No other candidate has ap-
peared.
The agitation on the land question has not seri-
ously impaired the value of property in the north of
Ireland. At the last sale in the landed Estates Court
a property situate in the county of Antrim brought
XI years purchase.

GYMNASTICS.— The Sistarnin, Rerirtr nye the
greatest inereve in development of the first 500 men
at the Oxford Gymnasium was made by ii man in his
36th year, who Increased kin. in height, nibs. in
weight, and 4'in. in girth of chest, besides a great
increase in site of arm.

GAS AT SEA.—By direction of the Admiralty tho
turret armour-olated ship Monareh, 7, I,loo.horse
power (nominal), fitting in the harbour alongside the
dockyard, is ordered to have an apparatus fitted on
board for the manufarture of gas, for lighting every
portion of the vessel.— The Enrinerr.

On Monday the Right lion. James Moncreiff was
installed as Lori Rector of the University of Edin•
burgh. The ceremony took place in tho Music flail,
in presence of tho students and a large company of
ladies and gentlemen. The Principal of the Univer.
city (Sir Alexander Grant Bart.,) occupied the chair.

A correspondent at Florence, writing on the 11th,
Further reductions in the army will pro-
bably moon take place. The only person in high
quarters who would keep thq troops on their prevent
footing is the King, who, howeller, seems at length
to have been convinced of the necessity for reducing
the army expenditure."

Archdeacon Denison, at a clerical meeting at
Taunton, Oh Monday, took ocession to refer to tho
recent watherinw of ritualiats in London. Ho eon.
domed the conduct of thoao clergymen who declare
that they will not obey tho law aa laid down in the
rorent judgment of Lord Cairns, and said he would
have no more to do with men who held inch a posi-
tion.

The new screw steamer Bonny, belonging to the
British and African Steam Navifration Company,
which left Greenock on Monday last for Gavelock,
for the purpose of testing her compasses, left the
latter port at three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
for the Money. She will leave Liverpool on the
Vitli inst., under the command of Capt. B. F.
Lowry, direct fur Sierre Leone end the other West
African ports.

Titz IrsDsur IN Sr. 04,I.L.—Lettors from
}bigots state that the extent and effects of the land-
slip near that town were greatly exaggerated in
Reuters telegram (ruin Berne. The Swiss news from
England quite astonished the residents on the spot.
The enormoos landslip was merely a fall of earth oc-
casioned by the rains, and of no magnitude, the
road from Begets to Ilefferelled, by the side of the
Tamina, was repaired in a few hours, and the river
flows as usual.

MM. Jecket, the Mexican banker, and Oydsse
Band, a writer on the LArrie, have been condemned
by the Correctional Tribunal of Brussels to a month's
iniprisoument and 200 f. fine each, for haying fought
a duel tome time ago, at Boitsfurth, near Brussels.
'The seconds weft. acquitted. The significance of the
ju,lgment lies in the fact that this is the first attempt
made to put a stop to the system of Frenchmen
choosing the territory of King Leopold as the theatre
for settling their "affair. of honour."

NNW CABLINALS.—The Borne correspondent of
3(„,.
Pus! says :—We are to have three new
eaeidttials at the March Consirtory—Moeingnors De
Chigi, and Falcinelli. The latter will of
ei.d"..c lot.. al. pea' Of Nuncio et Vienna and nom-
?na between .. Beast and the Court of Rome
trios: be regulation of the Concordat will be rendered
P!artical Ii his departure, is the Austrian
Prime Mdniatez
nothing‘ o! a pretty plainly declared time
friendly nature couid be concluded en
long as uonsignor knkinalli remained at Vienna.
RATING nun Vtrnito.—The Court of Ocrm
mo
from decisions
Pleas sat on Menday kg.of ti
purpose of heming ap-
peals reciaing
Lord Chief Justice barristers. The
delivered itel
of .Ikfedvisi v. Streeter. Thi. „rn appeal front
in the case
a
the borough of Horsham. The rearioadent claimed
to vote in reepect of &dwelling for wldch he had not
been rated, bet he had before July lags, .d
to
the overseer all rates that would have boon re for
the house previous to January 8. 0„ j.tory
15,
1869, a rate was duly made, but on that tho raven.
dent was not rated. On the 24th of Auguat, 1868,
the respondent, finding his name was not upon the
rate, served • notice upon the overseer, claiming to
be rated, and he tendered the amount of the rat.
duo. On them facts the revising barristor, contrary
to his own opinion, but in deference to the decisions
al two MIMS in Ireland, allowed the claim. It was
contended that the respondent was not qualified to
vote on the 11.5 of July, 1868, became he had not
been rated to all rates made daring the preceding
year, and nothing done afterwards could obviate the
objection. His Lordship said that the true meanie-
tion of the law was that convenience and safety
alike required that the qualification must be com-
pleted on the Alat of July, and that nothing done
after that date could remedy a defect then existing.
Viler. these circumstances, the decision of the m-
elanin Inn:4W amt. be Mewed.

LITERARY SELECTIONS.

Mary 'wetly-fashioned month has been diallgared
Sod made hideotte by the fiery tongue within it.
Tame and admiration weigh not a feather in the
weale against friendship and love for the hart lea-
rim.. all the lame.

We must pass through this world to unlock the my*.
lawies of the nett, and it is only in the 'lost that we
eau And a key to unlook the mysteries of this.
Oren evil at all events does this good—it Imes Rood
en the alert.. When there is no likelihood Man enemy's
approaching, the garrison slumber at their posts.
Peevishness may be considered the oanker of life.
that destroys its vigour and checks its improvement—
that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taint. &Ed
vitiates what it cannot oonstimo.--JoitYlet

Two Bot•nr&s or' DivixiTY.—Tbere are two books
wheneeto colleot our divinity. Besides that written
one of God, another of Ili' *errant Nature; that uni-
versal and public manuscript which lies expanded to
Lb. erm of all.

0001) WILL—The welfare and safety, the honour
and luoutatioe, the plower.) and quiet of oar lives,
are concerned in our loving correspondence with ail
men. for so uncertain is our condition, so obnoxious
are we to manifold necessities, that there is no man
whose good will we may not need, whose good word
may not stand us instead, or who.. endeavour may
not sometimes oblige us. It is but reaeonable, there-
fore, if we desire to live securely, comfortably, and
°niggly, that by all honest means we should en•
deavour to purchase the good will of all men, and
provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any
man's love may be useful, and every man', hatred is
dangeroas.—Baggow.

flooxa.—lt is vanity to pennede the world one bath
much learning when one has got • Freat library. As
soon would one believe every man is valiant that has
a well-furnished armoury. I gums good housekeep-
ing by the smoking, not by the funnels, am knowing
that many of them are without chimneys, and more
without fires. Some books are merely to be tasted
of, viz., first, voluminous books, the task of • man's
life to read over ; second, auxiliary books, only to be
repaired to on occasion; third, such as are more pieces
of formality, so that if you look on them' you look
through thorn, and }lO that peeps through the case-
ment of the index, sees as much as if he were in the
louse; but others, real and digest carefully, ; do not
morel, trade on their tables and contents.—ruoltAß

TEE STATE OF ROES AT THE ADVENT OF
ettutertattirY.—The simple virtues of the old repnbli o
had long airce paned away. Freedom had taken her
eternal flight. The people were debased, and looked
on in silence at the perpetration of enormous crimes.
After Nero's dealings with his mother, he could still
be emperor. The name of religion was applied to •
tistem corrupt to the inmost °entre. No one believed
in it who had any pretecoe to intelligence. Public
honour and justice were almost unknown ; and eon.
Tiered provinces were only regarded as victims of
oppression. Private virtues had now almost vanished;
honour and truth and mercy were little more than
empty sounds. Decency itself had departed; and vim
Which cannot be named in our day were freely peso-
timid, unchecked by public opinion. It was a society
where vice had penetrated to the heart of almost every
household. That was the most familiar thought which
was the most impure. honour had Red from men,
chastity from women, innocent)* from children. And
what contrasts appeared in that society to their eyes?
'I imy saw one emperor cutting away • mountain to
build an Imperial palate,; and another summoning a
council of state to decide about the ctooking of a fish.
They eau the name and fame and glory of the old re-
publican heroes all forgotten by their degenerate des-
cendants, who now prided themselves in nothing so
much as their skill in detecting at a single taste Ole
native bed of an oyster or • sea-nrollin. Effeminate
nobles wore light or heavy finger-rings to Accord with
the varying temperature of the summer and winter
seasons, and yet could order a score of slaves to be
crucified as an after-dinner pastime. This wail tho
time when bloodthirsty myriads were watching the
death-agonies of gladiators whose vengeful kindred
were raging all along the borders of empire; when
Roman eoldiers abroad were beating back the Dacians,
Or marching against the Druids, in the Isle of Mona,
while Boadicea led on the tribes to the vengeance of
Carmilodnne ; and when ROOl4ll citizens at home were
scrambling for their daily dole of victuals at the doom
of the great ; when he was most fortunate who was
most vicious ; and they obtained wealth and honour
who, by forging wills, had defrauded the widow and the
orphan ; when a fierce copulation, fresh from the
amphitheatre, and a nobility polluted by vices without
• name and an emperor stained with the guilt of a
mother's murder, gazing mockingly upon the death•
agonies of martyrs who died in (tames, clothed in the
tun 144 snn'est.l; when, for year after year, and gene-
ration after generation, all these evils grew worse, till
In the fearful words of Tacittis, "They would have
lout memory also with their voice, if it had been pos-
sible as well to forgct as to keep silent."—lfelenda.
llooesehold.

CIIANGE9 Ti AN IRISH TOWN.—What a change a
few years had made in Kilmoylo ! Never very pros-
perons, it seemed to have fallen into the lan extre-
mity of wretchedness. The fair was over, and all that
remained of it was here and there a country cart in the
Street, outside • public-house, or • late pig going borne
In charge of its new owner, and perhaps more ens-
tamers than usual in the shebeens. I put on a shoot•
ing jacket, and wont ont of the barrack nnobserved,
noting the evidences of decay, and recalling the old
times when Kilmoylo seemed to me the centre of a
civilised life. Rafferty's great establishment, where I
we. wont to eurchase the stirring battleecenes and
the card-sold jars, which I coloured to my heart's con-
tent with gamboge and carmine, had disappeared.
That was indeed a shook to the sensibilities. The house
had been altered, and the large window built up, and
in the space wherein lel once been displayed trea-
sures in endless profesion—toys, prints, paint-boxes,
fiehing•rode, guns, Manchester goods, confectionary,
bonnets, scythes, hats, books, grocery pickles, sta-
tionery; an assortment, in fact, whici made "Raf-
ferty'. Emporium" • sort of sample repertory for all
the trades and m an nfactures—were "notice." from the
"Board of Work.," and the " Board of Poor-laws," and
"Emigration Commissioners," aid "Rewards" for
criminal', and serious! literature headed "Proclamation
Dublin Castle," and ending "God save the Queen."
The "Desmond Anne had degenerated into "Lodgings
and entertainment for man and beast." The oM coach
days If f". 11 over, the branch railway to Knockdown had
given Kilmoyle • wide berth, and the board of works
had constructed a road which carried away all that
had been left of the traffic. But for • galvanic touch
from the fair or the market, and an occasional visit
from at, inspector of something or other, Kilmoyle
would have died out of mere lethargy. I could not
reeist going into the old house—the landlady I knew
had been gathered to her people across the omen; she
had gone off to her eons in America when the famine
broke out. But the bar room was still there; the glass
window had generally become opaque from brown
Parer, yet I could still see the old engraving of the
'Right Honourable the Earl of Beltrook. master of the
Kihrnoyle hunt," feeble the portrait of "Sir John Des-
mor.d, M.P., delivering his famous verb in the Irish
House of Commons in 1782;" and the fox in the glass.
case over the fireplace, which looked perfectly eatable
of giving a repetition of the immortal run which
finished more than half the county side, and secured
him the honour of being stuffed and housed. 'niece,
too, on the commits wall, wa• the monster trout
by Richanl Butler. Eso., on a midge, below Cana
Bridge, 10th June, 1819," struggling to keep itself to-
gether; and there wore the natural history collections
made by the landlord—a gamekeeper on tho Drareond
estatee—the horned owl, the bittern, the large diver,
the solitary spine, the mottled woodcock, and pole cats
and weasler, which rendered a visit to the little parlourone of the delights of my childhood.— Vet d 1 v natures
q(i)r. Brady.
SMAT.T. HMO% t AND LARCIE PAY ThtEt. —The court
of which my father's house formed a part was one of •
number that branched off from a tolerably large, and
at that time respectable front street. It was not • very
large court, comprising as it aia, only twelve small
houses, each of which consisted of four small apart-
ments, and was let at • rental of three shillings per
week, the comment s being chiefly labouring men, of •
class whose incomes were lees than that of my father.
But though the court and the houses in it woro small,
that fault did not extend to the families of those who
lived in them, as they were upon a decidedly large
scale, and there Were few courts of the same. or indeed
of a nonsidcrahly larger size that could have produced
an equal unmber of children. A cabman who occupied
No. 4, howled the list with ton, the eldest of wtiom
was only f (teen years of age; there were two families
with eight, and several with six children each, while in
our family, which was the smallest in the court, there
were now two children. Among the juvenile popula-
tion of thecourt there was a number whose egos were
between five and two years, and these children were
generally sent out of doors to play, and oolong as their
games were carried on in the court all went well. It
was very rarely, however, that their play was confined
to the court for any length of time, for with the true
spirit of street children, they generally made for the
open air, where they could indulge in the luxury of
playing in Om gutter, and otherwise amuse themselves
in a more varied and unrestrained manner than they
could do when cribbed, °shined, and confined within
the limited space of our court, and subjected to the
watchful glances of their parents. Now, my mother,
much to the disgust of some of her neighbours, would
never allow me to play, or in any Other Way associate
with thews children. When questioned concerning her
motives for acting in this manner, she would say that
she notioadthet however clean and tidy soch children
were when they went out to play, they &leap returned
from play with their clothes ready for the wash-tub ;
and moreover than that, some of them were in the
habit of throwing stones and using "bad words." And
so I was strictly forbidden, under penalty of receiving
• beating in ease of transposition, to "go near those
naughty children!' In this state of comparative se-
anstoe, and jealously guarded from all °email:mica-
oation with the rougher urchins of the court, I had
grown up a highly moral and respectable baby, and
would perhaps have continued to have grown in grate
as well as in years and stature, but for the birth of my
brother, which event, by entirely withdrawing me from
my mother's care for a time, and permanently engross-
-1 considerable portion ofthist care and attention
which she had before bestowed ezolusivety.upon me,
was destined to effect a revolution in me ' manners
and customs," highly detrimental to my infantile mo-
rality and reepectability. During my mother's illness
those who reigned in her stead, so far from following
her example to forbidding me to associate with the
other children in thecourt, actually ordered me, as I
have alreadystated, to go and play with them. This
order I at first obeyed somewhat reluotantly, for thetleh
Iliad of my own free willjoined the.. children on the
morning on which my brother was born, I had merely
don,.. so in the exuberance of spirits which I felt at
`"'",ing myself master of my own actions. In my
ter moments owing to my mother's teaching, lon.
leru'i"td • great though vague and undefined fear of
naughty al:waren, whom Iliad been teught to regard
as very dangerous pinions. But being ordered to go
out and Play with, and /main,
Pis
myself neglected and
unnoticed at home, I ventured in a timid manner to
join their % and finding that
sociable and not at all the they
Ware very
aratbar bad e terrible characters that
delighted with wd t
their free and them to be aanciae infadeeabeal
life,.l soon became • fully Mit iat•it and confirmed corn
piil4loll of the guttere—Joksiey ROWYOR. frif Its Jourto•y•
own Empower.

ButAkpAilm: A Soccasern Eirranuarr.—Tbe
Ciril Serried Gautir bag the following interesting
remarks ," Them are very few simple articles
of food which can boast so many valuable and im-
portant dietary properties as cocoa. While sating
on the nerves aa a gentle stimulant, it provides the body
with some of the purest elements of nutrition, and at
the same time correct. and invigorates the action of the
digestive organs. new beneficial effeets depend in a
measure 1410,1 the manner of It. preparation,
great
taitf LW years such close attention ban been given to
the growth and treatment of omen that there is no
difficulty in securing it with every useful quality fully
developed. The gummier sitcom which Mr. Epps
attained by hi. bauseopathic preparation of cocoa ham
never been renamed by any ezperimentalist. Far and
wide the reputation of Epps's cocoa has spread by the
simple forte of its own extraordinary merits. Medical
moo of all amdes of opinion kite, agreed in recommending
It as the safest and most beneficial article of diet for
persons of weak constitution.. This superiority of a
particular mode of preparation over all others is a
remarkable proof of the great remit, to be obtained
from little causes. By a thorough knowledge of the
natural lairs which govern the operations of digestion
and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine
properties of wellselected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided
our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured
beverage which may save no many heavy doctors' bills
It is by the judicious use of swill article. of diet that
a constitution may be gradually built up strong
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds
of subtle maladies are floating around as ready to
attack wherever there is •we point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping oversaw.s
well fortified with • pure blood and a properly
nourished frame.

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