The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

M ISC EL L A N EO US.

A. Assuest.y ltoox roe ALDEasecer.—lt is in
contemplation by the military authorities at Aldershot
to devote the building known as " the Club Howe' to
the holding of assemblies and fashionable rdanions
during the winter month..
W RATHER PREDICTIONS FOR NOVEMBER AND
DRCENSIR.-A new edition of M. Mathieu'a (dole
theme) almanac contains the following predictions for
the months of November anal December, 1864:—About
the 10th there will be rain over the greater part of
Franoe, and Southern Starve. More will fall in Italy
than in France, and there will be bet little in those
regions which shall have been abundantly watered
between the let and Bth. About the 17th or 19th
storms will prevail in Italy, and others, leas severe, in
France, particularly in the south. Itstween the 28th of
November and the sth of December there will be a
great ternpeat in the longitudes of Venetia and Odessa,
with others of a milder character on different part. of
the mast of France. At the beginning of December
there will he heavy rains, principally to the east of Italy
and in southern Howie. Rivers will overflow their beaks.
About the 9th of December, and again about the 18th,
gales of wind will prevail in the longitudes above
indicated- From the end of November to the 20rh of
Itecemher navigation will be dangerous, particularly in
gibe Illsele See."
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THI PILCI1•10 FlMllllllll.—The pilchard fishery On
the eouth cruet of Devon hiui been mo.t sucensful during
the past wet k. One fishermen alone has taken about
30.000. The price realised has ben 12s. per EOM.

i/ZATH ?ROY THE SHILL Or Q1;17C.1911..
was found dead in her bed the other morhieg at
Bordeaux, and the doetory ae.ert that alie died from the
effects uf the onsell of quince., • large basket of which
we found lath. room.

Cuatoos FACTS SHOUT BANK NOTTS. —The time
during which some noteoremnin unpresented is reckoned
by the century. On the 27th of September, 18411. •
£5O note was presented, besring date 20kh ,4 January,
1743. An ther, for £lO, issued on the 12th of November,
1762. was not pearl till the 28th April. 1845. Stolen
and lost notes are grnerslly long abeentees. The former
usually make their appesrance ...on after a great herde-
rs., or other sporting e.ent. sleeted or disAui.ed iota
to deceive bankers, to whom the Rank furnishes • list
of the number and dntes of .11 stolen notes. Cars liminess
or accidents give the Ilsnk enormous profits. In the
forty years between 1792 and 11.02 there were out-
standing notes of the Bank of litiglsnd—presomel to
have been lost or destroyed—smounting to £1,330,000
odd, every shilling of which was clear profit to ea.
Bank.

RTGISTIATION /UVULA—Elevenl appeals will be set
down for bearing next term from the decisions of the
revising barristers before the Court of Common Pleas.
The question is likely to be raised when a pervon is
entitled to he put on the register—whether be can claim
at twenty or twenty-one. Before qualified • year would
elapse.
LNOTHIII ENOILMOOT CASTING AT SHITFIIILD.—It
may be in the recollection of our renders that in July
last we reported • successful attempt mole by Messrs.
J. M. Stanley and Co., the Midland Works, to cost an
until block weighing 140 tons. The enormous mess of
iron took six weeks to cool, and it was awl, by means
of hydraulic power, lifted from the mould. Last week
the mune firm were engaged in casting • second anvil in
precisely the same size and weight.. The mould, which
was 12 feet Pquare at the hue and 11 f, et 6 inches deep,
was dug nut in the centre of the workshop, and from
the Ise furnaces constructed at intervals round tie
building, the molten iron was run. The flat furnace
use "tapped" at six o'clock in the morning, and in
about twelve hours the mould was filled. The
op2ortnnity was embraced by Masers. Stanley for testing
their newly-patented rot-my engine. An ordinary engine
of 12-horse power was used to drive a portion o the
blow fans. It was worked at a pressure of 80Ibe., and
the fens made 1.400 revolutions per minute. The ne•
engine, which is of 10-horse power, drove fans of rho
some dimensions, was worked at the pressure of 5011-s,
and the fens made 1,600 revolutions per minute. The ,
neer engine worked much easier than the one on the old
principle, and consumed about half the quintity of fuel
The expectetiotui of the patentees in regard to the
power, itompactness, and economy of the engine have
been fully retained. The enormous oastinp referred to
are intended for the gun manufactory of Mews Firth
and Sons. For months peat men have been engagent
preparing for them "beds" of extraordinary solidity;
the neemeity for which will he apparent when we state
that each anvil las to receive the blow of • 25-ton
Nannyth hammer. Extensive alterations are going oa
in the steel melting department at the works of Messrs
Firth. The building intervening between the steel
melting (limners has been removed, and other furnaces
is it. room erected. When completed there will be, in
sepsis, of 160 feet long by 60 feet wide, 170 cashing
pots, and an ingot of steel of from twelve to fourteen
tons weight will be turned out` at one casting. In the
cootie of this department will be erected • powerful
steam mans This firm will be celebrated for powering
the largest aliens in the world, and the most extensive
and complete set of steel malting piste.— SArpleld
Indepandent.
Inisusac CATCII OF 1411.1111.11 OFF FILIT.—NeTor in
the memory of the oldest fiehennen hes there been such
' a prodigious quantity of herrings caught as on ,
Monday and Tuesday nights One Nay boat arrived
on Thursday morning with thirteen tarts, and the other
twenty belonging to the place had from See to twelve
lasts each. It is computed that at Scarbro' and nay
aloes not leas than seventy boats contained on an
average eight last, each, and as 10,000 are a last, the
total number .4 herrings delivered in these two pluses
would exceed five millions, and estimating their value
at £1 per last, the suns realised would be nearly £4.000.
WATTLING PLACIIA WITRoIIT WATIL—The long
drought in three midland watering plame—Great
Malvern, Cheltenham, and Clifton—be. reduced them
to the snonalous position of "Weelielt PIWOOW Without
water." From the mouth of March up to the middle of
last week (excepting for • week in September) scarcely
any rain fell in the district, and the effect has been
sufficiently remarkable for bistonail record. At
Meteor.' the water patients have been put upon short
allowance, and the main public sines for a long time
dropped water in such small quantities as to take See
minutes to fill a tumbler, while a second spring at
North Malvern wee chat up. At Clifton the inhalit•nts
were even worse of, and the supply was intermittent,
while the quality was decidedly inferior. At
Cheltenham, called "the Queen of watering please,"
the supply of the pure element has been so deficient as
to mill into saistence a new water company. The
reeroaross of the old oompany proved insdequete to the
requirements of an increasing population, and they
applied to Parliament for a bill to take water from the
Severn, nine miles off; bet the inhabitants strenuously
°ponied it, and the scheme was sheet:toned. The
company then sunk • deep well in the centre of the
town, but this only drained the present wella. A new
company, under the title of "The Cheltenham end
Olonmetershire Water Company Limited," hee conse-
tly been formed for obtaining • supply from a
Lfng spring at South Cior, on the Cotswold Hills,
distent I 7 -miles. Thies oprings ere of great parity,
bed yield over three =Wiwi pikes of water a day, so
Lab shoal.' the projest be carried ..t ahowwa will
have an unpile awl esrisin supply for the futons.
Lunen= is Wneamoazients —ln the pleasant
little town of Orion, Westmoreland, which is well sigh
surrounded by &ambi of meastains, there us at pmesnt
liningnine •warir females whose united spas meemat
to Tin ysese, 83, 83, 81, 80, 80, 80, 73, 73, 71 Three
01 tit.= bass husbands living, and the rest are widows.
The hearty old matrons not only enjoy tolerable health,
but are also in possession of their meinl fro utiles, and
mast of them on Sundays may be sees regularly Wend.
lug the vernrelis parish thumb.