The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

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perch& through to the proper conductor by a piece oil
iron wire found sticking in the *able. Electrically
the third fault was analsglna to the first. The
difficulty may be provided against in future.
Fourth : That nothing has occurred to create the
least doubt in the minds of those engaged in the
expedition of the practicability of successfully laying
and working an Atlantic Telegraph cable, bur, on the
contrary, their confidence has largely increased by
the esperienoe obtained on this voyage. Fifth :
That the Great Eastern steamship, supplied with i
sufficiently strong tackle and haulingdu machinery
for depths of 4,000 to 5,000 yards, there is little or
no doubt of the possibility of recovering the lost end
of the cable, and completing the line, already about
two•thirds laid.

The Grist &item proceeds direct to Sheerness
All well on board. She reports having parted com-
pany with her Talsiesty's steamship Sphynx a few days
after starting: The weather was for the most part
very calm, but often foggy and rainy. A stiff breeze
blew on two days, but although the sea washed over
the Terrible, scarcely any motion was observable on
board the Great Eastern, her greatest roll being 7;
degrees, and her greatest pitching 1 to If degrees.
The cable paid out beautiftilly, and, owing to its
diameter and lightness, the strain required to pre-
vent too rapid egress never exceeded 14 cwt. Its
angle with the horizon during the paying out rately
exceeded 9i degrees. No difficulty whatever was
experienced in mooring the buoys in the deepest water,
two having been left belied moored with pieces of
cable that had been picked up from a depth of two
miler. One of them rode out a stiff summer gale, its
position after nine days being unchanged. Captain
Monarty's chronometers found the true position of
the ship to within a fraction of a mile. The Terrible
has sailed for Newfoundland to coal. Another ac.
count says the cable fouled the hawser-pipe, and
broke whilst attempt' were being made to clear it.
The Standard commenting on the tantalising
nature of the operations carried on suleseqnent to the
breaking of the cable says :—A cable worth several
hundred thousand pounds lay on the floor of the
ocean. Three times was it raised and brought up to
an altitude which encouraged the strongest hope
that it would be recovered, when in • moment the
tackle by which it was lifted broke asunder, and
bitter disappointment again settled down on the
anxious and toil-worn staff. The stone of Sisyphus
was nothing in comparison. Through fog and storm
the Great Eastern battled with the difficulties of her
enterprise, and only retired from the struggle when
she had no longer rope enough to send her grapnel
to the bottom of the sea. This angling in Alpine
depths is a feature of deep sea telegraphy which
reads almost sublime. Two miles and • quarter
down into those valleys of the Atlantic is a pro.
fundity which would seem to baffle all the energy of
man. But it was not so in this ease, and but for
the weakness of the liftiog-tackle the lost portion of
the cable might have been recovered and ultimately
the entire mischief repaired. Had such been the
result, it is difficult to imagine the enthusittem which
would have stirred the hearts of Englishmen at home
on the restoration of the electric current. That
pleasure, however, is deferred, but we may hope
that it will yet be granted to us.
The principal conclusion to be drawn from the
present failure appears to be this—that the Great
Eastern is thoroughly fitted for laying the cable, but
not for picking it up. Yet on the 29th of July the
apparatus on board actually hauled in more than two
miles of the cable from a depth somewhat greater
than that in which the telegraphic lino was finally
lost. On this former occasion the fault was reached
and the integrity of the communication restored.
The most decided failure was with regard to the
grappling lines, which, of course, would not be
wanted if the regular hauling-in machine did its
work effectually. There are, in fact, three descrip-
tions of apparatus employed in this undertaking.
First, we have the machinery for paying out; next,
the contrivance for hauling in; and, lastly, the
grappling lines. The first part of the mechanism
appears to be unexceptionable, but the second is said
to be defective, and the third is unquestionably so.
Probably the degree of efficiency is somewhat pro.
portioned to the measure of experience which
telegraphists have had in the three stages of opera-
tion. Laying a cable is no new thing; hauling one
in from an enormous depth is an unusual operation,
and grappling at two miles down is still more extra-
ordinary. We have now to begin at the end, so to
a7eak. First, there must be grappling; next, the
hauling in; and then, lastly, the paying out. That
the cable can be found and " hooked," even at the
great depth where it pow lies, is clearly proved,
for it has already been done, only the tackle
was too weak to bring the cable to the surface. As
for hauling in, that, too, has been done, though
there is room for improvement in this particular.
So far as the Great Eastern is concerned, she is
said to be the right ship in the right place with re-
gard to the Atlantic Telegraph, and for once is no
fault found with her. Had she been expressly built
for this particular enterprise it would seem that she
could not have been more completely adapted for it.
It is worth while saying a good word for this luck-
less monster, and it is highly satisfactory to find that
after all her mischances she is positively good for
something, and that something an enterprise which
will take rank amongst the noblest undertakings of
modern times._

But the cable—what is to be aid of that? The
ship and her machinery, with all the paying-out
apparatus, and other paraplierialia, may be abso-
lutely perfect; and yet if the cable be defective all
the rest will go for naught. "The cable paid out
"beautifully," we are told, "and, owing to its
"diameter and lightnees, the strain required
"to prevent too rapid egress never ea •
" ceeded 14 cwt." It went down to the sea at
an angle so slight as scarcely to differ perceptibly
from the horizontal. So much for its mechanical
propertied'. As to the electrical character of the great
rope, we are informed that so good a cable was never
made before, and that it is very much better than the
article bargained for. We are assured that it "is
the best insular cable ever manufactured, and many
times higher than the standard required by the con-
tract." We are told that "the difficulty may be
provided against in future." We should hope so
indeed, for this nail in the way has done mischief
enough already. Certainly on two occasions it coin-
polled the great ship to retrace her course, once to the
extent of ten miles, involving a delay of 38 hours,
and it is suspected that the defective insulation,
which indirectly occasioned the lamentable breaking
of the cable, arose from a similar MM. So serious
an element of clanger must be got rid of in the
future, or somehow detected in time. The stray bit
of wire in the cable is like a pin's point in the spinal
marrow of a man, intercepting the electric currents
of the brain, and paralysing the whole physical sys-
tem with which it is connected. In this, lain other
things, practice brings experience. The second
Atlantic cable is, in all its essential features, far
superior to the first, and but for these unlucky frag-
ments of wire it would, in all probability, be doing
duty at the present time between Valeutia and
lkiewfoundlancL

The Star nye :—The faults have been those
which were all along feared by those who take
objection to the heavy cables. The outside strengthen-
ing wires have been broken in the course of unwind-
ing and of gliding over the brakes, and been toned
into the core of the cable. But what has occurred has
shown the feasibility of overcoming these difficulties,
and if onoe the cable gets undamaged to the bottom
of the we it will lie there safely enough. The whole
experience is moat interesting and hopeful, and the
staff deserve the warmest commendations for their
intelligent zeal and determined pluck aot to be
beaten even by the Atlantic Ocean.

FtnJunT.—A remarkable trial has occupied the
Central Criminal Court for two days. A. Frenchman
named Lafouroade was charged with baring falsely
sworn that a French lady named Valentin was about
to go to America, and by this mains procured her to be
arrested, and thus prevented her from defending herself
in an action that bad been brought against her by a U.
and Madame Bouillon in the Court of Exchequer to
recover a large quantity of French railway *bares and
Government securities, which it was alleged eb• bad
obtained improperly from a IL Candour on his death-
bed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and
Lafourcade was sentenced to eighteen months' ha.
prisonment4

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SHOCKING AND hiTSTERIODO CAMS OF MUTILATION.—
On Wednesday evening an inquest was held before the
Leicester *Droner, on the body of a respeetably.drewed
young woman, about twenty-five years of Age, name
unknown, who was found on Monday evening in the
tunnel of the Leicester and Swannington line in such a
mangled state that she died shortly after her admission
into the infirmary the same evening. Her dark,
swarthy complexion would seem to indicate that she 311
of the gipsy tribe, but her neat and well-clad person
showed that she was a woman of respectable position in
society. She was-last seen alive on Monday morning,
when she called at the cottage on the Leicester aide of
the tunnel, and asked for a glass of water, saying she
was tired, that she lived at Lintater, but had many
miles to go before she got to her journey', end. The
wasr was given to her, and when she left she went down
the bank side towards the tunnel. The girl Moore called
upon her to come back, as elm noticed the train to be
"shunting" at the opposite—the Glenfield—end ; but
deceased went on, saying, "I shall be all right," and
ran up the centre of the tunnel, and was soon lost from
their gams by the smoke and engine filling up the gap at
the opposite end. They saw no more of her. and in a
short time the loaded awl train came through end
passed them, ere they could give an alarm, on its way
to Leicester. The girl was not in a position to utake an
alarm, and at hall-put four o'clock the return train from
Leicester went through the tunneL Her father got
home from his work about the o'clock, and he and Wm.
Adcock, who was goiog to Glenfield, went up the
tunnel, which is a mile and a chain in length, with •
lamp. They found deceased about helf-way up lying
against the side of the rail on the " four foot" or carnage-
way, with her head towarcla Glenfield. Her crinoline,
shawl, and portions of her draw were torn from her
body, and were found lying at some distance off. Her
right arm and left leg were severely fractured, almost
torn front her by the two trains pawing over ber ; and
she had also sustained • terrible scalp wound and severe
bruises on different parts of her person. One of her
fingers and a thumb were found lying close to it. She
was yet alive, but quite insensible, and must have bled
• good deal. In her pecket were some b A, two
onions, and 2c. Bd. in elver and copper,
lead to her identity. She wee totalled on'
brought t 6 the- Leieester Isieretary,
shortly after Meg admission.
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TfIE CATTLE PLAGITF.
PROFIZSOR GANGS. ailloot hear of a borne origin
for the cattle plague. If it Ii id la en gm.e”.terl in the
London sheds non, aft. r so many years of labour on the
tort of sanitiry kisrds ad airtime' otti, er. .1
ally, I e asks, has it not appeared before during the
post 100 e.t.a? century it wgg iinporb,l front
I bilged. The Pr•ifrivor thiokg that if we had nt
int pot te I foreign stock, " firitt-h beef would he sonnotr,,
cliessor, and more abundant than it in." He however, that that we marmot now do without foreign stock:
but lie thiwks that this class of cattle nimoahi nage
▪ pirate markets and slaughter-bonen. A rentl -man
Rotund Jeyea, of ,Leyton, Ewes, snirgeats a new origin
for the cat le plague. It is, he thinks, the result if
drioking water unix. d with he wage. Horses, he ss3
are supplied in the atable, An d the sheep requite 11017
herbage, but the cows must dunk at the ponds bro.
which in his dixtriet the serage is discharged. novelly,
the • (Fest of such water is nrotialigrd by the "ext.,,.
ordinary aitnivat of vital energy posuosed by oows
but. in a ...taboo Ike the present. wet and cold nights and
• r-succnient food prostrate the animals and breed a.
pre-liability to disease.

THE Railway Department of the Board a Trade,
issued • cipsider a few days ago, addri sod to the.
managers of tire different railway emnpaniet, ream-
wending the iscloption of stringent measures for ensuring
cleanliness in all matters tronnected with the conveyance-,
of c‘ttle. A setairid chaffer brut ju4 been issued, calling-,
itta *Sion to the foritver,• and requesting to know what-
mes.ares have been adopted, or *mahout to be adopted,,
for oarrr trg these recommendations into effect.
A2l infinentiel meeting Was held in Bristol, on Thurs-
day, under the presidency of the Mayor, to t .ke into-
con sideration the ravagers oontmitted by the cattle plague,
and the steps which are neeeMary to srrest its enuise.
The meeting was addressed by Sir Willitien Mlles, Sir
Arthur Elton, Dr. Budd, Picifeasor Herapath, Mr. Aid
Proctor, and others, and resolution:o of the usual kind
were adopted. Mr. Proctor suggested Gail an indepen-
dent subsoiption should be sot up in order to aid alai
agricultin lets, inasmuch as the consumers were deeply
inteleted in checking the disease. fie offered £lOO
towards that object.
DEATH OF A VETERINARY SORGEON.—Mr. &meet
Fisher, a veterinary surgeon in Stamford, a short time
ago, w.mt to examine a horse which had just died be-
longing to Mr. Ward, farmer, of Drayton, North& mv-
e nib!' ire. The caTaise was :meted with mtriads ofg
fltes, which were feeding on the remains. Mr. Fisher,.
in the course of his examination, saw that two of th,.
ineeets had settled on one of hit arms. He took very,
little notice of the circumstance hat in • few days two.
minute lumps presented themselves. Be felt cop in.
until about • week after, when he fend it advisable to
call in a medical gentleman. The arm Continued to-
swell, and, notwithstanding the greatest attention of
the medial:l man, death occurred on Taeaday. lt is
said the horse had snffered from a disease similar to
'hat now raging anions cattle.

.A Ktentua of the medical officers of health, vete+
spiry surgeon., and others interested in the cattle trade,
was held on Thursday, in the Mansion Hone, to con.
eider what *ceps could be taken to cheek, or if possible
extirpate, the pre-ent cattle epidemics. The Lora
Mayor was in the chair. Several expedient were sag-
both for prevention and cure, and it seemed le.
sug-
gested
general opinion that the diaease had broken out.
among the cattle in this country, or rather in the:
tattnpolit, and was not all importation from abroad.

THE Privy Conned have directed the Board or
Customs rigidly to enforce the regulations regarding the.
importations of cattle which were issued in 1856, but.
which have bees relaxed by an order in council datedi
June last year.
PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE Ileseungs.—Professor
Dick, at a recent meeting of the Highland and Agricul-
tural Society of Scotland, said that he was of opinion.
that much might be done both in the way of prevention
egd cure by cleanliness, ventilation, and drainage,
Wh re the &ease made its m peerage° he would adviser
that all the cows in the plaos should immediately get a
dose of purgative medicine, lib. common salt, and
treacile, with plenty of water as a means of removing any
latent irritation of the bowels. and change of diet should
also be made, wet rank gram should be avoided, and hay
scalded with hot water given ins esd, and linseed coke
used instead of the grains so commonly given. The cake
to be scalded and mixed with bran; a few turnips to be
given as soon as they amid be procured, in preferiume
to mangel-wurzel; let them also have plenty of water;
a litte salt should be given daily with all their seek
food, and if convenient, in fine weather, exercise
shoal be given daily. In eases of this kind, it was of
the greatest importance that the earliest symptoms of
the disease should be attended to, and he was of opiniers
that by doing so many might be cured. He then
described the symptoms' and said that they all indicate&
a febrile affection of a typhoid character, with debility..
From the general symptoms and post mortar, appear-
ances, he was of opinion that the disease depended'
chiefly on atmospheric causes and the diet of the cattle,.
which might be prevented by attention and occasional
changes of diet; and when any culla of even suspicion*
occurs he would at once give a dose of purgative mode
eine to every beast in the herd, say of 11b. common salt,
Ilb, treacle, and 2 oz. of ginger, and this doze might be.
repeated. When the disease bad manifested itself, h.
thought the best plan to adopt would be to give a pound'
of linseed oil in the fired place; and if the bowels waren
costive, llh. of common salt and plenty of distilled water..
On the following day, if purging had set in, two
of laudsnum should be given in linseed tea, and as goes
as the purging had ceased three or four drachms of the
sulphate of iron should be given night and morning. 11
the animal were weak and exhausted, • pint of port wise,
or four ounces of whisky might be given' the back
rubbed with yeast Orarmh and a mustard blister well
nil-dyed on the belly, or fomentation. of IreS water freely
need.

TRYING TO ROAST A MAIN AM% —On Wednesday
morning, at the Westminster Polioe-eonrt, • tall,
powerful black man, who gave the name of Charles
Davis, was brought up in euseody, charged with ill-
treating a man, and putting him upon • fire, asessm-
ponied with a threat that be would roast him alive.—
Matthew Smith, • poor man, said: I live at 30, Okt
Pye-street, Westminster, in a lodging•house there,
and so does the prisoner. At about ten o'clock
last night I was sitting qtfietly in the kitchem
talking to the woman who has care of the,
house, when the prisoner crossed over to me seiee4
me by the throat, and much ill-used me. He sernek me.
in the face while he had got hold of my throat, andl
tried to roast me. He caught hold of me sad pot me
on the fire, and said he would hold me there until her
roasted ma alive. I straggled and got away, but inr
hands were burnt, and I was scalded by the large boiler
on the side of the fire falling upon me in the 'draggle.
—Prisoner said he he had been drinking freely, and wee
first insulted by the prosecutor making some illiberal
remarks about his oolour.—Prosecuttor cleated that.
he had said anything about prisoner's colony, and the
woman who manages the home earrobonted him.
Prisoner was drunk at the time. He was remanded.
1 WHOLZOLLN INYANTIOIDI IN CARLISLE.-1=
more ways of sacrificing the innocents than by
ing them between hod-ticks hi ' the ilffPdar
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sum, but • , smountiedd down 1
the mother, Aso eases no more to
produces the money, the infant is
first stev of its nurse is to enter ii
Tittle thing is "soothed" with I.
or it is overiaid, or it die
The burial eisb is drawn sy
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woman of tina,kinik..

applied to higi over •..ti over for
tate for infante litho had died her wt-. Ho
very properly costumed to ot- bit el the IMilm
I s obliged under • pens: * a oor,-lhe
difficulty is quietly got.. _ _ speak groodw-
murder is hushed up. The ...It that coroners ere sow
paid a fixed salary takes somewhat from limit vigil-
-1 AIX* ; and eo the cases to which I refer rarely memo
1 before the public. -Correspondent of the Cortide
1 Examiner.
I MEM= Or A WIPL-An ox-policeman named
Thomas Copestake is in custody at Sheffield on the
charge of murdering his wife. It appears that the pri-
soner and his wife lived together in Bimsterofts he
Sheffield, and they had frequently quarreiled. Ow
Wednisday night the deceased was seen to Igo tipettdre,
and soon afterwards her husband followed her and took
a candle with him. He remained upstairs about w
quarter of an hour, and when he came down be asked
a girl named Rose, who was in the home. if she had not
heard a falL The girl mid she had heard a little bump.
hut thought nothing was the matter. Copestake then
I went to another osinson, and told beg that his wife had
beep hurt. They went upsteirs together, and four.d
WC Copestake lying on the door of a bedroom with
Mir heed in • pool of blood. Copestake said it was a
' seeker thing, and he would give £5 to know who had
done it. He afterwards esklythat she mast have fallen
from the bed on the Bode:- and so hurt hear heed ; but
the neighbour told him- the injury must have been ocsa•
stoned by a heavy kick or blow. The woman renudned
insensible for several days, and on her death en inquest
was held, at which the prisoner was present. The
evidence of the surgeon showed that death bad remind
from a kick at the back of the heed. The body was
covered with recent braises. The toe of the prisoner's
right boot exactly fitted the wound cm the bead. The
coroner (Mr. Webster) pointed out to the jury that there
was nothing of manslaughter in the ease, and, otter lb
consultation, the jury returned with a verdict of
"Wilful murder" *pied Copestake. Whikt the
coroner was tilling up the inquisition several of the
jury altered their minds, and, alter a fresh consultation
• verdict of "Manslaughter" was recorded.
A BRUTAL MORD= was committed at the village or
Okla, a few miles from HierseeMer, on Tuesday morning.
A farm labourer named Davis was drinking at Ms own
house with some boon companions, who left at two
o'clock in the morning. Davis than went out, end on
his return he found his wife, who was far advanced in
pregnancy, lying on the bed intoxicated. The rafllim
threw his wife down stairs, almost without armiking.
kicked her, and, in foot, battered her to death wits
some furniture, • jaw and his fists and feet. The crime
was discovered about six o'clock theme* moinlag. The
murderer bed decamped. Davis was s.pprsheldS en
Wednesday night. When he went away he took two
mon with him and threatened to drown hanself, and
the pools and the river Lead= were searched, but be
was met walking along the turnpike-road, two miles
from Newent, and close to his home. He said he had
been lying under an hedge near, and was only &mood
by hunger. He was taken to the police-station. Davis
has been in the constant practice of beating his wife.
The house in which he lives is the half of • large bare, snd
in the other half three or four reaper. sleep during the
harvest time. It was in the reapers' half where the
carousal took place. After Davis bad gone opstairs the
reapers heard the screams of his wife, and one of them
went in and amended half-way upstairs. But Davis
threatened to kill him, and made him go out of the
house, and tam imbed Medea. Theis Wes men, Do
*1.04 partially drunk, remained where they were till the
morning, and never a to interfere daring the
lost hours they must ha ' • woman being beaten
tl,
to death ; and in ilm they let the murderer
escape out ot the window * .V, D. Cottle and Mr.
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Coutt anb fastianable LlU'limn.

MR. 06.0wrogg sham with the Rev. Mr. Maurice,
gtwrtly pay a visit to the Duke of Argyll, to enjoy
few day.' shooting.
Tex Queen, it in said, will arrive at Windor Cattle
Germany on FrideV, the 15th of September. The
dere and Princess of Wales will arrive in Faglsnd at
e caw, time. On Tneaday, the 19th of Sept., accord-
to g pre,,„e eersnireineots, the Queen. itooompmied
r the Prince and puncess of Wal.•• and the other
embers of the Royal family, will leave Windsor Castle
r Scotland.
Tag Prince and Prima si Louis of Reese, and their
ighnesses' daughter, are in Switzerland, but are to
est the Queen at Coburg, to be present with her at the
,soguration of the monument to the late Prince
.usort. The ceremony of unveiling will take place on
is 26th inst. The monument is now near completion,
m statue having been cast at Nurnberg, and the base
ad pedestal at Weiasenatadt, in Bavaria.
QOllll4 51111 A.—The Dowager Queen of the Sandwich
donde on Tumidity paid a visit to the village of
tmetley, in Berkshire, and attended a coneeoration
:Trice at the parish church, which has been recently
idored and enlarged. '1 be Bishop of Oxford was
went, and delivered an innpre.sive and elogneet
Innen. At the conclu.mn of the service the tvg,.
'Damon at the residence of the incumbent, and soon
for 3 o'clock the Que. n aid suite, accompanied by the
shop of Oxford, took their departure by the Great
Vestern Railway for London. The Bishop of Oxford
his address at Salisbury on Thursday evening alluded
'achingly to the chief object of the Queen's MißBioll to
ie country whieh he said was to obtain the Beans of
;race for her sons people who are in abject wet ty.