The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-02-14 00:00:00

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

army estimates for 1871 and 1872 were issued On Salta.
day evening. The Increase proposed will involved& charge of
£2,881,700. There is an incresse on etreff and regimental
charges of £040,000; for Divine service, of £3000; for medical
' establishment, of £3OO ; for militia and inspection of reaerve
3.,xesis. £237,800; of volunteer corp., £73,300; of prevision
aid forage, £307300; of clothing establishments, die..
C 317,010; of manufacturing departments, £093,400; of
works," £208400; and of military educ•tien, 4400. The
nominal deereames are :—AdministraUon of military law,
£10,704; yeomanry cavalry, GM; control establishment,
3:801; miwellanoous service., £7,301; administration of the
army, gw,soe. The horse artillery has been increased by six
haitertm, twenty garrison batteries have been converted into
field batteries, and toe remaining garrison batteries increased
in atrength. The artillery depot has also been largely In-
creased, and no orginimeil as to admit of the immed.ate ex-
pansion of that branch of the cerps which may be rpseded for
ac ire service. Nine regiments of cavalry are taken at a full
war strength of men, and all the ragiments will consist of
four equalrons, all of which will take the field when orders)
on active service, and the troops will be trained at a general
depot. The troops of the engineer train have been strengthened
and one troop added f.r telegraph equipment. All the batta-
lion, of the foot guanis and 23 battalions of infantry have an
establishment of 850 rank end Ole as being first for active
I service.

SOIOIDI IN GAOL—Two young man named Li'Pi
and Flowers, very respectably connected, were appre-
hended on a charge of stealing four sheep. They were
locked up in separate cells. On a polioe-offioer enter.
ing that °coupled by L Iley soon after, he found him
to be quite dead, he having cut his throat with a clasp
knife.

TISTIMONI AL. —On Tharaday afternoon, a testimonial
consisting of • timepiece, and a bookcase and library,
was presented to Mr. C. V. Boys, who has for upwards
of 22 years been connected with the telegraph corn-
panics of Great Britain. The Duke of Beaufort pre•
seated the testimonial, and among the company was
Colonel Napier Start, M.P.
Dairreocrive Fizz —On Wednesday • bra broke out
in Glasgow, in premises occupied by Messrs. W. B.
Dick and Co., as an oil refinery, and by Mr. Robert
Angus as grain stores The value of the grain was
£35,0C), and of the machinery and material in the
refinery £lO,OOO, and this with the value of the
buildings brings the total loss up to between £50,000
and £;0,000.

&mica ova CDT FAWKiII. —Since the discovery if
the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 it lies always been the
custom to search beneath the Homes of Parliament
just before they are opened. The ceremony was duly
performed on Thursday morning by a party of Her
Majesty's Body Guard of Yeomen, under the command
of Osptsin Morley. the Exon on duty, accompanied by
the officials of the House, Marabalmen, Isc. The
procession by lantern-light through tb vaulted
chambers, with the antique costume of the Yeomen of
the Guard, had a very picturesque effect.
lama Kilos or Trasoa.—A oomfortable farmer,
residing at Kilbeggan, received a notice lately, warn-
ing him that he would be shot if he did not give up
some land which bus been in his possession for the
last 20 years. A poor woman has been threatened
with death if she did not give up to the former tenant
some land which was let to her many years age. She
requested the landlord to take the farm off her hands,
and, in order to protect her, he has done so.

THIII CONTAGIUOB DISCASIS ILOTS.—Tbe opponents
of the Contagicum Diueuo4 Arita are in • terrible funk
because the evidence before the li3val Commission
uodoabtedly shows the good effects of these Acts in a
sanitory point of view; and they are now driven to
their lest ditch—the moral tendency of the Acts; but
in this regard also, it is quite certain their allegatiens
sill fail; and then, we trust, these persoas—ladies,
forsooth! and others, who have revelled in naatinees to
oppose the Acts, will take up • cleaner and more
womanly subject.

IMAGO! FOR TAUNTON CHURCH.— A vestry meeting
albs parish of St. Mary's. Tau ton,
nton wu held on Thurs-
day for the purpose of applying to theConsistorial Court,
at Wells, for a faculty to ausble the rector and ohurch•
wardens to place windows in the chancel, and images of
the Virgin Mary, the Apostles, an dsaints in the niches
of the pulpit, &a. fhe Rev. Prebendary Clarke took
the chair, and explains chile intentions, Resolutions ware
passed, with only one ddissentient voles, for this further
, ornamentation of the ohuroh • TO. images, whi ch are
to be moat costly and beautiful, are already pr omised,
with one inception, by a wealtny gentleman of the town
and a few friends

SAD GAM Or SOPIttaTITION —0 a Monday last a man
named James Carslake, a shoemaker of Sidbery, was
foetid hanging to a tree in an orchard, and on being oat
down, life was almost extinct. It appears that a
daughter of Carslake has for a long time put been suffer-
ing from some kind of throat disease which occasioned a
kind of hiccupping noise reeembling chuckling et a hen,
end this is said to have risen from the girl having been
overlooked or bewitched ! What seems the moat
deplorable and absurd part of the sad story, is that the
mother a the girl is supposed to have the " evil eye "
' towards her. This appears to have preyed on the man's
mind, and for several days lie has been obliged to keep
his bed ;but on Monday mornimg. without warning, ho
got up and dressed.,went out and committed the rash
act which, bat for its timely discovery, would in •
moment more have cost his life. We understand that
measures will be taken to procure his being sent to •
lunatic asylum.
INCILIUMBLI THINGS THAT COMB TO PAll7.—ln 1850
Alexander Dumas published a newel, called the " Mille
et ace Panttiete," in which be amused himself and the
world by imagining all the most incredible things
possible. The most absurd of all notions, of course, was
that Paris should ever be in distress for food, or that
the Prussian' should besiege it; and so the gay roman ce-
writer played with the ludiorous theme in this way :
"Hoffman directed his steps to the Louvre, bat he lear-
ned at the door that the French, being now freo, would
not allow themselves to be made effeminate by contemp-
lating the pictures of slaves, and that if the Commune
of Paris had not burnt them already, the Parisians
thought it but just to let the rata eat the oil of the
picture% seeing that those rata might ens day servo to
nourish patriots if ever the Prussians should come to
besiege Paris." Had this acetones been put forth in any
book save • novel of Donna, what claims for prophetic
insight might not have been made for its author!

POUSOMID ON 11113 WEDDING DAY.- -Mt. L. A.
Staunton, book-keeper at • insro snide hones in the city
of London, . was in the habit of taking dilated prussic
acid and ammonia in seltzer water for a chronic conch.
He was to be married on the Nib ult., and in the
moraine, breakfast was taken op to his bed-room.
moo thug to custom, by the servant, who noticed •
bottle beside the bed, since found to oontain prosaic
acid. Shortly afterwards Mr. Garland, a jeweller,
celled with some ornaments ordered by the deceased for
Ws bride, and when the servant went upstairs to inform
him she discovered that he was dead. 'rhe post-mortem
examination made by Dr. Vans Christian Clarke proved
that the cause of death was Prussia acid. Several
letters wore put in. One addressed by deceased to his
mother was written on the morning of his death. and
spoke of his joyous anticipation of wedded life. It was
i also shown that deceased was in the receipt of nearly
£4OO • year. ,Thu jury toned that death was 'eased
by ,am overdose of prussic acid takes in for I:columns!

purposes.
TES WAR lIIDIMNITY.—With regard to the ten
milliard 4 Pikiged to be demanded by °dant Blanton:lt as
an indemnity for the losses suffered by the Germans in
consequence of the war, we find the fallowing mu-louse
calculation jut Belgian paper:- -"Teii milliards in 5P
pieces would weigh 50,R,J,C0J kilograir meg. To
transport them all at once by rail would require • train
of 10,000 waggons, assuming each waggon to be capable
of carrying 3,000 kilogrammes. ydu were to make a
girdle out of the ten milliard' in 51. pieeesin such •
manner that each win should touch its neighbour, it
could go ens and threegnarter times around the earth.
' Is If. pieces such a girdle would go four times around
the earth. If the ten milliards in M. pieces were heaped
up on each other in a column, they would reach the
height of 5,400 kilometres or 1,080 league (3,210 Hagfish
miles). Supposing this column of coins to hare its base
AS Paris and to fall in the direction of Berlin, the part
of the column which would strike the letter city would
be hardly one-fib of the entire length from the bees
of the oolumn. If a ready cashier, who can on an
average count 40.000 51. pieces per hour, were alone to
attend to the coasting of the tau inidarda, and if he
were to begin at the age of 30 mil to be engaged edit
elate hours • day and 300 days in the year, he would
be 135 years old before lie had aompleted the task. He
would then amaredly be eneavirmed of the Muth if tbd
provicb, `lLoasy does sot Wag happiasse. '

BIRTHS.

January 29, at Roctuall, Weymouth, the wit* of
Captaiu S. B. l'iors, a a sou.
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January 30, at Pentium, the wife of the Ray. J. Ai
Deveniab, of a son.
January 31, at St. Thomas-street, Weymouth, tin
wife of Mr. Samutl Wallia, of ! daughter.

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February 2, at Owerinoiuge Heath, the wife of M
Spinks, of • daughter.
February stu, ut Lytehett Minister, the wife of Mr.
William Best, of 5011 atill•bJrn.
February 6, at Charinouth, the wife of the Rev.
T. L Ifoutothore, M A., rector of Cathersto nos, of • SOL
February 7, at Weat Lulworth, the wife of the Row.
D. A. Brown. of a.soo, . . . .

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February 7, at No. 1, Charles-.tree', Do rehmter, the
wife of Mr. G. Miles, of a SOU*
February S, at Porteahmo, the wife of Mr. John
Banforil, of a sou,
February 0, at Winiborne Minister, the wife of
Druitt. Esq., of a daughter.
February 9, at Bournemouth, the wife of Mr. T.
Brewer, greengrocer, of a daughter.
February 10, at Bournemouth, the wife of Kr. N.
Burden, confectioner, of a daughter:

MARBI AGES.
January 31, st St. Paul's Church, South amptca, by
the Her. Cannon Wilson, the it.,. J. A. Lawson,
rector of Poole. to Haute, yoongeet dearth tor of
Captain Burney. 8.N., Stafford House, Southampton.
January 31. at ilornsey Choroh, flornsey, London, by
the Rev. it. Harvey, re,tor, Hien, Aogel, third son of
Mr. John Symee, ooaobbuildor, of Brldport, to Lavin*
third laughter of Mr. Edmund Dyke, White Lion Loa,
Bridport.
January 31, at Peter's Church, Bonrnem oath. by the
Rev. A. S. Bennett, lir. George Henry Newmiut, to
Sarah Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Pall,
of Blandford..
February 1, at the parish church of St Mary's
Islington, by the they. A. Saving, Mt, Joseph Flooks,
draper. Ac., of Stierborne, to Mita Ellis, of the sans
place.