The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-20 00:00:00

entrral Ems.

The outbreak of typhoid fever at Bristol. caused by the
contamination of the milk supply, is subsiding.
The Irish Sunday Chang Bill has been read • third
time in the Howie of Lords, and will therefore become
On Friday the Eurydice wag cleared of all the remain-
ing bodies. Upwards of ISO have now been recovered, the
number including six Akio".
An unqualified contradiction is given to the rumour
contained in a weekly paper that Mr. Beresford Hope ie
to be raised to the peerage.
The Oldham weavers who had struck against • redaction
of five per cent. in wages on Thursday resumed work at
the masters' term..
Septimue Pay, draper, of Scarborough, has Bled a peti-
tion for liquidation of his afiaira by arrangement or
composition with creditors. 'the estimate of the debts is
=AM, of which £5,000 is secured.
The Mayor of Nottinthani (Alderman Oldknow) is to
receive the honour kn ghthood, in commemoration of
the recent Royal visit to Nottingham.
A communication from Constantinople states that
persons who went fr m that city to Cyprus in hopes of
doing • good business there are returning greatly diet
appoin•cd.
I The King of Holland, according to • Brussels Paten
intends to marry his niece, Princes. Elizabeth of Saxe-
Weitner-Bisenach, who is 21 years of awe, while hie
Majesty is 61.
The 'Claimant" is anxious to again raise the question
of his personal identity, and with that view hae petitioned
the Home Secretary to liberate him at the expiration of
his first •entenco and pot him on his trial for forever.
A meeting of the creditors of Kamm Hazard and ralde-
cott, of London, who recently failed, was held on Thurs-
day, when the liabilities were stated at .6187,000 and the
tweets at A,15,600.
At Ttiblin, on It inday, Sr. young men were remanded
on • charge of having forced their way into a room
occupied by a woman, and outraged her so dreadfully that
she died in the hospital on Sunday.
Near Faversham, Hannah Adey, an old woman of
seventy, committed suicide by banging herself in a moat
determined another. She WOA found etrangled in the
wasbliousa, by a cord fastened to the cupboard door. She
was in • sitting posture.
The House of Lords is ordered to meet on the 131.13 of
November for the purpose of hearing and determining
&ripest, and matters connected therewith, purouvnt to the
provisions of the " Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 11106."
An international riff+ competition took place at Altair
range, near Liverpool, on Thursday, between teams of 10
men each, representing 'England. Irelend, Scotland, and
Wales. The shield given by the ex-mayor was won by
Scotland. _ . .

The men of the Cheshire constabulary will not be pleased
at the rule laid down by the newly-appointed Chief-Con-
stable. that as the superintendents retire their pleas
shall he filled hy army officers and not by police inspectors.
thus taking from the latter any chance of promotion.
Mr. John Rankin, a young gentlemen. of Kilmarnock,
hes just completed a journey to London and back on •
bicycle. The distance of CO mile, was run in about six
days, making allowance for stopnaces. The longest run
in one day was from klorpeth to Edinburgh, the &stenos
tree-lied being 112 rniles.
At the Wandsworth Police-court Thursday. five women
were charred with assaulting one anther. Mr. Paget
suggested that they should be bound over to keep the
peace, but as they would not all of them agree to this the
ease was heard through, and moulted in the magistrate
senrencree. the pri.r.ero. each to 21 days imnrimyrnont
. .

The Right Rev. Alfred 01Brant D D.. Bishop of Llandaffl
completed his enth year Friday, hawing been born • t
Wanchenter on the Ifilh August. 178 R Dr. OUirant wait
consecrated Bishop of Llandatf in 1849, and is the oldest
prelate on the episcopal bench.
0,, Fro., 1,700 morrativris at the Great Western Cotton
Works, Bristol, struck againet a flee per cent. reduction
of won'. The manner,' my that their stock is socuon.
lain( PO much that they cannot continua production at
the mew nt rate a "twee.
. _

At • meeting of the Irish Political Prisonen Committee,
on Thursday night. it was announced that the Government
had determined on the release towards the close el the
year of Ahearn, • Fenian covict, at present undergoing a
sentence of penal servitude for life at Dartmoor.
In a ma heard at t e Birmingham Police Court, in
which a lad was charged with • trivial theft, Daiseirs,
sergeant Hoare remarked that the mother of the accused
had • short time sinn odd her infant, fourteen days old,
to a ni ighbour for two glasses of ale. The vendor had
recently become ^widow, and was very short of money at
the tiros. _

--fl;;;inbles, horses, and carts belonsitwt to the Sender.
land Cwrpmatbs, were 011 Thursday taken possession of
by sheriffs offirers acting on behalf of the &whored rate-
psyera, who opposed the payment out of the rates of
rertem Items incurrril by the C wporstiou in entertaining
Gmeral Grant. The distraint is for the costs of the recent
aciioo.

«milties amountint to .06 in awl case were imposed
on Wednesday by the Duntfrien Justine* on two labourers
for fishing in the Nith fur "binding," a small species of
pea trout, with a net 4 under Ifineh mesh. Ax they were
unable to pay the Ilnes, they were each sent to prima for
six months.

Accrington Police-court on Thursday. James
Walsh, • labourer, was sent to prison for six month. for
-lly beating a girl, five yearn of age, the illegitimate
daughter of his wife, the magistrates expressing their
regret that they could not inflict • heavier euniehment
An inquest has been held at Ihstock, Leicestershire, on
the hod) of William IC !wards, an amateur acrobat. Th.
deceased was at a crieket match turning a somersault from
the shoulders of another man. He had imbibed too freely
of liquor, and in turning he fell on his head, and es
severely injured hi. spine that be died shortly afterwards.
A young girl named Lily Nicholeon we. on Thursday
brought Is fore Colonel Ilainworth Booth, at Mislton,
charged with setting • straw stack OD fire at Mr. Kirk's
farm, Setterbigton. The *hole stack, nearly twenty toss,
was consumed, and other stacks and farm buildings were
in great danger.
A shocking affair occurred at Bolton the other night.
An old man, named William Homo, of Back Charier
-.tree% exasperated with hie son, attempted to kick him.
Be, however, leapt on one side and the kick ma received
by • child stained Thomas Nimbi, aged three 7..,,, whites
heart it is thought was rosured RI nit pmed from the
child', mouth and noes, and death ensued almost instantly.
Both Hogan and his son afterwards absconded.
' The Bishop of Bodur and Man, having read the accounts
of the Lite attack upon him, writes to remove the impreP
shin that the delinquent was • Manxman. The man is one
of • very rough set of navvies imported from Glasgow for
the construction of a new limo( rail in the neighbourhood,
li. was • stranger, and had received no provocation, lie
was certainly not drunk. Hs threw th• stone, which woe
of considerable size, not mcidentally, but with deliberate
Mm.
A male lunatic' has been found in a farmhouse, near
Alearyirtwith, locked up in • totally dark room, naked
and in a deplorable state of filth. lt is believed he has
been in the room five years. The police have received
information of several lunatices kept in pirate houses,
and who are grosidy ill-treated. They will be removed to
the asylum.
At the last meeting of the Foleshill Board of Cuardians
idthidtmaht:6l3l cal k
t hof
thfrroeammhelphoelthr
areP°of.ededve,t;iihrl, tti,wpohoongirhatitualivirt;
found seven persons taking tea in the presence of the
corpse, and among the party was a WOOLII with a new-
born babe