The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-01 00:00:00

THE COUNTY ELECTION.

An idea entertained by some who are as well able
to judge as any can be in this very dark event is, that
Weymouth, Portland, Poole and Sherborne will cast
In a very strong vote for Digby. That Fowler will
find support in Bridport and Beaminster and the
parts skirting Somerset. That Wimborce, Blandford,
Sturminster, and Shaftesbury are half and half, and
that the tradesmen in the towns will all vote for
Digby.
Another Correspondent says :—Tbere were several
other nominations of Capt. Digby signed by most in-
fluential gentleman, but as it was the duty of the
Sheriff to give notice of every nomination to the Poet
master of every Post office having a Telegraph Station
In each polling place in the County, with a view to
save him additional labour and expense, the.* nomina-
tions were not given to him. There are between forty
and fifty Past offices in the County having Telegraph
Stations to every one, of which notice of the nomina.
tion was given on Saturday.

Now that the tug of war is imminent, public
curiosity rather than intieest becomes
intensified. Whatever may be the sates! posi-
tion of the contending sections, a bold front is
maintained by each, while confident prognosti-
cations of success are indulged in. Perhaps Mr.
Fowler like Mr. Digby has to cry "save me
from my friends ;" the Digby circulars have
hardly done more harm to that interest than the
" out-you-go " programme of the opposition kali
damaged Mr. Fowler's. A suppression or
attempted gagging of the vex popWi will be in
those days of liberty of speech and action
strenuously resented, and it would be hard to
say which of the two candidates has been the
greater offender in this respect. Judging from
the letter of an eminent Nonconformist unniiter,
which appears in another column, Mr. Fowler
has thrown the " sop " which may secure him
favour in that quarter t while "an elector"
trenchantly points out the small diabonesty of
those, who having pledged themselves to .wote
for Digby, would avail themselves of the Ballot
to become "worse than their words." Either
view ot the subject is well worth considering.
Before the next number a this paper reaches the,
hand of the reader the matter will have Ileen decided ;
but we are afraid the attendant disagreeableness grill
not have been effaced.

condition of its state. Now the law is universal. Every
substance in passing from the state of a solid to that of a
liquid or a gas, absorbs a defin,te measure of heat, which,
for all heating purposes, is lost, since it becomes latent,
though it really exists, and would become sensible if we
could by any means change the gas or liquid back into a
denser form.
We do not know precisely what is the latent heat of
carbon vapour, for (so far as I mu aware) it has never been
directly measured; hut we can make a guess at it by
indirect methods. Gas companies volatilise carbon in
combination with hydrogen in their retorts, and to do this
they have to burn about an equal weight of coke to that
of the gas produced. No doubt there is some waste of
heat in the furnaces, but not a great deal, for the man-
age" know that every pound of coke needlessly burned
diminishes dividends. But if we grant that as much as
half the heat is wasted, still we should have the result
that every pound of gas produced abeorbs and renders
latent one-half of the heat which the combustion of a
pound of coke can produce. In applying these principals
to Mr. Moule's propositions, we have first to note that he
concedes that limestone, if placed above incandescent
coal, does not yield any heat, but it absorbs and readers
useless • good deal. The carbonic arid combined with the
lime is in a solid state. When driven off from the lime IS
gas it demands and obtains its necessary proportion of
latent heat, and this is so such abstracted from the heat-
ing power of the coal. Lime burners find that the coal
needed is about one-third of the weight .4 limestone. Mr
Moule also will find that if he plies limestone to the
-it of three ti- his coal •^ the
_latter, lie will

Ere an elector helps to augment that bitterness
which will undoubtedly be engendered it would be
well for him to pause and ask himself the cui bona
derivable from the giving hi, vote one way or the
other. Captain Digby will undoubtedly swell the
ranks of a Government which, although professedly
the farmers' friend, has scarcely given them a single
Act they can entirely accept ; while on the other
hand it may well be asked if the greatest feat Sewell
Read can accomplish is simply to register a protest by
quarreling with his bread and butter, where will 1
Robert Fowler be?
We admit these two aspects leave "the free and
independent" in somewhat of a fix; but such, we
take it as the state of affairs and it is for the good sense
of the county to decide.
The nomination of the candidates took place on
Saturday before Mr. F. T. Johns, the under sheriff,
who attended at the County hall between the hours of
one and three. Both candidates were present.
Captain Digby was nominated in writing by Mr. G.
D. W. Digby, of Sherborne Castle, and seconded by
Major Frampton, in person. The following eight
registered electors also gave the requisite " assent "
W• H. P. Weston, of Dorchester; Frank E. Pope,
of Chilfrome • Robert Hayne, of Fordington
Reginald Smith', of West Stafford; George WarrYt of
Upwey, Dorset_ ; Jame. Come. of Tolpuddle ; Wax
J. Paull, of Puddletown, Dorset; Edward Leigh
Kindersley, of Clyffe, Dorset.
Mr. Fowler was attended by both his proposers
and seconders. They were--Cqpttin Hanham, of
Mansion House, Blandford, and m,. stcrdy, Frigon
hill, Wareham. The assenting electors mac :
George Wood Homer, of AtheUtamptern, Dorset;
John T. Stevens, of gmborough, Somerset • James
,fubdrews, of Wraxall, Dorset ; John Miyo, Of

*mown, Ames his real above
obtain a very small residinn "f heat available for warming
a boiler placed on the top of it.
But Mr. Motile Lays the rase is altered !n his favour if
the limestone in pet under the coaL lie insists that if
the carbonic acid gas driven off from the limestone meets
the incandescent coal, it becomes carbonic oxide, which is
a combustible, and which iv burning will yield beat All
this is true, but let Us trace at what cost this heat will
got. It results that, by interposing the limestone process,
li92A- have been actually lost, equal to a waste of almost
a half of the coal burned. It is rendered latent and un-
available in the extra gases which have been produced.
Thus the nett practical result of Mr. Moulds process, when
reduced to figures, is simply a loss of one-half of the heat
of the fuel that is used in calcinin4 the lime. Of course
what other fuel is burned will yield its proper amount of
hest.
It is only just to Mr. Gowan to say that, so far as I
know, be has never put forward a claim to any gain of
heat by burning limestone in his kiln. Ile has limlted
himself to the claim that he produced a substance of such
value that it practically paid the cost of the coal used.
This is perfectly correct and will continue to he well
founded so long as, in each locality, fresh burned lime
commands a remunerative sale. ‘Ve owe to Mr. Gowan
instruction in the method of most economically burning
fuel, although we cannot concede the claim which others
make of extracting heat from substances which iii reality
only waste it. —J. BOYD KINNZAR, Guernsey, in Gardeners'
Chronicle.

Broadway, Dorset; William Parmiter, of Melpliash LIMESTONE AS FUEL
Court ;H. J. Smith, of Stoke Abbott, Dorset / we are Indebted to Mr. *Nile for havitr• stated prs- MISTAKE 3 AS TO P.MIORATION.
New countries went strong arum anal euergotie minds.
Thomas Chick, of Stratton Dorset; and Wm. dimly the process by which he believes that heat is pro- The Brisbane e irrespmalent of the Ore/toe Anna,
Whittle, of Piddletrenthide, Dorset. duced by I.lm evolution of carbonic acid from limestone in 'l,27.o,:knt,i4niii.z.f.,
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As up till three o'clock no objections to the nomin- contact with coal. Those who have hitherto., asserted
utsisition, whether they knew anythin.6n; or not.. They
lions had been recorded, the under sheriff gave notice this htihdoocitrine have done so in vague anal ambiguous ter ,sate.
Lagtast admirably whipte.l. for washing their masters
that the poll would be taken on Thursday next, t t was impossible to seize ti,, exaet punt et Wigli ii
their conclusions diverged (roan those of science. Mr.
Tons, preparatory to putting them in their pockets. one
Moule's clearness enables U; to ala this. And it, speaking little cli ill, %vb., 1..ke•1 as if he had beam engaged in the
of science I must remind your readers that I sin not about
A correspondent desires to caution local readers to set forth any propositions of my awn mauler ill it WWI.% exploration
."( paaakets, said ho woold take a billet as
plrm..thinan if he could eet nothing else, and the following
against the unscrupulous misrepresentations which are What I have to day will be found state.; anal fully ex- orligurfla,vlet.slyoog,:ibe.,toonku.i,d,a4..:.-e4
to
sent to some of the London papers. The Daily Naos rnlaniunmesleminbige:ftpotreriantise on heat. It is the result of those
experiment., which have been made by the
published a statement that Mr. Fowler was " much most careful observers from the day+ of Priestley .lewn t 4 . A.
zgvl).l
saw a
iiinitnii
in
my
lif...ploughing.
interrupted "at Sharborne—an assertion for which
othotle. of Joule.
al These observers have, with the most 2. t..,,,,g-4:aen ~-,"„1....;;1:fe...th...p.r:Lnd0n.
there is not a semblance of justification. On another slilrtnygolcsa:roar,nsoc„x„thirxe 7.4.t.',,hofn'ae4re-walit:tretghnerrt% Q. In what department I
°emulsion it was reported that at Sturmicuiter all-7i the production and the measureinent of heat; anal it is A. Tu,rn.ninyguthe grindstone.
o thinka m : whose
of hands were taken largely in favour of Mr. Fowler. nvoottoto!:
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ay that
part
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, the mysteries of a revolving 'grinalstongeenceiuuslar l'ill,rwarlhyeriall
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and
This also is an invention. Mr. Dibben, Lord gress has been founded) was wrongm, Mr. Moule cannot be
ALlington's steward, denies Mr. Chas. Hambro's state - rilli!t •
11.4u.g1hYhat wages do you expect?
mr. Moule's whole error lies in this, that he ignores the
ment that he was authorised to tell Lord Digby Lord . doctrine of latent head. Latent heat is that measure of
A. £2 a week and found.
Allington would like his son to succeed him. I heat which is absorbed or enters into a body as • necessary
"- --• “- -...-•- Now the law is WOW,' .

Q. Don't you seriously wish you may get it?
A. I intend to go home and write to the papers about
the way we are allured out here and then get nothing to
do.
Q. Rave you ever filled any other dignified position
than that of grindstone revolver? Did you ever learn
anything else?
A. Can't my I ever did.
Q. Then you ciune out here entirely ignorant of any
kind of work, and no idea of doing anything at all, and
feel disgusted because some one won't rush up and offer
you double the wages of an experienced hand?
A. We are deceived by the agent, and intend to go
baek.
Q. If you ran by any possible means persuade all your
friends to go hone with you, it will constitute a very
great favour to the new country, and if you get drowned
on the way back to much the better for the old country.
---- --
Silt WILFRID LAWSON AT B.ATII.
The Apostle of teetot diem, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, addressed
a meeting on Thursday evening .4 the supporters of his
permissive Bill in the Guildhall, Bath. Sir Wilfred
Lawson, in the course of his remarks, said formerly one of
the favourite arguments against the United Kingdoin
Alliance wm that every', .ly who belonged t it were
teetotalers, awl of course they hue .v that teetotalers were
more despised than any race of won that there had been
seen on the face of the earth -AllanAter). There WWI &HMI
reason fordespising them. P.mr fellorre, they ho.l as few
broips tf!Lt. gley:.1111.1 not afford to throw ins'. away by

getting drunk—(laughter). They were very selfish fellows.
They oli.l not go to the pithlic-house and drink fir the
pool of the house, nor contribute to the revenue like the
good drunkard. Whenever lie (Sir Wilfrid) sow a Man
rolling up the streets he did not like to use the obl
hackneyed phrase " That fellow is drunk." Ile said
" There's a man who has been c attributing to the
revenue --(laughter). Ile had been helping Sir Stafford
Northcote to produce a good budget next March or April
—(renewed laughter). That was the way the revenue of
this great country was raised, and we go on boasting what
we do with it, and what • rich awl noble awl powerful
country we are. An article had recently appeared in the
Time, newspaper in which an exaggerated statement was
made that "every Lancashire man gets drunk when be
can"—(laughter). A few days aftera ants he (Sir Wilfrid)
received a note containing the extract limn the article,
accompanied with the following lines:—
I'm a tancashlre rum,
I KA drunk when lean,
Sir Wilfrid so ty growl, nut I shall ;
Patriotic my thirst.
For this liquor accurst
lism perch MA the Sues Canal!
—(laughter). Vcll, the teetotalers did not contribute to
the revenue, and, as he said, they most he blamed for it.
The speaker also replied hi the speech a Mr. Kirkman
Hodgson, %LP_ at the licensed victuallers' banquet at
Bristol, last week. Mr llodgmn hal asked why Brown.
Jones, and Robinson shoold he deprived of the ordinary
privileges of a human being and not he allowed to carry
out their own rules and modes of human life because
Sluggers got drunk. Ile (Sir Wilfred) could not under-
stand what that had to Is with the question. If Brown,
Jones, and Robinson, by frequenting public-houses, only
two or three of them—a small minority—inflicted • great
injury on the community by causing rites and taxes to be
paid for keeping Jones's family. Robinson in prison, an.l
the hanging of Brown perhaps Allatighter).—then lie said
they were not bound, at the cost of the whole col?.
munity, to provide them atunteinelits for Mr. Ilmlgdon
friends Brown, Jones, and llobinson - (renewed
laughter).