The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-30 00:00:00

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TUIRDAT, MAT 30. Is&

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Our next important visitor, now that time Em-
pire of Austria and the Empress of Germany
have left us, is Sir filalsz Jong: Those who have
heard of his name probably do not know who be
is, and there are many thousands who have never
hesid of his name. Sir Salm Jung is, then, the
Devon, or Prime Minister, of the young Hiram
of Hyderabad, whose rule extends over nearly
100,000 square miles, peopled by 10,000,000 in-
habitants. The greatest service Sir Baler
Jung ever rendered us was in the Munity. "If
the Nissan goes all is lost." This is what the
Governor of Bombay telegraphed to the Peel-
-dent at Hyderabui. But the-Hi:am did not go.
:at?
atre.l2•V , s baMed by armed crowds, who
sa reviled him held fast to the
British Govenunent, running the risk of a violent
death rather than +hoodoo the Power Grew
when it seemed at its death pap, which had
given some sort of peace to Hindostan and pro-
mised to guarantee its future prosperity and ad-
vancement in the ways of modern civilisation.
A "County Coroner" writes, "except in
cases of murder and manslaughter and being
accessory before the fact, the Coroner is not
bound to take any depositions at all, and. as a
matter of fact, often does not Mks any. I have
been ix the habit in many simple oases of acci-
dent or death from disease where the result of a
very dear post mortals has reached me of jotting
down a few memoranduin character unintelligible
to others for my own guidance in addressing the
jury ; in other cases which have at first a doubt-
ful aspect, I commence carefully and fully with
my depontions,but as the case goes on and clears
up the written evidence becomes smallby degrees.
Would you show rqe further to say that it is now
held clear that the Coroner has the right after
the Court has n ..formed, to exclude the
public I '
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"The Claimant" never again see the
house in which he was bore. It hap base
recently pulled down to improve one aide of
High-street, Wapping.
The meetigg at Exeter-hall on Mr. Tret'ellett's
County Irririse Bill was a surprising moos-
That the hall should be crowded to the rgry
door was only what might be expected; but the
satisfactory part of the proceedings was that
the Bradleugh following, which was expected
to sow divisions, did not turn up in force, MI
the promoters of the movement feared would be
the awe. A kind of row was expected by some,
Mr. Bradlaugh heading the oppositiop against
Mr. Arch's following; but those fears turned
out to be idle. All went off harmoniously, and
this -sheeting will score • point towards the
elevatiou. of the agricultural labourers into the
class of those who, as they pay taxes, are
entitled to enjoy the franchise.
Mr. Edwin Brown, electro-plater, of Leicester-
square, will shortly receive, at the hands of a
jury of his countrymen, the reward he is
entitled to for his recent discoveries in the
method of enhancing the prim of silver. Mr.
Brown was in the habit of buying little odd
bits of old silver which ware stamped with old
Hall marks. These marks he would neatly cut
out and transfer to modern epecimens of •
much larger gee. The conseqp was that
when he chine to sell the products of his some-
what misdirected ingenuity, instead of realising
about 6e, ficl. an or., he netted 1. 6d. or 12s.
an oz. In an attempt to convert a coffee-pot of
recent manufacture into one 120 years of age,
by the addition of a trade mark from an old
salt-cellar, Mr. Brown was betrayed. In the future
he will probably have time to ponder upon the
perils of genius, while • good many curio-
maniacs may console themselves with the
thought that they have set their affections upon
finagled shams.

It will surprise the majority of readers to
hear that the gold in the vaults of the Bank of
France at the present moment exceeds 500 tons
in weight—in other words, it weighs about as
much as 20 locomotive engines of the first size.
What were the treasures of Solomon or Cronus to
this To trace the progress by which this
immense mass has, as it were, gravitated to
Paris, would be no easy task. £150,000. weighs
over a ton; £75,000,000. would therefore weigk
500 toms.

The theft of Gainsborough's picture, "the
Duchess of Devonshire," is attended with such
seemingly impossible surroundings that the
most charitably-disposed may be pardoned some
small amount of scepticism as to the real truth
of the matter. That a thief should have been
so well learned that he knew the watchman
habitually kept would be away on a particular
night ; that the police should have been so
accommodating that he could break into or out
of a house faced by • gas-lamp ; and that he
further should possess such artistic skill that he
could take the picture from its stitching frame
with the delicacy of • professional, certainly
passe* one's understanding. We would not for
one moment insinuate that Mesa's. Agnew
would be guilty of so "'cute" a trick ; but were
it a Yankee firm we should rather fancy it was
a "notion" of Jonathan's to increase the sensa-
tion concerning a picture which cost £12,560;
was about to be exhibited at Is. a head; and
was it the moment safe in the firm's private
beaureau. As it is we think the public will
still have a chance of seeing the famous paint-
ing, and whether Messrs. Agnew have to pay
£l,OOO or not, for its reclamation, it will have
proved • very good advertisement.

For many months to come the Zoological Gardens—
affectionally called the Zoo—will be daily thronged
by visitors. The gardens in the summer time are
always pretty well patronized; bet the addition of
the animals presented by the Prince of Wales is
proving an immense attraction; and, indeed, it is a
most pleasant resort, combining the advantages of enter-
tainment and instruction. All through the summer,
too, the gardens are on Sundays thronged by Fellows
of the Society and their friends. Of this fact we
may depend the National Sunday League people will
make free use when they hold their approaching
"demonstration " in Hyde-park, with the object of
obtaining the opening of museums, picture galleries,
and similar institutions" on Sundays. It is a fact
'worth noting that the 'Zoological Gardens, the
Westminster Aquarium, and the Crystal and Alex-
ander Palaces are all open on Sundays; but, then, it
is only for Fellows in the first case, and for share.
holders in the other instances, and admission is in no
case obtained by payment. The case of our museums
and picture galleries is not parallel, for they have
neither Fellows nor shareholders. The National
Sunday League people have a very hard and uphill
mad to travel, and they do not appear to make any
way--an illustration of modern Phariscaism which
allows that a certain class keep the Sabbath by mild
flirtations in picture galleries or bear-gardens, while
the proper place of the working man is in some
stuffey old chapel or other building to listen to dreary
platitudes, the truths contained in which would be
much better taught him by a contemplation of the
Creator's works of Notre.

DOIOII3IIITII.
Sr. Pyres's- —.Sermons were preached at this church
on Sunday, in behalf of the London City Iflasiona,
and colleolions aneounUng to £200.. 311 were made.
Meese Peale from the bells of the churchee, and
the hoisting of gags announced Wednesday that the
Queen of England and Empress of India had attained
her sifth birthday.
THE ODDFILLARS.—FTOM • returnujust issued it
would appose that the Maiscbeeter ufty of Odd.
fellows at present numbers 508.013 members bah:
Increase of 11,484 over the previous =.64;rhellis
eons in Dorset last per were 537' 45 ; bars on on the let of January last, 5,380 largett
per cent was 7•76 in fte county of Haat',
anburrE6 In Dorset. The amount paid for funerals
was ,108 M. for 6,916 members, and £24,756 9s. for
4,195 vrive•—total, E 94,864 16a. Of this amount
E 430 as paid to Dorset for 43 members, and E 125 for
each ding. Thom who would wish to midst may
25 yes, making • total of £.555.
A mimeses Ham. roe Doecasersa.—The cam.
ml of the Dorchester Total Abstinence Society
see reason why the county town should be behind
of smaller proportions in the matter of haring
a amperance hall, an 1 hare decided at once to
hy means of subscriptions, lectures, public
teas, he., to ream the necessery fm& for
atll particulars on application to any of the oom.
In the meantime thrq have obtained the um
of Unitarian Chapel, in Pease Lane, for holding 1
teen ce and Band of Hope num
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Votutrrsing —The eutirroted , ATHLETIC SPORTS OF THE R.H.A.
bittalio, ! The annual athletic A
_mi....sports of the D flattery F.
atriftrav been issued by Lieut. •Colonel .T. P. I Brined* ReYel Horse , took place in the
; Barracks field on We'd:a—shy nfrataaaa, ma
ocen weather, from the rain, was unfavourable to open
. umagrAigicer hal bom *said V= air worm, and the attendance of
of following uneets on the stag of the WIN
Caw • r Quaremmeeter.gergesnt Thomas Robert Orme, email ; but among those present were CT= Mrs.
3rd . • • to be wadi°. Bingham, Colonel and Mimes Astell, Mn, Le
to be stet t and -reeln Merchant, and Miss Pena Hon. W. C. Rowley,
: Bunt J. P. Foster to a hugle-reniw ; R.H.A., acted as starter, and the umpire was Major
Bloch to be
~....H../Wn atritthat- • Keit, C. 8., R.H.A. During the afternoon the bend
°Moen com corns an of the srã D.R.V. under Beadmestr Wellspring,
• • thairetealica"Ml7 Pftsurvell *Th. Wadi" —l4 ewwl the rwoonwithP with their selection' ; and—
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~ie thrie lit January. 006. to In lic-ind vita ow substituted for the Queen's engorm Christy Minstrel
ca that "ie- Th. adjutant will *sped fl apparel, sad crested a lot it fun,
be inspects the heoltema:4corm and There 17 'events "on the card, and they
ler officers are held Teepateakie all orders. i ragulesd as follow' :
Fart cancelled t.• them sre ire
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A COMMON NVIAANCL
George Bartlett, Beaty Roberts, Welter Roberts, Mamas
'Jerrie, name Rama, and George "'liner, of Fordingtam
a number of boys, were charged on the complaint of
Supt. Coward with throwing stones on Sunday, the 13rd
ult.—The 3' proved to ham indulged
in this favouriteQluenpastUne with the Youths of the town.
in the pursuit of which they broke a pane of glass valued
at —The woman whose window was broken stated she
had had four mashed beim from the same came—The
Bomb said it was a habit that was very prevalent, and
had been muck complained of They were liable to a
fine ites., but sail wee their first ammo they would be
ordered to pay Ta. 6d to Include costs.

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