The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-24 00:00:00

erntral items.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson is on a tour thmugh Ireland.
There are 52 Vl'esleyan ministers engaged in Manches-
ter.

Plearwpneumonia is spreading in Wed Cumberland.
Snow was lean on several of the Scotch hills on Thurs-
day.
It is reported in Calcutta that the King of Burnt& is
deed. . . _

Ari-angernents have been finally made for • railway up
Mount Vesuvius.
on the .at birthday of Prince Imperial received 40,000
congratulatory letters and telegrams.
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of a naval
force to protect the seaboard of the Caucasus.
Mr. Orville Grant, brother of General Grant, has been
sent to a lunatic arylum.
Isabel Grant, who was sentenced to death for killing her
htnband at Glasgow, fa rverienwl.
There are now in Weed 2.503 Good Templar lodges,
with more than 100,000 paying membeni, in addition to a
juvenile department with about 50,000.
A species of Colorado beetle luta made ita appearance in
South Russia, and during the last few wecka haa destroyed
more than 5,000,000 roubles worth of corn
The rapid growth of the Nihilist party in Russia is
exciting much attention and consternation all over the

-711:c-Wriling to official reports, there are In New York
city 8,71 S place, where malt and spirituous liquors are sold
by retalL
It is said that the infant daughter of the Duke and
Mama of Edinburgh will be christened according to the
rites of the Greek Church, bat not in England.
The Right Ron, W. H. Smith, me., Mitt Lord of the
Admiralty, will start on his tour of inspection to Gibraltar,
Malta, and Cyprus, in the Enchantress, on October 15th.
The Russian Govemnient contemplate giving up the
system of exiling criminal offenders of Siberia, and pro-
pose them on the marble quarries along the
Baltic coast.
A London journal intimates that a communistic rising
Is expected In Paris, and many priests have provided
themselves with civilian clothes in readiness for any
rge. a Mr. m, the able stipendiary of Liverpool, the other
day said that there Is a district in that town .here" it is
already an much as a policeman a life is worth for him to
pass through the streets."
A French ',mums.= has given to the Mansion Rouse
Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Thames calamity
a lottery ticket, which, if it contains the winning number,
will entitle the holder to a suit of diamonds worth .C 1,200
The large ironclad broadside slip N.irthemptoo, twelve
guns. and 1000-horse power, at Chatham, Is being prepared
for the conveyance of the Marquis of Lorne and the
Princess Louise to Canada,
The thirty-third annual show of the Staffordshire Agri.
cultural Society waa opened at Leek. The show is very
eucceesful, the number of entries being far in Loess of
...Timis ream _ ,

ii—th'eng—lTt that Kr. Justice Keogh will never regain
his reason, hie present mental condition being considered
much more hopeless than it has been at any previous
period.
At Bristol the collection at the Highbury Chapel on
behalf of the London Missionary Society, whom annual
meetings are now being held there, amounted to MOO.
Owing to the heavy depression in the coal trade the
principal colliery proprietors in North Durham have
renolved to notify • farther reduction of 10 per cent, in
pitmen's wages. The man intend to resist the reduction.
Kingsdown Bath great ceps-bred sheep fair was at Box,
on Wednesday. Nearly 3,000 sheep were penned Very
zrsuperior lambs fetched £3 each, whilst bmt ewes brought
los The mend trade was however, several shilling,
below there figures. Trade was very active, and there was
a material thereon in prices.
The Duke of Wesuninster writes to a Louden coatem.
r=• " I am sorry to be unposed to have committed
dlty of baying seal of bells made of silver, and
at • cost of X 30,000, They are certainly not end* of
silver, and their cost is coesiderabiy under ke,000.•
A few days eines the Chamberlain'. the Turkieh Palace.
Hamdi Pact., telegraphed to one of the Imperial Cont.
misaioners at am requiring him to Purchase for the
Sultan, at the earliest_ medial.
be date, a dozen girls varying
tween the ages of 12 and 18. Carta Menthe was given for the mins
According to the latest return, %I men were killed in
the Abort:ante explosion, and 93 were rescued alive, six of whom have since died It will take days' pumping to
clear the workim of the water so that • descent DAY be made, and thane,. the inquest has bean adjourned to
the 17th of next month.
On Friday morning the Scotch passenger train for
Loudon, in passing Spring Branch junction, near Wigan,
ran into an empty luggage train on the main line. The
presenter engine was thrown off the line and several
weenna were crushed to pieces, covering the line with
debris but no person was injured.
Lord Grua:von met his Nottinghanshin tenant. on
Saturday, and took 00:114011 to say • few words to them on
„zonal me criticised the Treaty of Berlin, which
On said) did not contain the elements of perm...owe for
in the peseta state of Bemis Albania. and Greece there
wee no poen : end contended that for Enlland ita results
were the reveres of satisfactory, as we had undertaken an
enagement In Asia Minor which we could not dischargs,
fatal boat accident occurred on the coast of Buteddre,
In Scotland, on Saturday. A gentleman. named
with his wife, four children. and • woman servant, from Millpon on • cruise to Utile Cumbrae ; and on the ay the craft overturned. Mee Hodge, with thee, nO the
elildren and the servant, wen mimed, but her hushed
and the eldest child wen drowsed.
pm" the french 'chooser_ Pereevereate put in at
Belfast in distress, and the man state that they have
experienced • most disastrous voyage. The vessel left
Iceland with • cargo of An far Wanes several weeks ego"
since which time Abe experieneed remarkably Misname
weather. When off the entrance to the north Channel
on kinky last the weather was very severe. Tha
Noiwerhe were smashed, and the foremost, jibboom Am, 1
carried away. WWI trying to enure the movables on
deck, live of the heads were waehed overboard and
drowned. Six others have also been badly injured
teetotally' frairtures of lep and tr.. and will be
taken ashore to the hospital Captain erende haa had
several sibs broken, beeides mitabling other injuries
Ternwoan AND STOitkourroasu—Weteon's celebrated
"Specific" has effected hundreds .of permanent cures of
these distressing maladies, where every other reteedy hee
failed. It does not require coutinninw • Paste bottle bens sufficient to curs, le beim le malciata: theonak and the most delicate need hot fear it. Pricii
k 9d., or safe_ 14 poet. 36 stamen Wation e "Sped&
p,,," foe nreadworm are an effectual remedy for the
haraissaters. No.
I liadults% No. lichildraiid.PriosLlA. rtillypen lb 'Wept Addrees_. J. H. Watson, C Tacks, or any chemist will get them fee7Z:',
Olgeakie rag iglA "aka Aaaa. Biala; %ad Las,

lead lichestee has mat £l5 to the fund (ort idta relief of
the sufferers by the Ahercarn explosi.a.
Prince Blemish to leid u, with sudden attack of nettle-
' rash. superinduced, It is repprowd. ty • change in the
weather. He will probably be confined to his room for
mvcrel days.
The Mansion.houes fund for the relief of the sufferers
by the Abercarne explosion haa reached the sum of
fll.ooo. The Prince of Wales neat a cheque for 50
guineaa
There is an impression in some quarters that the recent
inquiry into the death of lira Bravo has not satisfictorily
elicited the cause of death. Certain dim in the
evidence of the witnesses are pointed out body had
been removed to Berkshire for interment.

Al .ii-iii.i;t7i74-OE-n-iduiniengTh's7e-ens Thursday it was re.
commended that the pumping out of the water in thei
Aberrant pit should 1,. commenced at once. This opera-
tion, it is estimated, will occupy quite a month; and
therefore, the inquest wee adjourned for that period.
The coroner's jury enquiring into the Thames disaster
can scarely beeline.' an amiable body. Some of them are
incensed because their foreman puts so many interrogatories
to the witneesse, one gentleman on Wednesday declaring
that he had already ached Lir questions, but he did not
say who had taken the trouble to count them.
The Abbot of • Russian monastery has disappeared with
the contents of the treasury. Worse than this, be has
taken with him the wife of • merchant and the cash-box
of her husband. All the " Popes" in Russia are amazed at
the Abbot's audacity. They *mild forgive" him proloining
a wife, but the till of his church—never.
Oo Wednesday, at Bernataple, Charles Henry Webber.
• magistrate of the county of Devon, wai limed I.* and
ordered to and heavy ouredee to keep the peace, for an
aggravated assault on his daughter France., a young lady
of la Counsel pressed for imprisonment, but the magis-
trates allowed • line. The assault took pier* la •
bedroom of defendant's, an elderly man, a widower. •
young sister was in the room at the same time.
The remains of Mr. John Morris Saunders, an old corn.
mercial ttaveller, who travelled in recent years for Mama
Jones and Co, a Wood-street, London, were interred in
Ahney.park Csmeterf on Friday. The deceased having
no relatives has generously divided his property, about
Cll4OOO, between three institutions in the prosperity at
which be had long evinced much interest, namely, the
Linen and Woollen Drapers' Institution, the Commerciel
Travellers' Benevolent Institution, and the Commercial
Travellers' Schools. _ _

The parish churchyard of Stratford-on-Avon has been
open for the burial of the dead for upwards of • thousand
yesrs, and no fewer than one hundred thousand persons
have been interred within ita walla Owing to its crowded
state, then have recently been some sickening sights at
funerals, as • grave could not be dug without disturbing
the corpses previously buried. Therefore, it is satisfactory
to learn that the Home Secretary haa ordered this place
of sepulture to be rimed.
Mr. Ellis Lever, • Manchester and Lottdon owl mer-
chant, lately memorialised 4111 Queen to inaugurate a
permanent relief fund for the prompt relief of sufferers by
such &oddest, as those on the Thames and at Aberearna.
Mr. Lever sincloeul • cheque for £lOO, and promised to
subscribe £lO annually. The Queen, however, sees can-
sklerable chtSculty in the administration of such a fund,
should sufficient capital be subscribed to form it and
under these circumstances, returns the moo. Mr. Lam
intends to °Mail* a voluntary fund.
Three young men, named Mortimer, Fortis, and
Gordon, were crossing the downs to Amberley, Sussex, on
Thursday morning, when they stopped in • coppice for
luncheon. As they were sitting on • hank Mortimer wig
bitten in the band by a black viper. The reptile wee
killed, and no fit:Sher notice was taken of the matter.
Before Amberley woe reached, however, Mortimer was
seised with serious symptoms, and died in great agon at
a village publichouse. All the three were engaged se
clerks in • bank in London. _ .

--A-t-sfe-g;:em waa-re7e7ed at the War Office from Deputy
Surgeon-General Sir A_ D. Home, at Cyprus, concerning
the health of the troop. there. The telegram states that
the health of the troops ía unsatiafactory, a second out-
break of fever having occurred. Deli has proved un-
healthy to the Tlat Regiment, and to the Royal Zappers.
Out of a total strength of 2.02 men, 400 are in hospital or
at light duty, or oouvalsecent Twenty-ons deatha in all
have occurred since landing.
At the Dudley Board of Guardians, on Friday, the
chairman of the visiting committee reported that among
the inmates of ths house at present there were ninety.
nine persons above the age of 70, thirtv•two over M. four
over 010, and two over 100. One woman aged 00 years and
nine months, came before the board knitting without the
aid of spectacles. Another named Bird, aged 103, maid
that her husband was • Dudley watchman prior to the
establishment of the new police. He fought at Waterloo,
where the old lady stated she wag a camp
follower.
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-71"bn ASistralian eneketers left Liverpool Thursday far
America. About two thousand p.mooa aseembled to
witness their departure. Lod bsurtily sheered them. They
have arranged to play several matches in the Visited
States. They took part in 37 =alma, beeides a number
of supplementary or scratch matches which were played
t 811 un time, and formed no part of their programme.
Of the 37 legitimate contests no fewer than 18 resulted
successfully for the Australian.. Twelve matches were
drawn, several very much in their favour, and only sevea
were lost .

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The reckless way in which the six millions voted by
Parliament early last dession nere squandered, is gradually
coming to light. It will he remembined that among the
purcheaers made by the Admiralty were a couple a
Thames pleuure launches, to be converted into torpedo
butt We now learn upon the authority of the drag
and Navy Gazette that when these expensive toys were
sent out to Admiral Hamby he at once condemned them
and quickly sent them back to Yalta u usalsee for the
purpose for which they had been bought.

The will of Mr. Alfred George, formerly of Bristol,
brewer, and late of Downieide, Stoke Bishop,
Dotter brewer,
who died on thel 6th ult., was
proved on the 21st ult., at the Bratol district
registry, the perm:may, including Ileameholds,
being sworn under 4:930,01X1 The will of Mr. James
Helme, late of Cheetnut,malk, Waltham:lst:ow, Ewe., who
died on July the 27th last, wee proved on the Vit.
the personal sttte being sworn under C 900,000. The will
of Mr. Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell, late of Winkbure
Hall, Nota, who died on June 1.5 last, was proved on the
4th inst., the pereonal estate being sworn under A3),oatt
The will of Capt Lin Sir George Biddlecombe, a.i, c.a,
late of No. 68, Granville Park, Lewisham, who died on
July 16th but, was proved on the sth Mat, the pereoeuil
estate being sworn under £7,000.

The parii;b church of Yarlusgton, near Wincanton, has
just been re-opened, after having been thoroughly restored
and enlarged, at cost of between .C 2.000 and ~nOOO, two.
thirds of which was rabecrlbed by the rector (the Rey,
Mr. Roger.) end Mr. T. E. Rowers. The building, whi
formerly would only seat about 202, will now accommoc...q.
over O. The architect was Yr. Reeves, of Londe'', and
the builders Mears. Farthing and Avery, of
Amongst the many gilts to the church were. unique oak
carved lectern, given by be. (bombe, of Castle Cary, and
an elegant crimson velvet cloth, by Miss Lucy Rogers, of
Exeter. The sermons on the auspicious occasion were
preached by the Lord Bishop of the diocese, and the
respected squire, T. X Roger., entertained a distinguiabed
company during the day. In the course of the day Mr.
Avery, foreman of the works, was presented with a gold
Albert chain and • purse of sovereigns, in testimony of
his excellent conduct and demeanour to all whilst
superintending the work.

Tag heir to an *stet. of 37,500,000 dollen nearly eight
million ea@ buried in New Falcon the 14 th instant. In the
vas: 17E,8ir Andrew Chad wick,aa English baroneLdied
L ndon, leaving a very rich estate entailed upon hi. son.
After this son aied the property fell Into thil !Math 01 tkise
heirrat-law, who enjoyed it until it finally becamp
subject of litigation, and was thrown into the Chanow7
oiuits. In 1874 the loutish courts advertiald for Thousse
Chadwick. the direct descendant of 34n:ion:Las Chadwick,
the seventh generation removed. The man in rtuestion
wee living in a sisturb of Philadelphia. He was them 67
years old, and had been in balances as a miller, but had
retired on account of his age and feeble health. Thomas
Chadwick died soddenly of heart disease on the let Sept,
and his two sons, Cornelius and Ferdinand, irsw succeed to his interest in the English estate. Th. property
is valued at the enormous sum of 37.500,000, dollw not
including interest on some items now held in trust the
Beak of Ragland. The property consist of resl and sAmmtel
estate, mostly in L3Pdon, the most valuable he ins LOOS
houses in the British metropolis.

BIRTHS.
September 7, at Omitle Garden, Wareburn, the vrife of Stephen White Bennett, of a son.
September 10, at Bore Regis, the wife of Kr. T. Manh,
yeoman, of a son.
September li, at the Royal George, Maidem Newion.
the wife of Kr. G. Morris, of • son.
September 11, at the Constabulary Station, Maiden Newton, the will of Sergeant T. 8. ffitch. of • daughter.
September 13, at Waddock, the wife of Mr. G. Gonadal,
of a son.
September 14, at Coker-court, Somerset, the wife of Mr. Horace A. "{slyer, of Her Majesty'. Diplomatic
Service, of a son.
September 1.5, at Thames-street. Poole, the wife of Mr.
J. It. Eldertield, of a daughter, stillborn.
September 10, at lligh-street, Poole, the wile of Mr. Job
Loder, of • daughter.
September 17, at 1, Victoria-place. Longtleet, Poole, the
wife of Yr. W. H. Davis, of a hter.
September 17, at llorsecastleaShert,o,ee. the wife of
Mr. -Hazard, 0(5,00,
September 13, at the Elan Inn, Dorchester, the wife of
Mr. Samuel Ma of a darlittar.

MARRIAGES.
September 11, at the pariah church, Winfrith, by the
Rev. B. Hill, rector of Chaldon, Mr. A. Coleman, of
Broadmayne, to Elisabeth, second daughter of Mr. William
Burdon, of Winfrith.
September 11, at St. Peter's Church. Porterbara, by the
Rey. G. H.. Penny, John Gould, of Friar Waddon, to
Oecily Mould, second daughter of Mr. Henry Mould, of
Tisbury, Wilts.
September 17 at St. Georee-the-Matyr r__ , Bloomsbury, by the Rey. *. Lock, Fellow of Magdalen Collar/14
Oxford, Sydney Style, solicitor, Liverpo:l, eon of jolts
Bag Style. _ of liallabory. to Jane May ./ . daughter of
Henry Lock, Req.. nf D ercheeter.
September 18, at Morterton, by the Rev. It. B. Morro',
Mr. V. Philips, to Mir Ann Burridge, daughter of Mr.
Frank Burn , Morderton.
September 19,at St. Mary's Church, by the Rev. E. J. L.
B. Henalowe, Mr. Joseph Hardy, of Southampton, to Miss
Clara Hall, of Bridport
On Thursday lan Wu Mary Blanche Hocking, only
dauahter of Kr. H. W. Hoskins, of North Perron, was
married at the village church, to Mr. William Weddell. burn, of fl. M. Civil Service in India, and younger ete of the late Sir John Wedderbune, Bart.

DEATH&
September 10, at Nyland Farm, Kington Magna John
M. Bog aged 73 years. Highly respected.
September 11, at Weet-etreet, Crewkerus, Yr. Georg*
Drayton, of Meniott, aged 67.
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September 11, at eymouth, Ann, widow of the lets
111 r. Henry Foot, of Langton, near Blandford, 83. September 13, at Grove-road, Portland, BodlY, the
beloved daughter of William and Ann Barnett, aged 11
Yearn
September le, at the Police Station, Bishop. Caddie
Ann, wife of Police-constable Charles Wardell, aced 51
Tear',
Mr. George Parkes Bidder, P.n.s , the eminent civil
engineer, died on Friday at his residence, ItaveneburY.
Dartmouth. In early life he warn known as the " Cakulat•
lug Boy." He was one of the engineers of the Blackwell
Railway, and a promoter of the Electric TelegraPh.,
Company.mpany. He was President of the Institution of Cleat for 18111--1.
'Much regret was felt at Hereford on Wto the death of the Rev. ArcherCli edart%ftrel
(brother to Mr- Georty_.elin, M.P. for who yes
a prebendary and =dodo! of Hereford city)
Deceased warn the oldest magistrate on the roll for
Herefordshire and chairman of several public bodies. He
waa a noted breeder and sucomsful exhibitor of stock.
We have to record the death of Mr. W. IL Dyer. of
Lincoln's Inn, barriaterut-law, which took place at his
residence_ , Royal York-creecent, Clifton, on Woodsy noon. The mum of death was pevalrqsof the brain. ".
Sunder, soon after his retr.rn from the evening service.
the seizure took place, and up to the time of his death he
did not recover coincidences. He will be best remembered
as the eloquent and able minder of Argyle cm's'', B.
wheel as the euccemor of the late Kir winiam Jar.
be °monad for a period of overHl Ted,. About four
years since, to the surprise of most peopk, nag we wiry*,
to the regret of his best friends, he left the Noncoeformist
lairdsMitelror the bar—to which he was called In IBM mid
soon joined the Western Oircult, when he We.
occaaionally heard in coma
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