The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-01 00:00:00

SERIOUS RAILWAY LOMDRNT:

Early on Tuescity morning an accident happened
to the down mail train on the London and North.
Western Railway, at Marsden, near Hoddersgeld. In
coneerinenee of an error in the instructions given to
the signalman, be turned the wed train on the up
line, whero•it ran into • luggage train. The stoker
was seriously injured. Eight pauengers were cat and
bruised, but none seriously. The ijured passengers
were taken out of the train at Huddersfield, and the
mail wu delayed so boar.

iris notified thston theist of Merch will appear the
First Number of a New Doily Financial Paper, entitled
the "Financier," and oonducted by the gentleman who,
after holding the City Editor.hip of the London Daily
News for nearly 20 years. has just resigned it.
THE TELEGRAPH SUPIRREDED.—In aonsequence of
the uneerteinty of t-legraphia communication, the
Prcu Association on Thursday depended for its supply
of rasing results from Croydon upon carrier pigeon+,
which arrived punctually at stated intervals with their
budgets of news.
A MOTION was before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. James,
on Thursday, in the nue of &Unary r. Metropolitan
Railway Company, to restrain the directors from paying
dividends for the pest half-year out of capital, the bill
alleging that the dividend of 5 per cent. waa made up
in port of £13,000, improperly estimated at profit on
surplus land. The Vice-Chancellor without calling on
defendants' counsel, rdused, the motion not having
been promptly made.
lithe Court of Exchequer the Duke and Duchess of
Somerset were the defendants in an action for libel.
Dr. Williams had professionally attended the son of the
Doke and Dilation, and after his death a pamphlet was
published alleging mi+cooduet and neglect against the
plaintiff. An apology was now made, and a verdict
was entered for Dr. Williams.

SACIIILIGIC AT RIADING.-00 Wednesday night et
Greyfriars' Church, Reeding, servioe wu being con.
ducted by Dr. Park worth. A noise was heard In the
vestry, and the clerk went to the vestry followed by
tbe Doctor. They found the window open ; the robes
were there, but the thieve, bad rot away with the
Doctor's hat, two coats, silk umbrella, bunch of keys,
and his puree, which oontained only twopenee. Fortu-
nately the Doctor kept the plate at his private
residence.

TRII Record says that at the funeral if • man in
Blackburn, the widow lingered by her husband's grave-
side in apparent grief. Suddenly she drew something
from underneath her lsft breast, which proved to be
her labs husband's clogs, iron at the sides. Them she
threw into the open grave, exclaiming, " Meer, toy
thee, wi the., for tha's pnn•hed ml wi um oft enough."
The bereaved widow momentarily dried her tears, and
soon after rejoined the mourners.
AGRARIAN 013TRAORK IN IRRLARII.—oe WedneWay
night • MIR named Kerrigan, a relative of the post-
muter at Shanemore, was fired at and dangerously
wounded in Mellinger. On Tuesday • farmer named
Lewis, residing on Lord Darnley's estate, 00. Meatb,
was ploughing on • farm of some few acres, when two
men, armed, entered the field, and, haying put him on
hie knees, threatened his life if he did not surrender
the land. Re did not know the parties.
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DISAPPRAIWICI OF LO&D MALI( ISBORT'S STEWARD.—
A report from Christchurch dates thet Mr. Elliott, land
agent to Lord lialuiesbury, is missing. About ten
o'clock on Thursday morning week he started from
Cliriatchorth to meet his lordchip at Heron Court. He
left his vehicle with the object of looking at a piece of
land, telling his servant to drive on to a spot further up
the road, and to wait for him. He has not since been
heard of, and the river near where he left the carriage
has been dragged.
WELSH Marna—ln Smiles's Lives of the Eogineers
there Is a curious )11ap of the Welsh Yining dittriet, to
which Plynlinion Hill &mimic* • prominent position.
Strange to say, this f.articular locals is NOl now at-
tracting great attention i• th• mining world, there
being a perfect mania for share. in mines ia this neigh.
bouAood. We may teatimes the Van Mite, the
shares of which £4 ss. paid, are now quoted at £l5.
and the South Plynlimon I..sed Mine, which, although
only introdueed to tbe,peblle notice during the last
few days, has already treated quite a furore both
among spainlston sad investors, who are evidently la-
itiated by the upward tendency of the Vet and other
mines in this district.

THE CHURCH AISOCIATION. —On Wedaseday after.
noon the anneal emetics of the members of the Church
Association was held in St. James's Hall, Londoo,
+lrish was tilled. The Hos. Captain Maude presided.
The *balms& referred at great length to the seacoasts]
exertions wilts& the assooMtien had made towards pre.
serving the doctrine and simplicity of the Church of
Wand, sad ix defending it against the innovations
which were intended to approximate it to the Chetah
of Rome. He made some remarks upon the bishope
who had been appointed by the present Government,
and expressed his opinion that, although there warn no
immediate danger to the Cherish, the motive exertions
of the association might be needed In the future. Mew
Mama submitted a report, giving details. Several
gentlemen spoke, end resolufions approving of the
society's operations, and recommending the association
to the inereamed support of Evasive Heal Cliurehaten,
were agreed to.

liteoronat LT is FRATICS.—An exalted sitting
of the Corps Legialatif was held on Thursday, M.
Snuck Picard placed • proposal on the tekde virtually
abolishing official candidates. After NOM disenssioe
M. 01liver rose and declared that the Government
meant to sanction official eandidetaree no longer, but,
on the contrary, to preserve a strict neutrality at every
election. The announoemmt was reetivod with cheers
from all parts of the Houma, some membus of the Right
alone remaining silent On behalf of the latter, M.
Granier de Camagnao addressed di* Chamber, reproach,
tog the Government for reliuquishing its old authority,
and M. Maier a second time left him seat, and assured
the flown that the Ministry no longer desired to sus-
tain some principles of se electoral system which under
&oast regime may have been n,eassary, but which under
the present free system of government might justly be
owed bored unbecoming and wrong. The Minister's
utterances were repeatedly cheered by all save the
ombers of the Right, on* of whom asserted that hie
party could no longer support the Mini...try. M. Thera
however. *ensured this language, and ultimately an
order of the day, pare and simple, pot to the repre-
sentatives by U. 011ivier, was carried by • large
majority.

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Tag Snairnar QUairrrOa or rag DAV. —lt is not
going too far to say that for England the disposal of
sewage is the sanitary question of the day. River
polletion has assumed such gigantic proportioas that
the eonetry bee demanded. as with one voiee, that it
shall cease ; yet the difflaulties—sanitaxy, engineering
and agrietiltural— in the way of change are appalling,
so great indeed that they have led thinking men to go
'back ones more to the first rudiments of musimay
science, there, haply, to find wisdom and the right,
way. Towns are pledged by the expenditure of ,
thousands to drain and sewers, with all the evils '
atteedent on the water carriage SYlltool ; end much ,
opposition might naturally be expected to any plan
which was in any degree to supersede he tube. No
single system, however, can be expected to seememodate
itself to the outfall, the soil, and the topeiraphical as
well as aocial conditions of each several cedtre of
population. Irrigation, tanks for deodorization and the
manufacture of manure, the Milan osaspool system,
the separation of rain water from sewage (Menzies),
and other plans -all have their enthasiairtie advocates,
sod some are justified by undeniable motor; bet the
proposal of the Hrs. H. Houle, to arrest sad &odorless
at ODOO the source of all the difficulty by means of dry
earth, whilst the storm and the drain waters are told
off to replenish the earth and the rivers, appears at
ones Po wimple, and has already by its signal suc-eeers
—4ten under trying circumstances—in India and in
England, gained oonverts en ninny mid so influential,
that it deserved, es it will undoubtedly obtain, the
gnomes nomaiderstioa in any solstice of the problem
mow beton the sountry.—rfas Pod Jowled/.