The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-18 00:00:00

Emptriai parliament.

MONDAY
In the House of Commons. Kr. Astmeso,‘
attention to the circumstances under which the cothi,
in the Solent took place, and moved C vote of mg"
upon the Government for not having tskey,
vindicate public justice.
Mr. Wsmy Hiner defended the course vlipd 6,1 be.
pursued by the Admiralty, and &Dar a debits th,
was rejected by 157 to 66.
It toil
The ClisnagtAcia of the Faclungunit, in reply H.
D. WOLFF, declined to state the nature of the neesut..
now pending respecting the future rianagement j,he
Sues Canal. The report of supply having letg .47*
the House adjourned uutil the 24th not.

MR- SIMS REEVRS ON SPELLING BLS
Mr. Sims Reeves having been solicited to art as refers* at a bee. which wss projected to be held in the prindiod
town of one of the home counties, sent the folios-inane-
cise and pithy reply :—"Granft, mount. Beulah Sm.
Upper Norwood, April 3, 1576 —Dear ink on
spelling been as an sunusernent. for idiots, and in
decline having anything to do 'nth the one in guestimate
any other. —Your obedient servant, .1 SIM RUM'

BITRIHD WITH HIS HAT ON.
The Raleigh (S.C.) New. says :—" Paschal LloYd, aa
aged tenant on Wiley, J. Jones', farm, new tbe city, died
the other day. lie mi. 73 year. of SiisT• His dying mine*
was that he should he buried in the shoes he wore every
day, with his everv•day hat on, and his walking ran, tole
placed in his coffin. It was done as he requested. He
also asked that the lid of the coffin slimild not he wrested
on tight. His hickory stick. with a bu,khorn handle, was
placed in his coffin, awl at the grave Lis friends un,crewm
the coffin, and lowered hint down, hat, sheet, sti,k, ead
all.

THE 131.ArKBURN 311.-I:DER.
FCRTHEZ I PO . 'JCokIE,.

Great excitement prevailed in Blac'Omni Sunday night
when it became known that the police had taken into
custody William Fi‘h. harber, of 3, Mies-street, en the
charge of murdering Mary Holland, and hasl found prs
lions of the skull and Ii sir of a child. General s'opiciss
hail always attached to the lowlier, who keeps a ''l-oh-lp•
shun, and resides at 102. Miss-street, with his wife and
two children. The discovery of the skull was bide in a
moat extraordinary manner. Chief rowitahle Pets
arranged with a man named Taylor, of 72, Nelsowstreet
peoet,on to bring over two of his dogs, one half blood bond
awl spaniel, and the others cluinher spaniel. The Flee-
detectives Holden, and Linsey were sent out with the does
awl their owner to the place where the trunk net Laub
lere of the heslv were (mind. loat nothing fresh .as
covered. They returned to Blackburn, awl Mr. Pots. thus
denied to have the does taken to Flab's shop. superin.
tendent &Awash Detective lavesey, Taylor, and in
dogs promedsd to Fish's shop, in which there are tso
ruuilia below and two aletve. The officers and ,10g: went
vip.tairs, and the bloodhotind at once scented up the chim-
ney of the front room. The owner of the dog put his hsoi
up the chimney and pulled down from the dine
draft hole the akull and other portions of a child wrapped
in a paper covered with blood. From a medical ,11,11u1-
ation made by Dr. l'atchett, it was evident that the heed
had recently been burnt. Two teeth are left remaining
I, the lower jaw. It will be recolleeted that the. trunk of
the body and the legs were found wrapped in copes of the
Presto,. Herald. three of them being of recent date, one of
No,. IS, KZ. 'shop tao twice ores iously wombed,
awl copies of the !lanai, wan feinol is his pose-A-in, the
dates of the papers in which the rfisinembered holy vu
found being miming. There is no headim to the new..
paper in which the skull was found, but in one peaks
there is a printssl iu italics, "To the Elinor of the
Newslaseter Coerier," and the prisoner Fish takes ia tie
f 11,0 frail Fish was present with his site when
thy discovery was made, hut he said nothing. Mr. Fen
was' at once rent for, awl it was with difficulty that FA
could be taken to the lock-up. Ile was in danger or 'attic
lynched, and if the police had not been prompt is piing
' him away violence would have been resorted to. Thomas&
of people collected in Mossatreet, where Emily Ileinad
resided. and a large assemblage gathered round tho police
station, the sloore being guarded 100 a strong force .4 police-
men. After the charge had been entered the priaseer sae
removesi to a cell and two constables reinatned with him
all 'light He was brought before the magistrages M anlf
morning on the charge of murdering Emily Holland aed
remanded. Hie wife came to see him at the tolicestfay.
and said she did not think her husband 'rtpabh 4 am.
witting a crime. There waa a strong feeling agliest
prisoner in the district, and it was only the other agile*
he went to the police oflice to aak for protection. Tho
prisoner Fish is 213 years of age. His shop is only sloe
forty yarda from a grocer's establishment of Mr. Col.
where Emily Holism( purchased half an ounce of t-heeto
for a man. Every day on her way home the little aid
would have to paas the barber's shop, and it is probable.
therefore, that he knew her well.
The man Robert Teylor, in custody on the chary ea
murdering Emily Holland, who ha,, been conhned in the
police-cell at the Blackburn Towwhall for six dos, wan
removed to Preston House of Correction on Saturday. The
police took him handcuffed in a cab with Iwo other
prisoners to Cherry-tree Station, and the remora' was
made without the general public being aware of what was
being done. The officer's had not the least trouble with
Taylor, who is pronounced by medical gentlemen to be a
lunatic. Nothing further material Ism transpired in
reference to the murder.

The 500,000 gallons.( sea water required for the tad+ is
the Westminster Aquanum are being removed from
Brighton to Landon daily. The water is supplied from
baths, and is conveyed to town in barrels.
1101.1.13 MIT'S PILLS. —Trerthfoot Erverireor -The united
testimony of thousando. extending over more than thirty
Years, most strongly reocutuends these Pills as the beg
purifiers, the mildest aperidents. and the ,urest resve-
atives. They never 'prove delusive, or rive merely
temporary relief, but attack all silnients of the sta..*
lungs, heart, head, and bowels in the only safe and legiti-
mate way, by depurating the blood, and therefrom
eradicating those impurities which are the foundationsed
support of almostevory disease. Their medicinal efficacy
is wonderful in renovating enfeebled constitutions. Ibew
action embraces all that is desirable in a household
medicine. They expel every noxious and effete matter s.
mid thus the strength is nurtured and the enenffes lllui
lined.

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