The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-03-20 00:00:00

REPUBLIC.4,Y ST&DIDI TY.

t! win has the advantage of being tolled by • zealous
mayor. It seems that the plant known to 'neigh people
as lamb's lettwoe or corissalwl I as ben termed from time
imnwsorial throurbont Normandy herbs rays!. The
mayor hes tebtdden the am by street hawk.= and others
of thenoitou.sopellation. Maeda is the word used in
polit• French circlet tr drelgnate the plant In question,
sad abaata It moat be upon the NetilteSl =mks' Plaee,
cleeptes petwhichel maim

EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOSION IN LONDON.

GREAT DINTRUCTION OF PROPIIRTY.

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About nine o'cloek an Thueeity •viming • dieast•olv
explosion took piece at the ofldoaa of the Local G iverni
most Boar!, In Charles-street, Whitehall. which Canoed
an enormous &Montt if dune*e thro ighnut • wide and
mpodp..;l:breedis
pa.rrisis.of
tTis.edre...ve.rifrirya.iiotricoow.=l.lf
louvrerheareiriena
to the ac-ne. grist excliamant being en snit-vet
Ti.., exploi•on tok place san ist tonne liamlr opposite
the end of Ktorroit.eet. Tie Noll of the prl C •st •tiO
whiCh is tortu nit., v on/tierce I by gin logs, etiipped tea
nee obi -I were h'o ern throe.= the wooden (anoint, and
provost id any eerivis dam to A. he ivy at ins, s tid
weigh two huniirel weight, strach the bri .k wall writ
such (Hoe as to lin ice • heti thro hsh ii. Inv its force
being spent it fell fecX with "it D matretisg t., the other
side. At the bottom of the wall aeveral fragments of the
baluitrede were lyiag with other fragments or broken
stones. Being rued. Vey enneerliat resembled atone
cannonballs. Ten of the et ne pilfers enpperting the
lalustrade in ft int of the wihdow of th rano wrecks! by
the expeetan ware blown to pi• he., and the pod= int
opts which they stood wee hurl, I a,ross the etre it. The
select 4th. eical idolise we. •ery Cipririoite While in One
hintiee ever/ wind ier wan aril the next e4c4gred coin.
partitively uneceth 4; and in • turd • puts was here sad
there knocked Cu' s. if Bier bed brio p ltd• with stone'
from below. In Delahayetree• the fore, f the exp',.sioa
was very apparent, The .41 •s of Sir Francis It idly,
11.0.111.. G., had their windows blown in, and the whes
or wine of the tipper MOMS were d• stroyed. The win lows
In the °Mom of Mr. &until, Mr. Barry, and Mr. Br-re.cm.
though or plate gla is, were destroye I, hotel the adjoining
offices of the Society for the Pr. ',dont m of fh •
there was little damage dine In Kingstreit over 90
winnews were inor • or Ir. Louth id, the rest majority
ban c supleiely bl even ou'. 0 the triad iws in the'
pot of Perlismepniteeiit chick eljo•ns t Poet. fllcw all
fhe gm. shared the item. '• while in th 1111.ifl pie ti io
of dm street, toe greets4t .Ivetrartion •icourted •t th •
promises of X sr.. W&erl iw and Bra. and Mese,
Kitchell. Tatra osfeblielimonte p eson•ed • Very wrecked
apse ar•nce At the Whitehall (..3 ib •Imost every wihdo •
we. 'on., both in Derby.etre.t cad Paoli ernentattreot.
The next two houses =raped, but heyand th in there
wore several windo•s •in shed hre and there. The
Chief force of the expheii•in etu• ii b.c. oporit itseli
upon the irons Islam rade in front of the window in the
eletnent IMO lb No. 8, erh•ch oat C 1111140'.1
Tee win low-sill disappeared. and the left jamb of the
window was blown away, 14eving •jagged odge of b•olcren
stone. The ezpldeive—whint con'id n.t hose been sun.
powder, for there are nine of the traces left by that
explosive—seem, to have bees dioopel betweon the
bainstrede and the window. The th Orr that it was
placed in the Bah-base= •nt is untenable. No damage his
been dine to the brick wall .appimting the flair. Auy
explosive powerful enough ti oui oh and poly rise the
solid blocks of Portland stone, mine of which 10 inches
thick form the pediment of the balustrade, would
have done much more damage to tn. brick sUppoirte
ot the Door if It had ham fired from tea sob-terieement
The =vet of the oxpiet.ion seems to beve been hors-
ey the balustrade, the pedimeut, and the jamb of the
. win log, and hi. points Li the infernal menhir=
having tosea dropped °vox the b .l.ssir.dr bye pee= by.
The street is dark eitil u freq d n ed, 40,1 • peckeg • of
dynamite co. of po.c-astita meet oes•ly here hen piste'
the= ...hoot attracting any ittent on. The room t let
hce suffered moot hoot tie exolosion is o Sinai roOlii
tumidly occupied hr clerks. It a *teat 18 or 19 IS t
=wore, and is entered by two do era, lighted by one win low,
and heated by an ordinary Arerplime. When the writers
10f it on Thursday mithr, • prose ivennuoing picket. of
envelopes ran the whole length of the right wali, and •
desk ran down the tni•idlo There were *ever.' =heirs,
stools, and the usual furniture of an odds. The do ir
was of ordinary fi ',ring deals covered wit.. =lnoue. The
roof was vaulted, cfooked with iron girders, and cemented.
All the contented of the room were blown into a chaotic
we.. of wreck and rubhisls A great gulf y.wns in tile
Centre of the room, while on the floor that yet rem lilt,
intact lies heaped • ewes of broken iumiture, mixed with
freemen= of =lnuit', sad bait buit d hioneath • ideal.
heap of envelopes The roof ten i the s dee of the 'wan
were indented es if they bed been mode the =l'ol fOr
innumerable pistol =ofi. The plaster co nice wee crushed.
A pion of tinnier hearing loosely by one end stretched
oo onwards from the riot into the room. Imme Gately
fel iw the window, lying where they had •Plmrlinfile c 1,094.41
after displace= nt by the expiosion, were three lotto
piece of dr.isnd Portland stone varying in length from
fourioon to tinnily inChille, sad about seurrfeen inch= thick.
They were lying about • loot •it iln the rietur, in • Mese of
broken bricks and mortar, dietaohel from th- bottom of
the window, sod by their petition afforded geld. n •• as to
the direettin of the amplemon. On the side bet...so the
fireplace and Um window a el, awe 01 ink upou the well
seemed to oho., that the ink bottle on the desk in the
centre had Dees dashed violehtly to the side. With that
exception it is difileuit to form any •X•Ct notalin, flora the
way in which the lorutkire is lying. as to the direcdon
taken by the exp•oeson. Everything =erns to have been
blown against the wads nod then t have fallen beck in
tle centre of the room. Awes the wrecked room. the
Lam, so strong aa iron girders sari cement' can melte it,
erc, upheaved by the force of the riolosiOn, hat altoongh
hinged upwards in ihe *entre It Finnan:l4 lOW t Strange
to eay, although the dosing wee not broil. n, • tebie
standing on the floor we, c mtge.!, broken to piers..
It s generally believed that the Loc.' Givernm-ut B
waaeelected under toe mistaken influence thet it w
offios of the flue= Secretary. In tont ot th wisps of
Landes—even includiuo tha beet and latest published the
corner of the building attacked to said to lte occupied by
the Home Office.

Tbs lolowinx extract from the friaA World, the paper
by which the Lind Limas Foods were oh mewl is
America, is not witsout eigailicencs et 1. present
moment tame it is on open quw.ti,n erturner
the pi Xs.' called Dyestuff,.c is. lire: rota-
mweioned in ituisqa or dr.t IQ Ircland. Well, iz is not
ot meci c.ineeqaencs which ot tme two couotrie• tek•s
prec dinos in this onward Map towtrde avillat ion.
S 2. owo claim tilt nitwit fr Indeed. True, the intr.
ductlry blast was Mina in Esc an I, ant m toe centre 01
ID. enemy's lanai,' saner.. But Ina work ittelt was no
do alit done by one or two rub hoods."