The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-07 00:00:00

ggrinatural bans.

MAY DAY IN ILLNOELEBTXR.

Frain the first of May menyisogitif =id to
date the beginning al which
hvsnowbecooca.,4keeenehmter sad=
berbood possess a certain simeent of alikasiker
directly or remotely, own it lascia•Maa to Be radio
associations. They afford a pleasant Btlis holiday
excitement for the carters, the harm, led this
simeistosZ and the exhibition is one whisk idylls •
of pismire without harming anyone.
=sr, it can be truly mid that the lame method
of anan the show has peat admire* over the
older-fashioned method. The horses borealis morning
been unyoked from the ins, and Move, itivorellY
in single file, along the str. thus obviating the most
serious objections which have be urged. Un-
doubtedly hones are this marsias the harem of the
day. A gleam of kindly admiration is given to their
cleincrsocked drive* whose unusually prim
appearance speaks of careful preps:shoe for the Mat
occasion. But their bireful charges are unquestion-
ably the observed of all observers, and well they
deserve the admiration bestowed up= them.
Manchester Is in the habit of boasting thai no city in
the world oan put each an array in the streets, and
appearaaces this the bassi I. a just
one. Trim the early suggest
tilLateariiest milk-dealer
in the remotest suburb, it was evident that something
unusual was in the wind. The chief throughLues are
literally crowded, people lining the par=alt
Market-street, Piccadilly, Masley-nrest,
street, and at every point where there is supposed to be
a chance of seeing the proosesion—proomsions, we
ought perhaps to say, for u a matter of hat there is
quite s series of them. Tbe Exchange steps, the walls,
bounding the Infirmary, the warehouse windows, the
very lamp-posts have all been utilised by eager and
good-natured spectators, and everywhere the cheery
jingle which the "bell-horses" raise can be h
Speaking generally, the show has been quite as great
• moor as moil. What is perhaps the best
feature of the day is that no accident of
the smallest consequence has yet been reported,
Nismas. Carver and Go's display of horses was, as on
previous occasion., of a very complete and excellent
character. The prurience mudded of between two
and three hundred bona, of which their 0111111 M
might well be proud. They were arrengrd ia pairs,
alcg. to their different colours, the greys taking
the They had been neatly, and, in some
Instances, elaborately adorned by their drivers, and
their harness being unusually clean and bright, their
appearance was certainly fins. The equality of the
banes elicited many eulogistic comments from
and the drivers, were frequently cam-
t'aadtirdproosseknoithtLe:oellant *one, and re of the turn-ou
ms. belonging :o.
The
Messrs. Thompson, 11" Kay, and 00., equal
and in many rupiah supaim, to no prdasecesscra
The number of Mrses—all of which were of a very
fine quality—was about 400, and of vehicles 960. The
horses were decorated in the usual May Day fashion
and the apparel of the men was fully in with
the occasion. The horses were raa to
their ooloura. The teams belangingtaolke Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway Company, Salford, made, as
on previous uranium, a very fine procession. They
numbered some 900. The length of the procession
was considerable, as the hones marched along singly,
accompanied by their respective drivers, who lied not
forgotten to don tirhe=-day apparel. The horses
were in • very i condition, their harness
being brightly pollthed and their festal adornment.
extremely pretty. Messrs. Kanworthy and Co's
procession, conslsted of about forty teems. Their
appearance was very creditable.

001(PRIORED —PRAT —II7IIL AND CHARCOAL.
Trie manufacture of rourprosed peat fuel and charcoal
has again come to the font in • form and ander a
that to proado • complete =co= Iti=
recognised that pest fuel is superior to coal for smelting
and manuiacinring purposes and is preferred for house-
hold use by those equainted with it, but the difikadty
hitherto haa hew to conspren_and dry it aconotakally and
quickly. Several infieential Devonshire gentlemen have
Nr. John Howard's proems, and being
that his method overcomer all difficulties, they
:save moorland themselves into a Joint-stook company,
under the title of the West of Ragland Cooprosed
Peat Company, and have fecund • large track of
elevated peat land of superior quality and dapeig on
Dartmoor. near the London and South-Wane= Railway,
and favourably situated for cheap delivery of the foal to
any part of the kingdoms on completion of the tramway
to the works By Kr. Howard's method it appears that
the water la eondiosied and the peat disintegrated, nun-
=dand dried into blocks--as hard and apparently as
4 coal—in a few hours, reedy for una oretr=
sod at an inclusive cost of =out 3s. ed. per ton.
°lschiae is of compressing upwards
of 100 tons r'cr;°a Tarbe ors—all, we =dentin&
reliable loosl nentlerneu—saticipate profits of
90 to fig per cent, to the shareholders in the company, and
Nowa. Robinson Brothen, of 12, Si, Helen's-place,
Londlou. have, after a careful inquiry, supported them in
this view. It correct, and we have no noon to doubt it
intending subscribers should make au early application if
desirous of securing a sham in the developement of this
prodtable and important industry, which will have its
favourable effect on our manufactures Bireeimpaism
Dods Gouts

The Bltedieta baroash aaeountan t bas been enapanded.
l'here Is a dellaieway Is his soil of Laoo or COO.
A lad a( le was aseleseed to 14 days' lm t on
Yonder for riotous sestOot at Bt Alban's, lborn.
Yr. Mario istrkstsmaw 01 hornier; mills et °edam-
int. bm shot Wood, ae &mime' through the depression
of trade .

—TVelloroooo famine would seem to be over. Rain has
again fallen, the crops have improved, and the price of
provisions is fairly moderate.
A strike of railway servants in Glasgow is threatened.
The North British Railway Company have Intimated that
they intend to increase the man a working time from 51
to 54 hours per week.
Christ Clair& Cathedral, Dublin, which has been
restored at a cost of MOO.* by Kr. Roe, distiller. wee
re-opened Wednesday. Yr. Roe. has &beeves an endow-
ment

—Mr. I,ul-271 Kerrie, of Stalbrbige, who is rrying to tbe
Ttuittsh army, and has been promoted to the rank of
major, hike been a victim to the fever that is raging in
Turkey, but as his Mende have not received any news to
the contrary it Is believed be la better. •
On Monday an turnocessful latampt waa mad. to raja
the Eurydice from its bed in the Char neL The 7-inch
hawser employed snapped in two front the strain. The
attempt will be Morel in • few days with an 8-inch
hawser. . . . .

"4.174 AT BLIORTON.—A little house with shop hes been
built in the King's-road, Brighton, which is somewhat
novel in design, if not particularly basutlhil. It is end
to be lb. gooopod building. sa • house, anywhere, as •
table 6 ft. suture cannot be put inside it Yet it la let at
Alla a year.
In the Clommons Pleas Division, Wednesday. an action
sr= sby t eet.bgpitylirt Napalm simian the North-Urn=
for commilliMelel for the Ices of her
L'=, who was killed tinegb • Irate haying run off
the Ilea The jury awarded bar NAM of wbia C 1.950
woo for bey bureaU, and the remainder for her children.
At laveepool Monday, before Ni, Rein Me Sagan
a yam' Ma sod shout eighteen nen whale nervosa
conduct ia the do= pointed le • eimillins tensponemingt
was charged on remand with baring slabbed sneer am.
It woo shoted,that in eonesinesee of the names of the
=W• emotions his hair bad tunnel hoes • light
oolen to grey sines his arrest and during lb
im of RIM days. t
man Barker. • promise at townsman= Sheffield
otot as mossy night with what is feared will prove •
Wel accident He was leaving what is known as the
Gentlemen's flub when he attempted to Elide down the
bannkturs, and in doing so fell almost from the top to ths
bottom of the buldln4 He ins picked up unconscious.
Hu skull wee ssrloooly fractured, and a portion of the
brains protroded.
At • large meeting of Conservatives held in Lewes
Wednesday night, Kr. W. Grantham. LP., proposed,
and my. D. L Scott IL P.. mooed= the following reso-
lution, which was paned :—" That this meeting supremos
Its antildence in the Imago policy of Her lniestie
ionninn and minden that while wing e:rielNe
011tWmanna peen their efforts to the
to
of the country, and to emirs • t of
ilosnesan asks on a sound and permesent been an
of the bora support of all classes of Her
a subisot."
The IntanMls.al Exhibition at Paris wee opened
on Wednesday_ hoNand Naemelorm mootnnialed by
Mohacs of Wain sod maim of the Royal famines of
. Holland."Ed Derrasek. The oaremoey, which
oeed ton Itorafil. wee Wheat and secomohal. When
the Maas bed bees desired opus by the Maras].
twelve milker, best rwiliesibiems to pay, bunting was
reteteriveil the end paced., • number of
wen exploded, sod leer of the mints farts
• solute of elghl74•111 11/o=4.Dmilperimtb.
weans Paris was
A amespesderwriten
le"wZ Clewing/An at the Nagger din Into
before mis demonekellem
10 YOTSIIIIIII—Are yes broken in your reel by
• sick dad missies with the peke swain teeth / Go
at Deo' ton &mkt and get • heave of MAIL WINSLOW'
Soas lITION. It Wal Man the poor engem
. It is baralea and pleasant to
Min it manor Amp. by reboring the
dad hemand climb seines " se bright
as • button.' It wears Os GIN& it softens the gums,
allays all pain, relieve' wimiL yegeistes the towels, and is
tit, best known remedy fer dysentery and diarrheas,
whether arezfrin Inaba or other mum Mrs.
Winslow's is sold by Nedielne dealers
at la, l par Mmungered in New
TillatTat Mb °rankest. London
The terrible Itisalut nick • week mo overlook the
S lash at the Millidlikany is shorn • mann
to Open by the gleriomensidne and
the bests whoa bed been wesiner.beemi eve
out of tbe mass i porte_gosg the areihmeet
=a in as NOM spirits In copse-
of OMNI Before night.
however, •711IFF'..serLiZillitid bunions' the oast
The sea wee theme fins sallow speolstors or
shore by the Meng ale. bal. and Glen Whoa the
stern had mast Its Mialbere was hide left for the
women to Mg to de noir bends. • few elthe
mem lerhieste been pet gm the me* but they
only brought with than the wad eseleotwen
and before may bean wag seer =ls news which
berm te wive. Dray village on the
:=li rtelidi essit name to ban suffered terribly.
Senandor Ms lest lens bess boats. five smaller ones
and II seen and bids Olhor ilsoet in the same province
home been waft onforkmate. At the heed of the
creaky list Ora Enerneo the pistonsons end lovely
Hide town dbosted sear no ceps' /AV of He galtennai
Welia The And& of the pleos=phe in sad grief of the wroteW f are
IMO& r then 40 widows and NO children, in •
tows of 111111 inhalants, are woman
_lbb great
csandly. The ellein Magmas neon •MU Ime up to
MVA me and boys In non IN bine et mania
of
it is dna es a fast tag searady s Inge of the
/set of Nam le lett, and seism the deed los
at the drowsed we or the 'mediae at libe overwhined
hosts en likely to be seen agen

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