The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

PICKINGS FROM "PUNCH.'

EL£CUTOB'S ANNOTINCEMINT. The Vcerpeoz
Financia/ Reformers (who propose to abolish excise and
cubtuans. and thereby to throw all taxes on property)
bog respectfully to anounoe that they are aPpointed sole
executors to the late M. Proudhon, and auisnees of his
celebrated dogma, La Propriete c'esi an

NO MORE TAXES NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE.
Dx. JOHN BRIGHT. Fellow of Birmingham Ifni.,
versify, feels that it would be ioju-tice to the public,
and false delicacy in hinuelf, if he did not by all means
in his power invite the attention of the public to his
patent

FRANCHISE PILL.
This This inestimable medicament, which hat been die.
covered by Dr. Bright after tempi y years of researches
in America. is unhesitatingly announced by him as 4
Certain Care for all Disorders—physical, mental,
moral, social, and political. It is perfectly safe, and
the most childish person may use it without difficulty,
and it is warranted to abolish (among thousands of other
ailments) the following afflictions :
Taxes, Pimples. 13.1 Xtfes,
Corns,
Low-cults, Christmas boxes, Gout,
In owlet ions, Clam Legislation, Earthquakes,
PFSmede;:tol'-iP7BOx-keepers, Blank Verse Disaffection,
Poverty,
Poaching, The Trish Church, Heresy,
Tooth-ache, Drill king, Gare-lips,
W li iggisin, Diplomacy, Homicide,
Dyspepsia. Davenport Brothers, Haymarket Parochial Rates, Rates, Agricultural Din- dais,
Ounpowder Explo- tress, bfinioterial Explo-
sions, One legged Dancers, nations,
Strikes, Two legged Donkeys, x- mum,
Gumboils, Three-legged Stools, Dwarfs,
Gallowses, Sensation Novels, Crossing Sweeper.,
Turnpikes, Protestant Ascend- Cl-sic Quotations-,
Street Organs, ancy, East Winds, -
Smoky Chimneys, Orange Peel on Paves Slack-balling,
Armies, Mink!. Snowballing
Navies, Bishops, Fanny Balling,
Circumlocution, Bunions, liksenachache.
War,
With numerous other misfortunes. Testimonisla may
be seen at the office of the New York Rerald, the
Birmingham Refloat?, the Finsbury Firebrand, the
Rochdale Roarer, the Marylekme lifaunderer,and other
leading journals. Neatly done up in Ballot-boxes, and
shortly, it is hoped, to be sold under the Government
Stamp.—Price, a whole Hog.

On Thursday afternoon, Tom King the pugilist, and
James Percy, of Newcastle, rowed for £lOO. After.
111.1.0 144041. K.NW wort by evorrungara,
From an account of the lut moments of Kohl, who
was hanged at Chelmsford on Thursday, which has been
furnished by 1)r. Cappel, it would appear that the
convict had intended to confer* at the last moment, as
Muller did, but that the hangman was too quick for
him.

MUNIFICENT BEQUERT TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH.—Tbe Dundee Advertiser has been informed
that the late Captain Mitchell, of Baldovie and Balfottr,
Forfarshire, has left the large stui of 250,000 to the
Roman Catholic Church.
NOBLE Girrit—The following special (Ma for the
purchase of lifeboats hereafter named were presented
last year to the National Lifeboat Institution :
Alomouth, Mini Wardell, £32o.—Redear, Messrs. John
Crossley and Sots, 2.300. —Whitby, No. 2, Dr. H. W.
Watson, £lBo.—Donna Nook, Robert How, Esq.' and
Mine How, £3so.—Theddlethorpe, Mrs. B. Calilake,
£3so.—Sutton, collected in .Birmingham, £250,
Skegness, Friends of the late Herbert Ingram, Esq.
M.P., £205 ss.—Dover. collected in Wiltshire by Capt.
N. J. Reed, RN., £435 101. 9d.—Poole, A Lady, £5OO.
—Penzance, J. C., £2so.—Seanen Cove, Mrs. H. A,
Davis, £3oo.—Padstow, collected in Bristol by Capt. R.
Tryon, R. N., 2570.—Newquay (Cardigan), Ancient
order of Foresters, £255 lls. 3d.—Porthdiollaen, Lady
Cotten Sheppard and Friends, £2so.—Holyhead and
New Brighton, Joseph Leather, Req., £662 15a.—
Blackpool, Mni. and Miss Hopkins, £2so.—Piel,
Commercial Travellers' Lifeboat Fund, £2so.—Girvan,
Alexander Kay Esq., £4oo.—Londonderry, J. D.
Allcroft, Faq., 2,2so.—Tramore, Cambridge University
Boat Club, £2so.—Ardmore, A Friend, £3oo.—Valentie,
A Lady, £soB.—Berwick-on-Tweed, BridlingtonsCardi•
gen and Carmarthen Bays, collected in Manchester bp
Robert Whitworth, Eq., Rev. E. Hewlett, and I. Cf.
Bell, Esq., £940 9s. 160. Making a total of £6,327
10d. As each lifeboat station requires £5O a-year to
keep it in a state of efficiency, the Institution mum
necessarily require a large annual income to maintain
its 140 lifeboats, which are now stationed on various
parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, and which
save every year nearly 500 lives from shipwreck.
JOINT STOCK COMPANIES' DIRICTOST. A new
candidate for public fevotir has appeared, vim, the Joint
Stock Companies' Direetory for 1865; and from the
manner in which it has been received it must be con.
sidered • complete success. The volume haabeen prepared
by Messrs. Charles Barker and Sons, of 5, Birchin-lane,
London, and is published by Messrs Groombridge and
Sons, of Paternoster-row, mud the contents afford •
really valuable guide to general joint stock enterprise.
Whether it be railways, bank", finance, or credit
companies, or the various new projects lately introduced,
the book shows at • glance the constitution of the
board, the capital, acid the executive. It certainly
contains more than any other publication of the
kind, and it cannot be denied that the elassill•
cation of the directors' names is an index of
ready referance for all who may wish to trace
the progress of "limited liability" during the
last three years. In London the publication ii under.
stood to have produced quite a sensation, and its rapid
male shows that it is regarded es an authority, while
hereafter it will become a standard work. Messrs.
Barker and Sons, from their metropolitan associations.
and working in the heart of the city, possess almost
peculiar facilities for compiling and continuing the
publication, which, as every year passes, may be
rendered more and more useful to the financial and the
commercial community throughout the United Kingdom.
The work, as a specimen of typography, is well got up;
it is printed on good servicable paper, and the bindin
is distinctive without being in the least showy.
AMERICA)! BZEF.—The following letter appears In
the Leeds Mercury :—Several opinions haying been
given in your column, as to the qualities of an *tide
called "American beef," permit me to add mine.
Some time since I was indu,ed by advert-Memento to
become the (intonate possessor of a hundred weight of
that delectable stuff, under the conviction that I wag
going to have a few months' excellent feeding at a very
cheap rate. Well, gentlemen, I submitted the mess to
every process of cookery practised in thin country, in
order to coax it into something like • digestible mass,
but all to no purpose. As • last resource, I flogged it
with a large rolling pin: half-an-hour's exercise in thie
way positively made it worse than ever. After this, I
found a person foolish enough to receive it as a gift.
I have heard many opinions advanced sato the name by
which the animal was known when alive in America.
I am not well read in natural history, but I believe the
animal which supplies the "Britishers" with OM
vaunted food ii a beast of burden, with long ears,
known in America as • " Bonsai," better known in
this country as a "donkey;" and the natural obstinacy
of the animal clings to the flesh after death. As to
the cheapness of the "beef," let me be just. I verily
believe that one hundredweight of it cannot be eaten
by any family in ten years. Surely this cannot be con-
sidered costly living I A "shoddy machine" is the only
thing that occurs to mess being at all calculated to tear
"old Neddy " to pieces titer betas been boiled, broiled.
roasted, stewed, baked, and flogged. I may be told
that the flogging business was unneoessery : perkiers it
was. The " old fellow" had no doubt had his 'hero of
it when living, and still he wouldn't go tender.
OSTRICH FARMING.—By late news from the Ca of
Good Hope, we learn that the farmers of that colony
are beginning to find it profitable to keep flocks of
Botestrriha for the
ncoaethepo un fat
dcFliraoerthof those beoirds are w
ostriches
thoererth must
be three hundred acres of grazing ground. The pluck.
ing takes place once in six month.; the yield of feathers
from each bird being worth from £lO to £l2 10s. The
original cost of the young ostriches is said to heft each.
Some of the farmers who have tried the experiment are
of opinion that ostrich feathers wil pay better than
any other produce of the oolony. —Chambers's Journal.
"The Prince Imperial," says the Pays, " has recently
commenced the study of Latin. A reply given by the
young Prince when he signed, after the Emperor, the
marriage contract of Mademoiselle de Gondrecourt, has
been talked of. The Emperor having observed that the
Prince was a long time in signing, the latter responded:
When one has a name like ours it requires some time
to write it.'" _ .

SUDDEN DEATHS AT TAUNTON.—It is our melan-
choly duty to announce the sudden deaths of two of our
leading townsmen within a brief period of time of each
other. On Saturday the inhabitants were startled by
the announcement that Mr. Frederick White, the cele-
brated oil colour painter, whose pictures have obtained
great celebrity, had been found dead at his residence.
It appears that the only occupants of his residence were
himself and servant. On Saturday morning she carried
him up • cup of tea, and then went to market. On
her return she found her master dead and cold.—
On Sunday the inhabitante were thrown into sa
still greater degree of consternation by the intelli-
gence that Mr. Richard Maynard, the celebrated
auctioneer, and bead of the firm of Maynard and
Sons, had ceased to exist Mr. Maynard was greatly
respected in the town, and for years was one of the
deacons connected with the Baptist Chapel. On
Sunday morning he attended Diviae service, and in the
evening went out to tea to the Rev. Mr. Prim, of
Exeter, who was officiating for the Rev. Mr. Cowell,
being his guest. Mr. Maynard at down in his usual
health and spirits, suddenly complained of nausea, bowed
his head and died. The Rev. Mr. Price ran to hie
assistance, and on placing his hand over the region of
the heart found it had ceased to beat Medical assist-
ance was at once procured, hut Mr. Maynard's spirit had
fled—The Rev. Mr. Price was obliged to leave to.
perform evening service at the Baptist Chapel, and
shortly after ascending the pulpit raised his hands, and
after a brief pause said—" Onelot the deacons of your
chapel, who worshipped with you this morning is sno
more! Be died suddenly just now! I was with him
when he passed away l" The effect of this announcement
can be more easily imagined than described The minis-
ter could say no more; the crowded congregation were
melted to tears ; and for a time the deepest solemnity
pervaded the assembly at the loss of one whom they
loved so well Mr. Maynard leaves his mooed wife to
mourn his loss, by whom he has had two or three
children, in addition to • large family by * first wife.
Mr. White was unmarried.
EITRLORDINART DEATH OP AR Ecomrsio
CHARACTER. —On Monday an inquest was held
at Paddington, on the body of James Palker, aged 70,
who was found deed in his room at No.ll, Braithwaite-
place, on the 17th inst. There was scarcely an article
of furniture in the roomand the body of deceaaed,whick
was covered with vermin,vvas almost devoid of clothing.
On a march being made some very valuable paper
securities were found, and amongst them an order on
the Bloomsbury Bank for £172 Ps. 64., hid amentest
some rags. Bank of England notes to the value of £75,
and also • quantity of gold and silver coin were
In sown:lance with the medical evidence. A sister o
mceauntse of deesithurywasbrotgort
intoabe7erdiswantt.
ddPreceai7:lsellerderdfron.omuriEhtasheth claims the property.

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