The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-09 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

Last week a man died at Liverpool, it was believed frets
the. intense cold._

.7%;;17es are—nia—king In Russia greater ravages than they
did last year.
If one-breeding is much encouraged by the Government
of France, who last year gave £50,050 to races.
A well-educated woman has been summoned for
troubling the clergyman of St. John's, Hampstead, by
singing in a high voice, before or behind the choir. She
said her whole heart wee in the service.; but she was
wee ned she might be fined SA. The summons was
adjourned.
Sir Arthur Guinness has reduced his renta 30 per cent.
to tenants under .C3O. and 30 per cent to those between
.C2O and £5O. and says he would have done it Wore but
forth, land agitation. . .

--Three EiTri7peans-L. d three Chinese from a trading
vessel have been murdered by the natives of Cloudy Bay.
New Guinea and MM. mooosr Beagle has gone to
punivh Use offenders.
Thirteen canisters of nitri-glycarine were in the bag of
a revolutipinstAirnisted in Russia.

'fi;.i,liii.2l:7;;;;;;;Mea7leerare they are in posleesion
of the deposita of guano and nitrate of soda, and will not
recognise any contracts relating to those substance., mad*
since the declaration of war.

964 sovereigns were found last week In a house in
Dublin, by a locksmith. They were in a tin case, found
in • isife-rooni.

—rtara-n;;:r-e—gettinz very angry about the protests raised
in England against the " retortion" of St. Mark'a
In Ireland the buid agitation waa on Thursday thought
to have deereamed.

The -AUrtiian army on a war footing has been fixed at
I,BMOOO men till the end of 1&"9.
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About ightpence to portico were ready to dispute with
witnesses at Walsall County Court; but on their agreeing
to leave the matter to the Judge. his Honour paid plaintiff
the &L out of his own pocket. and the parties did not seem
to like it . - . . _

-I:s7l7Lairivan at Lekester to the Sir Rowland Hill
Memorial Fund.

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SUICIDE FOR THE SAXE OF SCIIOOLING. A girl of
thirteen at Paris wished to obtain a schoolmistress's
certificate, and on her parents wanting her to come into
their bakery 1/IIaiDESIS, she shot herself with a revolver
through the heart. . .

-1.407-4e-i-liTrriistro-ng guns hare attracted the attention of
our War Department, which is mid to have decided on
having some.
Scarlet fever has so spread at Bedminster that the
medical (Auer proposed to exclude from the schools
children from infected houses, or to close the schools.
Wild fruits are unusually scarce ; with the exception of
holly berries and haws there are scarcely any on the
bu_iifi.m and tree.
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- My 177r-st-er at Westmoreland found that in the local
dialect • Tory means • "worrier," end considered it an
accurate meaning.
Three bullets were lodged in the back of an Irish farmer
at Mullingar, by a concealed assassin, and the farmer lies
In a precarious state.
Severin Bastendorif has been found guilty of perjury in
reference to Hannah Dobba's pamphlet. Judgment
rescrvak _

OeLand Roberta has appointed Afghan governors of
throe districts : but one has been murdered, and the others
threatened by the Afghans.
Old Railway Iron, recently add at the rile, has brought
the London and North Western a profit of 4:25,000.
Sxaucii scroaa you Accusc—A gentleman at the
Went End, fancying Iris servants were robbing him,
sent to his solicitor; but the lawyer searched the library,
and found in various books and cranniea, cheques and
notes value Saooo, which the gentleman had put away
and forgotten.
Two dealers poached a stag in Soffolk last week It had
taken refuse front the hounds an a barn, whence the
dealer, carried it off in • cart, and cut its Watt Fined
CIO and costs.

174 declares that • gentleman made her unnonscioua
in an Irish waiting room, and robbed her of jewellery and
feloo.

--fie secretary to Mr. ParnelTs National Land Lazne
wu arrested on Friday in Dublin, on charges of making
a seditious speech et Balla, end endeavouring to seduce
the Irish Constabulary frost their allegiance.
A great Are eta Pantechnicon furniture store in Bristol,
destroyed L 5,000 worth of goods on Friday, and another
Ike L5OO or MOO worth of oils and colours.
The lad who threatened the Queen of Sweden has been
forgiven by the King, who is going to charge himself with
the lad's education. _

THE BlailiNcaul CA111.2 AND DOG SHOWS. —At the
cattle show the number of visitors Ls leas by 27,244 than at
last year's show. The decrease in money taken at the
doors is about .1:800. At the dog show there has been •
decline in numbers of 5,000 and in the receipta of Mkt
The sale of dogs, however, realised .F. 69 more than last
yell%

comparative trial between the Hereskoff and a
second-class Thorneycroft torpedo boat took place on
Friday. Its object was to ascertain the rapidity with
which the respective boats could be got under weigh.
At the conclusion of the trial the Ilereekod, while
going full speed astern, ran into the Manley tug, strik-
ing her above the water-line. The concussion broke the
steam gauge on board the Hereskolf, and one of the
fragment.; struck Mr. R. Wheeler, engineer in charge
of the boat, indicting an extensive wound on the knee.
A stoker and an engine-room artitipar were abo slightly
injured Wheeler was conveyed on board the Vernon,
and was then taken to Hasler liormital-
Several thousand Albanians on the 2nd attacked the
Iluntenegrirui at Velika ; but after being severely
pressed, the latter were reinforced.
Famine in Upper Silesia is very serious; there ire
more than 150,000 sufferefe, mostly Poles.
The electric li6t has been fitted up on board the
steamer City of Berlin.
Michael Ball, the farmer shot at Mulligar, died on
Saturday.
Two women have been frozen to death in Scotland;
each bad lost her way.
According to the Paris Gaiatia, the Empress Eugenie
Intends to proceed direct from Spain in Zululsad before
returning to England.
Mr. Waddy, M.P. for Barnstaple, has addressed
the electors of Sheffield, calling on them to remedy
the evils ineeparable horn Tory rule.
A kitchen boiler exploded at Liverpool last week,
and wrecked the kitchen.

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I ST 50K1.11817.--Sal r
'pe and winter visi-
tors are plentiful, and woodcocks are more abundant
than has been the case for ten years.
Ma. R. F. Groans, formerly a surgeon, and who
filled many public offices at Bath, did on Friday at
Weston-super-mare, aged 81.
10,000 people were at an Irish agitation meeting on
Sunday at C lerea, and 0,000 at Carelebar. At the
former place the reporters were threatened by the
crowd, and protected by the rifles of the police.
" Tar Carennuet. or Mirrnornsx."—John Wesley's
Chapel in the City-road, London, was almost entirely
destoyed by fire on Sunday, 'the frost hindering the
supply of water. Wesley's pulpit was paved.
The canals leading to Mussels and Louvain are
closed by the ice, the Schelde is obstructed, and all
Inland navigation is stopped ; but the Sound at Copen-
hagen was navigable for steamers up to the 4th.
The Duke of Portland died On Sunday morning, in
his 80th year. He was one of the largest landowners
In the kingdom. Hen succeeded by Mr. W. J. A.
Cavendish, son of General Arthur Cavendish Seethe*.
Referring to English steamship building daring the
present year, to the 90th November, 426,M.5 tons hays
been set afloat. Allowing for the lones and sales to
foreigners the actual tonnage added to the register has
been 292,970 tons, with 82,965 horse power. Estimat-
ing the cost per ton at eleven guineas, these represent
• capital of £4,689,135.
Bututer, in • letter to an Irish correspondent,
states that all Administrations have hitherto been
afraid of touching the landlords, the rights of property
being deemed more sacred than the comfort or even I
the es of the people. But there Is nothing, he adds, ,
that might not be done for Ireland If her represents,
tires in Parliament would unite with the Liberal
party in combined and honest action for the real
benefit of their country.
Climes VlCTORY.—lntelligeooe received at Buenos
Ayres states that the allied Peruvian and Bolivian
army been completely defeated a thp
c troops, who have taken of the !
town.—The 1911bWan squadron im bloukadjmg the port of
Aries. Tarawa is e tonn of importance In the most
*anther's province of Rem • province which contains
Iwo bear of nitrate of sods and guano. Tin Wass
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