The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-18 00:00:00

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emrral ittms.

The Shah of Persia haa arrived in Paris.
• Lord Selisbary left London Monday night for Berlin.
Mr. Stanley, the explorer, has arrived at Brussel..
The crops in some districts of India ant being ravaged
by locusts.
Much alarm was ruined in Lisbon on Saturday by •
• violent shock of earthquake.
Rousseau's centuary la to be celebrated in Paris on the
god July.
Of the viii tors to the Paris Exhibition twooevenths ate
Englishmen.
A hill has been brought into the Trench Chambers fer-
tile sale by auction of the State jewel,
No sovereigns mei" coined in England last year. but
3,774.0P0 were imported from Atistralia.
Mr. Gladstone was on Wednesday initiated into the
mysteries of the Order of Ancient Shepherd,
The Indians are on the war path, and have defeated a
small froth of volunteers at Idaho.
The Theatre Royal. Plymouth, wan destroyed by file
Thorsday night.
The latent report from Rome concerning the Pope's
health Is that he.. ill and dirpirited.
Mr. Cr,.., in the Alaimo* of Lord Salisbury, is doing the
work of the Foreign Office.
The coital's, of the South African war is anticipated.
the rebel. being thoroughly diaorganised.
On Sunday the Paris Exhibition ww visited by 117,709
persons, the lances, number vet recorded
The Bishop of Natal ia the only Anglican prelate who
has not been invited in attend the Pan Anglican Synod In
the reptiles month
In Northent China 100.000 families are receiving
relief, and the distress, it I. said, must increase until
October.
A scheme is being considered for the erreion of new
dock. near Woolwich Arsenal, at • cost of about
&Et Ot6o.
The death of Mr. William Cullen Secant, the well.
known American port and journalist, at the yetwielde
the of 84 tear., i• announced.
It is proposed' to e•taidieh in Dublin a home for stray
and starring dog, where, if neceoiary, they can be put to
death in an rimy awl painless manner
An arch tinder the high-tenet railway at Brixton,
London, has been converted into a hospital for dogs and
rata.
RWIFNI, ere afloat in the metropulia that there will he
• disrolution of Parliament when the buaineas of the
Congress is coecheled
On Illuiday pvt of the paper works of linear*. Collins
and Gt. Bohm K I, Drroen vita destroyed by fire, and
the damage is entunated at .ClO 000.
There seas a prize fight Monday at Leiceeter, between
two local pugilt4te. The police drove up and dispersed
the crowd out after the among, had been thrown op.
The expetwets of the candidates at the late Worcester
election were as D Allcroft, r. r., £3,615
Id.. Su P. Lyrett.C3 13716.. 31.
The Coned steamer Roosn is... been 197 voyages.
between Liverpool and the United Stites, and has never
met with an ace:dept., althou.:ll she has liven expowd to
the severest enema
The Nem York Dramatic Sew accuseo the critics of the
New York pre.. of venality and corruption. and asserts
that they "can he bought up like beef-steak at so much a
pound."
it i• estimated that a fond of between L 26,000 and
£27.000 will he required to relieve those who have teitfered
Irons the Haydock expleolon. Several handsome donations
were annoonced at the moding in Liverpool on Wednes-
(ley, including one of £3060 from Messrs. Evans and Co.,
the proprietors of the colliery.
Trra Smarm Firs out FALLING Sicaxasa.-1
certain method of cure has been discovered for this die
bossing complaint by • physician, who is desirous that
oil sufferers may benefit from this providential discovery;
it is never known to fail, and will core the most bowel.*
on.. after ell other means have been tried. Full yorticulare
will be sent Yypnet to any person free of shares—Adds..:
• WtuuaOLlS. thiford Terrace. Med* Park London.
• Vistaaanosi on Quaziess.aars —The ship "Roden Bay,'
1,060 tone, Cipthin Ltndsey, sailed from the Tall of the
Beek. Greenock. on the 6th Instant. bound for Brisbane,
and hod on board the following number of emigrants,
• 0 married men. 17 married women, tEI Noels men,
E 3 single women, 70 children between the ages of 1 and It
end 16 infants, making • total of :160 souls equal to MO
statute adult.. The Wade come. are under the care of
Mies Nan. Dr. McLean acting as Surgeon-Superintan•
dent