The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-01 00:00:00

LATEST TELFA; RA MS. I

The War Office will not entertain appLications of
(Hikers on the home establishment, who may volunteer
for active 'service in Afghanistan.
Mr. Whalley. w r.. hao greatly improved in health
Lately. and the doctors speak hopefully of his recovery.
Sir r:amet Wideeley by the Weed. order will appoint a
Legislative Council at Cypne, which will consist of seven
mnini, high commissioner as preedent, three official
members, the otbor three inhabitants of the beand
Consols It Md. better. Loudon wheat 2s. lower.
Yr. Plimsoll. sir., has withdrawn his proffered recline.
tk, and I. response to the wish. of his I rienlis in Derby,
will he a candidate for the borough at the next election.
Mutiny is rep.oted from Japan, where three hundred
nign belonging to the artillery and. the Imperial Guard
mutinied on the Ur& of August and killed three of their
officers.
The total effective strength of the French army for the
next year is fixed at nearly half a million of men. The
aspenae of maintaining these, together with the Luis
number of boraer, required for the service, is fixed at over
twenty-over millions sterlind
The theatre of Canibridge wee newly wrecked OD Satur-
day night, in consequence of the lessee, Mr. Alfred Parry,
atoppiai the performance, through • quarrel between him
aai the proprietor. The audience refused to leave, and
.e,ggnsiced tearing up the seats and other woodwork.
The Manaion.house A bercarde Relief Fundhsnounted on
annumo.y night, in Sle 500, including a donation of .C:250
from Lard Bute. Sufficient money has been raised to
meet all claims from sufferers by the Prince., Alice
collision. The fund on Saturday evening had reached
the handsome total of £:11,001).
The Worcester musical festival ban brought the hand.
some sum of £1,5110 into the coffers of the clergy charity.
Mr. Mechi, in • letter to Saturday'. Ti...,, calls atter,
-liol.l to the enormous wane caused by pounng into the
✓iver names the sewage of London, the four million
inhabitants of which he says, consume Sally the average
sanual product of 9000 acres a land, or the total annual
Dina. at 7,300,00 U acres—more than a seventh part of
the whole fanned area of the Muted Hinsdost I He
Inquire. if London is alone to be exempt from the law
which is imperative on all other tows and cities.
The contemplated official visit to Cyprus will plobably
be carried out. The bateat news respecting the sanitary
gooditiors of the Oland 11 that fever is giving place to the

eine death of Lient-General Sir Thome. Biddulph,
whom illnem we announced three or four days ago,
(=erred on Saturday. sir Thome, who had been keeper
of the tarns privy purse since INS?, was 1) years of age.
Twentj-mven years of hi. if, were ;peat in the service of
her Haitmllii e ho greatly deplores his death.
The Wariollace tu romiderinx the desirability of coda&
int the espense f Sir Garnet Woleeley's staff at Cy
prus
now that the numerical etrength of the garrison is being
reduced.
A. 'chocking affair is reported from Dowlals,
Wake, On Saturday. two lads, the sone of • woman- 6.6.1!
cohabited with e navvy named Harvey, qoarrelied with
the niiinr. and „oe of them stabled him let the neck with
a knife, while the other beat him with • broom handle.
injured man was suffered to bleed to death.
A terrible domestic tragedy Was enacted at Bradford, In
Y rksbire
on Satunlay night. A man named Oweion
en° was j,aalous of the Intimacy which his wife haci
funned se,th his next door neighbour, a tracer named
Smith cut toe or • itn an's throat with a large carpet knife,
east theta burst tat ; boom and attacked him with
the weapon, indicting temble wounds on his face. &Mtn
.aaaged in 0., away, and then the murderer rut his own
throat, but he woo pretested by • man named Hindle
Irmo 'Whittles fatal„uij orb ;Ton himself. Wben taken
tato cuaSely Ow•ton confmeed U..at be meant to murder
Nie wife end Snap.
WOOSan a embed Fountain has died at Eiden now
Buckley, Chester, under shockine rircuanstemise- fibs
Heed until • short time ago with her husband at
iiinn,nnuaan. where he was employed as shoemaker. He
was cu.-baled onSeturday week for drunknem, his wife
baring Piet ...en confined. Despite this he removed her
to Berloe, POW two miles distant Both before and after
removal be treated her with brutal indiffereno• Mn.
Fountain told the neighbours that her husband etarved
kar, gave her no Bre before her removal, and only called
in ...titan°, in bet confinemet alter she had became
dangerously 11l Medical evidence *bowed that the
woman had died from want of nourishment during her
email nement The ttesneest part of the affair is that the
man has deem allowed to bury his wife without inquiry
On Friday m;rning the Sco'cb tmmenger train for
Loudon, in pawing Snrini Breath junction, near
ran an empty ludo,. Hein on the mein line -rliM
peamager engine was thrown off the line and several
yaroos were crualied to pia res. covering the line with
&kin but to person was injoerd.
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