The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

tout anti fastiunabls intallignits.

Ws have the beet meow for Why* that the
report reeently cireelnted by the Pall Mall Cia:stle of
OX. intended marriage between the King of Greece sad
be Princess Lazio* fa eattroly destitute of foundet4oo.
T, nits.

erneval Web's.

Mr. BRIGHT kat accepted aa invitation to a beeriest
at Rochdale some time in °Molter. It le expected that
Earl Rural and g. aladatame •ill be preterit'.

Tim flank of England directors at their weakly board
meeting on Thursday redneted the rate of discount from
six to nye per cent. The announorment wee rewired
with sati.faction, and served to oonerni the favoursblo
fvelivg which has lately buena umlaut, in the various
departinuitta of busiticsa.

IT iA stakA, but we should imagine that it must bean
exagger.Ation, that the election at Great Gronaby us 1790
lasted bine mouths I with publie-houses open the
slots time ; that the expenditure on both sidee was
t 80,000, and that it killed off one-fourth of the electors!
This beats Yannoutlx, Reigate, Totnee, and Lancaster all
in one.

Qum ffcstwarrusiso To Nsw Yosz.—Ths C.tv of
Pali*, Captain Kennedy, belonging to the Inman Co'.
pany'e line of atomiser., left Liverpool In the 15111
and Queenstown at 3.30 on the afternoun of
the Ititli, awl arrived at New York at 1,45 ou the morn-
ing of the 25th. This is tine of the quickest westward
pawages ever wade.

Tut adjourned inquest on the bodies of the :sufferers
by the accident on the Great
_Eastern Railway ntar Ely
was held ou Wednesday. Reveral witnease• were
examinod, including Captain Tyler, the Government
inspector. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death," coupling with 11. recommendation that a break
should be attached to the last carriage ollevery pareoger

PRIVATE O'Rul.Lv, of the 10th Homan, has been
sentenced to twenty years' mutual servitude in Dublin
for Fenianiam and dersertion. Seven of, the military
prisoners recently oonvieted of treason-felony, and
among thew the principsts—Chambera, 'll'earthy, and
Darragh, have been dispatched from Mountjoy prima
in the same city to Pentonville, several of them being
under the sentence:of penal lervitade for ho.

Ox • suburbia Lublin railway a few evenings since a
roan of respectable appearance, thirty.five years of age,
whose name is unknown. deliberately Isy down as tbe
train advancad outside the raid on which it trarelltd,
and though warned by the whistle, extended his left
arm upon the rail, to have it severed from his body.
file limb was hanging to the trunk by a small piece of
Ain when he was brought to tho hospital, where he
soon di•d.

Boia EIPLORION. —On Fridxy morning, at about
hail.put seven, a terridc explosion took place at the
Boiler Hammer !loose, Chatham Dockyard, which re-
sulted in the destbsof two men mimed Robert Stanwood
md Vrederick May, and severe injuries to nearly thirty
~there. The holler was of 20 horse-power, and an ex-
smination of the portions after the oeeerrvneo proved
that the safety valve and the materials of the holler
were in all respects satisfactory. The hemmer shop,
mriths' shop, and engine-house are veiny, while portions
of the boiler, each weighing sevirril tuns, were blown •
considerable distance.

APPLE. AND PEAS& —Prom informanion that hu
been kindly furnished on by several oorreapondenta in
Herefonladra and Gloucestershire, we learn that the
apple crop in the former county is, as a rule below the
I average; while in the latter county the crop isapoken of
hy all our cerrespondente as below the average, though
the fruits are small, but improving in consequence of the
late rains, so that if One weather ensue the neon will
ripen earlier, and an avenge yield of cider of good
quality be obtainni. Pear. are epoksn of as bslow the
average simnel everywhere, while walnuts and Alberta
are more abundant than they have been for many
years. In the • astern countiengere-ally we Isere that
•he crop of apples is partial, mesh fruit being dr-troved
by maggot., as I. also the mat with wean. The im,tl
easterly mipds ii May aeem to have done erect much ii f
ir er the country.— The Ott, d a r.4ehreel4e.
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PURRlrrni lIITROVIFD ('outgo MACITTNR. This
machine in constraeted for espeditiondv and thoronchly
corking.bottles of slmost every kind, and is enneciplly
wl•pted for bottling wines', ales. spirits, kn., ha.
It Is no nimple and well-arrangerl In it. eonatrnetion
that it may be alssreell to snit the hot-he of the diffensot
slx.. of bottles. The two tenni, hand and foot, working,
at the same time, moderate the prereaure ao evenly that
there la no risk of breaking the botiew as in the ordinary
method. It be in °slily worked that person nose.
customed to bottling m•y by its two bottle egosi to the
most experienced bottler. Priem of machine £2 2t
Role Inventor and proprietor. J. Porrett,
Somerset " Manufacturer of Permit's Improved Cider
Coloring."

" Wows I wen at Hang Chow." writes Mr. Fortune,
"I determined to an.. the Chinese colour tea for ea.
portetion. A quantity of bluish mineral powder was
scattered over the hot leaves, while the workmen
turned them rapidly round the drying pan with the
hand, which quickly changed the leaves from a dark
alive to the eel' known Mullah hue." ran our fair
readers Im•gine the outer, that would be made by the
derner sex. if their favourite Aline', or Rem Yee
brewed from malt covered with mineral power? Why
than should English merchants, to get off inferior Tea.
have the Chines, colour it, knowing that the mineral
powder. are walled off end imbibed by our fair country-
women when the tea in connoted at table. ITorniman
k en., London, disallow mineral powder on their inn.
este .• their green is dark olive, It has not the nsual
bleinh tint, and their black is never intensely dark
both are remarkable for Inting strength and extreme
cheapness. Am spurious imitations are offered, all
venuine petkete are 'domed Bondman, & Co., "Original
Importers el the pore tea."
FinIUMILIe MEATII-AT'A'AAW MILLS On Thuredav
moraine. between seven and right o'clock, • youth
named Marin Williems. 18 years of re, and employed
at Mesera Ratehelor's steam saw mills, Newport, met
with a meat frightful death. It appears that Williams and
a man were et work in then+ bed, when by some means
nnt esplainell he ton caught up by theatres, that works
the machinery, and Ina carried round several timea
His cries were most piereine. and •• soon as they Were
heard in the other part of the establishment, the.. am•
ployed rushed to the net, and.they. seeing whet had
necurretWooms donned the engine. The ITS/I who 1•141
with the lad in the saw bad received a blow from the
Andy a. it wav propelled round the machinery, and WWI
knocked down, stunned, no that for a time he was
'melds to render anistance. When extricated from the
machinery the body'-ef -the -poor youth prevented •
horrible appearance. Mr. Brewer, lune., surgeon, and
his sealstant, were immediately in attendance, but all
they could do wen tn earnage the sufferings of the lad.
who wan sensible. He lingered for about three quarters
of an hour, when he died. The body of the deceased
was taken home to his parents, to await the coroner'.
Inquest, which was held on Friday, when • verdict of
" Accidental Death" was returned.
A Mow 11,CAPTTATID..— An inquest was held on
Wednesday at Pontnewyndel, Routh Wales, on the body
of • young man named William Sillivan, who Ina
decapitated through being drawn into the machinery at
the Craig Mill brickworks. The deceased, who was 26
years of age, and • married man, with one child, wee
employed at the works, his duty being to euperintend
the clay grinding at night. At the usual hoar in the
evening he was observed going to hie emeloyment. and
nothing more was nen'or heard of him ti'l the follow.
log mornine, when • man, whose offiee it was to kindle
the Ores in the kilns, went to the elaymill for the purpose
nf obtaining possession of the keys to open the place.
To his horror he found the mutilated body of the ill-
fated man. who bad been drawn into the machinery.
The resold, e-y being properly protected all round, noose
difficulty wan felt int accountieg for the circumstances
which had brought about the accident, but the persona
most conversant with the place and nature of the work
came to the conclusion that, feeling himself drowsy at
some part of the night, be most have sat down on the
"hopper" to rest himself, end, felling asleep, have been
caught and drawn in. The jury returned a verdict in
aceordanee with the tette, and great sympathy was ex-
pressed for his unhappy widow.

EXTZAOILDTNAIT RI7WT OF 'RN LATE
wrong. —A simpler instance of the effect of lightning
hat occurred at Whalley Rang...near Manchester. Three
boys named Edwards, !Greenbaugh, and Jones, were
overtaken by the severe storm which raged during the
greater part of Banday week, and took refuge under a
tree having large overepreading branches. They bad not
been long in shelter, when • vivid dash of lightning
illuminated the atmosphere, antirthe lade were more or
leas stunned by the shock. The electric fluid seemed to
have cireled round the tree in a serpentine fashion, and
what was still more singular was the foot of one of the
boys (Edwards). who had been seriously affected, present-
ing on his left side the perfect image of • tree, the
three, leaven, and branches of which were represented
with photogranhis accuracy. The impression of the
tree was reproduced in • less determined form on the
lade right side—that which it would seem had been lees
exposed to the power rf the lightning, but both pictures
graduated from the knee, terminating and joining at the
apex of the Meet. Jones appeared to have bed • still
more narrow escape from death, as the fluid was
attracted by his searf-pin—which was twisted in an ex-
traordinary manner—and traversed his person, *combing
him severely.

fiwocim OCCEFINENCO AT THE WITINROI RAIL.
WAY RTATIOII.—On Tuesday afternoon, on the arrival
of the train from Brlghtlinasea, doe at Viivenhoe
Station at 1.20, the station master, Mr. John Hammond,
was observed by • porter to be stooping, and jast before
the train reached the spot he was seen either to fall, or,
what has obtained more general belief, to throw himself
upon tho metal. In front of the train. The driver of
the engine instantly shut off storm, but so sudden was
the act and close the train, that it could not be 'topped
until after the engine, tender, and one or two of the
wriages had passed over both the poor fellow's legs,
fast above the ankle, almost cutting them off entirely.
He was immediately placed upon • stretcher, and the
train from Colchester having been stopped,the engine and
rd's van were need to convey the sufferer to St.
Botolph's Station, Colchester, from whence Mr. Middle-
ton, of the Woolpack Inn, kindly took bins In one of
his vehicles to the Colchester Hospital. On his arrival
there be was promptly attended -to by Mr. Johnson,
house-surgeon, and measures adopted to alleviate his
sufferings until the tionsulting surgeons could be sum-
moned. Hs was so murk exhausted that it waa feared
he would not be able to bear the amputation of one Of
tothpf his Inc and it is doubtful whether be will mover.
The poor fellow, who bed only recently been appointed
to the ogee of etation-rnaster, having been previously •
booking clerk at Ipswich, bad been noticed to be in •
vary desponding state of mind for the last few days,
whieh gives some warrant for the belief that he got in
front of tbe engine by his own set.

THE MANAOHNIEE Of THI GHAT Witirrout RAIL-
W AT. —A short time sines a correspondent of the
Western Morning Pew gays an amount by no mesas
flattering of the wanagenient of the Wine and Somerset
branch of the Great W.st.ro Railway. That journal
eon rye :—" We have AIM had an opportosity of
teetiod some of his sithemeauskand we Sad that the
fame of um sees do sot j the dune, hewut
egaMat :he company, and as some Weismanthe
mateinents made are directly the reveres of Um
ire think it right to furbish a mirreadon.
other ChWiell the writer affirms that • the stat on
toietore at many of the Motions are little more than
bore, the porters for the most part clownish country-
men, HEE bnEE are either ignorant of, or indifferent to,
their duties. The same observations apply in part to
illorde who traverse the lima' We have before us
a SA of the name sad ages of the shall= swam

from Westbury to Weymouth. The youngest le 25
years of age, m.d the eldest 46, the average being Mi.
Some of these men have beast over 20 years in the
service of the Great Western Company, ani4 the average
length of genies is 12 yean. As to the character of the
guards and porters we am speak from our own ex.
perience, art we may safely gay that on few lines in the
kingdom is there more reopectable body of men as
guards. Some of them we reeognim as very old
screatim, whom friv the last 20 years we have not ced for
their civility and attention. Tho farm appear to be
plurally regulated in the scale of 2.1. per unto for the
Aramlam, lid. for the second, and Id. fur third, with •
deduction in asses in which the dirret distance between
any two places is less than the mil vsy mileage. Ibis
male is often exceed. d on the Bri•tot and Exeter line,
with all h the Wilts and Sunenet is compared.
Speaking generally of the Great Western system, we
conclude that whatever reasons the shareholders may
have for dissatisfaMien. those who have travelled on the
line viii generally ielinit that ills a pleasant andiagree-
able railway for pass. ugers."

Ac lams Parargn.—A working printer, named
Thomas O. Flanagan, has just died ic Dubber, at the age
of ninety, whew career was somewhat curious and in.
tere.sting. He was actively employed as a compositor
up to literally within • few hour. of his death on the
Nation newspaper, whose Irish' patriotic" opinions be
shared. Seventy years ago he was •journeyman printer
on the Press, the then organ of the "United Irishmen,"
and need to boast that he had with his own hands "set
up" the manuscript of Lord I ward Fitzgerald. O'Flana.
gen at that time, so • sworn brother, was one of the
armed bodyguard of the Geraldine, and took part in An
encounter will 11. j ir Sire and his force in the neigh-
bourhood of Thoma.s.strect, to Dublin. On a subsequent
occasion he saved Major tlirr's life, when one of the
diaaffeeted WSJ shout to firs upon him from a window,
by striking the pistol out of the man'. hand. O'llanagan
upset a subsequent portion of his life in London, and
filled a responsible position as a thief printer on the
staff of the Morning Chronicle it. Its best days. As he
had been acquainted with Lord E. Fitzgerald, /rapper
I Tandy, Arthur O'Connor, and Emmett luring one Irish
crisis, so was he, at • later period, in 1848, familiarly
known to Gavius Daffy. Thomas Davis, and John Mit-
chell, as one of the Nation stiff. In 1848 he was
arrested, along will others employed upon the paper
when it was seised, on the eve of the Ballingarry emersle
after the suspension of the Ilitheae Corpus Act, but de-
tained in prison for huta few days, there being no charge
against him or hie fellow printers of complicity in the
Insurrection. When shortly afterwards an entertain-
ment was given by his colleagues to celebrate his fiftieth
anniversary as • journeyman printer, it was not sup-
posed that he would retain his physical and mental
powers, and be able to earn his daily bread, as be did
for close upon twenty years more. He was regarded
with marked affection by his employcrs and daily asso-
ciates, on account of his venerable age, intelligence, and
amiability, and they buried him with every token of
Teepee.
GLUT OARS FROM Lint.' A.OOlllB OROW.—Few
men can fonee the resells if their actions and thought.
How seldom have great inventon lived to see the
full development of their ideas. The thought, the
germ of anise great truth, which is to effect a revolution
in society, or in the physical or moral condition of the
, human race, springs forth from some active train, bet it is
I only after the lapse of years, that its full importance is
appreciated. Such thoughts or ideas must generally
pass through many minds before thy :rash the acme of
their perfection. Occasionally, however-la truth spring*
forth at once, full grown, like Minerva from the brain
of Jove, and happy is the inventor who lives to see the
due realisation of his darling project. Among the few
mortals thus favoured is Professor Thomas Holloway,
who, about a quarter eta century since, enunciated the
beautifully simple theory upon which his pristine is
founded. His pills and ointment were placed before
the world, and he lives to see the beneficisl results.
There are many thourands, wears told,'whe are iudebted
to him for health, without which life itself is but •
burden. Holloway's theory is simply thin:—He says
there is but one way of repairing a watch properly,
or any other piece of mechsniou, nor is there,
he sap, moms than one true system required
in treating the animal machine. Most people
know how food is diecited, and that the liver is
always at work in distilling certain fluids, called gastric
juices, which are carried into the stomach, and without
who-a proper action upon what is eaten or drank, the
process of digestion could not go on. Holloway's plan
Is to combine • compound medicine which would be no
suited to the action of the liver and etomaels as to
regulate their functions in a proper manner. In this
there is very little mystery, and, perhaps., but little
difficulty; but that lie has bit upon the right ingrediente,
and their proper quantities and combinations there can
be but little doubt. His pills do their work no effectually
that they hap become household words, not only in this
country, but Inmost other ports of the globe. We do
not propose to advocate their use, but merely to state
facto. A uJ, we may, he is either the greatest quack that
ever lived, and that the whole human family is deceived
by him, or that he has accomplished much that is de-
sirable; we, therefore, leave this question to be decided
by other.; but until we hear that his doctrine is false
we mutt conclude that his medieioes really possess very
extraordinary medicinal properties. Mamma tads
Adrocale.

TRIAL OF A LIFIFFAVIAO RAFT.—A trial of NM'S
life•saving raft, under the direction of Captain G. It.
Cornish (many years commander of the packet service
between Liverpool and New York), was made at Soutli•
amitm on Wednesday, In the presenee of numerous
spectators. The weather was exceedingly boisterous
and wet, with a heavy wind blowing from the moth.
west, or • much larger number of persons would have
been present to witness the capabilities of the raft,
which at the trial strongly reeocamended itself as most
desirable for steam ships carrying large numbers of
passengers. pose:este& as it does, far greater advantaged'
over the life and other boats carried by seagoing steamer..
as It cannot be stove when alongside, or swamped or
Demised, and is far safer in lauding through a surf or
passing through breakers. One of the great difficulties
now experienced by the navy and merchant marine in
ease of shipwreck or disaster lithe difficulty of launch-
ing their baste without swamping them, and in getting
on shore and landing their passengers safely. This is
completely overcome in the use of the raft exhibited, as
it is impossible to upset it under any circumstances, and
will land through the surf as safely as in smooth water.
This raft is (composed of two or more airtight cylinders,
of suitable dimenrions, encased in heavy duck cylinders
of the strongest uisteridl, and connected together by
means of heavy duck flinches, which being {connected
with the outaide eylinder or mains of air cylinder, form
• etcmplete deck surface. On the top and across these
cylinders are planed • series of thwarts or planks,
which are lashed at each end and between each cylinder
by means of ropes to outside duck cylinder. These
thwarts or planks answer the double purpose of stretchers
to keep the cylinders apart, and in shape when inflated
and also as seats for parengers. Across these at each
end and lengthwise of the raft, are fastened by miens of
rope Imbings, stringer pieces of suitable timber, which
are bolted at either end to the end of the thwarts, and
answer for the double purpose of gunwale and for attach-
ing rowlocks for propelling the raft. These stringer
pieces are spliced in the centre in such • manner that
they can be readily unlashed and swung around on the
fore and after thwarts when it becomes necessary
take the raft on board ship or peek it away. n to;
Us. air cylinders is attached an air valve, which can be
opened and shut at leisure; and when it beemencs nece•-
sary to use the raft, on inflating billows, which always
attend the raft, isattachedto sash valve, and the raft
is put in readiness to launch in the space of six minutes
or less. In constructing this raft the object In covering
the cylinders with duck is to produce • Life-saving ten,
which has • combination of etrength, durability and
cheapness, and one that can be repaired by any person
either on board ship or in a foreign country if necessary.
When inflated and ready for use this raft has a bouyant
capacity of B,oooibs., and a deck surface for pmeengere
of 180 square feet. And when rolled had packed for
stowing sway it takes up only • wage eighteen inehes
in diameter by eleven feet long, and weighs but about
four hundred pounds.

VILLAGE DRAINAGE AND TIM NEW SANITARY Act.
ON 1866.—We can fumy our city readers exelaiming—
" Wl.at, country villages unhealthy Why we have set
our hearts on a mug little box adorned by roses and
honeysuckles, and supplied with beehives sad poultry.
where we may finish our days in peaceful rural content-
ment, with birds twittering at our chamber-windows,
end the grand old church bells chiming weekly at our
very door." Well, you may certainly have all this, but
under the honeysuckled porch there may be • foul
drain ; the apparently pure rippling sirearn by the cot-
tage door has already received the oontente of the sewers
from more than a more of houses. The black ditch,
newly hidden by nettles, receives sewage of all kind.,
whilst the rank fertility on the banks of 'treeing indi-
cates the neighbourhood of hogsheads of fertilizing
material, that are now worse than wasted in polluting
the neighbouring brooks. The poor man's pigmy. may
be found within a foot or two of the well, end typhus
will break out in cottages apparently in the most healthy
position, surrounded by flowers and possessing all the
picturesque features that rharm the artist, whilst the
perish doctor finds that the whole of the drainage of
the neighbouring farm is soaking into !the foundations
and poisoning the only well the poor man has "mess to.
Hitherto there has been little or no help for this state
of things. Doctors may work themselves into the
highest state of excitement, vestries may meet and
boor& of guardians be sppseled to, sods game of mili-
tary battledore and shuttlecock be played between
Boa& of Health, Guardians, and Vestries, without any
apparent result. We are therefore happy to point out
toour village readers an easy and satisfactory way out of
their difficultie.. Heny of the provisions of the New
Sanitary Act of 1866 are expressly framed to snit the
wants of a village population. The perish vestry is now
empowered to lay down sewers, and construct all the
drains mummery for sanitary purposes. Is the vestry too
large a body and too unwieldy for this purpose? The
members have power to "sleet a oommittee to carry out
the work. Are the ratepayers living in healthy pieta
afraid they will be called upon to pay for the benefit of
the more crowded village? The vestry may form a
special drainage district, which shall be considered for
all purt.•••• of rating el • pariah; and should neigh.
Waring gentry in the parish, though living outside the
special district,wish to subscribe, and thus voluntarily
help on the good work, they may be edmitted as mem-
bers of the committee. Do the ratepayers fear that
when they have made a sewer, hoemholders will not um
it, but will still keep their imperfect drains going? The
vestry has power to compel all drains sot isa
within 1X) feet of the new sewer to fall into it rhat
• were to construct cesspools and work" to More end dis-
infect the sewage collected, and to sell it for the purple
of manure after it has been disinfested; and last, but
not least, it has power to borrow money on security
of the rates to execute the work, repayable in 30 pArri,
no that the oecemary rate may not fell too heavily on
the promoters of so geod • work. With these powers
(sail there are several more), there will be no excuse for
" „heathy idling. We with the new Act (29 and Si
Viol, a. 90) wen in the hands of every county n
trate, person doctor, and churchwarden, thatte7
might see that they may enjoy as good and effective
drMnage as we do in the towns, and at not an =rim
sortable upsoss.—Bridol Mirror.

A Waists- LB EMMY. —There wags poor widow living
with nine Andrea in one room in the poorer part at
Spitallields II needed no epidemic) surely to make
each • life more anxious and doleful. One would hay,
thought even cholera could hardly agvavate It. Bat
libelers came, nod, ea is many other plane., metaled the
...rotated life that but been, while leading the way to a
atill sorrier life to follow. Badly ol m lbw p•a•
capstans meat hay* been, pal 01 illan—L• •