The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-28 00:00:00

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IT is stated that Peterborough Episoopal Palace is ia
such an unhealthy condition that tlie Bishop of Peter-
borough has deemed it advisable to take another residenos.
And Lambeth Palace is so unhealthy that the Archdeacon
of Canterbury is going on the Continent.

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TIN new Canon of chic-helm Cathedral, Prebend.ry
Crosse, ot wag Mu) Loudon corrsepondent of
the Manchester Guardian says) for tan years a practising
barrister, and his name still appears in the Law List,
though without any address.

Mr. RORERT HOWARD STROUT, Of Philbeach.gardens,.
Werwich.road, South Kensington. was left alone in his
drawing.room while the family went to church. No noise
appears to have been heard by the servants, but upon the
daughters return home she found her father lying on the
door terribly burned. Doctors were summoned and every
effort made to save the life of Mr. Strout, but the injuries
were mortal, and terminated fatally at the end of sixty
hours. It is believed that be ascideritally upset a reading-
lamp.

Tag death of the widow of the late Mr. Robert H.Allan,
of Blackwell Park. Durham. this week. will, the London
oorrespondent of t,tio Manc4e:l,er Guardian says, slightly
alter du condition of the bequest to Sir Henry liavelor.k
Allan, who bad recently to appeal to the law for • yearly
sum out of the large amount Is prospective that had been
left him, and he will now have the use of the ancient
mansion of Blackwell Hall, besides a large addition to the
annual laconic and to the principal of the trust.
Ms. BRADLAUGH seems to be recognised in the House of
Commone after all, as he is admitted awl allowed to keep
his hat on in the presence of the Speaker. Of mune he
is in a corner—in every respect.
A NEAT nursemaid was seen in Wakefield last weak
pushing a costly perambulator in which sat a pug clag
carefully wrapped in woollen shawls.
KOISIKR? WriLA, a lunatic suffering from religious
excitement, was called to dinner in the Wakefield As)luni
last week, when he caught up • shoemaker's knife and
cut his throat, so that he WM dead in three minutes.
Ma. F. S. Rr.11.1.T has been appointed Counsel R. the
Speaker, in succession to Mr. Rickards, Mr. Reilly is
well known as • Parliamentary draftsman, and wee the
arbitrator in the European Assurance and other case..

Tan ac.rotinte presented by the surgeon. in attendance
upon General Gs.rheld have been audited by • Committee
of Congreee. and has been considerably cut down. Dr.
Blipo is allowed £i,000; Drs. Agnew and Hamilton
1;3,000 cacti; Drs. lieyburn and Boynton £2,000 each.
Tux " Tony Lumpkiuses "of the Stock Exchange have
perpetrated • joke. The fun conceived wag to prow.,
print, and lewd to over three or four thousand addressee,
the pro.pectoo of a company called the "Jumbo Enterprise
Company Limited." Offices at Colasy Hatch.
A sun of nearly one thousand pounds has been collected
among the :icsitch friends of His Royal Highness Prince
Leopold, Duke of Albany, with • view of presenting an
al.propriati• Scotch wedding present to him on the occasion
of hi. marriage.

Tfig office of Clerk of the Peace for the Beet Riding of
Yorkshire, rendered remit by the death of the late Mr.
George Leeman, has been offered to and accepted by,Pdr.
Bickereteth, barrister, eon of the Bishop of Ripon, with
the condition that Mr. Joseph Wilkinson, 'elicitor and
Town Clerk of York, is to hold the position of deputy

THE United States corvette Marion, which left Capr
town at CHriptma. in nenrch of the crew of the whaler
Trinity, discovered 33 out of the 35 men on Heard's
Island. where they had been for 15 months. Although
all their provisions bad been for souls time exhausted, and
they had been living upon sea elephant and sea cabbage,
only two men died.

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Ix St Clement., London, it minis there Li no pub-
lic mortuary, and in • case on which an inquest has been
held the post•mortele examination was ..sinducted in •
room where five persons lived, ate, and slept, in a house
tenanted by thirty persons. The doctor who made the
post-swrreis declared it was • disgrace to the parish, and
be expressed a natural desire " never to be engaged in such
sickening task again."
Jen]: Cum; married woman, of Middiesbro', who had
been deserted by her husband, on Tuesday evening ad-
siinistered "vermin killer" to her infant child, and
afterwards took some herselL Both were removed to the
Infirmary, where they died shortly after admission.

SUNDAY WU the anniverear7 of the arrest and imyrison.
meat of the Rev. 8. F. Green, the sector of St. oho's,
Miles Platting, who has remained a prisoner in Lancader
401 ever since. The occasion was arranged to be solemnly
mnunamorated in Ritualistic churches in all part, of the
muntry.

Tug chief constable of Birmingham, Mr. Joseph Fars-
isle, late of Liecebter, has been presented with a magniti.
mot silver salver and k4OO by the Mayor of Liecester, in
presence of a large number spectators.
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Turiaiwis from Orkney and Shetland report that •
avert huricane has raged then. A Banff boat was
aught in the gale at the mouth of Lerwick Harbour, and
the captain was washed overboard and drowned, and a
Frasergh boat, with screw ef four, was lost among the
islands.

LATE on Wednesday night a woman named Hayward,
who had for some time been separated from her husband,
took her child, seven years of age, and threw him into the
Birmingham canal, after which she threw herself in. The
boy was rescued, but the woman was dead when found.
AT Manchester a girl, 10 years of age, named Amy
Morrison, was charged with attempting to ingrain Thomas
Broughtoo, a boy two and a-halt years old. On Wednes-
day she met the boy and persuaded him logo with her
to the canal bank, and while there be threw him into fibs
water. She was remanded.

EARLY on Friday morning a cab-hiring establishment in
Aberdeen, was burned to the ground, damage being done
to the extent of several thousand pounds. An old man
named Duncan Campbell, the father of the proprietor,
was burned to death, and four valuable horses were suffo-
cated.

--ii-A-30118.9311TH Bums is to be reconstructed et s cost
of £BO,OOO.

ON Thursday, at Bow•street, Sir James Ingham pre-
sented a cheque for £lO to Police-constable Reaney, 236
N, as a reward for the bravery he displayed in the arrest
of a notorious burglar, named Franklin, at Daleton, who
was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude at the last
Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Heaney was shot
iu the arm while effecting the capture. and Sir James, in
presenting the cheque, complimented him upon his gallant
conduct.

THE two Albanians who were recently brought to Con•
stantinople on the charge of being implicated in the attack
which caused the death of Commander Selby were est
at liberty on Thursday, their imocence haring beenleetab-
halted.

A TZLIGRAII announces the burning down of the Mar-
seilles Crystal Palace Theatre. The fire broke out at 1
o'clock on Friday morning, when • number of the actors
and actresses were in their rooms taking off their cos.
tomes. They had just tiros to escape, for the fire. which
had commenced under the stage, spread with frightful
rapidity. In half an hour the whole building was in
flames. The firemen, aided by soldiers, gendarmerie,anct
Custom officer% did not succeed In mastering the fire till
towards 3 o'clock. A young man who was helping was
severely hurt bye fall, but no other accident le reported.
PligID.SO at • political lecture the other night, Mr.
W. S. Caine told the following story of Lord ralmentou.
He wanted the support of a certain' journal, and sent for
its editor, who told him that he should always, be ham
to support the tiorernment when it was in the right.
Thank you for nothing.' said Lord Palmerston ; "I
don't rennin, our assistance whim lam right; it's when
I am wrong that you ma do me valuable service by sup-
porting toe."

The death ii announced of Mr, William Newmarch, for
roma, sews general manager in the London banking drm
of Krum 011 n. Mills, .nd Currie, and formerly president
of the Statistical Sxanty.
Commander William Ticary, RN, who was present aa
awl ishipmau ou board the Achillet at the battle of Tra-
falgar, died at his resid-noe ci SAtases on Tuesday last,
In th. Ma year of hi. ay.
Daum DIIITZLSSILD. —the Lord Mayor of Landon has
remitted a funfair sum of ff9ooo to the Association for
Mode( of Ladies in Distress through non.payment of rent
in lrelaad. Kr. Adair, the treasurer, in aclmowleiging its
racsipt, .140. that the £13,0110 remitted by his Lordship
had afforded an iscalculabie amount of Yetis( to many a
lady of adoration and social position, who had bean
eared the painful neoessity of ses,Ung rolls( from the poor
1.0411. . . .

.-lionann.not at Hen as Fools —An official report lust
published shows that since the tows when haemostat woe
first retailed in Faris as an article of human food the
consumption of that delicacy ham steadily increased. In
1075 the number of horses slaughtered for this purpose
was 7,000, and this bad risen to 9,000 to 1000, and again to
9,300 in 1881. Besides these there were wild it the 40
es tabliehments exclusively devoted to carryieg on this
bu 10 commas of donkeys in the firstmentional year,
320 ,n the second. and 403 in the_ thied. The estimated
welsh' of horseflesh consumed In Paris Met year was about
1.670 fingtieto tons, in ittion to "bout 18 tons of donkey.
dun, eithout reckoning the off•ls which is used in the
making of montage..
A Nang ALSO Tan WM. —Os Friday lourilban incident
o.lcurred in toe City of London during the hearimg of
cue in whit c • P owe gentleman wit called se • witness.
Be ohj. c tad to be sworn either on the 011 or New Testa-
menu, ant not being • Korimotinedua, he could not be
sworn on the Koran. Hs mentioned, however, that he
had • sacred robe shoot his person es a charm, and be
thought by m siting a declaration, and holding the relic In
hi. hand, ant not c moralist it. the act would be binding
upon tile cousience.—Kr. Commissioner Kerr mid under
• peculiar oiseamstucee he would be instilled in taking
the w taus's deciuntiou, if at the same time ha held the
charm unoonce aired in his hand, and declared that he
would consider Mae act safiletently bindles upon him to
bear true testimony in the matter at isms. He always
understood, boomer, that a Parsee was usually sworn
bolding the tail of a cow, which was a sewed animal in
India
ACONITIL.—The Lampe states that nytwrXga domes
dal 'rent kinds of scomtia are recognised, so much
in their mope, ties that obsenretions made with any one of
th,m would be applicable Only to that particular spechnen,
aod not to the others. It is generally admitted Met Keg,
bah aoonitis is 17 times as strong as the German, but it is
not uncommon to And ate specimen yg tames u eou,o
...Qs.. This discrepancy arises not only from difference
In thi mode of sgtrusting the alkaioid, but also from want
of ewe in the eelection of the plant In the British
Ptiarnaiscoust• it is directed that the anonitum napellus
should be used, but there is only too much reason to fur
that other seems. are not anfreneently substituted.
Usitaturrgagn Tamen' hOOtanga.—Tite
Goodie* hopes that there we dot many iriendlir
like George the Foie* Leese of tie Ordie of Droide."
at Bolt An. Awarding to a magletrate before whom the
set elan was oitsd on Thursday by • member to obtain his
sick pay, this is • "rascally institution." A poor fellow
who had suffered from paralysis for 14 years had been a
member of the Order for • quarter of • rentary, bat he was
day bow"ut Mil"( -pesa 744"d8 o'cicck.mia on.,
not receiving • Wain& altltotigh he continued to pay It
▪ mouth to me funds, and WI 110Cleti had something like
I.4otra
.gruieedaely jasmpoLninpigini.
tid to
8r.A,..d. A
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the court co'aurtbaoondul. dT, "therwciefotes grant no redress,
W. B aurstow, x rum of sce, had lodged swami years with
• widow named IfargiratY soflull. aged 65. in Hollings.
rowi.
ware 'in
re both
kuita. .e. san
was (cued that
they
affording sufficient iodination that be bad first cut the
woman's throat and then committed micide by cutting
l"thrso derad ,n "I
s liat
common " table h
his ow o. They lusd frequently quarrelled during the paid
three MUM

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TERRIBLg ACCIDI.Wf AT • MINMIIIII. —A terrible noel-
dot h.ppsosl at Albury in me manwprie
With Wawa's circus. The limes wae was ash taaspaawii,
without its groCideli corer, for the purpose of &HIS lb*
anima's ear. A men named WPltersoa foolishly sttsinend
tit pat “ne of tee lions through the ire. been. Taa lica,
home lintel eased his bend. aad drsgsnd it into Unclogs.
literally wens, a the arm at the elbow, sad also tearing
away tee snacks of the upper arm. The was as.
awe.. ehe werigni, where Dr. Andrew. amputated the
Haab at the sheelder.. tho Mama is bet amity* to
llve.—lfoloog iireffif

MHZ DRUMMOND wanuv, no per carne. Chit Mom,
n, Mark•lane nod 9, Lnulon-rtreet, LC. P. 0.0% and
Cheques papule to I. K Drummond.