The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

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THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1865.

warking-men were not indifferent to the advantages
ef education. What they wanted then, and what
the committee had used their utmost endeavours to
procure, was larger premise., and if a site could be
obtained, or old buildings purchased, easily con•
vertible for their use, he was sure they would only
have to apply to a very liberal gentleman residing
in the neighbourhood, the founder of the *lull, RDA
one who had wirer- taken great interest in it, and
he weralrUgtre tti4ls every assistance. (Cheers.)
Mr: 11:'Hoilliairs said that the subject of more core-
modiewfpAiabeh'was not a new question. It had
occupied the attention of the committee so far bar*
as 7 years ago, but up to the present time they had
not been succesaful. He trusted, however, the time
was not far distant when success would crown their
efforts.

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Mr. BARTLETT then proposed, and MT. ELGAR
seconded, "That the committee for the ensuing year
be requested to take what steps they may deem ad-
visable so se to furnish the members of the olub out-
door amusements during the summer mouths.
Mr. Maantr-si said the report allnded to certain
efforts which had been made by the committee for
the past year towards obtaining suitable premises.
He regretted to say that those efforts had failed, but
it was not from any fault of the committee, but
entirely from other canoes.

Mr. H. Holmes said that with a view to bring
the discussion of the question to some use,
he would move "That the committee for the
ensuing year be requested to prepare a share list,
and that such lists be circulated through the town
and neighbourhood, so that in the event of any op
portunity offering itself to purclasee a house or
premises they might have something to fall back
and rely upon." He was of opinion that the open-
ing of such a share list would cause their friends to
rally round them, and if the shares were put at a
low figure it might induce many to invest. With
respect to new premises, he might state that though
those the club now occupied were his father's, yet
such was the interest he took in its success that he
was a bidder for the adjoining premises entirely with
a view of offering them for the service of the club.
(Cheers.) He WM not successful, however,
UtIt&IIIIIIR Shwa, sskisis be (Mr. Hodges) -
regretted.
Mr. MMADEN having seconded the proposition,
Mr. E. B. SMITH stated that the opening of a share
list was the plan which the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Best advised at the meetingof the Southern Counties
Adult Education Society, that gentleman in.
forming them that by adopting that plan, a most
excellent institution had been raised in Andover,
which yielded a good percentage to the shareholders.
(Hear, hear.) The resolution was carried
unanimously.

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The CHAIRMAN said the next topic: in the report
was as to the alteration of newspapers, and inquired
if any member had anything to remark on that
subject.
Mr. SMITH expressed his regret that the Maly
News and the Dorset County Chronicle had been
taken off the table, but the Chairman said that it
was from motives of economy the change was made;
by it they saved between £4 and £5 a-year. -
One of the junior members suggested that
Reynolds' ifireellany he placed on the table. This
being seconded W Ili! referred to the committee for
consideration.

Mr. B. Sierra said that as there was at the
present day such excellent facilities for procuring
books, he would suggest that the committee be
empowered to obtain on loam books to the value
of £lO, from Mitdia's library. He thought it would
be as well to invest a part of the £2B balance in this
way, ma to let it remain in the bank.
Mr. JAMES PATRIC said he believed that if applica-
tion was made the club could obtain the library of
the old institution at a cheap rate, and be therefore
proposed that the matter be left in the hands of the
committee to see what they could do in the matter.
Mr. CURTIS said he thought the best way would
be to get down a list of standard works, and to
authorise the committee to spend the sum of £5 in
the purchase of them.
Mr. LANCII seconded this proposition.
The CHaismarr said there were three propositions
before the meeting, but he did not consider they
clashed with each other. Mr. Curtis's proposition
was carried, and the other two left to the decision of
the committee.
The CHAIRMAN said that as they had got to the end
of the discussion on the report he should leave it to
the members to make the usual propositions.
Votes of thanks were then passed to Mr.
Bastard, the founder of the club, and to the manager
and his wife for their attention.
Mr. E. B. Sat= then proposed that the report
read by the Secretary be adopted. This was
seconded by Mr. BARTLETT.
The CHAIRMAN then called for the Treasurer's
report, of which the following is an abstract :
Rectum's.

£ a. cl.
Balance in hand last year ... ... 17 17 6i
Benefit Members' subscriptions ... 29 3 44
By Honorary Members ... 20 8 0
Proceeds from lectures, readings, &o. ... 16 16 10
Letting of rooms and other bourne* ... 10 1 74

£94 14 41
DIBBITRIILMENTS.

Rent of house, periodicals, printing, £ a. d.
manager's salary, and other expenses 66 11 5i
Ralimo° in hand ... 28 2 11

204 14
It will be seen from the foregoing that the 0-
receipts over disbursements for the past year __ _
to £lO Ss. 40., being £5 10s. above that of the prece-cl•

excellS
amount(' I

ing year.
• Mr. SMITH proposed, and Mr. MEADEN seconded,
a vote of thanks to the Secretary for his past
services. Mr. Smith said that he was sure all would
join with him in testifying to the unwearied
seal and interest Mr. Furruage had shown on
behalf of the club. The readings had been
especially successful, and for this they had in
• great degree to thank Mr. Furmage. He there-
fore in addition proposed that Mr. Furmage be re-
quested to continue his services as secretary of the
club. (Cheers.) He also considered that the sum
paid him for his services was ridiculously small, and
he therefore ipreposed that they be raised to three
guineas. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. FORMAGE said he was greatly obliged to
his friends for the kind manner they had spoken of
him but as he expected to leave Blandford in a
short time he must decline the hcnour they sought
to confer upon hiui.
Several of the members here expressed their
regret that the secretary was about to leave, and
trusted that he would be successfal in life.

Mr. Curerrs proposed, and Mr. ELGAR seconded,
that Mr. Brosoombe he elected secretary for the
ensuing year. (This was carried amidst loud

On the proposition of Mr. SMITH, seconded by Mr.
Ewell, it was unanimously reeolved that the extra
guinea voted to the late searetary should be applied
to the purchase of a book, as a testimonial from the
club to that gentleman.
Mr. Ewalt was then unanimously ele
treasurer.

Mr. H. HODGES said that after what he beard by
the secretary's report respecting the committee, he
would move that a vote of thanks be given to those
members who had been workers during the past
year.
Mr. Elmmx proposed as an amendment that a vote
of thanks be awarded to all the members of the
committee. The amendment being put was lost by
a majority of two—seventeen voting for the original
motion, and fifteen for the amendment.
Mr. PAYNE proposed, and Mr. ELGAR seconded,
that the secretary's salary be raised to £3 3s.
The committee for the ensuing year was then
balloted for, the following being elected :—Messrs.
E. B. Smith, Lance, Meaden, Meikle, Bartlett,
Curtis, Lawrenoe, Squibb, Dudderidge, Harris, and
H. Knight.
Mr. MEADEN proposed that a gratuity of £1 10s.
be given to the manager, Mr. Wills. This was
seconded by Mr. Smrru and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the
meeting to the kind exertions which Mrs.
Edwards had given on behalf of the club. They
were deeply indebted to that lady, and he therefore
wished to bring the matter before them.
After a abort conversation, Mr. ELGAR proposed
that the proceeds of the next Penny Readings be
, offered to Mrs. Edwards as an acknowledgment for
, her valuable service& Carried.
The sum of £1 is. was then voted to Mr. Frank
, Oakley for his performance on two occasions.
I Votes of thanks to the auditors and Mr. Lance
I were then passed, and the meeting separated.

A correct idaref thiebigh- sethnation the public have
for Horniman's pure tea, may be formed from the fact,
that twelve thousand feet of warehouse-flooring are in
constant working occupation by their staff of packers,
and that they have the largest stook of duty-paid tea in
London to supply their agents, who number about
two thousand. The advantages their arrangement.
afford consumers are great, for tea ordinarily pewee
throngh numerous hands, and has to bear multiplied
profits : from the Chinese grower it passes to the
merchant, next to the tea broker—then to the London
wholesale dealer, afterwards to the provincial trader,
and finally to the retailer ;—but by Horniman & Co',.
mode of supply, all they import is sold direct to the
publics by agents, secured in sealed packets with the I
price printed on the label; therefore, uniform good
value is guaranteed to consumers. As ireitations)tbound
see all are signed by Florniman and Co., original im-
porters of the pure tea. List of local agents in this
paper. •
NEWS FROM THE PALACIL—The Royal servants are
now using RECHITTS' DIAMOND BLACK LEAD. This
fact must prove to all that it is better than any other
kind, for, of course, they use the best of everything.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. Influenza,
Colds.—ln diseases of the throat and 41611114, so prevalent
in this imuntry, nothing so speedily relieves or so
certainly cures as these inestimable remedies. These
disorders are too often neglected at the commencement;
or are injedioiously treated, resulting, in either case, in
disastrous consequences. Whatever the condition of
the patient, Holloway's medicines will restore, if
recovery be possible; they will retard the alarming
symptoms till the blood is purified and Nature conems-
mates the ess•-•4 gradually restoring strength and vital
nervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloway's
preparations, tone is conferred on the stomach and frame
generally; the fluids are regenerated, morbific matter
is expelled, and a happy revolution occurs throughout
the system,

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property of Mr. S. J. Maton, at West Hartiham, on
the 16th January. Mr. Whatinan appeared for the
complainant, and Mr. Behey for the defendant.
The oomplainant farrier living at Harnbaru, and
the defendant a baked- in the employ of Mr. Wheller.
On the mornitrg of the 6th of January, Mr. Mato's,
missed his retriever, worth £l2 or £l5. The
evidence Went to shOw that early Onsets," morning,
the defendant struck A dog in Me. Winaller's yard,
and thie dog it was contended must have been Mr.
Maton's. The body of Mn. Maton's retriever was
afterwards found in the river about 300 yards from
Mr. Wheller's house, and from the appearances prve
sented, it was evident that it must have been dead
before it was thrown into the water. The Bench
dismissed the case, but refused to allow coats to the
defendant.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
LETTER OT THE QUEEN.

At the meeting at Manchester on Wednesday, the
25th of Jannßry, of the Manchester, bhefield, and
Lino°Madre Railway, the chairman (Mr. Watkin, M. P.)
said that her hinjesty the Queen had written to some of
the railways centred in London, as follows I—
" Sir Charles Phipps has received the clorinnands
her Majesty the Queen to call the attention of the
directors of the— to the increasing number .et
accidents which have lately warred upoO differect
lines of railroad, and to express her Majesty's warmeit
hope that the directors of the— will carefully
consider every means of guarding against these
misfortunes, which are not at all the necessary
accompaniment, of railway travelling.
"It is not for her own safety that the Queen has
Wished to provide in thus ailing the attention of the
Company to the late disasters. Her hiajesty is aware
that when she travels extraordinary precautions are
taken ; but It le on amount of her family, of those
travelling upon her service, and of her people generally,
that she expresses the hope that the same security may
be cc cured for all as is so carefully provided for herself.
"The Queen hopes it is unnecessary for her to recall
to the recollection of the railway directors the heavy
responsibility which they have assumed since they have
succeeded in securing the monopoly of the means of
travelling of almost the entire population of the country.
"Osborne, 27th December, 1884."

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news to hi

FOREIGN ITEMS. -

The congregation of Plymouth Church has hissed the
salary of the pastor, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
from 7,500 dollars to 12,500 dollars •-year. —New York
Tribune.
The Pungolo of Milan has the following :—" A young ,
man of good fortune, inscribed on the conscription lists
for the ,presest year, and beteethed to a handsome ghrl,
was lately declared unfit for eerviee. Delighted at what
he considered a lucky asaapa,..holasteandas anew tin;
ailisTo-his intended bride, but was sadly taken aback
when she informed him of her firm resolution never to
accept as a husband a man who was net ft to serve as a
soldier.
THE FRENCH EI(PEROR'S Peri:Mara DO9. The
Emperor's favourite dog, the setter Hero, who, has been
accartoused to sleep by the side of bit bed, aud who
found the pheasants and hares which the Imperial
Primes shot at Compiegne, when he first took the field
gun in hand, is lost. The Mersitewr gives a description
of the animal, and says that it was loot in the neigh.
bourhood of the Tuileries at about a quarter-past *lain
the evening, January 21. The dog wore a leather collar
with a copper plate, but no inscription. As fiero never
went mat without the Emperor it is supposed that he
must have accompanied his Majesty an one of his
nocturnal rambles in the streets incog., ar,d have slipped
out of his brougham. The advertisement requests who-
ever may have found the dog to bring him back to the
Tuileries, but, with a taste which will probably be
thought good, abstains from offering any reward.
SLOGS AND SNAIL-B.—Horticulturists in France make
fierce complaints of the ravages committed this year by
slugs and snails, the destruction of which has become
a serious subject of consideration. It is calculated that
100 slugs eat 2ilb. of grass per day ; therefore 5,000
consume the food of a cow; and as they chiefly select
the youngest shoots after sowing time, they are more
mischievous.' General Higoet has established on his
farm • systematic war against these invaders by means
of an iron cutting instrument attached to a stick, with
which be arms his farm servants, and sends them forth
immediatelylafter the harvest has been reaped. A
Jangle Man has destroyed 4,000 in one day; thus on the
firm of Veyrac 100,000 are killed annually. From
August to October these 100,000 would have devoured
2,0001 b. weight of grass daily, which is equivalent to
250 kilos of bay, the Tate of which is laf. 50c.
Multiplying this by ninety days, the result gives 20,250
-klfos of hay (value 1,1251. or 645 J, which would have
been destroyed had not the war been waged, whereas
the pay ofi the labourers employed in eradicating this
plague of slugs and snails only amounted to WU (22).
ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN TIE MODEL REPUBLIC.—
The special correspondent of • Federal newspaper, the
Dubuque Herald, writes from Washington, on the
30th of December, as follows :—I became instrumental
yesterday, by mere accident, in effecting the release
from the Old Carroll Place Prison of a person who had
been confined there aver since last August, against
whom no charge has ever been brought, who is released
now without trial, and the only excuse for whose
long and unjust incarceration is, that his arrest was
Mule under a misapprehension of the facts,. This man,
who is a Democrat, • worthy citizen, and highly
respected in the community where he lives, is about
55 years of age, and before his arrest was the picture of
health, having never had a month's sickness in his
life. He comes out tottering, sick, feeble, emaciated,
with his health broken for life. The pestilent air of the
-place, reeking with filth of all kinds, was what made
him sick. A low and wasting fever followed; and late
In the fall he took a violent cold which has settled on
his lungs, and will no doubt take him to • premature
grave. At the time of his arrest he was in prosperous
business circumstances, and possessor of a home filled
with every comfort. He returns to find his wife, •
refined and beautiful woman, at the point of death,
brought to that condition solely through grief on his
account. His business is broken up and ruined. Is
the same prison where he was confined are dozens of
ethers, suffering the same that he has suffered, yet ea
Innocent as he. They are kept in the same apartments
with the vilest malefactors, compelled to breathe air
' polluted by every uncleanliness, and to eat food that •
dog would turn from with loathing. These men are
free American citizens; yet the writ of habeas corpus
has been denied to them, and they most suffer on till
the caprice of their jailors7 or aceddent, or death,
release them. For these glaring wrongs, which appeal
to high Heaven for vengeance, there is no redress on
earth. It is all done under the order of the President,
and "The Indemnity Bill," passed by the "Republican"
Congress, absolves him from all blame. Truly, the
American people are paying • fearful price for having
surrendered up their rights and their liberties into
the keeping of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican
party.
EUROPEAN REORUITYNG FOR THE FEDERAL ARMY.—
The New York Herald contains the following in regard
to the recruiting in Europe for the Federal army :
"It is generally known that agents of the State of
Massachusetts imported from Europe, as labourers, a
large number of men (about eleven hundred), landed
them on one of the numerous islands in the vicinity of
Boston, and made active preparations to put them into
the army by the most liberal promises of pay, clothing,
..md lands, to be credited, of course, on her quota.
But they, as a general thing, utterly refused to enter
the army, though some of them assented. They were
finally, however, all sent to Washington when on an
investigation of the whole subject connected with their
Importation, deceptions practised, and moneys promised,
of which they had received little or none, the government
positively refused to muster them into the service of
the United States, or credit them to the Massachusetts
quota. Consequently they are lost to that State, and
all the expense she has been to concerning them is
thrown away, to say nothing of the loss of character to
her citiaens. Large numbers of these men were wholly
unfit for military duty, and how government officers
could have been found in Boston to have passed them,
is a mystery of which Boston holds the secret. Now
these men are afloat upon the world, and most of theta
have arrived in this city pennyless and in want. The
able.bodied ones—and there are men among them who
would do credit as soldiers to any army in the world,
are ready and anxious to enlist, if they can keep clear
of Masaachusets. With this object a synod of 20 or
more visited Mr. Bluat'e office on Saturday, and,
though foreignere, would answer for substitutes, were
any of our citizens, wanting substitutes, present to
secure them; yet the misfortune is, they desire as •
body to go Into the New York battery regiment. The
War Department having just issued an order that all
future enlistments must be for the infantry alone, the ,
supervisor is deprived the privilege of receiving these
men, and the consequence is, we are likely to lose men
enough out of this Massachusetts lot to fill our quota.
It is hoped that the difficulty in the way of their recep-
tion may be overcome. Mr. Blunt was in consultation
on Saturday, in reference to the subject, with General
Hays, who immediately telegraphed to the War De-
partment for a special order to enlist those men who
are able-bodied in a New York artillery regiment. It
is hoped a favourable answer will be received. In the
meantime chairman Blunt has placed them in good
quarters where they will be well fed and taken proper I
care of, much to }heir delight, it being, they say, the
first good treatment they have received since arriving
in this country. This manner of filling state quotas
Massachusetts has discovered will not work.

A FORSCHTES PARLIAMEVT.—The Kreuz Zeiiung
gives an anecdote affording good evidence of the salutary
effects of the Bismark regime. The Berlin cabmen are
beginning to forget where the House of Deputies is
situated. Parliamentary government has, in other
words, been almost buried in oblivion. The anecdote
runs thus: On the Arst day of the session a deputy
jumped into a cab, and said to the driver, "Drive me
to the House of Deputies." Driver answers, "Where
to ?" Deputy, "Why don't you keep your ears open
to the Howie of Deputies." Driver, "To the House of
Deputies !—Where's that?' Deputy, "You don't
know where the House of Dnputies is? Why on the
Denhofs Plats, to be sure 1" Driver (scratching his
head), "Oa the Donhofs Plats 2-oh, yes, to be sure!
We had quite forgotten all about that 1"
TIMMS WITH A TASTE FOR LETTERS. —A letter from
Cochin China mentions that the arrival of letters at
Barriah from Saigon was recently delayed by a singular
incident. The native who acts as courier being some-
time overdue, the commander of the place sent a de-
tschment to see what had become of him, When, after
an hour's march, the troops found the unfmtunate
Indian perched at the top of • high bamboo, while two
enormous tigers were at the foot rolling over the letter
box. The courier was then released from his uncomfort-
able position, and enabled to continue his journey.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDSNCIL —An old lady kept a
shop in the row of houses bordering on La Place St.
Michael in Paris. She was generally known to have a
quantity of money in the house. She had only one
servamt, a boy, who had been with her a long time.
She slept at the back of the shop on the ground floor,
and the boy on the fourth story, which (would only be
approached from outside the house. He used to lock
up the shop at night, and carry away the key. One
morning the door was observed to be open earlier than
usual, and as no one was seen moving, some of the
neighbours looked in. The door was not broken.
They found the old lady dead in her bed, having re-
eeived several wounds, as it seemed, from a knife, and
• knife covered With blood was lying in the middle of
the shop floor. In one hand of the corpse was a thick
lock of hair, and in the other hand a cravat. The
knife and cravat undoubtedly belonged to the shoo boy,
and the lock of hair exactly resembled his. lie was
charged with the crime and confessed it, and was broken
on the wheel. A short time after another boy, in •
wine shop near, being taken op for another offence, on
his death bed confessed to the crime. He was well
acquainted with the shop boy moused of the crime, and
often dressed his hair. He had, little by little, collected
'enough hair from the comb he used to make into a stout
look, and be had put it into the deceased's hand. He
had procured one of the other boy's cravats and his
knife, and he had taken in Wax an impression of the
key.--Westesinater Berner.

EICZBB Or WOHrN IN MABBl.olllllslllTB.—Governor
Andrew, in his annual message, just issued, calls atten-
tion to the excess of women in Massachusetts, and to
the surplus of men in Oregon, California, and other
remote western communities. In Oregon, baying 52,160
inhabitants, according to the oensus of 1860, there were
19,961 males over 15 years old, and only 9,878 females
above that age. Its population is estimated at over
100,000—this disproportion yet remaining. In
Massacbtivtts there were 257,833 males between the
ages of 15 and 40, and 287,000 females, or a surplus of
29,166. The excess, the Governor say., of women
1 of all ages above 15 years was 38,846. The absorption
of men by the military and naval Berries° during the
intervening four years has aggregated this disproportion.•
And it is • dirastrous one; it disorders the market for
labour; it redeem; women and men to an unnatural
competition for employment fitted for men alone; tends
to increase the number both of men unable to maintain
families' and of women who must maintain themselves
unaided. In civilised and refined society it is the office
and duty of man to protect woman, to furnish her a
sphere, a support, a home. In return she comforts,
refines, and adorns domestic life, the family, and the
range of social influences. This is also the plainly
providential order. Where women are driven to the
competition of the market with men, or where men are
left unsolaced and unrefined by the presence of women,
society is alike weakened and demoralised. Re recom-
mends the adoption el softie practical way by which
young women may be enabled to emigrate to useful
fields of employment in the Western States.— New
York Times.

THE TOLL ON THZ ROAD TO RICHNOND.--lUDowen
lost an army, not in killed and wounded, but from dis-
organisation and demoralisation, ki`Clellan bet an
army of nearly 160,000, carrying back on his retreat
something less than 40;000 men, Burnside destroyed