The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-16 00:00:00

anutal Non.

Tag Lord Chancellor la engaged in preparirqg a.
grimprehenaire imeeenre for the reform of the law re.
bankruptcy.

AN engraver at Birmingham. named Richard Csope r
hung hi. son, • boy six years of age. in a workrhop.
The father then went into • ;rebind-bones. and eonftmed
what he had done. Search was mode, and the lad
ant down before life was eatinst, and taken to the
hospital The father was arrested in • ginblic-house. He
has been committed for trial.
A BOY named John Cole, eon of • labourer, banged
himself a day or two sines at North Holton (North
Devon), because his mother refused to give him a half-
penny. Several children were present when he swa-
mi ted the act, and they gays an alarm, but wham
aseistanee arrived he was dead.

Ts Leas Mere mry soy. it is not probable that the
Irish Church Diseat.blishment Bill will be brought
forward at the very beginning of the bunion ; but we,
understand that the Government are anxious to intro-
duos it namely as possible, end that it will be brou.;ht
in by Mr. Gladstone himself, probably about the
Ist of March.
Two boys, ono aged three and the other gee, were
playing together at Frameellgate Moor, near Doreen:l,
• fee days since, when the younger one said, '' Let us
play at killing pip." The other replied, " Yea, and
Eli be the pig." The yctinger child then took up a
small hammer, and struck his playmate on the book of
the bead and on the forehead. The child began to
vomit, was taken home, and died on Sunday afternoon
from extravasation of blood on the brain, owned by the
blows,

RITUA LISS. —The Rev. Chilies Topsy, vicar of
Healeush, in the diocese of York, propounds • simple
and ready cure for Katudiam. It is tkat an Act of
Parliament should be psaserd abalishing the ceremony of
consecrating the elementa at the Holy Osimssunion. lir.
y ono', thinks this " sliakkeboote" smelt. ks asseptable ,
• consonant, irt-1n51.40119, SMllag °tbs. • ••••• re- t
portiou of oommunicanta in the Chunk of ilsglud, aa
compared with the number of her members, is absurdly
ssoalL His extraordan•ry proposal appears in the form
of • letter to the Yorkshire Gasette.
For lasting strength, perfect wholesomeness, and res.
almainess, Horniman's Pura Ts greatly surpearies lb*
soma ooloured sorts; this arises from importing only
the •trongeat growths, without the misers! " facing "
powder generally used by the Chinese to disguise infector
wintry leaves. Local Agents for Rorinsou's Tea (in
packets,) are advertised in our columns.

111 TO &runt • DRUMM/. --Juit published:
the 7th edition of the " Shilliog Key to Farriery," 96
pages, free by post for 13 stwaps. This book shows
Yeasts. Day, Son, and Hewitt's system of treating
disorders in horses, osttle, oaleee, sheep, and lambs,
whereby, at the smallest cost, sickness and death will
be oompsratively unknown, and rigorous health sod the
mintiest condition ensured. —Address. Day, sou, and
Hewitt, 22, Dorast-street, Baker-street, London, W.

• •
A nos? wonderful preparation nes been diegovered
by which scurf, no matter how bad, can be entirvky
removed in a few days, by the use of Mr. Herbert •
(Blendford) Scurf Branhostor. It only requires to be
applied to the head once or twice a week, Led after •
few applications the skip of the head grid be found quite
free from scurf, when the indicator may be disoon-
lineal. —See Adv ertieemeat.

11121111113T1110 EXTRRINIWT.—PIeae on the upper her
ole grate, with the heads projecting about one inch
inward., some ordinary Liseifers—in a few momenta
they ignite. Thee in the mine position plain a few of
the Patent Safety Matches of Bryant end May, London
(which ignite only on the box), end it will be found
that they rosy remain for boar. - in fent, until the woodl
become. literally charred— without Wring Sr.. We
look on this se • siegularly isteneting oonfirmstion of
the safety of the new teat.. Care most be taken in
both rases to avoid actual contact with Gaon
Darnenox or • LADY IN AI lana Ooxyzerr.—
The Queen's Bench, Dublin, ham issued an order for
Habeas Corpus to bring up the Hon. Mies French, over
16, the daughter of Lord French, detained in • convent
school at Rathfernham by direction of her father. She
wishes to go to England with her mother, whose letters.
were sot delivered, but returned, end the superior*.
refused to allow the solicitor to see the letters. On.
Friday before the court, Dr. Cruise, medial attendant
of the convent, made an affidavit that in French was
suffering from measles and bronchitis, and therefore It
would be dangerous to her health to produce her here.
The time was extended for the return of the with for •
fortnight. If Lady French is in the meantime refused
awe. to her daughter, the court is to be Nixie
applied to.

HOLLoWAT'S 011fIliiirr AID —With the
departure of the ircleinencies of winter many of Ito
indistions will refuse to leave unless means for
extirpating them be adopted. No lingering sough,
harassing h.:44.0.00Y, nor shortness of breeth On slight
exertion should be permitted to continue a single day
without measures being taken for its removal--eicre
especially when remedial ONOGS are safe, rapid, and
effeetivii—three qualities; displayed in a high d by
Holloway's preparation'. The Ointment, apes,
the skin, draws marries blood from ooepsted structures,
and gives immense relief to every oppressed organ eat-
serried in the teererstien and the simulation. Thu.
wholesome offset externally, aided by the alterative
action of the Pills internally, dispels all danger from
latent mischief.

A Man BLIEDITIO TO DIATH.—An inquest was held
on Tuesday night. at Gloucester, in a c.o. in whisk •
WOO had bled to death, and in which the question at
issue was hia treatment by • country rtirron. The WWII
name was George Hope, his age we. 57, and be was
employed as a labourer by • peUisen at Broadoek, near
Newnhain ;he lived at B ton, neer Westbury. Nearly
five weeks ego he wall feeding a chaff.inaebine on his
master's premises, and while he was trying to die-
011tanill goose bay from the ea wheel, the third lager
of his right hand was aught and melted between the.
eags. H• went forthwith to Heysham. to Mr. J. B.
Collins, surgeon to a friendly society of whit* be was a
member ; and Mr. Collins at cues amputated the finger,
secured the vessels, and dressed the stump. The finger
went on exceedingly well for a
_wish and thee the
bleeding broke out afresh. Mr. Collins removed the
dressings, and arrested the bleeding by putt* •
compress on the arteries of the wrist, sad also ma Ike
minor arch. Bet the low of blood come ow again sad
agitia.lend Mr. Collins and his parfait foetid the areeries
were so dimmed that they mild not be seined with tag
forceps. However, be applied a stiptio sod took other
prerautions, end saw the moo very freqeeetir. Bat She
aire*Mat""3" "To against the our.; for the man Dow
end again had to walk long dist.ncee to see lb.
and was, besides, kept in a heated rocrs id his=
house. and was day last week the tarpon eddied that
he should be taken to Gloucester b,e,,,,iacy, and toad his
"datives what precautions to adopt on the jonesey.
The man was very weak and dld not waist to. go. Bat
he was put bite the railway earrhte• sad died hot",
be reached Olossester of exhanstien ceased by repeated
lom of blood, sod his dead body was carried to the
Glouoseter Hotel, adjoining the Great Western aletion.
Hr. Collies mid he of not believe tbe man would have
mired even had be begs taken to the Isarmery ia
the first insiseee, arid the post
.mortem examination
showed that a dimesed heart to death. Bet
114. Carter, the surgeries whPore=e pot snorts=
xamination maid that he would not have counselled
the man's removal from Newaltent in his then alkalested
seam ; and some al the Jaren sold he sbonld have been
mot to the roamers in the first instance. However, It
was oonsidered that the stub surgeon paid dee attenMosi
to the ease, and the verdict WY simply that the eatute
of death on eirbeeeliee produced by feu of Wad.

'te Trig Easier Mond, wireviesr will take place at Dover.
It is expected that
mama operations will be combined
telth the nteeetneet ass( the troops, and that the regular
fetc • et.ttthent` UT a. Canterbury, and Widmer will take
raft In me review
Bea ItteieetY • iR hold a lerfe at llockingbsin Palm*
nn the hrh Me" t. ••••1 • drawing-room on the 10th el
the "tat" m,6^,. A. Prince Arthur, on behalf of the
gO"n• no' A Irrles at St. Jamrs'a Palms on Mamh
12th and 19th.
CA' UMW) has been very ncarly drowned.
Whi'e retur, sive home from • •leitation in his diners"
he attempt... Ito cm.. 1,11 horseback a swollen river. slid
crie4r4 hit horse by the force of the current.
With the ' i 4.1 of his faithful Zulus he was saved with
uttich diM. Mls none the worse for his accident.
Mni"ei PAL BAN9UrT.—On Thursday eight a pond
banquet elm given to her Msjesty's Ministers, at Fhh-
nonrer.t Mal% Amongst the guests were the Premier,
the l,nr' I Chancellor the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Er; Ott, Mr. Broce.M.. Csrdwell. and Mr. Childers..
Mr. It sdstorre expressed hirbelief that the new parlia-
ment • could deal with the emit questions which occult,
Its 141 er.tion in • spirit b.:fitting the gravity of the
lemma at stake.

No lithe 'scandal has been mused in Metropolitan
Dissenting r irides dur'ng tho I.st fow days by the die-
appenranee of • Nonconformist preacher from th• north
of London. The person in question wee apnea of Mr.
Slitirrano.. had • very eomfortable livelihood of £7OO a
year horn his ehaPel. nod use bleared with • wife and
four chili .inn. Bet there vorinn• good things did Dot
C Weal 'aim he most needs run off with another nna's
wife. ar al to make the matter worse, the I.7ll,lfred
bothite dI. his own brother. Western Moll.llllf/ News.

LIVINGS v. LIGHTS ;

nfl THS

To leave lido, In the I,errh, °I wed* from theettureh?
Our Itght• or our Ilrher• to drop?
Th• Low palestt and woe et)e, me, or go!"
But Mt Props advise us to stop.
The 11.° and the Prophet. we're bound to obey ;
A• they Miler 0.. r duty'm to doubt
Sone think..na the • hole. In our livlngo well Aar,
Until no ere forced to turn out!

LONDON •1411 SOrTII•WISTiIIf RAILWAY. The
report and ststements of *moonlit§ for the half-year
ending De.smber 31.1 have been Mimed. They show
the net revenu• for the nix' month., •fter declassing
loskno d •Il other preferectiel charge., to
be £:10.803 17a. 81.; and the surplus in June, 1868,
17.. 5c1.; balance available for dividend,
P 221.012 15i. ld. From the above nun the directors
reompuend that • dividend be declared at the nate of
N per wet. per annum. rayshle on the Ist
18119, amounting on £7,773.534 17a. Bd. of paid op
orilina.y capital to 17204.055 st. 10d. : leavius to be
carried over to the current half-year £17.857 oa.
The gross revenue for the half-veer ending 31s1
ivecembi r. 111 M. hows an foreeme of £17,283 over the
oorreeponling half-year of 1867. The line, authorised
het n,t ,et coo menord, are the Poole einenxion line,
31 mile. in length. from near Winthnroe to Poole ; and
the Toirington exteonioo line of 5j miles from Bideford.

MRS. STIRLING in her speech at the dinner of the
D,amatic Aseociation on Wedner.day nirrht, administered
a sharp rap on the knuckle* tri wirragers and author.
on the redijeet of Modern &IV as, In the first
place she sugge•ted to nwine.gere tei eater for the higher,
inetead of the lower, twiSdi of the public. and to see
whether there is note la era ta/.0.1 that might be drawn
to the theatre he a 'Jetb.. style of entertainment.
Referring to the Lni-1 Ch mber,ain's recent circular,
she •anreseed her at that nothing more offensive to
taste then the dres of a few .ef wwww ee.ea seen on
the stage, and de' /fared, were she a lady Chamberlain,
she would Ule. iv:nasal's with burlesque writers to
obtain an 1.14. Ass 'netter than an imitation of musiee
ball mit rtai or-snits, and with dramatiats to pea ure
omrthind ' aperior to " real cabs and real pumps."
RILLS J IT • kliaTAßlL—Sotni considerable stir hoe
been
„e' /stied Worceater by the death of a patient in
the v ratoester Infirmary through • mistake in applying
to I da ciwe medicine intended for •uother patient. The
Atter has come under the coarditance of the sooner
*.er Worcedcr. Mr. Rte.; and the governors of the
r Garrulity have no under eon•idenition th. conduct of
Non officials in that institution. It appesr. that Thomas
*Price, aged 34, we. an in-patient in the Infirmary and
under tre•tment for urinary Bawls of the perinssuin.
Ilia cam bad been attended to by Mr. Shepard, on• of
the sungeons, who had performed en operation, and the
pitied was going on well. There was another patient,
nanw Freeman, in the institution being treated for •
r complaint, and for him Mr. Rudd, another of
~o•pital aurgeons, preset-flied an eneror of carbolic
sal oil in the pronortion iif Its 12. Mr. liudd atioed tli•t
• wirholio acid oil was commnnyunc'ls elation totem:inch
mid ulcers for antis. ptia purpose*. It was %deadly poison,
en.l somewhat analogous in it, action to prusiie acid.
Carbolic Reid was nit required in Price's case •t all.
The prescription for Freeman was banded to the ner.e,
who sok it to the dispenser, Ifr. Harting; but the
patient's card, bearing his name, got lost, and the
dispenser eaking the nurse who was the patient that had
a fistula, she maid Price, on which the carbolic acid
mined with water (sot oil) was used for him. Allan
the Dlleso we applying it the patient suddenly fell in a
fit and became atertorous. The houee surgeon, Mr.
Kn•pp, was called in, aud, seeing what had been done,
be syringed out the rectum with hot water; but,
although 1:.• patient slightly rallied, he died in about
20 minutes. The coroner's jury returned • verdict to
the eff.ast that 'the patient died from the effeeta of the
carbolic acid, but teat there was no evielenes to chow
that any person was guilty of gross negligence." Ileed•
ing loss been for some 12 years di-nenler at the
institution, and hwi dispensed for some 150,000 patients
eirienout accident before.
mores

Deitoseruarios.--Be who hes no opinions which we
would n't willing exchange for truth, is alone com-
petent to judge with impartiality of the value of any
tdiseovcry or invention designed to benefit humanity.
"fThirtF years sr. when Thomas Holloway, of London,
'then °preparatively unknown to fame, ushered before
the world the two remedy* that hays atom given him
a p toport to immortality, he we. met on the very
-threshold of hi. philanthropic efforts by destruction
iii abuse. But there were some enlightened minds
who saw from the first that the Introduction of his
medicines we destined to mark a grand epoch in the
annals of medical science. They have read his state-
meets, examined his theory, and above all, ti ey had
seen the properties obi' h be claimed for his pills and
ointment. exhibited in the cure of the most desperate
Internal and external maladise. They were not astamed
to testify to the fact. in the fee of prejudice and
interested opposition. The sick redid and determined to
test the trep.rations. The results were uniformly
ratief.ctory. Core followed cure in rapid anocesion.
The faculty semi amazed, if not sloshed ; the public
were convinced. Great Briton was filled with the fame
•'1 the new curatives. It extended over the whole
continent of Europe; it spread to the shores of Asia,
Africa, and America ; at this moment it pervades the
world. All this has been the work of less than thirty
years. Could anything spurious or assume have °thieved
such celebrity in the time. Would not • few years of
eireriment suffice to kill off any discovery or invention
that had not utility to recommend-it' The ointment
I. universally conceded to be a sovereign, irresistible
specific, in the severest me of eruptive discos..
Erysipels of the most aggravated type is extirrited
—m.rk, extirpated, not suppressed—by its snti• inflect-
mstory union. Tumors, boils, ulcers, abscesses, in.
dolt sores, and even cantors, yield to thin patent
ealve, and hemorrhoids or piles cannot be safely
removed, as is commonly supposed, by any other momi
those are Dotted& those who have used the ointment
SY the dierlers we ham named are in conspiracy to
deceived the public, for we merely tepeat they positive
declarations. The-se pills are also recommended with
equal earneetness by those who speak from personal
experience. as • remedy for bilious eomplaints. and as
en auxiliary to the ointment is all al diseases.
The witnesses cannot have been deceived. They were
sick ; ordinary medicines were of no 'veil ; they dis-
carded them, resorted to the ointment and pills, and
rapidly rece.erod. These ee the lets in a nutshell'
The •sperience of the afflicted in all parts of the world
is the same, their testimony of the same tenor. It
trasy enough to argue spinet mere theory, but who
.cOA relate pocittve demonstrationl—TAeAcirertistr.
RIVAILDT Joo2l6ol‘.—ei the farewell banquet
given at Glasgow, on Wednesday. to the American
minister, Sir Junes Csombell proposed "Mrs. Beverly
Johnson and Family." Mrs Johnson, he remarked,
wag the daughter of one of the governors of one of the
principal States of America; and she Ind the distinction
of being the mother of el hildren, the grthimother
of forty, and the greet.grandmotber of three—(laughter
and applause). Mr. Johnson, is rising to reply, was
greeted with Marty sheen. In the coarse of some
remarks Inlaid- I am sorry Be., Johnson is not here
to *news, for herself —(lenghter)—but if Ilse were, and
she spoke as wisely to you as she does to me, it would
be muth better for you to hear her than to hoar nee—
(renewed laughter). I suppose it is barely possible th•L
tiers may be one or two eiderthathe or fortunate men at
the tags who think tiny are happy in • state of single
blessedness— (laughter). Ido ant know thst there are
any —(cries of "Yin," and renewed laughter). Soothe.
men are not so 'emotively fond of being blamed in that
way—(laughter). I hove gone through • great may
trials, my lord, at home; • great many triad here—
trials of banquets, trials of eating, trials of drinking—.
41euchterl. I rte.er Gould him' gone through them in
th, world ill bad not hroeght Mrs. Joimeoll along with
ets loopier'.e and load laughter). She is, as you SW
Imagine. quite • considerable personage—the mother of
'loves children, mid the grandmother of forty, likely
to increase to eighty—(loud laughter)—the greatirand•
mother of three, and—if she only lives twenty leers
loner—likely to be the great-grandmother of 100—
(laughter). AB you may imagine, she has a wonderful
influence over me. Marriage, gentlemen, is an ordinance
of God; and, if one may so sloth of the ordinances of
heaven, the slits best and most mended. What would
mew be without it? Worse than the savage. What
should we be without women—virtuous woman? Scott
guys—