The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

Grneral Netwi.

AN &leoelation is forming in London to FROMOti 00111-
pulsory education.

A TRIPLZ BIRTH healed taken place in the West of
Eneand. A donation o 1.3 front the queen ham been
received by the poor tuotLer. a Mrs. Mope. of Bideford.

FATAL FALL THOSI A Cr.-Mr. John eludes
Wanih, a gentleman 52 ram of age, while walking on
a cliff 70 feet in height, near Renegue, a few days
ago, fell over, and was instantly killed.

FAIAZ EARS of flesh colour —lndia-rnhber—havo been
invented for the use of ladies with large ears. They
are used in front of the real ears, which are drawn back
and concealed under the hair.—Court Jour-sal.

BANIII OP MATHIMOST.-It is under the considera-
tion of the Government whether it may not be possible
to introduce a bill into Parinsolent for putting an end to
all doubts as to the legal time for the publication of
banns of matrimony in churches.

Tux VALUE 01, • CAT.—.t gentleman in Burnham
has offered a reward of £lOO to any one who will give
information as to who killed a cat which belong to him,
and which be valued from the fact of its being a
favourite of his deceased wife. The large sum offered
has not yet procured the wished-for information.

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A Fox HUNT IN Tat STRUTS or LONDON. —Oa
Monday morning, whilst two workmen wen, going into
Whitehall-place. London, they were Martled by a fine
young fox dashing past them at full speed. They
immediately gave chase. and the animal darted from
one area to another, until, after • most exciting run, be
was captured.
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FA,THIR NOW" a Romiah priest at Edinburgh, was
found drowsed the other day in the stream opposite
the Victoria Do*, Leith. Rareoura are rife that he
met with fold play on "menet of his being known to bei

partieubuly hostile to Fealanhan. It is believed, how-
ever, that there is no foundation whatever for those
rumours; hot that his death 11 the result of asciient.

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FNORIf .1:11 "lECIIICAVIR ENIORATION.—The tow
es.alas hum Liveitiaol for the quarter is 15,7 V, wi ieb.
when stows', d with (ho onrrearawlinc quqier of 1.4
Ft...W.4 a .I.ro,sts •of 9,049. The, OWII.IO jF
tt. she v.. el:CO ..f 1,4 11...tt ...r.
i.llllJUltiel which I•viry 1.14,1 in th, ar•y „f
onivants fry %if recent Fenian ilistutinslaa
in Ireland.

FATAL MINING ACCIDRICT 1:4 COPWWALL.-013 Mon•
day hthe miners in tic North IlfAeltnil Mine, St. Jo 4.
came upon net ground, which. on being ginth,b44:
in the accumulated waters of on old wins. In an adj,,in.
log mine which had hen closed for 30 yrerm. The
goof swept the keels with extraordinary form, and the
e ewe of molly of the into WILS almost mirsra.ka•.
Ii liv I ON, V• r, ion,re lest.
ODD SlaNii)%llDB. Among the Inane oorropt, ,us „t
fltiglosl .ign* no 5,557 point not as Bap
me e ointry Ithre., whirl, woo
r'co n.el laps ; to eat awl Wheel. which +as the
II i.rt ; eh, LuoAtr's 11-tel origin:di, the •rd's
Hew, ; the 6,4/ avid romp as, derived. it
the titqtto, "God enoompasseth Us!" und the Po/ 0.4
e.0.m., corrupted, irrhhnsically enough, from the Fr. nci.
Poom of correau (dpado and diamond, at cer,!..l._
Ltieltre Moor. _ _ _

IN his "Treatise on Food,—Page 413—Dr. Scoffer,
ion very WI lial to tes, and for above timo,-
y.•art have taken it eithout 111.1 4sgrir ; in en.•.e
pionee 4,1 thin my pebst4 is tin. more critical sa, to i.O foo
duality an•l strength. Ti.,, beat ten I can fl 'I it that
imported by the Me••rt. Borniman, Lon lon, mot so'd hy
their nG:ents ; it* ...tarsi alipCsrance manifest, it to 1.,
Les that Imo not been coveted by the Choice with tin
tomsl mineral colouring 1.01,101r—a manifestation width
its delicious II droui fully confirms."
Ihmetmaa IGNATIUS. —lt appear' that the effaira of
.1 the Rev. J. L. Lyric% better known as "Brother
Ignatius." in coneetioo with the Noradeh M. Lastsry,
Are being adjustel by Meesra. J. H. Titlett and Son.
Curiously enough. Mr, 'Follett io the header ,1 thy
"Liberation" party in and about Norwich. Ti.
sclienie appears to be voile at an
The chapel 0 •need by Brother Lonatiut in ler,:h it
still' for 10.1 hoeing completed, and the " monad, my
i'dllf loot once mom become an ordinary dwelling•house
EXPLOnIoN Al FAVERSHAM Ponlaxat WORKS.-67
Mon.lsy afternoon, shortly before 3 o'clock, an explooioi.
occurred at the gunpowder worlca of Me.ors. Ball and
Son, situate at Faversham, by whmli four mil 1040.4-
livet, and another was severely ijoired. The eordesnor
took place in • building called the "mixing honer,' in
•hich powder undergoes almost the lost prow,. Ao
the inquest on Tnesday, no evidence Gould be obtaity,:
respecting the cause of the explooion, and a verdict ,t
" Accidental death" was reourned.
SINGULAR AND FATAL EXPI/haterr.—Thomas Manton,
a shoemaker at Belgoave, near Leice•ter, put a hoed- of
I water into an oven to get hot, and he tied the ccok fast.
I with a waweril. Some time after the bottlY exploded,
and pieces of the oven door and fragments of the bottle,
with the acaldint water, were wolently prelyete I into
the room, lathering nevere injuries on severe' p vt rit
sitting nround the fireside. One child, a girl about a
yesr old, received such irjuri. aas caused her eest,, (I
• Utile bny lies in a very precarious condition Bort. dm
ocalda which he received.
AN INTENDED Loom LETTEL-00 Monday Mr. T.
Ana late a hotel keepor, went into a 11.11 at
Ma.l••ek, Barb, and pi n'. 'I the fdlowing !atm—
. "Matlork, Bath, April). 1867. quarter past ten 0. 10-k.
My dear, dear Anne,—My death bane ben done by riiy
! norii band. Anne you are the cause. My love I could
rot hear to be slighted by another loan after what has
been pivoted between, and returning With each Ore,.
Laudanum ls the extreme, of my death. Facto, Ii Ann,,
I have loved yo:t too w.. 11. Yours in death, FRANK."
Having conch led that performance Mr. Ao oasis
swollowed • dose of laudanum, from the effects of which
h. wever, he recovered.
I A 111.0thahild SUPERsrITION.—A eorresarn.lent i..•
forms so that • corp Ces' crirsdle RA4 eli,otoreect in a
' stream in this county about • fortnight ago. To, body
Was of cloy, into which were static the nails of human
• beinca, birds' claws, bones, pins, hair, &e. It twat partly
covered by, and tied in, a black c .tton apron, and bad
an idd beaver hat on ite bead. For the information of
• those who are not learned in Highland superatition it
may be mentio led that a curl, cr, means an effi,:y or
reme-entation in clay of a perhon who ha, ren.hre.l
Lbw,- If . obnoxiout to same one on to make it.)• silabl,l
that he should tot lice. When the Corp is made it it
t laced in a river or stream, and no the water, wear away
the clay till nothing is left, no gradually a.Ol in•vitthlv
wsatt a the life of the person wanted to die.—/u 'Yews&
CuuKer.

DISTRFCTION OF A RAILWAY GOnDe WAIIEWOFAE
BY Flaa—F.arly on Wednesday mo-ning the earendve
good,' warehouse of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
ltsilway Company at Huddersfield was bunted down to
the ground. The building, which is detached, is about
rirds long and 36 yarde broad, and it was three
stories high. There were two storage chambers, and
the rooms were open from one end of the building to the-
other. Exertions to subdue the fire was unavailing.
The building became a total wreck. All the offices
were destroyed, and the important books and papers
consumed. Five valuable horses were rescued. The
fire, it is said, broke out in the second storey; but the
ranee of the catastrophe is unknown. The damage. by
the destruction of the builling alone, is estimated by
emnpetent persons at 133000, or thereabouts; and p.nhl
have put down the total loss at C9)06, bu: no official
statement has been made on this point.

Korona LEA4UE DEPUTATION.—A monster deputa-
tion, including no fewer than two hundred members
of the Reform League, waited on the Chancellor
of the Exchequer on Tuesday, to state their opinions
on the question of Reform. Mr. Beales was the
chief speaker, and was followed by Mr. Mantle, Yr.
Codger, Alderman Carter (of Leeds), and other well-luiewo
agitators. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, he tire:
beard what his numerous visitors bad to say, pitiolo
told the deputation that they were men of rite el,:
views, and that there was great need of mutual
bearance and compromise amongst all parties. ils
thought it couM not be denied that the Bill of Lorl
Derby was basest upon very popular principles (an
opinion which elicited some dissent), but he did not
claim for it perfection. He dismissed the deputation
by telling them that their suggestions should be duly
conaidered by the Oovernment. Lord Stanley was
called for, but he declined supplementing the remarks
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
SINGULAR DEATH Or A PRTSICIAX.—On Iletuby
Mr. Coroner Whiston held an inquest at Willington,
eight miles from Derby, on the body of Dr. Wits--n.
aged 46, a physician, who was found deed in his house
under extraordinary circumstances. Demised was •
bachelor, and, having discharged his house keeper, was
alone in the house. On Saturday morning. owing
to tLo shutters remaining unopened, suspicion was
excited, and, upon an entrance having been effected
through • window with the aid of a ladder, the doctor
was found lying on his side with his facie downward.,
his lege down the seller steps, and in his right hand oas
clenched a tumbler half full of ale. Ho Lad evidently
been dead for several hours. It is supposed that he
hod gone into the celler to drink moms ale, and on he
returning op the steps he became insensible, fell down.
in the manner described, and, being unable t, ins ss
won, lay for some hours in the cold and died. Tha
deceased was possessed of great wealth, and has no heal
relatives living. His habita for some time past had
been of rather an eccentric character. Ti'e jun)
returned a verdict in accordauce with the above facts.
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melancholy and pitiable procession passed along the
principal metropolitan streets, headed by &banner bear-
lug the emphatic inscription, "The Repreeeutatiee, ,-f
Distress." It consisted of upwards of a thousand iusot
miserabledookirg creatures from the East-end el
London, out of employment, many of whom. thnueli
evidently haggard, hungry, and careworn, appeared
to be young an years, and well capable of phrsicol
labour. The reason of this sad demonstratim is
stash' to be the pr-calling distress amongst the
workers in the eastern parts of the inetropollo aid
he object " to urge upon the Government to take iota
consideration the present condition of the unemployed
poor." "Quietude, order, and respect to sll," was the
motto of the demonstration, and it was faithfully carried
out, the whole of the parties constituting the distressed
"rank and file," many score yards in length, passing
along the public ways in silence and sorrow, with the
exception of a solitary "distress band," which vs under.
stand gave its services upon the occasion. Some of the
parties, eamied closed money.boxes to receive the con-
tributions el the charitably disposed.
NALI Or LIQUOR Os StINDAY.—Mr. J. A. Smith's
Bill promisee, in relation to licensed victuallers and
other retailers of wine or beer in England, that, eleent
In regard to sales for consumption off the premises, the
existing restrictions on the sale of fermented sod
distilled liquors within certain hours on Sunday.
Christmas Day, Gad Friday, and public fast or thank,.
giving days, shall extend to the whole of the day ; and
that sales for consumption off the premises shall be
allowed only from 1 to 2.30 p.m., and from 8 p.m. to
10 p.m. The gap from 2.30 to 8 o'clock is very long.
The Bill is subject t 3 this important and rather elastics
qualification ; that where any pima lama tide (arias on
as part of his ordinary daily Mae the business of an
eatinghousekeeper "or otherwise of selling mead confec-
tionery, or other victuals to be consumed on He
premises," this Bill is not to prevent him from tellini
as he might if it had not plumed, any meat, confectioner).
or other victuals for consumption on the premises, "or
any fermented or distilled liquors for consumption on
the preonses by persons who bond ride have purchases!
any such meat, srinfectionery, or oilier Tirana." The
Bill for Ireland has been produced by Mr. O'RoWy.
CIITNICAL TOTlL—Within the last two years or no a
great number of these toys have been brought out, insot
of them either highly poisonous or dangerously com-
bustible. Thus, "Pharaoh's Serpents," oompoeed 4
solphocyanisle of mercury, as highly poisonous, and
during combustion evolve most noxious vapours.
" !armee du Diable," formed of metallic sodium, burn
with great violence if they are either heated or
moistened with water—in this respect exceeding
phosphorus in danger— and scatter caustic alkali about
the place where they are used as directed. "Sunshine
in Winter Evenings" and "Fiery Swords," formed of
magnesium, are apt in the hands of children to
cause nasty burns, through the rapidity of
their combustion, and the molten and white-
hot particles they cast off. "Sensation Cigarettes:.
charged with gun oottoo, project, when fired, very
noxious vapours into the mouth; "Will o' the Wisp
PAW." "Parlour Lightning," " Fireflies," "Aerial
Glowworms," de, all formed of pyroxilito, or paper
rendered explosive by the action of ommentrated okra
and sulphuric acids, are highly indiammaide and
dangerous—the latest proof of which is the terrible
accident last week at Mr. Laidlaw's workshop, I have
myself known bed injuries caused by experimenting
with sodium and water,and also with dowers of 'sulphur
and chlorate of potassium, the rubbing together of
which in small quantities is so often recommended in
books on " radar Magic," kas as an lioluilAß
experiment, quite free from Jager. The use of
ehymioal toys in educating children in the seism of
natural phenomena mmt be exemdingly 186 t and
quite inoemmemurate with their dasigii:lpbDWallD
Diem, tap.. Lecturer on Natant y st
Charing-mars limits'.