The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-23 00:00:00

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IJOHS NORKS SAUNDERS, aged thirty.foux, Indicted,*
the Central Criminal Court on Saturday for rending •
letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone containing •
threat to murder him, wee found a Imago and ordered to
be detained in confinement.

A mu broke out in a match manufadoey in Belfairt on
Friday, and four workers perished in the flames. Owing
w the inflammable nature of the material, the lire rapidly
'prowl, until the whole of the building was in flames.
' 1•1111 council of the Natiosal Rdle Association has
lccided to du away with the shooting at 1,000 yards for
:lie Qneetee Prize, in consequence of the alleged
ancerteinty of the Bliirtiodllenry rifle at that distance,
61 that for the future the contest between the sixty for
:he blue riband of rifle-shooting will be fought out at 800
100 yards.

Tlll remit of a poll at Hull on the question of the
Public Libraries Act woe against the adoption by a
uisiority of 1677.

A Hovel scene was witnesned at Settle on Monday,
when Leeds auctioneers, instructed by solicitors from
that town, offered for sale by auction two farms near
•tett le. The conditions of 'tale were read over with a good
teal of interruption. Afterwards Mr. C. Other, of
..overhatu Abbey, who has a life interest in the property,
told the auctioneer that he should hold him responsible if
ie tiisposetl of any of it. He wee aggrieved that the
property, which had been in the hands of the Stack-
hottees for two or three hundred years, should be sold
front :he present owners. The auctioneer informed the
,unpany that he saw no legal grounds for interfering
with the sale, and invited bids. None were forthcoming,
sad the property was withdrawn.
A 11011. ER explosion has occurred at a farm implement
factory, Canton Illinois, causing the death of 8 persons.
Tug advantages of a temperate life were shown by Sir
K. Bsines at the annual meeting of the East Parade
(Leeds) Total Abstinence Society, on Tuesday evening.
l'he venerable chairman soil his own age as an abstainer
was f.trty.hte years, but be belonged to a temperance
society seven tears prior to the commencement of that
period. Having lived a life of great activity, and having
Atjoyed invariably good health, he was warranted in
!educing that to him alcohol in a'l its forms had been
-.f. Lie superfluous. Mr. Joseph Livesey, the father
f ttetotalism, was now in his ninetieth year, and Canon
I:Abington. another temperance advocate, was ninety-two,
awl nut • few of their Gther leaders were oLtogenariana.
THE Cotopaxi Pacific Company's steam ship was
entirely gutted by fire in the Victoria docks on Sunday.
She hal lost unshipped her cargo, and was reloading i this
damage is computed at i'Ll,tloo.

Tut. medical students (John Storey, of Newcastle, nod
John It lirswn, of liothwelli have got into a serious
scrape. A party was leav'mg a club-house, when three
young men pushed inside. A bonito) ensued, blows and
then one of the two struck imke Walsh. • coma:tendon
agent, on the side of the head, it is supposed, with the
handle of a whip, producing • wound lie if • cylinder of
bone had been punched out and driven into the brain.
The man died, and the two men charged were committed
for trial.

Ost of the 'unsuccessful candidate& for the London
Bawd Board, who has twice sought the euffrages of the
electors, and who has on both occasions been very far
from the top of the poll, some years since (says the City
as) offered his WACO' as director of • leading building
society. When addressing his brother members at the
annual meeting at which the election was held, he men-
tioned more than once—" I came to London with half.a.
crown in my pocket." This repeated information at
length incited • gentleman in the meeting to ezolslm
" I'll toes you for it." The burst of laughter which
followed extinguished what little chance the candidate
had of securing the honourable and lucrative position hi
sought.

ML StawLwartg, ALP., will, at the request of the
Priine Minister, discharge the datise of Postmaster-
General during Mr. Fawcett's illness.

A liaidrsx fellow tried to do a clever thing at Wake-
field, but found himself in custody for his pains. He
went into • shop and asked for 2,1. worth of mince pia
tendering a sovereign. The shopkeeper put down 19s. 11)d.
change, but before she could take up the sovereign the
man ran off with both tho change and sovereign. He
woe apprehended, after chase, and wee committed fdk 3
months.

A nsgrtso of merchants for the relief f the sufferers bg
the fire at Kingston, Jamaica, has been lb:Id io Nvw York,
at which a large subscription was raisea "I Governor
of Jamaica has telegraphed that 40 acre v h I, cu burnt"
over 100 houves gutted, and gnat qiot of goods
deatroyrd. Numbers of the inhabitants ars Low home.
less and donitute.

THE new salt industry of Middleebro' is exciting
some interest. Messrs. Bell Brothers are the pioneers.
There royalty extends over 2,000 acres. Half is from the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the other from the
Crown. The bore-hole is about a mile from the Tees at
Port Clarence. The brine runs in an underground con-
duit to a reservoir, holding about half • million gallons of
brine, or equal to 400 tons of salt. With the aid of •
pump, the brine is delivered to the evaporating pans.
There as. nine pans, all of the form customary in Cheshire.
Each is about 55f1. long by 25ft. in width, and 18in. in
depth, calculated to produce between 95 and 40 tons of
salt per week. Messrs. Bell produce between MA and
400 tons per week. They hare erected experimental
pans for utilising the waste heat from the blast
furnaces, and are producing over 20 tone of salt per week
by using only this wait* heat from the furnaces to
accomplish the evaporation. The pans could easily be
increased to twenty, which would give • producing
capacity of nearly 1,000 tons per week. Messrs. Bell are
about to put down another bore-bole. If the industry
develops, as there is reason to believe, they will put
down • third, and even a fourth hole. The site of a pro.
jected chemical works hae been determined by Messrs.
Bell, adjoining their evaporating plant. At Bliddlesbro'
the wilt lies more than 1,000 feet below the surface, and
is at least 100 feet thick. It is calculated that there stre
about 210,000 tons to every acre.

Sr. JOHN'S Presbyterian Church, Forest•hill, Kent, WM
entirely destroyed y fire on Sunday. The conflagration
originated in a flue during the beating of the church.
Several fire-engines were in attendance, but their outed
efforts failed to save the building.
(IN Saturday afternoon a shocking accident occurred at
Waterloo, Todmorden, on the petunias§ of Mr. Henry
chemical manufacturer. A pipe was Imam up,
and the men were beating it, when one of the boiler, or
stills exploded, completely wrecking the premises and
killing two men, named Thomas Stanfield, manager, and
Thorny Pagden. After the explosion, the tar, naptlia,
and oil caught fire, burning the two men almost to a
cinder.

AN impudent and daring burglary was committed at
.he Newington wirly onll. riday morning. The shop of
‘I r. l'homas Pstey, clmesemouger, of 156, Church-street,
VIM broken into, and • large quantity of stock-in-trad
taken away in one of Mr. Patey's own earl.% whit li wa•
Liken out of his stable for the purpose. The stoleu good.
were worth about £6O, besides the horse and trap. thirinv
the day be received a telegram from the Wed !ism
.tatiog that his horse and trap Shad been !sonata to th.
station, but without thelmissing articles.
AN old lady named Bursae has recently died at 8r4.4m1-
'fair* at the age of 101.
A isdii sea mot is reported horn 51.4tham, near
1111.1.1ersfiel.l. A gentleman, named Mellor, wee
eit shooting I..orra, when he was amidentally *hot la the
bsek by Ids brother and killed On the spot.

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