The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-31 00:00:00

jorrign intrilioncr.

A SWORD EFFORT made in the Legislature of Wis.
cousin to tenant to • popular vote the rosettes of
woman suffrage has been defeated by • vote ef 41 to 30-

THE Spanieh novertintent haa jamt notified the eon
clo•ion of • loan for 1:2,000 000 wetting, payable in
fit e.it years, upon the security of the surplus revenue*
of H

Tat Spanish authorities have fast released John
Haepherson. the third mate of the Tornado, who waw
taken prisoner with others of the mew on the 00001.10t1
of the s•-isure of that vessel. He had been is oapti•,ty
ninet.en menthe, but it is doubtful whether be will
obtain Loy nonspecialists for the sufhainp be hos
undergone.

A TILAGre NMI/AWL—Me following sanaalional
story is rdated by the Frieneh pepsin : —Captain B.—„
of the 20t12 battalion of Foot Charlatan, was abeam%
without leave wt.m his company was reviewed by the
Emperor on Thursday last. He was in (mosquitoes
severely reprimaoded and ordered into arrest for • few
days. Smarting under the di.grace of his punishment,
he sat up all night regulating the accounts of his
company, and in the morning called his men together,
in.peeted them, and, saying " I now bid you adieu,"
pulled a revolver from his pooket, placed the mauls to
his breast, mid pulled the trigger. Tbe ball, however,
struck the Cross of the Legion of Honour witk which
Captain B— was decorated, and did not kill him. He
Instantly fired another barrel and shot himself through
the cheat. The wound, though dangerous, wee not
Immediately mortal, and Captain B— is still alive in
hospital

A ItMialfTlo SSA ADVISITIMZ.—Tbis General Grant
of Boston. • fine ship of 1095 tons, Captain Longhlin,
mailed from Melbourne on the 4th of May, 1888, for
London, with • ores and passengers numbering 83 soul,.
and a cargo consisting oh fly of wool and six boxes of
gold. Oa the 13th, the weather being thick, the
Auckland islands were sighted close ahead, and the ship
was immediately hassled on the port task. The wind
being light, and a strong current betting in shore, the
ship struck heavily under some almost perpeodiculer
cliffs, carrying away her jibboom and rudder. A boiling
surf prevented any attempt at escape until next day,
after the ebio had been in the darkness drawn into •
cave about 250(t. deep, but not sufficiently high to
admit her all standing. The foremast went first, end
then the maintopsallent mast, both bringing down
pieces of rook, which stove in the foreeactie. When tfue
day broke the ship was skill striking heavily forward
with 25 fathoms under her stern. The pinnate wee
first launched, and three or four men sent in her to ley
out lines and • kedge, and then the gig was loweseg
from the stern with the chief officer and four mean lip
to this time the wind was light and the tide had bees
falling, but now both setting strongly into the cave,
the vessel forged further up, and the maintopmeat
coming into contact with the lessening roof, caused the,
keel to start the ship's bottom, and she boon to fill.
The women were hurried into the long boat, OM cie
whom (Mrs. Jewell. the stewardess) fell from the skis
into the see, bat was rescued by her husband jumping
after her and reaching the gig. Two other paseengern
followed Jewell's example, end were also picked up,
Theses had DOW risen considerably, and swept the poop.
The fbng boat we MOD to float with about 40 persona,
but soon gettieg into the breakers lined and sank. The
gig had made an ineffectual attempt to rehire to the
ship, and now, with the pinnies, watched outside the
breakers, in the hope of rescuing snob titres' WWWIIIDWWW
as in their agony might force themselves into smoother
water. Three snot were picked up. and then the skip
was seen to go down. Captain Loughlin, with see man
by his ride, standing in the miseetop, waviag • Last
ferewell. After laying to until all hope of renown any
ore lives was gooe. the two hosts made for one of thei
Mends, and next day effected • landing in "Perch's
Bu which ts the popular name of the harbour
marked on tie charts as Port Roes. Here thew 18.
people Appear to have remained until the 22nd of
January, 1887, living principally on seals. limpets.
mussels, Ind occasionally catching • pig or • goat. On
that date the chief officer, three of the crew, end •
passenger left the island in one of the boats for New
Zealand. Hope of a successful voyage died oot in tivve
left behind, after waiting in vain from month to month
for succour, and they rightly concluded that the chief
officer and his companions, to whom they bad already
owed much, had perished in the attempt. Qse of the
shore passengern died from dysentery, from which they
all suffered severely, and this appears to have impressed
them with many gloomy forebodings. All were. bow -
cvrr, fortunately obliged to exert themselves daily in
getting wood for signal Ares, keeping • look.ont, hunting
for food, and turning the *mashies into clothing. At
length, on the 21st of November. the whaling brig
Amherst was lake, tot by the signals, sad took the
nine men and one woman on board, and landed them
all t the Bluff (douthland) on the 13th January.
should

Ftxr.a.—The secretary of the San Fire Inewssee
affirm stated to the Commons' Select Committee oft as
erosion on firer, " tLat remises:mei in usiog
inciter
matobse ounce to that office a lose of £lO.OOO a year."
Surely statements of thin kind should incluse the Firs
Offiemi and the public to do enereldng in their power to
encourage the one of Bryant said May. Patent Safety
Matches which light only on the box.

HOLIPWAT'S OIXTMINT AND PIT LEL—COMUMptiOO
Prevented.—lauroza, colds, and fever are ever pre.
Tailing in our Changeable climate. Though eaaily
cured at it, when neglected they frequently inducts
serious diseases. of which the chief and most fatal is
consumption. If Holloway's pills be tesorted to on the
first vowels*e of any of these diseases. and if the
symptoms be very urgent, his ointment should also
be we I rubbed twios day ea the back and chest; they
will *ease to cause alarm. and all oonsumpti"
tendency will certainly be banialted. cad the body.
freed from all impart.Ms will be left in a beaPhier
state than it was Mier* that Mar& 'Me pills being
free from nezione ingredients M way had. the aim
delimit and ttniid trmy bamnieenly akst.