The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-13 00:00:00

TYRONE ELECTION.

The Tyrone election has proved • marked defeat to
Kr. Parnell and the Loud League. They themselves wisely
geuged UN situation throughout when they apprehended
boat they would regime to fight a tough battle even to
achieve the half victory which the return of Colonel Ktiox
by the eplittuig of the Liberal votes would have been.
but although they have tokeu 901) votes from the Liberal
tide jet the Liberai ciuididate succeeded in polling 84
votes mire than the repiseentative of the Tories. rhos
show to • remarkable manner the growth of Liberal feel
tog in I. haw., for at the general election last year Mr.
Litton only got in by the narrow majority 0(45. having
all the Liberal votes on bL own aide. The belief is that
while Mr. Rylett took away 910 Literals from Mr. Dick•
.on the latt.r WY more then compensated by the
number of defecUons from the rank• of thee* tenant
-
farmers who have heretifore been the supporters of the
Tory candidates. The effect upon the Laud League party
I. that they now feel that they will hare • hard light in
Managban. They profuse to believe that had the Liberal
candidate been beaten in Tyrone, no Liberal would have
cionteehd Monsghen. Ilue was, doubtless, a mucalcule-
tion en their part, but at all events the result of the
Tyrone mot st Las dissipated this idea.

A musical festival of an uncommon character ham been
inaugurated at Brighton. being • competition among the
mew oers of musical societies from France. Belgium, and
!Switzerland. The outrumentaliste and vocalists. number.
leg between 1,506 and 1,603, have boon most hospitably
received. _

Serrano. —A curious experiment, it le stated,
is being tried in several corps of the Rumen army. This
consist/ in the introduction of dogs in lieu of men as
sentries. Far this duty tee wolf dog of the Ural Moun-
tains is found most suitable, al this animal will growl at
the presence of an intruder, Instead of barking outright,
and thus inciting all the dogs in the camp to do likewise.
A Batrra.—Cuarle• George was on Wednesday, at the
Surrey Session, convicted of assaulting • woman with
whom ho bad cohabited. It was proved that he knocked
her down, fell on her, and savagely bit her face, so as to
disligure uer for lite. He had previously threatened "1
menu to spoil your face." Mr. Hardman, in sentencing
him to five years' penal servitude, the maximum allowed
by law, said thet if he and his colleague. had the power
in such oases they would biomes the punishment three.
fold.

--K-new lighthouse, in which the electric Lot is to be
used. bee Joel been completed at Marseilles. Toe cost of
the light will be about Z. 3.1. per hour, against 35. ld. the
1 cost of the ordinary light; but taking into account the
intensity of the flame, tee oost of the electric light is seven
WIWI lees than the cost of that which it will replace Tne
new lighthouse will be one of the fined on the French
ooaof. The light, which will be equel to 3,500 assists. will
be visible at • distance of 27 miles.
THE LAT& OUTRAGZ AT LILL& Wowters, the pre-
sumptive author of the attempt to blow up half-a-dozen
Lille families by sending them boxers containing infernal
machines, hes committed suicide. He met near Douai
a woman against whom also he had a grudge, told her
he had failed at Lille, but would not fail tins time, and
Bred a revolver at her. She fell, and he ran away, but
two workmen pursuing him he blew out his brains.
NONCONFOHMLIT Ondirvidsces.—ln opening a Cong.
(wonted beteg at Blackburn on Wednesday, Mr. Briggs,
member for the borough, expressed his regret that he was
unable to introduce hie Bill for abolition of necessity of
attendance of civil registrars at Nonconformists' mar, ages
until lens in the session, ani hoped that it would soon
become law, and thus remove oeie of tbe few remaining
(meanest of Nonconformists Until the present uggis-
factory system many Nonconformists were married at
church rather than risk danger of such urifortunet•
oogrefempe as occasionally occurred atchapele. He deeired
English inn to be made similar to that of Ireland and
Scotland in this respect.
'fun TIIMPLE Bah lllMlCORlAL.—Notwithstanding the
irigilmoce of ths four police-constables constantly on duty
at the Temple Bar Kmarial, further damage has been
done, one of the figures having been taking away whole.
The result of this further mid upon the Memorial has bees
to reduce the four goals to about half their original
dimegions. The north panel shows a lOas of eighteen
heels and bodies, the southern panel the absence of 1.3
Piece, of Pimiterillif, and the eastern end western plaster
work is also much dammed. The northern panel hes been
so knocked about, and the bordering so extensively
mutilated, that hounds in danger of falling out of it.
recess altogether. The new bring panels have been
modelled by Mr. C. H. Mabry. of Storey's-gate, and cast
by the ironfoundes, and in the course of a month or so
will he fix,cl in the memorial, in place of the disfigured
plaster cm e.
ANOTHIR FATAL ACCIDINT IN THZ HIGH ALM—About
Moves e.in. on anday morning Mr. Henry Latham, of
Londoo, • solicitor, • very floe young fellow—who had
lately mate the 'went or the Wetterboro, and also of this Riser, which are respectively If 000f1_ and 13,000 ft. high—
left Grinds' wald to ascend the Bourg Mountain, • few
miles eouth-eaet, and a few thousand feet above the : village. Al bedid not return in the evening his friends ! sent two guides in search. and at six o'cLick next morn. I
log they htind his deed b oly. The heed was sadly broken,
an 1 the body wee buried in MOW greed hundred feet
beneath the precipitous end serrated top of the mountain,
and the projecting feet wall 10.01 IL'Ons marked his where-
abouts. Mr. L Ahem had mad., several friends in the
hotel where he was staying. He was of singulsr affability
end simplicity, and base pc. • nrf ul frame. The day before
his des he p ,int.d out the Burg Mountain to • (tootle-
man staying in the seem ho el, and dwelt on it with
1 admiration. The snow fell up there for 80 consecutive
hours, ending at noon on the Ch inst., but the precipice
put 0/ the Bourg is too ,tesp for it to lodge. The un-
fortunate young men le supposed to have slipped from the
serrated point on the summit, either upon • loose stone or
upon the slippery Me.
Tee FORTHCOMING HAIM' Sifow.—The sixth annual
dairy show of the British Dairy Farmers Association will
open on the 15th instant, and continue unt.l the 20th.
be exhib,tion will be held as on preset, ni yrars at the
Agricultural Hall. In spite of the continued existence
in Certain districts of foot-end-mosath dieters, the cattle
entries on the present nee are larger than on any
other previous. numberine 307, or 17 more than last veer.
In these clams note the Queen gad the Prince of Wales
are exbibitors, Her Majesty having entered (not for oom•
kstition) some Zulu csttle, taken after tee Battle 'of
Itflanai, and pigmented by Sir Garnet Waggly, novel
features, which will wry, to make the show interesting to
more than actual cattle breeders. Among the produce
classes Irish butter is to be largely represented. over 300
entries being made by the farmers of Ire and. Among
the new Ogees this year are those for model dairies,
which will be built up sepal ately, and furnished eith all
the necessary appliances ; also chimes for the complete
produce of a dairy farm grown on the homestead of the
exhibitor. Tb, cheese and butter-making is to be e•ried
out on • more extensive male than hitherto ; an.i • course
of lectures on dairying will he delivered on several days of
the show.
A Ificw Anima's Mertes:sr.—Agriculturists, including
several buodo wrier', nominated at public meetings held in
different perm of the district, have formed an organisation,
to be called the Berke and Oxon Association for Promoting
the Welfare of Agriculture, and the following programme
has been sdoptod :-1. To obtain • fair apportionment of
local taxation, is regirds the Maintenance of highways.
the education rate, poor rate, sanitary and police rates,
and maintenance of bangles. L The re-adjustment of the
method by which ordinary tithes are commuted, and the
abolition of extraordinary tittles. 3. To obtain security
for the capital of tenants invested in the improvement of
their holding. 4. The maintenance of 'firm ive regulation
regoectiag cattle disease. 5. To watch the interests of
formers regarding railway diaries, so that unfair advant-
age to foreign animal and other produce may not be
glowed. 6. To put in forg such regulations in taking
the beer duty as shell prohibit brewers using any ingredient
fbasisy or making beer or porter, other then malt made from
WittiOut declaring the mine and stating what is
ued.
Tug RZOINT Finnan 011TR4GZS its LITIMPOOL —On
Friday afternoon, at the weekly grade of the Li 3° I
police in the police•yard, the constables mit detectives o
ti• I
the local force to whom awards had been made in a
lion of their services on the occasion of the Fenian 'lc) al-
to blow up the Town Hell were presented with thea t&ritern""
sums appointed. The followinitor
made on the recommendation g o tionnienta were e.
of the Watch tornmitts•
Polimotacer Read (No. £llO Oassy
Creighton (1641, ; (804), nfrlic4neir £5O ;
1451.. p..; TtMortectßoiyv.s.• Inosogtor.
atwazdiMareh.; £10: andDl Detective
cabman Ros. who first observed thartsatwaotealstaderseto the
the explosive package on this T -
Qwtt Rail Meg and to the
carters Rye and Nelson, who attested I cap,
105,, which
whlnichadbllditiobLntoreosthei,.daboyferomagooatteata, •iota". of ° gibtge
and e.her contributory, Ws. handed CA°44
newspaper
requested by the donors ; y 0 tais uthas an as
received is all CM 65., of the Ino:oo.tiwnth Of --w—hich-I,C-TOl-wilear'
contributed by the offic his old regiment, 4601 thamt. and some of finis comrades of
Akers received .f. 5 1 la geb”.Cre The
igh3'on—receiat ;ing"initwed.dition
£2 10, gent from Indira
Liverpool, the chus OrMg. head constable of
memben of the Watch Coin,
otitimle ead other simitlemelei ware Btsssmoky. at the mew

BIRTHS.
August 30, at Milton Abbas, the wife of Mr. G. Mayer.
of • son.
Aueuet 30, at W irharrow, Tyneham, Done& the wife
of J. W. O'Conno of a eon.
August 30. atitaratoirroed, Sherbcrhe, the wife of
Mr. 000,19 Pape, of a deughter. Augu,t 31, at Courch•Strellt, BOOM' aster, the wife of Mr.
J. Poole, of 's
daughter.
September I, at Bayard Farm, Upwey. the wife of J. T.
Garland, of a daughter.
fierptember 4, at 1, Gulford-roed, South Lambeth, S W.,
the wife of the Rev Obarles Chamber., of • -on.
September 4, at knigneet, Poole, the wife of P.C. J.
for e, of • son.
SePtember 5, at Poole, tbe wife of Mr. C. Cameron, tailor,
of • son.
MARRIAOIIB.
August 20, at St. Mary', Wesleyan Chapel, Truro, hT
the Rev. T. 11 Wares Nicho's qt,
Fusaill, only son of Mr. Brooks, of Sherborne,, to Hate,
Mien, fifth daughter of the late Mr. Themes Lake, 0'
Truro
September 1, at the church of St. Nicola., 11..natridv,
by the Rev. Cheers 0. Meekarneee Censor of King's
C,ollrge, assisted by the Res. John Smith vicir of Lyme
Regi,4the Rev. George Eden Frederick Fenno, Vicar of
St- slargsgst's, Roch.-ster. to Lime Gertrude, eldest
dauebter r.f 'he Rev. Alex Colvin Ainslie, vicar of Ilan.
atridgie, Prebendary of Wells.

DIiATHS.
August 31, 0 Marstou-road, Bherborne, Lizzie, tie
Want dauthter of George and gllsebesh paps.
B_eptember 1, at S,erborne, Mr. Wareham, heed keeper
to Mr. G D. W. Dighy, aged 61
September 3, at Sh-rborne, Mrs. agorae Pape.
Bept•mber 3, at the Stockwell Hospit Loodon..
William, the younteet sou of William mud Chad ate
Dodge, late of S .odford. Wareham, eyed 32
Heptember 5, at Plawtow (Rmex), Emma, She belove 4
wife of Mr Arthur Hobbe, formerly of Weymouth. wed 2",

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