The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

Strata News.

A BABY a eight months was left alone with his
sister, aged four years, the children of & Mrs. Gilbert,
of Tottenham. The little girl slang & bottle on the
mantle&belf clambered up and got it, and administered
the omits nta, which happened to be poison, to the baby.
The child alter some loud screams, became anconscion.,
and quickly died.

To promote health the Parliamentary Committee on
food adulterations was appointed ; there is, however,
one hurtful custom still in full force, the merchants
eontinue to allow the Chinese to cover tee with mineral
colour, purposely to increase the profit, as it enables
the inferior brown leaves to be passed off at high rater
with the beet. Horniman and Co's tees command
general preference, as they are young leaves, strong,
wholesome, and free from mineral facing powder.
Imitation. are offered, therefore observe that the signa-
ture of Hermitian and Co. is on rash packet. 2,534
*Fonts are appointed; those in this locality are adver-
tised in our columns.
DITZRYIKEDSCIICIDL—The Stirrer Slaftdard giros an
account of a singular suicide which has occurred in the
parish of Preston. The deceased, Harriet Figg, wu the
wife of a gardener employed at Pateham. Me appears
to have fattened a cord to the top of • bedpost, then put
bar head through the nose while kneeling on the beil,
and while in that position it would seem that she opened
a large vein in her arm with • razor. Having done PCS
eke allot the razoeftw, laid it ow the ledge, and becoming
weak from loss of blood, fainted, fell forward, and was
strangled by the cord.

WEBLITAXII AND TUC FAITABLIERID CHURCH. —More
members of the Church of England who have for soms
time been advocating • re-union with the Weeleyanr,
will find, from • letter written by the Rev. Thomas
Jackson, who may be regarded as Use father of the coo-
notion, that such • reconciliation is now impossible.
The rev. gentlem.n declares big conviction that
Methodizm has passed into • LO• state in relation to the
Eetablished Church. The Church of England is not
now what Mr. Wesley understood it to be, and what it
has been regarded for the left three hundred years.
Many of the clergy, he says, declare their abhorrence cf
the very name of Protestant; they revile the Protestart
martyrs: they affect Popish forms of worship ; thy
preach the doctrines of Popery, and declare their
sympathy with the Church of Rome. Mr. Jackson also
accuses some of the clergy of"•oepticism," and he speali•
' of the amalgamation as "legally,msrafly, and religiously
Impossible.'

IJNRILNLT CONDUCT OF A CMIATE AND SEXTON.—An
almost incredible story comes from the village of Coven.
wall, In Stsffurdshire. A burial board wu formed them
two or three years agn, to which a sexton WM appointed
with the approval of the vicar. Subsequently, however,
the clergyman quarrelled with the sexton, and ap.
pointed another. The man firA selectul continued to
ant, with the approval of the boar!; and than, for scone
time past, rival sextons have officiated in the b,,rlal
ground. Last Saturday evening each bad prepared for
a funeral ; but while the curate of the par'sh read the
service over the grave dug by the vicar's aextoo, he
declined to do so in thy other case, quoting the vicar's
authority for the course which he pursued. The second
hody was therefore interred without &my ceremony
whatever. The occurrence has given rise to great in.
dignation In the district.

A Ngw ROOD STEAMER.—On Saturday afternoon
(says the &oilman) a very remarkable sight was nein
In this city. A train of heavily laden coal waggors,
looking exactly like aluggagetrain, wu observed coming
steadily up the steep incline leading into Edinburgh
from Dalkeith. It was one of Mr. R. W. Thomson,
patent road steamer., with indiarabber wheel tiers,
baying four huge loaded waggons in tow. Each waggon
weighed„when empty, 2i tons, and carried a load of iij
tons of coals, making the grou weight of the waggong
32 tons. The road steamcrweigha St ins. Thus a toil
of 40 tons was in motion. The road steamer had drawn
the train from Newbold° Collieries, eight miles from
Edinburgh, over a very hilly road, with r:•ing gradients
oil in 16. There can be no doubt that this invention
of the application of vulcanised indiarabber to the tires
of road stamen forms the greatest step which has ever
been made in the use of steam on common rnada. It
completely removes the two fatal difficulties which have
hitherto barred the way to the use of traction engines—
viz., the mutual destruction of the traction engine and
the roads. The in,liorubber tires interposing a soft and
elutio cushion between the two, effectually protect th, m
both from every jar and jolt--in fact, as much so as if
the engine were travelling over a tramway of india-
robber.

IMPORTANT TO BAT/UM—The following directions,
drawn up by Dr. Clinitian and Dr. Sieveking, are
published by the Royal Humane Society :—" Avo:il
bathing within two hours after a mead. Avoid bathing
when exhausted by fatigue or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body is cooling after perspira-
tion ; but bathe when the body is warm, provi,leil no
tinse is lost in getting into the water. Avoid chilling
the body by sitting or 'binding naked on the banks or
In boats after having been in the water. Avoid remain-
ing too long in the water ; leave the water immediately
there is the slightest feeling of chilliness. Avoid bathing
altogether in the open air if, after having been • short
time in the water, there is a sense of chilliness, with
numbness of the hands and feet. The vigorous and
strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty
stomach. The young, and those that are weak, bad
better bathe three boars after • meal ; the best time for
such is from two to three hours after breakfast. Those
who are subject to attacks of giddiness and faintness, and
those who suffer from palpitation and other sense of
discomfort at the heart, should not bathe without first
consulting their medial Weiser."
SUICIDE HT A OM Or FIFTZSIL—A inquest has
been held at West Bromwich concerning the death
of • girl fifteen years old, named Sarah Ann Wall. On
Thursday she bought three pennyworth of "Vermin
Killer," and when next seen she was crouched down on
the ground near the Dub Inn. The man who found her
asked her what was the matter, and on her replying
that she bad hurt her ley, be took her to Idrs.
Wbitebouse's house. When there she seemed very sick,
and trembled all over, while she was in great pain.
Mr. Whitehouse asked her what was the matter, but
she did not reply until her mother returned, and she
then said that she had taken poison, and told her mother
to look in her pocket. This Mrs. Wall did, and she
then found • paper which had contained "Vermin
Killer." Mr. Evans, surgeon, was sent for, but as soon
as he saw the deemed he said there was no hope of her
recovery. She continued in dreadful agony until •
little after 12 o'clock, when she died. In reply to
questions put to her as to what induced her to poison
herself, she said that Abe ran all the way there and all
the way back for the poison, that she meant to die, and
that she did it "through • chap" with whom she had
quarrelled. There was no reason to suppose that the
deceased was insane at the time she committed the act,
as she had been particularly cheerful the whole day.
The jury relearned • verdict of Pelo-de-RA
A WOMAN'S CONFLICT WITH • lICTIOLAL—Daeid
Bell, • dustman, aged twenty—the name, the designa-
tion, the age are pregnant with suggestions of athletic
rufflanlam—burgbuiously broke into the premises of Mr.
Peed, a cabinetmaker, of York-street, Hackney.road„
London. Mrs. Peed—who must be the earliest of early
risers—entered her front parlour at five o'clock in the
morning, and found the burglarious Bell behind the
window curtain. The early bird picked no the
worm; that is to say, the valiant Mrs. Peed closed with
the felonious dustman, and held him fast. The roam
struck her, but she did not relax her hold, screaming
meanwhile for help. Her husband ran downatair' to
her assistance, and there be found her still easing to
the robber, who had contrived to open the window, and
was trying to effect his escape. There was • desperate
struggle, until the burglar, the cabinetmaker, end the
cabinetmaker's wife—more power to her wrist I—all
tumbled out of window on to the pavement outside.
They had, luckily, not far to fall ; but the dustman,
bent on at any hazard, bad drawn a knife. In
the oak of lisa. P.C. Dean came up, and David Bell
submitted to his late. What David Ball deserves it is
not our duty to inquire—that little matter will be settled
by one of her Majesty's Judges; but Mn, Peed, the un-
daunted heroine of the inexpugnable front parlour,
certainly merits, in addition to three cites," end a vote
for Finsbury, • testimonial bonnet and • complimentary
parasol from the married ladies, whose renown for
personal bravery she has contributed so brightly to
sustain.
S. G. 0. Ow Paiscsfitcl.—" S. G. 0.," has • letter
in the Times, in which he explains the failure of the
pulpit by want of courage in the deer, "We fail," be
says, "from cowardice A London West-end preacher
may determine to be honest, but the congregation will
not bear to be told by hiss--nor would submit to be
told even by • Bishop—Bible-truth in plain words as to
adultery, gambling, utter devotion to money-seeking,
the giving up mind and body to mere pleasure-hunting
in any fields, however polluted by open rin. If that
preacher were even the most simple of Bishops, he would
know full well if he were to venture to talk to the well-
clad and merited crowd before him about their lives as
he would talk to the class of young folks just confirmed
In • country parish, that he would be transgressing all
rule as to what society calls good taste in the pulpit.
Every bishop and preacher to the "upper ten" -knowa
full well that if, as before God, be did his duty from
Sunday to Sunday, he would have to tell his congrega-
tion some truths as to their lives they would not
endure. Thus it happens that sermone are tame, and
often stupid, or if anything lively la wanted, the preacher
can only abuse Colette°, and narrate the hideous morals
of Zulus and colonist'. So testifies" B. G. 0.," and he
tells us :—" When I was a young lean I was doing duty
In a pariah which my sexton thought highly privileged.
'Thee, was • deal of carriage company.' I had one
morning preached on the proper religious training of
ebildren. the duty" of keeping them out of the way of
early vanity and temptation to early ungodliness. I had
hardly got home to luncheon when • groom caste with
a hurried note from one of my flock, a lady of high sank
and what was called great worldly infieeoce--sa kind
hearted • creature of that sort as any I have ever
known. She expressed bee satonishmeet that, being
on the friendly terms I was at with all the family,
I 'should have eo pointedly preached at them.' I rent
her the sermon, mse and Irdl, begged her to observe
had been preached • few Sundays botanist D—t for
the National School Society. Mae apolegised the wit
day with all that good-humoured grace which so well
became her, only adding—' Bet you know, I think--
yea ought to have seen, QDO at what would idrooldda,
it D-4would or* do so to "