The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-08 00:00:00

THE BURIALS BILL
To the editor of the Standard.

Sir,—Allow me to add my thanks to those of every
other sensible man for your excellent article on the Burials
Bill. It is next akin to impertinence that London clergy-
men, whom the bill would not touch, should attempt to
itettle that which would worry no country clergy so touch
that many have declared their rtailitivsia to resign their
livings rather than sul tto such
There is no grievance. It is invented by the unrelenting
enemies of the I hurch, in order to find their own remedy,
and !ninth's and worry us ; and compromise is impossible
between men who hold consecration sacred and men who,
like their apostle, J. Bright, laugh at it It is a purely
social question ; religion and conscience come in for
nothing in it, and the only way in which the llovernment
sliouhl set is to purchase cemeteries for dissenters where-
ever the want of room is felt But that would not satisfy
the dissenters The downfall of our Church is their object.
But. sir, if we, the best servants of the state, are degradel
to please • few noisy men, what will come of our parishes
and of the country I I have been vicar of this enormous
parish thirty years, and know what I am talking about.
Pray write again in or behalf, and believe me, very
truly yours, • constant reeler, S. C. ltlatstg.
The Vicarage, Broad wimisor, Dorset, June

The ,leath is announced of Mr. Frederick Walker,
A. 'L.A.
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The Shaftesbury-mirk Rifle Volunteer regiment hail its
first inorcb-out on Satunloy.
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A lirigMon publican has been fined £5 and costs for
bribing a police constable.
Her Melody, according to present arrangements, will
return (nun Ilalmonal on the 18th iust
It is stated that a viscount list in the course of the past
week male his &bet at the Grecian Theatre.
The Prince and Princess Louis of Hewe will leave this ,
country for the Continent on Monday iwzt.
An attack by pirates has been mate ml the British
schooner Maria, in the Congo river, by the Kn. tribes.
Mr. H. U. Sullivan, Ml'., and Mr. Alanlonalil, M.P.,
bave declined to appear on any platform tei which Dr.
Kenealy niayl.. speaking.
The buys at Eton College on Friday 1111 l raged the
Founder's Day with the usual recitations sod procession
of boats.
At Salford, a butcher, named Paul Earnshaw, has been
tined tff and costa for lanting a lamb on the bead with a
stick until the µsir creature hled from the nose.
Lord ShaftelbllTY 11.14 Coll.llted to make the presenta-
tion to Mr. and Mrs S. C. Hall on the celebration of their
golden wedding.
At llama, near Galway. a lad id about 15 year, while
playing with other boys during school recess, was gored to
death by a bull.
Comprratively small 511155 were 11,1 at the sale of her
1111afsaty5 yearlings at Hampton Court, the highest
price given being Finguinea.. and the average pe guineas.
The Duchess of Tock visited the Alexandra Orphanage,
at Horasetrise, on Saturday afternoon, and presided at
the annual examinttion of the children.
On Saturday the Duke of Connaught opened sonic new
,schools at Hoxt in belonging to the Haberdashers'
Company,. of which he is • livery-man.
A marriage is said to lie arranged between Mr. It. C.
Europe! Johnstone, twin-brother of Sir Frederic John-
stone, Bart., and Miss A-nes Chamberlayne.
The only salvage as yet effected (rem the wreck of the
Schiller is about two tons of copper piping from the
engine.
Two men, who wilfully set fire to the " Reformers'
Tree," in Hyde Park, on Wednesday evening, were next
day fined Ws. each by the sitting mcistrate at Marlborough.
st-eet Polire-court
On Satunlay morning the decapitated body ef a man,
supposed to be named Dowler, was torn,' on the London
and tiouth•Western Itgilway line, two miles from Alder-
shot.
After many months of severe competition, the Atlantic
steamship companies of Liverpool have arrived at an
anikaide arrangement as to tbe rates of freight and
eassage money.
A oupplement to the Gezefre published on Saturday
evening contains sundry modifications of the °niers
respectiug the impurtatma of cattle and prevention of
disease.
Thirteen Birmingham publicana and confectioners were
lined nominal amounts on Wednesday, for not exhibiting
their full names, and other particulars specified by the
Licensing Act, on the Croat of their houses.
The selection of Lady Hope Grant for a Cis ;I List Pen•
skin of £l5ll • year will meet with cordial amoral on all
aides. Ifer husband, Sir James Hope Grant, did eniment
service in India during the Mutiny.
Wins Emma Weekcs, a dressmaker, residing at Pedant,
was—in the Sheriff's Court, oil Tbursday—awarJed 1700,
compensation for injuries sustained on the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway.
The Tellamore mardians have granted out-door relief to
• woman who produced • certificate showing her to be MI
years or age. The old woman is stilll in the possesaion of
all her faculties
The Government will, it is stated, in future contribute
to all the local rate. of Dovoupori. Stoneliouse, and Ply-
mouth. on the following basis •.—For Devonport on
; for Stenebtouie. on .01,111115; for Plymouth, on
351.T.R.
The Prince of Wales presided on Saturday, at the 15th
-annual banquet of the Royal Agncultural Benevolent
Institution. It was stated that the institution has now
301 pensioners to be shortly increased to *l5O, and 41
children on its looks.
A gentleman loaned Smith, two of whose herd of doge
wonied • child almost to death a few days ago, has been
charged before the Bradford ma;istrates with having
allowed tee brutes to be at larze. The bench committed
Mr. Smith to gaol for a month.
The German Emperor has conferred the order peer le
reerl:r upon Mr. George Bancrofl, late United State,
Minister at Berlin: upon the pont Ifr. Henry W. Lout-
fellow ; and upon Professor Wm. Stokes, of the University
of Dublin.
The London correspondent of the Meech...ter Gvardlass
mays that Signor Gavaggi, the well-known anti-Popery
lecturer, has written: and in a few days will pul a
reply to Dr. Newsom, s answer to Mr. Gladstono's pamphlet
on the Vatican Decrees.
It is said that, the Judicature Bill having abolished the
title of Serisantat.L.w. the members of Serjeants' Inn,
Chanceiy-lane, intend to se'l the property for between
S30,0(1 and ,LlO,llOO. and divide the money among them-
Delves (.here are 36 of them).
The Prussian Government has °demi two priges of the
value of about L11(3.11.10 marks) and £504) (10,4810 marks)
respectively tor the discovery of • new method of cleansing
,tbniter casts, statues, itc., and for the invention of a new
material possessing the advantages of plaster, but which
will not deteriorate by repeated washings.
Mr. Tom Hughes, the referee to decide i the Somerset
colliery dispute, Mr. Milroy, of Wigan. and Mr. Mac-
donald. the arbitrators having failed to &give— ham
awarded • drop of 11 per cent in wage,, to hold good as
long as existing prices last. The matters went to arbitra-
tion for V per rent.
A SCOSTITUTZ FOR PENS.- A machine for writing
spoken words has been invented by U. II Henninger.
The Reins leiluserirlle de-cubes the machine as being
about the site of the hand. It is mat in connection with
the v0r.41 or,,,ans -the instrUiner.t recording their move-
Incubi upon • moving band of pape- in dots anal dashes.
The person to whom the instrument is attached simply
repeats the works of the manager after him inaudibly,
written out
'lbislnoffuage is then faithfully

• 11111101 C CANADIAN. —lt came out at the Sheriff's
Court, on claim for damages from the terrible Thorpe
accident, that Ellen Jackson, a servant of Captain Herring.
late soya Canadians (100th Regiment), on a pitch-dar
rainy, and howling night, hearing cries, pluckly dim
some 3D or 10 feet to the top of the smashed
hard by the wreck of two engines, spluttering and hissing
forth their terrifying steam, and deliberately pulled out a
Norwich trathiman, who, but for this timely help and
the Samaritan assistance to band at the Old Rectory
House, must inevitably have perished. Such an act of
bravery, by a young girl, deserves honourable mention
'tweed the annals of heroic deeds by land.
We. to announce the death of the Hon. Constance
Elizabeth Pitt, vehich took place, from fever, on Wednes-
day, at Lord thativille's residence, on Carlton Moine-
terrace. The lamented lady, who would have attained her
twenty-first year on the 14th last. was the Lounge" of
the numerous children of George, fourth Lord Siren, and
his wife, Lady Susan Georgina Leveson Gower, eldest
"'Leiter of Grenville. first Uri Granville,' was sister of
the Duchess of Lee& and lion. Mary lltt. Maid Of
110°°° to the Queen; and niece of the Seri Granville.
• 11. N. Levesonower, .ILP , and of Lady Georgian
?un The Earl and Countess Granville sad family
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resittog at Wattage Castle data the zoitlasaboly
event