The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-01-04 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMH.

"George Eliot " the vell•knoern authoress, le dead.
L. 1 Biacuusiteld reached his 75th birthday on Toseday
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Toe Spanish Government have decided to require the
produrt,on of passports by foreigners.
Toree hundred and twenty thousand immigrants are
eatimattd to have arrived at New York during tha present
year.
A ruan named Stretron, awaiting trial for the attempted
murder of a pobcemam had escaped from Huntingdon
gaol.
Toe Persian Monarch, of the 12 vat gxchange Line,
hence from London, has returned to New York In a leaky
condition. . . .

R the wife o(. poor glazier. Living in Columbia-
na'. Hackney, L 'ndoo, has given birth t 3 three live male
children, who are ztrong and likely to live.
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Tha DJwaier Duchess of Clor.land ham increased her
guh.eriptiou to the NeweastlJ Biahopric Fund from £l,OOO
to Si O.

Bon thieves broke into the church of Notre Dome to
Lneeta-, and otole thirty thousand (ranee from the iron
ehPst of the yestrv,___ _

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There are 14 000.000 bushels M grain ethnic' at Chicago at
the present titue as compared with 12000.009 at the same
period last year.
The roof of the church at Saillagot. Tarn-M.Garonne.
fell in during %capers oti Cl.ristmas Day. Seven persona
were killed and ty injured. .. . .

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Th.. detectives is, Ruston—quer* station have received
information that fisrsh Crowe, who's mysterious dir
appearence has been reported. Is in an savluin at Dublin.
Dr. Raster, whose splendid gift of £125.0100 towards the
erection of a college at Dundee was ..ono incest • few days
ago. intimared at • meeting held at Diode. Friday that he
would supplement his subecription by £lO,OOO. making
£135,000 in all.
Mr. Allen Rolls, M.P.. and master of the Monmouthshire
Hurlers, has intimated to his Monmouthshire and
Herefordshire tenaotry that for the future he should ells-
c.ntinue preservation of game, and they would have the
right of killing it themselves.
A poiniamsn named Cuito and a point clearer name
Burgeu were on Tueledsv proescuted by the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Raisray C mapany for having been drunk
on duty. roes iif £lO nod costa, or two month.. and of
10•. or one month, were passed. It was stated that 100
trains daily pass their cabins at Sandhille
As the Pullman Express was passing through Strath.
bury on the way to Glasgow on Weineeday night, • man
unknown threw himself in front of it His headless body
was found undrri bridge fearfully mutilated. His head
was discovered thirty yards farther along the line. He
appeared to he aged 50 years, and had in his pocket a
paper hearing the name of lemee Roberteon.
It is rumoured that Mr. Bras-ey bas bought three
estates in the North-Western State. of America, three
hundred square mile. In extant. Other purchases have
been made on a gigantic se de, which, if repented, will
establish • land monopoly in Americas' fatal to the future
prosperity of its people as that condemned in Earope to-
day.—Eehri.
Notice has been received from the Poet Ofacea of Italy
and the United States of America hat by the laws of
three woof'. es 111. prohibited to seed through the poet
any lett. r. or circular' concerning loAeries. Fhe public
are ther..t r earned not to poet any such letters or circu-
bin addressed to places in Italy or the United
States. . . . . . .

—fill. Queen'. Christmas bounty has been distributed
this week in Whitehall to eleven hundred end sixty-eight
poor people of L induct and some country psrishes. One
thousands received five shillings each, and Om remalniag
our hundred and ,ixty-eseht thirteen shillings each: the
tattrr represented the aoci..nt " Gate alms. The arm of
the recipients ranged fr.m 80 to 96 years.
Pitman& LJUISI'I Tent —The Princess Louise is • lady
a muck good taste, with • lugs fund of common-ems&
Tbe supervision of her household affairs is upon the model
oliaractit of all wellappointed English households.
A. gentleman who has a weakness for apricot tart, dined
with bor a short time before she left tor England. To his
delight, apricot, tart was included in the mum sad he
expressed his fondness for it. "lam so glad you like it,"
replied the hostme, "because I made it myself. Let me
sive you the recipe," and, with genial interest, she detailed
its ingredient,. "Remember, when you get -home, to tell
Ism j— that apricot tart should always have an upper
crust."—The Hour.
Dr. W. H. Rowel sends • letter to the press, asking the
public to wait • little before crediting reports as to the
• treachery of the Beers" In firing at a flag of truce. lie
has MEM to entertain a profound distrust of Durban
despatches and Natal news. He mcapitelates the history
of the movement in the Transvaal, and says 1.--" It is
nonsense to talk about the rising being the work of • •
few agitators.' Ills as national is the Boers can make
, it—aa expression of auger and dislike to the British rule;
sad ' the leaders' are driven by the masses behind them."
It is deplorable (be add.), if the Government were
determined to keep the Transvaal by force and sh all
Imeards, and to govern it by martial law, that they did
Set maintain such a force there as would have convinced
the Boers of the hopelessness of armed resistance.
Tan Voixoll OF TEIII DUILIO.—" The Italian papers
report the first voyage of the Duni° as follows :--She left
the Gulf of Spoke on the gist inst., in • strong south gale
that might have made even the commander of a well.
proved ship anxious. The sea was so high outside the
Gulf that the commander thought It prudent to coast the
Isle of Corsica, and on arriving In the Straits of
Bonifaccio the wind change.' to the north-east, blowing
with increased violence. N itwithst uiding, the Duffle
and be.r ruiner behaved excellently. The speed was
slackened according to the height and direction of the
waves, so that the average WWI 13 hoot., a rats whisk
would be considerable even with • calm ma. It shows
that under ordinary circumstances the Duillo will be
capable of exceedin. 15 knots. The ship having thus been
put to such hard proof dudes her trial trig it is evident
that she is capable of facing any weather. The small
inceavenienase experienced only confirm the general
impressiou of her perfection. For example, the leather
apparatus that covers the opening of the turrets did not
act altogether welt, so that • little water penetrated the
turrets. This apparatus is as the seine ',stun as that
employedr on the Tkundervir and other turreted vessels.
Probably
the fault Ilse in the leather, which t• parties,. nnt
sofecisety 11••,,In rit may he that the lead sr..ights
th t hes • it clo e rer th.i openina are not sufficiently
beery. Bowers thst MST be, the fault will he ensile
rectified. Commander C.nini has shown himself worthy
of hiss is, and only confirioed his repot Won be this filet
voyage of the Dallis The other officers, who were already
sure of their ship. are now enthusiastic in her praise, and
have absolute faith in her ma•going qualities."
&ND C.4IIIPORTLIfO.—" By
a thorough kno • ledge of the natural laws which govern
, the operations of digestion and nuttitien, and by a
, cartglul application of the fine properties of well.
selected cocoa! Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast
goblin with a delicately flavoured beverage which may
, sevens many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious
11 nee of Bitch articles of diet that • constitution may be
'gradual, built up until strong enough to resist every
to diatom Hundreds of subtle maladies
. around us ready to attack wherever there
•Is • mak pant. We may serape many, fatal shaft
' by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and
ly nourished frsme."—Civil Service Oszstie.—
Mr°Psualr y in Packets labelled—" Jesus Ens & 00.
I licogoostkle Obesdeb. London." Also makers of
Ippts Cliosoiste Immo fee afternoon use,