The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

DOkCHESTER.

Mr. J. R. A. Taylor, 1LR.C.8., of this town, hoe
tr appointed aanstant-surgeon in the lialifnc
innary.

Court Hauer Saturday.— Inspector's return :
wheat, 645. to 80a. per quarter; barley, 38s. Average :
wheat, 745.
ROBBIIIT.—The notorious fluoride Critehell, of
Fordington, was brought up before M. Devenish, Esq.,
and .1. Bishop, Esq., on Saturday evening, charged with
stealing a parcel containing a shawl, from the van of
Robert Talbot, of Chaldon Herring, and he Au Sum.
muted for trial.
Ooomn Poing, Fridey.—Before R. Pearce, feq.—
Willbam Cake, 70, and Charles Hughes, 30, two tramps,
were brought up to custody of P.C. Roper, charged with
'teeing lit a ire on the highway M Radipole Hughes
'Seeded that be had been in Weymouth repairing *hair;
and that Ilia wife went out and lit the fire.--Qta• dis-
missed.

Courtly Pow", S•turday.—Before K Pearce, Pict.,
and H. N. Middleton, !sq., JUL—John Baker was
brought up on rammed shared with stealing seven
bricks, of the value of j,a. WI. from his employer, Mr.
of Portlsad.—Mr. Weston prosecuted and Mr.
Howard defended.—a emstpardsman proved seeing
primmer take the husks from a heap on the Miff, when
be followed him, and took them from him.—Sentenoed
to 21 days bard labour.
L'Errincrsua.—This remarkable invention for
extinguishing fires wee put to Um test on Pound-
bury, last Saturday afternoon, before • oonsidemble
number of spectators. L'Ertincteur, which is in
the shape of an elongated coffee moister, *as
patented by Dicks In this °mina', and as a self-
acting fire imagine we cannot oonoeive that anything
(mold be more portable, simple, and effective.
It is tarried on the bank of the operator by
MUM of straps, while his banda are free to
direct the hose or regulate the tap. The machine
—if anything eo simply-lookiug can be properly
so called—ls merely a metallic cylinder containing
water supersaturated with carbonic acid ps, which
is generated in the vessel itself by • very simple
oontrivanoe—eo simple indeed that any person
can charge it in a few minutes. The working
pressure of this gessoes fluid varies from 261ba
to 601 be.--according to the temperature, and the
heti Awl only increases it. On Saturday
two artificial fires were made on the plateau.
The first consisted of about a barrel of coal
tar emptied out upon a quantity of wood shav-
ings, to whisk parodic' was added. Upon Wog
lighted, a great body of flame quickly arose, and
when it was raging terrifically, sending forth a dense
column of smoke around which the flames fanteeti.
emu, coiled, and emitting a fierce heat, Mr. J.
White, of Semmes, the Doled agent for the BE-
tinoteur, approached with one of the small imam
meets upon his back, and applied • thin jet of
liquid to the flames. Instantly the fire was checked,
and in a few moods every spark was extieguished.
'This amply showed the Estiocteur to be a great
swam. But another experiment was made.
Half a doom tar barrels were piled together
on &framework of wood, made highly inflammable by
being tarred and strewed with wood shavings, and
having staves of tar barrels laid upon them. There
was a good breeze at the time, and on the
Ipplica-
tioii of fire to the mass, there was speedily "a great
conflagration." When the fire was in full force,
Mr. White attacked it with another &Cooker,
and in ninety seconds nothing of flame remained.
The charred embers were subsequently re-iguited,
and the mooned lire wee extinguished by the fluid
from the same instrument. Thus it was shown
beyond all doubt that the little machine perfectly
performs the utraordinary feats in the way of Are
extinguishing which the inventor claims for it, and,
seeing the small prim for which the apparatus and
'quid may be obtained, we amnia but anticipate
that many our thrifty Dorset farmers and house- '
holders will ripply themselves with this simple,
portable, sad effective fin extinguisher. '