The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-03 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS

Some correspondence recently passed between the
Primate and the Bishop of Both and Wells, Mr. John
wards, of Cheddar, and the vicar of that parish, relative
to the deceased wife's sister question. The vicar wrote Mr.
Edwards that these marriages, though‘legal in the colonies
were contrary to the civil awl ecclesiastical laws of
England, cud he could not admit the contracting parties
to the 110ly Communion. Mr. Edwards forwarded the
letter to his diocesan, complaining that m4nnbers of the
Church, aii.l liearing irreproschable moral characters,
should be classed with "notorious evil livers." Lord
Arthur Hervey replied that he must uphold the action of
the vicar as the clergy were bound to act in accordance
with the letter and spirit of the law. Tire Archbishop of
Canterbury having been appealed to, suggested that
persons so situate should communicate at some church
where their history was not known, 11,3 that no scandal
should and !

'lto feeling
of anxiety prevalent in Germany in
connection with the increase of the army is not shared in
Roads The ilea of a war either at present or at an early
period i, c.insidered out of the question.
The Crown Prince of Germany had a long conference
with Prince Bismarck on Tuesday, and afterwards with
the Emperor.
The list Lord of the Admiralty, in responding for the
Navy, spoke of the important services which it had
rendered, not only to this country, but to the world,
describing it as the police of the seas.
A telegram from EL Petersburg says that the report of
the defeat of the Russians at Tchikislar arose from the
fact that a Russian convoy was attacked, and partly
captured, on the 7th instant between Tchikislar and
Chatte.

The Glasgow Tramways Company have, by a large
majority, resolved to run Sunday cars in that city
There has been much opposition to the proposal.
A coroner's jury at Itithinonel, Yorkshire, on Wednes-
day invisitigatisl the mysterious death of a wealthy young
lady named A:aston, who was found suffocated in bed
The servants Lying unable to enter Miss Easton's room,
called the deceased's father, whims conduct in delaying
to force an entrance was severely commented upon by the
coroner. There had been a quarrel shortly before, and the
jury returned an open verdict.
'I he Lord Mayer presided over a public meeting at the
Mansion House, at which a resolution was peseef dacha.-
ing that, in view of the undoubted necessity of main-
taining British supremacy on the ocean, it is incumbent
on the nation to encourage maritime enterprise by every
means in its power; ant that the truly national object of
planting the Union Jack on the North Pole is worthy of
every support and assistance.
TUN SCIIOOI, BOARD FOR I.O:IOWA—Mr. Morley, ALP,
has presented a memorial urging that the growing work
of the Board renders it desirable in the Interests of the
ratepayers that the Board should have the full advantage
of the entire services of its chairman, and that the Board
should act forthwith upon the powers given by law
by paying the chairman a salary as contemplated by
Pt•hament at the time of the passing of the Education
Act. A resolution was passed that it was not expedient
for the Board to consider the matter at present
The telegraph system is now gorged with messages
roisouo a week being transniitted against 213,000 in 1671
and the erection of niblitional wires his become eseentiaL
Ac ither Russian frigate has arrived at Alexandria.
lie I Clifford' has been appointed to the military
command of the Traosr44l, ant Sir Garnet Wolseley has
returned to Natal. -
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Brighton has leen fixed upon u the most suitable site
for the Easter Monday review. iii, rated that at the
volunteer riflemen• in London will attend.
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A Welsh clergyman who was charged with drunken-
news, has been suspended for three years.
The Court party in Berlin is annoyed at the numerous
meetings to protest against the increase of the army. In
little towns and country districts the authorities are
instructed to put down such meetings to the utmost of
their power
The new regimer.to of German artillery will occupy
Metz and other garrisons of Alsace-Lorraine
The Prince n.I Princess of Walors are going to Paris for
a fortnight in February, and Lord Lyons will give &grand
ball in their honour.
Mr. John Locke, Q C , who represented Southwark in
the Liberal interest during 23 years, died on Wednesday
afternoon, after a long illness. Mr. Locke had sat for
Southwark as a colleague of Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
Ile was 75

TuieFteer AT lAssoc.—The Minotaur, Afincourt, and
Achilles have sailed on • cruise westward or evolutions
and exercise. They will call off Lisbon on the 4th Febru-
ary when the Salamis, which remains here, will take out
the mails. Then the Beet sails to Vigo, returns about the
4th March, and afterwards leaves for Gibraltar.
A Coll:RING FOR STRAFE BOILRRS.—A novel protective
coating for steam-boilers, steam-pipes, steam-cylinders,
ke.. ling recently come into extensive use in Germany.
The ineas c foists of COMIlle flour and sawdust, or spent
tan, without the addition of starch. A paste is made of
the former, sawdust (or tan) being then added until the
mixture becomes moderately stiff, which, when applied,
adheres very well to steam-vessels previously cleansed of
dirt. The mass is put on in five successive layers, each of
a thickness of one-fifth of an inch, and is said to retain
heat much better than even thicker layers of other
materials usually employed. The mass is applied with a
troweL If the steam-vessel is in the open air, two or three
successive coatings of coal-tar are given in addition.
Gm-per pipes receive first &coating of hot solution of clay,
which causes the protective covering to adhere better.—
Bailder.

TIICRIC is nothing more nourishing and warming in
cold weather than a cup of really good cocoa, but the
difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be
secured at the not ,d one halfpenny for a large break-
fast cup by using Cadbury's cocoa essence, which goes
three times as far as the adulterated and starchy
compounds ordinarily sold, the smallest packet making
fourteen breakfast cups of strong cocoa.
The First Lord of the Admiralty, alluding to the
rumours f a dissolution, coolly expressed his belief that
his friends would prefer to have peace for a little time
tourer, and therefore did not intend to thrust the
constituency into the turmoil of a contest now.
Tex I.IFEROAT INSTITUTION has now 260 lifeboats
under its charge—no less than 855 lives were saved
last year from shipwrecks on our coasts, mainly ,
through the in,trunientality of the institution—and a
large and permanent annual income is indispensable
to enelsie the society to maintain its great life-saving
fleet in a state of thorough efficiency.
COUNT lIOLTILE ON INCREASE IN MINT. A
peasant wrote a letter to Field Marshal Count
asking. him to use his influence with the
I Emperor in order that the German army might be
diminished, and not increased. The aged General
answers that this can only come about when all nations
arrive at the conviction that every war, even
victorious one, Is a national misfortune. Marshal von
Moltke considers that the religious and moral educa-
tion of nations is not sufficiently advanced to achieve
' this result at present.
' Fliv=m WANT. --in Ireland, a seed famine
exists, the distressed farmers having (as in 1847) eaten
the potatoes which had been stored away for the next
crop, Colonel Colthurst, M.P. fur the county:of Cork,
giving the results of a visit which he has just muscle to a
distressed district in that county, says out of about
1800 families who reside in the district in question, and
two-thirds of whom ate very small farmers, at least
800 families are in absolute want, and a fortnight
thence this number will have been doubled. Colonel
Colthurst says that the Government recognition of the
distress and their operations relieving it are too tardy.