The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-10 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Globe says :—The canto. j pit taken reveals the feet
tie it • decree.e in the populati ,n of rural parishes in the
West of England is going on with • rapidity which
threatens alimat entire de p. mutation.
A ParlianienthrY Piper Just issued shows that the
nornber of Peergrie aaa'o',Ced ii &oath in England and
Weiss for murn.r in 1979 era. 34, of whom In were
execute ; and in 1680, 36. wh •tu 13 were execute!.
At Leeds Anil., on We Maeda?, John Bell, • labourer,
was sent:need to penal esnritids for ten years for the
mamlaughter of his mother at Middlesborough. The
uoother and eon, while both were drunk, had quarrelled,
end the latter Wu.* her several blows, from the effects
of which she died.
Mt. 1111,11,30, who was seised with sudden illness in the
Rouse of Commons on Thursday evening, died at an early
hour on Wednesday morning at hi, residence in Berkeley.
square. The bon. gentleman, who was 61 years of age, had
represented Preston in the Conservative interest since the
general election of 1864.
In an action brought in the City of London Court. on
Wednesday, by • clerk against his employer, • solicitor,
who had gain harily dismissed him because he found a
newspapor on hi. desk, and believed be had been neglect-
ing his duties, C uninissioaur Kerr decided in favour of
the plaintiff, who sued for • fortnight'. wages..
Benito Is evidently • limbs in alvanc,„ of London.
Residents in the German capital are now abM to
travel by lightnings. An omnibus worked by electricity
I. running In Emma for the conveyance of pamenrere,
this vehiole making a speed of twenty miles an hour.
After MI it will apparently soon be possible to send
people about the country "by wire," and to " telegraph "
one's friends into the country and back again with the
great 'at facility.
The amount of British investments at home and
abroad is stated to he £3,465.000,300, giving interest to the
amount of £157,000,000 It is c zioos that f,ba British
investments in HAIN and Foreign government stocks
, are ex arty equal, and that WON Railway Stocks figure
. for nearly the mime amount. The total Interest Is equal
to sheet £1 gs. per head of the population, of which
about £3 is payable by foreign countries and the
colonies.
IL John Leinoinne concludes an article in the Debate
on Mr. Bradhaugh's affair as follows:—" Among those who
exclude Mr. Bradlaugh as an atheist there are • number
who are as much Sad mar. DO than he, and who go tnirough
the formality of the religious oath with the more Mild.
frrence or beedlesencs., ag they consider it • perfect
nullity. All that parlade of orthodoxy is only tyranny
and hyLocrisy, and the Parliament which claims to serve
as • niodel for others would do well to set them • better
example.'
As we steted tbs other day, • new stamp has been
struck by the Posto-ffios. to be available either for peonage
or receipt. Arrangements will nevertheless be made for
using up the stock, both of receipt and penny postage
stamps that may be in the hands of the public. The new
arrangements will come into force on and after the lit
of June, from which date the penny pietism stamps and
the old receipt stamps will be equally avaiMble LW the
purposes hitherto exclusively supplied by the
Happily wholes do not often Attimpt to commit salad*
by running their head eielitinst ships bottoms, for if they
did. neviAtiori Woulff become far more dangerous than It
Is at prom mt. The good barque Anna, of Baltimore, how-
ever, happened to be retested by • gigantic cetacean • few
days aims for a little spiteful play which very nearly
proved fatal to that vessel. The master of the Anna
reports that while in mid-Atlantic a hose whale came fuU
tilt at the Anna, and struck her "heed on" in broad day-
light W., are not told how the whale fared, but the Anna
lost nearly the whole of her cutwater and -tart, and bad
some coprar torn off her bottom. In fact, eit• beadloe will
have to go into dry dock for rci,drei Wraith's ought at
Isis' to have the headache for If month.
An important deicing* under tbie Employers' Liability
Act wee reoordsi by the wounty court judge at White-
bevel). The plaintiff, • pitman, sued the Whitehaven
Heocuatit Inca and Steel C napalm for £lOO compensa-
tion for the loss of his son, who war killed on January
last by a block of ice which fell down the shalt of the
mine. It was contended on behalf of the defendants that
, the tarality WM purely an sodden', ail ree,„..hi.,prea;.„.
tiles having been taken to ens-re ...he safety of '
outpinyeit in the pit, but that owing to' the Noway of the
wcattor :t was impuesible to keep We shaft Maas of ion
ifte lery; however. awardel the plaintiff 474 as pompensw
pion.
4 crime of a most diabolical character Is reported from
Saint Venent, tu the Pas de C dale. Early in the morning
Um house of a small farmer we. discovered on fire. Tbe
flames were soon extinguished, but on entering the dwell-
ing the firemen were horrified to find the bodies of the
former, his wife, and daughter nearly carbonised. At
first it was thought they had been suffocated by the
smoke, hut on claimer ex unination it was discovered that
they bad been murdered. The thieve., after robbing the,
house sad MIMI' ths inmates, set Ike to tbe pronaissei,a
the hope of destroying all trace of their mini.. • - •
Women', rig,hta, or rather. the rights clalrite_4 by women
will shortly be debated in Barballiont. Mr, Hugh Mitecuj
his evetLroliCe thit in three week's thus he will movie
that the Parliamentary franchise should kw extended to
women who possess thee qualifications which 'atm, in.,
to vote, and who in all matters of local government have
the ii tht of yoting. There is much to be Wit in favour of
Kr. Malone propoettion, and though the Magi Will
recognise the fact that an Intelligent woman hem
greater moral right t,o a vote than an illiterate ...Am, ki
will doubtless negative the proposition. :f women "kri
capable of voting on municipal mat:st amid tinily law hot
; responsible for rates and ta-:ea, it ouktif th rem** witi4
string argumcnt It, ypset" Otte clalin. *Vivi* eur
logis4.tori has" Fkkkbd Minn 'woMen 'at eniVe4 to
Mire% the Utvill{tree mid stimuli. et the pantry,. and to
ut Motor to the crutufnela er the st-nar sex. We shall see
what view the new Parliament !like, of the matter.
A curioss case of rennin under diffloulties his recently
come to light. The Rector of Jarrow-on-Tyne wrVise tho
story to the Spedelor. A boy in the neighhomtne, Wien
of Hebburn has worked in a rod-.pit sitt,ii ha was eight
years odd HI determined a. inceto himself and new
Ow studied Greelt.L &attn. Gorman, algebra, andlistory in
nil spare hours me worm in the pit from 10 p.m. to 6
am, sleeps from mem tit noon, and then VMS to Lb,
ht:l doool, a mile off. Ijc tn. IL works at home till
his night work is the pit begins. He would probably
have got a Queen's scholarship at the diocesan training
college if his writing bad hem tiett C sal-hewing sad'
calligraphy, however. °moot be comblx;,4,
.ana Waif
therefore proposed to Put the boy a, PaDijkshtsesfPlol-
mot or to mile • sulidde= 4,) enable DIM tO MIME to
his books sad 0•00.01

BLOWING UP OF H.M.B. OOTEREL.

The fol owing telegram was received at the Admiralty
on Tinevlay evening from Monte Vileo :
" Doterel blown up 26th April, Sandy Point, Strain;
of Magellan. Cause unknown. Lieutenant Stokes
stays at scene of disaster to asc attain canoe with divers.
C onmander, paymaster, Engineer Walker, carpenter,
and seven seamen saved. Survivors returaing home in
mall steamer Britanois. The names of all stirviviare
have been telegraphed for."
The Doterel warn at entirely new venal, and was
built and laueched 4 Chatham lad year. She was
1.127 tona, and 1,130-hone power, and was pierced for
six guns. She wee commissioned at Chatham in
December lest by Communise Richard Evans, and
haA screw of 140 men al told, nearly all of whom
were drafted to the vessel from the Royal Naval
Barrack.. On taking her departure from Chatham
the Doterel went out to relieve the Penguin, ordered
home from the Pacific. The following were the
officers who left Chatham in her :—Connuander
Richard Evans, Lieutenant William Cl. Forme",
Navigating Lieutenant Arthur R. M. Cnsagh_, LionL
John U. St tires, Stalf-Surgeon William P. M. Bo,Yle,
Paymaster John N. Colborne, Chief Engineer Win.
ne.d. Engineer William Ord, Gunner Jeremiah
Driscoll, Carpenter William B. Bank, and Clerk
Charles M. Irving.
It would appear from the number killed that the
vessel, at the time of the disaster, had not disposed of
the supernumereriee which she took out for the other
veasels on the Pacific station. A great many of the
relatives of those lost reside at Chatham, the witsle of
the Royal Marine Light Infantry on board belooging
to the Chatham Division.
The catastrophe to the Dotarel, which was lying at
Sheerness ten dans before she proceeded on her voyage,
has caused • profound sensation n that town. The
panful excitement is heightened by the fact that a
large proportion of the bloej cketa 'waning the crew
of the ill fated ship were drafted (rem the Royal Naval
litirracks, Simonetta., and ommequently had many
friends and acqnsiotatices in the place. Many of
them. ton, were natives of Sheemeas.
Very little value is attached at Portamouth to the
suppoeed cause of the explosioa. It is known that the
Doterel had on board large quantities of gun cotton
for distribution among the other ships on the station,
and in the absence of further detail. the probable
cause of the disaster is inferred to arise from some
• carelessness in respect of this explosive. The Dottrel
was formed of planking attached to iron framing, and
was in consequenoe devoid of a dolt :de-bottom and
' wetter-tight compartments.
' FRENCH ROMAN CATHOLICS IN WALES.
The growing number of French Roman Catholic
monastic establiehmehts in North %Vies is Causing no
little excitement in that portion of the Principality.
It seems that within • radios of 20 mites from Wrex-
ham there are no fewer than seven iif these houses,
and 101 on an extensive scale. The Flint county prison
• at Mold. which recently came int') possession of the
' Jesuits, is being pt.-pared to receive • large number of
' the French refugees. It is close to a still larger
! establishment, bel inging to the Franjacan (Capuchin)
; Order of Friars, at Pauta.aph. which is • seminary
, for priests. There are nearly 1® acres of hand belong-
I Mg to the latter monastery.