The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

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EARTINVAKTAI Al MALTA.-Bho'tly before midnight
on the 18th of April a slight shock of earthquake was
felt at Malta, and two more equally slight at about
1 p.m. on the 10th. The weather at the time was very
thick, with • dense fog, and the wiisl though light very
hot and oppreasive. The thermometer rose within the
space of • few hours from GO to 70 dig., and on the 20th
from 62 to 80 deg., the wind shifting to the southward
and eastwarl. . .

FATAL ACCIDBST AT SP.A.—We learn by Britiah and
Iris& Magnetic Telegraph from North Shields, that a
fatal accident occured on the bar of the Tyne on Wed-
nesday evening about 7 o'clock. Two boats wiich went
oil to vessels coming to the harbour were upset. A
gallant attempt was made to reecue the men, and one
of them %TAX ',lived. Three men, well known on the
Tyne, however, were drowned, Thomas Thompson,
Jeremiah Foster, and William Simpson. The life boat
was got out, but could not render any assistance. There
was a heavy sea on Wednesday evening. Wind S. E.
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GALEo EAMTI:I4 MONIDAT.—A very severe gale
from the east, accompanied by a deluge of rain, put an
end to all out-door enjoyment in the Northumberland
towns on Easter Monday. In the evening a very exci-
ting scene was witnessed at the bar of the Tyne, as vessel
after vessel dashed across, running for the harbour. Up
to 7 o'clock all the vessels escaped the rocks, but shortly
after that hour a laden schooner drove among the broken
water and struck. The Coastguarl immediately got the
rockets down and fired a line across her. The two
Shields lifeboats, manned by pilots and wateritien, also
put out, and, after a gallant struggle with the storm, the
South Shields lifeboat rescued the crew. The vessel is
the Laurel, of Whitby, laden with iron and coke. The
weather continued stormy on Tuesday, but there was
leas sea. . . .

A LADY KILLED BY A STAG. —The inhabitants of Ross
(Herefordshire) and its district have just been thrown
into a painful state of grief by the extraordinary but un-
timely death of Mrs. Collins, wife of Mr. J. S. Collins, a
lady of very amiable disposition and much respected. It
appears that Mrs. Collins was endeavouring to entice a
stag of noble growth, which had escaped from the pad-
dock at Walthal (the seat of her husband), to return,
when the animal rushed furiously at her, and butted her
with its antlers, which were finely developed. The
unfortunate lady was knocked down with great force,
and the animal then appeared to have exhausted its
rage; however, on her endeavouring to rise, the beast
renewed the attack, and as serious were the injuries he
about the stomach and abdomen that the poor
oily was carried out of the grounds by some workmen
who had Inuitencil to the rescue in a state of insen.i-
bility, from which she never rshlksl. notwithstanding the
skill of .several medical men who were 111111111101101 to
her assistance. This lady was • descendant of Kyrie,
" the 1111111 C of ROM." and inherited estates which
belonged to him. The stag was slaughtered a abort
time after the accident.

VoLUN CCCC RIFLE CLCR AT BIRRENHEAD.—The
following is in course of signature at Birkenhead
"We. Ilse undersigned, feeling deeply sensible that the
time has arrived when individual efforts are absolutely
necessary to be exerted, as well as Government measures,
for the defence, if not the actual safety of our country,
in this time of approaching peril, earnestly call upon all
those loyal subjects of Her Majesty in or near Birken-
head to join us in forming A rifle club, to be styled the
'Wirral Rifle Club.' Without entering into the subject
whether the existing state of continental Europe is such
as to warrant our preparing ourselves for the word, we
would respectfully submit that the use of the rifle as a
weapon of defence has been notoriously neglected by
Englishmen, and while every adult of every nation in
Europe has been trained to the use of arms, we are most
deplorably ignorant of their use, and consequently would
be placed at a great disadvantage if obliged to defend our
homes from an invading foe. But. supposing 110 higher
object is in view than the manly, healthful, and a:sousing
exercise of the rifle practice, we trust this appeal will
meet with a ready response, Al/ that this out Wirral Rifle
Club may soon muster its 300 members, when no doubt
Her Majesty will give it her patronage and an appro-
priate title."
GALLANT CnetweT or AN M.P.—A day or two
since the Hon. Captain Godfrey Charles Morgan (son of
Loril Tredegar). the gallant member for Breconalaire,
performed an act which, for the pluck, cool judgment, ,
and courageous self-devotion evinced, at the risk of his
life, deserves to be chronicled among the deeds ssf
chivalrous daring which shed such lustre main the
soldiers of Bntain. The hon. and gallant gentleman
w.es walking along the streets of Hay to attend a meet-
ing of the Hereford and Breton Railway, when the cry
of "a horse run away," with a gig containing • lady
and gentleman, ran through the crowded streets, it
beirg market-day, and the animal was seen approaching
at the top of his speed. Every body except the gallant
member tried to save himself, but just as the animal was
about to dash down • narrow entry where the declivity
Is very considerable, the walls of which are compostol of
sharp rubble masonry, and to be thrown against which
out of • vehicle would be almost instantaneous death,
the gallant soldier with a coolness and pluck which per-
fectly transfixed the crowd with wonder, leaped at the
furious animal, seized the reins, and before anything
serious could happen, brought it to • standstill. The
lady had already fainted, and was carried in a state of
utter unconsciousness to the near, at inn, but the rescued
and the crowd could hardly know how to express their
admiration of an act so generously heroic. We are
happy to say the bon, gentleman was himself uninjured.
FATAL PRIZE Fiore—The county magistrates at
Rochester were occupied some time on Monday in
investigating a charge preferred against John Robinson,
a shipwright employed in Chatham dockyard, of having
killed another shipwright named William Moore
Bensley, in a fight which took place on Chatham lines
on the previous Saturday evening. The evidence of
the several witnesses examined in support of the pro-
secutissn went to prove that the prisoner and deceased,
together with a number of other shipwrights. were
drinking at the Cannon publiclsouse in Brompton
, during the whole of Saturday afternoon and evening.
All the parties, including the deceased, were very intoxi-
cated and quarrelsouie. An orderly of the Medical
Staff Corps, who was in the house, challenged the pri-
soner to fight for Tes, a side, which the prisoner
accepted. All the parties then adjounied to the trenches
on Chatham lines, where the fight took place. After
I fielding for bOtIIC tinse the prisoner was beaten, and
the stske: were accordingly handed to the Medical Staff
man by the deceased, who was the stakeholder. The
prisoner, although severely injured by the fight, then
commenced quarrelling with the deceased about his hay-
ing given up the money, and wisheol him to fight.
IDeceased, who was very drunk, and described as "act-
ing like a madman," agreed to fight with the prisoner,
ansl rushed towsrls him. They immediately closed, and
fell heavily to the ground, the prisoner being under.
In falling deceased struck his forehead with great vise
Wilco against the g d, when his head • (lately
fell forward, and, after giving three g 701104. he expired
without having spoken a word. Mr. Weeks, • surgeon,
I was imuiediately in attendance, ansl examined the de-
-1 ceased, when it was discovered that his neck was dislo-
cated from the effects of the fall, which was sufficient
to account for death. There were no marks of blows
about the body. The magistrates cos iiiii itted the pri-
soner for trial on a charge of manslaughter, but admitted
him to bail.
Tile Lome or FACT AND EXPERIENCE.—The only
seeds that flourish in all climates are the seeds of disease
and physical decay. But they no longer germinate and
• flniiiili unchecked. Wherever they exist, Professor
Holloway's remedies have reached them, and in every
region to which those fatuous medicaments have pene-
trated, the sick have had reason to rejoice. In British
America, f the Hudson Bay Territory to the south-
ernmost point on Lake Erie, from Labrador to the
Pacific. in fact in es-cry spot of the inhabited world,
they nein to have been adopted by persons engaged in
every variety of pursuit as the best specifies for the
diseases incident to the sudden and violent change of
Itemperature which characteriess our climate ; and also
those diseases which more immediately spring from the
, heats, the colds, and the dainie,—lesa subject to change,
but not the less dangerous to human life.—of other
, countries. The Ointment has been applied with re-
-1 markable, and we believe unvarying success, in scor-
-1 butic and scrofulous disorders, inflammation of the
respiratory organs, and enlargement if the liver. Pro-
feasor Holloway, like all great i iiii ovators who attack old
dogmas and substitute vital truths in their stead, has
been assailed by the slaves of precedent both here and
in the colonies. But they have realized the fable of the
viper and the file. Hostility ham only inspired this
1 extraordinary man with new energy. Knowing that
the operation of these medicines would confute 111111 con.
found his opponents more effectually than words, lie
1 liax expedited thee' with renewed seal to every part of
the world, and left the theorists of the schools to argue
the question of Quackery with the convalescent and
' cured. We fancy it would be difficult for the most
1 astute logician to convince the myriads who have belie-
' fitted by Holloway's universal remedies, that • medicine
which breaks up the fever and ague in • few days, cures
the most obstinate billions remittants, replaces debility
with strength, and gives to proidrated labour a new
lease of health, is a" nostrum" or a "humbug., or the
.Iff.Prinff of "quackery." it is quite too late at this day
to raise such cries against Professor Holloway and Isis
wonderful remedies. His fame is not less estenaive,
nay is more extensive, than the limits of Christian rule,
and the shrieks of envy and prejudice, were they ever
so fierce Alia shrill. would be unheard amid the grateful
shouts of the multitudes, in all regions, who have
found health and healing in his inestimable prepara-
tion.

"Ile who lime near the fountain can keep it pure for hiss
a 4.1" (.1.10r.0 Matitn.) Mr. Fortune relate, that when
l'hioese Merchants arc w.kel why the Team which the native.
usc at • not admired like thee prepared for export, reply
"Ch. ammo trill boy only for deink,—Vnylinh Metchant
mod, !poll looka, he year "fore when leaf made ;mot to eye."
Clllol,*, SIM, tonne, that the costly sPrlod and the
worthless tiros II leave., when coloured look alike, and that
the) can then oitetitute the bad for the 'pool. If Enelkh Tea
Merchanto would discourage the practim of facing the kat
and bus only Pure Tta—dbappointnient would be less fre-
quent and satisfaction more certain. It is the' abactice of
powdered colour froin the leaf and conwequent uniform
quality, • hit+ has rendered the Teas introduued by Ilorohoan
a Co. ao popular. bold secured U. Packets, and as advertised
by Agents only.