The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

Genrcal N.

Tara Masa Nora states that Archbishop Manning
Is to he included in the now list of cardinals.
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A Govtamissr inquiry into charges arising out of
alleged misinanasement at the Wigan workhouse,
where • baby wea recently scalded to death by an idiot
nurse, has rrsoltwol in th• it•••tOOr of that establishment
being called upon to resign.
ML FAIMITT. M P., in k recent lecture on "The
Future of our Itowil Populat" •ttributed free trade
in land (which be said he hal pledged himself to Mr.
Cob len to endeavour to secure and the 'mention of
peasant Proprietors 0. the panacea for the svila
afflieting the agricultural labourer.

Alt Inverness paper states th.t • company of stalwart
Hiihs,,,,uer• for the de fenoe of the Popo is being reern.ted
in tratbglaas by
a local pnest and •
iS
who intends to be the oaptun of the e...pe The
same authority says they are to net out for Ram.
few week*.

A POLlCant•e PINNY) TOR VOTING AT An ELacTIOn,
—One of the inspeotors of the polies force at both, h.,
been fined £lO for having you'd at the lad menicip.i
ilsction. Several other members of the forme, it is rig,
also voted, bat will not be proceeded against, one case
only hawing been taken in order to show to policeollicate
that they cannot vote at such elections.
"Ylinn1110" IIiZLAND. In • recent speunli at Boston,
Melted States, Mr. G. F. Train said—. Mr. Power. is
on the deg*, one of the rescuers of Kelly, who Ins
jolt arrived from Manchester. I ask him. are there
more men ready to take his place (meaning the places
of O'Brien, Larkin, and Allen)? Yes, 300 as ready to
die. I.nok at Clerkenwell ; what if 20 innocent people
died We killed a million for the negro (Orion of
so). Let them die man by man no that Ireland
is fre..,,acheere).
ACuTHIS SULTTIELD OCTIIAGe.—We regret to report
another nue of rattenine in the notorious saw grinders'
ani,e3 at Sheffield. Daring Saturday night the shop
occupied by a man who was • prominent witness in the
relent trade outrage inquiry was broken into, and
lonia bands taken away. A policeiorpont happened
so laded three men with mme bands in their potheaton,
and having • spade with them, he enproold that they
intsoded burying them. He attempted ro stop them
when a desperate fight took pease, and eeeotaally dm;
men got at

Ti amounts of the distress in the East-end of
London are most heartrenderiog. Starvation, misery,
and despair crust iii their most hideous couleur*, and
r]ere the pen id the practised "sensationalist." to
reproduce even in their oumnionest and least appalling
form. The number of persons in receipt of out-door
relief is upwards of forty thousand. but unfortunately
the measures adopted, while they fail to meet the
, need, are actually increasing the amount of pauperism,
! and demoralising the district
! Wards, 011 Tlll IRIS. o,LitT.—Tlie steamer
rhicsip., from New York to Liverpool, struck upon •
rock pea Itches Point during a dense fog on Sunday
eeening. and ultimately hesarne a complete wreck. A
ppm add tm be bode ring the wreck was shot at by a
m„,rine and severely wounded. The marine has been
arrested. The crew and Passengers were saved. The
• Liverpool ship, stranded off the rocks off
Newtown Mead on Sunday night, and ..eon became a
total wreck. The captain and nine of the crew were
drowned. The Engliah barque Venda eras wrecked
about a wile lions the Chicago, having been misled by
the watch-Ares on strore• the oaptain and crew were
saved.

A FlexersHiltltelt is announced to take plum on
Thunsday. the 6th of February, for 150 persona at Lang.
lam Hotel, London, and horses are now being fed up
l'"t the twwwioh• Betpecting honse-eating, Mr. Charles
Matthews is said to have written the following :
" It hor-eflr.h •on't melee to feed the mama,
or‘t resource will certAlnly be as
And Heaven ,sly knows where that will end !
Sonie people won't have lett • single friend.'
Is Westusinst. r Abbey • royal piece? Most people
would say that it is one of our great cathedrals. But it
is not the cathedral of any bistrop's see, St. Paul's being
that of the diocrass of London. and now lii. said that
Westminster Abbey, as • religious edifier, is nothing
more than a chapel royal, end that, as an institution
elhsgether, it is a royal palace. This curious qu•stiaa
has atieen simply through • prosecution for rffeating
alterations without consulting the district surveyor.
For sh• defense, it is alhgetl that Wsotminster Abbey
is • royal palace, and as such exempt from the
Eovisions of the building A ct. Mr. Arnold, the
Westminster Lte, thought the 0410 too
hope, taut for his to determine,and adjourned it tine die.
So the knotty point remains uneettled, and London is
left in doubt whether the last boots of so many of its
kings is really • royal palaces, or what most people
always considered it to b•—• °bereft.

"Leave well alone." "We do not get Tea re:atively
so cheap and good as this in Kngland," said a British
visitant while quaffing the pure infusOn in • Mandarin's
verandah.—" No." r. plied the Chitose merchant, "w.
make you up Borto pretty well to look at, then foreign
merchant much pleased. Now. this is a fact, for the
colouring rif the led for Engrsh supply Is done to
enable the Chinese Tra•men and others to inerease their
profits, for the powd,red Thin r 4 colour misleads the
consumer'. judgment, as it makes the faded worthless
leaves to look like the good, and enables all to be mooed
off at • full price. Horniman and Co., London °dein.'
Imiorters of the Pure Tea, knowing that dry paint
cannot improve tea, and that consumers require good
and cheap tea, and prefer to " leave well alone," have
long imported very strong snit sheep Ten, without
powdered colour on the MO, and supply it moored in
locket.. See olvertisement in this day'. paper.

SALE OF A WIFIt DT HKR HOPBAND. —A mechanic,
at BLickburn, named Thom., Harland. hen sold hi.
wife, ti another into, mimed Lomas, for the sum of
20s. ; and, all prrties being agreeable t• the bargain,
11.11 and has been transferred to her new husband
The f.,llowing agreement has been drawn up and signed
by the parties:—" Blackburn, January 11, 1868. This
is to certify to all it may columns that 1, Tboma•
Harland, of Blackburn, do relinquish all my conjugal
rights to iny wife, Sarah E'en Harland, in favour of
Henry Lomas, for the now of rt 'titling, as witne•• our
hands, kg., Thomas Holland, Witnestra, Philip Thomas
and George Swarbrick." Harland has moor announced
that he will not be answerable for any debts his Lite
wife may contract.

THE Prorrcri-or or Gage.—A good deal of excite-
ment had hem canoed among the members of the
Ifelham Farmers' Club in connequonoe of the resigna-
tion of Mr. C. G. Grey, the president, through the
following remlution having been adopied at on. of its
meeting.:—' That ninny farmers suffer • heavy lon.
from damage to Corp. by hares and rabbit.; that
landlords who preserve many hares and rabbits par-
ticipate in the sin, of thy poachers by leading thion
into amoptation ; that it often batmen, that poaching
Irwin to greater crimes; and that • conniderable sum is
...Fended in keeping poach. rs in prison, maintaining
lb dr families, and aloe for pr,secutions. At the annual
martini of the club held no Tuesday, after • long and
animated direussion, the re.olution was reminded, and
one that in the opinion of the club the undue pre.eryn.
lion of game wan unjust to the occupiers of land and
injurious to the community, and ought to be abated,
wes adopted in its place.
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Puliopno HT EATING 0008 L —Dr. Lankester has
held an inquest on the body if an ellerly widow named
manta, who, according to the evidence of the
toxicologist and the verdict of the jury, died from the
effects of eatinx a goose on Christmas-day. It appears.
and we are sorry to be assured of the feet, that amongst
, our time villatic fowl the goose is not to be depeuded
on. It is not safe to dine off it without some assurance
as to its way of living, sni especially the regularity of
its diet. Where these are not properly looked after its
fat in apt to become poironoun. Like will io like; and
so this silly bir.l, it seems. in fond pulley."
among other vegetahle poisons. There is this, however
to be saki fir the creature's men..: the weed to which
it in partial does not hurt the bird, but only makes its
desh noxious to those who tilts it for food, and it In
supposed that the goose which was fated to oast the
peer woman her life bed indalget itr true too froely.
Another alternative was sugerstmd by the medical
witness. The genes, which are sent in such numbers to
London during the week before C..ristmas arrive in
many eases an closely packed that decomposition is
brought on, and they poison whoever eats them. Rat
the poulterer said this goose, which came from Lincolo•
shire and was • particularly fine one, was not clowly
peeked. Professor Julian Rodgers, who examined the
stomach of the widow Clement*, found no p.esee,
but very evident traces of its action, and the jury bun
that the poor lady was poisoned scoordingly.

HORRIBLE STATE Or TRIEGIE Sc AN ALIVIROURE.—
On Monday an inquest was held at the Towns,'ll,
Gravesend, on the body of Elisabeth Crafter, a maiden
woman, who bad been living at No. 25, Pinnock's Alms
boasts, for the at two yearn. The body of deceased
wan in • most filthy condition, as was also the room in
which she had lived, the stench from it being intoler•
able. Dews's'', who was unable to do much for herself,
owing to an old injary to her leg, bad nrS been seen
about or heard by her neighbours during Friday evening
and Saturday morning. and on her room being entered,
she was found to be dead. Dr. Granciihaw wa, sent for,
and before the coroner he stated the shocking condition
In which he found the place and the deceased.
. She was lying on the ground by the bedside dead
and stiff. He noticed the abominable filth of
her per-on, her clothes. and the bed. The latter
anneared as though it had been used as a night con-
venient* for at weeks past. He never saw • living
to ru in • worse condition. He afterwards made a
post-mortem esamination. Deceased was covered with
vermin and filth, and be should imagine that she hail
not been washed for • twelvemonth. and the bed and
other things were quite as dirty. He found no positive
cause of death, butte should as, that filth, exhaustion,
general debility, old age, and the injury to the thigh
bad caused death. In his opinion she had fallen and
found herself unable to rise. tinny of the rooms in
the alas.houses were in a bad condition. H. thought
Shut when • person %as not able to attend to beraelf,
anal when prosier assistance could not be gives,
the trustee*. or some other persons, should order •
•aso • al to the union, which was far preferable. The
jury returned a verdict in accordance with Dr. Gram.
shales evident...

Tile Law 01 APTILIATIOIL—The TdeftrapA regrets
the prement state of the law in regard to the affiliation
if illegitimate children. Why should this vast queation
be tabooed in the iloar of Commona? Howlett. is the
dismal night-supply of the streets to be kept up by the
seducers, and how long are young children to take their
chance of living at "Mother Jaggers'a," and sash
pla-es ; while Parliament, whish is so minions about.
tattle plague or a salmon river, says and does nothing?
/ire the.. laws the perfection of ja.tion which exacts
from the .edatter only thirty pence starling per week,
while mother Jagger's lowest tariff for a chili in arm.
. is four shilling; and Mrs. Winner's "shorter way"
with infanta is quite a costly affair? Cannot the
be possibly amended in the direction of equity and
. morality, when they allow all the evil, all the shame,
all the exposure, all the agony to fall upon the mother's
bead, and never cite the father into the dock to take
he share of the responsibiliy of one human life, perhaps
murde••l, and another life ruined and undone? There
are leg saline difficulties., of coarse - as there were about
the cattle plague ; bat scores of years hare pared since
anybody had the courage to take up this great question
of tic crime of seduction, whieh costa only gold and
silver to the upper claws, but, to the lower, home,
friends, hope, pity, womanbuod--everything, /it least,
we might regulated the money penalty by what we
have learned from the Jagger and the Winer; If
half-a-crown would once have kept a baby for a week
the fact is now that a child easnot be put out for that
coin. The mother ain't starve along with it, or else
make the river it. cradle, with • brickbat for its
coral and bells, whilst she goes to work. Prlian3ent
may not he able to enforce • due share of responsibility
aid loss of character ott the really guilty parents, but,
at least, it might make life reasonably possible for the
bastards of the poor.
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,
. °atom..
may
now behold in the
parties. An inquisitive. m
FASHIONABLE DRESS.—Thee
aPtssifasishioshorbhised evseintihngs
iodeocncy of female
acquaintance more of the beauties of
house of • suite! &equal',
ootheoatientutiaalea
minutesr tives
aahnood rionn
mu tortsectioatrlyorfavtheztadatiqoimo
acquaint
a blush by respeetable women to a husband of twenty
years` standing. Indeed, if af
iu 4lngemnanioupsersinuqiunigrerhoisf
artistic mind, or • young
..d
•
studies in enetentf,
leave, haiso
theatre,end' house h
se
onlytim e
to
see a dense in • burlesque
recall his experience during
'l".early part of the even.
accurate Idea of the whole
int to form • very luat nnA-
sad and father has
n
female
6"rs. The
British
hn e
has seen the Plump
antlered patiently and long. Ft
partner of his cares divest herself ofoutward
appeer.
all e
nose of propriety and shut herself and he daughters
for many hours et a time, at regular intervals, en: in
tha exclueive society of a barber's apprentice, to ae •
their heads dyed red. Tits poor man has been forced to
MOO his girls and their mother subsequently colour their
fwes • light smoke tint, and make themselves hideous
with infinite cost, labour, end discomfort. For
• ignir tiros peat he him noticed, with an uneasy genies of
shame, that they go about the streets bareheaded, and
that they look generally so much Ike lunatics that he
has a Oniors desire to avoid meeting them when
w.lhiug with .ny of his old friends in the street. Let
no One imngine that, because our wives and daughters
are unioleen, to vs shoot only half clothed, the scanty
corer-mg they are bidden to wear will be less eureuel.•
than if Is was of More bersouling peoportions, On th•
contrary. the whole thine is evidently one of throe dark
and wily plots of the Prisnah mperar for which he has
be.n so often end so ...amiably suspected already.
There can be little doubt in the mind of en) obser•lel
person that he has summoned all the Parisian milliners
to St. Cloud, including Mr. Worth, and there, upon
the subtle pretext OW theY Inn morel, invited te
partake of the pleasures of the ehsse, he has used. them
mtessely swear to ruin our national credit and eshanst
ehe heels of perfidious Albino by amen the largest
bills for the fewest irilerishi.

THE TENIA2ca.
TITI CL KKKK :MILL OUTIAGIL

p The seven prisoners charged with omit lioity in the
Fenian oompirsey and the Clerkenwell outrage were
span brought up at the Boemtreet, on Monday. Some
surprbe was erected by O'Keefe, who has hitherto
been charged with treason.felimy*only, being placed in
the dock beside those charged with wilful murder.
O'Keefe was identified by Richard Wills, a gold chain
maker, as the man who wee near the barrel of gun-
powder when it was first drawn up to the prison wall.
Another witness named Clifford spoke to English and
Timothy Desmond being the men who drew the trucks,
and he reoogniseil Allen as loaning been present when
the exploeion took place. The whole of the prisoners
were again remanded.

• IFENI4II POLIOILII•N.

A policeman name] Berridge was brought on Tuesday
before the mayor of Birmingham, on a charge of using
eraditious language in referees,e to the attack on the
priaon van at Manchester. and also in regard to the
prisoners who have been committed to take their trial
at Warwick amine. After some formal evidence the
prisoner was remanded. Berridge has been in the
Birmingham force thirteen years. He hex sines bean
discharged from custody and also from the force.