The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL POLICY.

GENERAL ITEMS.

Timm is nothing more nourishing and claiming in
cold weather than a cup of really good coooa, but the
difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be
secured at a cost of one halfpenny for 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.

Sir B. Henniker haring been appointed Registrar-
General to Major Uraham is styled by Rao an "-incon-
oeivable job," aiding that his appointment over Dr. I. arr,
who has worked in the office a generation, is 'a grave
scandal." The profession ought to resent the insult, and
protest by a public dinner to Dr. Fart.
Seven people have died from the explosion at Kearsley
colliery, near Bolton. The others are recovering.
Three masonic charities during 179 had an income of
over
Tim limn CHURCH SURPLUS FUND—Efforts are being
made to get this fund applied in relief of the present

William Coath. charged with frauds on the Patent Shaft
and As%tree company, tias been again remanded, being
admitted to bap in .ClO,OOO.
Tanning alligator hides is becoming an important
Industry in the United States.
Two children in Minh*, played with matches, set the
room on Are in their widowed mothers abseace, and were
smothered in the Are.

A commercial who stole a onorter-cank of whisky from
his employers will stay in gaol tiU Michaelmas.
Mrs Elvidge, 44, with her husband's help, starved their
four children at St. Pancras, two to death, and reduced
herself to six stone by abstaining from food while she
drank freely. She was sentenced to six months and died
in prison. The Coroner said the long course of intemper-
ance produced these terrible consequences.
Selling the Suez Canal shares has not relieved the
Khedive from being short of cash. They say he tried to
borrow 700,000 francs on his jewels, and could only get
500,000 fr., which he refused.
A miser died in Pembroke Workhouse from vexation
at his store of .ClOO being found. It was in a stocking,
wound round his body.
LOUD SINOIR Inraorno.—The lady who ISIlg too loud
at St. John's Hampstead, has improved, and the summons
I. now_vrith4rawn. . . .

—Li—ifi-ci.Ta-ii;;;Id. have not yet been produced. says NIL
N. S. Maakelyne, who examined crystals from Glasgow,
and says they were silicates (glass) and not carbon, much
less diamond.
Grant, • prisoner in Leominster lock-up, escaped by
ratting op one chimney and down another, so reaching
the front door.
3,000(r. were awarded to • French dairyman as
damages
for an unfounded charge of murder. A youthhi
is
service disappeared, • neighbour denounced the dairy-
man, who was arrested, and yen nearly convicted, when
the youth returned after four months. The neighbour
had to pay for his suspicions.
Boyle, the butcher charged with knocking his wife on
the head with a paraffin lamp and setting her on firs,
showed the greatest indifference at his examination,
which resulted in a remand, _

—.013001Z the amount which Mr. Collette is charged
with converting to his own use, though he was trustee ot
it. Collette was solicitor to the Society for the Suppression
of Vice.! . . .

Two Crerman vessels were shipwrecked on Wednesday
night, on the Qiamorgan coast of the Ida the captain and
eight of the crew. and of the Ernest, five of the crew, were
los
. . .

—Bristol TOWII Council have a good deal of property in
the city so dilapidated that the Town Clerk considers it
not worth repair.
Cr Garnet Woholey is to leave for England during the
present month.
Italy, it is said, has broken her agreement with
d, France, and Germany, by accrediting • minister
to ' beforethe Cabinet of Bucharea t has given
satisfaction about the Jews.
Figaro (Paris) says the shots of Gonzales grazed the
Queen's forehead and the King's neck.
Australia is going to send another cricket team to
England next season.
China and Japan have been snarling about Loochoo ;
but have appointed commissioners to discrss the points in
dispute.
In India the Naas have surrendered twelve guns
the KOlllOOlllll are starving in their stockade in the Barran
hills. _

—ireasles have broken out at Hill, and the school children
have an extra fortnight's holiday.
Recruits for the army come in more slowly than for four
or five years past.
Mr. Bowman, a Bristol solicitor, tried to kill himself
with & pocket knife, and out his throat from ear to ear.
Mental depression was the cause.
An ex•policeman at Cambridge has six weeks hard
labour for fowl stealing.
A collier threw • basin at • woman at Christmas, and
hit her child, who died. l. is to he tried for man'
slaughter.
WAIMING I Reckirr's PARIS ELUL The marked
superiority of this laundry blue over all others, and the
quick appreciation ot its merits by the public, have been
attended by the usual results, via, a good of imitations;
the merit of the latter mainly consists in the ingenuity
exerted, not simply in imitating the square shape, but
making the gmald appearance of the wrappers resemble
that of the genuine article. The manufacturers beg
therefore to caution all buyers to see " Reekitt's Paris
Blue " on each Docket
SHIPPINO.—r. Plimsoll, M.P., from Africa writes
attacking again the practice of loading grain in bulk,
naming five vessels which he says were lost thereby,
with many lives. Mews. Bellock congratulate
Mends on cheerfulness in shipping circles, founded on
a steady solid improvement in Widnes* for the first
time durintlour years. They expect better freights
tor timber the maxi&

The difficulty at New C. 41111317, West Coast of Africa,
which at one time threatened war, has been adjusted.
Mr. Edison's inventions in electric lighting are said to I
be • complete substitute for gas The light produced is
bright, clear, mellow, and regular, and both better and
cheaper. Two lights have been burning continuously for
ten days without injury to the baked cardboard horse.
shoe in the glass globe that furnishes the light.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the distress in
Ireland now amounts to about £2,300.
Mr. Gladstone has written to Mr. Broadhurst, in
acknowledgment of an address from the National Labour
League, expressing a hope that the day is near when he
may fairly claim to rest from the labours of piolitical con-
tention, and trusting that he shall claim his title to retire-
ment after having witnessed the overthrow of the present
dishonouring and disturbing system of Government.
Colonel Blackburn, H. P. , speaking at Liverpool iiondar,
said it behoved the country to see how we could get the
same efficiency in education at • smaller cost than at
Lien: t. He favoured the voluntary principle, but in
centres School Boards were necessary.
On evening a confectioner's fired with a
revolver at the carriage in which the King and Queen of
Spain were entering the gate of the Royal Palace in
Madrid. The bullet injured no one; and the man was
arrested.
Colonel Norman was attacked at Gundamotk on the
Nith, and the enemy, consisting of about 2,003 men,
were driven off. Our loss was one officer and one man
killed, and one man wounded. General Baker, with 1,700
men and four guns, has marched for Kohistan. and all
the country round Cabul is rapidly quieting down.
The Boers have quietly dispersed after resolving to elect
a Volksraad of their own. -Public opinion in C.apetown
sympathies to • great extent with them.
At St Petersburg two arrests have recently been made
in connection with the revolutionary movement There
is a tendency to an understanding between Russia and
England.
The Margate Town Council on Wednesday entered into
OD of the waterworks for that town, which they
possession of
for .C 59,000.
A terrible explosion, causing several deaths, has occurred
at Alt-Ofen, owing to some dynamite cartridges which
were frozen having been placed on a stove.
Floods have occurred in the Canary Islands by which
several villages were partially submerged and much
damage was done to property.
At Alexandria the judgment creditors are being paid
daily, and the greatest activity prevails in all the
Ministries at Cairo.
Mr. J. Lloyd.'a Breconahire magistrate, mitigate that
the Government inquiry into the unexplained death of
the prisoner Williams in Hereford gaol should be
conducted in the most open and public manner. The
very publicity would be some assurance to the aation
that these inquiries are really searching, and above
suspicion of being unduly favourable to those who
institute them, and, to • certain extent, into their own
conduct.
The Greenwich Liberal Association have forwarded to
Mr. Gladstone an address congratulating him on attain-
ing his 70th year, end thanking him for his" eminent
and prolonged services in the interests of constitutional
progress." The address proceeds :—" We regret that you
are about to leave US, but we rejoice in your determination
to attack the Tory foe in his own fortress."
At Clerkenwell on Friday &journeyman butcher, named
John Boyce, committed • felonious assault upon his wife.
His violence took the peculiar form of throwing a lighted
paraffin lamp at the pruecutrix, thus cutting her head
open and setting her on fire. As the poor woman was
sinking rapidly her deposition was taken at the Great
Northern Hospital, where she died. The prisoner will
now be charged with murder.
The dispute respecting the fulfilment of a contract
between the manager of the Royal Aquarium and some
recently-imported Zulus, occupied the magistrate at
Westminster on Saturday. The Zulus objected to being
"handed over and sold like cows," and to being kept in
that duress to which they had been accustomed since their
arrival in this country.
Three girls were charged with stealing a purse, contain-
ing td, from the pocket of • lady while she was looking
Into a shop window. The two elder girls, named May and
Hollywood, when taken into custody, made in the Cardiff
Police Court, a statement that a man had trained them to
pick pockets. He was arrested. his daughter sent to a
Reformatory, and the other two discharged.
Mr. Gladstone on Monday reached his seventieth year,
and deputations from London, Liverpool, Manchester,
and Dalkeith repaired to Hawarden Castle for the
purpose of presenting addresses of congratulation to the
right hon. gentleman. The Liverpool deputation also
heeded the ex-Premier a silver casket symbolising his
political career. Mr. Gladstone acknowledged the
presentations in a short speech. The one bright spot in
the carter of the present Government was their action
with regard to Eastern Roumelia,
Errs's OLTCIRINE JUJUBIDS —CAUTION —These effective
and agreeable confections are sold by most chemists. By
others, however, attempts are often made at substitution.
we therefore deem it neeeuary to caution the public that
they can only be obtained inborn, 6.1. and la ; labelled
JANES EPPS I CO., Honueopethie Chemists, 49, Thread-
needle-street, and 170, Picadilly, London.
FOR Rurroium use Aurora's Polon; PLASTERS, far
superior to the torturing truss. In chillblains their use
gives relief at once; and, as a strengthening plaster, they
have no equal. As many spurious imitations of these
plasters are being offered for sale, the public are rtrongly
cautioned against buying, unless the words "Thus.
Allock I C,o. Porous Mader" is on the stamp of each
Outer. Sold by all dealers in medicine, by the single
plaster or by the yard.
POLITICAL ACDACITT.—An amusingly audacious state-
ment was made by the lion. J. C. Bruce, one of the Tory
members for Portsmouth, on Friday evening. Addressing
a gathering of his supporters, he said it was not to be
supposed that the Government would risk their own
position uoon the hazard of • general election Wore their
foreign policy had been effectually carried out. Mr. Bruce
has doubtless faithfully interpreted the views of his
friends, but his statement amounts to a confusion that
the feeling of the country is hostile both to the Cabinet
and its measures.
VALUABLE DISCOrRRT FOR TIIR MAIL —lf your hair is
turning grey or white, or falling off. use "The Mexican
Hair Renewer," for it will positively resters Os every sass
Grey or Waite Asir to its original colour, without leasing
he disagreeable smell of moat "Restorers." It makes
he hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the
grovrth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not
decayed. Ask your Chemist for "THE MEXICAN HAIR
EILNINLR.," prepared by !laser C. GALLIA., 493, Oxford.
street London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers every.
where at 9a 6.1., per bottle.
Tar rota WEIGHT 1-11ydroleine (Hydrated Oil) has
proved of the highest value as a food in consumption and
all wasting diseases, invariably producing increase in flesh
and weight. This preparation of Hydrated Cod Liver Oil
is tonic, digestive, and ten times more nourishing, as well
as far more pleasant to taste, than plain cod lie.. oil
Hydroleine will nourish and produce increase of weight in
those cases where oils or fat, not so treated, are difficult or
impossible to digest. All tendency to emaciation and loss
of weight is arrested by the use of Rydroleine. Of all
chemists, 4s. dd.—Address, " Hydroleine Company," al,
Oxford Street, London. Pamphlet free.
FLORILINS I—FOR THETRITH a/MB/MATH .—A. few drops
of the: juid " Floriline" sprinkled ma • wet toothbrush pro-
duce assent lather, which thoroughly cleanses the teeth
from parasites or impurities, hardens the gums, prevents
tartar, stops decay, gives to the teeth • peculiar whitesui4
and • delightful Durance to the breath, It removes all
unpleasant odour arisinr from decayed teeth or tobacco
smoke. "The Fragrant Floriliee," beiag composed in part
of honey and sweet herbs, is delicious to the taste and the
greatest toilet discovery of the age. Price ts dd, of all
Chemist and perfumers. Prepared by ECNRY C. GALLUP,
493, Oxford street, London.
ADVICE To hfornzu i—Are you broken in your rest by
• sick child suffering with the paid of cutting teeth, Go at
once to a chemist and get • bottle of MR.S. Wiraww's
SOOTHING STRUT. It will relieve the poor sufferer immedi-
ately. Isis perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste, it
produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving' the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a button."
It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pale.
relieves wind, insulates the bowels, and is the beet known
remedy for dysentery and diarrlicea, whether arising from
teething or other causes. Kra Winslow's Soothing.
Syrup is sold by Medicine deals where at is. 114
per bottle. Manufactured in New 'York, and at
Oxford-street, London,
THROAT AFFECTIONS AND Hotauvrisa—All suffering
from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be
ably surprised at the almost immediate relief afforded by
the use of " Brown s Bronchial 'Troches." These famous
"lozenges" are now sold by most respectable chemists in
this country at le. lid. per box. People troubled with a
"backing cough," a ' alight oold." or bronchial affections,
cannot try them too soon, as similar troubles, If allowed
to progress, result in serious Pulmonary and Asthmatic
affections. See that the words " Brown's Broughial
Trochee" are on the Government Stamp around each box.
—Manufactured by JOHN I. Baows and Sots, Boston,
United States. Depot, 493, Oxford-street, London
TIIK ENJOTMENT Of EATING AND DRINKINO AND ITS
PENALTIES. —We need not state that volumes have hem
written upon the above subject since the days of the
reformed bon vivant Cornaro down to the imam aresano
designed to enable us to Judge for olarulue US the
appro-
priateness of our habitual eutaei and drinking,.
Impossible to deny the great utilify of such information ;
but, unfortunately, lusOtd in plural lends • deaf ear
to warnings when the and the passions are in ques-
tion. As the world wags, we fear that people would
continue to eat and drink lust awarding to their taste and
humour for a long time yet to come. sepsetelly when thew
find that, by a timely recourse to some such medicine as
Holloway's pills, they can easily and readily get rid of all
the constitutional disorders atered by over-feeding and
intemperance • few of these plits sufficing in the
nbleactrity of instaases to set a man " all right" overnight to
his day of labour, after having yielded to the tempta-
tion of what is technically celled" a blow out" No doubt
your soda water or citrate of magnesia may sem te be
equally aective • but, unfortunately,ewe men
much more requires to be done than ohm lid; effubid
these otherwise very pleasant and s,libations. A
over-feeding—every act of itimeraisee—inust neesmarily
contaminate the blood, *Ad the vitiated blood must
necessarily impair wrier organ through which it Bowe
Now, in order to oorreet this effect • radical remedy is
'Mired, ansi such is that invented by Holloway, whew
as we have stated, have superseded almost every
" corrective " or " sherative " of the old school.
Perhaps this results, not only front the power of their
pertfying awy. but also from their gentle and almost
[mpssoeptlle regenerating action without any
inconvenience in the general routine of life—requiring
no extraordinary precautions to prevent " catching cold
or morbid re-actions. If report be correct, no. nudism
, stands in higher repute at our faahlos, clubs and
, lofficers' quarters than Holloway's Pilis• adle=tverY
taw of the patients oaa allow their gratitude to the
tact la return for the benent..-The

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