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

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MILROURNE EXIIIBITION.—The jurors hare just pub
lished the list of awards for (1) printing, (2) book.hinding,
and (3) publications, and in each of these classes Blaclut
An d Son, publishers. I ndon. Glasgow, Edinburgh, an
Dublin. have been awarded First Order of Merit. Tin
competition included the publishers of Great Britain.
America, and the Continent, and it is a noteworthy fad
that Mews. Blackie and Sou are at the head 01 the Bei
in each class of awarde.

ANOTHER serious disaater hu befallen the- Germas
navy. On Wednesday afternoon, at Wilhelmshaven,
u bile the crew of His Nlajesty's vessel Mars were en
gaged at gun practice. a 21-centimetre shell exploded frog
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some unexplained cause n the process of loading, killing
eight men, and wounding more or leas severely about 2(
more, including Corvette Captain Count Rantr.ow and
another superior officer.

Soso enterprising Sheffield firm is busily engaged in
making fictitious notes purierting to be worth five lover.
ei;ns a.piece. The engs Ong is as good as that upon the
th real article issued from e tills of the old lady in
needle-street. The private marks of the Bank of Eng.
land, too, upon each n te look as Fetwitte as if they had
been done by the governor or chief cashier themselves.
Even the date of the worthless slip of paper—May 19,
18SO—corresponds with the notes of the issue thus impu-
dently copied. Fortunately for Sheffield, however, the
forger, having achieved perfection in every particular
save one, napped at his task, could not or did not imitate
the water-mark, an omission which renders an exceedingly
:lever and misleading work of art absolutely useless.

AT Manchester on Saturday morning, Arthur Watson.
a telegraph clerk, was chargett with the murder of hit
.laughter, thirteen months old. The man has been
tevasted from his wife about six weeks, and on Friday
ni,tlit be went to the house of his father.in.law, where his
wife was. His little daughter wailo the room, and seising
a small joiner's chisel which lay upon the table he stabbed
the child several times with the weapon in the chest.
Death took place instantaneously. Watson was shortly
afterwards apprehended, and said he had done nothing to
the child. He was remanded.
THE will of Sir Charles Read has been proved under
£60,000 ; and the personal estate of Mr. William Corria,
'ormerly Remembrancer of the City, has been sworn nadir
£lB,OOO. '

AT & dinner party given last week, the centre of the
:able was adorned with • wheelbarrow in gilt, and filled
with haliblown roses of venoms buss. At each ladyk
plate was placed • tiny garland of roses and spring Bowers'
Welded to be worn transversely on the corsage, and also
bsodsome fan of the new•faabioned and grandiose pro-
•,rtions, a beautiful and enduring souvenir of the
.asteful entertainment.

EARL CAIRNS (the ex-Lord Chancellor) and family
mended seri ice at the Town.hall, Bournemouth, on
Easter Sunday, to bear Ned Wright, mice a notorious
miminal, thief, and pugilist, now an want evangelist
Mn. Justus Dzmis on Thursday ordered twenty
Me jurymen to pay a sum of .£lO. Their names had been
included in the panel, and when at one o'closk the roll
was called over twenty-one jurors were missing. This
ievere lesson will probably have good results.
Ten population of Oxford is 39,759, being an increase
of 5,310.
AT Lewes Aerize, on Saturday, Albert Moore, 33,
soldier, was convicted of the murder of Mrs. Marsh,
housekeeper to Lieutenant &riven, at Gravesend, on
February 14th, and sentenced to death.

THE race between Trickett, the Australian, and Kirby,
of Southampton, for £lOO a ride, WM rowed on South-
ampton Water on Saturday. Tnckett lei from the filet,
and won by about eight lengths, in 33 min. 20 sec.

A PANIC occurred at the Leeds theatre on Saturday
night, and seteral persons being thrown, about 20 were
injured.
A wscss.clatts in the employ of the Southwark Nut
and Bolt Company left • bag containing £1,200 for •
moment on a table on Saturday and it was stolen.
A CLuicrx%Eu. painter has been unable to destroy
himself, though he first tried half-a-pint of paraffin oil
sod then opened a vein in his arm.
A near of utter rascality occurred at Sanibwn on
rhursday. In the County Hurdle Race, Robert I'Anson,
the jockey, was thrown with great violence, and carried
ff insensible. He was scarcely down ere a shabby thief
stole his pin from his scarf. It has, however, been
-ecovered,

WILLIAM }{IIIIIINSON, a labourer of Strineth, who was
sertenced on the 181. h inst• at the Norfolk Quarter
Sessions, held at Swattham, to twelve months' imprison•
ment for cheep steal/mg, his been liberated from Norwich
Castle, having received a free pardon from the Home
Secretary.

SERIOUS disturbances, having their origin In the super-
stition of the peasantry regarding the Jewish Passover
rites, have occurred at Elizabethgrad, in the province of
Kberson. The popular excitement against the Jews led
to an attack upon the Synagogue, which was destroyed by
the mob. The aid of the military was called in to repress
the disturbance, and a large number of the rioters were
killed by the troops.

•
IN a fire at the l'ox factory at Greenpoint, United
Statee, twenty peraona were injured, four of them fatally.
the body haft been recovered.

EARLY on Friday morning, Ashburton.lodne, at Send,
near Guildford, the reiddence of Captain E. C. Noel, was
burnt iloan. All the initiates escaped. with the excep-
tion of the adopted dattg:iter of Captain Noel, aged six
years, who wax burnt to death.

Tux Missouri River has overflowed a large portion of
Kansas City, drib lag 7,000 people from their homes. Five
persons were drowned. At Atchison, Kansas, the river
overflowed and 1.000 persona are homeless. At St. Paul,
Minnesota, the Mississippi has overflowed; • large por-
tion of the poyulation are living in temporary sheds
hastily built. Ibe spring freshets are higher than has
ever been known because of the heavy snowfall during
the winter. •

AN overflow of the Fox River at Elgin, Illinois, having
carried away the bridge, the people procured a flat boat
for a ferry. working it by means of ropes. This noot.,
when loaded with paKsengers, capsized, and fifty persons
were drowned, including :10 children.
ON Friday Mr. George Vergette, of Penkirk, neat
Peterborough, wax found shot dead in a barn belonging to
his farm. lle left home, carrying a gun with him in a
)ack, on which he was discoverel a few hours afterwards,
with his brains blown out, and the weapon, discharged,
lying by his side. The deceased, who was 42 years of age
leases a widow and 19 children. It is feared that tin
depreased state of agriculture preyed upon his mind ant
ciumed him to commit suicide.

AT the annual rneetin-g—r-4 the Grand Lodge of Frms
masons on Wednesday. On Earl of March was airpointec
Senior Grind \Virden. Mr. Justice Care Junior, ths
Dean of York and Ear. W. Ambrose Rail Grand
Chaplain., Sir James Itamsden and Major Clarke
Senior Grand Ihtscona.

Two stablemen have beitil fined 10.1. each and costs,
Marlborough-street Police.coutt, for biting off the tails o
several fox-terrier puppies, an operation popularly sup
posed to be in high degree favourable to the health of
young dogs, but condemned as cruelty by a veterinar)
surgeon who appeared as a witness.

31g. :lons flaonn, stabplooggr, of rortsea, diest in tk
hospital on Thursday from severe Minns. received b 3
being tossed by a bullock on the previous evening. Th
animal wu brought from Chichester market by tan, ant
an arrival at the Portsmouth Station in a vol 7 infuriate(
state rushed out of the cattle yard and into a mac
adjacent, where it encountered the doomed. Sad at cos
attacked hirm

Errs's 00904.--4 unpin amp oaalroamici.-- *By
a thorough knowledge of the =Ulm' laws which govern
the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by •
carded applicaHon of the fine properties of well.
selected cocoa, Mr. If pp. has provided our breakfast
tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may
mavens many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious
use of inch articles of diet that a constitution car be
gradually built up etntil strong enough to resist every
tendency to dimes Elumireds of subtle Maladies
are floating around us ready to attack wherever there
Is • weak point. We cosy escape many • fatal shaft
hy keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood and
s properly nourished fragne."--Oivil ainsios Gazetk.-
B°ld only in Packets labelled—" Jams Em k Co.
Eomosonathie Chemists, London." Also 'takers of
Epps's Chocolate Essence for afternoon use.
"Mr. Johnson In his Chemistry of Common Life
pointed out that Cocoa had long reached the consumer
with too much of its own fat, or loaded with a variety
ef farinaceous substances, producing a soup rather than
• beverage. The Cocoa bean affords admirable
nutritive flesh forming qualities, and staying power.
In Cadbury's Cocoa Essence theme are retained and
sonondrafed, providing an exhilarating Infusion, not •
starchy soup.-" Warman to Housed older,.
How laver Nelms HUFFER, with • dull burr o
in the heed with tired and languid feelings that sleep
does not remove; with • fullness about the chest after
eating, often attended with pe'pitation. A Pain in the
s de m.d beck, with frequent si,k headache ; with lusolls•
after eating, attended with flatulence and • disagreeable
tame mortiiias : loss of appetite, with vertigo r dizziness,
lbc" How many p-ople suffer with all these disagreeable
feelings and little imagine the real muse of their Mnlady,
or the proper mode of obtaining relief. Time are mine
of the symptoms of indigesti YI and liver complaint, but
they will e dispelled at onceby the use of " S*rel'a
Curative Syrup" if taken instantly after eating. The
S rep will cause the food to digest owl give neurtallue
th abe system, and ceta-, the bowea to move with
reins arity. Of all Chemists.
Ernie Houssitotn should have • box of Stanton's
Cough Pills. For Sadden Colds sod Sore Throats, no
remedy has ever been discormed to equal them. They are
the beet and eheapta medicine ever offered to the Public,
loth,e will find them Invaluable in the nursery, and they
should always be kept near at hand. Sold by all Chemists
is .see at 1;14. an •4. 91.
NATURZ'A "AT. Nature often cures the disease, but
when she does, it is always tY expelling in some wey or
other the cause. Dr. Bardsley's Antibilious Pills
effectually all a:von in doing this, and this is why they
perfmn so many great emirs. Sold by all Chemists I.
Boxes at 1351. and Sid
ADVICX ro Illorezies I—Are Viroian TOO us" Or
ehtle,-A•rtsb 10,),,ittitl of tutting tteethKeb at
'floe to • Csi., M an pt •of Itte. WhfuLow.•
Soottuns Sutur. It will relieve the poor sufferer immedi-
ately. It is Perfectly harmless mid pleasant to the tea* II
prosiness natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright u • ho.il'wL"
It soothes the child, it softens the gums, alleys all pain.
relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and lithe best known
remedy for dysentxry mid diarrhom, whether arising from
teething or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing.
Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at I.e. lid
per teals
?MOAT 41TECTIONS AND DOARSINZIS.-.4.11
from irritatt,n cf the thrmt Sztilam.easiss esal_hc.sl(ms".
emply iampsited at the Mama =mediate relief afforded by
the one of ' Brown's Bronchial Troches" These famous
" loamy's" are now sold by most respectable chemists in
this country at Is. lid. per bore People troubled with •
0 hacking cough," a " slight neld." or bronchial affection
cannot try them too moos, OS similar troubles. " allowsl
to progress, result in serious Pulmonary oucm'we
affectiee. See that the words " Brown's Bronchial
Troche," are on the Government Stamp around each bcii
—I'MPUed by Jowl Biori arri utr
LOOM* LiAii:..9e.O moot. removed • tee.
I'd 'ff. Leaflets -
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tuv,i.g grey or white, or (Allis; off. use 'lb MsXif'ad
air Panewer," for it will poetteseti mime in sooty 0600
~.tassio.r.hair to its original oolour. without Ist'''.
small or most " Restoren." it maims
the hair oliarroiney beautiful. 41 IVO as promoting the
growth of the lair on bald spots, where the glands are not
decared. Ask your Chemist for "Tag Marius Hall
RlN•wits," sold by Chemists and Perfumers everrwhia•
at 3a &L per bomle. Wholesale depot removedto ne
rarrialdon-road, London.