The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-27 00:00:00

EXECUTION AT CORK.

William Tobin, alias Nevien, was on Monday executed
at Cork. for the murder of a farmer's wife named Joanna
Cottan In August last. He died without a sttruggle. The
executioner was an American sailor under sentence of
Imprisonment for insubordination on beard sLip.

The cost of bringing out the Neu York Herald is .C.:00 a

_
reduction of la per day has taken place in the wages
a the Glasgow ironworkers: .

The llortvt mays we are to have another edition of the

The.icrn-c—elr;l7e—rial has become an honorary member of
the Royal Cinque Porto Yacht Club.
The death is announced of the Rev. W. Selwyn, S.D.,
Canes of Ely and Lady Margaret Professor at Cambrigge
A proclamation has been issued by the Viceroy of 1 ia
deposing the Guik war of Benxi*.
The Meriden Journal states that the rinderpest ham
broken?ut at Wiirtm,.near Leipsic. . _ .

—ii;;ls;:ni;si-07-Dvrby's next reception at the Foreign
Office will take place on Satunlay, tle si.lt of May.
A large quantity of counterfeit gold coin is believed to
be in circulation in the West End of London.
Sir Joseph Hawley. whose name has long been well
known upon the turf, died on Tuesday.
Of the Royal London Militia out of 310 recuits who
reeeived 10s. each on attestation 177 did not come up for
traria named Oakley has been committed for trial
at Hereford for placing stones on the railway near that
city.
A. telegram from Sydney says that the Chinese immi-
grants on arriving in Queensland immediately found
employment.
It is stated that the Pope has defrayed the entire
east of Archbishop Ledochowski's elevation to the
Carditudate..

--ifletinian—y. is about to invite the other Powers to a
Congress for the purpose of considering the regulation of
taternstiolal right!.

The Irish Cbureb- Synod fter a long debate, has pro-
nounced in favour of expunging the dinunatory clauses
from the Athanaaisn Creed.

"Tgold medal is to be struck to commemorate the iastal-
lotion of the Prince of Wales u Grand Muter of the
Yrsemasotu. . .

corrpo—ndent writer saying that he himaelf law two
ladies run out of the crowd at Westminster Hall and kiss
Dr. &mealy. s hand.
At Guildford, Miss Farrar, daughter of Mr. H. L. Farrar,
accountant to the Trinity House, we. thrown from her
Leone and killed. . .

An To-w;—man-- has invented a ten-barrelled shot
gun, and the face of the small boy who didn't know it was
leaded Is fairly radiant with a hideous leer of satisfaction.
The Her. Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne, rector of
Great Elm. near From., has been received into the
Church of Rome by the Bishop of Clifton.
The EcAo du Parleororta says that at Coire • marriage
has just taken place where the bride was 103 years old
and the bridegroom di years of age. The bride has had
four husbands besides the present one.
Her Majesty, accompaied by Princess Beatrice and
Prince and Prince.* Louise of Hesse. with their children
arrived at Windier from Osborne at six o'clock on

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• pretty bad under foot to-day.“ said one citizen to
smother, as they met in the street "Yes, but it's fine
overhead,* responded the other. "True enough," said the
Ant; "bat than very few are going that way.
The Agricultural Bureau of the United States has issued
report stating that the condition of the winter wheat is
umeilt below that died year to consequence of the lateness
of the spring.
A committee, at the head of which is the name of Mr.
Disraeli, hae been formed for the purpoe of erecting by
public subscription a monument over the grave of Lord
Byron, in Huclmall Yorkhard Church.
News has been received of the capture of another slave
dhow by the crew of the launch of her Maiesy's ship
London, which is stationed at Zanzibar as a dd p 6( for boats
seat cruising in search of slavers.
Secording to the half-yearly report of the London Civil
Service supply Associetion, the number of members is
4,498, sad the grOil profit during the six months was at
th• rate of LIG.OOO •
Sarah Jones, wife o( a Year. waiter, has been committed for
trial at Bath for the wilful murder of her daughter, four
years of age, whose death was attributed to prisoner • gross
nag:Bishop of Lincoln has been left by the Court of
emmaws, nom to pay the costa of the action in which he
iiiiraa defendant for ',duties to institute We Rev. Mr Walsh
to the living of Great Coates
It has been decided to provide a new Bishop's throne in
the chair of Salisbury Cathedral, at • cost of ilr4oo, to he
raised by the subscriptions of the clergy ordained by Bishop
11144•107 and his two predecessors.
The Court of Queens Bench has ruled that it is In the
discretion of Poor-law guardians whether they will pay
the whose fees for pauper children direct to the school
alianserirs In .a. sum or *end the separate pence through
the parent..
Loudon dealers are improving the old china mania by ,
having made in the RtaSordabire potteries considerable
quantities of "genuine ad e Chelsea, Dresden, Worcester,
and numerous other varieties* coveted by co/lectors.—
etes/brdatirs A derrti...
In • rinse of the liautee-Prniness, • servant-girt named
"atm Devise, iniflering from reliollll fanaticism, swore
tette like Sainte Colombo, in the hope of going to heaven
ferZwAr• the lit the bekery stove, and when it
am. threw herself inside, and was burnt to a
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-retwa=l: meaki4harrt: I ofd Bishop Mackarness
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