The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

I wi.r.happytobe.rthltSlr
boo LAM.
been &pot:doted to retweed Harry
ht the
ooinmond of the Chios and India 'tattoo. We want la
°Seer of Sir Hairy Keppol's Asap to deal olgerossly
with tho pirates in tbe Oldness seas, sad there is no
doubt that in this instance the right an is in the right
plore.—Herald..

A Cow Somme° A PICI.—Mr. lames Lean, rooftrees:
of births and deaths, Tywardreseh, lately noticed that
his notch cow had conceived a great friendship for ono
of his pigs, aged four or five months; bet was one day
to tin 4 the pig enjoying a meal from one of the
cow's teats I They were both lying down, and evidently
very comfortable and happy. Th singular attachment
bag sines been broken ofr. Such an incident is pro-
nounced to be unprecedented.

To Muir Tooon But TIUIDEL —To thou who
hire worn down their teeth In masticating poor old
tough eow-beei, we will my that carbonate of sods will bo
founds remedy for the evil. Cut the 'tasked, tho day
before using, Into aloes shout two inches thisk, rub over
them a &mall quantity of soda, wash off next morning.
out it Into imitable thickness, and mob to notion. T
suss prose= will answer for fowla, legs of inutima, ks.
Try It, all who lore delialossa, tender dishes of mesh
Tar @cm

MIDIS? TO LORD CRUD JORTIOII BOTTLI..-011
Monday morning. the 10th, Sir William Built left his
residence at Worplesdon, on horseback, for the Woking
Railway Station, intending to proceed by train to
London. The animal he rods was one he had lately
purchased. On arriving at the station the horse appeared
to become suddenly affected by the "megrims," and
under its influence started away, and redbird in smug a
number of empty trucks which stood on some sidings,
where it threw its rider with mu& dolmas, sod fell
itself. His lordship gm rather roughly shaken, end his
and. vu hurt Sir William was able, however, is pro-
d.:Rai on his journey to Loudon.
Ogn of the most stormy polltioel meetings held in the
metropolis for years took place on Thursday night at
the Institution, Walsworth. Mr. Doulton, the member
for Lambeth, invited the electors and nonedeotors of
that borough to meet him. They responded in great
force; but the hon. gentleman found"lt,mpoasible to
get • bearing, and the entire proses:dings partook of
such disorder and tumult as are seldom witnessed at •
public meeting In this country. Reeolatioes pledging
the meeting to support Mr. Doulton were declared to be
passed in dumb show, and when thelhoo.luntleman and
his principal friends retired, a meeting of 'mother sort
use held. Mr. George Dada took the chair, and resole.
dons condemning the eculact of the bon, member were
unanimously puled.
Tux Countess of Clare, • Homan Catholic convert, hat
last built and endowed a convent at Carbbronk, is the
isle of Wight. On Tuesday, the community of cloistered
nuns of the DOMilli0•11 ordsw, 18 in number, of Whalley,
In Lanaishire, took posmisiosa of Cariabrook Convent.
They were accompanied from Southampton to Cowes by
the Rev. Father Monet and lire. Fotheringbani, a
Catholic lady. One of the nuns is 84 years of age, and
another is aged and Wed. At Cowes the nuns were
mobbed owing to onneHefutivo police arrangements.
The Countess of Clare has built and richly endowed a
Roman Catholic' church and ashools at Hyde, whets she
resides. Her ladyship has apartnuate in the ecievent
whenever bhe chooses to reside there. The flue. are
Englishwomen, and appear to[haviiklmen well educated.
CHRISTY AIL —As Christmas-day this year falls OD •
Tuesday. there will be an almost complete abstinence
from business on the pan of lb. leading Inns throughout
the country from Saturday, the 22nd, till the following
Thureday. Even in the retail trades a large number of
establishments will be closed alike on Monday and
Wednesday, but la those uses where it will he im-
practicable for a holiday to be observed both on the day
weeding and the day following Christmas-slay the
Intention seems to be that the latter—namely, Wellness.
day, tie 26th--ehall be selected.' On that day, therefore,
the cluing may be expected to he general, and it is
desirable that, to prevent liteonvenience, some definite
resolutions both on the pert of the wholesale and retail
houses ahonld be arrived at and made known NI moon as
poesible.—Tisus.
EV2I T housekeeper fully recognises the truth of Dr.
Adam Smith's favourite axiom. that "Real cheapness
and wholesomeness are Me only lasting resonsesendu
Moos." Who has not also experienced how very brandent
is the "recommendation," produced by the Chinese
practice of wing powdered mineral colour to make
inviting to the sight the flavourless old brown leases of
the tea plant As "real cheapness and wholesoinegiese
are the first considerations, Hotelman A Co., London,
hare for the past quarter of a century disallowed the
use of mineral colour en all their impost.; their green
is • doll olive, - not bluish, —and ia with the blade
exceedingly strong and delicious. These pure teas are
now eight penes per pound cheaper, and can be obtained
from 2,2E10 authorised Agents,—chemists, confeetioners,
and booksellars,—al of whom supply it regularly at the
reduced prices. As apuricrus imitstioes are offered,
observe that each packet is gigged, Rondonia A Co.,
London, "Original Importers of the pure tee."

SINGULAR CANIS OP SOMNANBULINAL—A correspon•
dent writes to a London oontemporar7 as follows
"As I was returning borne on Wednesday morning,
about half-past one to two o'clock. purging through the
City-road, I was surprised to see • female, about 22
years of age, walking in her sleep, and covered only by
• night-dress. A policeman's attention having been
called to her he stopped her, and by so doing awoke her,
sensing bee to be in great confusion. She was very
sold (a light rain felling at the time), and the policeman
readily lea the use of his overcoat to cover her. Ash,
declined to carry her. I undertookithat °Mee, and me-
dal her borne by the direction of • youth who had been
almost frightened out of his witaby the oupposed appari-
tion, and who had seen her leave home. Fiedler the
street-door open, the policeman entered, and by the
young 1•011111 D's direction awoke her husband, who could
lewdly understand the exert position of affairs. She
had strayed • distance of 300 yards." The BdiebergA
Gineard of Wednesday says : - "On Sunday morning •
lad about 14 years of age, named John Lockheed, em-
ployed as a miner in one of the eoalpita in the neighbour-
hood of Hamilton, met with an accident under somewhat
singular circumstances. He resides in an old three-story
tenement situated in the lower part of the town, and
during his sleep had dreamed that b• was in the pit,
and that all of a sudden it had taken fire. Evidently
desirous oneseapins4 from the devouring element, he
immediately sprang from*his bed,lienyeloped himself in
the blankets under which he had lain, and ran to the
nearest window, from which he threw himself. • dis-
tance ofjpbont,thirtygfeet. The neighbours, hearing
the cries of the poor lad, went to his assistance, and
having promptly secured medical aid, it was found that
his right wren had been fractured. It is • marvel that
the lad cooped with his jilt*,as in„bis fall nearly all the
clothing in which ho was wrapped slang to the window.
DIGITRUCTION Or • MILL: DAMAGE, 1.16,000.—We
(Manchester Courier) have to record another of those
destructive fires which averred so frequently of late
within the district of Dewsbury. About five o'clock on
Wednesday morning flames were observed to be issuing
from the attic window. of • large mill, belonging to the
Birstol Jointortook and Provision Company, and situated
In close proximity to the terminal station at Neste'.
The building was foity-two yeas long. twenty-two
yards wide, and six Morey.; high, and it was in the
emanation of three distinct firms, via.: Mr. Cornelius
Wilson, Messrs. 0 ileg,Brotkorra, and(Meerrs. !Mobley
Brothers, all woollen manufacturers. The spacious
rooms were filled with sew and costly machinery, which
has only been in use shout six months, and there was
also stored an immense quantity of raw material, warp
' and weft, and unfurnished goods, no portio• of which
was saved. Bome'llying 'emberelddropped into the
receptacle for the largest gasometer connected with the
Bintol Gas Works (whieliFnintediatiely adjoies the mill)
and art fire to • quantity of tar floating all round it,
upon the airless of the water supporting the gamonteter.
In an instant • huge blase rose np, and the affrightest
crowd, dreading an explosion of the meter, fled in all
direcHons ; and but for the intrepidity of the Batley
Fire Bridese an awful calamity would certainly have
happened. Happily the flames were extinguished before
they bad time to heat the plates:sufficiently:lto canes an
esplosion. During the swamis interval the mill was
omnparativly deserted, mil the fire had all its own way,
the roof falling in about 20 minute' to six o'clock, after
which the floors gave way. By six o'clock the interior
presented a scene of devastion, the contents having been
almost entirely consumed. The total damage ix estimated
at about £16,000. The owners of the building, which
yielded a rental of L'l6oo per annum, have it fully insured.
Messrs. Gale Brothers Stable,: and Messrs, Brothers
haveitheir property insured tolthe full amount; but Mr.
C. Wilson is only partially inaured. It isnot known in
what manner the fire originated. About NO persons
will he thrown out of employment by this untoward
event

THU COWIMIIVATIVI L 4WD 804211iTT.—Tho 14th
1112004 meeting was held on the 116 Deeember, for the
first time, in the new and spacious promisee, being It
Howard-street, and 33 Norfolk-street, eombinoil in one
vast edifioe by Mr. Wilson, architect. The entranee to
the building to in Norfolk-street, and the frontage
extends to nearly the whole of the northern side of
Howard-street. The lower part is deiroted to the
society's °Moos for investments and the sale of land.
Oa the first Boor is a capacious board-room, in which
the quarterly and annual meetings will be held, and to
which room the seeretary's °Meet are attached. The
upper portion of tbs edifice is devoted to the otbero of
the legal and surveying departmenu. The for.de of the
I building is simple yet imposing, having the title of the
society. and the date of its formation, extending along
entire y
emotions that haveltisanoth 6
erlazly sprunggeedi in tieaddalttbe
Metropolis, showing the great improvements mad') in
I street architecture. The report of the Executive Corn-
mitt.,. °lemma their eorififent anticipation that a new
era of macros will be ensured to the society, on entering
I it. 11511 year, inlithe now allow, which the greet
I intorno, of business had rendered imiterative, as the
I opening In duo course of the Thames Etitlxinkluent, aid
, of the new Law Courts, will n nder tho Norfolk-atruyt
, neighbourhood a central isaition If or Illetenpnliti..,
businewt MU report 'Mates that the total ne,iota
for 1865 G were C12D.970—be4n4 the largest sines the
formation of the moiety —and showing an entmen of
£40,710 over the returns of the previous year. Tim irroas
cash total. were 1%3.620, whilst 23,674 I:3olsharre It ol
. been isnot& representine 1:4.233.700. Kitty estate, Itti
been bought in twenty-nix counties, and the aid.- ol Is.el
amounted to 2493,091. The total withdrawals smomited
to £286,364. The committee acting undyr the rules ha I
incranmeal the reserve fund to £13.000. Every branch of
business, during the year, had shown a ma bed increase:
anti the con&l'mee in the society tinting the vr.,.tteet
pressure in the mono tsry m‘sket we
manifesto I than previously, by i,,ereasel investment..
The four auditors, on singing the balanoe•sheet, after
verifying the ynnehrre boohooed! secerilies in the stroll,
loom, repressed specially their satidaellon with the
manner in which the society's book. and K.-emote were
kept. The committee declared the dividend for the
year to beet the rate of ilia per cent. The dirootere,
who retire by rotation, Viscount Ranelagb, Coienel
Hrownlow Knox, ac.r.. Viscount Ingestni, Major Jere',
111. P., and T. IL Holmes, Req., were re-cleated; and
votes of thanks were pared to the board, the Wiens of
the society, and to Um auditors. There wee pa urn
at the mewing :—Vimount Itenelagts. Col. Knox, n
Vise:mint Ingestre, Hon. and Kew. W. nabot., Hon.
R. Bourke, Col. bleyriek, Major Jervis, LIP, 'IL
Curri... Mr. Holmes, Kr. Goodson, r., Mr. Neweemen,
Mr. Winstenley, Means. Deed, I•ttotere,
Collearidge, Itowsell, Harris, &edit. N. Millie.