The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-08 00:00:00

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leave* Loudon at 9 111.. 1.19, Witntionic jib,
Warehani 2.19, and arr.,. at lain:limier at 3 a.m. A train
haves Wiiiiiimmo at .1, a.au , Ilantworthy Junction 10.2,
Warehaiu 10.13, Wool Moreton 10.01, and Don:Miter
1940, for Weymoutia,aeriving at II.?, and P.' 11.33 .to.
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0 A newspaper correspondent, en route for the Antipodes
.. 9 by the steamship St. Osyth, writing from St. Vincent.
.. 30 Cape de Verde, describes an extraordinary hailstorm.
766 It which they encountered three or four days before passing
21 Pladeria. The storm commenced with thunder and
8 9 21 lightning. which was followed by hailstones. Following
820 23 the stones were lumps of ice, measuring an inch.and-a-
-8 50 half in diameter, or about the site of a hen's egg. The
8 11, " boiler-maker on board was hit by one of these stones, and
830 mk WWI so injured that at the time of writing he bad been
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8 52 unable to work. Great alarm was felt by the captain. as
• 1 everything was being broken. The hailstorm only lasted
about a quarter of an hour, after which rain set in which
lasted all night.

POISONOUS SOCKS.
Another case of inilaunnation of tbe feet. CaWUXI by the
wearing of socks with orange-red stripes, has occurred.
The victim this time it Ur. Hart Dyke.tlae (*owervative
i whip. We presume the offending dye s our old friend
eoralline, which gained such notoriety • year or FA AZ It
Is impossible to avoid Raking whether the sale of such
dangerous articles cannot be stopped. The colour is
tin!. attractive, and just now is fashionable, so we preaume it
r.g. is useless to caution the public against its we. Anyone.
a3O however, who has any respect for his "pour feet' would
12 20 certainly be wise to avoid it.—. Lancet.
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UNIONIST KILLING TRADE.
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The Times, in a leader on the city failures says t—The
! consequences to the labouring population are serious
143 enough, but it would be affectation to display much con-
dolence on their account. The Aberdare and Plymouth
2 6; Companies may have fallen principally through their own
• • want of vitality, but the thopsodtion of the workpeople to
• • their employers has had its share in the reoult. Garet
212 reserves of capital may be able to withstand ouch intermp-
• tions of productions as were canoed by the strike of two
L• ears since, and by that which has lately terminated. •
• but the working clasoes cannot expect that capital should
•• be directed to enterprioes In ouch superabundant masses as
" to resist all the effects of their own hostility. Such a
• • necessity would, indeed, of itself restrict every deportment
ergo indivitry. It is a great deal it the capital io sufficient to
provide against the chance. and reverses which are lieyon•l
ordinary control, such as the fluctuation of demand, the
crisis of finance, war, or political commotion. When them
1 2 who lived by the application of capital are found arrayed
P.M. in deliberate hostility to it aa a tyrannical and malignant
55) power, when they make it their chief object during
7 '5 months of endurance to destroy it, the contest is one in
which they can hardly look for sympathy when suctano has
•45 bronchi it, penalty with it. Whatever else they may
• succeed in, they do succeed in destroying large 111.144AUS of
3° capital, in making the employment ••f it moors a matter of
‘' 40 unreitanity and speculation, in deterring the cautious and
making reckless people greater gamblers than before. It
.„,▪ "• is quite possible to kill • trade, and it looks 11.4 if another
'0",; atnke would give something very near a death-blow to
South Wales. The state of the iron trade with referrence
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to the competition of vari•iiis English localities with each
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other, and- of Belgihm with them all, might protitaldy
'• exercise some of the workpeople'o leading orators.
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-"-The Thzjq NeICS remark; that such a stu"blwrn.fact Lathe
Aberdare (boaster seta all doubts at rest MA to whether

employers of labour in the iron trade were resorting from
= necessity to the extreme reductions of wages they
propixied. After this it is to be hoped there will be an end
5 a to the delusions which have ,10 long fed the South Wales
workmen, who. in place of being tyrannised over by
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4, capital, are often tLe only gainers in a desperate specula-
tion by which much capital is lost.