The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

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TURSDAT, JANUARY 14. la&
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NOTES OF THE WEEK.

VICE CHANCELLORS COURT. -TRU DAT.
(Before Btu J. STUAILF.)
WALTZIA t. Tll3 itILL OF SHAFFISFOIT.
k motion on the part of the defoodant, to eotopel
Mr. Howell. the *Womb (Yr. Waters being now
bankropt) to elect within s week whether b. will
prosecute this suit, or in default tbat the defendent
might prosecute, and carry on the decree 'made on the
17th March, 1886, was refused by his honour on
technieg grounds.

TIM AITSZIa.Je EXPIDITION.—Sir Robert Napier
landed nt annesley Bliy, Jammer,' 4. H. WWI neei•ed
by Colonel Miireirether and General Staveley. Sir
Robert prooeeds et once to the front. Th• naval
brigade is in warm of organisation for immediate
somniset

FluNei Aso PlueBli.—L4 France soy,:—" A most
h-iendly coerespondence was eichanged between the
King of Prussia and the Emperor Napoleon on the
occasion of the inauguration of the new year. The
initiative step of cioartiay is due to the King of Prussie,
whose letter was couched in terms of a nature to
facilitate an understanding between the sovereigns of
the respective countries upon .the great questiotte
pealing."

Loss AND RtCOVIIIIT Or • WIDDI.O Rnfo.—About
three years ago Mrs. Stewart, Montboy, while feeding
bee ee1.... allowed one of them to soak her fingers,
but on withdrawing her hood b-held with consternation
that her marriage ring and another which she wore as a
keeper had disappeared, the calf having apparently
.wallowed them. In consequence of tins the animal
was ,kept at Mountboy, where it was reared, fattened,
and slanghtered hot week, when a proper search was
made foe the missing treasure, and at the first incialon
made upon the inteatines both rings were founl is
clean and as bright as they were when they went
miming three years before.—BrecAnt Adrerginer.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH Or • BOT. —A coroner's
inquest was held in Finsbury on Saturday on the body
of a lad named Strange...ye, who met hie death under
very eatraordinary circutnersinces. Strangeways wan
al!oeod by his mother to have another lad named
Loader to play with him. They were left alone for
three hours, and when Strangeway's mother returned
she found her con dead from • fearful wound in the
groin, and • riumttity of blood was on the Boor and the
furniture. M hen Loader as asked about the matter
be said they were alarmed by • noise as if
r thieves had broken in.° the house, and both took out
their pocket knives to defend thetneelves. The de.
k. messed, he added, struck him knife against the wall in
aunt • manner that the blade entered hie stoinaci,.
Loader adds that he lift,d Straogewave on • chair and
left him there. He went home, however, and took his
tea without paying a word of what hat happened until I
be was questioned about it. The medical evidence went I
to show that the injury we., an the boy Louder alleged,
accidental, and the jtuy found • verdict to that eff.ot.
ONLY • PAC PER !—A strange case has just been I
brought to light • few mile@ from Yeovil. A labourer
named Robert Gale died • day or two ego under some. '
what peculiar circumoter.coa. It appear. that the poor
fellow bad been unwell for • long time, and had alas!
been very short of work, consequently he was unable to
min 'utile:rut to maintain himself and wile. Ulrlmately,
Le was comp- lied to apply to the relie•ing-ofbcer for
aural nee. Out-door rebel' was refined, and the man
was ordered to go into the Chard Union. The poor
fellow declined t., g but was renuortd on Wodne.day.
the let mat., being in • helpless eonsitinn, notwith•
standing the protest, of himself and wife. The day
was bitterly cold, end the poor fellow I ad not proceeded
Is the open cart before he felt that his end was drawing
NIT. His lips turned purple, his sight fa led, and a
severe attack of diorl.ma enaued, and the lad who was
driving hint bemnie so alarmed that he turned hark,
stud took rite poor man to hi. house again, and be had
scarcely got borne when be died.

FATAL EPIDEMICS. -- At certain seasons diseame
hemline epidetnic, and runs its deatructive cows.
usehecked unitise some purifying means. mob s•
Holloway's medicine, eeeee , be used to 'moon it.
•trolenee and to de•troy Ps seed. Nature abounds
with remedies for all the ailments inci lint to mankind,
eitcl happy is the men who, like Professor H•tlloirav,
hits spun the right remedy that sill re.ch the recondite
source of dimes., without which it is a vain thing to
attempt it. cure. Th • origin of tliseaae has all aing
been tag you'. of physicians, who are one. bafficd by
conflicting systems, apparently poioting to different
causes. H •ene they scoff at the notion tf an
universal medicine like Professor Holloway's, sin.ply
cause they have been unable to discover the primary
awe f all disease, and the means which will remove
it. Thus some such dtscovery must have been mud• by
the well ku•orn Profestor Holloway atoms evident
from the Innunittrable end totally di•tinct doeases which
have been speedily cured by hi. simple pills end
ointment. For iiistance, what moot distinct in their
ap.erent nature and sympt ime than intermittent
Liver and rheutnat ani ? And yet these greet scourges
yi'ld •like to Piole.sor Hollow iv'. retriedie.. We
might instance very many other dio•scs in which these
rt midi i• have be. u equally efficient, inveri.bly
securing the re-establishment of health, nail always
without that dreadful prostration of the patient—so
geneially witneasel aft r protracted treatment with
or limey medicines—as it were plainly proving that the
pa i int has loan vitally injurcii in cnnstitution is much
by the medicines administered as by the discrete which
they were to core! Such, however, is not the case with
Professor Holloway'. treatment sod midieines, which
seem to reach directly the very source of dimes., and
to quench it completely. All esperience test to. to the
goitress of hi. practice and, therefore, we must conclude
that he has di•covered the 'no principle as to the salvo
end origin of all di...... Mere professional pr. judice
has hien confessedly overthrown by the unvarying
socceß of the.e remedies, which have secured what the
Min.bitieri learning and talent of the faculty have
never aqUneil, namely, universal disteminiition. Let
any man, if he can, celculate the difference between
the number of appllcants for •'
nielical aid,' as it is
calks!, at • public diapenriry, end the innumerahle tout.
Wale. who •re the daily recipients if Holloway's
rent. dies I Ferry succeeding year Mertoses the impost.
sibility of computing the rejoicing vot.riee of Profe•sor
Holtoway and the wretched di votes. or rather devoted
be ng. who still wander to the temp'es of the often•
failing .faattlapius. Howe Corespondent.

The most interesting event of the pest week tithe
publication of the ~Qt1•013'11 Diary," from which we
pie extracts in another column. This work shows
that Her Majesty is an authorese,s and • very
graceful one and •hen by reading one of her books
we are also privileged to look over, if not to parr,
the "divinity that doth hedge" monarchs, what
wonder there is • great run upon the " Queen's
Diary 7"
The Fenian' ere cowed for the present ; not, we
imagine, because they repent of their fiendish sots,
but became society is closing in upon them, and
impunity in crime is no longer possible. The trust
which the Executive has put in the instincts at the
nation is amply justified. What with police activity,
preparations for every emergency at all our public
establishments, and the swearing in of thousands
of special constables throughout the country, the risk
of detection has become too great, and the Fenian
conspiracy in England will ere long be stamped
out by the public watchfulness and execration. Confi-
dence is returnin g. Fenian ism is oomi ng to be regarded
as a cowardly impoirture,and Alias signally failed in its •
execrable ol.ject of stirring up • general persecution
of the large Irish population amongst us. It is
honourable to the English character that the un•
paralleled atrocity at Clerkenwell has not, in tne
main, provoked& retaliatory spirit against Irishmen
as such, in whose name the Fenix= are acting.
Terrorism has not succeeded in permanently
frightening eociety, nor is it likely eventually to
frustrate the ends of justice. If the case against the
accused in custody is not yet complete, more
evidence is gradually leaking out, and wa have full
confidence that, in due time, the guilty parties will
eventually be brought to account. It is hardly
cre hide that al extended a conspiracy can long be
undiscovered, and that the clues which are already
in the hands of the Government will not be followed
up so am to lead to the conviction of the principal
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We have often been told that we have alienated
Ireland, but we are determined not to treat her
people as aliens either socially or legally. In the
later point of view, we claim even Irish American
citizens as British subjects. Once a British subject,
always a British subject—the quality is indelible as
clerical order. in the eye of the law ; and all direct
n.ale descendants also technically occupy the ssme
position. Just now, sshen ths discussions in Con'
grass and in the American press are forcing the
question upon our consideration, many people think
that we might gain more by turning American
adventurers out of the United Kingdom, or imprison•
ing them, under the Alien Act, than by insisting
upon trying them by • British jury.
The Reform Leaguers, having settled the Roman
question to their entire dissatisfaction, and knowing
what a trilling labour it will be for them by-and-by
to abolish the ratepaying provision' of the Reform
Bill, to obtain a re-distribution of seats, and to
introduce the ballot, have been diverting themselves
with what is usually called " the Irish question."
though we think there are "so .naoy as several"
questions connected with Ireland.. Some people
might object that Mr. Beale* is going beyond his
brief —that the Reform League Council was never
intended to be • sort of amateur Parliament to dos-
, ones every question that might happen to is,.me in its
. way, or might not do so. But when we have a lot
of clever men—guides, philorsopbem, and friends of
the age—fortuitously connected in an organisation,
let as not complain that they are giving us for our
respect and admiration more than we bargained for.
, Is it not refreshing to hear Mr. Guedalla express his
delight that'•eome of the working classes had declined
Ito be sworn in as special con-tables I" Mr.
I Madge (probably a misprint for Midge or Smudge)
' •at equally manly in his outspoken sentiment, that
the only liberty he saw was "to do as the powers
liked—the right to keep • lot of German cut.throsts
in the country." That great man Mr. Fusion would
have given us "some of his mind," only it appeared
I he had been snuffed out as a Reform Leaguer,
through the jealousy of colleagues whom one would
I (topsider above such petty feeling, if all great men
j had their weakness. Mr. Chiger, however, made
I op for the silents. id the illustrious Clerkenwell
Oreenorator and Home office hero, by proposing that
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people should vote by. iniehOod inarrage
for_the kind of Go*ermine:lt wh.ch they preferred ;
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and Mr. Madge C!) again signalized his magnanimity
by denouncing the Clerkensr.ll atrocity as "• p dice
ou'rage." Mr. Mottershed wound up the interesting
discussion by the irrelevant proposition that the
Fenians should ackno•leige the moral right of the
Garthaldians I Sore the League •morded 'justice' i•
Ireland." Such debate. upon Irish affairs are truly
interesting, and no doubt 80030 great remit will
follow when the adjourned discussion is rammed.
We have just bad • batch of four field•marshals
crested —in view of a coming war, DO doubt,
: some of our readers will suppose. Well. let
them judge whether the authorities hi.,
thus designated the fitting men to lead our soldiers
I into battle. One of the new dignataries is nearly
ninety, and the other three are considerably over
eighty years of age. What • farce this is! If Sir
! Hugh Rose, Sir Alexander Woodford, Sir John
Burgoyne, and Sir William Gomm, have deserved
the honour just conferred upon them, they deserved
It long ago. If such a grade es field•marshal has any
business to exist in our service, it should be given
while men are 'till tit for service, and not u • reward
for longevity. But, of course, we have so matiy
able generals, that to pat them all on tield-marshall'e
pay, and not wait for death to thin their ranks,
would distress the finances of the country ! This M
promotion by Mr. Darwin's theory of 'natural
selection," added to that of seniority.