The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

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The operative builders are leagued to enforce the nine
hours' labour movement. It is thought that the em-
ployers will be obliged to give in.
Some large rice and flour mills at Liverpool, on the
banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, were totally
destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon.
The degree of A.M. has been conferred upon Miss
Martha Haines Butt, by the Harrisburg (Pa.) Female
Institution.
A sword of honour is nearly completed, to be pre-
sented to Al'Mahon, Due de Magenta, by his native town
of Anton.
Alderman Badger, of Shrewsbury, committed suicide
on Monday. The Alderman was N, ice-President of the
Great Western Railway Company.
The Hippopotamus in the Jardin des Plantes was
blessed with a cub the other day; soon after she
murdered it. This is the second time this animal has
been guilty of infanticide.
All firearms, great and small, are likely to be super-
seded, says the Globe, as the new metal alluminitun is
found to be infinitely preferable to iron, bronze, or
steel. . .

A man, aged 80 years, was married at Killagan on the
18th inst., to a woman only 25 years old. She is blind.
The bridepoom is lame, and cannot go without the aid
of a crutch.
The population of Ferara have compelled the Jesuits
who resided in that town to abandon it. The Govern-
ment hu not interferred either on one aide or the
other.
The Sunderland shipwrights have agreed to employ as
many men at the advanced wages of one shilling • day
as may be necessary to complete within contract all
shire sold. Work not contracted for is to be carried en
by apprentices and non-unionist hands.
A new statute of General Napier is to be placed in St.
Paul's. The figure is represented in repose, leaning on
a sword. It stands eight feet high, on a plinth of its.
inches. Mr. Adams is the sculptor.
The sale of Wordsworth's library, comprising nearly
3,000 volumes in every class of Mentors, took place on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week, at
Preston. The attendance was good, and many of tho
books fetched high prices.
The Dean of Carlisle (Mr. Close) has announced his
intention of taking the total abstinence pledge. He also
runs a muck against tobacco. Alcoholic drink and the
Virginian weed are, he says, "twin fiends, gorging their
insatiable hatred on the human race with at leas*
equally fearful results."
Mr. Howe, the famous medium (says the Medical
Times), has lately rather put his foot into it at Paris.
At one of his gamma one of the guests, a particularly
active individual, made a sudden grab at the spirit,
which was tickling his leg, and, behold! he found Mr.
Home's foot in his hand.
Another attraction has been added to the Crystal
Palace in the opening of a billiard-room in the upper
part of the tower which terminates the railway colon-
nade. The room is admirably fitted up, and contains
four excellent tables.
Lord Brougham and the Duke of Buceleuch will be
nominated for the office of Chancellor of the University of
Edinburgh. The election, which takes place in Oetober,is
by the General Council of the University, the register of
which, we understand, already numbers above throe
hundred members.
Ihe Paris Churirari publishes a caricature represent-
ing a Zonave, in full undone, addressing • respectable
elderly gentleman in plain clothes, apparently a travel-
ler, in these words :--" My good sir, all those histories
about brigands and Ira Diavolos are nothing but son-
sense. My regiment has been everywhere in Italy, and
I never once was stopped by any one !"