The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-04-20 00:00:00

SIR HENRY THOMPSON ON TOTAL
ABSTINENCE

The twentieth festi;:a. Ofl't:/;3"l:l7;cashire and Cheshire
Band of Hope Union was held in Manchester on Saturday
night. Sir Henry Thompson was the chief speaker. He
declared his belief in the principles held by those who
formed that vast gathering. He considered that habitual,
Of, as it Wlll usually called, moderate, drinking was a thing
which people should avoid if they wished to have a sound
mind in • sound body. Mr. Hugh Mason said Sir Henry's
testimony would have a powerful elfeet.

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FRIGHTFUL BALLOON ACCIDENT IN FRANCE.
MM. Croce-Spinelli and Sive have been suffocated in
the Zenith balloon at 8,000 metres from the earth. The
ascent took place at half-past eleven on Thursday, the
balloon rising at a rapid rate. At one o'clock the three
aeronauts fainted at the rarity of the atmosphere. They
had taken with them bags of oxygen to inhale them when
they had reached a greater height than 5,500 metres. But
It does not appear that they made use of them. M. Croce-
Spinelli was the first to recover. He at once opened the
escape valve of the balloon, and descending, with what
appeared to him bewildering rapidity, he cast out an appa-
ratus for experimenting on carbonic acid, which weighed
about ninety pounds. This caused the Zenith again to
rush aloft with greater swiftness than ever. M. Sivel
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n fell
recovered
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momenta before his death. It is thought that hail he been
the first to recover, he would have shown more skill and
preeence of mind than M. Croce-Spinelli. M. Tissandier,
another of the party, on coining to, was hurriedly inforuied
of what had happened. lie then fainted again. At 6,1100
metres from the earth his senses returned. He found the
balloon descending and his companions dead. Their faces
were quite black, and their mouths tilled with blood. A
curious fact is that the sole survivor of the catastrophe,
M. Giviton Timandier, was, to all appearance, a weaker
man than the two martyrs to science.
M. Gaston Tissandier, the survivor of the fatal balloon
ascent, states that at seven thousand metres they threw
out seventy -live kilogrammes of ballast. The balloon rose,
and he swooned. Afterwards, as the Zenith was (sat de-
scending, he threw out more ballast? and saw Croce throw
out the oxygen bottle. A subscription is being raised for
the families of the dammed.

The new Swedish Minstry will he constitued on

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Tu-e;:ial. A lay. was on Friday elected is guardian for Kensington,
London.
It is stated that the Queen will shortly hold a grand
reveiw at Aldershot.
A contract for the purchase of 10,1aX1 horses, to be
delivered at the end of June, has been concluded on
behalf of France, at the horse fair of Netolitx, in
Behemia.
The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Duchess of
Sunderland, attended Messer.. Moody and Sankey's Bible
reading services, in her Majesty's Opera House, on
Thursday afternoon.
It is understood that the Bishop of Rochester is willing
to be the new Bishop of St. Albans, still retaining his seat
is the House. The new see will be formed from a portion
of that of Itochester.
Mr. Albert Grant has, it is said, requested the Board of
Works to allow him to defray the expenses of a military
band to play in Leicester-square, every Saturday afternoon
during the summer month'.
About 170 persons, comprising 10 families, sailed from
Liverpool on Thursday for Canada, in the Allan steamer
Polynesian. They are principlly from the agricultural
&Arleta of Hampshire and liWcolnshire.
A petition from the Prussian Boman Catholic bishops
and clergy, asking the Emperor to veto the new Act
regarding them, is replied to by Prince Bismarck with
characteristic firmness.
The Bishop of St. Asap has consented to consecrate
the new church at Denbigh, provided two eminent ecclesi-
astical lawyers, one to lie selected by himself, and the
other by the parish committee, declare the reredos to be

A number of Messrs. Moody and Sankey's •• workers'
hue gone into the Eutend of London, and brought out
the very poorest from the alleys. To the they gave •
tea party, and the experiment is to be repeated for several
successive Sundays.
A shipwright named George Blampied, formerly an
Inmate of • lunatic asylum, is in custody at Chatham,
charged with murdering another ahipwright named James
Cut, in Chatham Dockyard, on. Friday afternoon, by
striking him with an adze.
The great " pm-rifts question" at Glasgow has been at
164 settled, the i:oard. of supervis.ion. having decided that

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Indian meal in preparing porridge, as being wholesome
and nutritious when mixed with oatmeal.
Red Lodge Reformatory, Bristol, is chiefly under the
Influence of Miss Carpenter, daughter of the late Dr. L
Carpenter, an eminent Unitarian Divine, one of the
highest clams of ministers in that small but powerful
body. She is also the sister of the Dr. Carpenter, well-
known in the literary and scientific world, and registrar
of the London University, of which Hr. Lowe is parlia-
mentary member. Miss Carpenter is well-known for her
Indian exertiona, and a few years so was introduced by
ptj Stafford Nortlicote, then Indian Secretary, to the
N•... 0, who honoured her by the personal gift of the
Holland, BriatoL
Errs's COCOA. -GILATEFUL AND COMFORTING. -" By a
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the
operations of digestion and nutrition, and by • careful w
plication of the fine properies of well-selected cocoa, Yr.
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with • delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy
doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of
Siet that • constitution may be gradually built up until
aeons enough to resist every tendency to
Huadreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready
to attack wherever there is • weak pout. We may escape
many • fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with
pure blood and • properly nourished franie."--ftisit Service
041110.
A REWARD or .C2O is offered by Messrs. Reckitt sad
Sons, of Hull and London, for information that shall lead
to the conviction of any person yelling imitations of their
Paris Blue in Stivares. It is may to detect the cheat, as
the Paris Blue • used in lA, Peinee of Wales' Laocidey," is
only genuine when ..aid in squareswrapped up in pink
viper limiting I. Reckitt and Sons name and trade mark.
- New CURE FOR CONSUMFI7ON. -A new remedy has
buten discovered for the cure of Consumption.- The old
treatment entirely superseded by • more certain method
Lid ruse. mu particulars of the remedies, with testimonials
,or ems, will be sent by post to any penion free of charge.
Address : -Mr. Witurtlis. 10, Oxford Tern," Hyde Park,
London.
Notion riv's Prus.-The Hour of Daver.-Diseue
commonly comes on with slight symptoms, which neg-
lected increase in extent and gradually grove dangerous-
a condition which betrays the grossest remissness, when
it is kaewu that
.these Pills, taken in accordance with
their amampanyuig directions, would not only have
checked but conquered the incipient disorder. Patients
daily forward details of the most remarkable and Instruc-
tive cases which by timely attention to Holloway's
advice they were undoubtadlY saved from severs jimma
Tbma ma act primarily on the digestive organs. which
they stimulate when sluggish and inactive : and secondly,
upon the blood, which they lthornnOtly purify, v, and hence
Is derived the general tone they mPart, antheir Wirer
of nuiduggangbvethondriselem, dyspepsia, and nervous
complaints,
BRONCHITIS, COUISHIL COLDS, PAINS IN THS CHEST,
SHORTNESS OF BREATH, PHLEGM.- TWO Of Ds, LOCOCE'S
PULUONIC WAFERS give immediate relief, and noth-
ing else gives such • round re/reeking eights rut- In
aiwumatiun and nervous pains they act like a charm. To
singers they are invaluable for clearing and itmnftheui2l
the voice. They don't taste like medicine. So d by
medicine vendors at Is, lid, audit. lid, per box. --Cantos.
box of the genuine medicine has the words "Dr.
• Wats?'" in white letters on a red ground in the
' asnnnith.ent Stamp outside, without which words all are
, counterfeits.