The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-28 00:00:00

"RISEN FROM THE RANK&"

MYSTRRIOTJS AFFAIR AT PORTSMOUTH.

An extraordinary affair has Just occurred at Portsmouth.
The wife of a seaman en board the Prince of Wales's
Royal yacht Osborne was out shopping on Thursday night,
when a woman, a perfect stranger accosted her end athed
her to do beta favour. She re ed that she was shopping,
but the stranger said she cool wait till that was finished.
and did so. She then took her to • quiet thoroughfare
near where • man was waiting. He had • small trunk,
from which he produced • small box, and requested the
woman to ask her husband to take the box on board the
Osborne with him next morning. He was to bring the
box Libore with him in the evening, and leave it at
Government House. the official residence of General Hie
Serene Highness Prince g heard of Saxe Weimar. saying
that one of the GfillieTs on board had sent ic The woman
naturally asked what officer her husband was to name,
but the man refused to say, whereupon Yrs. Phillips
declined to hays anything to do with the matter. Upon
saying this the man produced five sovereigns, which he
he salad her to take, and say nothing at all about the
matter. She refused, whereupon the man placed over
her noes and mouth a handkerchief saturated apparently
with chloroform. for the became very sick. The Wangs
man and his female companion than made off. The
woman went home and informed bar father, who at once
reported to the pence, at the same time adding his
opinion that the box contained an infernal machine. The
affair occurred about eleven o'clock, and as no train left
the town until the mail, that wag watched to nee if the
woman could identify any of the passenstera fraigine
houses were also searched trains watched, and the
cloak-room exsmined to se:e if any trunk 'correspon4
ing with the one the man carried had been left,
but without success. The man had on an Meier and
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billycoc-IT hat, whilst -tise—Wornin. Ws;
dressed in a long black cloak, and her face covered with a
thick veil. The polioe are rather inclined to discredit the
affair, but Yrs. Phillips is most persistent in aseartins the
truth of every particular of her statement. The Prince
and Prinoess Edward are at present having • abort holiday
In Scotland.

The Lord Mayor has invited the Australian cricketers to
dine with him at the Mansion House before their departure
from England.
The Committee of the New South Wales Academy of
Art have purchased pictures in the English Court at
the late Exhibition in Sydney, of the value of £403 10s
A serious outbreak of tn,hoid fever, caused, it is
believed, by the consumption of impure milk, has
occurred at Rochdale. Several deaths have already taken
place.
The Bishop of Durham ham stated that the churches in
his diocese furnish sittings for one seventh only of the
population—a touch I proportion than in most
bah dioceses
subscriptions for the University Collage at Liver-
pool amount to about £OB,OOO. £7.1100 of this sum has
been oontributed towards the foundation of the Roscoe
Professorship of Art.
The American Association for the Advancement of
Science is about to take steps for the protection of the
forests in the United States, and for the protection from
waste of Umber. generally. .

--il-11;pe--11;r- 'been giTeti no of the safety of the steamer
Queen Victoria, which left Caloutts for London In June
leg. The steamer had a mew of 50 men, and her cargo
was valued at £150,000.
The Loud n Water Companies have, it is said, in
consequence of the report of the Select Committee, a=d
to oppose any scheme which the Government may bring
forward for the purchase of all or any of their under-
taking*._
TRR ALARM! OF TICFELLICE —The world mcasionally
witnesses the appearance of a man preeminent among his
fellow*, who leaves his mark upon the world either for
good or for evil Our century has been unusually fruitful
in such men. We have our military here, our philosopher,
our astronomer, our statesman, per marline/ ; we have,
also, our physician and philanthropist, par tiOAliellot.
But now we have Professor Holloway, who, benefited by
the long experience of long experimental, and enlightened
by deep study, has bestowed upon the world one of the
greatest treasures, in the form of his celebrated Pills and
Ointment By their instrumentality health is pieced
within the rea h of all that will avail themselves of them.
They have recommended themselves everywhere by their
beneficial effects, and are now known throughout the
c vilised world. We are glad to know that net onl
unbounded fame, but a considerable fortune, has re
Holloway for his philanthropic labours. South and
Central America, Mexico and Cube following the ertmliz
have
of Spain. become large consumers of these articles,
and wherever the Spanish language is rookie, they are
lnow extensively, used as a family medicine. No region of
e earth afforth such opportunities for testing the uni-
versality of a remedy as South America. From the
enormous Inequality of level between its different
it comp the climates of all the Donee, ear all the
diereses peculiar to the varieties of temperature known as
frigid, temperate, and torrid are found MORE its
inimbitnnt, J. &ander field f
of or tbe se
theci
to the cure every merles disor
urrni der,
geU:rusayegternM, cannot be conceived, and as their
success has been uniform in all parte of the southern
f
continent, we may fairly regard these medicines as
oe.efica or the meladiee slivery soil andolime. We
do not make them statements and itrein these opinion
without haying weighed them all They are not founded
merely upon common repeat, but upon the teetimouy of
=0001131114 highantrodums society—men of nn-
hod reputation matured Judgment' that, Mrs-
wise. is confirmed by circumstances within our own
Immediate knowledge. Moreover, we have the less hesita-
tion in declaring our predilictiona for them remedies, in.
arranch as it LI shared by our brethren of the press in
every quarter of the globe.—The PeenspissiMen.
PIANOS FOR TIM MELBOURNE PaRIRITION. —The chief
exhibitors of British pianos at the forthcoming mnibonrwo
Exhibition will be the celebrated firm of Menne John
Brinsmead and Sons, who, by the way, at the recent
Sydney Exhibition, gained the highest award and a
spedai mention above such eminent anus as Steinways,
and Chicketings, of America; Lard. Bord, Corbell,
and paling, of Paris,* Bechetein, Bluthner. Gunther,
Ascherberg. UPR. behiednlnYer. Honisoh. Nettmeyer
Nenfeld, and Minor and Slangenberg,of Germany ; end
Pohlmann, Worm= and oar England. Follow-
ing up the surceases theyaave gained for our country in
Sydney, Messrs. John named and Sons propose to
even improve their pianos, even if (being the highest)
they cannot improve their position, bar Melbourne. A
few weeks ago they gave a Public recital at St....lame's
Hall on the pianofortes they intend to mend to Melbourne.
There pianos are not
uspecially manufactured for the
occasion. They tak " out of stock,"
although they snoubtless en the best of Messrs
John Brinameed and Sons' ordinary manufacture ;
such, in short, as at. not expressly made for exhib&
tions, but as are sold to the general public. The
first piano is what Is called a " full-concert 'Rand."
land La, in fact the piano used for concert& It te in an
oak MAO, and it ham various patented lmproyements which
we shall proceed to describe with. as far as possible an
avoidance of technicalities. The " cheek-repeater action"
allows each note to be mounded as rapidly as the nimblest
pianist can play it The "sostenente sounding-board"
allows the whole mound-board to be used instead of only
a small portion of it, and it greatly improves the sustain-
ing and other Power* of ions ne • soundenstaining
pedal' allows one or more notes, or a chord,dait: be
o bmsounnigded for
held from
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notes
more the
whiie,
thhroltherPers andnows
empersbe
sounded independently. Other pianos to be sent to
Melbourne are a grand, suitable for drawlng-room use.
with the soufid sustaining pedal before described and
with bridges of neerbration ; • short iron grand tram, •
grand oblique piano, the icings of which are
obliquely, and which, having gained a media at
placed
delphla, is called the" Centennial Oblique ;" an oventrung
grand oblique piano with the newly -invented tone
renovator, which we shall Presently describe; and an
upright iron grand. All these pianos have a complete
Iron frame which makes the piano lasts life time and
they all have the " soatenente sounding-board" ant the
patent "check-repeater action" already dererifed The
special invention to be exhibited at Melbouros is how-
ever, the patent tone compensator and removetor, by which the pianoforte, which has hitherto. been at a
disadvantage as c 'moored with other stringed Instrument& may be so modulated as to preserve a definite and nqui
quality of tone, which can eerily be renewed at y
time. It should be remarked that when, for any
the tone of • violin deteriorates through ese
from other causes which have nothing to do with
the original soundness and perfection of the Metre meat, the MAIM have to be adjusted to diff ,
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yams of service a Pbmoconstructed on this principleafter
many
owing to the large increase of their burl to commence the building of an xtra Dam'
bsen
Kentish town. The aew f aad WV factory at feet b., 35 feet
wida. will have five floors. 110
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There was further firing with 100-ton gun at Wool-
wich on Wednesday, the charge being 4411 b. weight,
and the shot 2,0001 b.
The Greek army now numbers 35,000 men. Volun-
teers from the country and from foreign porte ars
eontinually flowing in.
The mail steamer City of Chester, which broke her
shaft some distance off the Irish coast, has arrived at
Liverpool in tow of three tugs.
The Press Aasociation states that Mr. Joseph Cowen,
M.P., has withdrawn his name from the list of
members of the Newcastle Liberal Association.
The Greenwich Hospital pension for commanders of
£63 a year, vacant by the death of Retired Captain
Atthur Morrell on the 18th inst., has been awarded to
Retired Captain John C. Wells.
There is said to be • probability that Sir Henry
James would accept the presidency of the Exchequer
Division, in the room of Lord Chief Baron Kelly,
should the post be oSered him.
There has been a considerable falling away of the
exports of lead during the sight oompleted months of the
year. They were 4,271 tons lees than the Pou
period of 1879. The imports during the°°ararmelepelitg
are less by 3,790 tons.
Lord Harris has resigned the Honorary Secretary-
ship of the Kent County Cricket Club, of which his
lordship has virtually had entire management for five
years. His lordship's assistance, however, will always
be at command in the cricket-field and otherwise.
Sir Massey Lopes entertained over a hundred of his
tenantry at his mansion at Maristow, 011 Wednesday,
In honour of the coming of age of hili son, Mr. Henry
Yards Buller Lopes. The tenants present Mr. Lopes
with a handsome silver centre piece.
The members of the Wilts and East Somerset Con-
Cati°nal Unison have passed a resolution congratu-
Mr. Gladstone on his recovery, and the secretary
on Friday received • note from the right hon. gentleman
in which he conveyed his sincere thanks for their kind
solicitude.
King Alfonso has commanded that Friday which
was the fete day of Santa Mereedes, should be kept
as an official holiday and gala day. The King and
Queen gave an audience to the Papal Nuncio, who
prlnwted at a gift from the Pope a rich satin robe
for the Infanta.
An infant haa been interred in Wallasey Church.
yard, Cheshire, the funeral service being conducted by
the Rev. Father Staunton, according to the rites of
the Roman Catholic Church. For upwards of 300
years no similar ceremony has taken place in this
country in a parish churchyard.
A Canopkd Tomb, &Wooed by Sir Gilbert Soott, with
a recumbent figure of th late Bishop Hamilton, by the
Rev. the Hon Bertrand Pleydell llouverie, has been
approved by the Dean and Chapter, and will shortly
be erected on the south side of the altar in Salisbury
Cathedral. The lost will be about 2900..

The NcTii-oo- uToeinis-i funitii;ll.l3Or-th Wales under
the Burials Act took place at Bangor on Friday in Limbs-
blig Churchyard. The deceased belonged to the Welsh
Wesleyan Methodists, and the service was read by the
Rev. J. H, Evans, the resident minister at Carnarvon.
The vicar granted the use of the bier to carry the body
to the grave.
On Friday a girl, aged 14, was charged at the
Wigtown Police-court with having placed a number
of large jagged stones on both rails of the Wiatevrn•
shire Railway, near Sorbie Station. A passenger.
train came upon the stones, which caused the engine
to jolt, but fortunately it did not leave the rails. The
girl IVY sent to prison for 20 days.
At the Middlesex Sessions on Friday, Henry Pipe
and John Sinkerson Jackson were convicted of having
defrauded a number of domestic servants, by falsely
pretending that they could obtain for them good
situations. Pipe was sentenced to eighteen months'
Imprisonment with hard labour, and Jackson to nine
mouths' Imprisonment as a second-class mill.
demeanant

At Loth. last week, a boy named Robinson, aged
eleven, son of a pit labourer, was charged before
the magistrates with tampering with a large steam
boiler. The lad hung a wagen.coupling upon the lever
of the safety-valve, and when the fireman discovered
what had:been done the steam guage recorded 801 b.
. just double the ordinary working power.Crinuron admitted the offence, and Paid he had
committed it in order to get another boy into trouble.
The magistrates sentenced the lad to ten days'
imprisonment, to be followed by five years in a
reformatory.
The Rowland Hill Memorial Committee have
reported that the fund amounted to £16,646, and that
the Oity Commission of Sewers had given permission
for the erection of a bronze statue in the open space at
the south-east corner of the Royal Exchange facing
Oornal. It was resolved that the sculptor .who bad
consented to compete should be invited to furnish the
Committee with models, and that the total cost should
not exceed £2OOO. Dean Stanley, it vas said, had
consented to a bust of Sir Rowland Hill being
placed
In the chn n
of St, Paul, at Weinnu' sterAbbey,
Abbey,
where Sir Howland is buried.
In broad daylight in Paris, while two young men
were walking in company with a young woman in the
Bois de Vinoennes, they quarrelled. The girl, on the
approach of two gendarmes, asked them to interfere
between the disputants, when one of the latter
suddenly rushed upon the other with an open knife,
and stabbed him to the heart, till be fall dead. The
murderer then plunged his knife into the breast of the
unfortunate girl before the gendarmes had time to
prevent him, and then quitely gave himself up to the
officers. The girl died on her way to the hospital.
It appears that both the assassin and his victims were

An sTiden-d-C. amongst lambs in Suffolk has been
Investigated by Dr. J. E. Taylor, F.L.S., who
attributor the disease to the eating of grass covered
with a fungus called Trichobaris, which is commonly
known when it attacks corn. On one farm 50 lambs
have died, and 300 are affected. Dr. Taylor thinks
that the lambs have suffered partly from the innutri•
tious nature of the rusted grass, and partly from the
accumulation of • quantity of the gus-spores in
their stomachs. Husk amongst lambs, ae well aa
calves, is also uncommonly prevalent this year.
Da. Tarn/zit% Lg.—The New York papers
report that Dr. Tanner's lecture upon his forty days'
fast, which was given in Booth's Theatre, did not draw
an audience capable of half filling the house. In the
course of his lecture, the doctor declared fasting to be
eminently the specific for curing dyspepsia and
rheumy-Um. He epitomised the forces that sustain
life sa—first, the intelligent governing principle, which
he styles the mow ,• second, heat, found be food, the fuel
for the body' third, electricity; and fourth, animal
ftrt. Life can be maintained longer without
hiir without either of the other forcer. An
Imitator of Tanner ham announced his intention qf
fasting for forty days in Brooklyn.
A BAILOR DIVOITIND BY 811.1111101.—.Card11 Samuel
C. Pennel, of the ship Oregon, reports is arrival at
Angier Java on the llth of August, from Cardiff,
after a Norge of ST days. Nothing of note occurred on
the voyage, and the ship was being brought up in the
Roads, when one of the crew, Thomas Ellery, at work
on the foreyard, slipped, and fell into the nea.
Captain Pennel, who witnessed the accident, had •
boat lowered, but as it was nearing the man, who was
swimming toward. the ship, he was seised by sharks,
and drawn under instantaneoualy. The unfortunate
seaman leaves a widow and child in Cornwall.
Mutinous spirit is showing itself among the convicts
at Dartmoor prism, and increased vigilance has become
neoisaary to prevent a rising of convicta CR 1146611 C.
Several serious affrays have lately taken place. An
officer named Cotter lies he • precarious state in
consequence of fearful injuries which he received from
a convict on Tries lay and on Thursday another convict
employed in boot-making suddenly struck Super-
intending-W'anier. Pinch two terrific blows on the back
of his head with • hammer. An officer was on Tuesday
attacked with a pickaxe by a convict be wail super-
intending. Fortunately the blow as warded
off by the helmet, but if had been an inch
lower the blow would have been fatal. Assistance was
rendered and the convict secured.
FORMS OF PRAY= IN WIIBLCYAN CHAPILB.-7110 Christian World states that the Wesleyans are much
divided on the question of forms of prayer. Some would
extend the use of the Church prayers, Ike., to the even-
ing service in places where they are used in the morn-
ing, and would have then introduced in places where
at present the prayers are entirely extempore. Others
think the matter should be entirely at the option of the
various societies and congregation,; while a third
arty would entire_iy exclude forms of prayer from
Wesleyan chapels. There can be no doubt that in some
places there is • demand for the Church prayers, while
in other quarters the introduction has been • source of
dissatisfaction and Ices. Another question, which ham
for several years past engaged the attention of •
conference committee without any practical result, is that of the revision of the Liturgy, with • view to the
excision of un-Protestant expreedone. One London
congregation has now supplied itself vrith • revised
form- of -yen, which has been prepared with a view
to meet use want, and in which, also, such terms as
" Prised," " abeolution," ha., do not find • place.
It is useful to know the derivation of words ; both " Cocoa " and " Chocolate " are of Mexican origin,
The word "Chocolate" is derived from " Ch000latl,"
the sound prodooed by the primitive stones, used to
brides and mix the Coon with mew
" Cocoa " is the name under which the unadulterated
beans of the " Theobroma Cacao "of Linnens lam=l, into England. Thom who wish for Cocoa
pure should ask
Progarod by % far the Cocoa Boma
originally Amy Brae.