The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

Stun! Nein.

The Volunteer colonels he- re selected Portsmouth as
the mane of the Baster Moods, Berl,
.

Ten l•mteng sewn j the south of England has been
in numerous instances very favourable. Snob • umber
of twin lambs were dropped no were aceroaly ever beim
known.

Taw ii DOW to be seen at Hainbrook • robin's nest
with five young ones, hatebed on the 28th February.
It is in the root of an old oak tree, and within • fceA of
it are some primroses in full bloom.
TH3 dinner to be given in honour of tin Brand, by
the Liberal members .f the Reuse of C 103203001, on the
cumasion of presenting the testimonial. ia fixed for the
2811. of this mouth. The chair will be taken by Yr.
Gladstone.

Feetas Parerecre.-11r. John Mitchell, who may
be 'opposed to know somnibilla a the Fallen weeping,
tells elitist "lb. whole concern hee ron right up against
a wall, and cannot take one step farther.

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Tai CLILM II WILL OUT RAGE. —TIN HUI* 110;, Arthur
Abbott, who has Isin so long in the Royal roe Hos
pita% and who was reported tot. blind front the injuries
he sustained at the recruit esptostaa in ClerkenweU, haa
suddenly recovered the rue of las eyes.
• • •• • • - - • •

a hare authority to stars that there is no foundation
whatever for the report winch appeared in the Owl on
Wednesday, that Lord Derby ban conferred an English
peerage anon Lord RW1.410014 or raised Yr. Gerard
Start, of Critebill, to the pcsrage.—Tigiss,

is bee b... .flanged (says Me Own at the suggestion
of Mr. ...Iladatone, among the leading msmbers of the
Opposition, that, in the event of Ministers declaring
their desire to postpone dealing with the Irish
Church Question early in the re-aseembled Parliament, a
meeting of the entire Libersl party shall he convened at
Caribou House Terraoe, and their support be asked to a
reeolution framed with • View to immediate dia-.stab.
lishuseat
WM? liewenser STIEFLZCHIEX/L— Th• committee
have been obliged to provide a DOW 00111110, end it is DOW
situate near eat Chinnock, aboat two sad a half miles
from Crewkerne. It consists entirely of paeans land,
•Il the fences being fair bunting loam with so wall or
double bank, and the water leaps easy. Hurdle and tat
racing has been introduced, and two good day's sport is
anticipated.

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LOST 1111 LOSIDON.—BetWOOO tWO thousand and three
thotuand persons are annually lost sight of in the
metropolis, and the police massed in reeovering about
on* half of them. It must not be sempoard that tbii
other half are never heard of again. Tbe bulk tif thew,
belong to the very lowest clam, arum' whom family and
local ties are of tho loosest hied, sad very readily
shaken off.

MO. TOMB has been arrested In Dublin under •
judge's flat--iseued In London, and backed in Ireland—
for a debt of 0300, said to be due to the Ebbw Vale
Iron Company as the Wanes of their account for Iron
furnished in the year 1881 to the London Tramway
Company, of which Mr. Train was managing director.
Mr. Train says the debt was paid long sines, and if not,
the Bank of England end some of the most eminent
English Irma ore.. responsible as he is. He intends to
make them who arrested him pay dearly for his deten-
tion, another £lOO,OOO at least.
UNPOPULAR COIN/L—la the course of martial. OR the
Mint the Tiew• mentions that the Ave-shilling piece,
the florin, and the fourpenny plass was always
unpopular. The first is now no longer issued in this
tionotry, and will soon become as mush a thing of the
past is guineas. The fourpenn• piece, which was intro-
duced for the fret time in 183,/, has alwa)a been so
unpopular that its coPiage has been diseontinued, and
for the last twelve years not one has been struck. The
favourite half-crown, too, has gone the MOO way, aod
now only florin., shillings, sixpences, and threePeete7
pieces am struck.

A Titictotoos OfTr.—A diabolical attempt has
been made on the life of Mr. W. P. P. Vaughan, J.P.,
Goldengrove, Roecrea. A few nights ago a stemma
called at the porter's lodge with a pared neatly made
up, and sa the lodge-keeper 1/611 Out It IMO delivered to
hie wife, with particular directions to have it given into
Mr. Vaughan's own band.. The next day the panel
was so delivered, and was found to contain a bottle,
about the size of those sods-water is generally sold In;
It was carefully covered with tissue-paper, so as to hide
the content., with • piece of green ribbon coming up
through the cork and attached to momething inside.
The initial lettere of his name were put on with gilded
paper. Suspicion us suited, and a portion of the
paper being removed it warn seen to contain • quantity
of some brown material, loot unlike phosphorus
Deeming it unsafe to open the bottl• in hand, it wig
placed at • distance, and the neck knocked off by swell.
aimed bullet, but it did not explode. The women who
delivered the bottle be, been arrested.
THE Rev, B. SPKII.—The physichans who have been
consulted in Mr. Spoke's cam write to the Tines to
explain it. They say that Mr. Speke "appear. to hare
been suffering for a long time under • depressing form
of hypochondria/is, which dominated his whole mind,"
and that he unfortunately applied to and obtained
from advertising quacks advice, "which only ineressed
his fears and aggravated hisdespoodeney." It is stated
that Hr. Spoke purposely threw sway his hat in Bird-
ciage.i.alk in order to strengthen the belief in his death;
but hc did not recollect that his sister lived near the
spot. The Western Montiag News dates that the rev.
gentleman is in • private lanstic asylum, end that
his doctors have confident hopes of his complete
recovery. The Spectator says iii. • strange story, and
one of its strangest inoideats has, we believe, not yet
reached the papers. It plows Providence to prosecute
this lonely man, lonely at least inwardly, with earthly
advaateges. We have authority for saying that whits
he warn absent,. just after he entezed Cornwall, the
death of • relative he can scarcely have known, an old
lady of airsety-.in, (eye him a new emeseseion of some
£6OO • year, etrengtheoing at one. his bonds to Romer.
setshire and his rea•ons for quitting it.
The Times end other of our London contemporaries, are
teeming with • so-called "new ble•," though in fact it
is only "history repenting itself" but rendered
unusually interesting for its intimately concerning the
ladies. We refer to economy in tea, and other com-
modities by "cc-operation ;" this mode of supply has in
fact been long exemplified by the well-known firm of
Horniman and Co., London, who as tea importers,
have for thirty years past, availed themselves of their
direct connection with the growers, to co-operate
through agents in all parts of the kingdom, to supply
the public on more advantageous terma than the
ordinary channel that requite the tea to pus through
many hands before reaching the public. Horniman's
pare tea is slwaya obtained by the consumer in the
same unsophisticated state ss it leaves the grower, as it
Is seenr-"y sealed and the price printed on each picket
it cannel be chsagedor sold at an Maimed rate. The
great social importer's* of this mode of supply is
evident from the magnitude of Mears. Hornimans
connection, being imperilled in the guide of the tea
trade.

AT SEA upon • SMALL RAPT. —On Woodsy the
revenue cutter Boost was cruising off Cork harbour, on
the usual patrol duty now carried on, when about dusk
the look-out man notioed whet appeared to be a raft
MALMO( seaward. The stutter was hove to and sailed in
the direction. On coming closer their suspicion was
eonfirmed, and a man wee seen on a raft. They picked
him nit, and it appeared from his staterment that he was
• merman on board the J. H. Duffue, which is at present
lying in that harbour. The vessel is outward bound,
with iron, for New York, and rho arrived in the harbour
on the 14th Feb., with small pox on board, the Crease
having broken out • few days after the vessel's departure
from Newport. He assigned no reason for leering his
ship, and the re men handed him over to his
captain. Had he not been so fortunately fallen in with,
It is quite probable that the man would have been
drowned, for it was blowing so strong off the land he
could not bays got to the shore. The raft was com-
posed of four deals Inward together, and it appears that
the man put off from his ship with the knowledge of
some of his fellow-seamen. tiome months ago two sea.
men deserted in • similar manner from their ship, which
was also lying at Cork, and they have not shim been
beard of.

Iliwirrintra. Mitten/tn.—about one hundred and
eights members of the Conservative party assembled at
the official residence of Mr. Disraeli on Wednesday for
the purpose of expressing confident* in the right hon.
gentleman in his new position, and sympathy for the
Earl of Derby on his retirement from official life. Mr.
Disraeli met with a most enthusiastic reception, and
delivered, we ere told, • very animated speech. The
right bon. gentleman reminded his supporters of the
fast, which must long ago have been patent to all of
them, that the Conservative party were in • minority.
and that as difficult and important questions would
arise they must not expose smooth sailing. In referring
to the leading queioria of the day, the right hon.
gentlemen espressed his belief that by mutual for-
bearance the Government wonhi be able to carry the
Scotch arid Irish Reform Bills to • satisfactory pane.
He declined to state what the Government scheme was
for removing the grievance. of Ireland, but he believed
I that when it come to be telly eapleined by the Chief
Secretary Or Ireland on the ouseeion of the discussion to
be Initiated by Mr. Magnin it would be found to give
satisfaction. Sir John Thdlope and Sir Mains
Maxwell, Bart., wired Mr. Disraeli that the coufidence
which had hitherto been reposed In him would be con •
tinned, and the greatest unanimity ehenpeterieed the
promedings.

A Marantotruc Flea= mans to be menu to the
North, if one may judo from the advertiaemeut pewee
of the Scotsmen. In the "courtship corner. of that
otherwise sedate and decorous jouroa, o moon a
timorous advertisers may daily be found sighing (in small
type it no much • line) for connubial sympathy. Every
rank of life seems to be equally 'mitts,t with the ete,e
peentooste yearnings, from the "foes domestic servants,
who wish to correspond with four eagineers or Jolson"
to the "gentleman, ap twenty-seven, residing in a
beautifully situated boom two maestro. &meaty town,
wbo is desirous of meeting with an eligible young lady
of good position, who would mote • Pleasant eompanine
for life ; money no consideration, the edeeitioei. hay.
ample funds ;* nod the "Kentish Lady (aged ue), gind
personal appearance, and amiable temperament, pee-
owed of moderate fortune • wishes to correspond with
a gentleman of stead habits, and of domestic taste,
with
viewto I." Tints is an Arcadian
stropUoity in the appeal of the "sheep Anon
killable sarcomata/toss who (sellout to foreieb,eood who
evidently thinks that while hots about it he may as well
include among other articles of (limiters "a young lady
under twenty-five." 'Two oonsineraa toottomoo•
betray the instincts of trade in their search for two
young ladles " with own* in•aba" and the "young
bwaring • high position in the legal pro-
who wishes to And • wife not szsssdlng
',flinty, and poseeased. of an annual inoome of at least
rether by his wasps-
nn a plainly of opinion that love in the "abstract"
ITylo very well in its way, but matrimony should be
based on more substantial considerations. As for the
ladia,tbe ret inconsit m to
julFe • man
then'tion Two /nand Wile., • blonde and
brunette, under twenty, considered pretty," nigh for
military men 'the.. young Wise, considered ray
handsome, of audible disposition" and
moopen—aged respectively sevantese, ninelneen, and
twenty-ono-1f"to correspond with three spaced opts-
a.m., with a view to elndrilnonY ;" and" two domestic
servants" ham set their hearts, one on a tradesman' and
the other on a seaman. The apnoea, ofw
misfortane hods • "Jilted roans to offer
Non to • "jilted istwvalletsaL" But, wimps, the
mast „„,,, sod hwoiwoo-uss advertissaieni of al is the
of Tow Lady Welded, about 1111•11614011 or
sysksse, to go So Mil oa the 14414"

ALL NT Ern.—let Rustle (fuddled). "D..'. loy.
DID, Joe r 2nd ditto (ditto)," Nos, • doesn't love thee.*
lot ditto, " Watt for desert: love ma, Jeer gsg ditto
"Cos thee squints." Ist ditto, "That'. iny mitfortaii
lad." 2nd ditto, " Noe, ars new this iniefertaist,' IGO
UMW darn'd ignorance l"—Judy.
Tits &mut papers announce that the sentosse passed
on Mr. Johnston., of Ballykilbom for a biota el the
Party Processions Act, had been remittal by the Lord
Lie.t....L The grand jury of Doss forwarded •
memorial to his Excellene7 on Monday ia M jobs.
stone's favour, and on intimation proceeded from that
gentleman himself implying his submission to the law.
TRINTKINT Or TOO SICK Pooe.—A medical RDDII6.
man, named Gale, "attended" • woman at Poplar, by
deputy, taking the report of bar symptoms epos trust
from his alotarit. She received a few pills, ebb&
(act,
nwtetentlony
inynsuiod.uted
i.dto lito•rmeognrclaivtiaown,hanerdsa, in.
ipoisitsaad
hasten her death. Finally she died of negle and
straegulotod hernia. Mr. Gale's answer to the *barge
against him is, that his agreement obliges him to "see"
400 patients •-clay, and that he is compelled to appoint
enigmas. From Isis own amount, and from the
admitted facts. it Molest that he was greatly overworked
and underpaid. But is he not at least as much to blame
as the guardians foe accepting, without the MOLDS of
fulfilling it, such a respotisibility?
A NOW WAY OP POPPING THZ Q0=17031.-11111
following advertisement, which at least pommies the
merit of plain speaking, appears in • Glasgow Sewn-
paper:—" Matrimoey.—l beg to intimate that I want •
respectable woman to become my wife. She moat have
• good aharairter, and be • good writer: not less than
thirty, had not MONO than forty yours of era Having
been illused by a few of the fair es:, I now wish to
settle down is life. This is the 1.. t time any woman
will have this oiler—if they don't apply DOW they will
Ices the chums. Having published three volumes of
my life, and having travelled through the three
kingdoms, and • part of the United States sad Canada,
there is no doubt but I will make a vei7 interesting
husband. Apply by latter, enclosing carte de visite, or
personally, to —.

Tea Formal-mimes ALIIIJAO.—To dream of •
millatooe about your neck is • sign of what you may
expect if you marry Cu extravagant wife. It is very
lucky to dream that you pay for • thing twice over;
since over afterwards you will probably take we to
have your hilts reosiptod. Tor • person in embarrassed
eiremenstanees to drama this be is Amsted is very
fortunate, for it is • introits' to him on no aceoant to
aosspli bilL To dream of Ire is • sign that—if yea
are wise—you will see that all the lights in your house
are out before you go to bed. To dream that your noes
Ii red bib. tip is an intimation that you bad better
leave brandy for water. To dream of having • great
numbs of servanto is—madness. To dream of • bear
betokens mischief, which your vision shows you is a
brans. When a fashionable young lady dreams of •
i!=lii is • sign that her thoughts an s numing on the
t If you dream of clothes it is • warning not to
go to law; for by the role of ooner•ries, you will be sure
of • consult. When a young la4y dreams of a *Ain, it
betokens that she should instantly discontinue tight
stays, and always go warmly dad in wet weather.

_
ILL DISSAII.I AID LO-ILD ROBULL.—Tba Prime
Minister writes to the papers :—Lord Russell observed
oa Thursday night, in the Mouse of Lords, that I
boasted at Edinburgh that, while during seven years
I opposed • reduction of the borough franchise, I had
been all that time educating my party, with the view of
bringing about • much greater reduction of the franchise
than that which my oppouents had proposed." As •
Finer I rule, I never notice misrepresentations of what
may have said, but, as thia *barge against me
was made in an august assembly, and by • late
That Minister of the Crown, I will not refrain from
observing that the charge las no foundation. Nothing
of the kind was said by me at Edinburgh. I
said there, that the Tory party, after the failure of
their bil of 1859, bad been educated for seven
years on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, and
during that inter eel bad arrived at Am conclusions,
which, with their authority, I had at various times ask.
notinoed. via.; 1. That the measure should be coat-
pliste.-2. That the rqweesatation of no place should be
entirely abrogated. That there most be a real
boundary comenimion.-4. That the county represents.
tion should be oonsidembly incressed.-5. That the
borough franchise should be established on the principle
of rating. And that these Ivo points were accomplished
in the Act of 1867. This is what I said at Edinburgh;
and it is true.

" G•ootegt" ii TI NAVY.—A Portsmouth jury 000 e
sat on the body of • sailor shot in the act of desertion,
and, making a little mistake in the directions which the
coroner gave them, they delivered as their verdict thal
"He just died. with • hole in hie aide." A naval court;
martial on board her Majesty's chip Aboukir has some
to much the same sort of decision about • seaman, of
the Favourite, who was lately put to death with no.
body to blame. It seems that the unlucky man-o'-war's-
man was ordered to be ragged; and in the process of
gagging him, the administrators of that penalty
were unfortunate enough to strangle him outright.
On the court-martial, however, everybody was
" honourably acquitted"—ao ; we beg pardon ! the
lint lieutenant was honourably acquitted. and the
maatermaarma was merely acquitted. The public
would Ilk* to share the grounds of this delightful eon.
elusion. It mama such an intolerable thing that an
English sailor should be strangled with a gag, that we
must ask how it could have happened without the
shadow of blame resting on any one. While we are
about it, we would also ea "My Lords" how long
gagging has been prescribed by the Admiralty regula-
tions, and for what abloom a sailor can be paged, with
a chance of strangulation? At present the details of the
trilling misfortune on board the Favourite aim not made
public; but sings, the court-martial has advised for the
future medical attendance sad a special sentry, al ap-
eurtenaeees of the gag, them set be aeraetbieg
terestini in the punishwient.--aport from such • passing
triviality as the life of an Englishman ; and we shall be
sled, therefore, If • wirmber of Parliament will move for
Information on the matter.

MEL•NCHOLT CAA. OF 8 21011. An inquest
was held before Dr. Lankeeter, on the bodies of Charles
Arthur Tullet, aged seven, sad Frederick John Toilet,
aged five. They were the children of • whitesmish.
Roth had been sickly for several years, but since
Christmas, through the inner of their father, and his
inability to work, they had been slowly 'tarring. The
elder of the deseased was sit idenly seised with a fit ooe
day last week, and while his mother was nursing him
the younger fell ill. They were both laid upon the
same bed, and died within a short time of each other.
Two other sons were earnisg wastes, and after paying
rent the family had three shilling' left upon which to
live. The father applied for relief to St. Pancras work-
house, which was refused micas he, with the whole of
hi, family, went into the workhouse. " I lived in hope
of bettering ourselves," said the father, "and I felt that
I eould not break up my home. I tried to struggle on."
Work In the stoneyard was offered to the father
at 9d. per day, but this he was phydoilly unable
to do. The mother bad also applied for relief, at
• time when her husband had been out of work for sin
soothe and ill, but was refused. There were several
witnesses who gave the wants the highest character
for sobriety and cleanliness; and their landlady, who
had rendered them constant help, said only one week's
rent was owing. Two medial men were walled, and in
acoordanee with their evidenes verdicts of "death from
convulsions by starvation," and "death from &terve-
tion" were returned. The coroner said it was • very
melancholy ease, and raised the question as to whether
" parish relier was a mitheraer or a truth. The
prethat eine was one that might hare been relieved by
the pariah without exacting penalties, and so prevent
"starvation of children in • Christian lend." The Jury
made a eolleetion amongst themselves, and handed Kr.
Toilet el ; and the comer remarked that be was
entirely unfitted for farther work for his family.
SOLDIaLIi LCD iiilLoaL —lt is • sad fact that, with
better clothing and better food than fall to the lot of
the masses of the population, the mortality In the
army and navy is greater than amongst civilians. This
startling fast has been sal/neatly proved in most
oountries. One cause of Meese is probably want of
occupation begetting vim ; but at the same time, it may
be questioned whether the remedies employed for the
cure of actual disease are always appropriate or calm-
lated to achieve the s.esired resale We remember a
striking instance to the point. It is well known that
• very large per oentage of ear troops is orostantly
rendered ineffective by the two prominent diathesis
with which nature castigates liattiousness. We
had the fact to which we allude from the patient
himself. He said be sailed from India in a
dilapitated state of health, after trying all the
remedies prescribed by authority to no effect, when,
his condition being perceived by an old Indian
officer, he induced him to try Holloway's pills and
Ointment. Th• patient had no faith in the thing.
and assented to the trial in the belief that, tithe
medicines did bins no good they could not certainly
make him worse than be was. Great, however, and
most agreeable was his surprise to find almost imme-
diate relief from the very remedies which he had been
accustomed to laugh at, as a mere catch-penny.
quaek-produotion and ridiculous nostrum I "In a few
weeks," said he, "Holloway's Pills and Ointmentcured
me completely." Facts are proverbiably stubborn
things, and one like the present, attested to an acknow-
ledged scoffer, and eommuniosted to one totally in.
different to the matter, speaks volumes in favour of
Professor Holloway's remedies, to which so many
millions are grateful, for death prevented and health
reelored. To no clam of men have the remedies
been more invaluable than to emigrants, so often
doomed in a far distant land to suffer from other-
wise Incurable diseases! ; and these everywhere testify
to their prioeless benefit and uniform success. Accord-
ing to statistics in the possession of Thomas Holloway,
the tint settler' cant out to Grand River by the New
England Company in 183.23, were required to provide
themselves with • household medicine of their own
choice. Their choice was Holloway's two world-
famous remedies, henceforth to be never•forvtten
items in the emigrant's deny. With such faces before
us—and we might add many more—oast we doubt
that the name of Holloway will be knows in after ages
an the watchword of health mid strength and im-
munity from disease, when even Harvey, Abernathy,
Astley Cooper, and Broils, are forgottea.—Golesial
Corrapookiesit.