The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-06 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

(WlLSmwmOkromm—TheTmastiubudemulded
a return of all Government servants engaged in co-
operative societies or banks.
Ausiccrvaax.—Sir William Harcourt at Oxford
advised agriculturists to keep in view absolute freedom
in cultivation of the soil, complete security for invest-
ment of capital, and absolute freedom of disposition in
the property of the soil.
A workhouse chaplain's salary was to be reduced at
Bridgwater, in comequence of agricultural depression;
other boards of guardians tried to follow the exatgell
but the reductions were not sanctioned by the
Government Board._

Main AND TR' BIBLZ TRANALATORR.—Sir Henry
layard hag impended official relations with the Porte
for its vindictive measures against two Bible
translators, one of whom is a hitissulman priest.
"Semi-official" intercourse is maintained.

New Acrrs roa Tile New YIAIL------The-iollowing acts
came into operation on New Year's Day—Summary
Juriadiction, Public Prosecutions, Employment of
Children in Public Amusement, also the Petroleum
Act. Mr. Maul., 4.0., is Public Pro ecutor; but
no other of the machinery for the Act is scrested.
It is stated from Constantinople that Sir H. Layard
considers the result of his interview with the Sultan to
be satisfactory. Mr. Koeller's papers are to be
restored, and Ahmed TewSk is to he temporarily
rimoved to a town in the interior, in order to secure
him against popular agitation.
News from ?Sew York announces the arrival of MAP.
Parnell and Mr. Dillon. They were welcomed by the
Reception Committee and the Executive Committees,
and addresses were read to which they replied. Mr.
Parnell is said to have stated that the Land
League ask for £-1,000 from America to carry on the
agitation.
A shocking story comes from the lying-hi ward of a
London workhouse. A young woman delirious with
high fever was *Rowel to run about all over the
ward, and when the nurses complained, the doctor
allowed the girl to go out. She came back raving ma I.
and was sent to a multi...um. Names of all concerned
are said to be fist nishel to the Pall Mall
so, a Poor Law enguiry ought to be mule.
At the next annual conference of the Licensed
Victuallers a formal resolution will be moved in favour
of the trade doing something to justify its name by
supplying victuals to cu.domers. The luncheon move.
ment has made wonderful progress of late years, both
in London and the provinces, but much, indeed every-
thing, has to be done by many members of the trade
before they can do:aerate themselves, save in a non-
natural sense, as victuallers. —Echo.
Tax AYOILAN WAIL—The committee of the Peace
sot:lmi says :—" We accept the abdication of the
puppet sovereign we had created, and send him as
prisoner to India, while we treat the whole nation,
who did not submit unresistingly to an armed invasion
of their country by us, as rebels against his authority.
On the ground of this assumption we deny them all
civil and military rights, and commence a system of
terrorism, which can only find a parallel in the worst
times of barbarian conquest. May we ask you,
countrymen. whether you are willing such proceed-
tngs as these should be carried on in your name? Do
you approve of converting British soldiers into hang.
men, and of employing them to spread indiscriminate
havoc and devastation among the homes of a people
whose main offence is that they dare to dislike our
presence in their country, and to offer an asylum to
their hunted neighbours for whose heads rewards were
offered by the British authorities ? "
England is not the only place for inverses tempting to
suicide. John Fairchild, of Bristol, in Illinois, U.S. suffered
lames, and being a jovial fellow, finished his morning's
stable work, then hung himself up. When found his
work was finished for this life
The chamm in the French Government continue to
stir up the Germans. The '' Cologne Gazette " considers
kl_de Freycinet a disciple of Garnbetta, who will always
striye. to recover Lorraine and Aimee.

--kfith7M—Sirdrrs- soug— ht the hospitality of Russia, after
their flight from CabuL
me Gorman Railway Administrative Union after
examining closely the conditions under which the wheel
tires of railway carriages break during severe frosts, have
resolved to over •
,prise, equal to C5OO sterling, for
preventing those accidents, or so to adjust the tires that
It will be become absolutely impossible for thorn to
become seriously damaged.
A steam crane tore to pieces a youth who vu cleaning
it at Sutton liarbeur, Plymouth. Re was inside the
machinery, when it was started through his foot catching
• valve.
Wives have been put on the same footing as their
husbands as to divorce cases, in New South Wales.
Many million acres of pastoral land have been
covered in Australia, by an expedition which crossed the
north-west_

-17u;:C011iery where an explosion killed five men on
Christmas Eve, candle, were used. At the inquest the
mane inspector said safety lamps should have been used,
or the men withdrawn.
Last week the Irwell rose, flooded the lower parts of
Manchester, and stopped the trafic between there and
Sheffield.

Ho—rrocks's mill last week, a youth tried to put a
trap on a pulley, contrary to rules. He was caught,
carried round the pulley, and killed.
Liberationists urge that the tliurch of England needs
reforms to be made ; but the time of Parliament ought
not Lobe tht, consumed.

n7lB-0-tiiiie—STEerat has been resumed, the ice having
broken up.
Mr. Pease, M. P.. has confidence in the revival of the
Iron and shipping trades.
Her Majesty has informed the Emperor of Russia of her
acceptance of Prince Lohanoff as Ambassador. and has
further expressed her great satisfaction at his appoint.
meat_

—English girls are cautioned against going to Belguim on
account of any promise*, as there are many cunrung traps
to get them into houses of ill-fame, whence it is almost
Impossible to escape.
Working men in search of employment must not go to
London, where large numbers are out of work. The
Rector of Spitesllields says :—" None of the unemployed
can better themselves in any way by coming to town."
Lauer" dealing with "eating in a draught," and "catch.
log cold, remarks that in the old coaching days facial
wma wall-recognised result of sitting with the
face to the wind at an open window.
Ku) Kirres.—A youryylmarried woman dled at Leeds
on Thursday from hydrophobia, caused by a kitten's
bite.

--
.ClOOO has been received in Dublin for the relief fund.
The Great Western Railway board have contracted for
the completion of the Severs. Tunnel, for about A million
and half. _ _

Commerciel travellers at Manchester resolved to ask for
reduction of the charges for "excess luggue.
For hanging out a flag inviting customers, a Bristol firm
have been fined.
Pauperism has greatly increased in Bristol and the
neighbourhood.
Toe Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh ham visited the
Empress of Russia at Cannes.
Turkish soldiers In Albania beg by day and rob by night,
having received no pay for menthe
Many Russian army officers have been imprisoned on
charges of complicity in the plots of the Nihilista.
A Belgian advocate cheated at cards, and has been
Peace retween Abyssinia and
dismissed by Royal decree.
Egypt is more likely.
from King John having recalled his warlike gellell from
the frontier.
All Tarawa (in South America) is in the hands of the
Chaim.. and it is believed the Peruvians and Bolivians
will now me for peace.
DISTILS:II6 is Lgirgagnll.—The Mayor of Leicester called
the attention of the Council on Thursday to the Devious
distress existing in the borough. The union workhouse
contained 1,950 inmates, and 1,650 more were in receipt of
out-door relief —s, larger number than had been on the list
for some time. Moreover there were no fewer than SOO
middle-class houses empty. involving • Wee to the owners
of £6OOO or 7.ooo:per annum. The Mayor added, the people
were beginning to realise that there was no solid good nor
substantial progress to be obtained from Jingoism.
"Tea PRATER le VMS or Was.--(ro the Editor of
the Deily News )—Bir.—Thav is a portion of our admirable
Liturgy which seems to me not to be very inappropriate
to the Invasion, of Afghanistan and Zululand. The clergy
perhaps might use it with much edification to themselves
and people—a course, under the sanction of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, without which, it would seen, they
hays no authority to offer additional public prayer to (Jul
The syers I rola to belonu to our excellent Commination
taken from the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy,
and we are directed to use them on the first day of Lent:
Minister: Cursed is he that reasoveth his neighbours
land-mark. Answer: Amen.—liinlater : Cursed is he
that maketh the blind to go ant of his way. Answer:
"'
Amen.—Minister: Cursed is he that smiteth his neigh-
bour secretly. Answer: Ames.—Minister: Cursed is be
that taketh reward to slay the innocent And Ist all the
I am, sir, your obedient 'errant, I
riiirr St. George's Vicarage, Wigan, December