The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-15 00:00:00

TRADE IN SOUTH AVAI.S.
A strike of tramwomen hitherto engaged a iitirnmes.
has had the effect of donning the ouPPli of fuel to the
adjacent iron works, where the mills and forges hare
bcen stopped, and hundreds of men consequently thrown
out At Ebbw Vale there j an increaaed activity. The
only local line of railway now showing a decrease, when
compared with the similar period last year, is the Penarth
Harbour Railway.

POISONING lint A IIAT
A peculiar case of poisoning occurred lately at Stettin.
On the day before Mit-Sunday a shoemaker bought a
felt hat. After wearing it. Illthmigh It did not press on
his head, be hail severe headache ; and an eruption
appeared attended with swelling on his forehead, Pro-
reeling to suppuration at some Tarts. The eyes also
became inflamed and ahnost closed ; and the swelling
extended more or less over the whole face. The hat was
placed in the hanils of an official analyst, who found that
the brown-leather lining was coloured with an aniline dye
containing poison. —Brit ish Medical Journal.

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A TERRIFIC EARTHQUAKE
From information received at Constantinople respecting
the late earthquakes in Asia Minor. it appears that in the
whole district of Ishikli. scarcely fifty houses are left
standing. in a village of 2,000 inhabitants not a house
escaped, and 501) bodies were dug nut of the ruin.. Only
fifteen houses and two mosques were left standing in the
town of Ishikli, which previously contained more than a
thousand buildings, and many lives were lost.

WEST SUFFoLK ELECTION.
The nomination for West Suffolk took place on Thurs-
day. The following were nominated :—Colonel Fuller
Maitland Wilson. of Stowandoft-hall. Bury St. FA da.
Conservative, proposed by John Henry lfighani, Eau.,
Hurdnn-hall. seconded by George Gaylord, farmer,
Barrow; Charles Easton, Emig., of Holton-Hall, Suffolk.
Liberal, proposed by William Angeratein, E.g.. of
Brandon, seconded by John Itedley, of Bury St. Edmunds.
The polling takes place on Tuesday and the declaration on
Wednesday, at Bury St. Edmunds. The Conservatives
are confident of success, and the Liberals are very hopefuL

A VICAR WITH THE BIBLE CHRISTIANS.
Presiding at the reopening of a Bible Christian chapel in
Faversham, the Vicar, in the course of his speech, remarked
M follows: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and
therefore we should be very chary of making use of party
names. Besides, we may be mistaken. But a short time
''‘onervati.,ve TS,U4 was for makin
out Mr. Gladstone to be • rno. g
him a written confession of faith. But he bided his time,
and refused to hand over his conscience to a layman any
more than he would to a priest, and it was reserved for
him to deal the greatest blow to the Papacy that has
occurred in our day."

INCIDENTS OF AN ASHTON WEDDING.
On Wednesday an inquest was held at A,liton on the
body of Elizabeth Long. On Tuesday %seek the deceased
was married at Ashton to a tailor named John Long.
After the wedding they drove to Hyde in a cab, and they
came home in the evening drunk. The woman was so
helpless that she had to be carried into the house by her
husband. He set her in a chair, and went out to an
adjoining public-house to pay the cabman. On returning
he found that the drop-latch had by some means got
fastened. and he could not get in. He got a ladder to
enter the house by the bedroom window, but he fell from
the ladder and had to lie carried into a neighbouring
honse. A girl afterwards got into the house, and she
found the deceased lying at the bottom of the stairs with
her head in a pool of blood. The woman was insensible,
and she remained in that condition till Monday night,
when she died. The opinion id the jury was that she had
attempted to go upstairs, and had fallen backwards on to
the stone floor. A verdict of " Accidental death" was
returned.