The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-05-04 00:00:00

BUNKER'S HILL EXPLOSION.
Nehemiah Sumner, son of the maasger, died this
(Monday) morning.

TIIE ALLEGED lAAB (Ho WKS. BEAGLE.
The Admiralty have received no confirmation of the lOU
of H. M.S. Mule, ant state that as she is on an Australian
station she could not have been lost on the Phillipine
Islands.

TILE PRINCE OF WALES AND TILE
FREEMASONS.
UOME, SATURDAY NIORT.
The Unitii Cott°lira has a leading article full of bitter
comment upon the installation of the Prince of Wales as
Grand Master of the Freemasons. It identifies Anglican
Protestantistu with Masonry, and says that the two must
stand or fall together.

111111DElt 1W A TICKET.OF•IXAVE MAN.
(In Friday. a miner. residing at Moylanibconnnon, about
five nail. from Barnsley. died in consequence of having.
during a quarrel. been stabliol in tbe belly by a collier
named John Kirby. a ticket-uf.leave titan, having on one
occasion been sentenced to littren year's penal servitude

CoNSECRATRIN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
tin Saturday (saint Philip and St. James's Day) the Rev.
Samuel Thornton, RD., rector of St. George's, Binning.
hatu, was consecrated 144 the first Bishop of the new
Australian See oif Ballarat, in WeAnsinater Abbey. The
Archbishop of Canterbury officiated on the occasion, and
his Grace was it-sisteil in the laying on of hands by the
Bishops of London. Nlelbourne, and Goulhunt

'ItEIATItiN AT TAUNTON.
Three (aft ige. wore entirely destroyed by fire in the
village of Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton, on Friday. In one
was the corpse of v iu..o ironed Major, which was nearly
consumed by the tire. the head and bones and the upper
part of the trunk being all that was left. Major, who
went by the name iif Thomas Thomas, was an old man,
arid wiis found dead in his bigl on Thursday evening. It
RSA thought that he was very poor, and barely able to
support hiseLelf ; but in his room were discovered
ativereitrns and notes to the value of nearly 0.30, and by,
his he 41.1 to way a six-ehambered breechlouling revolvec
and a lax of cartridge+.

MAY DAY AT NOTTINGHAM.
A novel May Day festival was held in the Mechanics'
Hailing Saturday night by the menders of the Band of
Hope Society, The Wilding was splendidly decorated
with flowers. and the inoceelings were conducted in old
May failion, a little girl being crowned Queen of the day
amidst the sluicing of appropriate chorussw by live hundred
children.

MAY DAY IN MANCHESTER.
May Day was celebrated here by the usual procession
of carriers' horses and waggons. Two or three thousand
gaily citimirisoned animals were turned out ma many as 20
being attached to e.nell of several lumes laden with
pit.reA &I machinery, boilers, or piles of merchan-
dise. The ceremony, which attracted an immense crowd
of spectators, passed oil without accident The forenoon
was fine, but before the procesdon had quite broken up
rain began to Lilt and continued until pest midnight.

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AN IPSWICH I'IIARAUTEIL
A tailor, aged 1:2. named Sheldrake, who for 14 years has
been a completely hypoehondriae, committed suicide in
the Gipping early ..o Friday looming. One of his deltp
ions was that Ilk brain was diseased, and for the lad four
years lie had attended at the surgery of the parish doctor,
sometimes going as many as four or five times in a day.
jle would %.ith equal regularity appear at the other
surgeries in the town anti at the hospital, besides purchas-
ing quack medicine.