The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-02 00:00:00

8.111130 N.

The Lon.lon Gazette of Dlay oth states that Major
Godfrey Itusscll, of Kinson, resigns his commission,
awl is granted the honorary rank of lieutetuint colonel,
and is permitted to wear the mitforio of his regiment on
account of his naval and other services.

XOTCONBE.

TiIF, I'aTrtg Disgasit.--The following letter from Mr.
V. F. Benett-Staliforil, M.P., appear: in the Times
flay I lay before your readers a eau which ha, this week
come wider my personal experience? A fanner of the luau
of Hall, at Mutonnbe. the a4Jining parish to my own, bought
In i nob beams at Wilton fair, • fortnight ago. St 'thin a week
the foot-and-mouth inflow broke out among thft.., of the
annuals, and he has already loot six, and nut mill, are the
remaining thirteen in a moot wretched state, entirely wilit tor
use for the dairy. but the whole of his home herd are now
attacked with this Mamma Three days ago ut cral 01 these
Infected animals broke through • gap in the fence, and strolled
along the highway to Mere for a distance 01 these or four
Wes, mid doubtlees in • few days we shall hear that the whole
district Is infected with the diocese. Sow, what the farmer.
in this neighbourhood my Is, that if only the ft-stsictions
which were ha force last year were to be In force this y oar, all
such cases of terolinenem as this would be stopped. and they go
further, and unanimousty are of opinion that if only all country
fairs were to be prohibited during Mn,, and June, the disease,
If tot completely kept under, wetzld at least be diminished to
• iery great extent ; also, that if Use Irish cattle trade to
Bristol and other porta on this Wife of the 'PA. Georgife
Manuel were subjected to strict inspection mot proper revie-
w,. as pi overcrowding and ventakithei. the to,t-mai.monih
disease, which Iwo now broken out au.l will eertaini). tlreati
over Deraelallire, woald, Leonid, and •hould 1,, sunniest I
venture to hope that if only a more universally expressed
! ltukol up by wellauthenticated statistics, oiuld be
•spressiol, Ind only wind! J..u, air, be Inclined U. change your
opinion, bet the Blake of s iclunond nii,.••ht be induced to again
give us those pow ers ,if rmtrfcti.n Which last per we ron•
shier.' were of to much bonellt ;11 ;rti.sting this plague. The
port of Bristol has always been the marthw point 01 the foot-
awl-mouth disease in the western counties, gist It Ms almost
always appeared in Slay and June, seal if only the rentrictions
could be taken which I have referred to, we should save
enormously in our meat supply, to my nothing of the rise of
Ice in cheese and butter which certainly will occur no soon as
Ike Mese, bpreads. Mr. Stiodonl whbi the follow -ling post.
writs Since writing the above I have Information, on which
I cab rel 3, that Mr. Hall has Ist another .4 his Irish cows,
making seven out .4 the 12 he bought at Wilton fair, and that
the disssise hatn already bn.keii ..ut on the farms of three of
his neighbours. I admit this is an exceptionally severe case,
both as to mortality anal infection, but it is tame the less true
or lees Ileflulle

BILLDPORT.
Masoxic.—A Freemason of this town h-v recently
collected the noble sum of .1:0.1 on behalf of the Royal
llasonie fristitution ("r aim' Freemasons. Mrs. Walling
font. of Wimlsorne, the wife of a very old Freetnason, has
just been elected an annuitant of the above institution,
by oUiel. 2•lte will receive a pen. of £3O per annum for
life. A log, of the same town, has just been admitted to
the Masesue Boys' Mehool. •

710-; DISOWNIM.--On lraumiay even:W.l a baY la"ac't
lianderil,_whote 'nether he hat uo father- rodiles in a
house at the lower port of East-.trent, Bridport, feU iflt
the pond at the hat. has ueor Hawker II Mill, and the body
was only reeovered by the aid uf grappling hooka It had
then been in the water half-an-hour.