The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

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fitnet al Nctos.

84701D1T week wee the 800th anniversary of the
Lt nding of William the Conqueror in Peruse,/ Bay.

The idiot boy who was turned adrift by a paupee
official of the Bt. Pancras workhouse hoe found his way
home.

Ma WILLIAM MILES, Bart., has resigned the ooloneley
of the North Somerset Yeomant7, end it is expected
that it will be taken by the Earl of Cork.

THE HON. ARTHUR PILH•11, part of whose band was
blown off by • gun accident, is programing satifactordy.
The symptoms are sofas favourable. —Baal Sussex New&
Inc Duke of Sutherland's yacht Undine, with the
Duke of Edinburgh on board, stranded On the rocks near
Buryhead harbour (Scotland) on Thursday, but was
got off.

THE late raise in the south of England set in on the
23rd of August, and only reused on the 30th Sept-mher.
Thy therefore lasted with only sbort intervals*, inter-
tutbsion for 38 days.

A Yew days ago • one-pound note was add into
Messrs. Gee's bank. It was dated 1823, and it is Delco.
lated that the bank has been a gainer of £7 101. in the
shape of interest, at 5 per tent, by it/non-circulation.
—Chtlwaford]Ckrosiele.
LOCKING OP PAUPERS WITII CORPSI6—Tbe Northern
Daily Repress says at Gateshead the dreadful practice
has prevailed for years of locking up refractory paupers
with carpets. The deadhouse of the Gateshead work.
bones has done duty also under a grim economy as a
prisoner's cell I
FALL ONII HUNDRED AND Ft/TT Fur! DoWg •
WILL—On Tuesday morning John Turnbull, engineman
at the Falwell Works of the Sunderland and South
Shields Water Company. fell down the shaft, which ia
about 200 feet deep. It appears that some repairs were
doing in the shaft, and 'heathen was on a plank across
the mouth, when be fell to the bottom, a depth of 150
feet. He was brought up alive, but died in the course
of the day.
A etacturdta suicide has been committed in the
Minories by the wife of the captain of a Chinese trader.
Her husband has been absent for eighteen months, and
on his return he upbraided her for her estraysgance.
She took refuge under a falsehood, pretending that she
had deposited some of the money in • Scotch bank.
The fear of detection preyed on her mind, and she
poisoned herself. The jury found that she destroyed
herself while temporarily insane.

A II Floxirrcomi.— As Master Noche, son of
Mr. James Roche, of this town, was engaged in a room
of Norwood House, on 'Tuesday evening, his attention
was directed to the floor by a swarm of bees, and on
closer examination he discovered under the timber
flooring • mass of hooey, weighing over one hundred
and twenty pounds, the fruits of many years' industry
of the busy insects. The proper precautions having
been taken, the monster honeycomb was made secure by
the fortunate ander.—Nosagh Guardiqs.
Miss Mamie states that among the labours of love
undertaken where cholera has been meet severe, perhaps
not the least in point of self-sacrifice have been Chow
of • band of 213 poor women, under the guidanee of the
benevolent author of The Missing Link. Mothers of
families, as many of them are, not ono has shrunk from
nursing, gratuitously, the sufferers by day and by night,
and when two of those "bible-women" were them-
selves seized with cholera, the mothers around vied with
each other in returning their fearless kindness.
TRI Tines urges that as the prohibition against
smoking in railway carriages is universally disregarded,
the oompsnies should at once caned their obsolete
regulation, recognise what they cannot present, and ,
control what they cannot abolish. In other words, they '
should provide separate carriages for smokers and non-
smokers. The new arrangement might cost the com-
panies a little trouble, but as it is established in Germany,
where there is more smoking than in England, lemma
involve any insurmountable ddliculty.

Paormana Fawntrr, one of the member. for Brigh-
ton, is in favour of compulsory education. In a speech
delivered by him the other day, at the distribution
of prises given by the Union of Lancashire and
Cheshire Icatituter, in the Fria Trade Mall,
chester, he advocated the extension of the educational
clauses of the Factory Act to every branch of industry.
In speaking of the infiitenee of Mechanics' Instituted, he
expreosed an opinion that too much in the way of edit.
eating the people bad been expected from them. lie
did not think they bad been a failure, as seemed to be
the common opinion ; but their fell benefit would not
bo reaped until a national system of education was
establiahed.

A RtILIVAT TIME Ov FIRL —Great alarm was felt
on Wednesday night in Carlisle in consequence of a fire
which was observable in tl.o Aation 11 the Si!loth line.
It appears that • goods train from Silloth was composed
principally of five trucks laden with straw, which had
been brought from the neighbourhood of Birkbride. A
spark from the engine had ignited the 'trim, and on the
arrival of the train at Carlisle it was discovered that the
whole five trucks were on fire. They were conveyed
under a hydrant, and water played open them, but the
are could not be aubdued. The straw was entirely
consumed, and the woodwork of the carriage was
totally destroyed, little more than the wheels and axles
being left standing.
THE Gloegusurr have shown most commendable
promptitude in dealing with the French extradition
case, in which irregular means are alleged to have been
employed to secures prisoner. The Daily News says It
Is understood that the Foreign. Alice have received the
petition presented by M. Lunirande to our Ambassador
at Paris, and Lord Stanley bu promised that the case
shall have big immediate and hut attention. Lord
Carnarvon has also declared himself folly alive to the
importance of the case, and is taking the necessary
measures for instituting • strict inquiry into the conduct
of those who have so grossly outraged British law.

WOADMOL EaCAPL—A little girl shout six years
of age narrowly escaped • frightful death on the Great
Western Railway • few days ago. Elbe wan in the dam
of her parents, who were passengers by an excursion
train from London i and while the train was proceeding
at fall speed the door, against which the child had been
leaning, Sew open, ancl ahe fell upon the line. The
Pengbourne station was about two miles distant, and on
the train reaching that plate the railway authorities
were mule &ovulated with what bed occurred. Men
were dispatched in search of the girl, who was sone
met, and, strange to say, she bad escaped without
injury beyond • scratch or so resulting from her falling
upon the hard ground, and shortly afterwards she
resumed her journey with her friends.

Ti EXPLOSION OP PASAPPIN OIL—Mr. G. IL
Bliss says : The late explosion in London arose from
the feet of the wick being turned up too high. When
that lithe cams, the brucwork of the lamp becomes
bested, and the heat runs down the bran reservoir, and
consequently warm. the oil, which is Ums re.4..real
coplonve. If by accident the wick la turned up too
high, and you wish to put the lamp out, the best way
Is to turn it down until it goes out. Th. flame is extin-
guished directly. By no means attempt to blow it out.
flood oil should not ignite at the usual temperature it is
sold st ; but if the temperature is raised, it is then
rendined Mammal's, and if weaned in a lamp, it is
liable to explode, but certeinly should not ignite upon a
plate, and no beat applied to it beforehand.

PURRETTA IMPROVED CORKING MACHINE. This
machine is constructed for expeditiously and thoroughly
corking bottles of slmost every kind, and is especial!,
adapted for bottling wines, ales, spirit., &a, ha
It is no simple and well-arranged in its construction
that it may be altered to suit the height of the different
use, of bottles. The two levers, hand and foot, working,
at the sem) time, moderate the pressure so evenly that
there is no risk of breaking the bottlesas in the ordinary
method. It is so easily worked that • person unac-
customed to bottling may by its use bottle equal to the
most experienced bottler. Price of machine £2 2...—
Sole inventor and proprietor, J. Parrett, Banwell,
Somerset. " Ilanufacturer of Purrett's Improved Cider
Coloring."
A MAX BURIED ALSVII AT DERBT.—A very zed
affair occurred at Derby on Wednesday afternoon.
About two o'clock • labourer named Owen had just
taken his "shift" in • sewer 13 feet deep that is bang
made from Osmaston-road to Normanton-road, when,
through the sides of the sewer not being propped, •
iLreat quantity of earth fell and buried him underneath.
The men engaged on the job at once made every effort
to rescue him, bat just when their efforts were being
crowned with success there was • second fall of earth
and then • third fall. It was two hours before the poor
fellow was extricated, and life wee then quits extinct;
indeed, he had been deed some time. Mr. Lindley,
surgeon, was in attendance the whole of the time, along
with Mr. Hilton, heed constable, and • number of
Pelola but although several times the man's body was
half clear from the soil, he could never be thoroughly
extricated until life was extinct. He was in the tmploy
of Mr. Jackson, local board of health contractor.
A PzinaN Row IN LIVERPOOL,—At the Liverpool
Police Court on Thursday, Charles Lee, Cecilia Lee, and
James Caine, were shagged with having dangerously
wounded and moulted two men, named Patrick Coffee
and Thomas Malone, neither of whom were able to
appear. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners
had in the beginning been the aggrieved parties, for
Coffee and idis went on Teed., night to • court in ,
Rinse-plain, and commenced singing Fenian amp,to the
great sonoysnoe of several of the neighbours. They also
used • variety of insulting expremions to the prisoners.
who ling in the net.. Wring them to ROM out to light
and stating that they had • bottle of stuff with them
which would burn down the plass if necessary. The
;cisme' hook no Dodos ol Am, and they then smoehed