The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-31 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1875,

s!amersetstirc. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
1 A dreadful accident omitted on Saturday night on the
' Midland Railway at Kildwick Station, sixteen miles north
Ma. lIIENRT GENT has been lintsl £3 13a oilo at Brhlii• of Bradfoni, between the faat train from Scotland and an
water, for having two pig+ infected with the foot STI.I excursion train returning from Morecombe to Bradfonl.
mooth disease and nut giving notice of the !MHO tO •
tho The exc.irsion tr.dn left, 51orecombe for Bradford at 5.50
polict. On psaing l'onielley Station, a mil and
e a half from
CHARLES Br Knows has been senteneed by the Brides kit hock.
water magistrates to II ihsys' hard labour tor throwing hail eiiiiir ont. .t telegram was imniediately sent to
et""" a • Pa,aeuser train on the Bristol and Exeter Kildwiels ti stop and essmine the train, A party was in
it wa, noticed that the Mil lamps of the train
Railway. the act of re lighting the lamps when the Scotch express
Ariliere CHILD Mreeliati—A fariorY rid l. at Frnmo, &wiled int o the rear of thc excursion train, smashing two
named Keturn Collins, is milted for trial for the , nor three wriag es, and tive of the passenger,' were killed
wilful murder of her illegitiniste rhild. The infant was ou the spot, seven or eight were severely injured, ula.
found covered with hruises and scratches, and wltl4 souse
of its bones fractured. ' about thirty were also nom or leas cut and bruised.
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SNAKE IN TliE GRASS
As Mr. A. Elliott and a friend were walking the other
day in gardens of the National Club—which 'idioms Mr.
Disraeli s—they were started to see • considerable snake
making the best of its way from the Premier's preini,es
into those of the club. They immedintely gave chase, and
succeeded in killing it when it proved to be a fine
specimen of the common land snake. But how did it get
there mot what did it want) Snakes at large—that is real
ophidians, for " snake," of a carton kind au common
enough—are &rarity in London just now, and it is not a
little curious that the only example that has over come
within our knowledge should have turned up in connection
within Mr. Disraeli's abode Posaildy the "medicine and
mysiery-man "—as Mr. Disraeli was wont to he styled—
of the Conservative party may have a fondness for
sialte3 like other prattitiouen in the same line. Anyhow,
we should be glad to have the matter explained. Can
Nit.. Frank Dockland help us? The snake—which is a
remarkably fine individual of its kind—has been placed
(in spirits) on the mantelpiece of the eonnuittee•room of
of the club—The Rock.

TIIE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
This year the meetings of the British Association are
held at Bristol. Sir J,ho Ilawkshaw, engineer, le Presi-
dent, and in his he gave a succinct history of
engineering, commencing with the time when the exis-
tence of the art was only knows by its achievements, and
continued to a period is hich is still fresh in living
memories., conducting his hearers end readers from Egypt
and Mesopotamia to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way, and including In his survey not only civil engineering
in its widest sense, but else mechanical engineering and
architecture.
A large number of papers have been lread, chiefly on
scientific subjects of limited interest.
Mr. R. T. CIIAMSERLAIN read a paper in "Some account
of the manufacture and refining of sugar In Bristol." At
the beginning of the present century there were no lees
than 15 sugar refiners' firms In Bristol. at fell work on the
old system, POMO melting only three hogsheads a week,
whilst now, in 11,75, one of our houses is capable of refin-
ing more than all of them put together. In this present
year there are four sugar refineries in Bristol. The Avon.
side Sugar Refining working, or capable of working, Li-
together shout 1.740 or 1,51,1 torui a week.
Timex' Milo- read a taper on the "Tobacco Trade
of BristoL" Tobacco was now so largely linported into
Bristol that the French contractors frequently supplied
themselves from here. There were now in Bristol maven
manufactories of tobacco and two of cigars.
VISORTAILIANISM AND INTENPIMANCE.
"Vegetarianism a cure for Inteuiperence," was a paper
read by Mr. C. O. Groom Napier, ntember of the
Anthropological Institute. More than 20 years ago he
read In " Liehig's Animal Chemistry" that the use of cod
liver oil had a tendency to promote the disinclination for
the use f wine, and how most people could take wine
with animal fool, but net with farinaceous food. At that
time ho (Mr. Napier) war a vegetarian, awl lie felt in his
eel, person the truth of this statement of Lieliiies, as also
did two members of his family, one in old age, and the
other in middle life. They had for two years adopted a
vegetable diet, although brought up in the moderate use
of alcoholic liquors. After becoming vegetarians, they
felt no inclination for them. He WU induced by this
seeming proof of the accuracy of lacbig's theory, to endea-
vour to find whether it might not be valuable for the gum
of intemperance. Having applied it suocteefully to
twentrfour cases, he briefly gave the result*. The sub-
jects of his experiments were a member of the Scotch
aristocracy an analytical chemist, • lady of independent
means, a clergyman, • country gentleman, • girl of nine-
teen, • man and nis wife awl sister (all aisrve forty years
of age), abed-ridden gentleman, • captain in the merchant
service, • half-pay officer In the navy, a clergyman and
hie wife, • gentleman of sixty years, two sisters imemlvoi
of a family notorious for their intemperance), a clerk of
great ability, • governess aged forty years, military pen-
shiners, three old sailors, and others, all of whom were
cured of intemperance by adopting vegetarianism, front
which the reader concluded that it was a very valuable
remedy and well worth a trial. Then followed a list of
articles of toad which were pre-eminent in their antagon-
ism to alcohol. The chief were inaccarimi, haricot beans,
and highly-glutinous bread. Vegetarianism, the reader
asserted, had • tendency to encourage the development of
the Intellect, and to give increased capacity for mental
labour, to promote longevity and, in the presentexcesslve
inflation of the prices of butchers meat, economy. 'astir.
were the ground now occupied in growing barley for wait-
ing purposes occupied in growing wheat or oats for bread
and porridge, our national wealth, Mr. Napier added,
would be greatly increased, since hot little wheat would
he needed to be brought from foreign countries, and
intemperance, itself the chief cause of pauperism and
crime, would be greatly discouraged by the cultivation of
vegetarianism.
Or. Muir criticised the paper opposing the vegetarian
theory.

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D0116671C IRRVICE FOR OIaNTLEWORLN.
Mrs. it. M. CRAWSIIAY read a pew en "Domestic
Service for Gentlewomen." Attic explaining the special
reasons that had prevented her from keeping more than
five hely helm. Joe stated that front her experience the
actual work demi by ladies was greater than that done by
her other servants. During twelvemonths with lady hell*
as upper servants, we had not a single change among our
women servants. Since my helps left, a period of ten
months, we have had seven changes among our nine
women servants. This is • sufficient answer to those
people who questioned whether ordinary under-servants
could work comfortably with ladies as heal servants.
There is a feeling that although ladies ma, nominally to
the work of a hollil% it is doubtless really .lone by the few
under-servants who are kept. In reply to this I can only
say that the amount of extraneous aid given was for less
while the ladies served me than it RON at any other time
during the ;11 years I have "kept house," and not only did
the ladies get through all the work rcquirml of thew. bit
they made an immense quantity new house linen (also
wearing apparel), and though last, not least, cut tint and
made two carpets for large spare bedrooms better than
most country upholsterers would have made them. To
ladies who tremble to try demestic service, fearing they
may nut have strength for such duties as are required, I
Imay 84 that chose who served me aro ninsideredi by their
friend* in no degree ts, have fallen off in looks during their
liftmen months if servitude ; lint quite the contrary—an)
I can answer for their health hieing far superior to that of
most ladies who ale waited on, and whose exercise con-
sists chiefly in an afternoon roll in a nicely-paibied double-
&primed carriage. People have asked what was the exact
social position of my help.. The father .if three of them
was for thirty year* head clerk in this office of a profes-
sional man, in whew hands he placed all his earnings. His
employer failed, and he found himself, when past middle
age, with a wife and nine children, called on to begin life
afresh. I have read accounts in newspapers of the nutty
prizes this gentlemen has taken from tune to time as all
amateur gardener; awl of his daughters being antipodes.
totally encored in songs which they hire sang at public
concerts. One ot my helps was the wife of a fashionshile
West-end tradesman, who, had he behaved well, would
have mien driving his carriage (nee their house in West-
hounds% to his place of badness. Another was the daughter
of a dissenting minister ; and one of a clergyman. She
deprecated a misconception that ladits would, become
cooks to associate with ..rdiumy servant., and without
having proviximi made for their noniron.
*ALE mai ilialALL IakULIS.
Professor Roffeidon, the President el the Anthrolan
logical subsection of the Mritish Association, stated,
among other resulte of reeent investigation, that the
Danish type of skull bi leas prevalent now than formerly,
the blank-haired type taking its Mane, that skulls now
are smaller than they were in pre-historic times, and that
female skulls in pre-historic times bore a less unfavourable
contrast with male skulls than they In now, or rather are
said to do. The Professor may save himself with that
proviso, but Mr. Rolleston seems to have sacrificed his
reputation for gallantry to his reputation for accuracy.
The ladies, however, must settle that point with the
Professor for themselves.

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THE CKANNEL TUNNEL.
Professor C. lIIIRDEBT, a Frenchman, read • paper. in
which he argued that the proposed Channel tunnel would
have to be constructed in • circuitous route instead of in
• straight line.
Sir JOIIN HAWKSFIAW totally dissented from tl.is propo-
sition, as he felt tolerably sure that from one side of the
Channel to the cther there existed • thick belt of chalk,
with no outcrop into the sand. He added that the tunnel
would be 250 feet below the bed of the channeL

HAY AND STRAW.
W 'TEC H A PEL, TUESDAY...The small quantity
of fodder brought forward this morning cleared quickly
at about late rates.
(Per Load of se Truing )
Fine Meadow tiny • UN to 14Sa.
811.11"risd;driwel'orri 'pup:Ott:: 100a3r "'sr
rt°o 151E46.764:.
esa to 05n.

• 6 to 6 5
D (o'one Ash e, 70 r ) • •
Peru visn ‘, Ir et from
Stores, in lota ,d 34.1 tons.. „ „12 1 0— • •
smaller quantities . 13 0-11 0
ler 1012--C S.
Bonus
110., crushed .10--.0:70 :100
Do., hsudneh 0 0— 0 0
, dust . 7 1 0-8 0
Anintal Charcoal (70 per oont7pliosidtate)... 5 0— 511
Nitrate of soda. ill London 11 1 0-12 5
Do. do., in Liverpool . 11 0-11 10
Sulphate of
.. 19 0-20 0
Gnieum . .. 1 0— 1 10
E. Ponsaa.and Co., (London )lanuro Co.),
110, Fenehureh Street„C