The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-20 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

A Moscow paper states that • petty officer and a seaman
have been arrested at Nit%)laid!, their tea chests being
tilled with revolutionary books and juimphlst•
Sir Charles Mike has written a letter declaring that if
nobody else does he will call the attention of Parliament
to the wholesale executions going on at Cabul.
The Court of Appeal in Rome has annulled the marriage
between General Garibaldi and Signora Raimondi.
tier Majesty has decorated Private William Jones, of
the Ind battalion 24th Regiment, with the Victoria Cross,
for his gallantry at the defence of Rorke's Drift on the
find January last.. . _ _

--ivery-gloomy view of the future of the Lancashire
cotton trade wee expressed on the Manchester Exchange
on Tuesday. In every district the operatives are demand-
ing higher wages, awl the employers are determined not
to yield.
The Master of the Rolls haa announced that he will not
permit the attendance of the Press at sittings in his
Chambers, as he regarded such proceedings as private.
The Sultan has again shown his contempt for Sir Henry
Layard, by presenting Hans Paaha, the Minister of Police,
whose dianslisal was lately demanded by the British
ambassador, with the grand cordon of the Order of
Medjidie.
The Empress Eugenie has intimated to the Union
Steamship Company her intention to embark in their
mail steamer German on the 96th of March next, for the
purpose of visiting Zululand and the spot whore her son
was killed. The vessel after calling at Capetown will
proceed direct to Natal. Her Majesty has expressed a
wish that no state or ceremony should be observed. The
Empress desires to reach her destination by the let of
June, the anniversary of the day on which the ill-fated
Prince Louis Napoleon fell beneath the assegais of the
Zulus. .

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A Leeds paper makes the sensational statement that
Ministers will bring In a bill during the ensuing session
to deal not only with the six vacant seats in the House of
Commons, but with the whole representation of the
country.
It once more asserted that a minute has been issued
by the Lords of the Treasury directing inquiries to be
made of all Civil servants as to whether they employ
their time after oftlem hours in any trade or profession.
If the reply is in the affirmative, the alternative placed
before those gentlemen will, it is asserted, be dismissal
from the service, or the relinquishment of the particular
extra duties they may have taken upon themselves.
An application was heard in the Probate Court on
Tuesday, involving the right of the Prince of Wales to
the property of persons dying intestate without kin in the
Duchy of Cornwall This property has hitherto been
taken by the Crown ; but Sir James Mennen, after hearing
the arguments, decided that the Princes right had been
established.
The coroner's inquiry into the suspected tragedy at
Hendon resulted on Tuesday in a verdict that the
deceased man Sibley committed suicide.
The Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund is said to be makiag
remarkable pregreas, the amount already promised being
1210,000.

Mr. Cross Iva at last confessed that the Prisons Act is
not the perfect piece of legislative workmanship which
the Rogue-office has hitherto chosen to regard it. Re has
intimatal that some change in the law in reference to
prison discipline is necessary, and that be intends to
introdivn a bill to effect those changes daring the coming
session of Parliament it is to be hoped that Mr. Croft
will at the same time correct certain other defects in the
Act

Stansfeld, M.P., addressing a Liberal gathering at
Halifax, said the meet momentous question which had
ever come before this country was the safety of their
Indian Empire, and he contended that there was the
greatest danger of a collapre and a catastrophe existing
at this moment In India in consequence of the policy of
*ha qowernnsent, and upon tlant question to the knefront
they desired to go to the country at the earliest possible
moment _

It was rumoured in London on Friday evening that
Prince Bismark was dead. Of course, the report proved to
he !without foundation.

Th-c; at-i; hag yet obtained to the perpetrator of the
Manchester murder. The excitement in the city is said
to be Increasing.
Another collision occurred on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway, on Friday, at Asecroft, near Pen.
dleton. A goode train ran into • coal train, which wag
being shunted. Nobody was injured.
The Pontiff recommends the Belgian clergy to give
religious instruction In the churches to the children of
the public elementary schools.
Mr. Sullivan, of Dublin, has stated that deaths from
starvation have already occurred.
A landslip has oocurred in the province of Albsicetr,
entirely destroying a village. Several lives were lost and
many persons injured, and fifty families are deprived of
their homes.
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—lifr.—irte—on has met with • new difficulty in his electric
lamps. lie finds that the carbon horse-ssoes are apt to
break, and he has stopped the manufacture of lamps until
he,diecovers tit, cause.

Sir Garnet Ise le y feels sure that the destruction of
Secocoeni's stronghold and the breaking up of the robber
clans will go far towards settling all native dilticultiea
The death of Mr. Torr, MP. for Liverpool, took place
on Tuesday morning. Mr. Torr was a staunch Conser-
vative, and took mach interest in Church and educational
work, being one of the chief promoters of the movement
for the establishment of • bishopric at Liverpool.
At • recent meeting in Herts. Mr. Abel Smith, one of
the Tory members for the county, took upon him toassert
that much of the present depression in agriculture was
attributable to the extravagance and vanity of farmers
and their families and be recommended them to give up
playing the fine lady and gentleman. Ou Thursday •
deputation waited upon Mr. Smith to request him to
retire at the next election, as he would not obtain their
votes.
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Four of the injured persons who were removed to
Preston Infirmary have succumbed, making seven deaths
in all._ _

—Replying to a deputation of unemployed persons who
waited upon him, the Lord Mayor of Dublin said that
information he had received led him to fear that in three
weeks people would be dying of starvation. The Duchess
of Marlborough, in • letter to the Lord Mayor of London,
says the distress is severest in those parts where the poor
are dependent on Potatoes and the produce of fishing.
Her grace, however, states that contributions are flowing
in freely, and would be doubled, if need were.
The Timm Philadelphia correspondent reiterates his
conviction that Mr. Edison has made a completely satis-
factory electric substitute for gas, and that be is sure to
Improve upon it; but says its introduction must bee work
of long time and protracted difficulties. The occupation
of the gas men is not yet gone, as the electric light gives
very little heat. But it furnishes power as well as light,
the electric force necessary to run a lamp when need for
power being equivalent to about one-tenth of a horse
power. Edison was running small pumps and a eewing
machine with this power, and it can he made useful for
many small industries. Thus, the electric current may be
used for lighting the house at night and for driving the
sewing machine by day.
Mr. W Baxter, M P., at Forfar declared that the
great bulwark of Liberal policy was peace and not bully-
ing other nations into war. The next Liberal Government
would, through the policy of the present Government,
nave . wont Seek in the way of retrenchment. There
were four important measures the next Government
would have to grapple with—first, the establishment of •
ratepaying in counties ; second, the extension of the
county franchise ; third, an amendment of the law to get
rid of entail; fourth, the pasung into law of Mr. Morgan 's
Burials Bill. He refund to the liquor trafic question,
which at no distant date would have to be grappled with,
and reviewed the foreign policy of the Government. which
li.Lstiled • wild, rollicldng, revolutionary policy with
'T;to Greece_,, Turkey, and
-"William Harcourt Afghanistan.
, MR, in addressing the members
of the Oxford Liberal Associations, said the more
Influential members of the Government would have
supported Turkey by force of arms, but neither Europe
nor the country would beck them. RUIliiA alone coerced
Turkey, and then England stepod in to try and recon-
stitute • mangled corpse. The Conservatives had
especially objected to the bag and baggage policy, which
meant depriving the Porte of the
_provMoes it had
oppressed, but at the Berlin Comers= Lords Beaconsfield
and Salisbury had fully sustained that suggestion by
agreeing to a treaty depai Turkey of half her
European posseesion• No y was worth pursuing
which did not assume .:J make provision for the
inevitable dissolution of Turkish rale.

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HOLLOWAY'S Oixengsr LCD PILUL Colds, coughs,
*shorthees of breath.—These corrective remedies are
infallible for thess pectoral complaint', which neglected,
often end in asthma, bronchitis, or consumption. The
ointment well rubbed upon the chest and back, penetrat-
ing the skin, is carried directly to the lungs, whence it
expels all impurities. MI blood in the body constantly
=through the lunge and there all noxious particles
1 'testa produce disease, can be quickly, thoroughly, and
permanently neutralised, rendered harmless or ejected
from the system. Holloway's ointment and pill, perfectly
accomplish this purification ; and through blood, thus
cleanses', the influence of these wonderful medicaments
reached the remotest parts of the human body; and thus
cures all diseased action, whether internal or external.
DEATH OP MIL HERJEAXT PARRY AND Has. PEERY.—
The death of Kr. Serjeant Parry and of Mrs, Parry within
few hours of each other, and the narrow escape of their
eldest daughter at the same time, while it has elicited
from many quarters expressions of affectionate sorrow, in which we tersely and sincerely participate, has not led to
those inquiries, the result of surprise, which a moment's
reflection forces on the mind. Mrs. Parry was in the
prime of life, the Serleaut only sixty-four, the daughter a
child. How was it that "congestion of the loam" the
cause of death assigned by the newspapers, sho have
attacked all at the same moment and carried off two of these lives? Unless we have been misinformed by one connected with the household, they have unhappily fallen
victims to she want of proper attention to the drainage of
the house in which they lived. In the interest of Lk'
public it is to be hoped that a full inquiry into the facts
will be made, and made known; and in the meanwhile
Wes remainder of the family should be removed. By the
ffeesb at Serjeant Parry the public has lost one of the most
eminent pleaders as ths bar, and a kind, cultlyated, and
genial maa.—Bulider.

At He!singlets, • lAtheran minister who had been
warned to &licentiates preaching against revolutionary
doctrines, has been visited by two young men, who
demanded money of him. He refused, fired at them, and
was tired at In return, but without injury on either side.
The young men escaped.
A telegram from Valparaiso states that the Muleteer
bait been refitted by the Chitlins, and is ready to proceed
toms.
Mr. Edison finds his carbon horse-shoes for the electric
light liable to break, and has stopped making his lamps
until he discovers the cause
The Bishop of Manchester on Thursday was married to
Agnes Ellen Frances, eldest daughter of the late John
Shute Duncan, LLD., of Bath. Thu ceremony was
performed at St. Fever's, Onslow-square, by the Dean of
Westminster. On receipt of the new' a the wedding in
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Midlands that Mr. Gladstone was "dishonest,' and some-
body having taken the trouble to forward a copy of the
attack to Hawarden, the ex-Premier has replied
—" Frequent observation," he seys, "in the House of
Commons of the measure of the gentleman's mind whom
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Sir Stafford Northcutt' was present at the annual dinner of
the Stroud Conservative Association on Thursday evening.
Replying to the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," lie
congratulated the Conservative working men throughout
the kingdom on the intelligence they brought to bear en
political questions ; and having warned them against
giving credence to the prophecies of political Zadkiels
like Sir William Hareourt, and expressed his readiness to
meet Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons, to which
place the gentleman had referred him in reference to their
differences on finance, he asserted that the Governmeut
had but one object in view—namely, to promote the best
interests of the country, and he believed that the country
gave them full credit fur this. lie &hie,' that they
had adopted • foreign policy that was contrary to the
views and wishes of the English people, and added that
the late Govan:tient were open to the charge of having
made the foreign policy of this country ridiculous in the
eyes of Europe. On matters of domestic legislation the
present Government had done what they could to foster
• spirit of self-reliance and self-restraint, and had not
attempted tho foreign form of paternal government. As
to Ireland, he regretted the distress existing there, and
expressed his belief that the depression in England had
seen its worst. The state •of Ireland was enoging the
earnest attention of the Ocrverument, who had instructed
Boards of Guardians there that in case they should go
somewhat outside their powers a Bill of Indemnity would
be brought forward. The IMMO promise had been made
as to loans from the Board of Works, the loans to bear
nly a nominal interest.
SHOCKING DEATH OF • GIRL NEAR WAKEFIELD.—For
many years peat a mambos known as Plumplau-house,
situate on Westgate Common, and formerly occupied by
Mr. 'T. Marriott, now of Sandal-grange, has lace without
a tenant, and some extensive worsted-mills in close
proximity to the mansion have also been standing idle.
Seine time ago Mr. Mitchell, rag-merchant. of Omett,
took a portion of the mills, and his manager, Jonathan
Mitchell, and Thomas Ambler, his foreman, lived on
premises closely adjoioing Plumpton-house and the
grounds in which it is situate. On Sunday forenoon
Mitchell, the manager, and Ambler, were taking a stroll,
and whilst passing through the grounds, at the rear of the
mansion tee last named 131141waa curious enough to thrust
open the door of a small building in the grounds, in which
fruit used to be stored. Just within the door in
a corner on the felt hand of the entrance, is
• stone slab, set upon three or four feet of
brickwork, and above are two shelves. Ambler noticed
what appeared to be a bundle of rags lying on the stone,
but en examining it he was horrified to finds young woman
who proved to be a servant named Nannie Lee, apparenilj
i 6 or 30 years of age, who had been missing from the
neighbourhood since the morning of the fith December.
The young woman appeared to be in a dying state, and
not only was she ins very tilthy condition, but she seemed
alined worn to • skeleton, and her left fool was in an
advanced stabs of mortification. She seemed quite
sensible, and at once recognised the two men, who knew
her in consequence of her having lived clogs' by the will
for some time. Ambler carried the young woman into his
tiring-place, and gave information to the police, and she
was afterwards removed to the workhouse hospital. Some
time ago the girl was an inmate of the West Riding
Female Industrial Home at Wakefield, and then became
a servant at the house of William Glover, who resides
near Pl•ompton-home. She was very civil and industrious,
and her Muter gives her an excellent character. On
Saturday morning, the 6th of December, the girl dis-
appeared from Mr. (lover's house, and, although every
inquiry was made, her whereabouts could not be found.
She was an orphan, but stated that she had some relatives
living at Eccles-hill, near Bradford, and on Monday she
told Mr. Glover that after leaving his house she went to
her relatives, who scut her back to Wakefield. As she
did not like to return ti her situation, and was afraid to
ask for re-admissiell to the Industrial Home, as she
anticipated they would prosecute her for absconding with
some wearing apparel she had belonging to that institu-
tion, she went to the house of a widow named Mrs. Batty,
living on Clayton-hill, Westgate-common. She remained
there until Christmas Eve, when she went to the out-
building where she was found, and lay down on the stone
to die. She declared that all the food she had from
Christmas Eve to Sunday was a little she took in her
pocket when she went to the place, and a little water. She
further stated that she frequently heard Mr. :ilover pass
the place where she was lying, but refrained from calling
to him, and she was utterly tinsel() to move. When the
young woman saw her master after she had been dis-
covered ahe wept very bitterly. It was ascertained that
at the instance of the authorities of the West ROMs
Female Industrial Hone • warrant had been obtained
against the girl for emending with property belonging
to the trustees ,if he Home It is thought that the
young woman must have become aware of this, and had
gone to the place, which being private property is not
accessible to the police, with the object of evading the
execution of the warrant. The girl expired in the wort-
house, lockjaw supervening and putting an end to her
searing&

LORD DERBY ON SAVINGS BANIii AND
NATIONAL THRIFI'.
On Friday evening the Earl of Derby was present at
the annual reunion of the Liverpool Penny Bank Associa-
tion, and delivered an address. The association has novr
104 banks In the union, of which 31 are worked In public
elementary schools. The deposit's., number %,531,
the uansactions during the year were 407,110.

The Hal of Derby after • fee preliminary observa-
tions, said : —As to the general question ot titivating banks,
one is apt to ask " why do they date, so to speak, only
from yesterday r How comes it that so very simple and
unobjectionable an idea never got itself acted upon till 50
years ago! But I think the answer is easy. S ivings
beet'. are delicate plants which will only grow and thrive
in • certain political temperature and climate. You cannot
have them, to begin with, In airy country that is deep di.
rally governed. You must have a Government contedled
in some form by public opinion before you can tru,t it
with your earnings. (Hear, hear.) So, again, you will
not have savings banks, on any large scale. In • country
liable to revolutionary outbreaks. I doubt if in any 8 iuth
American State, or perhaps even in Spain, you would find
citizens wilting to trust their cash in offi-ial hands. There
must be security for order as wallas freedom. (Hoer. hear)
Further, there must be • workiag-cless, which has emerged
in the course of time from an absolutely dependent con-
dition, and which has some education, and stone hope /if
rising in the world. The very notion of laying by for old
age or for children dose not come into the lased of • •aysze
or &serf. Even in England, lam told that the rustic of
the south occasionally reasons in • beery manner, and says,
" the parish is bound to keep we when I am past wink ;
farmers'ing
b iidboards
hereabouts,hoald
andlve dkol1:y ro
theirmu r pleasure
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atf trd bearat ha
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read his newspaper. Then, again, 'Arius banks are
rather an urban than • rural institution. It a man has to
walk 10 or 20 miles to make a deposit, he is not always
willing to take the trouble; and, if he 'Aerie on the
journey, it is • chance that before be gets to the end port
of his stock will have gone down his throat in a liquid
form. 83 you see the setting up of savings banks is not
quite so simple • matter as it seems. I believe that when
they were first established in England they met with •
good deal of opposition, on very queer grounds, as it would
seem to us now. One favourite taunt against their pro-
moters was that they aimed at narking the free-hearted
generous !Leash people mean and mise-ly. Others telked
of the wretched state of the poor, and thought that the
poor law was the poor man's substitute for a saving tank,
and I dare say, though I don't know it, that then, as now,
the publican said, rather in private, and to suitable
hewers, than in public—" If these new-tangled downy,' for
saving come in, what is to become of our trade, and whet
is to become ot the taxes on drink f" But savings banks
grow and flourished. They grew slowly in bad time.,
quickly in good times, but their growth was never arrested.
In 1864 the saving, banks, poral nod under trustees, held
4411 MIMI:MS: in 1100 they held 53 millions: and in 1878,
after immoral bed years, 744 millions. They now
take charge of about onstenui of tke whole national
debt. (Cheers.) I need not point out to you how
much the burthen ef that debt, heavy and vexa-
tious as It must always be, would be practically
lessened if a large part of it were owned in small 11111111
by our working and tax-Payiug People at home. Again,
the deposits In savings banks supply the most convenient
method—the only convenient method—of enabling Parlia-
ment to reduce the mass of the national indebtedness by
means of what are celled terminable annuities. We are
owing now for the Duke of Marlborough's victories ; and,
though I hope we shall always pay up honestly, It is not
&stria ectory to think that, in 170 years, we have repaid
the capital thus borrowed- about one hundred and forty
times over in interest, and that the principal
remains still as a charge upon us. (Hear, hear.)
Let us lighten our load while we can, and, as! said befiro,
for that purpose there is no such efficient machinery as
that supplied by savings banks. (Applause.) High
interest—usury, as people used to call it—has been, in all
ages, one of the standing grievances of the poor, and high
Interest, when generally prevalent, mesas only that
capital is Peareo—in other words, the People have not he*-11
accumulating. In India, at this day, the peasant who
must borrow to cultivate his field has to borrow at 30 rer
cent., and once involved at that rate of interest he IleVerf
gets free. If India were richer, if capital were more
the galas of the individual capitalist would be
He would have to lend at 10 or 8 or even 5 per
cent, but the worker would find his lifts proportionately
easier. (Hear, hear.) So you see the work which these
banks are doing is really tending to bring about • social
change. You are obliging the capitalist to be content
with lower interest and making industrial employ-
ment. which depends on cheap capital, more
abundant for the artisan and the labourer. Where
there is not saving there must be debt, and from
the days of the Roman Republic to our own a large
debtor class hes been an element of danger. That is the
national side of the question. It may seem &Imola ridi-
culous to speak of penny savings in connection with the
growth or decline of national wealth ; but yet look at the
matter that way. I won't repeat the old story of what
the British liquor bill is—Just 110 millions, or Z 11) for ,
ea:wilily of five in the British islands. We don't, I
th always sufficiently aPereiriate the fact that Private f ty will enforce public economy. (Applause.) Sup.
pose only one quarter of Um sum spent in liquor or
tobacco to be saved; that implies • reduction of 10
Millions in the revenue, and do you suppose any Chan-
ogler of the Exchequer would go to work to put on
those 10 millions again by direct taxation f Nut he; ;
would learn to no without them. (Loud cheers-)
The depositors in these banks remind me, if they won't be
offended by the comparison, of those almost microscopist insects which have built up the great coral reefs of the
Pacific. Singly these insects are almost invisible loolkic-
tivelY they have rabid mountains out of the ocean
enclosed square leagues of sea, and oonstructed break-
,
waters which exceed- • thousandfold the most gigantic
works of human engineers. And so you, the human
karedurel piling ult, be your esearate minute contribu-
LIMN gigaa c structure of national wealth. (Ap-
, places.) You will sometimes hew people talk-e7oung
people *specie. Ily —ea If there was some
poor about the habit of frugality, and as if squandering
were the sign of • generous nature. If ever that fallacy
is uttered in your heertrig, just put your foot upon
and trample it out. (Hear, hear) As • rule, what is
there less generous than sell-indulgence? Most peotde who
save do so with, at learnt, a partly unselfish purpose.
They save for the old age of a parent, for the future of •
Child, or in order that they themoelvea in old age may
not be a burthen to others. But of what is usediaaly
I spent, how much goes, in general, in nothing else than
personal and selfish pleasure V It is very fine for • youth
1 to have his fling, said come home with empty pockets,
but what is there fine about the spectacle of that same
youth, grown old, with nothing of his own laid by, dis-
abled from work, and living on the charity of his brothers,
his sisters, or his children I I congratulate you, the
workers, in this penny bank movement, on what you
have dose alreedy--it is • good deal—end I wish you life,
, health, and puny to go on with your metal iserTige.
(Loud applause.)