The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-09-14 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE KANDAHAR RAILWAY. —lf MAD has been Maly defined by one of the greatest of English writers as the "minister and interpreter of nature, it is none the less true that he is on his way to become the conqueror of difficulties, and the muter of nature, both organic and inorganic. Thus every tale of daring and perseverance, of struggle with the elements, of victory over time and distance, has not only the charm of a romance, but the value of a fresh title-deed of the dominion of man. Another story of successful eenfiict,—this time with the heat of climate, and the barren inhospitality of the desert, has been that of the completion of the first section of the Kandahar railway, extending from the river Indus for ur,4 miles towards the mouth of the Bolan Pass, in four months from the time of the receipt of telegraphic order from the supreme Government of India to commence the underaking.—Ssader. An Irish priest on the land agitation wi Aes :—" Why, if the people are indoctrinated with these dangerous dogmas—' no rents for lands,' 'the land for the people,' ec. —the farmer of this day will vetZ soon find that his labourers and servant boys will say, You must no longer keep this large farm ; lam an Irishmen as well as you' I have as big a family as you ; I have as good • right to this land as you ; there is more of my sweat in this land than yours ; I have only a little cabin and haggard, for which I pay you three times as much as you pr,mised to pay the landlord, from whom you have had it for the last thirty or forty years, and now it is time that I should get a turn out of it, so stand and deliver." Pay no rent. Surely the same sentiment applies to all other contracta. The farmer who acts on this nefarious adv ice may say, • I won't pay or try to pay my other debta. I won't pay the bank, or the butter merchant, or the merchant from whom I got food and clothes, and by Jingo, I won't even pay the priest." Tim Lauerrn Poisorriao Cesx—Mr Carter on Friday resumed the inquiry relative to the death of Thomas Fenton. aged Pl, late In the Met Regiment of Foot, which occurred on Saturday last The deceased, who had been given into custody on • charge of theft, took up • tumbler and drank thee ntents, and immediately fell fiat on his fem. and died in three minute. This evidence was given by his accuser Bertram, but the testimony of the policeconstable negatived it. The coroner's officer produced • wicket containing cyanide of potassium, which was found by the landlady of the house in which deceased lodged in his coat packet. Dr. Lees yesterday stated that he had made • postmortem examination. The stomach contained a small quantity of fluid which, from its odour, he expected WM prussic acid. He found in other parts of the body evidence of poison. Cyanide of potassium, when mixed with water, is converted into prussic add Witness was et opinion that deceased must have taken • very large quantity of the poison, and he had no doubt death was due to poisoning.—Arthur Bertram, in answer to the coroner, said that the deceased was very childish in his behaviour. When witness accused deceased of taking his clothes he denied it. He went downstairs and brought a tumbler of water, which he drank when the constable was in the room and did soon afterwards. The jury returned a verdict ofsuicide whilst of unsound mind. Coaching from Brighton is over now, and the 80 horses are to be sold at Tattersall's. Weavers of Blackburn have been exhorted by circular to ask for an advance of wages. At a hotel at Dover, 'tis said five shillings are charged for two cups of tea and • slice of bread-andbutter in the room.  Ayoub jiijusu,--says the World, if caught, ou4ht to be shot for the murder of Lieut. Maclaine. Sir Charles Duke is still out of health with rheumatic gout, brought on by Parliamentary worry. A quarryman near Uverpool quarrelled with his wife, and chimed her into a pool of water, where she was drowned. He was committed on a charge of "Wilful murder," by the Coroner. Various Liberal bodies have expressed their approval of Mr. Foster's warning to the House of Lords, and blame of the speeches of Earls Redediale and Beaconsfield.  The World says the cruise of the Premier, his family and friends, in the Grautully Castle, will costa very ia sum of money, the whole of which will be derrre ayed by Mr. Donald Currie and partner. HR. H. the Prince of Wales does not appear to have entered the Formosa for any of the yacht races on the West. The Samcena, the most successful racing cutter of the season, was built by Mr. Innen of Lymington.  Mr. S. Fleetwood, agraduate of Jesus College, has been bound over for six months, for assaulllng the landlord of the Blue Boar, Cambridge. He had • dagger stick and • knuckle-duster, and threatened the landlord's life. Armorial-a or Stit Mom; Morrinoag. —The first stone of Mrs. Tait" Orphanage, near Ramsgate, was laid after the archbishop's recovery from • long and dangerous illness in 18139. It was on the 21st of December, a =owl', gusty day • but the aged Sir Moses Monte6ore, in spite of the inclement weather, came over to show his interest in the work; he could not, of course, join in the opening service, but from his carriare he listened to it, and expressed his delight on hearing the psalms chanted as the worshippers assembled on the ground- He continued to subscribe to the institution, and to visit it frequently and Its foundry's once met him there with the children gathered around him, to whom he had given each • new bright shilling from the Mint, and who were repeating to him a hymn of Doctor Watts', which he said he had learned in his ohildbood to my to his mothar.--amedati iS Muer  - - - PARLIAMENT Asn