The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-01-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

NOTES OF THE WEEK. (The Dai'm News.) The retirement of Mr. Charles Hambro from the Those who have road that extraordinary book, diThomas Cooper's "Purgatory of Suicides"— a contestdates eavaes,u,oilny itzob Co:fselivinatteivren:an. and volume, we suppose, now out of print, and Mr. Robert Fowler. dapt tin Dlg/y is a Conservative which he will not have reprinted, as he very of the official type, and Mr. Fowler represents the considerably changed his religious opinions after opinions of the tenant farmers who are giving him writing it—must have been struck by two things active support. The friends of _Captain Digby are vclearly• nuot t will ingw trust his chances to there sect —the number of celebrated men and women who I endeavouring to get a kind of open have committed suicide, and the variety of ballot of the constituency on their own account. A modes of self-murder. We doubt, however, paper, something like a ballot paper, containing the whether, all things considered, a much stranger names of Captain Digby, Mr. Charles Hambro, and mode of killing oneself was ever adopted than Mr. Robert Fowle.r, has been sent t;:lae)acaihnete.tott.', with that which was employed by Ellen Cosgrove a adding, "Please psloeliacwittng a write yrOuter namer opposite :Ile %nalmarried woman of 44—an age too great for sickly o aida you propose to support, and poet at your early romance, and too early for more weariness of "convenience. A stamped envelope, with a printed life. She hanged herself to the railings of Soho- direction to the agents at Dorchester, is enclosed with square.. It seems that she must have taken some this missive. This is something more than a sample trouble to destroy herself, and that she died °off .111tenrsapl*rir if not oefastee"Mitei6r orferret 'tan evasion of lingeringly. And yet, though her body was not be intended an a means of putting on the screw, hanging to the railings of a square. in a densely but it has the same effect. The tenant fanner who is populated neighbourhood, patrolled by police, dim wol to vote for his own candidate, Mr. Fowler,_ it was not discovered for hours after the act of may suspect that the non return of the circular will be regarded as equivalent to a vote against the candidate self-destruction. This is ono of the mysteries who is pmbably favoured by his landlord and thus of London. the circular becomes a direct means of influencing It will be remembered that some time ago the votes. This evasion of the Ballot Act is erobalily not papers were filled with tragic accounts of a fearful an infringement of it which would vitiate Captain affair at sea. A crew mutinied during the Digby's candidature; but it is ISO obvious an attempt night and threw overboard the mate and another. frustrate the intentions of the _Legislature ifanbra; They afterwards lay down in their cabin, and ing thatms Act Age thstatipp,itrfou,ipt,:,,taetNle,a,st,) h, k'carerafor the the Captain having securely nailed up the doors independence of the constituency. commanded them to surrender. This they refused, and he then commenced firing upon them with his revolver; when they were all but wounded to death they gave in. They were brought to England and then sent to America, and two are now lying under sentence of death at Boston. Another crew of the very same vessel, the Jefferson Borden, commanded by the same man, have refused to re-join the ship at Dundee on account of his ill-treatment; and it is a significant fact that BORIC two years ago both he and his brother were tried at Bristol for causing the death of one of their crow, but they got off. The crew of this vessel have now telegraphed to Boston with the view of attempting to stop the execution at that port on Friday of George Miller and William Smith, sentenced to death for mutiny. The cargo of the Jefferson Borden consists of 800 tons of fish manure, which is now in such a state of putrefaction that the Aberdeen Sanitary Authoriries have ordered its removal from the harbour. It is quite understood that the bill for the compulsory closing of the public-houses all over Ireland on Sunday will be brought forward and pressed as vigorously as possible in the coming session. The Home-rule members are almost unanimous in supporting it, and an agitation has been set on foot on this side of the Channel with the view of influencing English opinion in its favour. Wo are told by the former that English legislation for chocking intemperance has proved a signal failure, and, therefore, that we had better give Ireland the liberty allowed to Scotland of dealing with the evil after her own fashion. There would be more force in this suggestion if it could be shown that the Scotch experiment has proved successful. Unhappily, it is too true that, although the public-houses in Scotland are closed from Saturday night to Monday morning, there is no perceptible diminution in the cases of drunkenness on Sunday. The inference is that while the public manifestation of the vice is as grievous as belore, there is also a considerable increase of private drinking.  7r- , vt.