The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1874-11-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

COOKIANA.-Arld now tell MO why you left your last place will tell you that, ma'am, whe, you have told me why you routed with your last cook -Puricli. Messrs. John Elder and Co., shipbuilders on the Clyde, have obtained the contract for building the Northampton, man of war. An Indian raper gives an elaborate discription of a building which, it stake, has been erected in London for crematory purposes. Scarlet= prevails at present to a large extent in Kilmarnock, and during the last month no fewer than 20 fatal cases were recorded. . .  Charles Gale, a retired supervisor of excise, committed suicide in his own house at Newark on Tuesday night, by discharging a gun into big mouth. The three international trophies won by Scottish volun. tiers at Wimbledon have been deposited in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Aril,. . . . . .  A letter from Now South Wales states that kidnapping is going on u had as over, snd that shocking cruelties are being done under the French hag. One or two wolves, which are soil to have escaped from • menagerie in the North of Ireland, have killed about forty sheep. An inmate of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, named T. J Robinson, committed suicide on Thursday by poisoning himself. . . . . . .  Another senior cadet on H.M.S. Britannia was flogged on Friday, in the 'tremors of Commander Ryder and all the cadets, for bullying a judior. Replying to a ',station by Mrs. Jury and Mrs. 'rredgett. for the release of the Claimant, who, they aver, not and cannot be their brother, Mr. Cross declines to advise her Majesty toic=ly with the memoriaL The proposed Geological Museum 4 Cambridge in memory u the late l'rofesser Sedgwick will, it is estimated, coat £31,700. Of that sum, £lO.OOO has already been subeeribed. The recent heavy etonns along the Atlantic coast have thrown up more than three thousand cords of seaweed at Point Juty Cove. This is the largest crop ever known there. A general leek-out of labourers in North Lincolnshire is imminent The farmers insist on • reduction of Is., and Lave refused an offer of the labourers to submit to Is. fid. redaction. Lady liuddlestone, sister of the Duke of St. Albans, aad wife of the Conservative M.l'. for Norwich, has had the misfortune to be robbel ef all her jewellery at a hotel is Milan. It included her splendid wedding gifts. The heimatlaw to a large estate in Yorkshire, which bias gone begging for • considerable time, has at length been found in the person of a young man well known in Liverpool, and lately manager of a public-house. The dissenting sects of the Russian Etupire are, It is announced, for the first time in history tecoguised by the State and supplied with the timing of concluding marriages valid in the eye of the law. This law will confer a boon on nearly 15,01)0,031ot people. The TIM, city article questions the wisdom of the policy announced by some companies of raising the fermi to recoup the anieuut of the asemingers tax, a step which may he anticipated b. result in a decline rather than an Increase in the net receipts. The following appears ii. 'the agony column" of Wed• day's Time, " Ai-de-mi to Intends : Greeting. Autumn departs, winter seta in, but as lung as Nature is true and unchangeable there is hepe of a spring time and a a view life." It is cerrently reisetel at Oxford that the Queen has declared her intentions not to allow the appointment of any more High Church Bishops ; and that the Prime Minster thwa not intend to advise her Majesty otherwise. -Church Yenta. An American lady, who was ill fir wryer:it months at • Swim Hotel with tha smallpox, WAN surprised, upon her retheery, to receive a bill at the rate of 1,310 dela per month, her diness having driven all the other boaters away.