The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

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SMOKING IN ItitILWA.YSWAGES.
2 '0 the Aditor.
•
Ste, Flow is it that some smokers Nem tq
endowed with an am ount of effrontery sapww,.
other inenoind that ra 11tV •••heritiee wi"ci th,ir
breeches of the rules? Now that all second Ow tr.l4,
are provided with 5001 isompartmeuts, there 0,0
to be additional deman di made on the nori-oor.letr.,
public. Sometimes the smoker condrs-wnis to wk
consent of his fellow-pese )ngers, wbo have perhap.
, into • oertale oompartmen t on P0rn0...3 to avoid
awoke, but of course no on 9 erer refuses the perm,,.,
though a great nuisance Is. Now we are lea"Yoi
beside the smoke with the ends of the flaming Is
Of some young swell, who I tillit• • guiltier of • dos,
before be gees his cigar to bu. "o 15t" Plea" "Di no..
we are regaled with the vile s tin• of strong
" shag.. o,
of • " highly.onloured" OPE and continual', with tt,
disgusting Yankee practice of s Pitting. I have
smoking ever since I, as a you In •w°ll. Pow 121,14:
cigar on the Esplanade, and I not Me why I show;
be exposed to some lover of niciot ioe even through it es
by accident that he should "you, I his rheum upon
beard." I need not argue the poi nt about the ,vils c't
tobacco, whoever may doubt tbei si "'me can
the nastiness of the spitting habit, , sad I thud' ant
and 'Otters should be obliged to .tai In their oft
pine, or if they don't should at least forego for a short
time their beloved habit.—Yours teal)
(X)X ItLAst

reymouth,

Feb. 6, 1870.

LuIrSTERIOUS OCCURKFNCF. N TILE LoNbov
AND NORTHAVFSTERN VAIL WAY. ,
On Saturday evening one of the p ...etagere by th.
train 'caving Stokempon-Trent at 61$ bad plead 4,
the logg, ge van two stone bottles, each Capable
taming ab'oct two gallons, together 'vitt a bag sh.tl
two feet long. Upon the arrival°, the ire in attiteffed
two poetem weo to the luggage MO to rem one tie
c.
tents. Dutch watt banding one of the boa te to G,ut
whoa It exploded, scattering its content* on o!thr
po.-ters. Great received fearful iujories. h'is
were burnt until they fell from his body let eieg
bi
literally naked. The poor fellow was 00avnyet Ito
t.
Stafford County Infirmary, where it was dia covey
that in addition to the burns upon his body no lere.
his fame w.s also frightfully burnt, the sight (4 or. e ey,
being totally destroyed, and the, other terribly injure!,
The other porter. Dutch. was .1 .0 severely burnt
the legs and feet, and his trousers and boots were o,ty
pickily destroyed by the content • of the expiated bet.
tie. The puimeger was arrested, and gave me,*
different soccunts of himreil. He ultimattly .teted
him name was Thomas Fancy, of No. bLrl:r.4
place, St. Stephem's-gate, Norwich. He has been g,
mended,

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DARING ROBBERY OF TEN THOUSAND
POUNDS.

A very daring robbery has been perpetrated
London. A Mark in Barsiett's bank, in Lombard.
street, went his usual rounds on Saturday Wlti
cheques for presentation, and one of the plum' hi
had to visit was the Birkbeck Deposit Bank, whici
is situated in a 000 fined locality DOW Chancery in
When in the act of taking severol cheques from a
leather case which was 'soured to hie pereon, eond
one tapped him on the shoulder, bald told him as
had dropped something. Seeing a pieta, of paw a
the ground he stooped to pick it up, and whae io
that position notes to the amount of nearly, .47.1,i.ma
were dexterously abstracted. At present tx,
delinquents are at large.
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THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
The Royal Message for the opening of Parliament
was submitted to her Majesty at a Privy
held at Osborne on Saturday. The Obsere,r, A
specalatincon the contents of the Address, nays that
the main features of the land scheme are generally
understood. While the tenant will oain by slegil
reoognition of his claim to compensation for im-
provements, and also—if he pays his rent regulwly
—for beneficial occupancy, the landlord will lonia
absolute ownership of the soil, with del advantage
that rights now little more than nominal will Om
become real and practical, and capable of enforoe.
mint, both with the countenance of law &ad the
moral support of inherent equity. The Education
Bill will, the Obeerver believes, be found to be of in
equally Conservative character. It will be wwontially
constructive, and not destructive, preeerviog existing
agencies, and supplementing them when they fail to
meet the requirements of the day with establish.
manta of a more full and popular kind.

1 (OS EMEETAL SCULPTURE, Mnnuments,
11l Marble am! Grantio Tomb.. Cr....” and Meni-nal
; IMPERISHABLE LETTERS f SOLID LE.II/.
GAFEIN, the Carrara Marblt W.rlu, 63, Regent-4mi
Lundols, W.