The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

LAST WEEK'S PUNCH.

A HAreittaL Dutrigertow.—Business and occupation
are not synonymous terms. The French persist in the
occupation of Rome, but they have no buainess
there.
BRUIN AT taltax—ls a Hat of faabionable
gt nee we inert with the announcement that:—" Prince
hiensohikoff has left Claridge's Hotel for Germany."
Left Claridge's Hotel, has he? We thought that
Menschikolf had been staying In the Zoological
Gard ens.

JOUR NADI ONLY TO WARN OPT CORRESPONDRINTS.
—Mr. We'd, of New York, is on his way to England.
We should have preferred an importation of "Vir-
ginian W. el," but the destiny of both is the same, •
mission ending In smoke. [Do correspondents under-
stand? We have used the wood joke, so they will let it
alone.]
Zoolhatelt`CourrAtriosia—l'he ever-active Secre-
tary to the Zo3logicsl Society announces the arrival
of a new creature called "Aye-aye." A letter from the
Vatican informs na that another curlona creature
called "No-no" is not unlikely to be h,utily exported to
Regina& Could Dot Dr. &later arrange to exhibit both
in the Regent's Park?

PAPAL SHORTCOMINGS.
The Pope mistakes and so disdains
The impatience limns is sheering :
Of no Short Coining she serophsins,
hlo, but of his Long Going.
JUMP OUT OP THS BAG, PUBS.

"President Lincoln has replied to Mr. Monroe
Greeley's recent letter to him. He says that he is
emphatically for union, and that he would 'retain' or
destroy ' slavery wholly' or •in part' if union woad bw
obtained by either moans."
This is what Lincoln writes to Horace,
Somebody make a glossary for us.
Ignorant owls we are :
For the North has been ranting, raving, blaring.
Scolding, swaggering, naming, swearing,
Because Britannia was not sharing
In the Anti-Slavery war.
GARIBALDI DOWN.

Alas the love of Italy lies bleeding,
But not in vain; his wounds are mouths, that mynah
With an ungenerous patron strongly pleading.
The stronger that the prisoner's voice is weak.
He fell, a forlorn hope of patriots /ending,
Whose cry for Rome has fallen on ears unheeding.
How long ! And must they Rose Ail tenger seek
A hero's venture, not a madman's fte.,
The world had named his high attempt, succeeding..
It has not failed, a captive though he lies,.
If niggard France relent. Napoleon, bent'
The noble blood that out upon thee cries,
And thy base policy, which right denies
To Itsly,if not thy baser fear.

THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS'.
Another theident has occurred at the new Lambeth
Suspension Bridge, which beg resulted in the drowning
of two
airoid with lads. The accident
men evnt wa:oonseou
omit.
Thesebythe were su
giving
iway
a o
precipitated into the river, but were recovered, with
the exception of the two lads •alrmsdy mentioned.
Crannurts IN rue Ittht Potte.--oth illay4ot week
a domestic in the employ of Mr. fterfooti et doethunt
Mills, Hambledou, had an 000thion to go on an wend,
when, wishing to make as grand a display as poesibie,
she dressed herself in her new shawl and hoopihke.,audi
on returning home, thinking she would come a nearer-
say than round the road, she proceeded across a mea-
dow adjoining the river, where there was some rail
fencing to climb over. She, of course could not think
of that, an made an attempt to cross over the hatch,.
whew her hoops became entangled, and to radearour-
- ing keextricate them poor Sarah fell backwards into the.
mill pond, which happened to be just full. Whew she'
roes to the surface she endeavoured to scramble out,but-
fell backwards once more into the water, mid then seis-
ing hold of the hatch, she began calling for aid frorsthe•
millers. Mr. Cooper, the apprentice happening to In
near, went and landed poor Sarah on ions firma, whes,.
with the exception of a thorough drenching and a little
fright, no damage was done. -
SINGULAR Arramt.—An attack of a peculiar nature
occurred near Carmarthen on Saturday afternohn. A
young WOlllllll word Gweullian Williams was proceed-
ing afross the Odds homewards from market, when alas
was fiercely. attacked by • rook. The bird flew at her
facie, flapping its wings and cawing in the most violent
manner. The girl wa4 frightened and took to her heels.
The enraged bird, however, still kept up the thaws, and
was onlY induced to fems the attack still foi by
a countryman, who, happening to pass Ae_Eae dine
drove it away. On examination of the rase id thir
young woman, who had fallen to the ground in II WM-
ing slate, it was found that her Jett eye .hcol been
peeked completely away. She was conveyed houssothd
proper surgical attendance procured. Her foie was
also scarred and marked to a considerable thaw* pare
of her lip being peeked away.
A frightful sodded took plus at Birmingham on
Thursday last. A *umber of workmen were engaged
in cleaning and painting the rod at New-street dative,
when e portion of the mosffoldiag gave away, and those;
who were on it were precipitated to the ground. Pour
of the poor fellows were killed outright,, and a fifth
was not expected to survive.
At Itedreth on Tuesday morning two explosionsed
powder occurred at the Nancekuke powder works,.
, whereby five women, who were engaged on the,
1 premiaes, were killed, and two others serioria, injured..
The first explosion took place in the dry-honse.,and the.
1 second, Immediately aftegrarde, in the mixing-house.
' It is inipoesible to specula.% how or by what means dies
lamentable acoldent occurred, as all the dry powder
-
hag been removed froin *et place to the biking andi
, sifting-house, and there were 15 lbs. only of,nasicdp
, powder undergoing the operations of inancifasturn, lath
1 by some unaccountable means this meat have been tine
1 seat of the accident.
[ Miss Wilhemia Fitzherbert, the second daughter of
Sir W. Fitsherbert, Bart, of Millington hall, Dc*Tallirs.
1 has died from the efforts of serious bums which she
received an the lith of August. The young lady
having retired to her room on the evening of the day
In question, was heard to scream by a servant maid,
who hastened to the spot, and found the unfortunate
lady's clothes had taken ire. Prompt means were
resorted to but the flames were not extinguished
, fill she had received the injuries which terminated in
1 death.
1 Drierstrolivi Flan Nsatt TER NORTH YOHILIND
LIGHTHODOI.— The most extensive are that has
occurred for some years in the county of Rent broke ewe
lon Tuesday afternoon. The scene of ita operation,
covered a large area, upon which stood risks of wheat,
barns, threshing houriesotabling, ocon-hothes, the farm-
home, and sundry other onthuildiega. The premises,
which were probahly as, lame as any in the cliirtriet,
were known as Blackburn's Farm, standing between' idi.
Peter's and Kingagate, near Margate. The diem...coy
was made by one of the farm mu-vents through seems
awoke rolling op from the centre of the homestead. it
was then found that a considerable quantity of
had from some cause become ignited, and althengt:
instant attempt was made to subdue the flames they
1 travelled rapidly, firing in succession two large barns,
filled with grain, seven rick. of core, the farmhouse,
various agricultural depots, presenting an immense aheeb
of flame, which could be seen at dark 4llatiactly 6t6
. Engines from Margate, Ramegate, and the.
1 Itamleir Ttehanet, started to the Beene of devastation, but.
, the fire bad previously obtained too firm ,• hold to.
succumb to such limited hydraulic force, and continued+
to spread. Persona travelled to the spot in reaches,.
broughams, on horseback, in waggonettes, in fret all'
kinds of vehicles. Fortusiddy, the horses were all
saved just in the nick of time, butthe stabling, like the-
other property,'was destroyed. The fire, it is supposed,,
was caused from some of the grain. during the late wet.
reason, having been stowed away whilst damp, milk
over-beating; liaise tha calawitone event which, in the
true sense of the word, it has unqnestionably proved
to be.
San CARE Or DROWNING AT CITERTZREIRLD. O.
Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Bushy,
coroner, on the bodies of" two clitthe clip, tweed
William and Henry Clark, who had been drowned the
preceding day under very sad etreneasinissa ' n •
pears the little fellow& who yew essa,
eleven and five, , were mina to the ilendil
sal
on their way had to cross a silEall sEreliae, tb•
River Hipper, by • single plank. In so deingdiw
younger chill slipped off, and fell into the strewn,
which was. about Scour feet deep. Hs sank at thee,
upon Which his LaMar brother courageously palled off
his clothes and went in to fetch him out. Bed to thy
the water was beyond his depth, and laitaink, after a
futile struggle, alongside the brother be had tried so
hard to save. A link companion of the two boys gave
the alarm, but when the,bodles were pulled oat if. was
extinct in both. The sad affair has dotted universal
grief. A verdict of " Aoaidental death" was returnwi.
litancAeger Examiner.
F LBJ 2 AT A LITERPOoL WORILHOUREL—TWINTT -ROHR
CHILDREN BURNED ToIDRATIL—A very load ateridwit
occurred in the neighbourhood of Liverpool on Moodsir
morning. A fire broke out in the workhouse situated
on Brownlow Hill, it is supposed in eteleetleeeee of the.
overheating of the fines of the church eiannected with
the building; though one is at a loss to conceive what
the church pecold want with a lira 10 this season.
However this may be, the church has been destroyed
and the fire extended to the dormitories of the paver
children, when no fewer than 24 of them were burnt to
death. The harrowing scene, after the dames were
extinguished, are thus described by a eonteropoml :
No One who has looked upon the awful sight in the
dormitory can ever forget the horrible picture. Here
and there, in all directions lay the remains of the poor
little ones, some in the beds where they had been de-
prived of We so suddenly, and others on the floor,
covered with blackened timber, bricks, and other debri;
of the fire. Did one not know that the charred remains
were these of human beings, it would be a difficult
matter to recognise the fad to the mind, for recogni-
tion of any trace of what these remains owe were was
impossible. Not one of the bodies was entire. The
positions in which some of the little ones were found
indicated that they must have been awakened by the
noise or pain of the fire. One poor child had turned
itself on its face, and another had managed to w awl
from its bed on to the floor, and its remains were found
under the iron bedstead. But we cannot dwell upon
the awful sight presented in the dormitory. It was one
more horrible than words can convey an idea of—one
upon the like of which we hope never to have to look
again.—lit was heartrending to witness the mins and
anxiety depicted in the countenances of many in the
crowd who stood round the gates ot the workhouse
making inquiries as to what children were burned. The
agonised pleadings of one poor women to the officials
begging of them to tell her whether her little one bad
perished were truly harrowing to look upon. Every-
thing was in such confusion that it was impossible to
give the information sotight, and unfortunately the
register ordaining the names of the children has b ea
destroyed in the flames.
A frightful death from burning took time • few
nights at Pimlico. Ann Woodhouse, a servant 19 years
of age, after lighting the gas, threw th• liblfer on the
floor, and the flame caught her dress. fthe was sererely
burned aimed the oiled,
the front of the b,4 and the
neck and both arms and Moe. Them Mide an
extensive lawn no the right lip. She lingreithig=
48 hours in the inoot excruciating pain. iyhk,
juey returned • verdict of accidental dent% ' ' •• '•• • •