The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

erntral ffirti3s.

Tire P.cottish ChM, an said Lob. ad ptlog the sustom
01 wearing moustaches.
THE wheat crop now growing in the United Bestes is
the largest that has ever yet been raised there.
kle. It W. Jos somas, • proctor and solicitor, was
killed on Weelne.dsy night et Bickley, while getting out
of • 1... in ,fto• it had begun to move.
Its lll...•schusettn, recently, two smoked hams were
found in an unused closet. They bed been there It)
year., aml are in • state of perfect ',enervation.
DIRECTLY the Great Eastern returns to England she
will take fr.•sh cable on board and start for India, to
lay a lilt rem ten Bombay ant Sues.
Tilt •übsoiiption made in Senderbto.l York,Whittiy,
and Neercs.4 e for the benefit of Mr. Hmisoo, the ex•
railway king. no. &mutants to abiut
Tog II Wins doCii B. ramie Cu one] ~,, .ed on Wed.
Weedily morning at Sheerness at four o'c'ock, and was
Sowed out to the Nero. The dock will hove with its
regular ere. wanly ISO souls on hoard.
Tilt directors of the Bonk of England. aftsr a short
stonsulta ion last Thursday, reduced the officit.l minimum
Irons I per cent., at which it has stood since the loth
heat.. 1.. 3I per cent.
HENRY KIEGRIXT, an officer of the Liverpool polies
force was recently tripped up in • street row. Rod in the
fall hi, bole finite was broken. Lockjaw set in, and be
died on Wodnesisv in great agony.
pnlitical eorn•
THE ('Los lieu orgsnieed a
Mitts*, cumberieg AO members, with • view to main•
tale pint! discipline. adjusting difference anel present'
leg in • ilivi•ion of Liberal forces in election clOtesta.
AT the lodruth county nowt the judge. Mr. Bevan,
yip he. far tiony veer. bad experience. of Cornwell,
reuse: lied that in that county perjury was one to such
• (tortei height that it was highly necessary that some'
(hug shottl.l he done to stop it.
EtTaL ACCIniCT. —On Tuesday morning • young
Wan named S moon Hibbon, twenty years of age,
lost his life at Kingston Station, while en.leavouting to
lamp uatbe step of • carriage attached to • train in
sootier I. •
A Mot %mg.—A journal publishei In the Hante
Loire announces • miracle, the mother of an infai,t
three years oil. demanded the bishop of those part' tu
bless her child and give hiin graft to walk ; the biol.°,
consented, sod the child walked alone the very next
day.
A Gin has die.) at Chestee fi •Id, from the &eta of •
blow Riven by her whooltuotreas. The blow would
Ent hove eau•ol death in • healthy person, but being
his this Case .‘ Intini.tered to a diseasesl person, it pro.
dared an abscess in the right ear, which resulted
latolly.
A elect of slisro practice on the part of a broker
was esp , on 'rues lay at Marlborough•streit peli•••
Court. L nolon. The defendant. in executing a distoese
to recover an amount of Its :IL for rent, had mei& d
good. to the value of about and afterwards sent •
claim for repo,' -a, which had swelled to three times
the sum for which the distraint hat been put in. He
was old. le I to 'slay the amount realised by the sale,
Wan. the rent, with the Intl&
THE French Emperor lest week vLsited the camp at
Chaloos. He "received" the soldi.-ra who went
thronah the Italian eampaign, and delivered an
eddies., extorting theni ti keep always in their hearts
the r.sw.ibb I the battles of their fathers, end of
those its which they had taken part, since "the history
of 1.. in wars was the history of tb• progress of eivili•
ultimo" They would by this means preserve the
militaty spirit which was the triumph of noble over
vuL.ar lassions. The E!pperor is always very clever in
nsak nd a military speech.
Tar Vii r.nOT or Foorr.—Tbe Viceroy arrived in
London Wedneeday evening, and was received at
Cliat.eg•er .st station by the Mere of Wale., who haa
so rece.,tly et jo)e.l his Highness's hospitality, and the
Prince tendered • Royal greeting to the illustrious
visitor. His loyal Highness and the Viceroy entered
tlio prineiptl stito carriage and drove to Buckingham
Yo'ace, amid the cheers of those assembled. On Thurs-
day Li. Highness had • run on the Metropolitan rob
woy, and public ittently expressed himself highly gratified
with his teip. Ilis Highness drove up to Al fermate.
street smiles° in an open carriage, accompanied by his
principal Ilinbt..r (Nuba Pasha), Lord Alfred Paget,
sod tl.e I..bl'ee of Muth. eland. In the evening his High•
mess tie Vieeroy of Egypt vitiited her Majesty at
heir Castle.

THr Manna. of Hertford, who resides in Franco, has
lably bail the opportunity of sooommodatior • friend
in • In inter which few peiple, we eupposs, would ears
to borate, He allowed him and another gentleman
With *horn he 6.4 bed • dispute to fight a duel in •
peeltol seenue of his park at Herabille. The gestic-
Pitt, vi.. +al so for ass stind to kill or to be killed, was
the Viscount do Lau, who hos lately exhibited his
powen is di stroying mieerable birds at Parisi.n pigeon
maTclnis, hot in the duel was wounded in toe arm by
his ii.t.;:innist, M. ilea Perrieres. Perhaps when be felt
Limeolf "wing'-.!" be bode slight coneeption of what
• pone tiro feels when hit; bet, thanks to the sore of
his kind Iti-od, the marquis of Hertford, In providing
privat • shooting ground., there were no roughs about
to knock the wounded bird on the head.

STARVATION OP AN ILLIGITINATI CHILD AT
Resat:RT.—A young unmarried woman, named Blanche
Davii. years oh!, was charged at Chiba with wil.
fully to provide proper food and ideating for
one of ber illegitimate children. Mr. Howell, relieving
Wiese, proved that the child, whose name is Richord
tasei., and who is about six years old, begged of him at
the Poatiollive, at Heobury. He appeared very ill, end
was no weak that he was enable to sit up, and was
crewing foal. His legs and sternest) were truce swains.
Hie olothing 000sistel of • few dirty pieoes of old calico,
tied sus out lagged pair of trousers and dirty stockings,
and the garments, or rether apologies for garments, no
well as the shill himself, were •shibited to the magic-
treice. Three years and • ball ago the child was put
out to nurse at 31. a week. About two years, the
mosey run into arrears to the cutout of nearly 13, and
the *had was returned to the mother, he being then •
healthy child, chatty, and orderly. Soon after he went
Meat heggiiig from house to house, and gra Nally got
Utmost sod declined in health. Ho was allowed to be
very dirty. On Wednesday morning, the 16th Mat., the
child er•, o-iir the puree's house lying down. and in •
Very lid condition. He was very buogry, and could
ticsresly satisfy his appetite, and said if be had •
triarkrn loaf be could eat it. He bed nothing on bat
Ito raved apology for clothes already mentioned.
l'reioner was nrreetel by P.S. Smith, and be elm
rowed the sad state in whieh the child was. tie went
thriugli tie house which the prismer's father and
triotter relate& In one bedroom there was neuter of
It.. pr.o suer with n child throe months old, and in a
avroad bedroom another sister with t•in• two months
oil. There appeared to be plenty of food In the
boom, end all the children, with the exemption of the
uncle .0,6 in, looked Glean and healthy. Mr. D. H.
&roar d surgeon to the union, said he saw the child
biog a* the bottom of a *art in whleh be had been
brought. so ',id° that he was hardly able to raise
• limb. He expected before the next any that he
would due: bet he ordered him wine mid milk and the
best in ring be appeared a little better. He craved
for food. He bad been fed with simple food and a
little wine, and had sines improved looewb•i• ' Hue
state aa At be attlibuted entirely to starvation, wbieb
TIMM Lor,. been g nog on for some months. Scarcely
but offst Gould be found &eye here OP him, mid bis
bolos &chi he r, ckomil. lie had some brumes on
heed and legs, which latter were meets swam and
timed fin.. weeknom He WY very dirty, nod Els
head full .4 'mind, The magistrates reusanded the
unnatural mother.