The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

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AN IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE OAS&

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At Cork Amine, an Mike
tvaa brought to restorer
damages £l,OOO, for a breads of promise of marriage.
The plaintiff, described is a very pretty girl, aged
nineteen, is the daughter of Mr. Root, of Cork,. who
for many years carried on business aa an optician.
Defendant is a Mr. O'Connell, a solicitor, pm:staging
with considerable etweems. In 1867 an acquaintance
oommeneed between the parties, whieh wee
however, dropped very shortly, but was renewed
at the Queenstown Regatta In Ince, 1889, and
on the 10th or 11th of August in that year, re-
turning from the fireworks on the evening of the
Glenbrook Regatta, the defendant proposed to the
young lady, end was duly accepted br her, sod the en-
gagement was reeognised by her father. At that time the
plaintiff was occupied Ns • governess, but vas Induced by
defendant to give up her occupation, by wh.4oh she stated
she was emote, from £5O to no a year. Very few
letters pared between the parties ; in the Bret the
defendant addressed the young lady as "M,' dearest
Jane," which style of address was, however, ?ere soon
softened down to "My deer Jane." Upon the lth of
October the defendant wrote to the young lady to sae
that in rionsequence of having been kept in the dark in
reference to some matters connected with the history o!
her family, he bad determined to break off the match.
The young lady was szamined, and admitted that she
loved the defendant, but she stated that Mr.
O'Connell had often told her be bed such winning ways
he would snowed in making her fond of him.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages
C 250.

THZ BALLOT Committee conclude that the Ballot
possesses many great advantages ; they therefore
the
seer.nitnenyd
of
op f
the vote
bat
wsho declare
should
dbeinviitot eobnleseary s.
They
ythtdao
not reoommend the discontinnanoe of public nomina-
tions, and do not think it would be point:de to prohibit
absolutely the employment of paid canvasser% But
they are of opinion that the nee of rooms in public
houses for committee-rooms is a fruitful source of ex-
pense and of corruption, and should be forbidden by
law ; also, that the °losing public houses on days of
nomination and polling will tend to tranquility, and
purity of election. Anypayment made bye candidate or
his agent, and not included in the return of the election
expenses should be declared to be eorrupt within the
meaning of the Corrupt Practises Act. They do not
recommend the nee of voting papers, believing they
would give facilities for bribery, fraud, and certain
forms of intimidation. A °Ponderable increase of
polling•plaoes in counties is suggested.
Tee bearing of the Wicklow Peerage claim wee
resumed on Thursday, in the House of Lords. The Bra witness
called wee Mary fleet, who was examined by the Solicitor.
General, and mated that she had never asked Mrs. Jones to
take her own child from her, though SIM did make some
mention to Mrs. J(1111105 of another child, which had been
given to her, when her own child was taken away by
the ladies who railed at the workhouse. She MI not ',tab hen
friends to knots that the child the took oot of the workhouee
was not her own, and therefore me
,seid nothing about that
circuniet,nce when the child died. During the proceedings it
use announced that two other persons had bnen telegraphed
for, and Lord Chelmsford said, that in the whede couos
erperience he had never know • cue which had broken out in
so many fresh places.
Oa the hearing of the cam on Friday, nearly the whole day
was token up with the speeches of cuunsel—Hir Houtidell
Palmer spearing on behalf of the original claimant, Mr. C. A.
Howard, and the Solicitor-General addressing their lorsiships
on What of Mrs. Ellen Howard.

BREAKFAST. Goooa. - Gearsruc any I
Co)fronnuct.—The very agreeable character of
this preperation has rendered it a general
favourite. The Civil &wrier Gaellc remarks :
The nippier moue which Mr. Epps attained
by his himmethic preperation of soon has never
been an by any experimentalist. By a
thorough nowlsdge of tke mama laws which govern
the operatic's/ of digestion sod nutrition, and by • care-
ful application el the foe properties of well-esleoted
woos, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with
• delimtely flavoured bevprage which may save us
many henry doctors' bills." Mod. simply with boiling
water or milk. Sold by the trade only la
and 111 s. peeketa, tie lined mod labelled, —James EPP,
and Co., Homatopothia Miming, London. Agent in
Dorchester for 'J. Epps k Co's. special hormeopathie
preperations-11. Burden, 13, Corchill,
MODKRII Cosromft—Pruentations and tostileonials
are largely on the increase ; this modern custom appealsto extend to almost every household, for no auspicious
event is allowed to pan without It. being marked by
some plasmas( 'outman. ; Birthdays, ChristecicP •
Mani", the asa•ms of the year, web as Christmas,
New Year, k,., invariably received spaniel commemor-
ation. The attentioo of coo of the (a.s Loudon Mann'
lecturers, Mr, J. W. Benson, of , Old Bond-street,
and of the City Steam Factory, Ludgate-hill' , has bees
directed to this irubjeet. With the view of giving
more artistic effect to this custom of society, he has
published • most interesting Illustrated Pamphlet upon
Washes and Clocks, also one upon artistic Gold
Jewellery, Silver and Eleetro•plate ; all are profusely
illtritrated with choice designs, and ars sent post free
for 2d. sash, thus bringing within the mesh of those
who live even thousands of mile, away from London,
one of the largest sad most artistic collections which
m 4.. •ow rmet and. .1 ...v....7
designs ere prepared to illustratamy special ease.
AT an inqueut held by Dr. Lonkester, • few day
once, on the bodies of two children who died from the effects
of posing through sucking mew 'smiler matched, the coroner
mid. fled the snatches been Bryant and May'e„ the children
would not have been poisonned." It canine be te generally
known that Bryant and May's Patent Safety Watches are not
poisonous, and that they light only on the box. —Vide istington
Gwen( May
The uniform pest strength of Elm oiman's Pureßlsok
Tea is much appreciated, from Its consisting only of tbe
choicest Spring growths, that have no inferior leaves to
be disguised with the usual injurious ortionficial coloring
powder.
Horn lama's Per, Green Tea imparts • delicious flavour
to the Pare Blank, and i• stronger and more wholesome
than the usual coloured Greens.
Rorniman's Pure Mixed Tea is in great favour.
Times teas ars mold secured in pockets of two ounces
to one pound, at 2s. 4rL, 2s. 8.1., 3s. 4d., and 3e. Bd.
per lb.
In this paper is odvertined the List of Local Agenta.
,Wi Norms the introduction of the Contain* Restore
for Gray Hair, Baldness., hr., which has every appearanceby
being much superior to all prodecomons. It is introduced 9,
Meow, Curley, now J. B. and E. A. Curley and Co., of It
Bartholomew Close, London, E.C., who have had throughou-
Europe the exclusive control of the bee and most noted preps
rodeo previously dleomteed and manufactured for similar
purposes. The cumalins Rer4orer contains several carefully
considered Improvements on that article, and It bids fair to
sirima all prealsesoors In demand as much as it does In the
, combination .4 reasonable prices, with excellence of quality. If
the Isar is turning grev on the temples and forehead, a half-
crown bottle sill he suffbient to restore it with certainsy, to the
natural Wen, yellow, brown. °eche:smut colour of snore youth.
ful days, and • five shilling boWe will he edEcient for the '.me
mayose. when the hair Is decidedly trey. Moors. C. k Cu.
hare Grua Cornelius Gloss, or Hair Deering. at the '.me price.
for the general Use of old and young, • rem superior article,
The Comalinea are sold by all the leading Netniste and Per-
fumers everywhere. See advertisement In another column
under the heed of Cesessidses
MODRIS Invscrtorra—Tbat great invention the
1 " Chronograph,' which times all the principal events of
the day, and has revolutionised and superseded the
clumsy old-fasibiooed "840P-watish," booms likely to be
eslipsed in bane by that still greater and igspeo Useful
invention the "Keyless M01e5." The fact of no key
being required renders these Watches indispensable to
the traveller, the nervous, and invalids. The au
number snif even by pose to all parts of the world
elor Is a
convincing proof of their great utility. Tits prices at
which they are sold range from 5 to 103
Tboeminde el them ars essaufaritured by Yr. J. W.
Benson, of Old Bond Street, and of the Skala F
Ludgate London, who nen& pm: fres f ad"72d •
most interesting pieteriaaj pmaigas ion eewassik- •
making