The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-08-17 00:00:00

doorway. with a taller nandla in Welland. He hadn't
no wearin apprend on except hienight clots, which
tattered in the korai like a Sawlan flag. H. oed,
" Youir• • man of tau f' then groaned and wont
away . . . . . .

I west to sleep dein, anJ drempt id running on with
the pretty little Shames; mounted on my Californy
Bar. I thought the Btr insisted to steerin strata for
my doory.ril us Bablinsv.lle sad Vitt Betsy Jane cum
out and giro us a want. rem.pabom with a panfull of
water. I wet woke up any by the Elder. lie
sea refreshments wee reddy for medown stairs. Thee
saying I was a man of sin be went groanin
As I was going threw the entry to the room where
the vittbo ma% I cum across the Elder and the old
female unit the sight before. •ad what ily'o spose
they can up to? }leggin and kioin like young lovers
in their gushinist atste. See I. "my Shaker friends.
I reek ,n you'd bettar suspend the rules, and git
married r

--•TlFOn.mitat exeoos Brother Ifriah," zed the (ma.;
" he's sutjeck to fits end bain't got no command over
hiaself when he's into 'rm."

"Sadiely," eel I, "I've bin took that way myself
frequ.nt."
" You're a man of sin," zed the Elder
Ater breakfast my littlo Shaker ;rens earn in Agin
to clear away the dishes.
"My prity dears," ses I, "shall ye yuy *gin r
"Nee, they bed, add I nay'd... . .

The Shakers axed me to go to their meetin, as they
was to hay services that morale, no I put on a clean
bihd rag and went. The tueetin bosse was as neat 1111
r. pin. The floor was white as chalk and smooth u
glass. The Shakers was all on hand, in clean weskits
and meal begs, ranged on the Boor like millingtery
companics, the mails on one side of the room, and the
females on tether. They cammeut clappin their
hands and sidgin and dusk. They danced kinder
slow at lust, but as they got warmed up they shaved it
down very brisk, I tell you. Elder Utiah, in par-
Soler, exhMerted a right smart change of spryness in
his legs, eonaiderin his time of life, and as he etun a
dubble shuffle near where I sot, I rewarded him with a
approvin smile, and sail: "flunky boy! Go it, my gay
and festive sees !" _

"You're • now of sin I" ho rod, coutinuerin bin
shuffle.

The Sperret, as they called it, then moved • short
fat Shaker to say a tow remulut. He sed they was
Shakers and all wee ekal. They was the purest and
seleckeet peple on the yearth. Other peple was sinful
U they Gould he, but Shakers was all eight. Shakers
was all going kerslap to the Promist Land, end nobody
want guinto stead at the gate to bar 'em out, if they
did they'd git rue over.
The Shakers then danced and sung agin, and 'aster
they was threw, one of 'ens axed nes what I Start of

" fin I. "What this it siggerty r
aes he.

"Why, ihis-jUnipin up and single? This long
weekitt bisness, and this anty-matriniony idea? My
h-ends you air neat and tidy: Your lands is fiowin
with milk and honey. Your brooms is fine, and your
apple-we Is honest. When a man bays a hag
of apple-sass of you be don't find a great many sbavins
under •few layers of sue- a little Game I'm sorry to
say sum of my New Englan ancestors used to practise.
Your garding seed is fine, and ill ahuold sow 'em on
the rook of taibralter probly I should raise a good mess
of garding sass. You air boast in your deans. You
air quiet and don't distal) nobody. For al this I give
you credit. But your religion is small palettes, I
must say. You mope away your lives here in single
retebidness, and as you air all by yourselves nothing
ver conflicts with your pecooler idea, except when
Human Neter Wife out among you, as I understan
she sumtimes do. [I gilt Udall a sly wink here, which
made the old feller squirm like a speared Eel.] You
wear long weskits and long faxes, and lead a gloomy
life indeed. No children's prattle is ever bearn around
your harthstuns—you air in a dreary fog all the time.
and you treat the jolly sunshine of life u tho' it was a
thief, drivin it from your doors by them wakits, and
meal bags, and pecooler nahuns of yearn. The gala
among you, sum of which air an slick pima of Wilier
as I ever sot eyes on, sir syin to place their had. agin
weskit.' which kiver honest, manly harts, while you
old beds fools yerselves, with the idee that they are
folfillin their mishun here, and air contented. Here
you air, all pond te by yerselaa, talkin about the sins
of a work] you don't know nothin of. Meanwhile said
world oonfinuers to resolve round on her own aseltree
onot in every 24 hours, subject to the Constitutioo of
the United States, and is a very pleasant place of
residence- It's a unnatural, onreaunable anal dismal
life you're leadin here. So it strikes me. My Shaker
friends, I now bid you a welcome adoo. You hey
treated me exceedin welL Thank you kindly one and
all."

"A base exhibiter of depraved monkeys and on.
prineirled wax works r ted
"Hello, Uriah," sex I, "I'd moat forgot yds. Well
look out for them fits of yourn, and don't catch a.old
and die in the floor of your youth and beauty."
And I resumed r.-y journey.

CURIOUS PODOMING CABE A poisoning Mae,
which was tried at Leeds on Wednesday, has made a
fresh addition to the list of legal puzzles that are ay.
cniumulatilig on our hand,,. William Fiakerssill, •
labourer, e,gl twenty.two, was arraigued for the wil-
ful murder of his sweetheart, Rebecca Westin ; and
after • trial which lasted from morning until night, he
was acquitted. It was proved that there had been •
meeting between the two on the night of Sunday, the
:30th of May ; that next morning the woman was suffer-
ing from what seemed to be the effecte of poison ; and
that on the following day she died. It was also proved
that an analysis c eiduct..d by Mr. Scattergood, the
professor of Chemistry in the Lands School of Medicine,
had detected in the stomach of the deceased • quantity
of arsenic sufficient to cause death. Further, it was
proved that, in the place where he resides, the prisoner
could wily have obtained access to • quantity of arsenic,
which is used for eluting pottery, end which is allowed
to lie in open cask, shout the pottery yard. Finally,
aecording to the death-bed stata meet of the deceased,
when she first sew Yiekersgill, he asked her to drink
something out of a bottle, and about a quarter of an
hour after doing so she felt ill. It was not until next
morning that unmistakeable symptoms of poisoning
presented themselves ; bat Professor Scattergood says
that the effects ef arsenic are sometimes tumotieed for
tin hours after the poison has passed into the system.
All the evidence against the prisoner is circumstantial ;
but, taken as • whole, it MMus perilously strati', and
the public will be curious to learn what link, in the
noieion of the Judge or the jury, was too weak.
• tether question will be asked with equal eagerness,—
Why are casks of arsenic left open in pottery yards,
when, to lessen the facilities for the commlanon of
ante, the law decrees that the poison shall net be cold
except under special restrictions?
BMIACH Or PROMISL—In Lancashire Sheriff's Court,
damages have been given for breech of promise.
The plaintiff is Margaret Helen Nicholson, and is a
milliner and dressmaker, of respectable family, residing
at Blackburn, and the defendant is Thomas Forrest
Smith, manager to his father, an ironmonger, having
three places of business in Blackburn, and doing a good
trade. The plaintiff was 24 and the defendant 23 years
of age. The parties had been on inmate terms for some
years, they had met at plaintiff's father's house, the
defendant was aecepted as the suitor, and the matter
went so far that the defendant purchased • large
quantity of furniture, which he sent to the plaintiff's
home. A wedding ring was bought, and the house
taken. The promise was made at Christmas last ; since
then they had attended parties together, and the defen-
dant hid taken her home. He had since, however,
married Miss Alexander, but it was alleged that he had
afterwards met the plaintiff, and asked her ".bat she
was going to do," and he wanted her to elope with him
to America, which she refused. It waa also alleged
that the plaintiff was =ciente by the defendant. The
damages were laid at I:6000. The defendant had a
alary nf PIM Some correspondence was reed, of which
she following was the most "sentimental" extracts—

TO lIT PEIR 11000 T.
MINZy love.hl4o' dvaru.t.
Keep, ,h keep than art at red;
I will .nruly reineniker the lose.
Though we are parted ; )et, if true,
It may be fur the lawt
Write nie, 111:ky, if you think I wrong yam With kind hive
Is, you, Thou..% and all at Inutile, btliSt; me, you, ever,
Tien. r. semi.
The brother of the plaintiff elated that the defendant
in his presence said, "I will marry her, come what
difficulties may, and that before long ' • but I cannot do
Itij out now." The Jury returned • verdict for £2OO
IMPUDENT HOTEL HOBBERT.—At Manchester on
Monday John Davies was charged with having stolen a
watch and chain, value £lO, from the Queen's Hotel,
the property of Mr. Wm. lienry Greenhow.—The prose-
cutor said that on Sunday morning, just as he awoke, he
saw the prisoner cross the room at the end of his bed.
He touched his hat to the prosecutor, and slipped onto,
the room. Prosecutor followed him through almost
every part of the hotel, sailing" stop thief 1" The
prisoner WM eventually stopped, and the watch and
chain fonnd in his hand.—Jarnes Simpson, a night porter
at the Queen's, said he was on the ground floor, and
hearing Mr. flriwnhow eau "atop thief," he took hold of
tha prisoner, who purhed him to one side, and tried to
escape. Witness, however, obtained assistance, and took
the watch out of the prisoner'. hand. In explaining how
the prisoner obtained an entrance, witness 881 d he
entered the Lotel behind one of the waiters, and asked
to be shown to No. 11 room. Prisoner pleaded guilty
to the shard*, and said be was a German, and had come
to this country from Huaburgh. He intended returning
to Germany • but having no money, he went into the
Queen's Hotel and took the watch. Mr. Hoadlam :
WtII, you know it was a very impudent robbery. I will
send you to prison for six months.

ElOllllll4l &ANN ON Tlli SANDS AT BOULOGNIAU/1-
11112. —On Tuesday morning • very exciting, and what
nearly proved to be • tragic scene, occurred on the sands
at Boulogne. The night before • .trong gale of wind
had been blowing, and consequently the flood tide
flowed in at much more rapid tate than usual A
number of both English and French visitors ware bath-
leg at the time, and there were four machines more in
advance than the rest. The tide ro.e with each extraer.
dinary rapidity as to cover the iambi, and almost float
these four machines. As soon as their dangerous preili•
eminent was discovered horror were immediately
galloped in to draw thew out, but, as it proved, too late.
One animal was all but submerged, and after struggling
some time with one of the machine., which he failed to
move, be broke away. A number of volunteers wont to
the rescue of the imperilled occupants of the four
inaohincw, who, as nay be imagined, were in a dreadful
rude of anxiety. Among these gallant men one ro two
Englishmen appeared commendably conspicuous one,
fully attired, rushing feark.sly into the sea, and did
great servion in rescuing several Person, from • watery
grave. Eight or ton persons, both English and French
(mostly women), were thus rescued, though in a very
exhausted condition, and sever.] lost clothing, jewellery,
&a Roper were brought Into requisition, and a line of
volunteers 1•11111 formed on the atnds until all were
rescued, Including • little dog, which was brought ashore
upon the shoulders al • young French lady. The
machines were upset by the wavee almest before they
were deserted, and one or two completely sleeked. A
, very dithressing scone afterwards occurred. An English
lady whose husband and son had gone to bathe that
morning, hearing of the affair, rushed to the thuds and
sought them 'membere without ending them. She in-
wardly gave them up for lost, though outwardly the
preierved • caloi demeanour, but when, attar an hour',
search she suddenly met her husband and boy quietly
walking on the lianas, her pout up foaling give way.
blur threw herself into bet hurband's arms robbing.