The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-31 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1878.

trails from Weymouth, the officers and men had a
ratite: cold march to Portland, where they arrived
between on. and two o'clock in the morning.
CAII3IIIGATIONAL CHUICH ANNITUSANT. —An
anniversary tea meeting took place on Thursday last
in the schoolroom of the Congregational Church,
when • large number of ladies and gentlemen sat
down. After tea a lecture was delivered by Mr. D.
Grant, chemist. in "Oxygen," illustrated by several
wonderful experimenta, kc The Rev. W. M. Fall,
pastor of the church, presided, and at the clam a
hearty vote of thanks was proposed and carried to the
teeters: for his stile and bietructive address.
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Puma. or an Ow Innaarrairr—On Monday
Let were committed to the final rest the remains of the
late Mr. Henn' atone. aged 113. He bad bean • highly
'nonmetal local preacher and class leader among the
Wesleyan Methodists over 61 years, and was greatly
respected by all who knew him. The Rev. J. A
Benzor officiated, and among those who followed in
the mournful procession were the Reys, H. Padghian
and W. Lane, and many other friends ceoneeted with
the can,

IT will be remembered that when the convict Quigley
made his noted exit from Portland Prison, • mason*,
I. the all adjoining to his waa disarmed while
attempting • similar feat During Sunday night this
men made another attempt to get free, probably In-
plied by the thoughts of turkey and plum pudding,
commodities which are at present very scarce in Ms
Immediate neighbourhood. But since Quigley's mid-
night flitting an iron bar hail been placed ACTUSII each
window, and the broken glans also roused the watch-
men, and the poor foolish fellow found his vain hopes
climbed away. He had knotted his sheet to lower him-
self down had he been successful in his attempt to pass
through the narrow aperture which forms the vriadow.
P ILLS NTSTIOS TO A HAJUIACIE BEIO RAWL-00 Monday
evening last • very gratifying testimonial was
presented by the sergeants of the 2nd Batalion of the
20th Regiment of Foot, consisting of a very handsome
silver tea and coffee service, The presentation took
place in the Sergeante' Mese, and was quite an event
among those who participated in it. Each of thespians
bore on the front side the following :—" Presented to
Barrack-Sergeant Stephen McLaughlen, by the
sergeant. 2ud Battalion 20th Regiment, ILE., ILA-,
ao aff-Sergeants of the Verne Citadel, Portland,
as a mark of esteem on his resignation of the
appointment of Barrack Sergeant." On the
reverse side of each piece we. the monogram
The presentation wee made by the Sergeant-
Major of the regiment in a terse and appropriate
speech, and the veteran sergeant in acknowledging
the testimonial said he wee quite overcome with
emotion. He could sot express what his feelings
were for the testimonial was as unlocked for as it was
undeserved; hi should however, prize it very highly,
and should carry it with him to hie grave. We
believe the ides first arigniated with the caterer to
the mess, Sergeant Garner. After the presentation
mugs, speeches ko., followed, and a rosy agreeable
evening was spent

her. completely rpoilinx heir clothes lent the derendent
was not very clearly identified. Several ripeiee were
called to prove that the defendant -as in Wimborne at
the Use of the, coattuteeion of the amp, and the Bench
dientiord the eaa..
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Acominst Woes Chi—Peery, Cools, • labourers wet
sumoson,d for wiliully braakish n wiudow at the hose
Sumo Nesters, &ace data he to the extsnt of 34 . -0 the
s'h in,t —The evidence of identification was 'err inCOM-
P 1••••• and the magistrates dismissed the summons.
Allll/11.7LT --Joseph% Bea. • labourer, was sumenmed for
masulting Salina Salley oaths previous Shutdar.—Th•
evidence showed that complainant's husband In-questa
delendatit's boom for the purpom of enjoying the society
of the defsedasit's sister, and complainant wont to tho
house on Saturday atentoon to enquire for her husband.
Defendant abused her, pushed her out of the house, nod
struck her in the face, giving her e black eye. —Th. Bench
ordered defendant to pay • Sue of 10s. 61 and 9s. 61. coats
Ii fortnight. .

Clara. Sfahrid wita ehuted with
decent c.ndoct in Etiab-strewt on Toes lay asonina sn't
with bang drunk in Ilhrkst-street on Wodowday suers-
iag.—P.S. Ballet proved the chasses.—Prisoner said he
was salicted, aad pkaded for lenlency.—He was ordsred
to lease the town at once.

Joon= C4lB or !howler. Edmund Winians
.Caue
woo charged with beasino With • fictitious Eyo.--
Soot, Hunt i.id he had no wig to DMUS C Spa
th• Bench ordered prisoner to leave the town ha Istalr

where you will there are people to be found who
believe in the evil eye. The most absurd and ridicul-
ous stories ace told of the wonderful powers of these
witchse. Tlsen the wine man is appe 11ed to, and he is
i t • 1,3 W AS much money AS he GA fr.)M
f in 1-turn about a pennyworth of
brawn new pins dot have never boon uee.L "Sick
'am in *..0100' lie errs; " r ,n.t the onion and the
witch will c nne ritinio; to y..u, buging your for.ite•
nes," Or, if it is a vcry oesoerate case, a in on
desperate remedy mil.% hi tried. Blood must be
drawn. This never fails ; hot it is not always safe for
the operators, as was proved isthis village • few years
ago. A woman war said to have been bewitched by
this same I virile 01. S wag sail he knew better
—the devil 1134 no p ,rer to hurt angels. Others sail
w hat's in a name'!" he woman was at last per.
gaoled that she was bewitched. The oice man was
soucht and found, :he fee paid, and the pins purchased,
peed, this being • desperate case, 'Atm. must draw
, blood from Mrs. —. Some Sunday its the latter was
leaving the chapel No. 1 embraced the opportunity,
and with the line $ 'retched her till she had drawn
blood in several places, and it is said that the be-
witched woman was lictier from that very hour. The
case was deciiisd by the Wareham magistrates, and •
further donation was paid for this wonderful cure. I
pity the poor young girl who is thus afflicted, like-
crime her aged gran -parents. Ido not know if they
ascribe it to supernatural agency or not, but I hops
they do not. If there are any, as reported. that
b.lieve this tr be the work of the devil, and that poor
old Mr.. -- is his agent, I Lope that God will give
them light to lighten their darkness and grace to
realise this fact—that this very darkness they en.
, courage by their belief is the abode of the devil. Also
I beg that they will have charity and consider that
this poor woman who is able to feel the scratch of a
pin Is also likely to feel most acutely any lie or slander
that may be heaped upon her. To that money-
grubbing old wise man that takes people's hard-
earned money from their pocket' by such trash and
then grins at them through the key.hole of the door.
I would say—" Take care, for though justice has
leaden feet, she has iron hands." Apoiogising for
trespassing on your valuable space. I remain, yours
truly,—T.D.—Winfrith, December 21st, 1878.

know that the sentiment of our times is dead
such verdicts as felo-de-ae. fie wanted his Zetito
come and live with hon. Shs felt that she could not.
Lilo then appeared so Monk to him that be shot
buneela jf be was 'me. why b. s ) cruel to survivors,
so uncourteon to a r. 1.1 luau; seeing that to him
prayers could he noth.o;. and ev,..1 suic •le's tonal
nothing. whilo to ta..s ti tm :hing v.od tuitht
have been of sit al ihrt.rt •oot !, We do hope thtt this
verdict will be the l;st of its kind in our neighbour-
hood.
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Brim, daughtee.Ol—Hr. Hill, of Darlatone
Cutaage, died soddenly at B4urnewouth, Cu Sunday
evening last.

There is a philosophy in -dream.. From ever of old
penny books have translated them or wizards manipu-
lated money out of them. There were two dreams in
Swanage the other nigitt. A sanguine dreamer bad
won a ten-gui es musical-box at a raffle while she
slept. A flighty dreamer we up in • balloon lis...ming
to the box twanging away Not for Joseph." Where-
upon were these niAt-thouzlits foundel! Both
dreamers, like everybody else, had been to Brown's to
see the wonderful musical.b is which he has introduced
am a windfall for 'one lucky Brower, and they had
heard it pl tv "Up in a Balloon," and "Not for
Joseph." May tho first dream come true for our
sake. Meanwhile it will las useful to letour New Year's
visit trs know thot Summers' 'bus still waits at
Wareham IT the IV in lieu I,f the balloon yet to be
invented for th Lt. tedious vivage.

Wiahing all our readers a "Happy New Year" we
remain
Lam.

WHAT TTIR WORLD SAYS.
The Emperor+ Siena Ana of Germany mom to hare i
ham put redi. r out of spirits he the lee rerleid.l
etteruptit. Both of them look of the abort time they
he.' still to live. the 1 i• tor p.rtic tubr dwelling upon it.
According to !isl p oe-. wom,
folbos :—• We) aro errant I ..t oi . r whin .-ndearours
t,,'.veAu.n.o true rau o, me hope of ..rrivin.r. at
a tuel'eT rate .4 131111/.. Au ler us concerns me, I can,
orr3ollot 10 .11 0001 onlll‘l4lity. expect to live int: a
ehort tune longer. I comompl my life to Providence
awl the crimival terden um of the age will n. 4 prevent
rue from ace oupluhine far duties as a Sovereign, as I I
havJ Morays her cut ore done.

A Juryman in the last n.-:n of the Arad! he must he
sorry ha spoke, and must now und -rat aid the full tore...!
the French proverb, ' Tripp prat ter mit, trap pads, suit.'
Before he was asked lag the vartiet. he volunteered to
'tied his personal opinion upon the rase before him. The
trial was iinusediately 'Would an I ad) mimed to the
Inhering tes•dous, the emit condemning the mistime
ear, had D,Cemtt•ted the adj idrumant t pay the cest4
the trial. se tar as it had cone. l aonder whether the
pri.o., quas approves of that decision, bail nl being
&dared him.

At the very time that iu France Emile Ic fiiranlin and
hia party are asking for the abolition of the penalty of
death, and even that of imprisonment, replacing them both
by a retired life in the country. the Swiss, on the other
hazel, have awakened to the fact that doing awsy with
eapitsl punishment is not unmixed good. They ore now
petitioning the Federal Assembly that it should be
ro established. and alle,:ed thy, if it I. not, society will be
disarmed againrt the convict condemned to hard labour
f r life ; and further, that the population will take the law
into their own hands, and bar recourse to the American
system of lynching. N. dou..t Alphonse Karr WAS quite
ri.:ht, when he answered the ples for the abolition of the
pain of death by the trite remark, "Quo Mwwieurs les
Assassins commencent r At the same tune, I cannot but
congratulate the Freud upon their prop not abolition of
capital executions in pullic.

A characteristic dory reaches me from Hampton Court
At the commencement of the frost • few of the Palace
Pestle and Hampton Court residents were requested to
desest from skating on a pond in the Home Park, the ice
having been condemned. There was nothinx time to be
done but '' move on." One young lady of the Palace, how-
ever, somewhat peremptorily remarked that she supposed
the order did not extend to the Palos: people. The
Steward looked I stwildered. No wonder, for the young
lady omitted to explain whether the ice would bravely
refrain from cracking and breaking under the combined
weight of houour and responsibility in carrying their
precious bodies, or whether the elevate-4th of the Palace
made them naturally more ephemeral than "those out-
Indere."

I was an 11111111404 witness rd a little scene in ea° of the
law-courts tint other day, which illustrates the reverence
of the junior branch of the profession for the senSfr. linter
two st:orners'-clerks, deolydly seedy in sopa...nos.
First clerk ts companion: "Confound it " Where's my
swan t Can't tee 'ma anywhere*? Steind clerk: "'0 ii
your man r First clerk: "Th. Attorrier.flaneral, con.
found 'im

The enlightoned and weilsinforrned representative of
the leading Britials journal in the Prussian capital is
actually unacquamted with the fact that the term
Oaten/nip/ denotes the struggle between the intellectual
truti of yarned and conscientious Germany and the
alwolete doctrines of Li Itramontanism ; whereaa the recent
arrests and proscriptions concern ex.:Naively the S scialiata
or thaw equally opposied to Rime and all religion. and
who. caring only for secular happiness. confine their
aspirations to the division and participation of the pro-
perty of othen.

Two doct we, one of the great "Sir Williams " and
mother, went down to Melton for • consultati 311. and to
pass the night. A friend, who spend' the winter with the
invalid, received them, and naked them whet hour they
would dine. One protested that he had rrivon up dining
late, considering the practice most injurious to health.
" I) in't yoti stree with mar he added, turning to his
colleague. "No," replied toe other, " I consider smoking
the curse of modern society." The doctors were not taken
at their word, and at eiaht o'clock 'At down to dinner.
The cuisine was parfect ; the wines innuarksble Both
played a very goad part at the feast: and the non-smokrr,
after getting throng!) a large cigar, asked for another. On
saying rood-night, their ent wtainer addressed them
" Wed gentlemen, after hearing your tirades against my
two favourite practices, I thourht that I had but • short
time to live; but aro rejoiced to see that you can break
vote awn ruts with impunity: Toe doctors laughnd.
"Fairly caught," they said: "but—well, everything was
so good ; and remember this is wholly exceptional—these
are not our usual habits."

A few years ego a weldknown South Loudon rnindt,r
instituted a suit for divorce. but the petition eras
quently diatuhwed, as there was not vufficient evidence
ag.inst the wife. Th., reverend gentlein to has now. I
undenitund, obtained further evidence, and intends pre-
senting • second petition 11ra:sittings.

The Prince of Wales and D. Lynn Plnyfair were sten l-
ing near • caldron containin; lead whi ai was boiling at
white hest. " Hee ynur Royal Highness any faith in
sl-nce • mid the D mtar. "CrMaly." reolind the
Prince. Will you, theu, place your hand in the boiling
mask and ledle out • portion of it r D you tell in,
to do thi.r asked the Prince. "I do," replied the
Dmtor. The Prince then ladled out some of the boiling
lead erith his hand, without sustaining any injury. It is
• well-known edentate fact that the human hand may
be placed uninjured in lead boiling at white beat, being
protected from any harm by the moisture of the skim
Should the lead be at • pereeptinly lower temperature, the
effect need not be described. After thts let noon. under.
rate the courage of the Prince of Wales.

An lrikk clergyman bad, so Scripture lesson, narrated
to • CIOSI of boy,. etc national" school in the west, the
history of the miracle of the loaves and the fiMee.
AtaioO2 to know whether or not the bye understood the
narrative, he afterwards ex uninei them, by inquiries of
e " WhAtwelettafter toe teediug id the multitude r
NLit one of the lively youths could give a correct reply,
until in desperation a small tatterdemalion of a boy
answered with earnestness, " Please, sir, the bones and
the crumbs." The clergyman was satisfied, and went his
way.

Chatterers during the performsnce of music always
have • particularly "good time in the forte passages of
concerted pieces. The nationsl timidity takes courage,
and voices usually subdued to that English whisper which
foreigners find so depressing are raised to Insult and
strident ton.. One of the most eminent pianists in
Lou lon, having suffered much from the irrepressible e 30.
veraation of drawing room audiences, devised the other
day a mean, of giving • little lesson to the town. Ha
arranged with his violin, his violoncello, and the rest thst
the ILVASie should Come to a sudden step in the midst of
the loudest passage of the piece, at a given signal from
him. It was dons. Th. in !- `, v.img voices
syre left. in the twinkiing ..as eye, high an dry, as it
wets, upon a shore of silence. Joyous, clear, anl distinct
above them all rose a voice from tee foremost seats, the
voice of Lady—but no, torture, shall not drag her name
from me! And these words were ringing upon the
aurae,' We always fry oars in lard r

Whatever may be thought of the capacity of wemen for
intellectual labour, it I. cirtain that they ani p,fectly
well fitted for work of a quasi-mechanic•l kind, which
requires intelligence rather than intellect, to which
conscientious punctuality, regularity, and hands that
tremble in the morning from brandy-and-water
over night Sr. indispensable ; and which, moreover, can
be done in that privacy which eon, of no still think nice
for poor and unfriended young ladies. Law-copying
fulfils all these conditions