The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-28 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT OF A QUAKER.

Another "scandal" is reported from America. The
village of Millbrook, on the Dutehess and Columbia Rail-
road, is• according to the Rhinebeck Garrets. "in a fever
of excitement owing to the elopement of a Quaker with
" a twentrone-year-old house girl." The Quaker's name
Is Raymond; and what makes the affair all the more
melancholy and scandalous is that he has a wife and
children, whom he has left destitute, by his "having
carried off every cent, he could lay hold of. The "twenty-
one-year-old house girl." by name Kate Whaley, was
servant in the establhment of the Quaker. The fugitives
" boarded the milk train on the Dutchess and Columbia
Road, proceeded to Mattawan, where they took the
omnibus for Flshkill Station, and from thence went by
express to New York." The Quaker was treasurer of the
Millbrook Division of the Sons of Temperance, and took
with him in his flight 14 dollars belonging to that associa-
tion. A clue, it is stated by latest accounts, has been
obtained to his whereabouts, and there is reason to hope
that he will be discovered and dealt with rigorously. in
the meantime the "shadow of a mighty sorrow" hangs
over Millbrook, and words would fail to describe "the
consternation of all the quiet peace-loving citizens of that
village of condensed milk and coffee-mill notoriety."

A Configinners TRIZY. —A Gloucester merchant had 1
his pocket picked in Birmingham a few days ago of a
purse conteMing a cheque for tlf.o odd and some loose
coin. The thief, finding the cheque unavailing, thmight.
folly forwarded it to the bank at which it was payable:
he forgot to give his name and address, so that his victim
loses the opportunity of personally acknowledging his
courtesy.
An eogine-driver on the Devon and Somerset Railway,
named Omen, has been presented with • purse and five
sovereigns for stopping lus train from running into the
Devon and Somerset staghounds, one day last week.
On Monday Mr. J. Hope Barton, master of the Bads
-
worth hounds, was out hunting with his peck near
Doncaster, when he was observed to fall from his hone.
A/sista:ice was at ono* rendered, and it wag found he was
In a fit. Brandy was supplied him, but he only lived a
few minutes, dying on removal to a neighbouring cottage.
The affair created great excitement, and the hunt wee, of
course, at once 'topped. Demand had for many years
been meter of the Badsworth.
A Darsinvino RsTi-COLLSCrolL—Considerabis conster-
nation has prevailed in St. Mary's parish, in Devises, in
consequence of the discovery that Mr. Henry Bm
Pike, the pad overseer of that pariah, was notulAan:
defaulter to the extent of MO. but that he had actually
collected a fictitious rat* of hd, in the .0 without any
authority whatever, and applied the money to his own
use. On the fact owing out. Pike toads himself 8011r0O,
' but a warrant was obtained for his apprehendoo, and on
Monday Kr. Sawintandent Woodmaa took him into
moody at Wimbledon, and brought him back.
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Proverbially difficult an it is to gives good definition,
Kennington, which was almost the first district in London
to have a Spelling Bee, on Friday evening pees ited the
spectacle of 03 pore ne, including several ladies, %Ming to
exhibit publicly, and before a large audience, the degree
of skill to which they had attained in that kind of achieve-
ment. The scene of the contest was the horn Assembly.
rooms, and the prizes to be contended for money ones,
four in number, and ranging, from 10s. to £5, amounting
in the aggregate to 210. The words were to be selected
from the current literature of the day, purely technical,
scientific terms, and obsolete words being excluded. The
chair was taken by Major L. Griffiths, R. A. The inter-
rogator set off with the word "vulpine," correctly de-
fined as "relating to a fox;" and 'dank," accurately
rendered by "moist" After a few other words which did
not prove • stumblinghlock came " bruit," which was
erroneously defined as "to wander." The next failure
was in "bittern," which the competitor said was " • bird
of the hawk species," instead of marking it as one of the
heron kind. The chairman being exceptionally left to
adjudicate decided that the word "bird" being correct
saved the competitor. A gentleman objected to the word
" wrangler" as technical or inadmissible, but the meaning
was given by the interrogator as "a quarrelsome person,"
and the objector ruled out. A lady immediately altargave for "gregariotia," those animals that eat grain, and I
retired amid irrepressible laughter; another lady then
failed to define ' redundant," making the meaning
"sufficient," instead of "more than sufficient ; and
third instantly after on being confronted with "cogency,
which she rather vaguely called "reasoning powers." A
gentleman then failed to describe " valiance, ' familiarly
associated with a bed. "Plateau" was given by • gentle-
man as a "flat plain," an answer which excited much
laughter, but was ultimately peened on the authority of
Chambers's Dictionary. " bleed" was fatal to another
gentleman, who called it " • field," "equip" to his suc-
tumor ; 'moose" to the next competitor, who said he
"never heard the word." The number of rivals was
afterwards rapidly reduced by the difficulties of" morbid,"
given as " inane ; " hone," the person to whom it was
put evidently not shaving; "reeve" who was not recog-
nised an • public officer; 'salient," which a lady curiously,
if somewhat naturally, described as "salt ;" " doily, an
article of domestic use which the answerer somehow ,
associated with a horse; 'purlieus," which elicited • very i
'ague response; "brindled," which was not at all remem-
bered in Its common association with the cow; and
" beagle," which a lady was not cognisant of as the ap-
pellation of • hunting dog. By this time the interrogator
had run the round of the 95 rivals, 16 of whom had
succumbed. In the next circuit the first fatal test was
"protocol," defined as "the first part of an oration.," in
contradistinction to its ordinary use in diplomacy. Then
came • failure ia "prototype. A warm discussion en-
sued about the word "stevedore." A lady having said
"an officer on board ship," the answer was objected to en
the ground that a stevedore was not such an officer, but a
person employed in connection with the cargo, and in-
dependently of the ship's officers. The chairman ulti-
mately decided, as between the two referees who differed,
in favour of the lady amid general applause. The doom
of other competitors was sealed by " pensil:," not known
in the sense of " haaging;" "internecine, which a lady
held to be simply " warlike," instead of "mutually de-
structive ;" "stertorous," which • lady defined as "aloud
harsh, voice," instead of "hard breathing;" "percolate,"
given as 'to pass through as water" Instead of "to pass
through by drops;" and "spile,". not known as a "wooden
peg put into • cask of beer;" nescience,"supposed to
be"knowledge," instead of its op te, a mistake which
aimed much laughter; "peripatetica," which was not
connected with the walking philosophers of Greece;
"circumlocution," which was considered to be goin
about a point" and "piccaroon," understood as a , soldier^g
by a gentleman, who, when told that • piccaroon was a
robber," unpatriotically consoled himself for defeat by
remarking that a soldier was a robber. The words now
necessarily rue in difficulty, " marsupial," " cestua"
"bathos, and other terms stimulating the caution of
rivals and increasing the interest of all. Several ladies
still survived, in a competitive sense, and they seemed
well armed for the conflict. Altogether 22 victims fell in
the second round of questions, leaving more than 60 rivals
still in the field_ In the third round " recondite" was un-
fortunately said to mean "very complete;" "correlation"
• lady confessed to be to her an unknown term; " sarco-
phagus" was inadequately defined by • gentleman;
pleonasm" was given up by a lady, who said it was " •
word that was very seldom used." and WU instantly in-
formed of its connection with redundancy or excess'
"sciolism," denied as "a literary mistake," instead
of " superficial knowledge ;" " banshee, " con-
ceived to be a Scotch instead of an Irish fairy;
"prehensile," given as "having the power of reaching
forward," the idea of catching or seizing an object being
fatally wanting. " Cenotaph, an empty tomb, was con-
founded with " • sepulchral monument' ; "fiscal," a term
ruled as relating to the public treasury, or exchequer,
made to relate to accounts. At the end of the third round
39 competitors remained unscathed. The
ant
then
became increasingly difficult,. two hours and a half having
already elapsed. 'Foliated,' " scholium,: stated to be a
" college " instead of • "marginal note " ; ' daggle " having
the meaning" to dip mire or water ; "woo
erroneously thought to stand for anything woven;
"naiveté," mistaken for "slyness " '"pellucid. said to be
" shining " instead of "clear " ; and ',Menu," given as
" • lady of high rank" in place of "an elderly lady kept to
guard a younger one "—these and other words further
thinned the ranks of the competitors. The contest was,
however, not finished till a very late hour.

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