The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-12-28 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED DOUBLE MURDER AND
SUICIDE.
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At Ewell, nese giant, ahont half •paa4 three oa
Wednesday morning. Yea Spooner wa• frightened at
seeing • man in the yard, and returned to the house
sen.agning. Her husband etruggled with the man who
followed her. The stranger threw 'bag of gunpowder
on the fire, and the house was blown pretty well to
pieces. A man near had some of his ribs broken, end
other serious injuries. The husband is not eapreted to
recover. The uuthor of the mischief afterwards own-
witted suicide by stabbing hiroacif. The motive of the
outruo is stated to balm been je•luusy.

A MIRACLE IN K,NIUCRY.
A strange story comes from Len, onn. u current
amorgst the coloured people there, and it is said to be
osci,ing souse of them quite too much for their happiness.
It is as follows
timc NCO (not long, heemer) • child died, and ito
aly amo duly codlned and taken to the tetryinzotroond no.
it •ss stoiVdc the nee ly.opetied grace After he
'.erlice at the Mete • Timm 1II•11 took hold ,tf the collie to
hand it iiolo-11 Into the grace, hut, to himmt-hishnient, be could
not
and the two tried, but failed to budge the zottn. Too mom
came to their help, and the for had no n,oee tauter ince it
than they %wild tinor, mountain 14 granite. The eogin clung
tight to the ground no if glued. Thin aatonithing turn of altars
oliot for an explanation, and it on. determined to open the
matin and no chat was Mode of it. It on. do., anal beheld
the child ass found to be alive. Furthmexamination develotaal
the fact that there am printed upon the bottom of it. het
the, words : -•• There has been no preacher in hearth for
okiso lintelreel year," The mem, .my that the Lori did not
Intend to let ihak child be burled alba, and ai took this method
of preventing It. It hi our opinion that mune ticciguitig mainp
ha. Men pla)ing upon the credulity of ?knew (moth for sioi.ter
purposes.

DEATH Or P 88888 Ma-sliming —The Prebendal
Mall •.1 it r Prima, In Salisbury ('athedral. le tat-ant by
AIN death of the Ites. Henry WllinooMajetnlie. Maar .d
in Ikrkahire, which etent tont plam n Friday morning.
The dessmsed watt brother no tile late Mrs. Lear, mother of
ltreesnoor Lou. Ile was Di 7aars.l age.
Lure's brawn. •Letts. Scat and Co., Newicrosa—
This sell.known arm has issued • variety of diaries and
pocket-books for the new year. The " Broad Shilling"
gives an entire week in the opening of two pages ; it
lon contains an alumna& for the new year, • ready
reckoner, law terns., tide table, lessons for Sundays, !sc.
Besides this there are the "Mo final" (containing • great
amount of information useful to demon) and the
•• A ppointm-nt " Diaries ; the latter is neatly bound in
French morocco, making • convenient pocket.bcok.
HoLt.owar's OINTIIISNT AND Pula. —Never at
fault. --In oil IrMtstiona of the Skin. tiVers, horns, and
scrofulous enitrgensents .1 the Klatail. Illolloway's Ointment
In emit: a ready mei 1.141 1114-1•11, f 1 cure, ch.oh timer ilkap-
paint.. the riatret fatourahle expectation. It matilleata •
a I..c.iiar foote In rmtrainiiig itifisnantalimi. rmoving
tymatio,,. trailing the heited blood, and rho:king all
crimonions or unhealth) discharges. Whilst thus acting
locally, Ilse Pine are no lee. remarkahle for their power in huff. istg the general o.islithoi and habit .4 braly, which
renders the ewe, conipkte and tiennanent. Herter tbe
general intim:nee of the..., p.tent re llne the puny infant
the 0..1.1.4 child ; the pale mei emaciated reirNM
nicer aud retulidtty, and the dyspeptic tale le.ely ritle.ut
ear.

A immeretni tenant-rtrrht rneetinn was held on
ll'nudity, at Newtownlitnarady, county ferry;
J.P., presided, auil reso rations were passed
favourable to the security of tenure at fair mats, to
be fixed periislimilly by two arbitrator,ooo to
be
alineinted by Government— ozolusivr of tenants' im-
provements.

Ifer Majesty's ship Monareh (ronveying the re-
mains of Mr. Peabody), acoumpanietl by the Untied
States rot-vette Plymouth, vreighed from fipithead on
Tees old were straming out for the Channel by
the Pabt tt lof the life of Wight on the commeuce-
ment of their voyage to Portland. Tho wind was
non thcey and

A stage robber, reeently arrested in California,
M s made a ronftssion revealing the fact that there is
an organised band, with code of laws, grim, signs,
and ma-words, orerating from Oregon to Arizona
and into Nevada. The land was orijnally organised
at Portland, Oregon, an,l Nu for months pursued •
career of robbery and murder.

The celebrated erotptor latanitx, to whose chisel
the people of Fmnkfort.un.tho.llain are indebted for
the admirably executed Guttenberg monument, hal
just died, alter • tedious illness, at the age of 74.
Ile was • native of Courland, but for many years be-
fore his death has resided at Frankfort, which he re-
glinted as the home of his adoption.

•
The Debuts, having received several letters asking
for explanations concerning the time when the treaty
of commerce between France and England eau be
renounce!, publishes article 21 of the arraugemeat,
which is to the effect that after the treaty has lasted
ten years, ibi tertnination may take infect at soy
time, on une 3 ear's notice being given.
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On and after the Ist January, PIO, dog licence.
will he (renal to the I üblic at all money order offices
in Great Britain. no daty Flyable for earl. dog .111 be I' a. • dogs under the age of six month. will !
be exempt. The penalty for keeping a clog without a licence in £5. Licence, for peck.of hounds can be
grtWad only by the collectors of Inland IL:relinr.
arehmologicel. discovery has been
..icedemonia, consisting of
responding to the 84 witlll-111" atNefritrnr;' °"-
surer, of which hitherto all bat the ".
Live' I
WWI kW:AM. To remove W•Ciy I kmb ti T°.o
t, t,„margin
each is inscribed with the corresponding dasignetion. A meeting, convened by the C.entral Association
for stopping the Sunday liquor traffic,
kliblie flail, WarrinKton, on Monday OVII/Plug, the
litayor melding. The nit mber prmeot wee
I. rat 2,000. Mr. Rylan t ...ex the
opt. A memorial to UM Premirr in support
tit. Objects of tho Aftuoiatiorl, gnu tumaimouoly adop.
sod.