The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-27 00:00:00

PRESIDENT LINCOL-N:

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Dr. Nicholas, in • work recently published, gives the
following curious account of this wonderful man.
OM Tom Lincoln, a bad sample of a drunken "mean
white" in the back woods of Kentucky, lived with •
worse reprobate than hiniself, one Nancy Hawks. Of
their marriage there was no evidence but cohabitation.
These disreputable persons were the father Anil mother of
Abraham Lincoln. Nancy Hawks died, and Tom Lincoln
had to fly from Kentucky after a savage 11,;lit with one of
his neighbours, whose nose was bitten off in the conflict.
The father afterwards married a good woman, who became
a true mother to Abraham, and whom he always treated
with respect and affection. The religious people, who bad
accepted Mr. Lincoln as a model Uhristain, were shocked
when his biographer told them that he did not believe in
the Divinity of Christ, or the Inspiration of the Bible, and
that he went to church to mock, and came home to
mimic ; and that he died as he lived, a thorough infidel
tirsrAri'ng.";;;.m"otn'Ttronsh.oliewhi; ifnate."lri w"Zna
melancholy man. His biographer says—" When he was
Presiient his countenance was haggard and care-worn,
exhibibiting all the mar'-‘. ••I deep and protracted suffering.
Every feature of a man ,ollow eyes with the dark
rings beneath, the long, sallow, cadaverou • inter-
sected by those peculiar, deep tines: his who, 4411. ; his
walk; his long, silent reveries, broken at intervals by
sudden and startling exclamations, as if to confound an
observer who might suspect the nature of his thoughts
showed he was a man of sorrows—not sorrows of to-day
or yesterday, but long treasured and deep—bearing with
them a continual sense of weariness and pain. He wes •
plain, homely, sad, weary-looking man, to whom one's
heart warmed involuntarily because he seemed at once
miserable and kind. 'I do not think,' gays his nearest
friend, Mr. Herndon, 'he knew what happiness MU for
twenty years." Terrible' is the word with which all kis
friends used to describe him in the black mood. It was
terrible. It was very terrible." And his consolation all
his life seems to have been in listening to and telling
coarse and vulgar stories. It was his ruling passion. "Ile
would go • long way out of his road to tell a grave, sedate
fellow • broad story, or to propound to him • conundrum
that was not particulary remarkable for delicacy. If he
happened to hear of a man who was known to have some-
thing.fresh in this line he would hunt him up and 'swap
jokes with him." It is well known that in the early part
of his administration, when the agony waa the sharpest,
the most welcome guest at the white House was a
Democratic Senator from Oregon, whose repertory of in-
decent jokes was very copious. "In this tendency," says
Mr. Lamen, "Mr. Lincoln was restrained by no presence
and by no occasion." There is • tradition that in riding
over the fresh field of Antretam, with the dead and the
wounded around him, Mr. Lincoln asked the same Mr.
lAmen to sing him a comic song. Mr. Lincoln's love
affairs were as whimsical as everything else in his career.
One of his numerous flames jilted him, and caused him
to become insane and for a time lobe put under restraint.
Another, • widow, died, and he mourned her sincerely.
Another refused him, and he revenged himself by writing
a letter ridiculing her as "fat, and old, and wrinkled,"
and he ended in marrying the wrong woman, when he
was desperately in love with somebody else.

A STRANGE MARRIAGE.
The Paris correspondent of the Glebe, writing on Friday
night, says :—A strange wedding is fixed to take place to-
morrow, at the Maki° of the 12th Arrondissement, situated
on the Place de l'Eglise, at Berry. Mallard, the leader of
• gang of thieves, supposed to have committed several
murders, who had become the very term:: of the interior
boulevards. is to be married to Eugenie Piet, • woman of
ill-fame, who lured to her den the victims robbed by her
male accomplice; while Vrignault, lieutenant,
offers at the same time his hand and heart to Hortense
Coutuoier, worthy, as regards crime and debauchery, of
her convict husband. Maillard, who is only twenty-five,
was, according to his statements, a carrier by trade, but
his antecedent., as adduced by the police, prcve that since
he left the reformatory, where he had been sent until he
was Viirteen, his life had been one long career of undetected
crime. As he appeared on the day of his trial, hi. face
showed that he was not devoid of energy or intelligence.
He seemed quite at ease when seated in the dock at the
Court of Assize, and when not talking with his affianced,
Eugenie Piet, who sat behind him, for whom, as he said,
he was ready to "embrace the widow," the cant term for
being guillotined, he was looking round the court, nodding
to some sinister-looking acquaintance who might have been
found among the audience. Maillard happened to say one
day, when being tried for the offence which he had been
arrested f or, that if the doors of the court were closed and the
criminal antecedents of each individual examined i to, some
of the most adroit thieves in Paris would be taken, &remark
which caused SOMe uneasiness among the audience, and
many of the seats to be deserted. On the first trial the
two women were not implicated, but when Maillard found
that he bad got Sti years he turned informer, so that he
and his lieutenant, Vrignault, might find the two wdmen
in the penal settlement where they were to be sent. In
exchange for a promise from the authorities that a double
marriage would be permitted, Maillanl enabled the polies,
to lay hands on half-a-dozen members of his gang, and to
get the two women convicted, the not demurring,
so strong was their affection for their degraded paramours
that they wished for nothing better than to be married to
them, and to follow them to some convict settlement,
such as Cayenne, where every advantage is offered to
married convicts, so as to induce them to colonise.
Eugenie Plat, dressed in the clothes worn by the prisoners
at St. Lazare, is under M; her features are pretty and
regular; vice has stamped none of its indelible traces on her
youthful face, which became loathsome as she confessed,
smiling, and with revolting cynicism, the part she had taken
in the different robbenes laid to the charge of her lover.
Vrignault is a common-looking ruffian, a regular gaol-bird,
a professional thief, whose sinister expression of counte-
nance is increased by a scar extending from his mouth to
his eye, said to have been caused by a stab received from
some friend in a drunken quarrel. Hortense Coutourier
Is a vulgar-looking creature, coarse and bloated, whoa.
I face bears out the statement that for the last 15 years she
had pursued a career of debauchery. Everything has
been arranged for the double marriage. Your cabs will
leave Mazes to-morrow morning for the Maine. Each
cab will contain one of the convicts well guarded by the
police, and when the handcuffs are removed, since the
'Prenc, law prescribes that the civil marriage shall take
place in perfect liberty, arrangements will be made so as
to frustrate any attempts to escape on the part of the con-
victs, or to rescue them on the part of their friends. The
eight policemen will be the witnesses of these strange
maz-i-igges, and the nuptial benediction will be given after
the civil ceremonies in the chapel at Maws, all the doors
leading to which will have to be left open until the affair
Is over, and the four prisoners have parted to meet again
at Ceyenne, or some other penal settlement, where the
next generation may perhaps be better than their fathers
and mothers."

shisray.
PkiabeGreen, an old offender, and • very violent woman, Mrs. Mills, wife of the Rev. A. W. Mills, vicar of St.
was charged in custody with misbehaving herself in the grids Hark, hea seceded to the church of Rome.
Wimborne Union that morning. Mr. Harrey. the, A sad fatality occurred on Monday on the Liverpool and
master of the workhouse, proved the eme- Plum" lei' Sou,hport Railway, near Hightown Station. MiPS Meek,
her work in the infirmary, and refused to return, and a young lady residing at Blundell Sends, was sitting upon
when the master tried to remove her she bit and kicked I the eloping bank of the railway when the Liverpool 11.90
at him, and acted very violently. The doctor certified I 'sprees came in sight. Either through fear or in a lit
that it visa nothing but temper—Prisoner would not keep she fell down the embankment, and was cut to pieces by
quiet in the dock, and talked very strangely.—She was train.
committed for • month, and the prison doctor will be the yoegi
It is w that the twenty-five thousand pounds,
requested to inquire into her sanity, kept back from the last Bristol and Exeter dividend to
Henry Berton, who did not appear, was fined lffs. and pay all charges on the closing concern, may not be quite
lie cone for having three horses straying at Shaptrick on sufficient for the purpose, and that a little may be
the 7th inst required from the next dividend to make all square. If
mime. Was, pleaded guilty to having one horse this be so, and the present hot weather continues, there
straying at the same time and place, and was fined Is. and will be, as Corporal Trim says, " great swearing in
7s. costs. Flanders," or at least amongst the shareholders.
Frederic* Cos admitted hawing two horses.straying in the A Novtd. Wryness. —At the Rugby county court on
sauce parish on the 9th inst., and was orilareil to pay 2114 Thursday a case was heard, in which Mrs. Priscilla
and costa. 7s. Wolfe, a widow lady of independent means, residing at
Charles Ansel. who did not appear, was fined In and gliaby, near Rugby, sued Richard Jones, butcher, of the
costs, oe. for allowine a home to stray at ihroPreeton, on same piece, for X 6 damages, for illegally killing •
the 12th inst.
,__, cockatoo parrot belonging to the plaintiff. The defen e
&Omni* Burton, whose wife aPPe'red, and admit". was that the defendant shot the cockatoo mistaking it for
the offence, was ordered to pay XL, InCludlllll_coitg, for an owl. The fellow-bird of the deceased cockatoo was
having a cow and a heifer straying at Lytehett Minster on brought into court, and afforded great amusement by
the 16th inst.
..„ strongly recommending the
.parties to "shake hands,"
Henry Hominy and George Dm,,,,,W. hrioltmehere, m "shut up," and asking for •' sugar." His honour said
Constitution-hill. Kinson, were summoned for smelting I there was no evidence as to value to assist 14_,m and he
merles Pearce, coachman, of the same place, on June must take time to consider the question. While the
lOW—Complainant said he wee returning from Bourne- solicitors were arguing pro. and em. the bird never ceased
mouth with a donkey and cart, accompanied by his wife recommending the parties to shake bands. Judgment
and son, on the evening of the 12th inst., about a quarter was deferred,
to nine o'clock, and to get to his house had tour through PROVB36OII UT/CHM:NIG, the eminent c.hciiiist„ in a
• common where defendente and about 50 other lads were letter to the Builder, in reply to the report of the Medics.
playing. The 114 when they "w him' called ethg Officer of 11. M. Dockyard, sus that tho paint manul
ere comes old Pearce and the five chilling ball. lectured by the Liverpool Silicate Paint Company is
He caught hold of a younger brother of defendants, and altogether free from lead or any other poison, and is
asked him what he was hollosing for, and Henry Howie/ supenor to white lead in every respect, especially in body,
Mlle up and said he was the man for him, and struc colour, and durability, and the tests he has submitted
him two blows, giving him a black eye. He struck these points to, would destroy any other." The now
defendant with a small donkey whip in return. George white paint of this company, he stake will retain its
Dominy then seised him by his hair, and kicked him whiteness under all conditions, it is unaffected IT
several times in the side. The two defendant; their little sulphuretted hydrogen or other gases, while lead is
brother, and another lad, all held him by his hair, and completely blackened, and that a heat of 500 degrees will
put his head between their legs, and pitched into him, not alter it. This report is also borne out by Messrs.
He was at first afraid his ribs were broken and sent for Johnson and sou, Assayers to the Bank of England, and
Dr. Philpote the same night, and that gentleman attended , other scientific men, who state these paints to be non.
him for bruiser. till the nod but, for which his charge poisonous, and will not turn colour near drains or in foul
was • guinea.—In creel examination by defendants, coos- air—this Duds,es them especially valuable for ship's cabins,
plainant denied etrtkiu them first —Mary Whittey, hospitals, Ex., but their great advantage is, that towards
complainant's servant, said her luster's little boy told her I iron unlike lead compounds, they believe in an absolutelyof the assault, and she went to the spot to help and saw • anal manner, and will entirely prevent the iron in iron-
boy, whom she did not know, kicking her muter in the c.l.d ships from corroding ; and we understand the Liver-
aide. Her mistress took hold of Henry Hominy to PUII pod Silicate Paint Company is now in communication
him away, and he said if she did not let him go he would with B. he. Dockyards on the subject, as the corroison of
knock her down.—Henry Hominy bad a crow-summonsthe iron ships is causing serious anxiety. —Lloyd's Glicial
against Pearce for assaultinghim, and in support of it he Lid.
said the reason of the boys shouting out what they did waa Two wholesale raids, which have just been cuade on
that Pearce had promised some of them a five shilling Demons engaged in the cruel amusement of cockfighting,
bail, which he failed to give them. Pewee *mat hold or lan certainly to show that the terrers of the law have
his little brother. and be told him he had better go home, hitherto been effectual in checking iudulgence in this
as be was drunk, and he was then assaulted first with brutal sport, and are equally bare of promise that the
the donker whin and he defended himself. Dania, continued enforcement of penalties against cockfighters
produced the ot • small whiP. —The eme•eommolie will be successful in wholly abrogating the disgraceful
but the Bench considered the Dominys
WM practice. At Kirkcaldy, in Scotland, on Monday after'
had committed ttolis menolt, and tined them X 1 each noon, thirty-one persons appeared at the Justice of Peace
and costs, lls. Thu were committed for a month, in court, all charged with " assisting' at a cockfight. Two
default of PaYment.
J,, Harass and James Stearns, neither sd whom
eihirde•tee sheneerolyteh ,
onehadpoorheefo:lPwiehluednearlyup bybainaid.e.podliium
:I=dwere each fined 7s. fid. and costs for being drunk heed wa,, frightfully swollen ; while the
other had one of
ildfellow's fete at Kinson, on Whit Monday its heels torn off. The thirty-one Scotch cockfighters
Joke dike, an old moan of 70, belonging to dford, ' were sentenced to • fine of seven-and•sixpence each, with
but who has latery returned from Wales. re charged in two shillings expenses, or the alternative of five days in
custody with being drunk at Wimborne 0 the previous
faol. On time same Monday twenty persons, comprising
wee,seeday night —Priser on rat very drunk on whiskey, i licensed victuallers, miners, trapinakers, and weavers,
and had been in a sad state—He wee discharged en Prom- , living in the Black Country and in Coventry, were
ising to leave the tosru. ,„„ summoned before the magistracy at Pmikridge Petty
Lot Brews:, of Verwocei, was charged. on bail, with le,..__". Session; for complicity le a cockfight The affair had
steeling a jar containing • gallon of hoef_s• "w" tllt_'`l2,„"" taken place on the Chester Cup day, when sundry
of George Shearing, at Verefew?: ea____," fn. et disguised wake-constables tracked a company of one
UZIAL—. star said he travelled VAT& earthenware, hundred and fifty people to Shareshlll, near Wolver-
where mains were fought by several pairs of
Ikamdrds„Ptstrin'mmed and artificially spurred. Stitue of the
nwhitodhorseßsaanwdarcartstaiinoz cart:ltitotrusise
and
a t them Albion Hotel.j un
put'
ir e
weed into the house for • hour. Hole ft the Jar I isfe in oombetanta were killed, the select company meanwhile
the cart Prisoner was in the house when he entered, and cheering lustily, and betting shrewdly. Then the police
and he left Um there when he went away. He went to
his cart twice daring the time he was at the house. and , ma,: ausidniskinanwdergnizienni sethveerbilyrrs' mow% septheurs'r.ani thihee
the jar was male each time. On one of them occasions he , Penkridge case sixteen offenders were convicted, sonic of
wee emospenied by Übe plisonor whew be invited to I their number being fined one Pound and others ten
&jai, out of lb. jar, but ha deolin;id. He missed 0111 jar aiming. a piece (What can we ex
peM when the
whoa ba was WAS away and enquired for it at the house Hullimham butcheries go on unchecked 9
ha lbs priessoe- of Vh• primer, bid mold beer DOWN 01