The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

jortign 'nitMance.

A DISPUTS THOROUGHLY Barri.m.—On Sandy
evening. Demotar 9. at klereeterater, Tenneame. ooe
Captain Jen Mae had high words with this ;remove
relating rtirl two yearu ago, in high blood wee
spilt. Pistoln were drawn, and Captal J.mkins fell
mortally wounded, but moon:Jed in killing one and
mounding the other two of bra samillanta. All four
men died.

Scat' or PDOCATION IC STAIN.—A Madrid letter
In the Independence Belye reinaiks th-t "the public
education in Spain in very backward, se toss Icy
imacined from the fact that out of 4 total , f 1f2.157
municipal ciounaillors, no leas than 12,4f2 are unable to
read or write. Among the number are included 4?
mayors and 9301 deputy-mayors."
WE stated, Isst week, on the authority of the
Morning Slur, that • Mr. Phillips had been flogged
during the Jamaica, rebellion without trial, by order of
General Matsui, and that he intended to see those
whom he o.nundered responsible for this net. We now
have • statement from the same source that the
Secretary of Wer has iustructed the Solicitor for the
War Department to undertake General Nelson's
defence.

JEP7. Livia—fl. New York Heralds Fortress
Monroe oorreepondent says that Jeff. Davis is highly
gratified at the arrest of John H. Surratt. He sees his
may to a fall I.roof of his innocence, it is asserted,
through Fiu.ssti's testimmey, end, even if the implored
fugitive ihoulit make the charges against Dad. that it
is rumonred he mill, Oh latter expresses himself fully
able to disprove them. UniesilloMo unexpected torso(
e•ent•oceors, ffroeina mesihly out of ths Barrett trial,
Davis does not expect that his SYS sill come up before
next spring.

Teo Po's New Year's spieeh dwells particularly
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upon the ypnortse of his preteurled friends. He mid
it was necessary to be ready to sulf,r all for the chime%
—ghat in the Europe of the present day the ohnroh wee
permeated by deceptions, by reductions, by lying pro-
mises, by unjust rrquisitions sad demands—certain
persons by means Of rare diplomatle ability, putting
forth mighty promisee to induce the Holy Bee to make
concessions. The speech is said to ham produood •
disagreeable impression et the Tuileries, where it is
well known to who* the epithet..,, meant to apply.

A Ctsvia Large manufacturing oompanv
be Chicago employs a yeung lady only thirteen years of
age no reqewmter. she hue paid out Mum last May a
quarter of • minion of dolirra, keening the timesheets,
pay-roll, and • private somunt book with and for each
of the three or few hundred men employed. She
reeeivcs the money weekly from the bank to the amount
of 4,000 dole. to 5,000 dole carrim the transaction of
paying all the men thro-gb, and settles and makes i.e
bilance with the cashier. Rh* knot. every mac in the
aetablishment, the form being divided into eleven de-
pertmente, each having its responsible foreman. She
commands • salary of 510 dole, per annum, takes two
Music lessens each week, and attends an evening course
st a commercial college, where she has a seolevehin,
litar doss this produce any overstrain of her intelect
bbe la in the most reliant an I vigerom health, never hes
• day's sicknese, and stand ten hours each day at her
desk.—BoWon Advertiser.

A SALT LAAR TRAGIDT.— MOTO than two years ego
Dr. J. King Robinson was ordered to the Salt Lake city
is surgeon of the iljnited Wake) troops stationed there
to watch the Hormone, and look alter Prier's rebel
soldier*. Active, clever, persevering, eelfireliant, he
quickly got into extensive practice outside the.qnny,
both among Gentile. and Mormons. Willem Young
teecbes the laying on of hands for the healing of the
sick, but he found that his people had more faith in
the iiniitor. When the troops( were disbanded the young
surgeon with his young if. determined to remain.
His fame bad spread throughout Utah, and he ems
general favourite. But he never failed to denounce
Mormmism end to avow his utter oontempt for its
leader* He Mob chugs of • Sunday school, to whisk,
notwithstanding all three* Norm= ehildren would go,
and would take home the trees he gave them. He
acquired some lead. liwilan land, containing warm
(sulphur) springs, outside the mud wall north of Salt
Leke, and was about to ; he had the land recorded
in the Lantioelee at Washington. as "the town of
warm springs." Them things could not be toleratel.
The remit was lately telegraphed. At midnight he was
summoned "to attends spik man;" him wife wished him
not to go, but he did not like to refuse. Within 200
feet of his door the man who came for hint samminated

Rivouteo Scum at AN EeterrriOg.—The Si.
Viwerva Witness, reports the resent execution of a
woman, named Mary James, for murder. When the
ehaptelo oho attended the serstehed woman to the
scaffold bad bidden her tonere% be drew bark. She
also quickly drew back, but the movement could
scarcely have been perceived, for the order was given
the drop fell, aid the culprit was seen standing en.
harmed en the platform - her GPM from the beginning
were very imperfectly bandaged. Looking down, she
drew back further from the trap, and her arms being
free she removed the niece of muslin with which her
eyes were covered. Prom this time she appeared to
dread the trap, having seen the danger, and she could
:-.ot be inducted to go forward. The Provost Manhal
then summoned the turnkey', who with the hangman,
were constrained to use force to get her on to the trap-
door. The in.tinct of aelf-prevervation seemed to nerve
her with strength, and a waffle ensued on the platform
of the gallows for ten minutes, when she was ultimately
tripped up, and she fell heavily on one of the large side
beams of the gallows, and rolled on the scaffold, where
she lay motionless. She was then twisted over on the
trap-door, which wee polled, and she fell through head
foremost. She never made • struggle or movement
after she was throws down, and many persona supposed
that life was extinct before elle fell through the drop.
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Tit a Sta. Suarez* —The Toalbanaill gives an aosount
of. recent sentare of the "ma 'serpent," which, it says,
can be trenched for by pretty nearly the whole of she
town. It has for a long time believed that the sea
serpent had never been seen, except in the columns of
the American paper, and those on this ride the Atlantic
which might not object to insert a questionable story.
Rea snakes of a moderate site ere, however, known to
exist, and it seems to be a large specimen of them
creatures, that eras captured on Sunday week. The
specimen in question is about If feet in length, and was
I caught on the line of some fishermen in the waters of
I Cape Cepet. It was brought up by the oaptom, while
yet living, to the Boulevard de la /Beare, In Toulon,
and there was visited by enterds of perions during the
greater part of the day. The body is petfeetly
cylindrital, snd is about 41 Inches in diameter, terminat.
leg in a sharp point at the tail. Its colour is &uniforms
deep gray on the upper part, and bens:nth of a yellowish
white. It has no fins nor sealer, nor is there any project-
ing b an. or horn in any part. In colour it mush
resembles the conger, but could never be mistaken for
that fish, for in these mu the latter never attains to a
greater length than ebont di feet, or so, and le more-
over, when of such size, fully double the girth of ',snake.
The great difference also is the shape and aspect of the
head • that of the snake is fiat and broad, and resembles
the heed of a huge viper; the jaws, armed with power.
fel fangs are elongated, reaching to • length of about
and terminating in • sharp angle. The eyes,
which are remsrkably bright, are surrounded by • fine
thread of • fismine red colour. The discovery of this
snake—for snake there can be no doubt that it is. if the
description he soeurate, is one of a highly interesting
I character : hot it must not be considered is a proof of
I the existence of suet i monster as has been described as
the great Nee serpent. Of the existence of this creature
I there is doubtless a certain amount of evidence, hut not
as yet sufficient to satisfy the sceoticol minds of many
of the best known naturalist It may be argued that
the Me literraneso orpente being 13ft in length, the
serpent of the Atlantis may be larger in proportion to the
greater site of his wean home. hie most likely, never- i
th.leas that the naturalists' of London and Paris will
wait %or more direct evi ISOM of the monster before
they inscribe his name "Serpa*, Atlontiessa Giese
in their zoological lista—Morraimp Post.
Eecpi 191011 INDLILWL —Tbw Kansas correspondent
of the New York Times gives the following account of
the Neaps of one Sarah Jose Luster from Indium:—
" At the time of her capture she was residing in tmois
with a family named Babb. Baring the absence of Ur.
Babb some months since, • band of No oon•ab Comanehes
came to the house. They were invited in by the children
of Mrs. Babb, but refused until they were satiated
there were no men about ; then they entered, and,
savage-like, attempted to carry off one of the children.
The heart of the mother made bold to resist this
fiendish cruelty, and she clang to her child with dee-
perstion. This maddened them. One 'seized her by
the bait, drew her hack, and cot her throat The
bloody deed WY enacted under the eye of Ilia Luster,
who had taken reface in the upper pert of the cabin.
Overcome by the horrid Kerne, she unconsciously gave a
groan, which led to the discovery of her presence. She
was uncerenioniouely captured, and, together with two
children, was taken to the Indian camp I the third
child, an infant, we, left in the cabin. Bias Luster,
Preferring death to captivity, heroically planned mean.
for escape, She discovered a horse of great speed, kept
for racing renown by the Indiana, and conceived a
Plan to mount it and leave in • direction from which
the Indiana had brought green awn, after a six days'
absence, than showing • settlement within three days'
ride. A dark and stormy night, when both doge and
savages were within doors, favoured her effort. The
accommodation not being sufilcient for both of the
children, she took the eldest, a boy, and mounted the
horse and left The first day and night •zh•exted the
strength of the boy, and be was left to perish by the
roadside or to find his way beak. After three days and
nights of continuous riding, having become completely
prostrated with anxiety and fatigue, she tied the hone
by • lariat to her body and laid her down for net, but
the awakening from a sudden deep was only to remind
her that she was once more a captive. This time the
Kiowas proved to be the captors, but she was taken to
their ramp only to reorganise her project for serape.
Watching her opportunity, once more her steed bore
her from captivity, and she reached the Santa Pli.road,
sixty miles east of Cow Creek, C doeel Leavensworth's
headquarters. The Kiowas immediately reported her
escape to Colonel Leavensvorth. while a white man
who bad seen her at the ranche oonfirmed the report.
An escort was detailed by the colonel with orders for
bringing her to Conned Grove. Miss Luster, together
with another liberated captive, named Houston, are at
Council Orovis now. The latter was captured by • smell
buil of Yan-a-Ciway Comaitches, or breasting, and was
rescued from them by Yab-e.nam-a-ea, head chief of
one of the Yam.perneker, or root eaters, and delivered
by him to Colonel Leaven worth.

Till Paris eorreepondent of the Daily News gives the
following report of an eatraordinary family lawsuit.
eeneerning the custody of two ggggg ladies, aged re-
spectively 20 and IT which bee occupied one of the
Paris nouns :—The M. Batsmen, • gentleman
of property living in the Hue St. Donor*, is the father
of the minors in question by • Gist wife who dl.! many
years ago. M. Balemon ina had /event ebildien by •
method msrriage. Immediately after the death of his
first wife, he plaited his two children, then infaots of
tender years, under the care of hii mother-in law. the
defendant, • widow. This lady became paasionately
attached to the girls, took the utnimt cars of their
education, treated them in all respects saber adopted
children, relieved their tether of all expenses for their
maintenance, and made no secret of her intention to
leave them the whole of her very large fortune. Under
thews apparently most happy Gime meanies the utmost
hthntoay prevailed between M. Bailees and the MOOG/
ef his line wife; he was able to devote Ithoosit to hi.

Dew family with the knowledp that his elder Wilda°
4114, to the hands of a tender, judicious, and wealthy
relation, whme greatest object in life was their welfare.
Bat • few months ago it happened that be eldest Mills.
DIWODOD fell in love—a meet improper thing for any
'melte lady to do awarding to French notions. The
rule of good french society is that a girl, until married,
is never to speak to any note unless in the pteeenee of
her parents or fnep4jeos, and then only in teonoi
syllable*. A wellbred French girl too°, that '44 4
one day to be married, and looks forward to the event
4ith Pleasure, aeon. which will give her an opportunity
of miring many old whoolfellows jeiloos by the
diaplay of ler froemear. But she is supposed to hove
DO DIVOIOOOII on the subject. One day her father
Won to her, and says, "My love, I have foetid you
• 14mbm11-" To whieh she replies, kiesing her Nth.,
on the forehead. "Merei, MOM pare. Who ia itr He
give the name. mention. • proximate day for the
wedding, and then the young lady re-inutile with her
mother about the wedding °MIL T•••• well-known
rake were not regarded in the case of HMI.. Baiseon's
attachment. Yee she absolutely formed an attach-
ment, and her rich grandmother, who hail brought her
up and was prepand tin do everything requiele,
humanly speaking, to make her future life happy,
wag Priog to it. Toe object ef her attachment is an
army surgeon, • man of merit both peritoneal, and
throueh his foregoer& His father was a distinguished
general nieer, and he him-elf wears upon hie breast a
constellation of medal. and decorations attesting his
good 'em-vice.. But his only fortune is his commission,
and on this •ole ground B. Haienin, when informed of
the engagement by his mother-in-law, peremptorily
declared that the army surgeon ems no ft match for his
daughter. The father, who had been 1144"1•1 to
delegat• to her grandmother the entire care of his
daughter from her embed infancy, came forward
resolutely to exercise the stern mantel authority
which the law gives him in order to prevent the
! marriage of • gal almost of age with the man of her
choler, and who had warted her with the approbation
I of the relation who stood al co pennant, and had been
throughout her life her beet friend. M. Salmon went
to his mother-in-law's house, we his daughter, told her
that he would never give his eansent to the marriage,
and, Moreover, that he would no longer allow her to
I lire with her grandmother, and that she meat some
aWay With him directly. Tl:e young lar.y, in obedience
to this parental eammand, packed op her trunk, and
got into her father's carriage, which was in waiting.
But the canine had only gone a few yaris when ahe
sodileely opened the door, at the risk of Meet-ins her
neck, foamed out into the street, and ran back to her
grandmother's B. Suwon thought it undesirable to
make a scene by attempting then and there to bring hie
daughter away by force. He contented himself by
saying IWO he was inissible, and she would hear from
him in • low days. when next he went to the haw
be Was informed that the whole family had goes away,
and had lefts, address. M. &imam went over almost
all lamps in Peach of his daughters. He implied at
all the German watering-please and at every town in
Belgium, but without any result. At length he hit
upne the expedient of sending • money letter to the
grandmother at her old address in Paris, and he learned
through the post-ogles that this lett e eras delivered
to the very army surgeon whose pretenirons to his
eldest daughter's hand formed the cam belii, He
afterwards found that the two girls w re concealed,
nutler falai, names, in a Catholic convent in Glasgow.
Thereupon he brought an notion against his mother-in•
law, requiring I er So bring the girl. heck to France and
hand them over to his custody. The Tribunal of Fir t
Insane. made a decree in his favour. and ordered the
young ledns' grandmother to pay I,ooof. a day for t•o
months unless the girls were restored to their father.
She, thinking the penalty of this decree would be the
worst of the matter, let the two months expire' and
actually paid the large sum of 60,000 f. into court—a
sum that the woe prepared to sacrifices rather than
surrender the girls to their obdurate father. But then
he brought a further action, laying damages at a million
francs. B. tkemarest, the lady's counsel, told her the,
the law was altogether on the father's side, and that if
}he did not brie? the children up be might go on bring-
ing actions until he reined her. Atiting upon lf.
Desmareit's advice, the grandmother has now brought
the young ladies from Glasgow. The father has gained
his poin:, and they are now in custody. The only
question ultimately before the court was, what damages
she should pay to the father for interfering with his
authority. The am was need at 5.0001., and the
balance of the 60,000 f. intend is to be refunded to the
lady. An matte,a now stand, Mddle. Salmon cannot
marry in France till 25 without her father's consent.
but in a few months she will be 21, •nd then he will
have no legal right to prevent her from living where she
pleases.