The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-05 00:00:00

LADIES' DRESSES.

A cue recently tried in the Superior Court of Boston
has drawn the ktteotion of aspiring wives and despair.
ing husbands to that port of tire world. lire. Flynt,
deseribed in the new, mas • distinguished drew
stater, seed • Mr. Coolirzdfor 1,911 dollen, being an
amount for dresses supplied to that gentleman's wile.
The plaintiff boasted that no woman in Boston amid
make dresses equal in taste and beauty to the els/Potato
dresses eonstructed for Mrs. Coolidge. The penises
and flounces were unapproachable in style, the minis,
the estins, and the lane were the produoe of the most
canning workmanehips, fairy angers bed assisted in the
gorgeous architecture, an.l "all the world wondered"
at the lost eneentole of the design. Wittiness were
sailed on both sides, and on both sides there wee nothing
but an greet:neat to differ, Mrs. Flynt', supporters ,
mid the charges were moderate. Mr. Coolidge's friend.
said the charge, were monstrous ; and the unfortunate
jery, like the proverbial donkey, for four.and-twenty
hours, could decide nothing. Some of them believed in
the ari,tocratio name of Flynt with a y ; others
sympathised with the democratic Coolidge with •
and matters remain in it oso waiting for more light

AN ENTERPRISING PUBLICAN.
The story of Dick Torpin and TOM King has been so
peottehly utilised by noveliets that it is amusing to
know that it has been made ev.ilsble within the in
day or two for 'welling the °offers of a Whiteehapel
victualler, duly licensed secording to the law. 1/ow
title fell oat may be briefly told. The other morning,
while tome workmen in the employ of the Chartered
Gra Weeks, were digging in the High-street, White.
chapel, 41", certain er,die roads in that locality. they
tbecovered beseech the "rime a skeleton. On the left
side ix the skeleton's *krill, and immediately behind
the ear was a small hMe. which. bed apparently been *weed by a bullet. The skull wee immediately carried
10 a public bones M the neighbourhood, which about •
hundred Yefirs ago was Irequeoted by Dick Turpin and
bio companions. It warn placed by the landlord wider.
math a glass case, and exhibited to his anatomies. He
issued large placards et ones declaring the digeovery. Dick Turtkue it &PPM., wee discovered In this house a
short tube before his death by • Bowetreet °Meer.
King then cisme out from the publiohoort, oro ~_
°dicier attempted to take him. While King sod the
coottable were strufEllthl, !Oat 'horned out to Turnip
" Fire at bim." TUrpla did so, sad tooidesssuy
40,
King instead of thnollioer. It is bow stated that Kis(
Iv an afterwards boned a.. felon in the cromiroasis raw
where be shot; and the obvious inferenos is that a
Whitechepel publican is exhibiting his atoll.

The POTATO Cum. —The Cornish potato ez
turning out reinarkebly well this year, and the •••
° of
Jut has been rebelled without any rymptonte of dimes.,
A linger quantity of early potatoes tau been forwsrdsd
to London than for many years past.
Tic Goon OLD Tructi.—This is bow prisoners fared
in Norfolk Penitentiary is 1785 —Breakfast.— Sunday,
• pi-noy loaf; Monday, ditto; Tuesday, ditto; Wed.
nesday, ditto; Thursday, ditto; Friday, ditto; Satan,
day, ditto. Dinner. - Sunday, loliteway's soups of oz.
cheek; Monday. • penny ; Tuesday, potatoes;
W,domday, boiled peas ; Thorp:lay, • penny lout; Fri.
Sty. potatoes; Saturday, boiled paw