The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-03-29 00:00:00

HOW YANKEE SHOPKEEPERS ARE DEALT

WITH..

There is some consolation at least to be derived from
the information that England is not the only laud
oppremeil by ita shopkeepers. We reed In an American
geoiipaper the following letter from a Yankee to her
grocer i—" Mr. Tuttle,—This here thing has got too
much hemp in it for molasses., mid not quite enough for
clothes lines; o I've strained off the molasses, and
send you the jag to make up the messure, and have
turned over the hemp to the Vigilance Committee to be
spun up for future use. So be sure to send me the real
thing this tim,, as all hemp goes to the V. C., and tilte
rope is a-growing.

ROBBERY AND MURDER ON A FRENCH
RAILWAY.
In the train on the Perim, Lyona, and Mediterranean
Railway which left Lyons at 10.45 on Sunday night,
arid was due et Meisellles at 6.33 a.m., on Monday, •
traveller entered a first clam ooup6. On his arrival at
Montelimart, the door of an empty compartment was
found to be open. Here there were evident:moot adreadful
struggle of which it had reciently bees the soene—there
being splashes of blood on the cushions and also on the
step of the carriage. A search was mede along the line,
and at some distance from Montelimart, towards
Valence, there eras found lying the deed body of a
man, apparently about thirty years of age. It was
evident that robbery hail been the motive of the
murder, as the oorpee had been stripped of money,
rings, and everything valuable. The murdered man
I was identified as a merchant of Lyops. named Alphonse
Lubanskl. The presumed &wade has been arrested
near the &aloe station, having been injured by leaping
from Um train.

TRAIN ON THE STUMP.
Ws have just received so American paw called the
Trsiis Extra, the medium through which the renowned
George Francis Train addressee the universe in poem'.
It announces his lectures, 000tains his poetry, publishes
the addresses sent to him by the Yankee Fantails, and
his reply addressed to "Deer War with England
Fenians." This is his syllabus of the lecture be de-
livers on " The Old Fogies of the Bible compared with
the beautiful character of the Saviour" :
Contrary to usual custom, polities will not be touched
141011.

7,7-circle.- A Bomb Shell ancunt the Elden. The religion of
• Thousand Millions of People Isidore the ChristLan Er.; Con-
fort-u': Builha ; Zonaster ; Mahotnet ; Was Moan a Murderer
and • mid! Wu Aaron'. pork speculation checkmated by
that order prohibiting Jews to eat Pork Adam and Ere and
their seeing-Inachlne? Ought 'Noah to hare been entructed
with the Ark! flow about that Death-bed Swindle of Jacob
when Emu sold hi. birthright for • tome of potash? An
Eye-Opener for Q. Rivte—True Education, Mondity, Temper-
ance, Religion. The beautiful character of our Saviour, who
practised chat He preached. Thirty Thisseand Premiums
a.yud to walk up to the tiLin's fib. and settle. The
Turkish Bath. irh. Omni lind Reform. Ilan'. Buporlority
n, ter animal. ennsist• in playbrg the hmierite:Do
good to men and see them graduate as Bcoundrs6 ; Debts of
Gratitude hke Debts of Gaming, nobody liken to pay ; Medicine
is not Drugs ; Recitation h rupt, Acting; Patriotism Is not Lore
of Country; Paintings are not Pictures, neither is Theology
Religion; Infidelity N not believing, but prolamin, to believe
what on. does not believe.

Witb admirable frankness Troia records bow be was
prayed for in St. Louis, after his lecture :—" Yesterday
morning, I. the Union prayer-msoting, • good brother
asked the prayers of Chrirtians preient for Train. If
there wig any promigi in Holy Writ for roomy for the
ehiof of Jackamea, as weil as the 'chief of sinners,'
there might be some eneouragement to prey for George
Francis." No doubt the " good wag right.

SCENE IN AN INDIANA DIVORCE COURT.
One of the Americas papers stake that a divorce
trial before Judge Sample, in Mania, Indium, recently,
the principals in the snit, la relating how lovingly they
used to live together when first married, harem no
'gutted over the recollection of their lost happiness
that they began to err. The Judge followed snit, the
audience joined in, and handkerebiefe were in general
da. judge Sample, when they had all hnisbed
crying. suggested to the hubsad and wife the propriety
of trying to lies happily together oust more. After
tl'ondraedsek try it Ka
huyetocenrred in our
'hl, and the
eo.ensuirultatthinwitelinedyedeo. n
Divorce Court of everybody present being affected unto
tears ; bat it is a wonder that all parties, the Judges,
Bar, and audience included, are not more fes,imini,
affected unto sickness by the details which it is their
privilege to hear.