The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

A SWAIM of mosquitoes visited Yrovil and neighbour-
hotwi &Yew days since.
FOR the first time since the memory of man the
clio'cro has found its way to Mount Lebanon.
Ar the rem sele of M. Brydon, Moodie's, near Beat•
tech, the sum of £155 was kid In a single ram.
Tits Mansion House committee for the provision of
&suite' io tor dierobed cattle have thrown up their work.

SPAIN sod Peru have formally reuewed their diplo-
tuatie n

THZ Madrid perers state that a visit from Prince
Alfred, of Englano, is exp. cted llortly in that city.
ACCORDING to the Marseilles paper the nholera is de-
alining in that city.
Ma. ALDZRMAN PHILLIPS, a gentleman of the
Hebrew persuasion, has been elected Lord Mayor of
London.

Tun papers announce the death'of the Duke de Gra-
mma Caderonase, well known on the ttuf and in other
haunts of the Paris fashionable world.

THI name of the Chinese giant being omits unpro-
nounceable, it ha been agieed to sail him Professor
Longffellow.

It is said that 40.000 negroes have died in the
Southern States from disease and want amen the fall of
the Confederacy.
SIR hfouvoir Par° and party, after haviog visited the
coal and petroisuel redlines of hoesnaylvsiols., are pow on
their wart.° Chicago.

Loone-Kiria, M.P., seems to think that Govern-
ment hail actvd in • paniclitricken uhatintr in rtferet.ce
to the cattle plaguv.

TRIPLE BIRTH. —Olll Wednemjay the wife ofJaises
Robinson, labourer, Otley, was 'safely delivered of three
hue children, a boy and two girl,

TEM Morning l'on "in enafilwi to announce" that
within a vety bele period the French army of occupa-
tion will commence to withdraw from Rome.

A HORSE chesnut tree in Regent'apark. Llndon,
having been denuded of its leaven for weeks past has put
forth its sawed blossom of the prevent year.
A col/RESPONDENT writes that rabbits by hundreds
are dying in the warrens in cousequenee of the preva-
lence of poisonous weeds.
M. Bowes's celebrated horse Claremont died on
Monday. The price put upon this horse a week before,
when an offer to buy was made, was £3,000.

Tits population of the world is eatimattel at the
present time to amoant to 1,000,000,000 of persons,
speaking 3,064 languages, and professing 1,100 forms of
religion.

AT one election we are assureci..ilint'.the item of r3OO
was put down to the expense of two candidates for the
tobaøco emoted. We me (pate ceetam that the two
needed to be puffed well.

THE daughter of Mr. Murrin, of the Union Inn,
Teigngraoe, a young girl of seventeen years ef age, and
of prepossessing appearance, has eloped with • radway
navvy named George Hudson.

Iv seems probable that President Johnson will pro-
claim an amnesty, and it is certain that several of the
States which were recently desolated by war are rapidly
regaining their former prosperity.
A GREAT and probably decisive battle has been fought
between the allies under Flores and the Paraguayans,
in which the latter were defeated with the loss of
seventeen hundred prisoners, their cannon, and flags.
THE Governor-General of Canada has issued his pro-
clamation appointing Thursday, October 12, • day of
general thanksgiving for the bountiful harvest.
THE Times has a leader on election expenses, and
points' o tie comparatively high rates in email boroughs
The costs of the candidate. at Cheltenham are said to
be scandalous in comparison with other boroughs.

T Wetheral, a young woman, a domestic servant,
named Maxwell, has died of a broken heart—a man who
had paid his addresses to her, and whom she had loved
" not wisely, but too well," having married another
NTOMMI.

A GREENOCK spirit dealer In opening his shop one
morning round two rats behind the counter, on their
b.eks, kicking away in the most ludicrous manner.
They had got at some strong Scotch ale on which they
had got thank. Of course he killed them.

A trrran in the De&ails, from Berlin, "inspired" by
high officiate there, states that Schleswig and Holstein
will be annexed soon to Pringia, and that Austria will
make to objections, any reluctance on her part being
oveicouie by a cash payment.

A GAIIIJCIMPUt on a moor at Loohgoilhead trapped
a large fox • few days ago, and finding it to all appear-
ance dead be removed it from the trap, and threw it
aside while he rebaited the trap, when, to his astoniah-
meat, the fox ecampered off up the hill and escaped.

A YOUNG man, apparently of the upper classes, has
committed suicide in one of the dressing•rooms of the
public 'lithe at Berlin by shooting himself. He left a
paper directing that his " carcase should be well beaten
and given to any surgeon who liked to ask for it."

THE other evening, when Mr. James, of the Post-
office, Newton, in Hampshire,put his band in the letter-
box to clear it, he found to his dismay &snake coil round
his arm, but fortunately it did him no injury. It is
supposed to have been dropped into the box by some
malicious person.
IT might be supposed there was now little danger of
the explo-ion of-i•hells fired at the siege of Sebastopol
and which bad remained exposed ever since to the rains
acd snows of the Crimea; but the Odessa Cowrie, says
thatacci lents continue to occur from the bursting of
such shells.

THE Shipping and Mercantile gazette says an inquiry
militated by the Registrar-General of Seamen, ha
shown that it is not true that certain seamen of the
Naval Reserve, at Liverpool, had joined the Fenian
movement. There is no trace of any attempt to tamper
with the men of the Reserve.

A MAN named Prioe, living in Clerkenwell, is in
custody charged with accelerating the death of hie wife
by neglect and starvation. Witnesses showed that the
husband not only refused to provide her with the
medical requirements which the doctor ordered for her
complaint, but refused her necessary food and assailed
her daily with taunts and reproaahes.l

AN AIIIRICAN STORY !—The beautiful child of
beautiful woman was playing a flageolet on hoard •
vessel in the harbour of Havana, when he fell over-
board. and was swallowed by a sheik ; the crew immedi-
ately baited a hook, and caught the shark, which was of
large size; the fi.-11 was cut open, when to the titter
astonishment of everybody, the boy was found snugly
seated between a couple of the monster's ribs, still
playing Lis flageolet.

Tus WRATHIIK IN TRU NORTH.—ODO Of the most
unprecedentedly hot and bright Septembers on record is
likely to be brought to an end upon the coast if
Northumberland with • change of weather, as on
Wednesday night • gale of wind from the northward,
which burst on the coast without any warning, caused a
considerable reduction of temperature, and on Thursday
night the wind off the Tyne was well round to the east-
ward, and the sea as making. But still there was no
very marked indication that the weather was breaking.

liaNcierowni, Lind Portarlington must be classed
among the only true weather prophets—the equal alike
of Zadkiel, Old Moore, and Mathieu de la Drome. The
worthy peer, late in August, issued a circular, warning
hi. tenants not to despond, as, after a little more rain •
sudden change would usher in one of the brightest and
warmest Septembers ever known. The terms of the
circular were curiously absolute, and his lordship was
gently chaffed for he affectation of • weather wisdom
beyond the pretensions of the most experienced
meteorologists. The laugh, however, was premature,
for the prediction has been verified to the letter.

Tan Fenians, if a statement in Saunders' News Letter
be tru-, do not need to travel out of Ireland for arms,
there being 160,000 stand in the old castle at Athlone,
which is absolutely unguarded, and destitute ever of a
seutry. The magazine in which the supply of ammuni-
tion for Ireland is kept is also the-e, with no further
protection than what is afforded by a cor,porars guard,
' which," hays the Pall Mall Gazette, could not be
absolutely relied upon to blow the place up. From
America there is a rumour, brought by the &monis,
that army waggons are being extensively constructed in
the neighbourhood of New York for the Fenian organi-
zation. Numerous meetings and festivals of the Brother-
hood ate being held throughout the country. Won't
they be taken back when they hear the news from
England?

A fdonitair METIMAID.—The Glasgow Herald tells •
funny story :—One morning reoentiv, before sunrise, •
labourer, going along the shore of Lochfroe. Inverary,
on a smooth rook by the water's edge saw reclining a
creature which in the struggling light, he thought to be
a seal. When be approached it splashed into the water,
and as he saw its head bobbing up and down, and its
long grey hair fldating on the wave, he became con-
vinced that it was an ancient mermaid. Unromantic
wretch that he was, he began to throw atones, to avoid
which the creature moved further from the shore; but
soon made st-sight again for the rook, on which it
landed. The man drew a huge knie from his pocket
and advanced. But he suddenly slopped, for to his
amazement, the creature spoke. T rror added wings
to he let, and he fled, circolvting over the parish that
surely his end was near, for he had seen • mermaid and
heard her tongue. Eventually, however, his delusion
WaR dis,ellerl, for the mermaid turned out to be the
wife of a Glasgow professor who hat come down to
spend his holidays on the shor. n of Lochfyne. It is
superfluous to add that the lady had gone out to bathe.