The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-16 00:00:00

TIIE.B;A SERPINT. AGAIN.

Our old friii7d—ti; sea serpent his--iiiin;d up swain.
According to the narrator It appeared 1,160 miles from
Bombay. on Saturday the 18th a March. The narrator
was quietly munching his broken biscuits in the stern of
the good P. and 0. steamship HYdasPse, at six o'clock in
the morning, watching the sun rising, when he saw, in
the midst of the ruddy light, a dark moving shadow
approaching the vessel. In • quarter of an hour it came
close up, and from that moment the narrator became spell
bound and (barring a brief intermission for ego
kept looking fixedly at the hideous monster until it disap-
about three or four hours afterward& At first it
roalriLd like a great mase of tangled seaweed upon which •
futile attempt at combing had been made. The visible
of this mass must have been twenty or thirty feet in
, And ten feet in width, but there was munch more
out of sight, and from the centre of the mass rose • great
black head, the top quite fiat and in shape not unlike
that of • monstrous toad, with • thick frMete of coarse
reddish hair over the mouth, quite concealing it But oh I
the oyes I The eyeballs were enormous, four or five inches
in diameter, and scintillated constantly; they pained the
eyes to look at them, yet attracted continual attention by
their brightness. Well. this monster kept following the
Hydaspes for three or four long hours, until apparently
tired of this position it shifted to the port side, and raising
itself with • eudden movement high out of the water till
Its head wee thirty or forty feet above, and uttering •
P.ruliAr cry or b•llow, it olosited • great mouth, cried mars
loudly than before, and made three blows at the male.
mast, the last causing the vessel to sway violently. This
it went below without leaving • ripple and was never men
afterward. The difficulty_ with this ees-eerront thei
the narrator is Use Rev. ItsiMbew Strong, • Mi 11601111117.
Besides, th• vision was vouchsafed in the morning, sail !
not only to the Rev. Matthew Strong but also to the Cap-
the orew And all the paeteagen of the HYdlsPen

A Cittregerkwe.—Lady Smith, widow of the late Sir
James Edward Smith, President of the Unman Satiety
attired her Ruth year Thursday, in perfect health,
We understand that the white of the Inagatieene
Onigninse, numbering upwards of 140, reoletly exhibited
at the Alexandra Palace have bees boned he Kr. Nur
Robinson, of Oxford Street
The London Orystal Palace Bazaar was sold baucqton
by Mmes. Ferebrother, Ellis, Clark k Co., on
sad was parsiteeed by Ur. Peter Robieson, at Oxforti
Skeet for the nun of £15,001 As the basher latrarediateh
lair Mr. Roblebee's premiees, it I. Probable that he
dd it to his setabliehment —dtastelere And] IS.
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A DMZ TO MOTIONS I—Ano you broken IS year run by
a sick child suffering with the pata of netting teeth, Gs
a once to a chemist aid get • bottle of Ma Wastages
flocrrento ftraor. Tt will relieve the peer sedierer
immediately. It is P•rfectlY harmless end
•=st to
tame, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by goo
•cbild from pant and UN cherub wean "as t
bentan." It soothes the child. it softens the gums,
anega all Pale relieves wind, enplanes the bowels, apek,am
the best known remedy for dysentery sad diarrhea.
grbether
IT teething or other ammo Mrs.
Winslow's Soo Syrettecold by Mediciae design
ir=llat la 1 per —Manateaturoi in New
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