The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-12-30 00:00:00

A COMICAL DYNAYITE SCARE

• curse's orient sonde Deify Telegraph fibs
is:wowing. which be duly authentic auee :—" A y•duag
can, teh• as UMW*, at bug Ogra moint request, is sup-
p.l, • few ovenit.ge since nael• • di.cov, ry of 4
app lung • charm:der that norer before, pgrhape, tee to
oisputed po•albility of a person's hoir turning Iroin 'taco
totten to white in a fe• minutes through batemets
(valet lowa put to • severer tet It apo-a-s front hi. own
stetement that at the time indicated he was ridiug in .
thit l-c ase carriage on the U tropaitiam K sit say Thor.
were oth r powngore In the semi cornuortment wh m
h entered it, but they alighted, leaving him alone.
Scerc.•ly, ho hat the train male another start.
when ha otitsrirs•l beamed' a wet at the further end, ood
on the ei•l• opposite, a something on the d row that he at
drat thought was an article of luggage tuadvertanUy
lett twh nd by • passenger Csgsts: exgolna lot, how•
aver, cante•ll him to shrink it •tn it in alum. Toe
was app•rently mod• nf n-, its st'se being about ODinch•s
100 g, sight inch., or nits • initial wide, tnt absut h• •
inched deep. It woo flat-ho ....rued, and run-let OD the
top, and at one en•l there woo • projecting bran Cat,
rho conclusion at once arrired at by tile young 15110.
was that it was an " trif real machine," of it:tenantable
donensions, ant no &tub,, oft nine destructive pow • •
and ha. been d• poets I there by some vi lain, gad
" toast " probatiiy t • • not de at • point on Cie !in.:—
perhaps beneath a tunnal—•here it mialit do mod
defuse His drat neiurelly, was to put
utuds *fasces. poaeible between himself Da I the hotrilil •
•1141:le of death ant destruction.. gaudily as he could.
In teed, he was on the point tf open{ •er tie carriage too•
An I in .ki•g • leap that might have resulted in the brook-
ing of his legs or his n. Cr, maybe, but that alternative
seemed preferable to reme.ning there to be pre...ally
blown to unrecognisable atoms, It was a desperate
pr•dica neat; hot a nabler mottos-tit greedily *copse
fears for his own personal safety. It would be • wort • r
deed to frustrate, as far as lay in hie power, ins deers
of the Fenian mieereantr, wholes ph, pow no doubt, it
was to effect wholesale destruction of hornets We and
public pruptrty—bet howl It would mitigate the m's-
objet, at all events. if he oast the metal btx out of OA
wind ter. Nerving himself for the eritioal rip! It, he
en:trews/red the ell abolical o •ntrivance and laid hand. on
It, but immediately started tech. The ane outer cuing
was gaits Warm I To hie more heated 101041a.t.11 the
Cloekwork within had nearly fulfilled its function, wh:ch
was to ignite the thundering coerce, and any moment
might now be the fats) one. Deunted for a lens space ha
fell heir from the dread thing; but again hie belt ,
nature prevailed, and, with whill'iona he will
forget, he caught it up In both hie hands and launehed it
out of the carriage window at the very ingent when •
station was reached. With • thud it landed actually on
the phtfortn, and In a twinkling aotive pr-tar, came
ruehing up, and the young men, who leapt out of the
ea rise, found himself surrounded arti peremptorily
queet -mod se to what he newt by such condo'-t. Whit.
and inc as-rent, he cud only ejaiulate 'Man by it I
Duet you Pie what It la "Why, of course. Anybselr
can see whet It is. It •• • fog warmer." Undo different
cir•-umetanoes such • flagrant off nee would very pr •perly
have been garionalf dealt with, but it was uhtnigalreable
from the youth's bewildered and ailtst eta,. that what
he had den• was in perfect good faith. He protested h•
had before seen • rail way carriace foot warmer, and
what he had recently heard and read of (maims man,g...
on railways ant eine whexe, together with the shape and
make of their murderous contrivanc to, had led him into
the mistake. H,s explanation was regarded al natio
factory, sod he was Ist off with no other punishment than
that of being laughed at, which hotted's,' would not have
been the ea .6 hat the metal box proved what In his gigs.
griclty he hangar supposed It tr b.. It is through no
shortcoming of hie thot a grateful railway-travelling
Public are not at the present time dascussing what would
be a profer reward for such • hero.

CHRISTMAS TRAGEDIES AND CASUALTIES
A shocking accident occurred at S. Maid mi Chror.
erten.. A y .n. roar,rl Iwo flea cam d Karr
M ret., ..h I. .ler,ra he a ahead dwr er.sh b.ly, • t a
portion of her drees uo fire Hr @Grown, aqtacied
n.ielMiure. who (wand her lying on Ma floor enveloped
In dames. She died oa Sunday from the result of tee
. .

Henry Ferber, • labourer. of Brill. Bucks, was Haw.
hla droner on Christmae day when a piece of beef stuck
in hie throat, an I he dual In the presence of his wife ant
family.
The deaf body of Hr. F.ederiek Neleon, cabinet
seeker. of Hertlepool. us. on Friday aft-rnoon found
lying neer the foot of the cliff oppvits the S.Corie
li.t.ery. Previously to leaving to one he state' hi.
intentlun of ',Neon Is the rook.. which .fr•A his Ir. quint
custom. There were ser-r•I cuts on his bead. and it is
doubtful whether he hat fallen over the cliffa or bad sm•
tallied fats! Injuries whilst springinff over • fissure in the
rock. He I.'llo yews of age, and leaves a widow and •
young (easily.
A sad came Gm. before the coroner at Ilfracombe on
Friday. It appears that • woman named Hemlock left
her infant melees) in the cr elle in charge of two
other young children. A beesollne lame was standing
°°_,a tnnin now tn. CZadle, sad by some means ono of tins
oniktron nnoonlid it off into the cradle. where 111411
on the baby'. face. dreadfully burning it. Medical
help wee at once rummossed,, and the child in greet
•ren, lingered for seedy • fortnight. Wheel It died
from tetsaus and shock to the system aimed by the
barns._ _

R... Profe•sor Gtehh. of 11 yr« C Mate. Lcvlon-
d•trt. dl.d oo Frits U. •*. t.kleug luncheon wls-n
hi. .111•rmi. hue ch Ala* end sztr.cet el ad .c• of
al..t 'as' a. w•I •stiog. bat h• duel alfiguet itulnellstols
al t•rwards.
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A abocklas mord*, sad midi* war* committed on
Cariettaat aMht at Vammitiocch. imat E largh.
C4fi..i" Smith. arid V wife of • lobo ro., cut ant tha
threat of her Infant oh Id sad than b.c Qos tared mitt
her husband's suss. Fos mod it.. lA* imam had bios
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