The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

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A LARGE quantity of diseased meet was seised sit
Bristol on Monday, when in procee• of being mann-
factored int* polonies, on the premise, of Joseph
n ner.
THE vicarage of Wellington, Somerset, bas beam'
vacant by tbe death of the Rev. Harvey Marriott, M.A..
of Woroester College, Oxford. It ia worth £9OO • year,
and is in the gift of Mrs. Pulinan.
IT is now arranged that the return of the Court be
this oountry from Germany may be expeoted on the
Bth of September. Her Majesty, after staying aE
Windsor Castle a day or two, will leave for Sootluid.—
Court Journal.

Six SITS OF CHILDRIN.—There is a family ia
Detroit of quite unusual oomporition. The father and
mother base each been married three times, and Faye
had children by each marriage, and are all now liriag
happily together under one root—six seta of children.—
merican Paper.
Lot's AND Suierm—The body of a young maa
named Joshua Priestley, a moulder, aged 23, was dis-
covered in the canal at Huddersfield, on Saturday after-
noon, and it is believed that he committed suicide in
consequenes of having bad a quarrel with Ma meek-
heart, a young woman named Sarah Calvert.

THII PRINCE AND PRINCESS or WALT& —Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are
expected to arrive at Abergeldie about the beginning
September. The fererness Courier says 'We under-
stand that there is still a prospect of the Prince and
Princess of Wales visiting Dmirobin Cattle this season."
MRLANOBOLT ACSIDINT.—A
_porter at Greenfield
station, on the railway between Manchester and Bud.
ders6el4, in shielding from danger a passenger who was
attempting to enter a carriage when the train wag
moving, on Saturday night, was thrown upon the rails,
itud his body nearly cut asunder by some of the carriages.
ST. Switumv.—ln the Hantingdonshire
_parish
wherein I passed St. Swithun's Day, 1865, we had nob a
drop of rain. A cottager said to me, "It'. a bad jab
for the apples that tit. Swithun ha'n't rained tip= 'eel."
"Why so ?" "Because, nnleas Si, Swithun rains epee
'eau, they'll never keep through the winter."—Nota mad
Queries.

DREW/RATS WICEEDNEEP.—A few days age two girhi
made a determined attempt to drown themselves, at
Cheltenham, lying down upon their faces in 18 inohte
of water. When rescued by • lamplighter they swore
at him and told him he was • fool for doing it. They
were brought before the magistrates, when one of them
said they should drown themvelves as soon as they got •
chance. They were sent to prison for • week.
A RELIGIOUS Parse-Frairram—On Saturday • most
disgraceful fight took place opposite the Warwick Arms,
in Westbury, near Wells, between two drunken men,
one of whom is a jolly.looking farmer, and the other •
preacher among the "Bible Christians." They both
set-to in right earnest, the farmer drawing first blood
from the nose of his opponent, and the parson retaliating
by giving the farmer two black eyes. The fight was
pret'y even on both sides, and it is hard to lay who
carried off the palm of victory.
PREPARATION OF ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE.--A.
meeting of the boards of the different companies in.
terreted in laying the Atlantio Cable was held on
Monday. After much and anxious deliberatiou on the
circumstances attending the late attempt, and the
causes of its failure, it was, we understand, unanimously
determined not to abandon the enterprise, hut to pro.
(*eel with the preparation of another cable, and have it
ready for laying in the course of next summer,
WAITING FOR THR EINCUTION.—A portion of the
floating population of Marseilles—thieves, abandoned
women, vagrants, and liberated oonvieta, to the number
of several thousands—nightly invade the place where
they suppose the execution of the murderer Pioot will
take place, and remain there eating, drinking, and
sleeping on benches or under the trees. People even go
to visit this sort of gipGiee' camp, or, rather, This Coon
des Miracles. Other amateurs of evecutions proceed to
the Pharo, where the scaffold is expeeted by some to be
erected.

Tug HARVEST FOOD PROSPECTS. —The Mark Leslie
Express say. :—" The new samples of wheat that hays
hitherto appeared do not favour the impression that we
have either a good yield or quality. Quotations
Monday ranged from 375. to 48s. Foreign amounts, too,
much agree with our own as to defective and injured
crops, to give much expectation of a return to very low
prices. France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, some
parts of Russia, and South Europe all tell the same tale,
and prioe,s have generally risen. The amounts from
America show that tbe United States will be a very
uncertain dependence in ease of extremity."

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGZ UPON A LADY.—At Bed-
ford, on Saturday afternoon, a man respectably dressed
in black was seen looking in at the fanlight over the
door of Captain M'Carthy's house, when Mrs. BDCarthy
went to him, and he asked her if Captain hf'Carthy
was at home. She told him he was, but he was up-
stairs, and she proceeded to call him, when the man
stated that she would do as well, and she was about
entering one of the sitting-rooms with him when be
caught hold of her back hair and with a clasp-knife out
it off and nut away. Mrs. fri'Carthy was so terrified at
geeing the man approaching her with a knife in his
hand that she fell senseless to the pound. The fellow
escaped.
A MILLANCHOLY STORY.—As inquest On an infant at
Wandsworth, on Friday night, revealed a and amount
of destitution and ignorance. The child was the
youngest of five, and the father having committed
a trifling offence, lost his situation, and the mother,
excited by the prospect of destitution Wont the family,
poisoned her baby with laudanum and attempted to
strangle herself. A &harp little girl of tee years old,
the eldest child, was called as a witness, and, In answer
to questions, she said she did not know the difference
between right and wrong, or whether it was wrong to
steal or to tell lies. The father offered an excises for
the girl's ignorance by stating that she was obliged to
stay at home and tend the younger children while the
mother went into the fields to work. The case was
adjourned.
•DOOBLZ MURDER BY A VOLUNTRXR.—Murder will
soon be among the moat familiar incidents of oar time.
We have to rerioni to-day another atrocious act—s doable
murder committed at Batley, in the West Riding.
The amisesin was a man named Sykes, who was •
member of the Dewsbury Ride Corps; and after at-
tending battalion drill be proceeded with his rile, awl
bayonet to the house of a young woman to whom he
had been paying his addresses, but who had lately dis-
carded him for another. A quarrel took place, when
he knocked her down with the butt end of his rifts and
stabbed her with his bayonet in several places; her
mother, coming to her rescue, was also stabbed; and
both have died of their wounds. The murderer then
attempted to take his own life, but was prevented, and
is now in custody.
A Semen Berwitaw • QUAKXII AND A JODGL —The
Liverpool Crown Court was on Monday morning en-
livened by • soene between a Quaker juryman, named
Josiah Carson and Mr. Justice Montague Smith. The
Quaker on entering the box omitted to take off his hat,
aud on 'wing requested to do so by the judge said:
Couscienee compels me to keep it on. The Judge:
Nonsense. Conscience nei more eompels you to keep it
on than it does your shoes. You must have respect for
others. I will fine you £lO if you do not take off your
hat. The Juryman It is reverence for the Ahnighey
which compels me to keep it on. The Judge: Don't
be nonsensical. Your reason is discreditable to common
sense. The juryman continuing to keep on his hat, the
Judge said: I warn you that I will fine you flO if you
do not take off your hat. The Juryman: I cannot do
so. The Judge : Then I fine you £lO. Leave the box.
Any person with such nominees in his head is not fit to
sit upon a jury. The Quaker havieg left the box, the
Judge said: I AO call upon him again to-morrow, and
if he still pentirte in his nonsense I shall fine him again.
Tar VISIT OF TEI FRISCH PLZAT TO PORTSMOUTH.—
The French squadron will arrive at Spithead on the 29th
of the present month, and the same evening the admiral
and scene of the superior officers will be entertained on
board the Osborne by the Duke of Somerset and the
Lords of the Admiralty. On the following day (the 30th)
the dockyard and principal Government offices will be
Inspected, and in the evening • grand banquet will be
given on board the Dote of Wellington. On the last
there will be • parade of troops in the garrison on South.
lea Common at which it is anticipated his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge will be present. In the
afternoon the officers will be entertained at luncheon by
Lieutenant-General Sir G. Buller, K.C.8., oomnm,nd.
log the south-west district and in the evening the offioent
will be entertained at dinner by the mayor, corporation
and inhabitants of the town. On the let of September
there will be • grand ball at the Royal Naval College, for
whioh preparations are now being made. On the dof
September the fleet will leave.
HORNCASTIM CZLISRATRD HORNS PAHL—This well
known horse fair formally opened on Tuesday, and
continued during the week. The show of horses brought
down for sale were both in number and quality folly up
to previous fairs here, and a mint of money has been in-
vested in horses, and the average :selling prime were es
follows:—Cart horse, active sound young cattle, fordray,
merchants', and contractors' work. 38 to 46 ;
and seasoned, ditto, for farmers' and team work,
25 guineas ; cart colts, 20 to 35 guineas; and superior
horse of light build for carriers, hackney and town carts
40 to 50 guinew; aged ditto, 15 to 24 guineas. Hand-
some well-bred horses of superiors:Aloe for riding and driv.
lug in single harries, 40 to 60 guineas, and ditto, at high
breed, for caddie purposes, 55 to 80 oldness; and hunters
of oelebritv, and well accustomed to follow hounds, made
very high figures; roadsters, backs. dr.c., 16 to 25 guineas
and handsome strong made coba, 20 to 35 guineas; and
pairs of ditto and gallowaye, for harness, 70 to 86
guineas; ponies, 12 to 18 guineas; horses of auperlor
elene for double harness, in laroughams, An., 66 to 80
E; and ditto well-matched pairs of greys and hays
prices varying from 180 to 250 goinsem
division of horse-dealers bought largely of
ISONMees horses, and provincial men speculated freely in
blood stock and saddle horses. The fair terminated
on Saturday.
" A SMOKING PASTOR. AND TIN CONNIQUINCIM
TllllRSOF.—Dissenting peetors, from Robert Flail down-
wards, have been often great smoker,. We are all
'tonsillar with his response to a lady, who, cowing into
thivestry just before the sermon, saw him smoking a
pe there, "At your idol, I see, Mr. Hail," said the
fair one. "Yes, madam," was the quick answer,
"burning it." It seems he has some imitators ia
the London pastorate; for on Sunday evening Brick.
fields Congregational Chapel, Stratford, was the scene
of a great excitement in consequence of an alarm of lire
being raised in the midst of the service. The Reg
John Knox Stallybrass was officiating for his brother.
the Rev. John Stallybrass, minister of the pleoe. •
strong smell of fire pervaded the chapel soon after the
service had commenced, and on the chapel keeper
opening she vestry door • volume of smoke rushed into
the chapel. Uncontrollable fright was manifested by
the congregation, and a great struggle took place to get
out However, very little damage was done. It Ap-
peared that the rev. gentleman had been oat for the
afternoon, and, having been smoking'a cigar, on ()intim
into the vestry, put the reensioing part of it into hie
overcoat pocket, which he hung up. In the pocket he
had some fusses, which appear to have ignited and set
the coat on fire. It appears that, being entirely of
cloth, it only smouldered and smoked, but communi.
, :sated the fire to other woollen %bier in the vestry.
Fortunately there was nothing Viably millennesll, yr,
added to the excitement, the consentletioas tvoWd hove
been disastrous.