The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-24 00:00:00

POOLZ.

"flea Milan" was unable to be pr•sent at the
RlWing Coh dinner on Thursday, because, on
" personal" grounds, he wl.hed t reoor.l his vote in
favour of the pensions grani.eni to L .rds Wolseley and
Alc..t.r. What wooll La ly Charlotte's paps have
said if he bad been abient
A RASA Avis—Mr. Harvey. boot and shoe maker
of the High•street, ie the i oiseesor tf a hen which
has been conducting herself in, to sty the least of it,
• somewhat eccentric manner f late. Like sill well
regulated hipxis of her specie* she has been during the
season in the habit i.f [resenting her muter with •
newelaid•un every morning for his breakfast. On
Tuesday, whether she hat ter business to attend
to, or was forgetful, or had been dissipating. we know
not, but she neglected her cu•tomary duty. On the
Wednesday however, she made amends by laying one
egg ab tot eight in the moening, • we tied about two
in the afternoon, and a third about five I And on the
Thursday. apparently remembering she was one to the
good, she did not lay at all. Since then she has been
going no In her usual wAl•ordered aid methodical
manner. Mr. Harvey, who is our informant, declares
there can be no mistake. She Is the only hen be ham.
The ergs as he took thin from the nest on the three
differect occasions were warm, and, after the invariable
manner of her sex, the hen each time cackled t the
neighbours of her exploit. The eggs were substantial,
well-developed pr .duc• ions, anl, as he intends to use
them for sitting purposes, he h..iya to rai.e a breed
that will each regularly lay three eggs daily. We
don't for • moment throw any doubt upon the st ry,
but we may remizt I one realer, that ego, like • great
many other things, are best taken cum rano sail.

SALISBURY.
A DISGRACEFUL HOAX.
Oa Wednesday the people .4 S dishury were stertled
by intelligence of what wor at 6 et supposed to be an
alempt to blow up the Cethedial, Not even-ually
pr nee to be • hoax At 20 minuted to 11 on Tuesday
night P.C. Tompkins, when on duty In the Close, dis-
covered against the north side of the Morning 'barrel
Those whe read the fu Isu 1 special rep wt., which a myeteriougdooeing deal box, which wail subsequently
laid week's Repress contained, of the trials of found to be about 15 inch. e long, 13 bro .cl, and 11 deep,
whilst the thickness .4 the wood was ',lightly over an
prisoners at the Winchester Assizes will remember Inch. It was bound by two ir .n bands, and ion the
that a man named Jams Watts was convicted of cover was • piece of iron, in the centoe of which we. •
totic ihole. The policeman wen* Kellow, • cons. able
setting fire to • stable and o nuilihouwo, with intent to
of the Close, asked him whether he knew how it name
injure Frederick Proctor, the owner, at Kinson, on there and he suggested that it might be part of the
the 11th Jute of le th st year, e arid Watts being apparatus of a Penni who had been taking PhetnllrePhe
of the building. The policeman, however, deciiled to
sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Watts. In give information, and whilst on hie way to do so met
the ereteniar, was described as • brewer, 51 years of Inspector Ainsworth, with whom he returned to the
age, and of Imperfect education, but he showed while In spot where he had made the discovery. Pee:Mang
from the top of the box wan a piece of white teener
the dock that if his education had been neglected he
'crewed up, and this was taken out by Kellow.
bad • fluent specious manner and • more than ordinary Inspector Ainsworth suggested that they should 1100
knowledge of the business of life. Ile cross-examined if it would burnt and, haying set lieht to It, it
burned like • piece of touch paper. The b
Proctor at considerable length and with equally cow was at once taken to the Polke-wati in, where Super-
siderable effect, so damaging the gentleman's pre- intendant Mathews removed the over, and on the
under part of it, ageinst the toueh-hole, was • piece of
tensions t virtue and far dealing that in the end the
piper anteining sortie i ort .4 light prowler. with a
jedge aft .r him if he could not explain certain portion of which he meede an experiment and food
matters he might to he et 'nab gby the side ,d Pratte, that it was exploder.. The box wan efterw ode
dir tented the police to make et quiries jet o the allege- rem ovel to the volunteer magazine in the yard siiij
Mons made by Watts Altai-let him. Watt., it will be ing the Market-h e. Tue e leerbet nil at having
necollected, in January of last year, 6 months after the communicated with the authorities at the Sc Aland.
fire gave himself up to the Bournemouth police, and yard, Inspector Lens lamp., of the detective depart.
confessed that he hal himself deliberately set the meet, came down, an 1 under his direction an eremine-
premises nn tire, being urged thereto by Proetor, who lion of the content., of the hi was made, when It was
held • bill of male upon his eon Is, and who threatened timid that they c 'naked of earth and s awe:lust and •
if he did not he would sell him up, but who promised glass bottle, containing about a pint ,d a brown Wield.
If he fell in with M. wishes he would give him £l5O to The bottle we, .'ale I with black wax and on it wee
.tart In budoessi The mated .1.. tsr, and the the word, "Nitro glrceriee ;to be keret in • cool place;
like, he also card, were furnished him by Pro-tor, who do not uncork the bottle." When opened its
went them to him by a man named II own. Proctor, gintents were foon Ito be nil, or • mieture omelet'
be further stated, had said he knee hr. to in rke them, log partly of oil. On the following mu nine (Wednee.
as he had done the same thing at Birkin ie Suer, day). the Bishop received a le' t r dieted Salisbury,
and made • good thing out of it. 110-e, wr moy state, April 14), tanker him thet there was • secret society
that Mr. Superintendent Batty, on hear': g this whose apeciel obje t was the ileretrncti n of all places
disclosure read in enort—an 1 the eve is in ii, hands, of worship, and containing the following —"1 there.
se the fire occurred in the Dewily of Dorset—asked fore caution you that au aqempt will shortly be ma le
Proctor if there was any truth In the assertion that be to blow up the Cathe lead but I earnestly hoe diet it
had prtnieuele had • fire, and at Harleimei re 'cline's will ot be successful." It wis sign. d"A Fr. syleink.
reply was Ist two, in one of which he was in.nred, kg Invincible." SuPerinter dent Mathews, Inerscror
an i the other not, When Mr. Watts, after a short Ainewerth, and two consitrablee ezemined the
sojourn in January in the Wimborre cells. c tine to Cathedral and Pelsce, hut found anthill/ of a
his cooler senses. aid beeso to ice the red light 'head, stpop.eous cheractrr. Handbills have been circulated
he commenced to repent of the atop he hid taken, and stating that • reward of CA sill be pail be the Dean
a.cribed his previous eonfession to Is alluc:nation and Chepter to any pars ,r, who gives such inform .i
brought on by over-d era of chloral. 4t the A4-it he to the Head Constehle ,4 the City Police as snail lea I
maintained Me came line, and throw out a (toter to to thediscarery of the porson o- persons wh placed the
Proctor, which the letter readily backed, thet the beor where it was foetid, an I of the writer of the
place was exposed, and a,ight h .ve been uel as • annaymons lets .r.
temporary lodging by tramp.. Toned gulltr, hew' Not only the Bishop hex been 'objected to annoy-
ever, he taw the game was up. and offered io rec im- enc., for several parochial clergymen ant ethers bays
peneate the Insurance Office (Proctor recovered 050 lately been worried with • onym ins letter.. &Geom.
Into aluc Compeny) if he were tenderly treated, by parried in some cases by copies 14 that blasphemous
giving nel Me Interest in • lease of some pr .1 arty, print called the Freethinker. The letters ere all
out of which he declared proctor hod .1 kale, d abusive, and ni th.m contains an eccneeti in
him. Barn Huddlestion, howevee. declineil ti lieten against two cal clergymen end • echo. Im 'ate,, who
to this, and gave him the term of penal eel-olio+, se represented as regularly taking in the I'g:caulker
webers eland. The p-isoner having been conv late I, end woe ovine of it, cioriterot•. Thi. letter, Ike that
and the Judea hawing expre.sed his opinion f Mr. sent t o the Bishol., ie sign el" Freethinkirm Invincible,.
Procitor'l conduct Pretty strongly, Mr. Supt. sety and is probably written by the mime pram. It win
and Mr. Wiellinefetd, who represented the MILOS. ba remembered that about a year since • series of
Irate., as Clerk of the Wiroborne divielon, apilied practical ji,kes on • large Kele were played up on
through Mr. Wales, the harader, who conducted the several residents In the Cis'', in one nee • van
prosecution for an order to interview sValte. This arrived to remove the furniture of • gentleman who
was granted, and the result was that Watta ma le • had no intention of changing his place of aleele '• in
clean bread of it, and his revelations warrenteel the another coals were put int a cellar where they were
superintendent ordering the apprehensi ri of proctor. not wanted; and in • third invitations were sent by
On Friday hat, at the Modems. Petty eve elooe, an unknown hand 'eking the volunteer officers to lunch
before Ms. C. J. Parks, the Rev. Can .1. Olin, and the b of aWI.lto a " reading," the gentleman
Lieut.-Colonel Paget, and 61r. K. C. Parke, Frederick accredited with the invitations being in each case
Proctor' ledithighousedweeper, of B ournemordb, was Ignorant of the miter. Probahlv these fnol;sh jokes,
brought up cluaryred with having, between the let May and the worse than foolish hoax of this week Owe heir
and the 10th Jan& 1882, unlawfully and wickedly origin to the same source, and it is high time that these
sided, conspired, and agreed together with One J mu disgraceful practices were brought h ime to the Mad.
Ways, to maliciously and feloniously set fire to • gators. It is not easy t) he too ate ns In email mening
certain stable, coachhonee, and storehouse, befog then the uoprinelpee I c induct of One who will deliberately
in the oecupeteen of the said James Watts, with go nut of their wart,, inj ire the chsrao-er of e* unable
intent to injure and defrand.—Supt. Batty mid that, pars one, ani terrify the nod and sickl• by se• tin z in
acting under the direction of the Judge at the Want ItlOtio3l scares ab out "dynamite," " nitr o-glycerine,"
A•ail'a at WiaCheat", he applied fei • warrant for &.1., and we only trust that ti's reward ,ft eh 'ty . 4
the apFehenelon of Prcotor, who was apprehended un Dean an Chewer m ay, in c onjunction with the giod
Thunder. He had net bed time to obtain aufficient sense of any whio may kn ow the air hers of the ow.
evidence to proceed with the case that day, and he razes, be the mean. Id unearthing, and, if tiosiiiole,
ebeeefore wind for an eight day.' reman.l.—The bringing to justice the culprits whose miechievous
reeneded oohed for was Peeted.—Pefennue asked if hall pranks are toggled with disgust by all sensible people
would be alloWed, to which the Chairman replied—. In the city.