The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENT.

The F.ast Dorset Hounds will meet oil Torday (this
day,) September 27, at Shrotou Brake—at 10.30.

LocAL BalKILIIPT&

Christopher Kelly, Bristol, licensed rictus% r;
William Henry Dashwood, Newport, Isla of Wight,
al:neon ; William Quickie% Sandown, Isis of Wight,
lodgini.lionee keeper; Charles Hobson, Weymouth,
coal merchant; Thomas Oliver, Portsmouth, jobbing
painter; Charles Allen, Portsmouth, natter; William
Damp. Arreton, lale of Wight, builder; Elisabeth
Maunder, let. of Bridgwater, Somers... Mire, fruiterer.
DECLARATION OF DIVIDIND.—P. W. Addeo. Wey-
mouth, Dorsetshire, builder, first dividend 100.
FAIRS Tern WEIL —Wednesday, Stoford, Somerset;
Thursday, Caine, Wilts ; Alton, Hint.; Donobeeter,
hornet; Somerton, Wineanton, Somerset; Saturday,
Lymington, Hants.

MORD= AND &MIDI AT )IIDDLIN3RO.—At about
half-past three o'clock on Friday afternoon, the 23rd
Henry Cane, a Jew, reviding in a room in Vine-
street, Middlesborough, murdered hi. son Daniel, aged
S.. and a half year., by nearly cutting his head off with
a razor, in his own room. Cane afterwards cut hie own
throat, and immediately expired.
A horrible murder was committed on Saturday, the
24th inst. near Romford. The victim was a poor
woman who had cohabited with a man named Wan*,
but had left him. and agreed to marry another man.
The woman had her throat cut in three planes, and
Wane has been apprehended on the capital
On Tuesday, the 20th inst., the Right Rev, Lord
Bishop of Salisbury collated the ROT. HOOT) Parry
Liddon, Clerk, M.A., to the Prebend or Canonry of
Major Pars Altoris, founded in the Cathedral Church
of Serum, void by the death of the Rev. Mum King,
Clerk, and belonging to his Lordship'e donation or
collation is right of his bishopric- On the MOO day,
his Lordship instituted the Rev. Edwin Careen Collard,
Clerk, to the vicarage of Alton Pancras, Dorset, void by
the cession rlf the Rev. Augustus Barnard Handley,
Clerk, the last incumbent, on the protestation of the
Dean and Chapter of Salisbury.
Etta-nos or A GOVELNOR FOR WANJITIZLD GAOL.
—On Thursday the West Riding magittretas elided
Captain Armytage, of the 6th West York Militia, to
the governorship of the Wakefield Prison, vine Mr. K.
hepherml resigned. The post is worth about LIMA
year.

DI•TH FOR • R sad tragarlAßY bean matted
at a ball at Ophir City. Charles . Plum, who is •
printer, and used to work in the Pirate Aim in Wash-
hoe, was dancing with • young lady, when in asportle.
manner he kissed her. Her brother, who was aloe, by,
immediately drew a chap knife and stabbed Plum to the
heart, who instantly fell deal.—Old Piste (Virginia).
The Clerkeowell Magistrate, on Thursday, the ned
Inst., granted • summons against • photographer for an
infringement of the copyright of the portrait of Muller.
Mr. Beard etated that his client was the sole proprietor
of the photographic portrait of Muller, and its sale had
been such • great success that it caused some persons to
pirate it.
Lord Palmerstsn was born in Park-street. Westmin-
ster, ea the 2slth of October, 1784. He will capo quextly
be flo years of age next month.
TER Lana.—ln sooordanda with °Hers, the Royal
Marine divisioa at Woolwich assembled on Saturday,
the 24th inst., to witness the punishment of flume •
private of the sortie, named Walley, who had been
sentenced by court-martial to reoeive 50 lashes for •
breach of discipline, by habitual drunkennea. The
primmer had previously received • similar punishment,
whisk on this occasion he bore with apparently the
snout stolid indifference.
The news brought by the Heels end Europa from
New York to the 15th instant, is very meagre. The
moat important fact is that Mobile has, as was suspected,
not beea taken, though Admiral Farragut is said to be
within shelling distance of the city. General Sherman
had, with great brutality, ordered all the citizens of
Atlanta to leave the city within the spasm of ten days.
The indications of on early engagement between
Generals Lee and Grant were increasing. It is said
that Omni will make the attack. Several of the prin-
cipal leaders of the peace democracy have abandoned
111/ellen—a split which will, in all probability, ensure
Lincoln's re-election.

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The latest advice, from Mexico are favourable to the
French arms. James, who, it would seem, has not
escaped to New Orleans, had been driven from Monterey.
The French had taken the port of Ilatamoras, and it
was expected would soon occupy the city, es Cortinse,
who was advancing to defend it, had been defeated.
GINTROCTION or TRU SURREY Rice 1111,1-11.—On
Thursday night at 10 o'clock. • fire of considerable
mended* took plus at the rice mills in the Grand
Berney Cenal and Docks, Rotherhithe, which resulted
in the complete destruction of the property, involving
alma, of upwards, it ii reported, of 00,000. The milli.
which were the property of Messrs. Chapman, Haigh,
and Gray, were the largest of the kind in the metropolis.
The mills were largely insured, The Ire is supposed to
ham been caused by friction of the machloary or
aponteerous *imbibition. This is the ascend time the
mills have been burned down—the former event occurr-
ing about 50 years ago.
DRATR or JANES PLIIIING.—Jamos Fleming, the
old man whom name we, so prominently connected
with the likaulyford murder, died.. Tuesday weak, at
his son's reeidence at Dunoon, in his 90th year.
The Prime and Prince., of Wales loft Copenhagen
on daturday afternoon for Stockholm, amidst salutes
from the batteries awl the acclamations of the people.
It la now quite settled that the Primer's sister, the
Priestess Deemer, is to be betrothed to the Csarewiteb,
who la o. his way to Copenhagen.
Is ni reported front Leeds that Thomas Salle, the
manapr of Mr. Hamden, • bankrupt iron•founder,
who. has alemonded, is eharged with forting bills for his
primipal to the incredible amount of 00,000, the bills
being now in the poses...ion of the Leeds banking com-
pany, which has suspended payment The amused d-
ing, that the manager of the bank knew all about the
affair, and Scaile seems to have contained the whole
medic, alleging that more than one thoumnd entries in
one book relate to bills, every one of which was forged.
If these things he so it is little wonder that the Leeds
Banking Company has had to suspend payment.
CAPTAIN GRANT ON THR LATI CAPTAIN firtis.—The
/armies, Courier, in an article on Captain Spoke,
publishea the following notice contributed t.or Spoke',
friend and fellow-traveller, Captain Groot Captain
Spoke entered the Bast India Company's service when a
lad of seventeett. He soon became a special favourite
with the °Born of the 46th Bengal Native Infantrt,
and he medial:iced into their regiment, and served in it
during the Punjanh sampaign under Lord Gough.
During his Indian career, in consequence of his artless
and gentle, though fearless disposition, combined with
a love of all manly sports, he formed many sincere and
laming friendships. Whether in the cauip or field he
ems foremost as • daring rider, and he we. the trot to
defy the frosts and snow, of the Himalayas. In private
life. though always amongst the light-hearbid, he had
snob unftinching perseverance and determination of
character, that he could deny himself any eradication
that stool in the way of hi. schemes or dreamed ad-
venture. Having busted and killed most of the Indian
fauna, and mapped for friends and future travellers the
localities' where he found sport his thought. turned
towards Airiest and the Nile. The idea mos famed,
wee held with characteristic irinnees."
VALOASUI angsce.--Cassell, Smith k Co., of 80,
Fenobarch.,,,,,* London, (whose Teas and Coffees are
so well known terottgbmt the kingdom), are now pm.
pared to appoint one thousand allitional Agents, in
order to afford the moot ample futilities for families ia
all puts of the maidens retain( supplied with time
Full pailfuls:. of Agoaq
chows Tees and Oeffosa
will be nest neat free us nelgisotions

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