The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-05-04 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRES, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1869.

A Tgartnomar..—Doar doctor, —I will be 175 ye es
old next October. Fur 93 yew s 1
s have Nom an invelhd,
amble to move except where stirred with s lever ; bat a
year see last Thandey I heard of the graaienler syrup.
1 bouglit • bettle, smelt et the reek, sad found myself -a
as • man. Ima sow raa 12i miles en hour. sad throw
nine doable someresalts without stopping. P.S. A
of your alienuastoutura salve, seplied to the woodea leg.
reduced a pompom:A fracture in 19 minutes, and is now
or:Tering the limb with a feesh cuticle of white gum pine
back. A merican paper.

LOOT 011 THE YoUNTAIN nra DOWLAIII.—A few
days ago a @trap oecurrence took place at Dowlaia.
From one of the isolated neighbourhoods at the top of
liowlaie a little boy, six years of age, strayed, sod, ,
wandering over the mountain, finally lost his trey.
Evert learo6 was made for him as the night came on,
but without success. The next day the searchers tried
the mountain, but still night eamo and found them
without Lb. boy. On the next days more vigorous
geerch woe made, and this time •party of men came on
the little WLll,lofOr lying in a hollow, with bis head
resting ore beep of rushes. He was quickly convryed
home, and medical aid sent for i but the fact of his having
been two days exposed on the black mouotaiu left little
hope of his recovery. Yet, 14011111ar to state. remedies
proved effectual, and he is now doing well. The little
adventurer states that he palled the rallies himself to
place under his head.

•
Etaiumi MAYS th • 00NvitAT.—The Madrid IMPlTOS-
pendent of the holeposiicece relates the f •hewing case
of forced imprisonment in • cenvrnt, which he says has
excited the indignatioa of the entire population of
Madrid "In the most remote part of a nennery
situated in llortalessotreet i here is a cell little more
than a yard square, into which air and light were
• knitted by a small opening in this top of the wall.
The Civil Governor of Molnd received an anocimou.
letter, informing him that a human tieing was -confined
in this hole, and on proceeding to the place he found a
young woman, aged about 28 years, who had been for
several years shut up in this homble den. She belongs
to • respectable family in South America. When she
came to Madrid she ems young and beitutiful•; but her
husband, smspeoting bee of unfaithfulness, sought the
almoner of the oonvent, and it was agreed betwesn
Voisin that the wife should be shot up in one
of the cells. For five years be has acted in this
capacity to the satisfaction of the husband. More will
be heard of this ease, which lain the hands of justice."
CAST SSISrOWS. —A mysterioas shadow impends over
Belgravia. There is assuredly some disturbance in the
mammal ardor of the upper isMens, that can be
rectified may by the falling of enother bright star from
it. galaxy of light. So young, so (Mr, se highly bred,
so gently nurtured, and so admirably mated Yet,
what be. it all coon to? Estrangement, separation.
confesaion, ,vowed profligacy, and Shameless viciousness
ti an extent beyond the most exaggersted debauchery
of the viiast French novel of the worst arthoul. And
this to the disgrace of the noblest and the biglust
circles of .f:agland I overspreading with • wide-mantling
scandal 1111•01110111 mid palace& Of all the name. that
figure in this sad story, Echo lob bet one that is not
written in the Golden Book, but Cu. that Debrett is
ignorant of. But from all them, that one stands
promioc sit; and Echo is curious to know ho is
Captain White? At present it is perhaps better that
nothing very positive should be written. There were
times 'bee • jury of matrons would have been us-
panellee to try the accused, but, as it is, we must wait
till • jury of men decide the ems. Under any einem-
stemma we may prepare ourselves for • cAroxigist as
people"! pre orandalerse. Under the present upset of
the ease, and to. ordinary program of amperage briefs
for 'sok (so-respondent, it it plain that in this instanee
one measure of precaution will be indispensable—a
stroag reinforcement to the Bar ef the Divorce Coart.
Prem. ZAtres for May l.

Ancor Orama.—Says the awful magistrate, "Do you
know the nature of an eath r Says the flippant
wiles's, "Guess I do; my fat/ or is the awfullest
swearer in these parts!" Well, there is something in
it. arca say there is swearing and swearing. Good.
Bet I say swearing is swearing; and there to a mild.
vette voice, hushed to this world some eighteen
hundred years ago, but the eaboas of whose utterances
haws net quite died out, that tells me to " Swear not
4 41;" not by the throne which we have not seen, nor
by the beautiful footstool with which we are familiar,
and just for this ninon—that with all our 'worried and ,
all eat swagger we cannot grow an inch taller, nor,
without dyeing for it, cleans lite tint of our looks
Oaths! what have not people—Xings, Queens and
great magnate.' sworn to, and what have they out dime
in the way of treating allnuation as pl.-crust, which
you know is only made to be broken? One of these
days when I can get leisure I mean to sit in the Great
Bloomsbury book-shop and write es article—that shall
extend from here to there—on oaths. Thereby will
Majesty be deprived of its external. old joke—take
away " in" and "y," and there remains '' a jest!"
What will not monarch' mutes to? Did not Charles
the Second swear, under Scotch Church influence,
Prestytarian terrorersi, to observe the Holy Lague and
Covenant, and yet 44 he afterwards over-populate the
Bemire* and give to Scotia as many years of religious
persecution as there were dente it Captain Paton's
sword. That is what came of it. Oaths—a lig for
swearing! Majestic fellows, with • lion for one arm
and an ciiicorn for the other, will eery straw is their
chore and swear to anything. Have I not re id Lord
Red...lanes great speech, and do I not know that all
our Sovereigns are good, and that they have and ever
will and must stand by their oath of corocatiou ? Have
I got read an able leader in the Gnat Thundcrer of
Priatiathense-yard, which shows me that Lord Bodes-
dale is all wrong, and flinches it by telling me that
J• 0011 IL was the last of hte Statarte Ah me 1 We
live and learn. 'Tis • long time since 1 went to school,
and I LW • vague impression that Quasi" Anne was a.
Stout. See how ignorant was 11 Bowing my head
abashed, when I heard • Sir Leicester Deadlock look
up from the articles with the Impression, "This man
has • well-kalanoed mind," what could I say bat "Afro
re/par' Wk.& • clever thing it is Lobe clever! As to
the Coronation Oath, to me nothing can be clearer
toss that it is all bosh. The Queen swears to mantles
what is by law established. To forsiser would be to
offer uppositiria to the law; the law is not a law that
can never be altered; the Medea and Penises, I pre-
sume, were net Wailer with the House of Coin none ;
had the/ been so they would never have talked of the
perpetuity of legislation. We are • growing people,
and simply by growth snap the bands which bind our
slain limbs. The Yankees talk' of being • "go-abead"
people, but we can go ahead as well as our dear Uncle
Sara and his numerous progeny. As for an ale formula
binding us, it is slaritly what I ogled it—Bosh. tet
you find • lot of very good people sacking and chuck-
ling over it, jest as • poor hen will do, when, hew iii
hatched a dciekling brood, they take to the water.
What an awful thing to have the kloaaes of Parliament
forcing oar Lady Queen Victoria to owns& perjury —to
break the oath she swore before Ws WO•tailletet altar!
What was it Mr. Harebell said—" Fudge r He would
say so of this matter. lithe law change, the dot, in-
volved in the oath "buzzes with it, as the oath only Bp
wolves the maintaining of what is by law established.
But perhaps the molt singular part of this mad emir..
versy is that of pacing an Ate to relieve the QutOo'l
conscience. May I have sworn to do or to suffer. Say
the oath is registered in heaven. What man or what
number of men by any act can relieve me of my respon-
sibility ? rade. 1 I remember ekes I was • boy that
at • Mutual Improvement Society with which I was
associated we ins ensuing pat the deans* of Predmtina-
tree to the cote and abolished it by an overwhelming
majority. I thought of this when I heard of purging
the Queen's conscience by a vote of tine Oesnworts.