The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

Sonterzetshire.

YEOVIL—WORK OF ART.—We were much
pleased tepee in the shop of Messrs. Hancock and
Cox, watch and clock makers, of Middle.atoiet, a
clock recently manufactured on the premises of those
, gentlemen. We understand that it Chimes the
quarters, and performs in a most correct rummer all
the requirements of a clock. It .is about .two feet
in diameter, with a case most elaborately carved in
oak. It reflects much credit on the- establishment,
and more especially on the foreman, Mr. 11. Lewis,
who was, we believe, entrusted with its con/trac-
tion.
W. S. WOMAN'S ENTERTSINMERT. —We petteiVe
that this extraordinary versatile performer-will visit
Yeovil on Monday, the 17th February,- aud-frowi
kbiß waillgiaqwa popu:arity, we are sure that he win
pliobt • ItiWthat support to which he la irejustly
• enti led. '
BRISTOL—A case of suspected poisoning hie'
taken place at Two-mile-hill, near Rrls*-1. Two.
, children of an operative ehoemaker, residip4 at 64
place, died under Peculiar circumstances, and tO
medical attendant, Mr. Grace, being unable to
'assign any cause for death, an inquest was bald 94
Saturday. The viscera of the deceased, and some
butter, of which they had partaken shortly prior to
death, were directed to be subjected to the chemical
analysis of Mr. Berapath.

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Fanny FOS rEll CHANDIOWSWIP BETWEEN MACE kap
KINO.—The above tight took place on Tuesday, at
Godstone, in Surrey, and about thirty man! froln
London. The fight began at seven minutes past rink
and after fighting 'one heir and- eight minutes, during
which time forty-two rounds 'were fought, Kingless:,
unable to come up to the call of time and Mace wee, ,
..declared the victor. Xing obtained first blood am/4*
first knock-down blow. The betting at the commotion',
.ment was 2to 1 WI Mace, but in the worse of the en-
ootinter the odds varied to similar offers upon King. Thar ,
.punishment delivered up to a certain time was tolerably
equal, King having slightly the beat of it until the last
mind, when they closed and fell, King's head coming in
contact with the ground, which rendered him insensfblei
and the sponge was thrown up in token ef his defeat,
The light took place amid • steady fall of Min, but the
attendance was Very large, the aristocracy being very
powerfully repreiented—The statement that Sing was
so,seriously injured ,toa preclude the possibility of his
ever appearing in a ptignfttio enconeter again', is eon,
tradicted by him in a letter to the Telegraph, in width'
he says that he was never in better health in his life.
A POACHER'S EPISODE. - Not Many days ego,
says the Perth Advertiser, a Well-known. prac-
titioner in Perth went to defend a notorious'
poadier -before the initiate assembled not more
than a day's journey from this city, and managed,
by mean* of certain ingeniouli objections, to overthrow
the prosecution, The defender was well-known, and-
awl/ the whole of the gamekeepers and watchers in
the district assembled to bear the trial. Observing
their presence, and counting the few coppers he bad at
the time, the man quietly left-the court, and after the
case was over fell in with his agent at a publie-houm,
when the following scene was enacted :—Pcitieber : " I
understand you've gotten use off; which' is more nee I
expected, and certainly More nor I deserved." tenpin":
" Yea , but were did you go when the case was on?"
Powther • "Why, the feet' is I'm no ewer rich, and
seeing a'. the keepers there, I theidit I might just as
weel tale gun and get a bit beastie for you." Saying
thW, he dragged from a-capacious inside pocket a perfect
heatity of a hare, and continued : "Will you &merit o'
this ?" Lawyer: "Aye, will I"—(taking hold of the
hare)—" why it's warm I"" Aye, is't," said the poacher;
, "I've only just killed it." The poacher took his
departure, and the worthy professional man walked off
to the railway station, the "t observed of all olitervers,"
inasmuch as he tarried the hare gaits openly suspended
by the hind legs, "Where, did you get the hare, Mr.
Blank?' inquired • villager. " Ha, he," said Mr.
Blank, "I didn't. poach it. "Will yen sell it ?" "Na,
-
na,o replied Mr. Blank. "r haven't got the license,"
and away he went with his prise.
Tee StremAtte DWAIN IN TUC WORLD.—The,
dmallest dwarf in the world is undoubtedly Commodore
Nutt, of Manchester, N. H. Be was horn April 24 1844,
hence is eighteen years of age. His spensorisl apPen-
doge is George Washington Matt. He is the sob of
lifejor Rodin% Nutt, • thrifty and highly-respected
filifeitt4 of the above town. Special intentiou has been
'ifild to thiledneatlon of the pigmy Commodore. He is
110, only a good English scholar, but is also tolerably
*Melina in the French language. He atnums himself'
lbefarming, especially in driving the team, brain qv:the '
'airier,' for horses. He is also fond of bunting and
" ins, and is a bright and gracefol specimen of minute
inanity, being symmetrically formed, and • most
'petite and refined gentleman. In stature he is incon-
'neittibly mall. An othim dwarfs tower as giants by his
'tide. "General Tom Thumb, with whom. Mr. Birrnum
'ealeitfied Snob a tyrore in Europe some Tram ago, etandi
thirteen Inches higher than Commodore-Nutt, " boots
and all." Liberal overtures have been -toads by our
, first showmen for the privilege of exhibiting the little
-Commodore to the public, but his parents, and indeed
the little Nutt himself, have decided ebleatiohn to hit -
being made "a show" of. General Tom Thumb eallet
eh the little man • short time since. It is said that
'after looking down upon him for some time, General'
,ffient exclaimed, "Well, Commodore Nutt, I mast
eonfess.von are a hard nut to crack I" .
- Itir &mem, BID.—It is nnderstood (says the
. Scfor) in that indirect but attenuate way in which great
first get abroad, that the Confederacy have offered
it. ,
' 'gliind and Prance a price for attire support. It is
„...s!,:eiting less than a,treaty walling free-trade in its
' es,,sense for Bfig, years, the complete suppression
_ e import of slav .i.t the hinanciptation of every
'Dery ttoin 'after the d le of the bigilithee 'of the treaty.
In return they ask,
.8 t the recognition of thefi inde-
ek
. ridence • and, second T, finiiitart InVeatigtetionintq the
sets of -tit'is lidookade samosa, in theirjudgennent, letidli
its disavowal. 1 •
• • Poste:main Catis.!--,A. MISL.IIIW,
''' •at Sheffield, tubs, h..-

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