The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-29 00:00:00

BIJCOLIO SPELLS.

Not long since I 17-ird—C;C3/1011.-t-o—tra..usCribe for the Proper
Authority some registers of marriages; In these the
officiating minister had written the bride name—a very
common name—in the accepted way, though she herself,
with barely the ability to scrawl her signature, had spelled
it in another fashion. A few days elapsed, and I then
received from the Proper Authority a document drawl
could reconcile
attention
the differencentotl thesstapranegntsof:tle
name,* 2. To rectify the error; :t To be very careful not
to make such a mistake for the future. The first of these
statements was not easily answered; for any one who has
had but a few years' arnuaintance with the subject will
know that the spelling of proper names, esoeciallY in agri-
cultural parishes,is a problem beyond the solution of
average brains. Within my own experience • cottaeer's
wife told the clergyman of her parish that she wished lier
baby to be christened "Hemmer." Ile suggested "Emma"
whereupon she at once rejected the sugge/tion, rind spelled
it for him letter by letter, " Hemmer, adding that it
had always been spelled ao "in her family." What is a
clergyman to do when such spells are laid upon brut,
especially if he writes " Hemmer" in the parish register,
and the Proper Authority Conle4 down upon him for his
display of ignorance, and with the requtist that he will
reconcile his spelling with the riles laid down by the
government school inspectors ? This subject I. terribly
oiggestive of some novel " Recreations of a Country
Parson." It him been forced upon rue, within the past
few days, by the difficulty of spelling a certain parish-
loner's name. Ile is gamekeeper to Lord —, and his
mother, who has died, at the age nf eighty-two, was the
widow of • former parish clerk. Ills name is pronounced
" Wheelhand"; but, fer the last five years, I have fre-
quently seen it spelt " %Vildband," and have s° written the
word whenever I had oecasim to transcribe it. When the
mother of man diet' the other day, her name, in the usual
certiflcate handed to the officiating clergyman, was
written " Whellorn." Iler linsband's name was entered
in the parish register, in Peln. as "Wilbourn," and en-
graved on his tembet.one as "Wilband." It is written
thus in the parish register for Iftl7 and MR. In isr,
and lt It. appear* a,. " illwad.": in PM and Pitts, se
" Williourn"; in 1153 and Inai as " Wholhourn"; and in
1855114 Whellsolirn." Its a marriage in this family the
bride signed her name •• Willsiurn ; and her brother and
sister signed, as attesting witnesses. " Wilhe"d-. The
above instance is inset with in • small rural parish of 174
inbabitsns,,—euffasert Bed, is NIIiI,I 'Odd Queries.

DeTT ON "PLATING CARDS." —lt appears from the Inland
Revenue returns that the duty of 3d. per wick on "playing,
cards" increased in the text financial year CHil l'he duty
last year produced £12,962.
The East Suffolk !ion, on Tue.day, very quietly.
Not more than half the voters in the Ipswich division
polled. The declaration took place on Wednesday, when
the numbers were:—Barne (C), 3,4 .14; Easton (L), 2,704
Majority for Bartle, 051.
Quegs Isanau.s.—lt seems now decided that imme-
diately after the war is over, Queen Isabella will enter
cores. popplo into Spain. The Queen has an increasingly
warm desire to see her country again, and not only has the
King been at last able to agree to her return, but he will
himself go to the frontier to receive his mother on Spanish
soil, and lead her back to Madrid.
A TRANSF3RMsTION Sees& —The house in High-street,
11, tb, in which Henry Wainwright intended to deposit
the dead body of Ilarriet Line, is undergoing some
restoration, and a board which is conspicuously placed on
its front announces that, in the course of a few days, it
will he opened as a " general carriers' and railway booking
offiee." It was formerly • small tavern.
Sonic excitement prevails in Derby as to the over
crowding in the town. Upwards of eight families arc
under notice to leave their houses iluring the next six
weeks. Two hundred and fifty houses shortly have to be
pulled down to enable the “reat Northern Itailway
Company to make their cutting, and this will ',reliably
displace froin 1200 to 1500 e people.
A BATTLE BETWEEN FISHERMSN.—On Wednesday night
eight boats, each manned by eight or ten men, supposed
to be fishermen from Black and Cork, proceeded down the
river and attacked the boats and nets of the draft net
fishermeitwho were engagedin fishing between the Passage
and Queenstown. The assailants stove in wine boats and
sunk them, obliging the occupants to swim whore. They,
inoreover, aesaulted the occupants of other boats, and in
every case cut up the nets and let them go adrift. The
police, in boats, attempted, hut failed, to arrest the
perpetrators of the outrage.
HORSES KILLED ON A RAILWAY—As the mid-day South-
Westeni train from London to Portsmouth was passing
through a cutting just below Idisheok, the passengers were
greatly alarmed by feeling a violent jerk and finding the
widows of some of the carriages bespatterep with blood.
On search being niade along the line, it was found that
the train had passed over two horses belonging to the
corany, killing them both on the spot.
THE QUEEN! NEw TITLE—Mr Disraeli's bill "to
enable her most gracious Majesty to make an addition to
the Royal style and titles appertaining to the Imperial
Crown of the United Kingdom and its dependences,"
contains one clause, which is as f "It shall be law.
ful for her most gracious Majesty, with a viow to such
recognitions as aforesaid of the transfer of the govern-
ment of India, by her Royal Proclamation under the Great
Seal of the United Kingdom, to make such addition to
the style and titles at present appertaining to the Imperial
Crown of the United Kingdom and its dependences as to
her Majesty May seem meet."
CHARGE OF 110USSIDLEAKING AGAINST A YOUTIL—A
the Bath poliesi-couirt on Wednesday a respectable-looking
youth, named William Abraham Honor, the adopted son
of a Dissenting minister. in Bath, was charged with
breaking and entering the dwelling-lonise of Alfred
Netherrot, accountant, and stealing therefrom a gold
ring, a five-franc piece, and is. (a in money. Tim theory
of the prosecution was that the house was entered through
a trap door in the ceiling, which had been twice f I
broken open. and suspicion pointed to the prisoner, who
lived next door. Evidence was called to prove that the
prisoner gave a live-franc piece and a ring (identified as
the one missing) to a woman named Elizabeth Jane
Griffiths (whom he met at a public-house) on Saturday
evening. The prisoner was committed for trial at the
quarter sessions, hut admitted to hail.
PROBABLE PSlOSlttilTliet OF • BISHOF.—TIiti Rae* and
some other Evangelical papers seem to think it not im-
probable that ecclesiastical proceedings may be taken
against the Bishop of Winchester, who is a High Church-
man. The Biehop is an advocate for "visible reunion"
between the Anglican and Oriental Churches, the latter
of which the Bishop declares to be "orthodox" in a
circular hehas signed, and which formed the subject of
discussion in Convocation last week, whereas the 19th
Article of the Church of England affirms that "the
Churches of Jerusalem, Alexandria. and Antioch have
erred," "and that not only in the living and manner of
ceremonies, hut also in matters of faith." Counsel's
opinion has already been taken upon the matter, and it is
to the effect that the penalties of ecclesiastical law might
and ought to be enforced against the Bishop and his co-
signatories.
Dan Brice, the well-known clown, reinitted, in settle-
ment of an account, to the publisher of a paper in the
West, a three-dollar bill which was returned with the
brief remark. "This note is counterfeit: please send
another." It was two months before he heard from Din
again, when he apologised for the delay, saying that he
hail been unable till now to find another counterfeit three-
dollar bill, but he hoped the one now enelosed would suit:
professing, at the same time, his inability to discover what
the objection was to this other, which he thought as good
a counterfeit as he over saw. It must be admitted that
Dan swept the hoard.
A TRADESMAN COMMITTED TO PRISON FOR STEALING
Pi"' Fart —At the Southampton Borough Bench on
Friday(before Alderman Purchase, Mayor, and Alderman
Dyectt),WilhiAfll King.• broker residing in Latimer-street,
Romsey;aas charged with stealing four pigs' feet, belong-
ing to Kr, F. Southwell, Belbstreet, Ramsey, The prisoner,
is seems, was drunk on Welnesday evening, and coining
up Bell-street he committed the theft by cutting off the
front feet of two pigs hanging outside prosecutor's shop.
Upon being charsorl,,.. with the offence at home he denied
having the feet, but being then and there found upon
him he was taken into custody. Before the magistrates
he admitted the offence, but said he was drunk and did
not know what he dial. Upon being asked, he elected to
be tried there: and the Bench, as the prisoner had been
before them on a previous occasion, sentenced him to one
month's imprisonment, with hard labonr.
ANOTHER C ASK OF Sevier. —The ship Antelope, from
Bostou, has put into Falmouth, with about twelve of the
crew nf the steamer Bremen, belonging to Messrs. Bates
and Co., of Liverpool. These men state that about
fourteen days after leaving Liverpool for San Francisco
they complained of the quality of the meat, some of which
was thrown overboard. When off Cape Horn one of the
crew died of scurvy, and before arriving at San Francisco
eleven others died, the men allege, from the sale • disease.
Twenty-two were put into hospital at San Prentiss%
where one died, and the others, being
_refused their die
mad W Joined other ships, *even
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