The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-02-21 00:00:00

A JERSEY FISH STORY.

The last fish story tames from New Jersey. Lately,
in the iuteroir of that State, • mild-looking eountrymut
entered a railway car, bearing • bundle tied up in •
handkerchief, which be placed under the east at the end
of the cu. After travelling along for about half u
hour, a lady sitting in front of the countryman was ob.
served to move uneasily is her seat, and to east savage
glances at a seemingly rupectable man sitting by her
side. In a few minutes afterwards another lady, still
further to the front, " became uneasy," and at last
rising in her seat, requested some gentleman in the ear
would protect her from an elderly-looking gentleman
by her side, and whom she stated had insulted her. •
dozen persons offered their assistance, and before the
accused could speak in h is own defense his hat wan
jammed over his eyes and he was dragged to the rear of
the oar, While there, and carrying on with the avengers
a war of wards as to what the indignity meant, still
&nether lady rose, also seated further up the car, and
soused a gentleman sitting behind her with improper
conduct. • rush was made for the insulter rimmbee
two, but that gentlemen vigorously defended him-
self with • large walking stick be happened le
have (and which, by-the-by, was one cause of
the last troubles, his accuser stating that be had
indeeorously been rapping her ankles under the wet
with the sione)ouid, while the struggle to get at him
was stid in progress, somebody in the front of the ear
shouted " There's& snake on the flour." A scene than
ensued. The ladies in the car clambered up on to the
seats, and many got on the arms and backs of the same.
One elderly maiden managed to stand on the basks at
two seats in the beat circus manner possible tinder the
circumstances, while a young mother threw her baby
I into a parcel rack, and then hung convulsively to •
I ventilator. The confusion awoke the countryman, whe,
on being told of the snake, first felt in his bundle, and
tima otaniimitl, "I'm kilimaml if th.e*Li eel isaie'•
get loose ;" started for the front, and soon retuned
grasping firmly an immense eel, which be had jest
;aught while out fishing, but which, when brought into
the car, Ihad managed to get out of the bundle, and
had wended its way to the front, lovingly °arming
the di.fferent varieties of ladies' garters which be
rowan entd on the way. Apologies given and received
straightened everything in the car but the hat that
was jammed down, and, the countryman leaving at the
neat station, no blood WY drawn.—Nne York Tines.

The first steps have been taken to arm the forts on
the Medway and Thames with larger guns.
Two trains came into collision near Warrington on
Thursday morning. The driver of one was killed, and
several passenger, were eeriously injured.
A DIITERKICE.—The difference between a country.
man and a city greenhorn is, that one could hie to
know everthine, and the other thinks be can tell him.
—New Yort riN4l4.

A meeting in oppoeiticn to the bill legalising marriage
with • wife sistAr, was hold on Thursday, in London.
The Bishops of Winchester, G!oueester and Bristol,
Norwich, Lincoln, Chichester, were present.
On Wednesday evening lest, the Doke of Cambridge,
in presiding at the annual festival of the London Orphan
Asylum, took occasion to defend himself from the charge
of being an obstruative to army reform.
A gunner in the ltlyal Artillery, named Bellow, eit
Wednesday poisoned him.elf in the cells by taking
nialie acid. He had been sentenced to fourteen day's
pack drill, and waa placed in the ogle bemuse he had
attempted to hang himeelf.
It is stated that Mr. Forster's Ballot Bill provide* fee
the strictest secrecy, and no security will be omitted.
Probably the cost of elections will be thrown on the
local rates, and the present forms of nomination ant
declaration of the poll will be abolished.
OLD•FASHIOSCD.—The extensive belief in the stele-
ment that Miss Garrett's marriage would awe" • for-
feiture of her seat at the London School Board is cited
in the United States as" • oarions illustration of the
aspect in which matrimony is regarded by the ifoglish
people."
Seven bodies have been washed ashore on the east
coma, between Southwuld and Sisewell—two at South.
weld, three at Dunwich, ant two at Sisewell, all un-
known, except one, the body of a young sailor 'tamed
F.sh, who was washed off his father's ketch, Madam, of
o.sole, near the Birnerd Sand, during the late gale.
The Primitive Methodist chapel of Dundalk was
broken into on Sunday night by some persons who
collected theßiblea and hy mia.books, carpets and cushion'
and piling them in a heap, burnt them, as well as the
rutile,:desk in front of the pulpit, and a pert of the
pulpit itself. They also carried off the collection plates.
About 40 door knockers were wrenched off on the Immo
.nt.iewk:c.,,Thaansvd:meeciroa.dveserEaltroorfsttrehirtivpsue.McligesAllingen.ips_d,ses:Ldorypled...bot..the
and the entries are numerous. Toe Seneersetaltine Op..
Handicap, the big race of the meeting. has only isecered
nine subscribers, but 27 bare been entered for the
Hunters' Steeple-chose. The Haaelbury Handicap
rempecjaHu.irddelneti-vraeicel7.,dtibescr:itineahrasvelltableoircholffrtnrdl....nered.rierwo,.ullabienkliobont....he
~,cdcal having last year 000 tended over this coarse
Tao Dorset Handicap, the Ilmictster Handicap, awl
entries respectively.
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WiT COMPAIT. —Au action brought against the
London and Brighton Railway by a Mee Ream, the
daughter of a farmer at Richmond, in Yorkshire, after
o„,,upying the Court of Common Pleas two days, cm
concluded on llouday. Oa the last Derby day she woes
with some friends to Spawn, and in the battle at ate
station on her return she and another person we"
pushed off the platform by the crowed under a traiLa.
portion of which passed over them. They amis.' w,.
their lives, plaintiff was injured, and now asked for
damages. It was contended, for the defense, that t"i
accident was not attributable to any negligence on the
part of the company, and the jam 'consulted the

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FAM110!&31.11 CHUICX Golan Ix Lonoux. —For Mao
last twelvemonths the most luhio.cbls place of roast
on Sand.), afternoon—in the dell weather, that It.
say, not to the hot summer, when tho river is a far.
mlciable oompetitor—is AU Saints' OW* is Margaret
84'0,44 where you weld point oat to your solultr7
cousin all the most cielebrated, lerdli""4lB' diam9l"b6
men Lad women of Sooiety, who are " salted about "
of the day. It is very pleasant to see these amain'
ereatures at their devotions. and to note the Paring 0.
and the conversation which takes place as soon as the
service is ended. elms Prines sod Princess at Waled
have recently attended this service, and were them
on Sunday. On such 000660111 • paragraph UM
way into the papers that their a yal Highnesses
"attended divine service," bat the name el the ober&
is never given. Why?
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body at
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