The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-06-13 00:00:00

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THE Nerving Siete, in an article apropos of Deg
Shows, bat the following remarks :—"Doq-natnee
apProaches very nearly to human nature. The dog
has alertness, sagacity, patience, affection—and the
power of demonstrating affection. The master et a
dog can read welcome in it. bark, just as bona rend
welcome in the eyes of his children. The one is sok
so highly prised as the other, but it is quite 111 SW.
owe. Canine affection is really very strange and
deep With., the dog that for days and n4bni
kept watch over his master's oorpee on Helvellyn,
and drove away the obscene ravens and malign um
foxes. And then, a dog has something like the
rudiments of a conscience. He hams nose of gift;
he would blush at times if nature had granted hlss
such an exhibition of feeling. He has a moral natters
wh:ch may be cultivated or depraved. As • maw
quenoe, there are good dogs and bad dogs, as there
are, good men and bad men. Look at the howdy*
masterless cur of the streets, who lives on pr
and who is a thief, when he has opportunity tbilt
knows that he is • disreputable brute. He will IBA
meet your eye for the world. A aeon of criminal*
ii constantly putting his tail between his lege. Sid*.
long be slinks down alleys—furtively be sneaks hat*
areas. He lives in constant terror of a briek.bat
He yelps, if you lift your hand. Like the wicked,
'he teeth when no man purimeth.' He knows
a policeman as well as the professional pickpookee
knows him. He feels that public opinion is egging
him. In (sot, a cur of this description is, to the
family of dogs, what a out-puree is to the family of
man. Perhaps the nature with which be started wan
not remarkably high, but such as it was, it has,
through evil courses, been deteriorating month-
month. Let no such dog be trusted—nor is b•
likely to be—for he carries his character in his fine,
and he is quite conscious that he does so—as the pre-
fessionel burglar carries his. On the other band, a
good dog who has been subject to proper influenses,
advance. from one stage of moral growth to another.
He has an honest fearless eye, so one oonacioe• if
rectitude. He is cleanly in his habits. He is as foal
of children as children are fond of him. Nothieg
delights him more than when his master takes
him for a walk. He will fetch and carry at • word.
There is an element,/ politeness in him. And, when
after an absence of • week you return home, he
makes such demonstrations of delight—has evidently
such a soul of goodness in him, that you think
nature, in denying him speech, has dealt with his.
hardly—making barking, jumping, and the wagging
of a tail his sole medium of expression."

THO Confederate ram Stonewall bas surrendered te
the Spanish authorities at Cuba.
THZ Atlantic telegraph cable is finished.
BUZNoB AYSZB hao declared war against Paraguay.
IT is said that Mrs. Tom Thumb may korease the
numbtr of the human race by a smAll item Sr. long.

le Paris ladits are patroniaing very short dresses for
walking.
THE Colnneloy of the 47th Regiment is rendered
yacana by the death of General Shaw Kennedy.
ON Thursiay, the Bank of England lowered its rate
of discount to 3; per cent.

THE COTTON INDUSTRY. —A scarcity of hands ill LOW
complained of at Rochdale.

THZ present coudition of the hop plantation is Tory
encouraging.

A MAN in Loudon has died from eating some tainted
maokereL

Some rabbits without tails are being shown at
Weston•super•Mare.
IT is understood the dissolution of Parliament will
teke place about the 12th of July.—Court Jewett.
TWENTY-FIVE millions sterling is sunk in Irish rail-
ways, yielding the average return of 1 per out.
A 001111E8PONDE14T of the (halalr says that ehloride
of lime will be found a most efficacious mid safe wub for
dogs infested with fleas.
A correspondent of the Express says that a oonsider-
able number of volunteer artillerymen have beware
deaf owmg to the firing of heavy guns.
THZ International lbig Show was opened at lalimrtoe,
on Friday. The display comprises between 1,44.0 and
1,500 dogs of nearly every breed.
Ifts CABE OF COLONEL DAWKIIIL—We are informed
that triis extraordinary case will probably bessomo the
,subjert of judicial inveatigation. United States
Magas,ne.
51.ATTHEWS, th. cabman who convicted Muller, hu
received his discharge from the Bankruptcy Court. but
the whole of the reward has been paid to his creditors.

IN the Sheriffs Court on Thursday, three proclama-
tions of outlawry were made against the Hen. Richard
Bet hell.
Are immense boiler at Bass and Co's brewery, Burton-
npou.Trent, burst on Thursday morniog, killing two
men, and injuring eeriously several others.
THE Telegraph remarks that in the approaching eon.
testa the Liberel side is much more likely to suffer than
the Conservatives from the absent* of strict discipline,
and a somewhat looms order of battle.
WEALTHY PARSONS. —There Are three clergymen, ODS
in Bath, ore iii Glouoestershire, and one in • Somerset-
shire watering.place, who makeup amongst them private
fortunes amounting to E 120.000 a-year.
Tim vexed question of the right of made-bells le
give entertainm lets that are constructively of • dramatis
nature was again before Mr. Tyrwhitt, police magis-
trate, on Friday. The magietrate's view was favourable
to the right of the music-halls.
A ?EARFUL STORM is reported from the Baltic and
the north coast of Europe. It seems to have created
greet destruction of prop-sty, several English vesaels
being among the list oft mse which have been wreaked.
Nearly fifty vessels have been stranded, and the loss of
life is supposed to be very great.
BY the arrest of a gang of burglars at Birmingham, a
newly-invented meohine for destroying the locks of safes
falls into the hands of the police. The article is composed
,of several accurately jointed pieces of steel. These are
fitted with such powerful penetreting blades that it is
thought capable of gradually forcing any number of
safes.
Fr is stated that Miss Gladstone, mister to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, has subscribed Fl 000
towards the Wiseman teatimonal, that she will give a
similar sum for ten years to come, and that die hes
further promieed to give £l,OOO a-year towards the
, augmentation of the income of the new Roman Catholle
, Archbishop of Westminster.
I TEX Oxford University boat races were concluded on
Thursday evening, the post of honour, the first place ea
the river, falling to Brarenose, who wrested the lead
from Trinity after several severe struggles. Trinity
also had to succumb to Exeter the first time they mime
together. Both Br.senose and Exeter obtained the
services of some of their non-resident oarsmen.
MR. CHARLES WATIRTION, the well-known naturalist,
died on the 27th ult., at his residence, Walton-hall,
near Wakefield. He may be regarded as an old oak
which will be grew ly missed in the world-forest. The
dear old squire died Kitting upright on a sofa in this
sitting-room. In his death he was, es in his life, faller
devotion, devoid of fear, and regardless of pain.
MATIOCIDI IN YORENHIRZ.—At Harley, four miles
from York, two brothers' Stapleton and Christopher
Doughty, quarrelled respecting a two-shilling piece, and
were about to fight, when their mother, Mary
Doughty, 75 years of age, interfered and parted them.
Christopher went out, and Stapleton Doughty then
struck his mother on she head with • spade, produeing •
severe wound; lock-Jew supervened, and Denied her
death on Wednesday scorning. The two sod e are in
custody.
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Tan WINNICR OF Tile DUST. —The folbwing MI the
the exact pedigree of the winner :—Gladiateur is by '
Monarque out of Mies Gladiator; Miss Gladiator was
foiled in Frsnoe. and got by Gladiator out of Tarred
by Sheet Anchor; Monarqne was foaled in France, got
by the Baron, Sting, or Emperor; his dam, Poeteas,
foaled in France, by Royal Oak (eon of Cotton) out of
Ada by Whisker, out of Anna Bella by Shuttle, her
dam by Drone out of Contessina. Gladiator, Taff rail,
the Baron, Sting, the Emperor, Royal Oak, and Ada
were all exported to France from this country.
DANTE'S MEM LINS.—A few days ago, In the eoetree of
some excavations at Ravenna, the workmen Mine apes
a deal cheiit, which, falling to pieces, revealed • quantity
of bones. From two Latin inscriptions on the wooden
box, it appears that these bones are the relies of the
great Dante, deposited in that place in 1677 by a serials
friar. Recent investigation, bring to light the feet that
a friar so named was in that year a member of the Com-
munity of Francimans, established in R&VOILIII\ The
esinoidence of the discovery of the poet's remains (if
indeed they prove to be his remains) at the very period
et the Dante festival is not a little suggestive.
A MAN AND WOMAN 001IMIITTID roe TIM WILFUM
UNLIDIN OF A CHILI:I.—An inquest was hold at Ford-
*bridge Brant% on Friday, on the body of a newly-
born female child, the illegitimate effspring of •servant
girl named Pope, 17 yawed age. Pope had been in the
service of a men named White, a widower, about 60
years of age and it appearei from her own and his con-
fession, that after her confinement he had taken the
child away and placed it in an obscure owner in • wheat
- where he subsequently pointed it out to this
~deir"Ttioe of violent death baring been die-
ihmtly found-oe the body, the priseners were fully com-
mitted for trial ea the charge of wilful murder.
Da. Parrooelen, at Edinburgh, en the 3rd of July,
will be arraigned on two charges, vie.: first, the murder
of his motherinilaw, and secondly, of his wife. There
are eighty Witnesses *against him, and upwards of 150
articles to be prodused as tending to Meriminate him.
Tire counsel who defended Mrs. McLachlan is understood
4 -.1.13100 those retained•lea Dr. Pittabard.—The
wow yll all says :—The trial, it is stated, meet
Jrieltvie en he 10th of July, or according to the pro-
visigdalif 14 lib ltia patio' er goes free. The Crown
authisritle4 ale, of "cootie, aware of this; and should
' the defenee evitioe a determination to drag out the
proceedings the court will sit all night, as well as all
day, in order to finish it."
Dle2onatgo • COMGRIGATION.--Jartee Barnard,
aged SI, who described hitnaell as • sarpenter, having
no Lome, was charged before Mr. Partridge, on Monday,
at Clerkenwell, with disorderly conduce, and disturbing
the congregation at St. Mark'e Church, Myddeltosi-
vinare. Mr. James Charles Clarke, a merchant, said
about ten minutes to 12, just after the Litany bad
commenced, he heard a ternfie shriek and noise in the
church proceeding from the free seats, and on turning
round saw the prisoner jumping up and endeavouriag
to get over the pew in which were some ladies. The
wild conduct of the prisoner quite alarmed the congre-
gation. Prisoner was quite sober. Mr. E. El. May, a
surgeon, said prisooer told him that whenever be went
oation% the congregation conspired togetherto murder
him. Mr. Partridge: Should you say he was oat of his
mind? Witness: At times he spoke rationally enough.
He should net like to give a decided opinion ee to hie
state of mind. The plillolloT : It is all right what the
witnesses have stated. Mr. Partridge 7 What Koh you
to sayto mi • • hoise in the church? They. •
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