The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

WAR NOTES.

An EngHA printer ia • Paris newspaper allot writes
to his if. that babas durieg twenty days only received
four Dames of meat, and that he has been obliged to
take some olive oil be had.

The Popo her offered t.—.Tni.edlato with • view to ending
the war.

It is said 60,000 French prisoners in Germany had
conspired an outbreak on Christmas clay, bat the plot
became known, and was rendered impouittle.
A Hessian foraging expedition was surprised at the
village of Coulours. Afterwards three German soldiers
were discovered with their heads cat off and carded
away. The village has Eisen burnt.

Tile village or Almon, near Troyes, has also been
plundered and burnt as a punishment for the barbarous
massacre of an clapper* troop, whose noses and ears
were out off.
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-C;OlOi;31--ehenat, the oommander of the French
Eastern Ginuilla Corps, under Garibaldi, for having
abandoned an &dew* post and led away In his flight
some volunteers from llamas, was sentenced to death,
but It wsa afterwards commuted to hard labour for
life.

The Doo de Layne., lately killed before Orleans, had
just succeeded to the large family estates in Frans° at
the period of his untimely death. He has lefts widow
and a child two months old.
The old nobility of France have rallied almost to a
nun la defence of their country.
The Seine at Villeneuvre St. Georges san ho passed
on the ioe.

hi. Barnabl, °Meer of the National Guard, has been
deliberately shut by one of his men at I.yone.
All French porta 000upied by Germane are to be
blockaded.

The °old is excessive throughout Fiume, and Germans
on outpost duty of ten get frozen.
Pans is reported in excellent spirit With the help
of rata, oats, In., food will hold out till February 1.
St, Calais wits given up to the Prussians an boar for
They also took 15,000 Imes sad lasted heavy
requisitions of all kinds._

correspondent inside Paris writes to a contemporary:
—"I dined off dog Isat night, It is mach better than
hone; bat then it was i pet dog, and only five mouths
old—very like mutton."
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--The Frenoh Vice-Gomel st Jersey haa issued an order
to all Frenchmen, between 19 and 40, to report them-
selves immediately for enrolment, when neoessary, for
active servioe.

—The Eng-lia-la military authoritiee have deeided upon
forthwith prepartng • large number of torpedoes. A
Chatham firm has received orders from the War Office
to prepare the ewes for nearly fifteen hundred
torpedoes.

MICR LARD —ln a lard case recently tried at Liver.
pool, it was shown that some of the bladders contained
• mixture of lard, mutton fat, rape oil, and water—
the latter in the handsome proportion of 19 per sent.
Tau liovitsa or Joan Wzaxsv.—A. white marble
monument has been erected near the Wesleyan Chapel,
City-road, London, In memory of ALM Susennah
Wesley, mother of the founder of Wesleyan Methodism.
She died in 1742.
Ti/UllO • HOT BIUCC TO HaD.—Two young Scotch
women at Castle Douglas, who slept together, the other
night put • hot brick in the bed to warm 'their toes.
As they slept the brick ignited the bedclothes, and they
were suffocated.
FAT•L MISTAXL—Two women of Edmonton, to keen
. ..“ - . b.• VI Waal sney
suppoeed wee rum, and drank some. 11 turned out to
be • diidnfeating fluid : one of them died in • few hours,
' and the other is seriously ill.
Mr. HIOII4I WILSON, formerly chairman of the Anti.
Corn Law lasagne, died suddenly on Thursday. Re
was travelling from Manchester to Liverpool, and COM.
plained of • pain in the chest, slipped off his seat,
1 and died immediately—it is supposed from heart
disease.

Ssur•liniLLTlosi. A tailor named Welloun, in
Ipswich New Borough Lunstio Asylum, was found with
his fun covered with blood, his left eye torn out of its
Socket and rotting on his cheek, and the other partially
dislodged. Welham said he had been told by the Lord
God to take out his eyes and tongue for his many sins.
He was endeavouring to pull out his tongue, which was
bitten through in several plums. He refused food,
gradually sank, and died.
POIDOIRD BY ACCIDMIT. A 11013111141 went CO MY.
Chenhall's surgery at Penzanee, for some medicine for
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Jelbert, a miner's wife. He had
, not sufficient tincture of squills and asked her to get a
1 bottle filled for him at a chemist's. But she being rather
deaf, misunderstood him, and sent It to the sick
woman, saying she was to take tite same quantity as
before. Bo directed she swallowed 430 minims of the
tincture instead of about 15, and wan poisoned.
man
nunedllMlDNizooczaatAsautoesouter7
wAhWomighsit—witu
with
children had left on amount of his ill-treatment, went
to her house on Tuesday, and began a q amyl. Very
soon he picked up an axe that was itt hand, and struck
her on the head, making a gash three inehee long. His
wife's sister and son prevented his doing more, and he
was given into custody. The poor woman was taken
insensible to the infirmary, and his dangerously ill.
Suitor gnu Amos—Kr. Brodlough, the infidel
lecturer, having visited Plymouth, made an effort to induce
the Kee. W. D=ott to attend his meet! and publicly dis-
cuss with him. lb. Ballott, in a rsma,kably Meer and pertinent
reply, exposes Bradlaugh's design in giving tkit invitation as twofold; Gl* the advance of Wadley/Ih'. importance, hy link-
ing to his blesphemous utteranom the public opposition of a
°Mellen minister, who mast for the time degrade hicassu
to
the level of an Madill teeter,,; and, secondly, the ingress. of
, the number of Bradlaugh's auditor., this Malmo to be of
godly, sober, Christian men and woman. Such an imam.*
'Foal ida amailata:hbe raspectsbUlty or Bredlaugh's
Ludlam**. ' When WY WM down bare,' says Yr. Elliott, 'I. told that his meetinge were miserably attended ; and Ido sincerely hope that they will be still more cuieerahly attended now. out amuredly I will not do earthing to bring
any soul of man under the mound ul the robs of Bredlaugh ; nix will I permit my name to be used es mn Malu it)
Quitimat to listen to ottomoom boo; him,' ommant

BIRTHS.

amember 18. at The Shamrocks. Weymouth, the
wife of J. Chamborlayuo inglos. &sq.. &N.. of
daughter.
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D'osember 19, at the Old House at Home, Derogate-
street, Dorchester. the +de of Mr. George Pitfiehl, of a
son.

December 20, it Astney Lodge, Boumemouth, the
ife of Auguatus U. Parken, Eaq., of a daughter.
December 22, at Swansea the wife of Mr Jams
'ape, manager of the Dorset:hire Bank, of a daughter.
D.cember 25, at Dorchester, the wife of Mr. J. C.
Holmes, of a son.
December 26, at Weymouth, the wife of Mr. 11. W.
Hanger, of a daughter,
December 26, at Grove-buildings. Dorehoster. the
wife of Mr. E. W. Ewen', of a daughter.

Holnlet

December 27, at Lund.:. Malt, Fut;into!), the wife of
Mr. Robert Tbraihrr it'JWC, of i son.

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December 27, at 2 Sprinir gardens, Weymoutw th•
wife of Alr. J.
,Beale: of • daughter.
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December '2B, at Shapwick. ihe wife of Mr. W: Guy,
blacksmith, of a daughter.
December 29, at the Viessage, West Fordingtog
Dorchester, the wife of the Bev. C. J. Bird, of a
daughter.