The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

Corroponbata.

THE MILBORNE FARMERS' CLUB.
To the Editor of the borne Cowley ikpres. mimi

Agricultioral Gasegge.

Sin,—You have no doubt beard that the inborn*
Farmers' Club is, to use a vulgar Phrille• fa* "rill
to the dogs." None of your readers will be
at this, for none of them, I am sare, could for a
inemest 'apnoea that an association based on suck
prieeiples as to turn out your representative while
they admitted that of year Torg solatesupeem
could stand for any length of tine.
business of the lest meeting was also little imps.,
taws, that as soon as they could get rid of it, they
fell to awing Mr. G. J. Andrews, of Dorchester,
for tha remarks be bad made at the Dorchester Club
the week before. I will not, however, trouble you
with the futile remarks that were made, as they
wawa him ridiculous to be placed upon paper.
I am, Sir, year., ko.
"TURNIP TOPS."

The latest intelligence from America adds but
little to our previous stock of knowledge of things
on the other tide of the Atlantic. The army of
Potomac has not yet made any movement, and the
heavy falls of snow have prevented such • thing
taking place for some time to come. It is not amy
to form an opinion am to when this wonderful
is to commence operations. In the spring is w=.
for the summer; in the summer the weather
was too hot, and in &stoma toe
and now it wait, for • bard frost. The 1 "till
Day Book, speaking of the Yankee notion of send-
ing Federal commmqoners to look after the Pedant
prisoners in the South sap :—" The exqute
modesty of this proposition to send official inspectors
of our defenceless condition entitles Mr. Striates te
the reputation of being the most impudent eade
among all King Lincoln's impudent subjects. Tbe
New York press, or, more properly speaking,
portion of it, continues to d, and
at the istmeessedeitaglish and AO&
journalists pretesting silliest the adoption by it
nned Retied of an uncivilised mode of warfare. It
world seem that America is not to be
in the forthcoming International Erl=l47lol
London. In the senate the resolution to appropriate
35,000 dollars for the expenite decoding the pee-
ducts of America was debated, and asbeeptartig
rejected by 22 to 17.
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IIFFNIONSOCII DINIATEWAASCI OF A Tooro Ladiv.-Yhe
segasity and tad of our detective police are now hsiag
subjected to a severe test, in an affair of
Itleit
mystery. On the 21s1 of last month a yowls
lady, who bad been residing with bur husband in
and who was on her way alone to visit her fase4 In
Yorkshire, was seen safely into a train leaving Paris.
Her immediate destination then was Newhaven ; aril
on taking leave of her relatives in Paris, it is sensin
that she bad on her person some very
jewellery, including a diamond ring of great coskihie
luggage contains, besides her own wardrobe, pneseite
for her friends in England. For twenty-three days
nothing more bag been heard of this yams logy,
that she bad Teethed the Laid= remises lelflit
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Great Northern Railway—• feet whisk if ede adi
billed, would ferry abundant prod of her
proceed on her joarney to the.north of 4. lit
are glad to understand that Mr. Meld, dr Oa
Desesetive Police, has, with the help of his illatls
traced the missing lady to the spot we have mardmed,
and that they have no doubt on this point. Thee far,
than, we find that Mrs. we.punning • lomr•oir
planned with the knowledge and consumes, of her
husband and her friends' that she had aesomplialied the
greater and more difficult part of that journey; and
that, having arrived in London, she lost no time in me-
tinning her way to Leeds. In Londe', Unlike,
suddenly disappears; for, beyond the station at a.
arose, nothing OM be learnt respecting her. Laqui
at Leeds end on the railway route have been prostrated
to no purpose whatever. The country police aka" the
satire line, and in adjacent localities, have bees COID•
maniosted with, and bare aided, to their utmost power,
the researches of the London officials. In the mean-
time, the young lady's husband bas arrived from Spain.
It is neediess to say that the friends of Hrs. -- an ell
plunged into the deepest grief and consternation by her
mysterious absence. An adversissnient has been die-
setninated, giving full particulars of her age, personal
appearance, dress, and property. The direction of the
inquiries has been molded to the hands et Mr. Field,
who is osuiteing no possible means of discovering the
young lady's whereabouts.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT 8A81110031112.- -MD Mar
Dsowirmi.—e. deplorable *cadent occurred on Then-
day afternoon at Babbicombe, Torquay, by which two
men lost ther lives, A fisherman mimed Harris wee
out in his boat, acompanied, as an aasistant, by his
nephew, whose name is Bray. The men were engaged
in placing • number of lobster pots in the waterlig
some means, probably from the effects of overbalancing
in lowering one of the lobster pots, the beat was
Impaired, and unfortunately both men were drowned
before help could reach them. The body of Harris
disappeared for • time, but was subsequentJV.:ll
entangled in the lines el the lobelia pots. It was
up and conveyed ashore—Wraters Morning! Nam