The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

Gnutal Nam

A new iron ore bcd bas been discovered near Penritb.
THE trial of the great ',invent we costs about MO a
day.
Tun testimonial to Mr. J. A. Roebuck bas no. reached
£3,000.

On Thanelay afternoon the Queen left Oaborne for
Wanda 4. Cstatle.

Sir H. Rehear, M. Berkeley, and Mr. L•athern have
ali notice+ on the paper of the Howie of Commons on
the ballot.
A SHOPICIMPIift at ()Irene/WI we fitted 204. end 0.04
at the Greenwnth polioe-catut oa 'Wednesday for selling
indecent valentines.

VIMOUUT floctLYN was thrown out of u Nihon Monday
*mining in 13orkelegoeptare, Loudon, and it is
fearei thot his spine is injtmed.
rillt Prince of Wales has commissioned no %gent to
rentu suitable fishing and showing lodge fn r 1:..y.1
Highness in the south west .1 Ireland.—frisli Timms.

A .Pnottric Ewx.—Mr. Richard Reed F.awe, of
Milton, Itsekland flonachortim, bad a ewe whioli
yeaoed four ewe lambs, all living and doing well.
Ti NILVI,-PANIIII PRINS FUND. —llll%ReTirdy Johnson
has consented to pt side at the next anniversary dinner
of the Newspaper Pram Fund, which will take place in
May or JUNO.
THI VACCINATION ACT.- A clergyman and two
other person• were fined last week by the maffiat rates
of Faringdon, Berk., for having neclectei to send the
certificates of successful vaecinetion• to the rerstrar of
births and dealt. within the timo specified by t'e sot.
THE AfoaileHr, t'ie se-official Frees& paper, states
that a marriage Las hero &fringed between the Marquis
of Bute and one of the daughters of the Duke sod
Duchess of Ab room, cud that the tirfrriago is to be
celebrated at Cannes.

AT Sheffield Police Court, on Toesday, Geo. Guest,
of the Elm. near Sheffield. for having sold for human
food a sow which had suffered a long time from lung
disease, and at last had to be killed, was committed to
prison for three weeks.
FATAL Au NTINO A CCaDlint —Captain Wardlow
whilst oat with the North Warwiekehlre hounds. on
'Puede', in jumping a team wee thrown forward on the
Pommel of his saddle and suetained serious injures,
from the effects of which he died on Wednesday
morning.

A TEHRIBLZ tight between two of the larret leopards
In Maunders's menagerie,ohich is now staying at Liver-
pool. took Mem on Tuesday. Oise of the animals had
Its roe, le.: broken in several places,andthe flO.il torn into
ribsnda, and it WM. Nand necessary to destroy It by
means of prusaio acid.

BISHOPS IV THE Pin, Or ENGIAED.—" A count'',
Vicar ',vox tioniton" says the Bishop of Exeter is 90
years of age, awl his grandson, • very young man,
seems to hare the sole management of the dioasse.
Winchester has tied e severe stroke of paralysis, &ad
is bordering upon the aye of SO. Salisbury, both is
mind and bo,ly, it prostrate. Bath and Wells is now
quite inefficient. lie suggests they aLould all resign.

For lasting strength, perfect wholesomeness, aod real
cheapness, If orniman's Pure To. greatly surpasses the
usual coloured sorts; this arises from importing only
the strongest grogrthm, without the Joiner.' 'facing ^
powder generally used by the Chinese to disguimi infecior
wintry loaves. Local Agents for Hornig:lan's Tea (in
pseketc,) are advertise] In our columns.

iMPOWTAMT TO STOCI•BIOLLDIX/1.-Ju t published:
tho 7th edition of thv " Shilling Key to Farriery," 96
pages, free by poet for 13 it onc is book shows
Moms. Day, Son, and Hewitt's system of treating
disorders in harps. odd., cakes, sheep, and lamb*,
whereby, at the modleet cost, sickness and d,ath will
be comparatively unknown, and vigorous health and the
aouniest condition eaoired.—Address. Day, on and
Hewitt, 22, Dorset-street, Baker-street, London, W.

INTRILINSTING EXPIIIIIIIRST.—PIaos on the upper bar
of • grate, with the heads projecting about one iaah
inwards, moms ordinary Lucifers—ln a few momente
they ignite. The. in the same position plasm a few of
the Patent Seletv Matches of Bryant and May, London
(which ignite only on the box), and it will be found
that they nmy remain for hours in fact, until the wood
becomes literally °barred- without taking (Ire. We
look on this a• a singularly iota-resting c idhrmation of
the safety of the new match. Care must be taken in
both cages to avoid actual contact with Same.
PARLI AAAAA ART Itto.a. —Tbe first list of notice. for
the se.sion included a bill by Kr. Forster to increase
el, usefulness of endowed schools [immure by the
Solicitor-General, for the abolition of religioue testa hi
the Universities of Oxford and Combo-ides; and Mr.
Leathern, a resolution upon the ballot. Sir M. Lopm
measioned a gooil deal of amusement by fixing a motion
upon the subject of lossal taxation for the:loth Februmy ;
bat loader and more gnoeral laughter greeted the
announcement of Mr. P. A. Taylor that after Suter he
would introduce a measnre providing "for the returu
to the ancient constitutional practise of paying the
Members of this House."

HOLLOWAY'S OINTIIINT AND PILLS.— All persona
afflicted with bail legs, sorer, ulcers, and skin diseases,
who, from want of means or other reasons, cannot &veil
themselves of surgical treatment, may be relieved from
their c implainte by using Holloway'a purifying, Booth.
Ing, and healing remedies. In ...err outwa d ailment
this wonderful oini taco t brings about air most beneficial
results, by checking inflainniationr,clennsing ulcerations,
and restori• g soundness. Internal pains, rheumatic)
and gouty tortures, enlargedjoints, scrofulous swellings,
and contracted sinews, may he overcome by diligently
rubbing thir coaling unguer.t into this skin. In all
maladies of unusual suvcrity or . zownive duration the
pills should be taken, to root out the last seeds°, the
disorder, and no hasten the desired sure.

BipooL•13 Otani or hoseter. sh•rae 4 bigamy
wan made quint • woollen at the Cork Police Office,
on Tuesday. The circtimstanto were rather peculiar.
Ten years ago the priloner, who gras then only 15 yearsof age, married • min named Sullivan. much older then
hi rte'(. After living together for 18 months they
(impelled and separatvd, and the husband, at some data
not clearly heel, wont to England. He appears to
have been lost sight of for five years, and there was a
rumour that he wasdesid. List Christmas day she again
marii4, taking for her second husbands militia serjsant
named Cooper. After the marriage something occurred
to induce Sullivan's relatives to make inquiries about
him, and he was found livieg under an assumed name
In the Cork Wotkhouse. On till crate of facts the
megistrates dismissei the charge.—Cork Examiner.
• flow ro Save £7,000,000 • Yg•a.—Mr. Cole, C. 8.,
on Wednesday night at the Society of Arta, unfolded •
scheme of army reform. Mr. Cole is entirely opposed
to the maintensnee of • standlog *nay, and thinks that
• cheaper and moch more ailment foree could be pro-
duced by training one of tvery thirteen of the popula-
tion to the use of arms. Every Ind should be taught
drill at sehool • then when he left every inducement
should bat:4lBrd him to become • voluot-er or to join a
reformed militia, to be called out, vrith the volunteers,
every year for twenty days or no. " Let all the king.
dom." be exclaimed, "be at drill from April to
October, and let the idle half-pay °Evers be turned
into full-pay officers to oommand the man." Mr. Cole
maintains that by the adoption of the principles be
advocates £7,000,000 might be saved annually.

Lognon To Batmen at Vitumnritine—On Wed.
Dooley, Mr. John Haysll, jam, aesomplished the
journey front London to Brighton on ono of the new
two-wheel velocipedes. He was woompanied by two
friends, Mr. Speeder and Mr. Turner. also on select.
pedes. They darted off at the retool eight miles an
hour, on roods which proved to be generally good. but
usiort a very strong wind all the way. They kept
pretty well together as far sa Crawley (thirty miles),
after whinh Mr. Mayan took • decided lead, and arrived
In Brighton in time, and-in good condition, for dinner,
sad the second part of Kulm's orehmtral ooncert at the
Grand Hall. Part of the journey, down-hill from
Clayton to Brighton, was run at the speed of one mile
In four minutes.
ASSIST OF A YOUNG GIRL FOR DRIIT.--Bir G.
Jenkinson asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department on Thursday, whether his attention had
been called to • letter in the Tines newspaper, signed
W. Williams, s.nd dated 19, Brood-street, Bloomsbury,
In which it is stated that a girl under fourteen years of
age had been taken away from the Girl's Refuge, at
Ealing by the sheriff'. officers Ur a empanel debt of
£23 li.. 11., and conveyed to Whitecrom Prison; and
whether there is any truth in the ',Pored atatement.
Mr. Bruce mid he had made all the inquiry be could,
and he found that not only was a girl thirteen years of
ago committed to prison for an alleged debt, bat that
her two sister% aged fourteen and •eventeen respect-
ively, had been also arrested for the *oats of an action
at law. It was supposed that they had been oom-
mitted by a judge under some mistake. He was making
inquiries, and in • day or two be ehould be prepared
, with information on the subject. On Friday the girl
was liberated.
BeRACR or Pariwiss or MARRIAOR. —At Carlisle
wisest, • case of breach of promise wee tried before
Mr. Justire Brett. The plaintiff was Miss Jane
Robinson, &tough Head, Calthwaite. Penrith, and the
defendant was Yr. John Kirkbrids, Troughfoot. , The:
defendant, it was stated, had married another woman,
and jilted the plaintiff, and be was now the owner of
oonsiderable property. Evidence was produced, show-
iest that the rarties had been on the moat intimate
terms. and • large number of love letters and valentine%
fall of the usual expreerions of ardent endearment,
were pat in and road, to tin great enjoyment of the
court. The learned judge summed up strongly In the
yorreg woman's favour. The fact that Biere had been a
breach of promise was undoubted. and it ma. for the
jury. estimating the amount of injury which the
plaintiff bad received, to In the amount of damage..
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff —damage.
E 250.
A Commute's!, Fuse= or E4o.—ln Merthyr, on
goads'', a man travelling in the grocery business
rambled into the neighbourhood of China, the quarter
inhabited by the thieve, and prostitetee of the place,
and meet into the White Hone pu'dliwboom to have
something to drink. By all amounts be bad had too
mush already, and had got into ills% sonditiou in which
a man thinks a little more would do him no harm.
H. had not been there long before he win joined by •
strong company of ladies and gentlemen of • peculiar
oast of connteoatioe, who were remarkably civil and
respectful in their demeanour towards hint, and this
eonduct brought the gentleman out. He became chatty,
and they made the oonversation flow as the gleams were
replenished. By and by some of the ladies pushed
rimiest him, andfone of them slipped her hand into his
yeast and drew oat • few florins. Instead of taking
this as • caution to be off, our hero gloried in the fact
that they had missed the golden prise after all, end
from M. other pookst drew out a handful of gold,
which be displayed to the admiring company, whose
*undue Immediately changed. One of them, while
pretending to " look on," by a convenient accident hit
the greenhorn's baud, and away want the sovereigns all
orar the floor of the room. The neat moment
there wai a general meramble for the money,
and the owncr collected the fewest pleats. Before
he had recovered Lis bewildered senses the bouts
had resumed its ordinary imps**, the company
had very much diminehed, and the grocer man
found himself minus somawhet over £4O. Infor-
mation wais given to the police, who immediately set
..bout to mous the thieves. Four men are in custody,
but the mousy is miming.