The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Herald says :—"There is at length every proba-
bility of a, Conservative candidate coming forward for
Oxfordshire. A meeting of the Oxfordshire Agra-
culture! Political Society is called for on Saturday, at
the Star Hotel, Oxford, at one o'clock, when steps will
be taken to effect this end."

Mr. Felt, of Boston, Massachusette, has invented a
type-setting machine, which will be for compositors
what the sewing machine has been for seamstresses. It
has capacity, if required, for a thousand different cha-
racters, and for any quantity of each character. It will
set up two copies at the name time, and in different
type. properly "spaced," "leaded," and "justified," at
the rate of 15,000 letters an hour. It will also distri-
bute the type after the work is printed; and, what is
more, it keeps a register, by punching holes in strips of
paper, during the composition; if at any time a reprint
of the work should be asked for, the compositor has only
to introduce the register into
.the machine, when by an

ingenious contrivance, the setting of the type goes on
pretisely the same as for the first edition. Printers may
be excused for scepticism concerning this new wonder; '
but Mr. Felt is to have one at work in the Exhibition of
1862, when they will be able to see and believe.
MORE KICKS THAN HALPPLNON.—A remarkable and
most gratifying proof of the loyal feeling now pervading
the lowest ranks of the people occurred in Hyde Park
on Sunday. A loqracious spouter of the name, we
believe, of Owen, bat who appropriates to himself the
high-sounding title of" The People's Orator," is in the
habit of holding forth on Sunday afternoons from one
of the seats in the Park to • snob of idlers who generally
gather round him ; and, after bis harangue is finished,
be is not too proud to go round with the hat, on the
principle, we suppose, that the labourer is worthy of hi"
hire, His pay is generally therefore proportioned to the
popularity of his subject, and as his auditory is
invariably of the lowest grade, it may be anprofted that
his lectures are in general highly spiced with the lowest,
most vulgar, and personally offensive kind of Radicalism.
On Sunday, however, he overshot his mark, and made a
moat egregious mistake. He chose for the subject of his
discourse the death of the Prince Consort, and was
proceeding to indulge in his usual foul flavoured abuse
of the lamented Prince and the widowed Queen, when
his rough, unsophistioated listeners waxed indignant;
low ominous murmurs were heard, which soon found
vent in action. "The People's Orator" was hustled
from his bench, his hat knocked over his eyes, and alto-
gether be was so roughly handled by the mob that he
was glad to make his mope in whale skin, and will
probably beware for the future of the mistake of 'op-
posing that an English mob can be gratified by cowardly
attacks on defenceless women, or • still more unmanly
war on the dead.

SINGULAR FULFILMENT OP A. DRE,UI. A girl,
named Rebecca Barret, the daughter of respectable
parents, died at the Nottingham Lunatic ksylnm on
the 21st ult., under the following circumstances :—Five
years ago the deceased was in the service of Mr.
Howard. of Tithley, as domestic servant, and while
there she had • dream which greatly depressed her
spirits, and mode her very unwell. Another domestic,
Hrs. Ann Pyket, observing her distressed state inquired
the cause, and in explanation the deceased giri detailed
her dream, the substance of which was that she
would die in five years from that time, and that she
was to prepare herself for death. Bo deep a hold did
this belief obtain upon her mind that there is little
doubt it bas been the cause of her death. In eompli-
ance with the command et her dream she set herself
earnestly to prepare for destkand devoted a great dealof
time to religious exercises, stedfaditly believing that her
death would occur just bee it had been detailed UI:
her dream. About two years after the dream she had •
violent fever, and her life was despaired of; but she
persisted in saying that her time had not come, and
that she should reciover, as she had three yeats more
to live. After • long illness she did get better again,
but the superstition was in no way altered, and as the
time approached she become more and more effected.
About three weeks ago the eonstant preying upon her
mind of her approaching death turned her brain, and
she became desperate, so that it took several men to
prevent her from committing violence upon herself or
those around her. •Under these circumstances she was
removed to the lunatic asylum at Nottingham, on the
Iflth ultimo, where she expired on the 21st, the day
being precisely Ave years actcc her dream.—Mefilekt
' independent.