The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

emccal idttnis.

Tea Church of St. Moines o'Beeket, at Pylle, near
Shepton Monett, is about to be pulled down, with the
exception of she tower, and rebuilt at the expense of
Lord Portman.

AMIDST OF • FIFIL•Li FillIAIL—Tb• first female
was arrested for Fenienism on Saturday. She is the
wife of • printer named John Buckley, who him been
absent mince the era'. The documents found with her
deeply involve her in the rebellion.
room) DEAD.—The Rev. Walter Henry Hill, seventy-
two years of age, bah been found dead on the batiks of
the lifonnow, Dear Yoeciouth. The deceased left hie
home to go ashieg. At the inquest • verdict of "Found
dead" war returned.
Thi New LIBERAL "Weir."—llas division on Mr.
Gledstooe's amendment VAS the lest in which Mr.
Brand will appear r "whip" to the Opposition. After
t.-e Faster rename his place will be taken by Mr. George
Oradell Glyn, the member for Shafteebtu7.—Olobt.
FORMES PIIVXMILDINOII AO•MIT ML EF/1.-•- re.
zwuk hdepeadeet sus that, whether the Jemmies
Committee take any further steps spinet Mr. Byre or
not. hie Gondar in connection with the Jamaica out-
break will not wholly reorainvestigation in the courts,
for Dr. Braes is now on his way from Jamaica for the
purpose of instituting an action against both Mx. Byte
and Colonel Nelson for fah* imprimooment.

PlO-1110 IX • CHOZOBTAILD. —The PaU Mall Gaulle
says that the pretty ehurchyard attaehed to the new
&meek at Boaehureh. Isle of Wight, has aotnelly
become the resort of eio-nie parties, who not only mine
and spread the °octants of their hampers upon the pm,
and hob-sobbed in glasses of ebascpagne among the
tombs, but tied up the donkeys that brought them 11
within the churchyard walla.
DITIZMIXID 11401471D0 OP A RITIIIID FAINXII,— 4
retired farmer, named Anstiee, committed suicide
, the other day at South hitherto° by rattled hi.
throat and afterward.% hanging himself. He mit his
tlroet whilst In bed, and afterwards got out and hanged
himseU to a clothes peg on the door. His wife air
severed him and out him down, but life had been
estinet for more than an hoar.

is his "Treatise on Food,—Page 413—Dr. Booffern
writes :—I am very partial to tea, and for shove thirty
years have takes it without milk and sew ; in wee,•
goatee of this mt palate le the more eritieal se to its See
quality and strength. The beef tee I use Ind is that
Imported by the Mews. Hornitnen, London, and odd ly
their agents; ii. natant appearance manifests it to be
tea that has not been severed by the Chinese with II Is
usual mineral eoleuring powder—s numilestation whisk
he delicious flavour fully 000linna,"
Viotti SLY Clivire.—The following story, f or which pro*
bald, the writer is indebted to his inuieleation,appeere in
the London letter of a eoetemporary :—" There is rather
a good story Sooting about Just now of Lady Cranlvene.
who is I dare say you are swam, a daughter of the late
Baron Alder..., and is violently clever. Os being ,
asked whether she stayed at home on the memqrsble
Banday to help her husband in Ids Wage with the
she replied ' Oh, no. I made 'my allodatio" • I
My arithmetic is this—take three front fourteen and
nothing f Fos:tees is the mystic number of
the

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llhopidosto mak eldld of as Wad girl **ad Rashid
Oda. 11 appeared from the wildings that whoa the
abOd'i looter wao 16 pan at se die was a wormat lo
On bow of a patioasaa is Bt. John's Wood. Whling
oho yam ad ass dark night a boy leaped sadioaly
IPOS bar bask, and so *wad ber that obi bosoms
whim la lta Thom Ho era frscra sad
malt I.ed bar bsecadel ma leak
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then ia a awl destitute sossiblos, awl a taut who
saw her took ber to wilts bias as his wife. The
cbhd diod rio Friday ol diastole el the heart. Tho
soother was peseestM tbo isiquest, sad bit kliosy tees
SO aP01.11.• *at the fairy, atter replanting a wordisi to
U. Idlest that the child had died of natural atone,
requvated that the woman hertelf might be plaited uader
lb.. eon af tbe parish authorities.
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Erre so/1.'11411Y Beam —On Thursday morning •
rev. seatamean. who is temporertly wider the cars of
• keepsr, at No. 9, Hanoveraqaare, London, contrived
to escape to the roof of the house, having on his dron-
ing gown only, sad carrying a bible in hit hand. Ti,„
rev. (seaman made his way over the roofs of several
mews until be came to Masons' Arnie tard, when,
throwing off his dreseinrgowo, and •ppeartng ha •mate
of nudity, he gave out a text, and began delivering a
a. mown to seine persons who had been at.rasted by
ba
extraordinary reticulation& The police were informal
what was going on, and polioe-Nericesat Brady „a,i
other officers proceeded to the street, and at loc
contrived to get upon the roof of em adjoining
an ithere to address the rev. gentleman, requesting huo.
to leave his dangerous situation. The rev. gentleman
refused, lied when the police laid bold cm him he fought
trigorowle, and was not overpowered until after a.
reteggle of came duration. The police at Wenner...led
I. getting the rev. aentlianan through a house in
lisnover-equare, end subsequently he was restored to
the custody of his keeper.
Star stirs. —ln clatter to the Aware, Miss Rye
wall known from her efforts in the wise of emigration),
, promises to say something about the "servant que.t,oe.”
I w.tb regard to the home coontrT. She seys—" On all
sides I hear the cry of the esaroity of servant% bet do
your readers know that is a certain not over-large town
in the loath-west of England, one lady alone hu within
the last boar years wane stored over • thousand ser-
vants, upon eVelf One of whom she can lay her hand
this day, anti say, ' this girl is a respectable member of
I moiety, mid that, too, by the very simple propels which
I am trying to carry oat myself—vie., by catching the
young before they fall into bad hands and giving them
an outfit and • fair start in life? The system answers
en well, I venture to throw out this hint, for I feel per-
auaded that before long we shall be compelled to look
our position with regard to sensate fell, in the fees.
Our want of systematic management is bringing us, Very
deservedly, sorrow and shame alike to mistress and maid
—a position we have never been in before, and in which
I dare to beli-ve the practieril nature of the English
, ohmmeter will cot gaffer us long to remain."
Tim e Unracrricree Nate.—" An Unproteeted Male'
writes to the Tram: " I am air nnprot-eted sale, and
ant unhappilyoompoUed to subject aye II o the sontrifoid •
rhks of railway travelling, not the Is .4 of elvish is
being l-ft to the minter! oompeniosithip of one al Mr.
, -Aland Mill's " perwrus of the opposite sex. I trowel
frequently from Charing-cross to Woolwich and back by
the South-Eastern Railway. When I start I ern 'arrant
to avoid the unpleasant predicament shove-mentioned ;
hut 000ssionally in the coarse of the journey, as
peaGeniplli quit the carriage in which I am es'iLiodr my
precaution proves to be in vein, The doors of railway
carriages are narrow, and crinolines are wide. I have
really been shocked at what I have seen when the
eleetis hoops have been comithieted either daring the
entrap*, or exit of the wearers. The exhibit:op, Sir, I
augurs you, has never to my taste been oraamental or
attractive. It has aecurred to me more these once to
meek magisterial interferenes is order, if powibli,
prevent the recurrence of such shock. to my natural.
feelings of Modesty and reenernent. You have justly •
the reputation of belng_the champion of the weak and
the oppressed, and I therefore appeal to goo in the
hope tt at you will, by your powerful advoceey, pat an
end to the seandaL"

HUTH GATHERING IN HIS HARVEST. - The spring
was cold, late, and wild. The north-east wind
rattled down OD the land, and had parched it up into •
dryness more herd end more cruel than that of the
loafed summer drought. The crocuses came op, but
they withered; the operant:ma bloomed, but Gould cot
colour • the streams got low, and left the winter's loud
to stagOste into symotic diseases by the margin ; the
wheat got yellow; the old folks, whose time was "e'
du.. took to dying, and the death-rate in London went
up from 1.100 odd to 1,900 odd. Death, anxioin to
make up his tale, in anticipation of the healthy summer
which was sore to follow on this dry bitter north-
easterly spring, garnered all be could. The old folks
who were due to him he took as • matter of course.
Three score and ten was his watchword, and, for thaw
, who obstinately persisted in four score, he hung out
' foolish scarecrows of old friends younger thee they who
were dead before them ; which scarecrows were in the
main laughed to morn by such of the old folks as lived
in the strength of Christ and his victory. He began to
gather children with bronchitis. • sal number,—ehildren
whom, if one dare say anything on snob • subject, bad
better have been left: then druakarde, into whom
rotten lungs the north-east wind had got—men who were
best dead. Then to the houses of ill-fame, where mine
slept and dreamt that they were picking cowslips in the
old meadows, and awoke to And that they were dying
utterly deserted, with only • wicked old woman to me
them die. Then to the houses of the rich, driving them
with their precious cross to liberommouth or Torquay,
and following them there inexorably, till the lately
bloomy and busy matron became may • wild wan
woman, walking up and down, and bewailing her first-
born, or the rose of the family. Old Death made up
his tale last month, and the registrarpaiwal miaow.
lodged it in the Tines duly • but he need not bare gore
nicking about here and thine to make up his number.
Were not the French, the Austrians. and am lotions
grinning at one another with • grin which mean4•11•1'10
harvest for him? Could not be have wa*lel "t
mooths?—"fialrote of Sileotee,” in Macesillas.
STRANGE STORY OF • DOG. —A very singular ant.
interesting onserrenes was brought to light in the Burgh
Court (say the Sogenten) by the bearing of • sum-none
in regard to a dog-tax. Eight and seball years ago, a
man named Gray, of whom nothing sow is snows,
except that he was poor, and lived in • quiet way ia
roue obscure part of the town, was tended in Old
Greyfriars' churchyard. His grave, levelled by the
band of time, and unmarked by any stone, is now
scarcely discernible but though no human %Wrest
wool • corm to attach to it, the sacred spot has net teen
wbolely disregarded and forgottera. During all them'
years, the dead man's faithful dog has kept eminent
Fetch. and guard over the grave,.siad it was tile arrival
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for shish relleetors -seaght to recover the the.
James Brown, the old serape of the burial ground..
remembers Gray's funeral. and the deg, a Scotch terrier,
was, he says, one of the meet conepiesous of the
mourners. The grave was 'Laid in as usual, and next
morning, "Bobby," as the dog in sallrd, ',astound lying
on the newly made maned. This was an innovation
whims old James weld not permit, for them was an
order at the gate stating, in the most intelligible
thareeters, that doge were not admitted. " Bobby"
was secordingly driven out; bet the nest worming he
was there again, and for the second time was diseharged.
The third monde' was cold aid not, and when the old
men saw the faithful animal, in spite of all thathinement
still lying shivering on the grave, b• took pity es him
and gave him some food. This reengnitni of his
devotion gave "Bobby" the right to make the thumb-
Yard his home: sad from that time to the present he
has spent a night away from his crister's pare..
Often to had weather estimate have been made to keep
bleb within doors, but by dismal howls be has anseseded..
in making it known that this interfere.., is not
agreeable to him, and latterly he has always berm allows&
to have his way. At almost any time during the day
be nay be seen in or about the churchyard; and no-
matter bow rough the night may be, nothiagthe induce
him to forsake the hallowed spot, whose ladentity,
despite the irresistible oblitenthiou it bag undergone, he
ha. so faithfully preserved. " Bobby" has many triode,
and the tax-gatherers have by no meths proved his
enemies. A weekly treat of steaks was lung allowed
him by Sergeant Stott at the Regimen ,• bat kr more
than six year, he has been regularly fed by Er. John
Trail, 6, Greyfriars'-pleoe. He is °easiest and punctual
in his calla being guided in his mid-day visits by the
sound of the Wne-eon. Os the ground of" lassbouri4'
the dog in this way, proceeding, were taken against Mr.
Trail for payment of the tax. The defendant expressed
his willingems, could he eisiim the dog, to be responsible
for the tax ; hot so long as the animal refused to attach
himself to any nee, it was impossible, he urged, to fix
the ownerehip—and the Court, seeing the peculiar
cireumstances of the oath, &maimed the gammen This
old curator offered to pay the tax himself rather than
have " Bobby,"—"Orryfriars' Bob," so show"m his
fall name—put out of the way.
WaGtll or BATTU. —llr. O'Neill, wring to the
Hereki of Pears, aye that he thi..ks the readers of
that Journal will be interested in bearing that • poor
old man died in Birmingham on Friday, -February lila
one event of whose history forms an impertent mark in
the pregreas of civilians in salo.na ; ispedialy as.
relating to Um old barberone mode of settling disputes,
mad trying canna by the "wager of battel." The
deemed William Ashford was the lath person who was
challenged in an English court, to met, in single
combat, • man whom he had aseseed as Sim murderer of
his liana. The cirenststseess sitharliag the murder,
and the subrieseent trial, at Warwick and Londe°, are
most needier ; and seem more like a 10•1101611 tale of
the middle ages than • real ease regarrieg in oar own
, day. On the 96th of May. 1•17, • besatiful young
seem named Mary Ashford, in bre 10th year west to
• damn without proper protestors. lb* left the festive
thine at • late boar aosompanieltry a young man Raised
Abraham Thornton, a farmer's son in the asighbour•
hood. They were hot sees tidkieg trerri•at at • stile
near the place, bet next morale( the wes heed in •
pit of weer ; and there were fearful evidences that she
bed been abused, violated, and murdered. General
suspicion pointing to Thornton he was arrested and
tried for murder at Warwick Aeons in ga•; but
though strong eirensastaatial fridges' wee
sgstaet
the defense, which wee an alibi, obtained a verdict of
"not guilty." The feeling of weer** sod Indignation at
his aoquirial was so interim that • new trial woe ealid
for awl an appeal was entered ended the verdictby
Willie A hford. the brother, and sett of kin to the
wurdernal g
d girl. Thornton was again apprehended and
seat to London in November, to be triad aotoso Lord
Illenhorough end the full Goan of queen's Beath.
Instead of ninliv defames by argewleat, evader, and
witnesses, Thornton boldly defied all present nodes of
jurisdiction and okimed his eight, weetdiag to sapient
custom. in (Innen* his •••••th to fight him, sad dells
his hmemence or Stilt by the "wager of hethth" His
answer to the quokka of the SOWS wan "Net gag,
and lam ready to defend the a., by my body." He
accompanied these words by the old set if Ulnae elf his
glove and throwing down apes the &or of the court.
At this Wage of the preeeediags, William Ashford, who
we* in wart, athorilly suss forward, and was thud to
i'c.ph the shame* hypicking utaitb. 11"ZiwIme he
ee w kept nog by these shwa h ; act beware
eagle areshat was so foreign le the spirit and systole of
the age, hat also beams, of the strokhog lassielity ii
the sopearaace sad strength of the giewsser and masa di
for William gobbed was het • youth, weak owl Ornmil
lii stater.; while Thornton, the sappesed atendener,
war a powerful easa. With what weeder did the
manrobly, and indeed the Dale" ask, "Oen • 1/11•••rr
land ra se allsolete • Mae fit trial la mesh • tine al
light as the aiareeentle anstear Not wlth muster
Wender and regret was the jedgirold el lb. inert
rethived ; for after senreal adleenteb ealer it wee
Ia aPril. ISIS, that the taw swim+ was is fittiM,
the •Nrsser et haled rAO the OA laws easkiesieg It
had sewer bees repesied ••,1110.6 0102 NI. mode of
bid hod boom. SS mil II Mows&
Tbarratee wag thereeess and lthielest at
liberty left this soestry for whore he Med in
eheserity.

Corrroponbenct.

LORI DUNDREARris SALVE FOR THE
WOUNDED CONSCIENCE OF THE PENITENT
DORSET BAKERS.

Deaw MtAMw Edikeict

I with vewy much gwieved to And the bakawth
made lb. booed Irony light, =el is Lowyaw ow
Idagithtwate knew the tooth*. It with no "fancy
notch" but thimply too moth haw= (ow yeatlit) that
made the bwead dm light, and the bakawthe ought
to koow that in Lent the bwead ought to be heavy ;
and I would advitb• them to make it yew, heavy in
Maw, and to add a little pinch of onntbieeee to the
weight, tho that the bwead only, and not the bakaw,
be done hwown ; and neva, fawget the pleadingth
that if too light it itA Ike Gown.

Yount: v.viry tinily.,

LORD DUN DREARY.
Julia one bilk widdle by way of • potboripi :

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If the Imam]. when nntobed, Intbeth five owooeth
by the heat of the oven, bow much will the balm
loth, when he geth to, hot plum?