The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-10-19 00:00:00

2trt anti littrarg Jottings.

A NEW YORK oorninareild paper reprints one of Mr.
Spurgeon's ger/nous every week.
Ma. OZORGI ll'Donstm has accepted the editorship
of
..a.d wo,d,. for the I:using.

"Tits World sod Primitive Nan according to the
Bible." is the title of a French work by Monsignors
3leignan.
"L& Princetee de Trobizoode." M. Offenbach's latest
citation, is to be bromilit out i+t the Beatty Panaiens
in November.

IT is stakd that Mn. Gordon, of Parkhill, in st
present engaged in writiug • Wool Sir David Brewster,
her late illustrious fstour.

Slereunssn's "Robert le Diable.* has been prodtmed
at the Tuatro ArgEntino, Rome, but under the title of
"Roberto di Picardie," as the orginal title wee too dia-
bolical for the censors of his holiness.
Heat RI:DEZI STEIN U completing a 'denoted°
fantasia, in four morementa, and • cantata, "The Tower
of Babel." The latter is to be made avad.ble for stage
representation, and is to be heard, for the first time,
in Vienna, in January.
LlisroauNs and numismatics will be interested in
the foot that in the now imin.ge ot jan.aica the Qmen
to represented of her actual age, and not, as on our own
pence, as • very young lady. The material of the new
ouin 10 nickel.—Estrupenis Med.
M. Lorin Lacmir, • weibknown amateur and col- I
lector nf paiutiup, bee just died in Paris, and Las left
his gallery of pictures to tliu Louvre, on condition that
they ihould bc placed mgether in a room, to be named
after him. The collection is valued at two millions of
hams.

A SLIGHT difference of opinion was manifested not
long more between two musical writers in im many
LOCCIOn neerspapers. One thought proper to say that
the crompater in question had ' great powers, but did
not employ them welL" The other &marled that "the
couipmier's powers were mediocre, but Lis technical
science great r—iftwirai Sia'Ward.
Thisa hay been publialied at Boston (13.8._1 & Christian
idea for polygamy. It to entitled "The History and
Philoeopbyor Harrier ; Of, Polygamy and Monogamy
Compared,n sod I,' by • Christian philanthropist."
The Citizen looks on much a book sa • sign of restleee-
nem in mesiety, which may bring forth • doyen social
revolutions at once.
'

Mit. 'Mites work on " The Subjection of Women" ii
reported to have • wide circulation in Russia. A
nms n's Rights Convention it St. Petersburgb is
talkee. of, and Mr. Mill, who has expressed sympathy
with the mevement, is to be invited. The Car has
give.i no intimation of diapproval, end • public meet-
ing has been held on the abject,

MATRIMONY DIPIRMRD.—A maple in the village of
Atembury who had long been making love to each other,
, arranged at length to be wedded at the church on Thies.
day, at eleven o'clock. and friends and neighbours were
invited to celebrate the event at • well spread board
later in the day. Bride and bridegroom, friends and
spectators, were in attendance at tee appointed hour,
and as noon approached arid no parson arrived, as
promieed, from a neighbouring parish, expectation ran
high, till at length the fated hour struck and all parties
departed, no clerical appearance having been put in.
Subsequent enquiry deduced the explanation that the
clergyman entirely forgot the appointment. The knot
was, however securely tied on the following day at the
church by another rev. gentleman less forgetful.
Seueirs.—A few days ago, as the gardener at Chisel-
borough Rectory wee cleaning ont • cucumber bed of this
year's make, he epee upon • snake's nest containing
200 young snakes and eggs. The young reptiles were for
the most part able to crawl, and mesatired from sin
inches to over • foot in length. Since being turned our.
some others have been hatched, and nemaitred about six
inches at the moment of emerging from the egg. The
egg., which were rather larger than pigeon's ege, were
strung all toFetber, of a dirty white colour, and with •
soft shell, l'he parents of this emperors brood were
killed some time in the summer, and I:I' asurLd 2ft. tn.
and 21t, tin. respectively. About a year ago a molar
number was toned in a rhubarb bed not far diiitaat, soil
re, p.m. ,i. ;oily were found in a iap of refl.*,
on the premises. 1
EXlcUTiolf or rail DEVUIPC.ST MULIJEREM.—
Private William* Taylor wag executed on Rohde,
mornicl eithin the walls of the comity gaol at Exeter.
110 was convicted of the rilful murckr of Arti.nr
Skullen, a corporal in the Sith Regiment. Who Ne de-
file rot, ly shut dead. hecause oi discuvered his attempt
I to ri•uilo punishment trill. The culprit wulked with I
: a shogfing emit tiedl rectehir.g tho gallows. The I
brut.- at he earght ettit of the apparatus he bunt
into tears. Me aacieudirl the steps, howLver, quietly,
aml Calcraft at noes put the white cap over his
When the role wad fixed around his Lech be
said in, trembling voice to Calorie, "Don't put it too
tight ; you tuir;ht thriXtle inc before say
ioterrozatively, "It won't hurt me, will it!" Calcraft
said. "Oh, no, and then strapped bin legs, shook had.
with him, and whisucied something in his ear. The
obaplat, duritg tha time, had continued reading the
burial week.% To one peruse the prisonre muttered,
"Tsar'! have mercy upon me." and ioatuntly afterwards
the drop fell with crush. The culprit struggled COI,
vuleively for four or five winntes, s.gbed heavily, and
died.

Mutants sun Porcine. -A fearful tragedy was
enuteit on Monday morn:ag at 11, tenon near Hounslow.
A I.):Ut canted Green shot &nether man, named Kyczor.
and Uterwerds destroyed himself. Green died ahnoet
Instantly, Lutihii vicomlingered for &me time. Bi.th
were very. hi men, "with.) affair originated hi a dispute
abut e 1i..i0 occupied by Green et tenant of Kyezor.
Toe ltPT.ily ANI/ THE LANDLADY. Capte;n
Pei , of the Royal Artillery, has bearded • I
Margate landlady in her own dun. sod never quailed
lab, hey :ironed wrath. On Sunday eeening Ire
wanted some chops cooked-which was rather "like his
impulence" ; but the landlady's daughters were play-
ing the piano -meted music, no doule.- -red he wee
told that it was against the rule of the honee to have
arty cooking on Sunday after dinner. Captpin l'erea
bad bought the chops, howev.r, and be determined,
with the iniume of an artillerymm, to cook them him-
self ! larrer exi.l than done. his advanced to the
alt ,elt ; cc pushed the landlady away, and thee ran.
I aseked t! o house' sleotting like a lion for his chops.
He searched the kitchen- not there !he search. the
soullory-not there I "She has stolen them !" exclaimed
the Csiitsin'a wile; but filially ti, landlady gave in so
far, and gave up the chime. But to prevent any
sacrilegious cooking the uudaunted woman had another
resource: "I put out the ki•chen fire with the poker
and sows water. He made some ungentlemanly
reurarks, and I blew out his candle and eat out the
gas, and we were both in the dark." Here was superb
strategy, combined with heroic courage. The woman
who did not fear to be hilt alone in the dark with.
Captain of Artillery tenet be ed no common mould.
She went on "He threateried to look me up in the
kitchen, but could not. Afterwards he went umbers,
and 000ked the chops in the drawing.room on the fire
shovel." The inagistretee did not quiteueept the frenk
and !Went lady's mew, and they dientimal the Charge of
assault, believing thi:t the landlady had given ample
provocatiou.
FaTaLOILDLIAIIY CaLlial Or BIGAMY. —Oa
Saturday, at Marylebene Puliciecourt, Percy Res
Meson, aged 43, who is also known by a needier of
rah..., was brought up on remand before Mx.
D'Eyncourt, charged with feloniously intermarrying
with Laura Bird, in the parish of St. John's, Hamp-
stead, on the 7th of February, loti2 ; also further
charged with marrying Mary kriarbeth Boydell Boyne,
in the parish of ISt. ou the IGth of July.
1862, his wife, Eliza Itobinson, being then and still
alive.
Mr. Frogget prosecuted, and Mr. Clarke defended.
A considerable number of witnesses were examined
regarding the identity of the prisoner, and in their
evidence various contending opinions were ezpreased.
Mary Eltsabuth Beyilell Boyce, the third wife, was
called for.
Inspector Druscovieh : She haa gone on the Con.
tinent to avoid being present. I may inform your
worship that she lived with the prisoner ap to the time
of bin apprehension.
Elizabeth Boyar, mother of the, third wife, was called
into the witness box and again swore. She end: I
don't believe the prisoner at the bar to be Percy
Robinson, because he is now on the Continent with my
daughter.
Mr. D'Eyneourt : When did you see your son-in-law
and your daughter last :Ten days ago.
Mr. D'Eyncourt Now be careful. Let too par-
ticularly mutton you AS to what you say; fur if is
should turn out not to he true what you say you
raider yourself liable to be prosecuted for perjury.
Now I ask you, and consider before you answer, have
you seen your son-is- law since the prisoner has been in
custody ? - Went : es.
Mr. D'Enicourt Where Li he now :-Wrimeris :Un
the Contineet.
• len.yooourt : How do you know that he IA 011 the
Contimut!-Witaces Lemma I Imre riacived a letter
from usy daughter. •
Mr. IfEynouurt main erutioned her, and asked Lel if
she 1114 ASS/A the person who she said wrs herdaninter's
husband since the pribuniu 1.11111 in rautedy I-Witeesa
I have.
kle. D'Eyresurt Whetel- Witness: In toot.
Inspector urracovieh, recalled, said : I kuser the
pawner was residing at iis, Northumbelandiilace,
Bayswater, and! know the witness and her daughter to
be in the habit of visiting the hones.
Mr. D'Eyzeourt (to Mrs. Dimes): How to that!! am
informed you have been in the habit of vieiting the
prisoner ?-11x. Buyes : We umed to visit him as • friend
of ours. I knew him as Mr. Pepper, of Northern-
berland.plisee. To the best of ruy belief ho is not Pony
Robiwron, the husbaini of my daughter.
Mr. IYEyncourt : I again eration you, and I Must tell
you that I do not thing you are telling the truth.
Now, do be sinful, for if what you say should tank out
to be untrue, you might be liable Cu be indicted ior
',jury. Now, I ask you again-and do be cautious
bow you answer-have you, since tho nrieeuer hue
been in custody, seen the person elone you say IS
Pony EOlOlOllOll, the husband of your daughter ?-
Witneas : Yee.
• D'Eyncoart :Where Ls he I-Witness I denlioo
to answer as to where be is.
Mr. D'Eyneourt wird to Mrs. Boys.: I will give you •
querter oi an hour to consider at to whether you will
adhere to your evidence as already given.
She then retired into • private room with Mr. Clarke,
sod in about ten minutes Mr. Clarke returned, and said
by his advise she would withdraw all her evidence given
that day.
• IyErpeourt (to Hrs. Boyce): Do you adhere to
your „,,,,juaneu?—Mrs. IleYat ; I wish to withdraw all
that I said from the first to the last.
asr, yeldnerourt : Is the prbioner the man who married
your daughter ?-Witneas : Ile is.
Mr. D'hyncourt : Is the prisoner the man alto was in
„deka', it Aylesbury under the mane of Wade charged
with ebenonag money by false pridencee:-Wituriss
(after hesitating): lie is.
Mr. D'E7DOOIDo you know the prisoner
case: 1,10.
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