The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-22 00:00:00

AN UNWEIPOME VISITOR.

TRENT MANoll HOUSE.
Wu are indebted to the BefiMgr for the following :
Alterations and addition.% are in progress to this very
interesting old house, —interesting not only for its arch i ter-
A WIDOWER'S CONSOLATION, tore, but for its historical anneeistions : for in W spare
attolt.lea the Nate of animals from liarnimin between the ceiling and the floor Cherie, 11. was libblen
in lirbigeport the other day retn,rt the , by Lady Wyndham from the search of the Parlianient...ry
.. A tiger was 'wing offered. Thu Ilighent troop% The place of roncealment is of coarse left midis.
Pia& hy HMI Who Warr a ntranger, and to him it turbed, and a nepurate ftairratie in provided for the con.
• kneelefl down. Barnum, who had been eying the VelliellCS of tkitrtotS by the ewner. Mr. It. Danby Seymour.
ftre.,:er line.eily dining the biding, then went U. to him , Nrtioun of the I ne are of the fifteenth century. on.l
" Pardon Inc for asking the quwitien, but will there are evidences that hwork of thin date ban been
ill me *here you (n.))) 1" " Down South a bit," I pulled down. Mere are ale pertionn of Ellis ilethan and
✓ I ihe ".re y,ni 11111 l eeted with any „hewr. : Jacobean dates Those are being repaired and re-fitted
" 'ire you thi4 animal for yourself r with new oak fitting% The new work follows the Elizabe-
" Rumen ...hilte.l about for a few momenta, than type, with *mare Maned and tranfoined
I anew .Oily at No man and the tiger, evidently and rewinds of entrance-hall, porch, iiieture-gallery,
tronz te reeenelle the two together. "Now bedroom% and rolnnietelY new °M' w, T" walls are of
• he *aid, " you need .not .take tha I local stone, with stone &casings The works are
.1111i1114 Wald to, for there aro LWOW. ticr. who being carried out by Mr. Bateman, of Sherberne, under
O take it off pen. bands." •"1 .1 sit want to w.:11," was Mr. It. Herbert Carpenter awl Mr. tfenfamin Bigelow.
tho quiet reply. Then Barnum Mild in his denperation, The vilhage of Trent is full of
in
houses, follie of
" Mut 411 ...tali aro you going to do with sueh an tigly great beauty and interest. awl in one in an exquisitely
iI you no show ef y..ur own. anil are not buy. . ornamented planter ceiling. of Jacobean date. There in a
ie.: for odin. WII.. i• a AloW111:411 " Well, ia ts.t chantey chapel belonging to the manor-house, attached to
•Sahl the perehaner. wiN died about three the church, in which are some very tine recuminint figures.
seeks W.. hot Itve.l W.:ether for ten years, and— This chapel can re toted suimle ein ago by ML Seymour
at. I I in... her." Ile panned to wipe his eyes and stoat , to his father's memory.
lu• AO then lulotell--"Se I've bought thin tiger.
"I under.ts.: I pm," said the great showman in a husky
v‘so., Os he turned away to bile hit emotion.

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_BEES.

Mr. II or,l Paul, Who iia4 horn hoving a number of
"smell's,: Rees" in variona parrot Of the country, relates
mei the best spellers in Cheltenham, Worcester,
an 4 I.lcms.der, and the worst at Oxford. At Stratford-on-
di 11. tat sitestauts could not spell "Sbakspeare,"
41.1 rao imalieious " mulishus," awl a huge fat man
is audience rack with laughter by spelling myrrh
" mcirli: At Hicester a neat sell was practised on Mr.
II maid Psul : a rough.looking luau came forward among
othcr impetit orS, and Mr. KW, a, interlocutor,
rud,uorrd to puzzle I with the names of flowers—
rh d.cicrwiron, ini.monette, which bring • great many
.4 :iv candidates ti grief. The mail spelled them with
r aly fluency, ‘lll.l at length t mrk the prize. Mr. Paul
umphblented tutu in handsome terms, and congratulating
IMul, a. a "vs orking man," on his orthographical pron-
. icacr, a•ked him los name. The "prize" speller fumbled
Ott. bro.od-poeket for a Moment and produced a rather
coded business-card. Mr. Paul read it aloud to the
no-lone,' -" W. Boom Flonst and Gardener,' which
..'osssl Isom Ii amusement. Many of the incidents of these
,prllin.; bees great fun.

CITED To APPEAR.
In the history .4 the world may be read many curious
stories, iif no particular value In th..mselvc•s as mere
isolnted facts, but which, pot t.sh Ile'. with a,, iil:if el.
Mar afford aids to discov..ry in the regi.ins of mental
science. The strange ineidents which it is pnqeised Li
recite in this paper are, it is wished to le. is dubs! mit,
not selected as 'rendering t. i the taste for the marvell, no
lint for the suggestiveness in •Irawing attention to a
certain natural phenonenion -the power of •.I over
matter. 'The allerdl des which fi ill. iw hay.• liven arrangeil
hi dos 1111 l incleal order, as the neeit convenient, awl
Fr . ini them the nailer will lie enabled to fiillove our
suggestion :vs to their use in mental history.
In 1311 gi,ain was govenwil by Ferdinand the
I.'..iirtli, a 1 11111 l arida who appears to have been, a, a
rule, more iinfortiniat. . than eidpable. Ilis reign thiingli
short Was stormy, hut with the politieal . vents of it
we are not now coneerne.l. Fenlinand hat convicted
and senteneed to death, for ler, two brothers
nt • 1 carvajat. The evidence would seem to have
is.en somewhat donlitful, and the Carvajal.. priteste.l
their innocence hi the most elliplintic manner. and Meet
lellelllllly de.dared that, were time cratitedl to thous,
they c•inl.l produce iinsifs ..f it. The king, however,
was inflexible, and ordered the sentence till be carried
Init. The brothers ass•rteil their innocence to the
last, and when upon the scaffold s 1111111 l "tied Ferdinand
to appear within thirty days before the judgment oat
of Gel, there ti answer for his unjust sentenee. The
age was ortissly imeirant and. isms...mealy, sumo..
stitious, and the monarch in all probability no 'wire
enlightened than his contemporaries. ('ertain it is,
whether the result may be aserilied to an over-excited
imagination, or merely b, a curious coincidence, the
king did die on the thirtieth day, and in history has
ever since been known as Ferdinand the S .mell.
I hiring the reign of this saint' ne mach the renown...l
order of the Knights Teinidars was abolished, and
many of its members put to death. Ii is needless to
recapitulate here either the CallSeil which led to the
nth. of the order, or the arguments which have lawn
inthice.l pro and con, as to the guilt .. ' l ...eller of the
Templar, .4 the crimes they were accused of, it suffices
to say that they endured tiersecution with the courage
of patriots and the constancy of martyr... Chief of the
sufferers, both by his position and by the tortures he
was subjecte,l to, was Jacques de Nl•day. grand master
of the order. After having been degraded and
tormented in the most cruel manner. de 141..1ey awl a
companion knight, Guy, brother •if the Dauphin of
Auvergne, were condemned by the king of France,
Phillip the Fair, to be burned alive. This sentence
WAN carried out with all the fiendish devices .4 the
perhel ; an.l when death at last terminated their
misery the populace came awl gathered up their ashes
to be preserved as sacred relies. Pope Clement the
Fifth had been the French king's associate in the sup.
preasion of the order, and it is recorded by some
hietoriane that •le Midey, are he expired, summoned
Clement to appear before the Supreme Judge within
forty days, and l'hillip within the space ..f a twelve-
month. The pope did actually die of a colic within
the given period. and before the year hail elatee,l the ViIIoLKKILK KGEKT KILLING GT DOGS.- Last week Ur.
king died of a fall from his horse. 'File death of both Charles Wietch farmer, hi ing at Ilalseway, found, on
visiting his Hoek' of sheep at Ilicknoller, three of them
these sovereigns wag apparently asci.leical, and the
coincidence, therefore, Neenied to be extraordinary, but d, e:.l, i.r.l others .4.lo,,iii)angle.l that he had to kill fifteen
Weirle/S2lrletg.tiof, t:noathragers. iiiiakingi,tl
it should be remembered neither Was killed instantly, altoregether. Illtiey
and the fact of having a diseased ininsination to con- bogs, about .111s.ea,h, entailing thus a loss ofe'nell% SZalk
tend with might, in either case have retarded recovery, for not oue of those killed was fit for food, being so
and even induce•l fatal results. The people, however, multilated,
liked to remark that all the chief I ersecntors of the I Tele WEATIIKR.-Jan. 22 is the Feast tiS. Vincent and
Knights Templar:, perished by premature or violent Anastasius" Rem:-
ember in at Vincent's day
deaths. If the mil his beams display,
Mohammed the Third ascended the Turkish throne 'Ti 5.., token, bright and clear,
in 1595. In his reign the decadence of the Otteman That ),,u sill have a promcrous)ear."
empire commenced, and has centinue.l alm.ist without Saturday, Jan. A was a tine winter day: let us hope it
interruption down to the present time. Notwith- will fulfil the prediction to alt
standing sonic conquests 'Mohammed's sovereignty was .t shocking accident occurred at the Ellistown Colliery,
most disastrotte to his people, which vire -tansa,, Leicester, on Thursday morning. A number of men were
onnhined with his bigotry, may have rendered I ' engage•l in sinking •iperations, when the tub used in
preclispoeed to accept the ravings of a viaionary for the making the in.,,c.ent was drawn uph too high, pitching out a
utterance., of a prophet, and be liable to be influenced •Tiaslnnacror i;.4. .
~w lo fealilidto teiollintton of the shaf a
acwordingly. In the autumn of 1603, a dervish, who Arneehy. Cole was ailed at once, and CZntacrneslt with 'h
y winistaine.l
passed for a ...lint, approached the Saltan as he Wad a fracture .4 the thigh.
entering the seraglio, and lade him sleep no more, an, At the Sheriff'x Court, lied Lion-Square, on Thursday
within fifty-six days something terrible would occur to the amount of CLUMP. WWI awarded as damages to • young
him. Thete words alarmed Mohammed, ant he fell ~,an ',maple)" against the London, Chatham. and Dover
ill. It may have been fear of death, •ir it may liave Railway Company, on account of injuries sustained I.
been a conscience aroused h. the fact tliat ' teen
of
in an
iliWN.l.lientt atTeete Liningatedf ill Staid.. the St
(Jaw, 21 years of age, was
brothers awl AU eldest eon had been put tO .leath for
clerk to 'wriiii."*. merchant, severely injured in
the accident, and was removed "to St. Bartholomew's
his ainbition'a sake ; but be it what it may, the result
If ospiLal, where he still lies.whTkhheiwne:uliii:lalper:b.idebilicyebsehbosuited.
wt.. that the Sultan died by the prescribed date.
In the seventeenth century Alphonse. the Sixth, of that lie was paralysed. and would be a helpless cripple for
rkiqiiBB°reurglias°l
Portugal, was .lethr. ine.l as an imbecile, and his brother, the remainder of his life,
lion pear., acquired the sovereignty. Not satisfied few month...
one of the four monks who aro ;:t:taftilnie.ili
with the crown l'eilro got his lindlier's wife informally
fin,, a,. divorced from her husband and made her his consort.
The Pepe afterwards ratilie•l the divorce, awl the second ,t,shletlisecreniacvniet,,o,ftoliengaarell,i,rriingit;:...lieitifinfr,o:agaJii
marriage, and the guilty pair were left in peaceful commolity not manufactured in their monastery. 'l'Ve
enjoyment of their tuturne.l.li,olity. Alphonso, in the defendante deny that the plaintiffs have any right to the
meaatime, was shipped if to one of the Azores. where, escheats° U.S of the title word. The hearing of the CallSe
after many years of captivity. he died. On Ilia death- stand., over until next month.
FATAL FALL Or A 110TSE..t w 1111 l an was killed b the
bed, it hi alleged, he predicted that his divorced wife
fall of a house at Woolw TTh ich in ursd Th
ay. ere weny, two
weld.] spee•lily followed hint, to answer before God for 01,1 tenements In a place called Salutation-alley,
imam the
the wrongs she bad inflictcshipon him. His prediction tee of the Royal Arsenal, and these I '
wax fulfilled. the Queen, Maria, dying a few months I.sol'ine time untenanted and neglected; hula‘dinililt."Lnuinfito".
after her first busbansL dilapidation. The neichlsours have of late masted the
The citations might be equally prd.inged, but ..ur work of decay bY renlovilla various portion. of the building,
object will be equially attained by a few as by a large and Thur sday morning there was • en,w,l of w 1111 l en and
number .4 instances. We shall. therefore, cede adduce children engage.' in the wreckage. The woman who has
lost her life. wh.ose.bt ere was Bridget 'laves, gots hatchet,
one more, but that one th.• mon! interenting to lIS as it
,is connected with the present royal family"( England. rd in cletriiteo
I...u.h,Lacelain.menhenainiofr:x: telt :awists.a
I leorge the First, ii, man whise •I 1111 l esti.: • luct wan seas,usr,:;ll,.l of her ,lanzer, bat made amigtol Irgt.tyntiw:l r.
most clisgststing, married at an early age the Princess
sophja the...thee, of Halle, a girl of considerable tawattr in reply, and went on cutting until the beam gave
a
beauty and accompliishments. Finding hersi•lf unfortuldith tth
niat: wojinane, %'anilee kilalcsilielierw•lilich el
thieai nteiti". n the
neglected by her brutal comeirt, at that time only unfortunate woman was forty years of age the wife of a
_ . _ _ labourer in the Arsenal, whom she leaves with els children
THE immtne of the ROYAL AGILICULTUMAL BILVETOLENT Elector of Hanover, th... Princess tl l ght to solace
herself by flirting •with f ount Kiiningsinarek, a limb
INSTITUTION (for the relief of decayed farmers, their wid.
sonic young we. e, then visiting the Hanoverian
owe and orphans) has been increased during the year 1575 Sphrre,i,wrrszlilfearorgraihs7estirTew:TenlstieTxneitresuari_etaiithr..enfiouttwe
following
pre.e.
Presst
by the sum of £1,1400 in the new donations and subacrip. court. How far the flirtat: went is an insoluable position of the NewspaWr Press:-
lions. Sixty new_penaioners will be elected in June. secret, but Geonre was toosteepe lin guilt himself not n There are now publWiee in the Crated Kingdom 1,641
UNVERI2II3rrkO WINEs.-Itleven missionaries in Syria to judge otheriiharshly. The unfortunate young cs t newspapers, distributed as follows:-
have subscribed • document in which they declare that, Was entrapped and murdered, and n the o less unfor- Eoglaucl-
during the whole time of their residences in the HI timate princes, arrested and carried .iff to a castle on London ..
Land they have n of ~
, ever seen or heard an unfermente Province,
the Alden. For thirty.two years the wretched woman
wine . nor hare they foun.l, among Jews, Christi or
moha'n,nustans, any tradition of such • wine having ever was kept in close confineiumit ; and even her own son, goateed • • ••
existed in the country. --Ca risties World. afterwanls George the Second, was strictly diabarred
CHARMS Or ILLTRKATING A SKIIITANT. -The lirentford from seeing her. On her .leath-bed, she wrote to her
magistrates on Saturday heard a charge of half starving husband, then King of England, protesting her inn°. iii thew there are- .
Daily rapers, England DS
and heating a domestic servant. The defendant, mrs, cence, and citing him to appear within a twelvemonth Wales I
Lovell, is the proprietress of a boarding-school in at the Divine tribunal, to receive judgment for his ~ K....timid is
Groevenorrowl, Twickenham. In May last, the coin- cruelty and in' justice. The ihinger "f the mission ~ iodate! 10
plainantha girl, sixteen years of age, named Ann Childs, , , .
. 0 aye.' the bearer presenting this communication for e Isics I
enter. ey Ney,dee as seuneryinaid, and continued there . "
until the 31st January of this year. According to her some months, but an olna.rtninitY offering itself •Inring 11,, raerellee to tile first alai., a this useful Directory (twin)
we MO the follos mg iuter,Atius faets-vis , that in that year
atatementa she had merely a piece of bread for dinner a visit .4 ft to his electoral dominions, the packet
there were putitist,ted, in the i'inted Kingdom 551 Journals: of
three days in a week, although the other servants had was handed over to the king. He opened it at once,
proper food. Mrs Lovell was in the habit of beating her but on reading the contents he fell into an atemlectic thole It were inas,uwvl,..liali.-1L3.,.,1:1;g1and It Ireland!; but in
, meet et:mercifully. On the morning of the 31st January, fit, which wax speedily followed by his death, just lallilieliiiiTo.laware thou LW Cr., Lowed daldlr., shi.rwilnlith.atiligr Prow' of
I which was specially mentioned in the summons, her nits- seven months after that of his unfortunate
.wife.
.. ~f this e.ii,u.iitLyp,...,hasidwer.y. greatly extended exesten.dned.duthriengDathie lasi.: 30
1 tress complained that she had not cleaned the kitchen pro.
Thew are ly-e,•-sorie fac_ts.- - If our purpone is not clear : years.
~.e '
stan ii g 12n a..sainat.l2 tn 1•In In. Isagailnes now 13a emu"
, perly, and then commenced to strike her on the shoulder.,
we must leave the readers to draw their own nioraL
Musrse
t, and face with list, and afterwards with • cane.
She was then sent home to her sister-in-law whose hue- Our duty is completed in the recital of such remarkable
band had instituted the present proontffings. A fine of instances of notable personages who have obeyed the ..,:tflielichutor ttt are
chsstioans,Eniiihnnalugdmi...wgiadt.ihlet.i,:r,,...uarteligi:rriethychwict.H:b4.,i7i=o,umhey,rtitlg.y,
40s. was inflicted, and Immediately Paw. summons when Cited to Appear. pendent', Roman Catholics, and ether Christian Communities."

John Richard Knight, a well-dressed young loan, wa.t
eltarged on Thur.:day with being found in a bedroom in
the house of Mr. John Stone, a builder, of Bristol, on
Weelne.lay night. Prosecutor while alining out received
a entmounication front his uncle which induced bine to
hasten home, and he found his front elesir open. Lighting
a 4WD. he left his uncle downstairs while he went up to
the beelmom. There the light WWI 1.1•1W111 out, and he
received a blow on the shoulder. Ile collared a man who
ler.elpe away from hint and rushed downstairs. Ills uncle
helped him sulesspi••idly to rapture the prisoner, who
was found to he without ill. I '..mplainune4 wife
then returnee' fr a neiAhls mr's, and as they were
strue-tling she asked them not to hurt the young inan.
After giving the prisoner into costmly, pn•seentor
returned h • from the police eetation, and fee 1111 l I that
hi: wife lead gone, avid bee le el not seen her Billet'. The
pris.ener was a friend who heel formerly visited at leis
home. Prisoner's esetensel anted that, for whatever
itopmper object he wan in till,' house, than, Wm nee pretenee
whatever for suggesting that lie was there for an unlawfol
purpose. The magistrates discharged prisoner, but ranted
a eillillrlollls for the assault.

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