The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-06 00:00:00

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Tbe Draper states that the Coventry ribbon trade is
reviving oonsiderably under the influence of a new
faahionable demand for the productions of the city,
especially Tartan ribbons.
It has been discovered that Martha! Pelletier is.
Bohemian to birth, having made his first appearance in
thin world at a plain called Unhosoht., and was
christened in the church of Shone.; his parent's name
was Peljsek.
Among the notion on the order book of the House of
Commons for next Session is one by Captain Jervis to
bring forward a hill to prohibit exhibitions attended
with danger of life at licensed pines of public enter-
tainments.
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--"itTele-rge increase of vipers in France bas become
serioua enough to induce the government to suggest to
the Council-general of Departments the propriety of
voting alum of money for their destruction.
It is Mated that the Rev. George GUS= is en
upon a "poetical work requiring a year or twogirgi'd
ia
eoloplation, and to which he means to address hi/ whole
strength."
The greatest tlre that has occurred for many years in
Japan took place in Yeddo on the 19th July. The re-
sidences of 30 Damios, several temples, and a vast
amount of property wore destroyed.
111, understood that the Queen's visit to Scotland
will extend to live weeks, and that the return of the
Court to Windaor will be on Saturday, the 17th of
October.

forehead.

The sabeariptlons towards the erection of a monument
to the late Lord-lieutenant of Staffordshire—Lord
Hatherton—have reached nearly 122.000.
A omfidential clerk, employed by the Coventry and
Warwickshire Banking Company, has Jost absconded.
His defaleatious amount, it is said, to £l,OOO. He is
very respectably connected, and, in inidition to the
clerkship, he held the °Bios of a district registrar.—
Birmingham Pose.
The Princess of Wales has patronised the frieze made
at Wastmeath,and doubtless the result will be beneficial
to the trade of the enterprising locality. The costume
made from these friezes is called "Land o' the Watt
Jacket*

- Robert Wilton Fryer,late chief clerk in the Hereford
Old Bank, whose defalcations it is alleged amounted to
about 1230,01.10, and ware the principal cause of the
stoppage of the bank.has been apprehended at Finchley,
about five miles from London, on the Barest-road,
where he was living with • woman.
It appears the Americans have forestalled us in adopt-
ing the twin screw, and applied it to four of their ships
of war, of 330 feet long. DOW building.
Prime Alfred, it is rumoured. will in • few months
ceetract a marriage with the Primer Mary of Saxe
Altenburg, who ham just oomp/earid her eighteenth year.
The total number of the police and oonstabulary
throughout England sad Walas is no lo• than 22,161,
thus ecoutanting, ea it were, • little army in blue tug.
forms.. . .

--Ti; Wand ol Monte Christ°, which owes its cedebrity
to Alexandre Dumas' popular novel, has just been
abases by the Italian Government us penal settle-
ment. _ _

—'ll-ics- young Queen of Porte, dank* of Bing
Victor Emmanuel, has gives birth to a eon. Her
Majesty and her infant are reported 4stodroetit well.
A most audacious burglary is from the
neighbourhood of Birmingham. Mose y Hall has been
entered before tees o'clock at night and robbed of ma much
as the thieves could conveniently pack up and mini
away before the time at which they were disturbed. Ii
.11•0111 certain that the robbery was committed by
some persons intimately sequainted with the premises.
The burden of Manhattan's last letter is • prospective
war with France, which he anticipates with great glee.
Such • war, he as aerial believesorill unite Federal/ and
Confederates. "It will bind us together," he writes,
"with bands of steel, and the rebel leaders will be no
longer permitted to control affairs ;" nor does Manhattan
appear at all to recoil from the corollary that "a war
with France will involve us in a war with England."
In Brigland we hang up honourable colours in our
cathedrals. It America they have changed all that.
Manhattan sap the Federal deg under which Sumter at
fird bald out le—ia Baroque's ! The Benno Catholic
both North and South, are about to meet at
prelates,
retit is easy to gums with what intentko, and
weebbesmespestedi" Takers ibel"."a rbear"...) that by this time
I the coin resent!" distributed throughout she kugdoe. 1$
nausea sweats for harvest purprose Would have
someasceed its return to the Bank. But as yet the
program 01cn does not appmr to have been
ebeeked. the dessand daring the last few
weeks has been mainly kept lip by home and foreign
trertilere, the expenditure M that manner during Mee
preseet autumn having, it is believed, been beyond all
misdeal.

An English Ad (rays an Amencsn' contemporary)

passed in 1700, enacts that "All women, of what.",
rank, profession. or degree, who shall, after this
impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any
his Majesty's subjects, by virtue of scents, pent,.
cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, iron dem
bolstered hips, or high-heeled shoes' shall incur ast
penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and
like misdemeanors: and the marriage shall be null aod
void."
ALLEGED Wire Multhen TN Lir/Eu.ool.—Al the
Liverpool police-court on Monday, a coal-heaver, notelet
James CavanaL, about 25 year' of age, was brought up
charged with having caused the death of his wife.
Catherine Cavanah, who died on Thursday night, it
Newport-street. From the evidence adduced it app.s.
that the prisoner and the deceased were married &best
four years ago, and that in less than a week after the
wedding the prisoner began to ill-treat his wife, and COU
Unwed to do so at intervals up to the time of her death.
On the 29th of August last the prisoner came home
when deceased was in bed, dragged her out of it,,,
lye her a dreadful kick with his hobnail boot in the
mrehead. The next day, when one of the witnesses,
Mary M'Neny, was chi the house, the prisoner came
Proms to dinner. Deemed said to him, " You her.
killed me at last; when he replied, "The been kin
you, you—." On another occasion, when the wound
on deceased's forehead was nearly healed, the primater.
because deceased wanted to go to bed, struck ber a
violent blow on the head, which caused the old wound
to open and bleed afresh. The witness ICNany also
stated that deceased told her in the pressroom of the
prisoner that he had kicked heron both breasts • and
the night before ber death, when wittier asks' the
prisoner why lie did not ask his wife's forgiveness, ben.
"You thing, if you say another word I'll
throw you out at the window. I have killed her. I'll
kill another, and then cut my own throat." Hs was
sober at the time he made the statement. Prisoner,
however, was much given to drink, and had ezemunged
deemed to drink with him. On the morning after the
death of his wife the prisoner went out, received his
wages, and never returned to make any arrangement
for the funeral. At night he was locked up for drunken-
ness. The husband of the witness M'Nany, and brother
of the decamped, stated that he had frequently seen the
prisoner ill-use his wile; and on the night bdons she
died, when witness called to me deceased, the primmer
ordered him out of the house, and said Ire would not
hang for one, but would have two lives more. Mr.
Rallies adjourned the further Investigation of the mac.
COllOOB DIBCOVIIIIT.— A.x WWI OIANT.-011 Wed-
nesday, as two labourers in the employment of Mr. D.
Garry, Dromelihy, were digging potatoes, they chanced
to come in contact with a massive boulder, which re-
quired their united exertions to remove, having been
artificially set over four others, which formed an en-
closure of about two feet equate. But well repaid were
they for their labours, for having displaced it, they
found the contents to be a capper kettle filled with
silver Ocoee, each being worth about 10d,. and some of
which hear the date of 1510. This discovery, as might
be expected, created great sensation in the neighbour.
hood, and several of Mr. Garry's friends baying arrived
advised him to hires number of men to dig the hill, in
which they concluded, from the systematic arrangement
of the stones a few feet below the surface, there probably
would be found more hidden treasure. After having
spent two weary days at their labour, on the evening of
the third, aa they were beginning to despond, they per-
ceived some stones Bet in mason work, which they up-
turned with renewed energy, end succeeded in entering
a vault, which, to their surprise atid disappointment,
contained nothing but a leaden engin, about nine feet in
length. On taking off the lid (which, bye-the-by, was
considered very daring of them by the peasantry) they
beheld a human skeleton of massive proportions, the
thigh alone measuring 21t. llin.. and the cranium half
an inch in thickness. After baying expressed their sur-
prise in wild ejaculations, and gratified their curiosity
by examining the relics more minutely, they quietly
put on the lid, and" Let him sleep in the grave where
their fathers had laid him," taking care not to shut the
passage, so that all visitors may see the ooffin, but only
the favoured few his enormous bones. It Is supposed
by the inhabitants that the gigantic man was Bthoff,
who, we are told by tradition, lived thereabouts, and
was the terror of his enemies, but the idol of his friends.
—Clare lours&

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COMMITTAL 07 • FISALI lIROSTII.—On Tuesday
the young woman Mary Ann Jones, alias Hutton' alias
Williams, who bad been remanded on a charge of ha-
tare, was again brought up before the Wolver-
hampton borough magirtratea It was established that
she was the daughter of respectable working people
named Hutton. of Bundem, which plane she left of her
own accord after she had lived in the service of an
uncle, a grocer in that town. Since that time she has
been travelling in many parts of England, and obtaining
a livelihood, in prison and out, by bringing serious
charges against imaginary men. At one time she is
found on the roadside, ly i og dishonoured by three ruffians;
at others she is in the streets at midnight, throwing of
her clothing and preparing to drown bend/ ; agate she
Ii taken up partially insensible in the street also at
midnight, muttering about poison and seduction. On
I other occasions she is found in • fit at • railway station,
I and is removed to the hospital of the town; whilst on
I others, as in Wolverhampton. she alleged that she is
about to become • mother, and that her seducer has
forced her to take • poisonous drug. So Buoesieful
were her poison tricks at Eooleshall, in Staffordshire,
that two surgeons advised that her deposition should be
taken, and two magistrates were ailed out of church
on a Sunday, and were present whilst their clerk took
her statement. She had been taken to the hospitals of
Chester and Wolverhampton, and bad become so
notorious to the Cheshire constabulary that they had
her photographed. and labelled the kindnees ii %hate!
an incorrigible imposter. This photograph, and • large
' number of letters from different polies-stations, were
all produced on Tuesday, identifying the prisoner with
the impostures named, and the chief warden proved
seven convictions to the Stafford county gaol. The
magistrates committed her for trial.
The Globs of Wedne•day night states that Sir William
Atherton, has resigned the office of Attorney-General on
account of continued ill-health. Sir William Atherton
was offered the puisne judgeship, vacant by the appoint-
ment of Baron Wild* to succeed the late Sir Creswell
Crewmen, but his state of health compelled him to
relinquish all official work, and be has therefore,
deemed it his duty to resign the Attorney4enerMship.
Sir William Atherton is succeeded by Sir Roundell
Palmer, the Solicitor-GeneraL With the latter office
the name of Mr. Collier has been more than one.
mentioned by way of rumour, and in the present instance
it is not improbable that the rumour may prove well
founded.
Disgrarreful riota have taken place at Guildford,
occasioned by nothing but sheer wantonness and
brutality. There is a fair held ate village Dear the
town on the 4th of October, when, according to an old
charter, landlords are allowed to draw beer during
prohibited hours. The Sunday before the fair is known
as "Tap-up Sunday," and on that day •ricailar privilege
is accorded. A great deal of merriment generallym-
eans on these occasions, but on Sunday the ' fun"
degenerated into downright riot. Upwards of UM young
fellows took possession of the road leading to the village
during the day, and all passers-by were insulted, beaten,
and stoned. Coward-like, this mob had in the majority
of cases selected females as the objects of their demon-
stration, and several ladies were badly hurt with stones
and other missiles. At night matters got worse. The
police dare not interfere; and aU they Gould do was to
warn people from parsing along the road. Two or three
of the ringleaders of the disturbance have been appre-
hended.

About half-a-dosen seats in the Home of Commons
are vacant at the present moment. The death of Mr.
Ellice vacates Coventry, and the return of Mr. A. Peel
i.Azberal) seems almost assured. Reading is thrown up
Mr. Sergeant Pigott, who becomes a baron of the
elsequer, and Mr. Lefevre has not yet met with an
opponent. Lord Motley succeeds his father as Earl
Eleauebanip, and retires Irma Weal Worcestershire,
while Mr. Lygon, his brother, who has hitherto repre-
sented Tewkesbury, has issued his address for the seat
which his brother vacates. Lord Raynharn becomes
Marquis Townshend, and retiree from Tamworth,
where there is an animated contest, in which Sir
Robert Peel, the sitting member, and the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, is not taking • very dignified part. And,
finally, the death of Mr. Potts calls for new writ far
Barnstaple. At the latter place a sharp contest is
anticipated. Mr. Richard Bremridge will be the Con-
servative candidate, whilst the Liberal' will he
represented by Mr. Thomas Lloyd, of Birmingham, a
gentleman of capital business habits and high standing.
A Fanoclooe ItAr.—A shocking ciresmstans•

occurred ou Wednesday, to a child nine mouths old, •
daughter of Er. U. Elliot, fishumeger, Cockeraeoutli.
It appears that Mr. Elliot is rather fond of such natural
curiosities as white rata and mice. On the afternoon
before mentioned the infant was left in the hones by
itself for • short while, and one of the nits, getting
loose, attacked the poor child, nearly de the
dish on its right arm and face. The child was at
discovered in that state and at once rescued.

ATTIDITTZD &CAM room Gam..-Boms weeks ago
two men, named Writheil and WCarthy wire sen-
tenced to 20 years' penal servitude for burghuioual./
entering the shop of a draper at Exeter. Being wg
in the Exeter Gaol, WCarthy attempted to make his
wimps on Sunday morning. He had manufactured a
file out of a spoon, and had made • rope out of blanket.
With the aid of these he had actually got out of his cell
over the inner walla While in the sot of climbing the
outer wall, however, he was seen by some one. An
alarm was raised, and a police-oMoer named Barns-
oombe, being near, dealt him • blow on the head with
his staff, which knocked him off the wall, and b• fell
heavily to the ground. The fellow's cleverly contrived
plan warn thus frustrated just u he bad almost seceopial
in carrying it into effect.
A Carlisle newspaper steles that the murrain, or
foot and mouth disease, an epidemic that for many
years past has attacked cattle, sheep, and swine, broke
out amongst the drove. of Highland sheep on their
road from Falkirk Tryst to Cumberbied. "This is
much to be lamented, adds our contemporary, "be-
muse the north country sheep law moditioe when under
its influence, although fatal eases seldom seem; and be-
cause the probability is that disease will be sommeuel-
rated to the native docks and herds ot t!lis exaste7."

---A-E3t7mileriii-Tu-itiaiiTe:rl7:o; -ACT—Within the 'Wound
of the Newcastle time gun lives a family in whom
service was a blooming young waitlutsid, whom, for
want of a better name, we shall Jernima Hann.
Her charms attracted a suitor who perfidiously repre-
sented himself as a single man, although he bad already
given six pledgee to society for his good behaviour, but
showed by his conduct that he bad no Intention of
redeeming them. Jemisna Hann becoming, however,
...re of the fact got ready • plentiful =nay of white-
wash in anticipation of his next visit. In due time it
was paid. and tba family Jennies taxed him with doming
there under false colours. William 111111 th6t2tstildre
p was u, and emdeavoured to make his exit as as
possible. in obedience to an order to that eat. Hs
was stopped on the way, however, by his Jeminia, who
blandly
Inuired, in apparent surprise at his heal
retreat, W.hatt William, are you joie( ahead/
t times MUnared something about not be* well. apa
endeavoured to pam on, when down came a ite dokr
upon his dsvot.ij head, poured with unerring am by
fair band of the outraged JOZIIIOIIII. He gave • gasping
you, and blindly sou/lithe door. His appiersam WU
most ludicrous sad y, and if Professor Pepper bad
NOM him hhe might have mistaken the strange oorm"et
his own m illuskm, which on its route to the
theatre lost its way. His troubles, however, Will
not over, for Jandma, bred by her wrongs, belaboured
him with the empty pall and other weapons of offence
as vigorously, that his yells for mercy brought • member
of the family to his rescue, and he was then Permitted
to make his mospe in a miserable pickle, • wiser but a
sadder assa.—Nowaalik Chrgiiide.