The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-07-13 00:00:00

General Iletws.

Arnim= WOHDrIt AND Suirms.—On Tneaday,
Byine, a pensioner, an elderly man, residing
Devnoport, stebbed his wife above tbp. right ear with a
knife, and afterwarh tried a, bang hiumell. It seems
Ida wife had been drinking bard.

ACCIDENT TO A Juntir.lllr. Joshua Le Reilly. one of
the 12 jurats elected for life to occupy the bench in
Jersey, on driving to church on Sunday afternoon was
run away with by the bore. He abiesi OP to tke
parriage to get a better a iunnana of the anini.l, and his
bead was knocked againi.t • rock that bounded the row'.
He was afterwards thrown out, and the wheel paawd
over his heed. He lies in it pr.narioui state. The most
soefritohue skull.
sof liis injuries is • fracture of the external bone

SUPPER AND SCICIDE.—A respectably-dresie I M/11.
accompanied 11 • youtig woman. ordi red supper, on
Tueoday +lick, in • priv•te room at Brebant's. Paris.
About four in lb° moruiug be called for the bill, and
appeared to ho on the point of paying it, when be all of
•su,ltl.m went outside the door and fired four shots of a
revolver into his own body. On the people of lb. house
rushing to the spot they found him dead on the floor.
The body was removed to the Morgue, sod the girl was
provisionally arrested.

Tut Nitw SaraMD BATOMIT.—The introduction in the
army of a saw-backed sword bayonet is one of tha latest
recommendations of the late petfial cummittee of breech-
loading small arms. This implement. it seems, will
Fevre the soldier both in camp and field. Its penctra•
ties effect on an enemy was demonstrated by its being
driven with comproative ease clean through a (dead
sheep, with the wool on, draped in an infantry great-
cast! The sheep was subsequently cut up into joints,
and the shin-bone of an on sawn through. The soldier
cm thus not only kill his enemy, but with great rue
clear away wood, and obtain material. for fasciae' and
gabions, and even cut down large timber. The eon'.
mita.: bare also recommended the reintroduction of
mnstle-stoppera. Without these useful appendages rain
or dust is liable to rater the barrel, entailing additional
dimming.
EaRLT CLOIRING.—No doubt tho early closing move-
ment is an ex.:silent thing within proper bounds, but
it will be well to remember the wisdom contained in
the following paragraph, which we cut from that
in,:nth's Gentleman's .11ageszine
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Mr. Jame. !Lanier, the Arneriewn aublisher, pflaWaltall much
of the peculiarly practical and phil.....phlati character of the
famom printer, Franklin. A few days before the sal itocident
which endod Mn life, he .arid something quite worthy of
prototype. " What .1.1 you think iif the • eight-hour law and
thaw strikes?" he was "ha, labouring /WM Pault-,er
achieve a competency by working eight Ileum • day. seat,
had hoed to be studying funs Isttie we tan work, but Mug
muck.
Here is another vie, of the :natter : 4
A correspaulont of the Tiotos suorerbt a •'('aali or Early
Payment Assuciati .... ," whieh ...odd very iikelf. be as personally
interesting it. Its ha...Y[lll6N to tinny .4 the aristocratic "early
pitmen!" as the present tiloVetileld. An hide. w Son ant" per
fluently asks- while folly admitting thal it is very kind of
their minders and inbtresses to help shop assistants to eniey
What must be the c dalition of many who work
ntawai her,, and *cry frequent!) twenty hours day. Sunday.
inclutksi !in many obliged to Masa their work to jo
ta chureh tap sae 'wet..., left madame those thing. we ought to
have done,' wide/lit a holiday for years utilesa they threw them-
selves. iiut apt situatlim.er for *mu: frivolous net get dischanfed ;
pint. Idris drudging in tottl 111111.1p4rotilid wullerkss till after
midnight before they get to land, ta rise again a...1y in the
111..rIlitig tins! and lidlatted. taloll itip the +ans. taltplOynwnt
.Ist after day and year after ysar? Surely, one of the fifty
mask and distinguisned talk., resent, with the assistance of
the 2.W ladles who heap' Jointsl the sociity, anal with the
assistanoe of Ifr. Farr, might do something for thi•
claw. also." l'hilanthrein i• often far-sighttal--uan P.m into the
twat street, but not into Its own kitchen.

Trig POWER OF RIDICULE. —John Brown, about GI
years of age, was found lying in • atreet in Liverpool,
bleeding exceasively from • wound in the anm. About
twelve months ago he tuanied a woman so much
younger than himaelf, that his fellow workmen have
continually annoyed him by chaffing him about the dis-
parity of the union. His wife was now confined, and
the old man's dread of being ridiculed by his comrades
was so great that he absented himself from work, and
spent the day in drinking. Wlmn he was examined by
the polise-offieer a razor was found upon him. The
exhaustion, °enactment upon the wound inflicted by
the old man upon himself, was in greet, that he in said
to be in • dangerous state.
DRENSMAKISES. BILLIS.—In these days, when Fashion
has on many votaries, husbands will act wisely if they
refrain from giving their wives a carte blanche in ill,
matter of dress. The dresamaker's account which the
Plincesa et Metternich aubmifted to her huaband last
week, before leaving Paris, was 112,000 franca (1:44*))-
Unlike Prince Itariatiwki, who last month afly sa-
fen d to pay 10.000 frar.co (E 400 for • "petit toilette de
with* es rripe de Chime," bin Excellency the Austrian
Ambassador opened his pose like a ponce. Madame
Ii Princeerie then produced the bnunet bill, which
atuount-d to 2250 francs (1.310) This Excellency paid
again, remarking this time, with esiemplsey resignation,
" My dear. I have noticed that in proportion as your
bonnets diminizb in cue the price of them increases.
One of these tnarninga we shall be having the milliner
bringing nothing but the bill."

DIAsIPATION AND ATTE/111'AD SUICIDE.—At
Lanoline ton, on Saturday, Thomas Pend ry, who formerly
held • iesoonsible position on the Midland RAiIWAT. was
biought up in cust.dy, charged with attempting to
commit suicide by cutting his throat. The prisoner was
found in his bolnwom in the act of cutting hi. throat
with his pocket-knife. He wee removed to the Warneford
Hospital, where it was found he hail alio stabbed
himself 13 times about thechest. Though still in • low,
despoodiog state. Mr. Morris, the bonasaurgeon, thought
he might be safely discharged, but his friends declined
to take charge of him, as his disaipated halite had hat
him several situations and nearly ruined his faniily ;
they therefore desired that be might be committed for
trial, in the hope that • term of imprisonment would
result in his reformation. The prisoner was remanded
with • view of his being committed for trial.

WHAT BICOXV4 OF THE nits? The revenue of
Great Beitain is the latest in the known world. yet
with all or wealth, o Retailer proportion of it is sptrit
upon the Iluvrtetnent itaelf then in other Europ,an
!Atte., as the following comparibon d revenue appro-
priations will olverly prove
. _ . .

r . -
Per mnt. INT malt. Per rent.
Pr 11.0411 1911W1.1% 2/; ..n War F0n.....5. 17 ..t. Debt, 57 nu the Stab:.
11”..i.s .. 31 ~
Spain „ .25 1i f.7 „ ..
PorPagsl „ :31 23 ..
An.tris „ 29 27 .. 44 .. ..
..
FrAn....,... ~. 26
.. 31 „ 41 ..

Gruat untalit 43 43 7.1.
It follows from this etatement that while those Mx
Mates spend a large proportion of their national income
upon the Government, we 'mind 85 pa Gent, of pure on
debt and war.

AN .%I.GCRISK CA3I or ALDUCTION. —A curious trial
lOC abduction with violence has just takes plane at
Constantine, in Algeria. The principal prisoner WWI
Fated boo Cherie of the tribe of Cheurfas, who, with
three other natives, was accused of carrying off
the wile of All ben Need. Fattul pleaded an alibi, end
produced witnessed who endeavoured to show that he ,
was sleeping in his own tent on the night in question. I
The woman, who had returned to her husband ten days I
after the abduction, was among the persons calamine&
She is a stark-ski-suet ill-looking virago, apparently I
about 35 years of age, althou2h peeling for 20, and
hoeing been, moreover, twice divorced. When ques-
tioned, site declared that the men who had carried her
off was Messaouil, one of her former husbands. Title
native was, however. in alert, and being confronted
with the woman, answered, " Why 'heel.' I do that?
If I bad not had enougli of her, I should oot have
obtained a divorce. I had nothing but trouble with her
during the three months ehe was my wife. She paseed
nil the day gossiping at the fountain, and slept at eight
with the cattle, but never under my tent." Aldjia then
said that she had left her huslund because he beat her.
To this All ben Noun replied, "You know, your honour,
that women sometimes want a little "—here the wits' s,
terminated his phrase with a very significant gesture
imitating the twirling round of a stick—" but when she
disappeared I had not beaten her for a long time;
besidee we were in the El kid el Keblr." The judge
"What is that r Ali ben Noun: "After the feast of
the sheep or that of the Pilgrimage we may not beat our
wives for • weak." The judge: " The feast ought then
to last all the year round." The court eventually
sentenced Fatmi to ten years' Imprisonment, sod the
three other accused to five years of the same punishment.
Foaollte HT e DISApoisTsD Love& —A young
fellow of le, Daniel Francis Forbisher, was charged on
Tuesday, at Leeds uitb forging a Yost-officio order.
Prisoner's father was formerly postmaster at Selby, in
Yorkshire, and, on his resigning, the son filled the office
until • sueoessor wu appeinted. Siege that time pri-
soner hid oesasioually visited the new postmaster,
and on May 3lrt he we, at Selby on one of these visite.
Two days after he had left, Mr. Glen, the postmaster,
missed an order from his stook in the office, and at ',nee
communicated with the postal authorities. On June
7th, prisoner posted the following lettei : "To the
Secretary of the General Post Office, Lou lon. Sir—l
write these few lines to say I am guilty of making •
post offise order out for EMI, on Marsh-lane, Leeds, film
Selby. lam really sorry for what I have done, but by
you get thls note Pshall have killed my self by drowning.
AU, tied have mercy on my soul, for I am in misery, so
my youthful days have owns to grief, and it has been
all through a girl, named —. I do really love her, and
if she had only consented to have loved nu as she did
once I should not have done this. Tell my father,
mother, sister, and brother not to cry, but be cheerful,
and try to forget me. It is for the best. My last
siguture, Francis Forbisher. My poor soul. My
father's address in Beetle Sown, Desubury." The
, prisoner did not, however, carry out his threat of wea-
-1 netting suicide, but on Tuesday last gave himself up to
I the polies at Leeds. He confessed that he bad
shstrscted the advice-note, filled up the order, and
placed the advice-note in the Leeds letter-bag. He
Icalled at the post-office in Leeds on June :kJ, and drew
the £lO. The magistrate committed the prisoner for
trial at the forthcoming Duke&
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Ti VOLUNTIIIIII AT- WIIIBLADON.-0111 Volunteers
are enjoying their anousi holiday at Winshlsilon•
Some amusement is caused by the elaberats Pre'
"...rations made for shooting comfortably. Some of the
crack shots are waited upon by an attendant bearing a
perfect mountain of "fining." He carries "besides the
rifle, a Got k mattress covered with °debit', .0 that his
touter inay lie at fall length upon his stomach without
touching the grass, should it please him to shoot in
that position; a camp-stool, • tnpod gulent like •
lanidsurveyor's instrument, an air-cushion, a telescoPe,
and a variety of special apparatus around his neck and
about his back and sheet, suspended by strap, which
cross, morose, and intertwine until hole lake the I,socosin
in leather." What would Sir Charles Napier have said !
Perhaps, when the shore. of England are invaded.
the enemy will be polite enough. not to fire until our
brave defenders have arranged their air.cmilsions, camp
stool., cork insttresace, and other comforts; forbear
from charging, perhaps until the liriti sh Volunteer low
enjoyed his cup of coffee or twain of mottonliroth.
Perhaps, however, he may he rashly impetuona. and
fire or charge with such alacrity that our riflemen
will be inspirited by their example, piteb camp-stools
and mattresses to the dense, and only think of Bring s's
quickly is they can, It was the famous old hochiel
who kicked a snow-pillow from beneath his eon's head,
with an el:elongation of therm{ at effeminacy. hir
Volunteer., who will, we know, be just as ready for
work, should it be needful, as they are for play now,
need not be so terribly hardy as that; but, as they
would not like to be called " feather.bed ;soldiers," it
would ha as well to reim•li.bel that "evriquittrw,u"
estann.ace 'Mil' Auly