The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1869.

A LIED* beerhoine keeper. narurd Hannah Lavereok,
hu been eonvicted of perinittieg dru•kinness in hrr
bowie, and the present being the defrodant's third
offence within 18 months, the magistrates ordered that
her house should be closed, No far as regards the sale of
tear, for • period of two years.
EQUAL in importanee with a reduction In the pries of
tee, is its parity. 'rho Chinese face or color the lea
intended for the Ejll.h market with mineral powder,
to hide the worthless brown leaves. Ileum. Hernia:um,
London, disallow this objectionable practice on their
import., and therefore guarantee reliable quality,
strength, and cheapness.
'urgent-BM EXPERIIIEST.—PIane on the upper bar
of • grate, with the beads projecting about one in,h
inwards. eome ordinary Lucifers—in • few moment
they ignite. Thin in the some position plane • few of
the Pewits Keret, Matches of Bryant and Ley, Ltorion
erhich ignite only on the boo), and it will be found
that they may remain for hours in fact, until the weed
becomes literally charred- without taking are. We
look on this as a singularly interesting confirmation of
the stfety of the new match. Care must be taken in
both cases to scold actual oontact with .me.

SISOrLAII APPLICATI.). UNIAII TOO POO--O•LAW Act.
At Wigan, the relieeing 411 or applied for an order
under the Poor-law Amendment Act, 1867-8, to apply
the amounts due and accruing to a woman named Mary
Itaaty, under an order in bastardy, to the support of
hereof( and her child in the workhouse. The applicant
stated (bat it was quite common for women in a similar
position to Beaty's to go Ito the workh ins. for a time
to be maintained at the expense of the ratepayer., and
when seems of money bad siccurred to them they game
out and spent it in a wasteful manner, dter which he,
were again ready to brooms charge;bie to the publia
The, .ag• et .w.granted the order.
1-20,060 ton HaSaCii or —An American
jury h•ve jui-t apprsieed the blighted bop • of • kliee
Amanda Craig et the very respect ibis figure of £lO,OOO.
flip heard. punished deceiver is Mr. R. P. Sprague, of
Chicago and he is report .a to have the comfortable
fortune of 1106,000. This millionaire lady-killer was,
It seema, in the habit of resorting to the many arts of
beautifying known to Madame Rachel. and these
attn.:mune, probably coupled arab tho-e of his fortune,
1•03 the admiration of Rim Amanda 0-els. They were
betrothed, the trousseau was bought, the wedding
iguest• were invired, when on a sudden ti•e lover die-
appearel,and suited his fickle, fancy with another spoOSS.
The jeiy bays meted out speedy and condign punish.
in-ut in h• way we have stated.

Tee CHANNEL TONNEL.—On That aday the Right Hon.
John Bright, Preddent of the Board of Trade, gave an
intervi,w, to a deputation from the committee a
promoters of the propoeed communic tion between
England and France by • submit-lie tunnel from Dover
to • point near Cape Blanc Nei, on the French nowt.
Lord Richard Grosvenor, 11. P., chair no in of the corn.
mittee of promoter", in introducing ths deputation,
Implanted the progress that had been made in promoting
the undertaking. The pr .ject had been submitted to
thy Emperr Napoleon and the French Goveroment, by
whom &commission of meatier) men had been spool t,il
to er•mine. inquire, and report. Ths oommission had
reported favourebly on the sob- no. and its practicability.
The promoters ventured to think that, lean import int
international work of this character it would not be
unreasonable on their part to look for • certain degree
of material eneouragement and support from the two
governmeots. They accordingly respectfully asked that
the Governments of England and France would each
guarantee 21 per cent, up in two millions sterling, to be
•pplied to arming two ',wall.' mining beadinp or
drifting; from alum to shore. The French Government
wrote' to know what action the English Government
would take in the mattsr, and it was the oliject of the
ctromitteei In waiting upon Mr. Bright to request She
Government through hint, and mitt his support, to take
the subject into ounsiderstroo. Mr. Bright asked •
number of questions. chiefly aoncerniog engineering ,
points and touching the practicability of the scheme.
The questions were answered to the satisfaction ap-
parently of the right bon. gentlemnn. who engaged to
take an early opportonity of bringinz the matter under
the consideration of the Cebiost. Lord It. Grosvenor
thanked Mr. Bright for the courteous ant cordial
interview be bad granted to the deputation, which
thereupon withdrew.
DIaT•LaSING Walt A? DIWNINOTOI.—A corns.
pondent, verities to • eonlemporery, says:—" Healer's
'Pig and Whistle' is a block of oeitages situate in the
parish of Allowenabay, a few hundred yards from the
Crown Inn, Dinntnuton, on the road to Lopen and
Seavington. Two of these cottage' belong to Mr.
Harris, of Ilutinster. and, until Wednesday last, have
been occupied by Jsmes Pester, his wife, and three
children in oat, sad Cuarles Dean, his wife, and three
ebildren, in the other. By some menus both (maim
had git considerably behind with the rent, and Ms.
Harris determines' to astride for the arrears and then
turn them out, and for that purpoes went, with the
sberirs Gel Cr, on the day in qaestion. When they
came, the deplorable state in which both familiar
were living so shocked them, that, they would
not proceed to take the goods, but told
the families that, if they would quietly give up
possession of the houses and take away the goods, the
rent would be forgiven them. This the (wadies gladly
agreed to do, and took their traps to the crown Inn,
Mr. Coombs kindly allowing them to be deposited in a
spars room no lii the tmople ahould get other places to
live in. To have any idea bow these people lived, the
places should have been seen immediately previous to
the goods being removed. The walls down stairs sad
the beams over head were as bl.ck as twenty years of a
smoky chimney eoeld make them, sad the floors,
upstairs and down, did sot appear ashf they had had the
benefit of soap and water for many a lon day. In both
instances, the goods downstairs were of the poorest and
most poverty-strictest kind, and looked as if they bad
done duty for many generatroos. But moteirs was by
far the worst, In each house was a bedstead, of the
worst porible hied. but not a vestige of • bed or bed-
clothes oould be mien. There Ira. a tangled mess of rope
in one moo made fast to a bedstead, which did duty as •
sacking, and an old seek or twn laid on the top? In the
other case, • seek of oat-dust was an apology for • bed.
In a corner in both hours was a heap of straw, got very
short from long usage, with, a small rug of carpet in one
house and an old ••4 to the other, and on these heaps the
children slept It does not appear that either cottage
has been whitewashed since first built, toeety I•Ers
ere. The two women and four childrea wandered about
lOinnington all th• afternoon and eveniag, and at mid-
night no good Samaritan team found. So they 'lad'ed
in • hayfield. A person came along jest at these psi; I.
were about to lie down on the hay, and, after 1111,1211
t..ein • tries to buy eomething to eat In the morning,
perau•ded them to return to Ins villmos and beg some
one to take them in, which they did, bat where they
passed the met of the sight is not known. Those
People are all natives of Dinnington, and have relations
there. The fermiers in both outlaws' is not worth a
crown-piece."