The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-25 00:00:00

A SERVANT GIRL'S ADVINTURI WITH A

E2O NOTE.

Priscilla Jona Is in the custody of the Cheshire
polio', at Neat..., charged, on rentaal, with stealthe •
/.110 note under extraordinary oircuintstaness. Early
this week the prisoner called on Mr. Wood, jeweller,
at Neetoa, sad said elm wanted to puratiase a gold
watch. Me selected one valued at £3 158., and pur-
chased • gold guard chain, • sliver bracelet, • set of
earring., and • brooch, Modeling in payment • £2O
note. Mr. Wood, regarding this with suspicion,
questioned the girl, who replied that her father gave
it her to procure good.; that he had been engaged
in coal mine in Wale.; that the proprietors bad
failed, and that Mr. Gleistone n*l bengal tn• mine
and paid up ths men's wages, £99 being her father's
armor.. 13u plausible was the gide 'try that Mr.
Wood let her have the jewellery, cashing the note for
bar. Prism's thee want to coiner shop. in the t we,
buying hate pairs of fashionable high-heeled boots. •
for tippet, • pair of fancy gloves, and other articka
of ladles' attire. When Mr. Wood, becoming sus-
picious, mat to see the prisoner, who is • servant
with two ladies, at Perkgare, ..he boldly denied ever
being in Wood's shop. She was arrested, and then
orsdes.ed the whole of her adventure with the £2O
outs, which she said she plated up in her miatreeee
bedroom.

TUB Qoahn will, it 4 reported, proceed to the Continent
In rhe
FATAL nwOOTINO Arm/arr.—While • perty of iwitiv-
mon Nora atwutiut on., thy groodo of Wows. 0. •wvhsy,
In Daus Forest, R chard Jon... • better, .11. d 18 yowl.
ww sccidwital y .hot in the awns and ClZOltdly .minded.
A SAD accident ha occurred at 0 Amman. Soave day.
as° in. o.lat.rat.i Latin wholar, agitor Lo the
hirwerian at the Ualvervity of MA Kovno, fell fil.r.rn the
hit in the Umeersity building, and reoeived each !Worm
tnt he died shortly after wards.

flog G1N11106117. —By a gen-ral suhroristion the
*ono,. and pottuoo4 the Eastern Csi.tral Dist•ict Offioe
have mot to the widow" lusi Inwill.. if their I tie b:otir r
ofiloar. • malt Christina, preset, consisting of a piece ot
condlinenta for • plum pudding, ii and cake. sad •
supply 01 WSW, as • SOLNA Luken 01 synspagh, for tOO lON
el the bread-wunarr.
SOICIDI a? ON HOTIL.—KuIy on Friday morning •
person named Oeoluos, who lived in Me Mortlake-road,
Kew, btu rho had been staying at Bond's private hot.ii.
Norfolkutreet, tltrand, shot himself while In his room
with • samara. No cause is areiguad for Nis act. Tha
drosased'a wile Na. ataying 111• LI WIN at the housl at the
14010 of the occurren

Slit WILLIAM IiaIiCOUST, MP., presided on Friday
night at • compliments y dinner given at Derby to dr.
Spaitht, fat, Aida oaf genfoal meatier of the Kt Wend
!toilet ay Coiapany. to be it I "maid Eastland to become
oba'rama of Itta Colutotrion of 11,torian Rti. 's.
The presentation cooustod of • imolai 01 plata wed ttl 000

AT • priest* meeting ol the Ilid.Linooloshirs Liberal
Associistlon, held at Lincoln, on Friitily. Lrl Mons in in
the char. it was decid.l to c int $t ti, &views at ths
next election, and • committee woe appointed to [slake
the necesatry •rrangernionta for the selection of • candidate.
To• eittins members tor to. division ars Yr. Henry
Onsplin and the Hon. K. St 'shops.

THRODOILZ MUT. • W•ii.k 00W• borne dealer
Paris, sh.it Lim..ll on Weduseday 0•1111,ni on the quay
near the Pont de la Conoorde Death was inatant.ii
He an. in hoe wren's-third year. Ms canoe of ton suie,de
ie said t Lave been Uoi lose of a law emit In eonnection
with a 0 irarnisoot contract.

TEILIUBLE TRACIIDT.—A Pale bookseller. named Weise.
who wee to hare besn married on Touviday, waived this
mut of • „lsestilrd mu s ree• who, while he wet in the
not of giving bet s last ern.sreoe et bey request, planted
• Mauer into hie throat. Sh• then drew a revolver cod
Shot herself, it is believed mortally. Weise died Immo-
dietsly.
SHOCKING SUICIDE. —Oa Friday Mr. WitWatley
Her &&&&& • cotton stoner I. vod eircnrastenom at
Eccles and Petricrott, shot himself ln the hood with •
pi. eel ha ea wielt.e.. hilanrhester When eos.
veysd t the Intinnary ha wee found t/ b• dead. H. was
sooat 50 yams of age. No reason le assigned for tee
(Ad am.

FATAL Aggifixtrr AT Nisi Kims.—On Friday insetting •
'hoaxing eacidant occurrsd et No, m. Gods Station,
on the Lmadon and 8 iath-West wn 13" Sway. A man
named West end another man named John lethal were
engaged is shunting trucks by means of a horse, when
locomotive came along unperceived from the appal to
direction and ka •alrad them down. They were plated up
and conveyed to St, Toottirde Hospital, where West wa•
pronounced to be dead, and Imam had received such
injuries to his feet that it we, necessary to amputate
them.

A Domestic TRAOMM.—A laly whilst engaged in her
duties encountered a mouse in the dour barreL Now.
most ladies would hay. attired • fee genulnii2lllll
and then sought safety in the garret; this one
MN • than the or linary degree of courage. Ca .um
mooed the manservant and told him to get the gun, call
the dog, ant station himaell at • c .nvenient dlstance.
Then sae clambered had- way upstairo and c imsuinced to
punch the d or barrel w•tb a pole. Presently the mouse
made its appearance on to. dare. Ta• dog at once went
Is pursuit Tbe man fired and the dos diopped dead.
The lady fainted and fell down the stairs, and the man,
thinking that she was killed, sod fearing that he would
be arrested for iner.ler, disappeared, and he hes not been
lien alma. The mouse mosped.