The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-06 00:00:00

THE BILECHZR SCANDAL-A NICE LOT.

New York papers to hand state that Henry C. Bowen
has been expelled from Plymouth Church by the unani-
mous vote of the members. It will be remembered that a
fortnight ago, when the resolution for his expulsion was
offered, his counsel, Dr. Ward, of the Independent,
obtained an adjournment to 'fiord his client an
ty to prepare an argument, whereby he would
opportunity
why the resolution should not be paused. This
was granted, and the lecture-room wee filled at the
adjourned meeting, as were also the parlours on the side,
by •
urns desirous of seeing the last of this contest Mrs.
er, with her daughter-in-law, was present, but
Henry Ward Beecher was absent The resolution, as put
to the meeting, was "that Henry C. Bowen be, and he
hereby is, excommunicated and cast out from the fellow-
ship of this Church."

AN ELOPEMENT FRUSTRATED.
SCTUM AT • 11.11ILW•T STATION.

Late on Sunday night an ti-n-u-sUalce.was witnessed
at Warrington Railway Station. The wife elan operative
living in a neighbouring village had arranged to elope
with • minister, and both had arrived at the station to
catch the London train ea room for America, but the
Injured husband had obtained tidings of what WY &firm;
and made his way to the platform in time to frustrate the
design. His first proceeding was to belabour the amorous
=Yman with • heavy stick in the presence of the
on officials, and he did not came his castigation until
he considered himself fairly 'reused. With his wife he
was more gentle, and confined himself to a verbal remon-
strance, although, it is stated, she confessed to • very
unpleasant fact. The incident terminated in the return
of the woman with her husband, and the complete dis-
comfiture of the "minister."

ANOTHER INVENTION FOR MURDER.
The Tune. of fudge aye ' A pistol that can kill at 600
Tads hat bum_ patented by Captain Burton. The butt is
that of ap. ordinary pistol ; the barrel is that of • good
rifle, cut %kart, but leaving sufficient ' turn ' to send the
bullet on its errand with the proper spin. The chief
object is to send a rifle bullet at an enemy or at game
without having to use the shoulder, especially when on
horseback. To accomplish this the barrel is fitted with a
steel handle to be grasped by the left hand, while the arm
Is extended u in archery. The recoil is scarcely felt; it
dote not affect the firer so much as the kick to the
shoulder would do. The pistol can also be used with one
hand like an ordinary pistol. The inventor has also pro-
vided a patent safety bullet, which will explode as •
shell when it crashes against the bones of large game, but
will pass through brushwood or through the skin of a
wild animal like an ordinary balL It will not explode if
let fall upon its apex, but if ftred into • box of ammunition
It will blow up everything."

WATIOSS'ININE WINE for Sixteen Years has
been universally admitted to be the beet Tonic known,
and a useful and agreeable accompaniment to Cod
Liver OIL "We can bear personal testimony to its
value as • tonic."—Strusdard.—Agents for Weymouth,
D. Plimsoll and BON, Grocer.; Shaftesbury, G.
KEESLEY, Wine and Spirit Merchant. Wholesale,
WATERS and SON, Xi, Eastchean, London; and
LEWIS and CO,. Worcester.
Tar CHIEF CONS/ABLE at BM3enWM*ll.—Oct of 96
applicants for the vacant post of Chief Constable at
Birmingham the Watch Committee of the Town Council
have selected Major Bond, of the Bengal Arm_y, Chief
Constable of Cr.Lff, and formerly Chief of Police at
Psehawur. The missy attached to the °Moe is £7OO a
year.
" DOCTORED" SEIDL —ll. Cale of considerable interest
to the agricultural public was heard on Thursday in the
Common lies' Division, in London, before Mr. Justice
Lbidley. Mr. Clarks, a nurseryman and retail seedanan
or Wellington, in Somersetehire, was sued by Mesas.
Horschits and Co., seed merchants, in London. for a
sum claimed for certain parcels of trifolium seed
purehsied last autumn. The defendant ref used payment
on the pound the seed proved worthier, and produced
scientific evidence of its having been "doctored." Judg-
ment was recorded on behalf of the plaintiffs, on the
pound that no guarantee was riven with the side, Leese
being given, however, to the defendant to move the full
court.
THROAT IliluTATION.—The throat and windpipe are
especially liable to inflammation, causing soreneas and
tickling and irritation, inducing cough and
M:tietr the voice. For them symptoms use glycerine in
the form of jujubes Glycerine in these agreeable con
frictions, being in proximity to the glands at the moment
thtar. excited by the act of sacking, becomes actively
. &I. and is. boxed (by poet 14 stamps),
"JAKE' EFTS 4 Co., Homceopathic Chemists, 40,
Threadneedle Street, and 170, Picedilly, London."—Sold in
Weymouth by J. Y WiLuallt, Chemist, 23, si. Albans
Row
KETlLsOiuingsßY Lair. —A. most curious circumstance
happened at Mountain Ash on Friday evening. About
six o'clock a collier boy, named Rees Wllliams aged 14
Inn Oen amusing himself by playing with in a
gagat anin=yen Soddenly • man made ihis appear-
and the boy with stones. The boy
became frightened, and took to his heels down the field, at
the bottom of which was a very large and deep atone
quarry. The boy failing to pull up in time to save him-
self from going over this dangerous precipice, resolved to
make a fearful leap over, which he did maintaining his
Isettinz pad Con till he reached theaqa. depth of 60
eta strange to state, he hied, comparatively
speaking nothing the Wolle for his rap.
A dant at fieldmice writes the six men
who were hanged for complicity in the asseasination of
the consuls were untioubPdly among the actual
mum.... Thai were, however, notorious as
and oonssquently were move likely to have been LT lra
by Mbar than to have OrrAnated the crime. When
out to execution each refused usi.stance, salaried the rope
for himself, and kicked the stool f rceu under his feet. The
being corderitad in secret, owing to the
= was
tyo( obtaining evident*. More than onsliundred
=were in among them baize the former
and all the Turkish members of the govoruingbo2
It of &lank& was not thought likely that that w
be ones ads of violence while the sarawei,way
los the bay.