The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-13 00:00:00

Deus ant; 11/ints.

Mr, Edwards, M.P., hos been out where they 1
ehowed him '• Meol John " of Bulga-is, the demon or ,
the maniac who murdered many of the tlerere of ,
his fellow isiuntrytnen, anti who otherwise imitated ,
the Bashiltazooks. I am 11.1'. told whether they
showed Mr. Edwards a Circassian, or a fftwtl or two;
but t Air mem' tir cont. es his review of nntrtlerers ;he i
goes to Adrianople, where the Jefferie.-like eseeittions
were so numerous that, fer fear of remarks, they were
olilettl to remove the place. for these horrible
massa,res by law, and amuse themselves on the sly
instead, in rose covered villages. Should Mr. Edwards
he able to get further north, he may arrive at
PIIMPAtolis or Ratak, where girls' skulls by the ecore
peeped from graves, near to long tresses that the 1
Turks used to hold other people's daughters by, while
they cut their heads lie may vet find Bulgarian
edit. d-mistresses almost imhecile with sh .me ant tpain,
end I only pray that he may not see any tone fall into
the power of a Kurth or he may cease to wonder at, !
though he will still, as all fus do, loathe Mad John.
I know that Mr. Edwards's hetrt is leading him
onw.trtl, to enquire into and relieve suffering, or I
would urge him to return from that Moslem-cursed
land. But there's deep comfort in the thought that
%tr. Edwards will show to the Successor el' the
Selteors-suicitle and to an d y modern Gehazi—(ihazi)
a bright example, not of an " English Radical," but
of an English and Christian gentleman, desirous to
show the love and mercy of the Cross.

Our Municipal Election will, I hope, explain to
those nouhliedieaded people who SO freely mix up
political parties, a matter on which they are wofully
at net. Thi the clear and unmistakable (to any
candid mind) difference which there in between the
Liberals and Radicals. So fozgy are their ideas
on this subject that `UMW of them have had
the impertinence to drag in the name of
our beloved member, Mr. Edwards, into a
leelltleig in, and, with an effrontery that they would
not itire to exercise when he was near, they first style
bun "an English Radical," and then add insult to
injury by admitting an insinuation that our connistent
Liberal member in a " Conservative at heart"—that
is, that he professes principles "(twined to th .se which
he believes to be right. Nese, let them mark an out-
ward and visible sign of the distinction between the
Li'ierals and that (may by whose name they are
tint of calling ttione imp eted to them. Mr.
Walker will not find fault with mime, I believe, if I
style 1 • a Radical, and by the Radicals he was
supported thron4h thick and thin, hr fact. no deter-
mined Wit, the Radieal support 4iven him that tothis
!new, I am utterly amazed how straightforward men
smith an Mr. Oeutiis could have stesl by the tun:inn-1. ,
lif Syroorsht A. The only popilple explanation in the
Radicalism e, ti t e two and to Mr. Wallis,
tehieli produced a fidelity quite mistaken and I blixotie,
while the differeuce be,..ween that 1401e:dhoti and
Liheraliton in manifeSt in the opposition given Mr.
Walker by Mr. Ilanoe, Mr. t lark', an I such old and
consistent Liberals as Mr. Rottenn and our worthy
May .r. Pray let Ile have no more niek-naminz
the Liberals if Weymooth.now they have shown their
readiness to c,,ales,v with the Conservatives for a
worthy object, while the irrveouvilohlrA, even in
favour of puch a man an Mr. Walker, stand aloof.

One of the funniest bits it the canvass was that
compliment paid to Mr. NN alker as a liar.tes• I.y his
warmest opponent. Mr. Nangle ant Nir.
sen., were out vatic:toting in the Park, when, unwilling
to the chance of a smile vote. they callet on Mr.
Walker I' self. The genius of glen rcareiveil them
with almost spoeighle-s astonishment, hut manage" to
rev ...et. himself, 1111.1 to Ater them chairs. - They
him, in c. ittrtetins tines, for the favour of his
" vote awl interest,- and no onati stole uver their
fac,, thmigh I fancy that a sore temptatt at must have
beset thong Mr. Walker repliet " that was a
matter which reiptiret con•hleration,- and Mr. Naugle
anl Mr. F,s,ks departeil with .itt icc riling "one more
proutisc " in tbvit e.l.llra A 'rook.

Althouzli that learned advocate who stands
up so well for his clients may argue that Us rather ,
a harinles thing to cut a person in the head. ladies
who are jealous of their Ihuliaipls hail better not llre-
eson., on '
Mrs.ll,,g.e. partial e-scape. That jealous wife
got if At first with two months hard I:ibv .r, tifimgh
an :irtery was. ,eve,ea by the koife in her baud. The
wors - their husbands are she more careful self -
defending wives. -haf'l be, n to let thembe arterially
bled, for a man given to drink may easily get in-
filo mation, and if a worse charge he true. PEN:sin
will very likely he the coustspence of so sees-re a cut.
I Dismal has In-en the winehision ; litg4s, low, awl
1 out of spirits, 4.ppears to have gone from the "Um Inn
to the Backwater Quay Wall on hie way home, and,
with scarcely his wits about him, as all events not
looking suit so sharply as he would have done when in
goo.l health, he seems to have trippml over the pro.
jeming stn! .04 s.f the top conrs., fallen ins the rough
bottom, :aid being stunned, was unable to save him-
self from being drowned in shallow water. The
misery to the imprisoned wife inn t have been mat,
for I believe that, though Mier yiarrelled. there
was a regard between the husbainland wife. The sad
ending will be a warning to Mrs. 8., Mrs. awl all
other wives who think they are aggrieved, to con.
fine their table-knives t.) wee that won't datna.4e their
eAupanions for life.

The Rec. V. F. Ransome's presentiment was
curious. and may hint that we don't sufficiently notice
those mysterious whispers which come either from
sympathy (4 2mirits in the lssly, or, perhap, from the
dpiembislied influences—Who knows ?

DatifuNetts to parents, Alfred Pitman has found,
doesn't justify stealin4 oth •r peoples' coal. Pitman
has had a narrow chance of a long term of penal
servitude, which might have made him for all hts life
one a the convict class. NVe shall have to count our
coal hags, and perhaps he obliged to have till black
diamonds weighed, lest some affectionate dray-man,
who has given his tin.ther bin cinders, think his
parental affection ought to be rewarded with some of
our coals.

Our clergymen appear to consider the municipal
election and Mayor-choosing a sort of carniv.il, for,
after the excitements of the time, they are inviting us
to special services and prayer. May the services be
well attended, both in Melo Regis and St. Jolson;
may the offences of the time appear odious to the
doers and be repented ; and may the perverters of
truth, the ranters, quarrel-makers, and knockers-down,
the exagzerators, the slanderers, and the bitter at
heart no longer-
•oinaoutol for sins they are inelinod to
By damning those they have no mind to."

It has seemed very odd to me, as doubtless to your
readers, th it Lord Portman thought Mr. Howard
was wrong in holding an inquest on the dead Men of
the great collision. I understand th tt a c wrespond-
ence is now passing between the Coro,r for Portland
vol the Clerk f the Peace, with reference to
'manifestly drowned' penes's, and that the Coroner
cond.lers Quarter-Sessional view either as an
inn-went midake, or as put in satire. No doubt the
public will be enlighted some lay; but it pan me to
say how the Coroner coal tell that a body killed at mr
after a collision, and bruised all over, had been
"manifestly drowned."

Tradesmen mix.t have an extra sharp eye nowa-days
on tie coin tendered them. Platinum sovereigns and
half,overeigns, gilt and heavy a 4 gold, are trouble-
some enough. but how if you fancy y.,u've picketed •
penny and are asked for change out of a florin? That
wan what happened to Mr. Laver in the rush of
business; a little boy who is maid never to have made
a mistake in his money, gave him a florin which Mr.
Laver thought was a penny and his refusal to give
change was met by an awkw.ird charge that :Mr.
Laver thought well to settle by paying all emits, and
giving the change reqiiirl. It i. clear that to be
"driving busy" in these times is something dangemum,
if the levine.e thives on the tradesman to go ahead
without looking at his customer's coins.
Timis s.