The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-04 00:00:00

Birmingham, has meanwhile placed private
banks completely at a discount • and not only
have the old established firm of Messrs. Lloyd of
that town announced the transference of their
business to a joint-stock company, to be called
Lloyd's Banking Company (Limited) ; but the
only remaining private bank in the town, Messrs.
Morlliet and Sons have followed suite, and are
to amalgamate with Lloyd's Banking Company
(Limited). We are inforraed that the project
has been received with much favour, and the
applications for shares are numerous. Both
banks, it is added, were old established, with
wealthy connections, but that did not signify ;
' public confidence in private banks was shaken,
' and it has been found advisable to form a com-
pany in which their customers will have the
privilege of taking shares. Messrs. Attwood,
Spooner and Marshall are to pay us. 3d, in the
pound.--• The last flenettional draula has de-
veloped itilelf in Glasgow, where Dr. Pritchard,
a medical practitioner' stands committed for the
double murder of his wife and mother-in-law.
The latter was apparently well, and engaged in
writing a letter to her friends at nine o'clock at
night, whilst attending on her daughter, Mrs.
Pritchard, who was really an invalid, but at one
in the morning the old lady was a corpse. Dr.
Paterson, who was called in, refused to certify
the cause of death, and wrote a letter to the
registrar describing it as mysterious. Pritchard
certified it himself as having taken place from
apoplexy after four hours of paralysis. Still it
appears that this suspicious occurrence might
have been passed over had not Mrs. Pritchard's
death ensued a grtnight or three weeks after—
the cause in this instance being certified by Dr.
Pritchard as "gastric fever." Both bodies have
no* been eihumed, and have Undergone post
mortar' examinations *ith analysis. Mrs.
Taylor (the Mother-in-law's) presented no
traces of death from apoplexy; phim was found,
but it was known that she habitually used
" Battley's Sedative," a strong preparation of it.
Antimony is also said to have been discovered in
the system of Mrs. Pritchard, whose life is be-
lieved to have been heavily insured. And from
these and a variety of other circumstances Dr.
Pritchard stands fully committed for trial.

MRS. GRUNDY ON THE COUNTY
EXPENDITURE,—Lwrraa ILL
Waymuth, SlSth Marth.
DERE MAISTIER blud never hiled
zo high avers as did wen I got yer paper and need
we my own hies the report ow my death.
I'll let em know wet I be ded or no ! Depend
'pon it, zur, twee some ow they Magistraits' or their
yruinds, that hokuesed yer paper ; and depend
'pen it the wish was rather to the thought—
they do wish I ded, and they ware wools enuf to
send yer a report ow my death, thinking that
wen I got the peeper tonld kill I I but yer kno that
tho lay 'feelings be as kute as any °omen's eat bei I
don't take nothidg personal, 'tie the *este ov the
publick muney that do hurt I; an I assure yer that
wen Mary Jane come home and told I that the
shopkeepers were all a putten up there shutters, and
that every eye she met was vull of tears cans I was
ded, why, I assure yer I was bliged to ayes good cry,
and then I was better, an zo I was able to beer to
yer ow the tollen the bells in all the vellages round
about, and when oone of the ringers was a pulled
the rope he pulled till the tope broker]: Nowi tar;
I vind tie juet as I sod abodt the Ayltlth, vor to4lajr
the kontraota was a tend in vor the mete, and as I
told yer, the girtest kontracter in the hole koanty
ooden tender, cause he eed that nothing idden
good enuf vor the koanty, and that no price
omit pay vor the trouble that the kounty yoke do
gee. Now here Ido think that thickontractor is rong,
vor Lard Dundreary told I that "Sugaw would
make the meat look bettaw." What a vlllet of vele,
see II Mercy Jane, a hinterupten agane, began to
sing
dqiiire got • quarter of lamb, an don't inC,ti
how to dress it—
Bell the leg, roast She lole, and make a pudding
of the suet.
I tell yer wet tie, Mary Jane, 1 cent ave yer zing
wen I be a titan, an if yer ever do agane I 00l dis-
charge yer. Oh Milieus I see she, don't, vor then I
should be a send to Vorden, and yer ooden like I to
hoocupy the butivnl conservatery that do cost the
kounty too much vor kola
now sheet yet Millisheo bat-ricks. I
do year. that the wold place dont kost the
ratepayers more than viftey pounds a yer,
and that they be a builden a beativul place ups top
a Dodgester town such a bueldin as yer don't often
zee, an the kounty people aye a got Bich vancies that
kontwacter got such a bit vor hextras as was never a
heard ow, an lady Westberry twold I that wit
used to *oil the kounty vlftey poem a year 00l
now koat em thee undred pouna We*
wen her ladyship twold I this I let veil my
cup o tea, an my hair stood an end right out drough
my best cap, and the lace that cost a guinea a yard,
and was the last present I ever add vrom my late
dear husband, why the lane cracked all across; and
Lady Weetberty tithed qinte pale. ,
Depend pod lei L there Mil be another OOn-
sarVAtery • put up at the Milisher barricks just like
Voeten' and there oul be another putty kole balk but
if they don't ave a consarvatery tis enuf to•.drive
all the ratepaieri3 med. Dens UNDRED rotkla A
TER TO BE PAID VOR WaT 17SED TO BOST vijllY
Oh I that ever the grate nnpade shud ever aye
there own way I Why Marey dans See, sea she, that
Pooel Minion *agent nettt managed lid wiis, an that
if I add a bended as konin .6* do wish,
' why there mid be do helid td rising the
rates, and the glass houses that they megis-
Waite ood bild ood be enuf to ruin the kounty,
and to rise the price ow glass. Here is a little bet
a goseep going on here zo a ooman twold I; they
do say as how when oone ow the grate unpaide
add another of the grate nnpade tiumed out ow his
olier4 by biddoti I iindred • ger More tor the muse.
Well, they do zay that he who was a turned out, is
a kum to Waymnth so as to be near I, vor there
idden no such respectable soziety nowhere else.
Well, add Odd. Wad odaiqid twold ddarey Jane that
the Mille ood ioon be to let agade, vor ther Is a lot
ajealousy about 1; and vrom wat I da yer, I ahudden
wander if 1 be hinvited to the ouse warmen.

Oh dear I yer ia my vysician a kum, zo I can't let
the cat out ov t.h bag this vrtol, WO 00l right yer
agane,and I poi let eni ktto vlir be ded oi iot an in
order to hatch the putty rank e who iend yer the
report of my death, I hereby request yer to ofer a
reward of £5OO, to be paid on conviction, to the
catcher ov the perpetater of the cruel hoax.
More about the rates nex wiok.—Yer nmble
sarvent, MRS. GRUNDY.