The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

possession. Doubts arose immediately in the minds of j drink • large amount of perefying animal refuse. He
meanie present as to whether the uncle" might not be I traces street by Street, showing hue di arrlkei, visiting
in this case, as in many others, a victim to the over- I cleanly districts but slightly, is especisliy grouied
zealous ettentien of lois " niece,." These doubts were I round those mote where there is an accumulation of
at once resolved by the appearance of an Herculeau- I nightmil infecting the air in the midst of a demise pope.
looking carter or porter, who seemed to know the gentle. lotion, or so placed that the eahaletieue penetrate into
man and those In his charge. the former well, Le was the hooves. or eau be hut *lowly dispel-mai into the
evinced by tininediete and uodoubted reoognition —the general atmosphere. The comparative tumiomuflity of
latter iii 114,4 a way as to juetify Mut in at mice order. other districto resembling these in all respect., save the
mug them na move off. Time " nieces" intimated on their absence of thus faecal imp irity, is found to be 00 0010
right to look after their "uncle," anal charged the car- %tent, that it acme impossible nut to admit the rela-
ter (as lie inay be called) with live or sit other men, who tionship aim one of cense and effect; mai time medical
had just conic up, With an intention to rob him. The men affirm that diarrlional disease is not only isore
carter, ma the other hand, with thoee in his company, prevalent, but also more unmanageable, in ill-conditioned
all of whom seemed to know him, insisted that the places.
" niece*" were wunien of queationalile chareeter belong- HIOALTII OF SCOTLAND.—iu the eight principal tom.*
Mg to Leith anal klalitilaurgh, and that their object was containing in 1851 a population of 781,306,
to deprive the "uncle" of his pocketbook. In a few and now eetimated to have • populaf of 908.146. the
minutes a considerable crowd collected, amid a despeiete birth* in the ti. of August were 2,561, the deaths
scuffle took piece as to who should have charge of the 1,738. the nearreezes Fm3d. less sstiaf.sntory to see that
gentleman. While the battle raged "fiat amid furious" the exceesive mortality of 186 d is at length arrested. and
it became all the more clear that time porters suit people the deatios reduced to the average or a little below it.
were right and the " niecee" wrong ; nevertheless the Of time birthe in the eight Scotch towtis 9.6 per• cent.
ladies fought like heroine*, again amid again secured their were illegitimate, anal Aeerdeen retains its pre.eminence
victluo, and erobsialy would not have left line had not a —in that city 18.1 per rent. —more than one in et
huge porter or duck labourer-0 horror of hommra! the children, born were illegitimste. In time deteileol
how shall it be stated, or bow can it he believed 1- --find. I returns for all Scotlasel for the second quarter of Ws
, dig alt ordinary efforts of pushing heck amid driving for- year inetances seek ae they occur :—llawick. out of 97
ward the more obstreperous of the et 1111 l en utterly All- births 13 illegitimate ; Inverury, 10 inot of 36 ; Auclain-
availing, laid her as coolly and easily over his knees as dorm, 5 out of 19. One local registrar loye the bleme
oil
he would du a four-year-old child, mei there amid then. " field lobour ; another on this girl. going to ben ke tim
'miff man of laughter, and "Serve her right !" "the lee country ;" a (hint attribute* a decrease of the
administered such • castigation as only the neughtieet immorality to, " shatielonee of empi.yinciel, iii linAh
children are aocuiustumed to receive. The effees was wage, promoting marri oge ," as hearth who eaye Ili/ re
-
marvellous. Time fiendish excitement of the brain tuns tells a fearful tole, slyly AthiSthat. having Sc.' active
seemed all at once to be transferred to another depart- elergyineu to less thou 1,500 projele. -" it cannot 100
went of the eyetein. the outraged womati comm off iu hot charged egoinst a want of the we one of grace."
head., to procure the mienstance of which 410 OSOO.I mlm
need; and her sister, or aosociate, under thrombi that if
sloe did not move of as quickly ohs wound be " skelped*
too, followed her A/ rapidly AS she could. On their
return with the police they gave in 'barge several per.
SOll/, who were not taken up, and fithillig the train in
waiting they bolted off, leaving the gentleman with the
parcel of beisknotes in tee loafs keeping of his friends.—
Cook,hosiosa efrecene
Time WitAyitut AND CROPS IN SCOTLtND.—Since
Wednesday the weather has been favourahle. With
the exception of occeeional showers on Sunday after-
Imam no rain has faliemm. Mondey was cloudy, but
Tuesday was bright, the sun being seldom obscured.
The rooge ef temperature has been high. Harvest
ye nil is. lime 110,0 vigorously Carried 1.10,011111. Cut-
ting im farms favourobly eituateal around Edinburgh will
be generally fialislied this week. lit one or two ease*
the whole grain crop is ahead, secured lii the stack-
yard, and time carying of the crop hae been kept cline up
to that stage of winning at which it will he kept in the
stack. 'Thatching ha generally behind-416e partly from
the want of strow, and pertly frill/ the desire to con-
centrate the labour of the facto on the cutting and
carrying of the crop. The estionate as to bulk end yield
iv now higher than when harvest operationec.musinenced,
anti most fartnere ere Patinae' that the crop is above ma
average. This applies not only to the Lothians, but to
Scotland generally. Putatues continue premising, the
blight intiking little progre.s. —Scotsmen.
A ealnieu ACCIDKNT FlOlll A IiKAPING
A serious &evident took place on Tuesoley morning last,
out the estate of Mr. Stobbie„ of liallocioneck. Stirling
shire. A reaping machine was in full working order.
when Mr. Jolaii Armour, the overeeer, stepped forward
to heel one if the honks, which liad ha tome restive.

lIIIVIIIg 11111. tilY Allllllll right, Mr. Armour wds in the
act of turning aside when one of his legs w.al raught by
the teeth of the machine a little above the allele, cum-
plekly severing the hone, besides cutting the kg in
various plums. Dr. M'Keigli oas soon on the spot, and
Dr. Moodie, from Stirling, afterwanle visited the suf-
ferer. The med.'s' gentlemen 11.1 not *insider ampu-
tation of the limb necessary. att I Mr. Amour is under-
stood to be advancing favourably.
A H.%STT santAcE.-- A worthy uOlll of Mars Came
" home (rum the war" last week, to pay his friends in
hid native town is vi-it. He had out been balf-a-ilusett
hours in Ho Dundee when he met in his mother's
house a bonnie limie whom he had never *tee before,
awl immediately he fell • victim to her charms. He
propie-ed, was Accepted, sod is now a ,11A111011 man.
The question was " popped" on Saturday, the lovers
were "cried" on Sunday, mid "spliced" ou Monday.
Dunda CAirter. . . .

A W.OIIAM EATEN ET Duos.— A moat painful and
shocking iliscxvery was mole on Friday week at Mord,
in the parish of Moy. On the evening of that day,
whilst Mr. Maegillivr y, farmer, was enraged in cutting
• field of barley, one of his dogs api.rusched, carrying
something MI his mouth, whieh attracted his master's
attention. At first sight it appeared to be a rat, hut on
exa 11l ill ation it turned out to ho the palm of the left
hand of a human being. Information of this horrible
discovery having been anode to the &atria constable, lie
procured assistance stud cuutmenced a minute search of
the plantetinn adjoining the field of barley. After
aeard.ing about for mime tune the party came upon the
chithi sof a female, which were lying shout yards from
the toll road. Them: were identifitd ae belonging to a
hawker woman who ',sued tinder the uanie of Taker
Mary, and who war iii the habit of travelling the country
with needkx and pins and Ruud' ware. Shocking to
relate, nothing of the body remained with the • xception
of a few hones, and the only w..v of accounting for the
distppearsnee of the body is by aupporaing that it woo
eaten inn by dogo. It appeared from further inquiries
that the deees•ed Mot been in Toinatiu two or three
weeks previoti.ly, where she had nutde some trilling
purchases. She was iouch ahlicte,l to iii oh. and at the
tune sine woo last seen was the worse for liquor, The
poor woman, in the emiraw of her wanderings, oceans to
have entered the woust for the 'purpou et resting her-
...4,66nd, falling asleep, suet her death by exposure to
the cold. The cue is undergoing investigation by the
authorities.—hireraess Acluerfaer.