The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-23 00:00:00

Tan MOM and Prisons of Wales AM 112f01161111 14,
return to &gland oboes tho 10th of Way.
A Lerma stamper in the Gesteral Peet.,See, Loudon.
wsa on Welneeday aerded at Bow•oareet on two
MIDTOWNS—oaf for haring restored unobliterated
stamps from *attain tiessioper, mai the reseed for
haying so oohed *Weaned stamps in their plasma neer
of Ell) and £5 were indicted for them amens.

EARTIIQUAIS IS TIIII NOlVEL—Throughout a largo
diserictin Yorkshire and Lancashire as earthquake teas
experieeted Moeday evening. between six end half-
- air. At Manchester the shmk was very slight.
At Pendiren the doors and windows rattled slightly,
and there wee • rued like a gut of wind. la Bordale-
road. Mararester, a heavies sensation of • very
Perceptible kind was experienced, and bells ring for the
space of three or four sernds. At steeringtoe peopb
left their homes in treat haste, thinking that the brays
were falling upon their heads. At 'be railway station
was felt • great shaking. The pretense left hie
sentry-box, which is built of rope and adjoining the
arches, in a terrible fright. The building was nen to
oscillate and tremble, window., gismo, and doers
rook, and several wrens Weft thrown eff their fee,
for an instant. At Yoxbill Bank Prietworks, the fire-
men were most alarmed. The boilers rook and
trembled se if by some 'udders form of steam. and they
expected immediate explosion. Mr. Ainsworth, bead
master of the grimmer school at Blackburn, states that
the vibration Ives so strong rto are the door of his
wardrobe to oscillate violently. The shock was felt
throughout the town, nosompanied by a minden,
runibliog sound. At Etawheasitall. in Roundels, people
ran out of their bores. Door belle were rung, rd.
orcekeryware and windows were three. A mass
walking in the street says that the shook wag severe
enough to cause him to reel At Bare there was " •
tensible heaving of the mirth. se of the pining of an
underaround wave.• In Yorkshire, at floworby Bride',
it is said the sensation •speriesiosel was mush mks
the shook felt when the locomotive •lr.lodpj he the
tunnel at the station. At Behr Mill the rash
belonging to the °often frames were so diLneft4y kb
to move that the bands thought the sell was tag he
fall. (Jo the new railway line betwer ails and
Shawforth some railway waives were noticed mudded',
to run against each other without perceptible MM.
ROMAN= ATTENTT AT Soloing. —A most riseratbr
affair ormorred on Thursday in Ducher's Woods, at
Stapleton, near Bristol, the dramatis pervert being.
simple of toren who bad visited that faeoarite resort
for walk. A young Ma named William Demean,
nineteen years of age, a nark recently In the employ of
Me-sm. Dunham Brothers, whoesale hoot and shoe manu-
facturers of Bristol, left his here at Bartou-bill on
Tuesday morning about eleven ceder without making
any remark to his friends relative I. whale be was
grog. Be afterwards met a young we awaseti
Ireland (living In litinpland•road), to whom be bed her
engaged some time. The lovers went for • stroll a. fad
a. Durbeen.woods, aid while there seenething0•0111111111
which caused the young couple to esparele. Arne
seven or eight minutes bad elapsed, Mir Irekndl
went in march of the yoUgg isiso, egg the shock
she received Noe be readily imagined whoa we state
that she found her lover banging by kir handereidef to.
• projecting brash of • tree which had been hitherto
conerled from her by the surrounding foliage. The
yoangllady aiding with presser of mind and overarp sae--
seeded in a very short time in severing the porch-hand-
kerchief and lowering the youth to the erred. lo do
this she had to use extraordinary efforts. Having an
knife at hand, and being unable to matte the knots in
lutedkerehiat owing to their having been so tigirey
straioed by the weight of the body, the young lady_
succeeded in rearing the handkerchief wttum ber teeth.
and actually Mt it through gefficiently to make it
too slender to bear the weight attached to It. Bar herr
was by that time quite insensible, and Was Ironed
then *creamed for help and attracted the inientiou of
soar workmen in an adjoining field. They heiwegistely
came to her aseistacee, and a gentlemen In the neigh-
bourhood, on being rid of the extraordinary ornerier.
had the young man conveyed to the lolirmary in hie
renereets. 'The unfortunate young eye eentimmedi
ireasible, and subsequently had a ; and though be
had a abort interval of sleep he afterwards berme very
reatlem., and moaned so mach that it we. fovea
necessary for the sake of the other patients to remove-
him to a separate ward. Be is M a very pretarioes•
state. The family of the young man did not her of the
affair till the evening, when the yeast woman telit,
them of the melancholy occurrence, and narrated the
extraordinary way in which she enoseeded in rearing
her lover from the peeler position in which be had.
placed himself. The father of the young sun is an
engine-driver, named Thom.. DAVIN*, in the employ
of the Great Western Railway Company. It I. steno
thee the young man enjoyed tolerably good beak sr di
his family had no cause for believingthst his lend was
affected. On the previous night however, on f "Iftwise
his younger brother to bed, he eriplained of feeler
faint, and said he vu in pain. The occurrence has•
cared the greatest distress of mind both to the yore.
man's betrothed and the members of his family.

COIDITION Of Tee COLONIIL —Pros. S. W. Silver mid
Co.'aCirealar.— Victoria .• Ilelhoerne, Jan. b.— Adesided
improvement in commercial =Wawa labour, both
ekitled and otherwise, is in great demand. llsobanies
Good
Lhefallildbill4trad6..eweren. eapsrralry.lo...athOo
.12ationsPer; day.
even at theme high rates the reqabite number were sot
forthcoming, so thee Chinamen had to be milled of.
Harveeting operations general yield good. Tbe area
under wheat and out. is greatly in erases of that of
Lut year; the quantites predneed will be the hugest
ever known in Victoria. Spring Creek, Presetooe
Creek, and Rodin rushes continue -in lamest, and keep
up their yield. At the firet-osmed • partition 01l
snarly 14.0001. located. The diggings are abostems
miles in length. Some claims aW as almost worthies*
have sines given 30 os. to the loud; theme, however,
were ereeptionsUy rich, 2 os. bake the avenge. Att
. lal lb. :Legge* h. emsently beim found,
and one of 26 *a at Freestone Creek. New Soma.
Wales Sydney, Des. 3L—Woetber exceedingly hot.
during the put forteight. Water is stares la the
suburbs, and severally the supply of greet is abort.
Rain for several days In continuation Is mesh needed.
A considerable demand stall exists for good egplcultural
hands, and domeetie serminte deo are In
South Ausfrafia : Adelaide, January 6, 16119.
for wheat have vadually needed ; shippers an baying
at et. per bushel of Miss. Flour, £lO 10a to Sll.
Weather most fevourable, sod the wheel bee his.
garnered in exoelleot moditioe. The yield is now
estimated at about 12 bushels per sere, sod the value
at C 1,030,000 to £1,200,000. The Alameda Woes yleklr
oonsiderable quantities of Weer.— Oneendand: Briektu,
December 30, 1f16& —Basins= very dull for some months
put owing to the severe drought throughout the melon,.
Wont; matters on the whole are at present dull. Farm
operations Cr. backward owing to the unusual bent and
absence of pan. Sugar use and °Men leek well.
—Nee Zealand, Welliagtoot, December 27.—Susiness
stagnant, and fears are entertained that the next two
mouths, which are ordiestrily the best in the year foe
trede, will rove unsatisfactory alike to importers and
dealers. —Cape of Good Hop, Port EliesestA, January
let. —Pasturage and water abundant, meth and Meek
in cool coedition.—..drpostine Oorefoderseioa, Baena
Ayres, January lith.—Trade with the interior is
reviving. The weir la over, and Lopes has fled to the
mountains. The oeuntry throughout the liepeblie
is quiet. Weather choker the part week hes been
extraordinary, one day heat, followed by violent
thundeertorms; the streets flooded, and souse sd the
dwelling-houses near the fiver half full at water. The
roads leading to the country districts tendered kw-
pasuble.

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