The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-09-21 00:00:00

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Mt. THOMAS said Weyntoutl -
• regatta, being midway betwen Torquay and the Isle
of Wight.
The Mayor wee requested to take • convenient
opportunity of walling • public meeting on the subject.
PAVING.
The Town CLIME mentioned that the £.5,000 borrowed
for paving pamper* was all estimated *swot CVO, the
cmatracts entered into amounting to £4,770.
Mr. RAMITUN complained that portions of St Edmund.
Bt. Thomas, and Bt. Mary-street. were not completed.
Mr. Wil3B said that in Weymouth only E 530 bad
been laid out, and be opposed spending on Melcombe
Regis the smell balsam reguainuff•
Mr. Berrs and the Surveyof referred to the specifica-
tions, chewing that the contracts only included the
parts which lied been dose.
The SUIVETOR produced specifications for paving
Lennoz.street, Franchiseetreet, Maiilemereet. Pork.
ere. t, Vresmnt•street, Si. ltdriond•vtreet. and Lower
liond•street, the old materials from the streets recently
repaired to be used. It se directed that tenders be
invited.

The Nem did Doc Ow we should Dec have clie The•R•v. Tariatua'WThoatie said the society had
Regatta Item aWst : but to tbil end some action ought 156 missionaries and their wivesht the mission field.
to be taken ceilibalf of the town. and there would be Be considered that a missionary was a kind of Wh-
en diteenitr in getting the ilia When we had the handed man without his wife, for only the wises amid
Regatta years ago we had not On facilities for tbe mats get access to the higher shams of women in India and
that there are sow. We hats Portland Breakwater other parts. These missionaries are distributed in
now, whisk provides wore emborage. sad, beside; China, India, bladagancar, on the mainland of Atria+,
the present* date Fleet itself would *mist in providing the Smith Seas, &a 80 ordained native paston are
rowing mews. also employed, and 1,140 native members sent forth to
Mr. Robins 'opposed that 11r. Hamblin might also itinerate throughout the country, or travel from island
give E5O to island in the South Sem as pioneers to Drum& the
Mr. POTNICAZY, agreeing Wilt what the Mayor mid, ; gospel. Over £19,000 are contributed at the minion
proposed a public meeting, oat of which they might station., £16,000 from native converts, and £4,000 from
obtain a committee tomer, ths matter out, Buropeans on the spot, who thus testify their approval
The MAYOR mentioned that they bed between 50 and of the misaisnaries. labottra. The society bee existed 75
70 Twigs at Torquay. Now was the time to think about year.; but groat part of this time has been taken up in
it, as there wouM be time for the fixtures to be laying foundation; they had proved the gosp.l to be the
arranged.
i porter of God unto salvation, and now wished to spread
'Ws it more mightily in the world. It was especially the
-,eliaLmen • • - this

duty of Engli as Englishmen to take up Het
work. God has given us inereueil facilities for oom-
munication with all the world's dominion in all ruts of
the world, and not Oat we might bosiit about it. bet
that we may spread abroad the gospel to the heathen.
We have "come to the kingdom for suab a time as
this" that we may be the benefactors of the world. and
if we do not act up to our responeibilities, our dominion
will crumble away, and we shall fall as nation never fell
before. The speaker went on to give illustrationc of
the original barbarity of the South Sea Islanders before
the missionaries came among Glom. A tribe would make
war with another tribe, and so mercilcaly were their wars
carried on that out of hundreds only a few families would
be left of the victor*, while the conquered woohl
bo
redirect to five or .in. lie told the *tory of Mewl, the
South Sea Island Hercule*, who raised the hosvens to
their present position. the Polynesian* supposing that
they were formerly co low that people were obliged to I
welt on all forma He urged that we may all be a kind
of religious Hawi, and resist In the elevation of the
race. There are signs of this elevation already—in
Chin• the people's eyes are being opened to the falsity
of their Confucianism, and in India the attendanee at
fe.tival o! emit, where millions

the once great Juiggern-- ,
assembled firnm all parts of India, and the road
to which was whitened with the bones of pilgrims,
now does not csceed 15,000, and the Brahmins
squid not get enough people to draw the car.
Ile went on to speak of the mission work in Maithgthrer.
After speaking of the various vicasaituiles of the
Christians in that island. he went on to tell of the groat
persecution of the year 1849, in which 2,000 Curistians
perished, and many others were stripped of all their
prop. rty. On one occasion 19 Christians were taken
to the edge of a rock, and asked if they would give up
praying, and on their refusal, one by one, they w, re
burled over the cliff. A maid of honour, reserved to
the last, after she had seen all the others killed, per-
elated nobly in refusing to give up Christ, and 11111 iold
into slavery (having been • favourite of the Queen)
instesd of being killed. During the persecution the
scattered Christiana, whose tribles and Testaments had
nearly all been destroyed, used to divide the copies they
hod left, and commit them to memory, PO that they
became mighty in the &tiptoe°, and when they to•A
together, which was only on rare occasions, they recited
to each other the parts that each remembered. The
pvriectiting Queen died in 1860, leaving many of the
Christians in letters, so heavily ironed that each had to
hear about 421 he. weight. The son of the Queen imme-
diately proclaimed liberty of conscience, and the present
Quoste, a niece of the former one, IPA Christian who had
received her first impressions from • martyr in the time
of the great persecution. Her Primo Minister wag ine•
premed at the same time, and is now favourable to the
Christians. Abut ffo,ooo people in Maingaacar have
&deadened their idols, and worship cnly the true God
(hear ) Penning to the South Sess, be said they bed
70,000 professing Christians, and lOW in nbureb
fellowship, capable of bearing comparison with any
comniur.itv on the face of the ear h. In Tahiti, in spite
of all the French had done to demoralise the inhabitants,
out of 5,0110. there are 9,800 in church fellowship. In,
Samoa Weeds, with a population of 35,000, there is not
• single idolater. They have a college where 1111111i.,[11P
ries are trained, and their ordinary contribution to the
missionary society is about e 1,400, and last year it
was much increase I by special efforts. The people
in the rest of the Wands are everywhere longing for the
gospeL He concluded by a foreshadowing forth of the
gl rings time when from the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same Jesus shall reign and his
gospel shell triumph glorioredy- (hear.)
The Rey. R. S. ASHTON in confirming the announce-
ment that there would be no c Alection, stated
that theme who nevertheless wished to contribute,
might phis* their offerings in the boles flied at the
doors.
The meeting closed wide &hymn and the benediction.
and it was found that the voluntary offerings auwanted
1.1 s.

A wErmarru MURDERESS AND HER
CHIGNON.
By an Old litAaterset.
No, Sir, I can't ley that I like 00.4:111,1DCI.lee 01 hair
that women nows.days wear at the back of their bends'.
They gel them now by some French name that I cont
rightly pronounce, but to my mold there's very little
differenee between them and what used to be cslled
"knobs" when I was young, or what difference Mere
is, is like the Irishman's wife, no better and all worse.
I am nearly sixty years old, and I remember that when
the dere Princess Victoria (now Her Most Graciouv
klajesty. God bless bet I) came to the throne, she wore
• "knob." If you'll lead in. • shilliog of Queen
Victoria's, 11l show you the knob on it, sir. • • •
There. you one it is • bunch of hair at tie back of the
head right enough, bat over so much prettier 01160 what
they now ma a sheenou. • • • I may keep the
chilling, your honour, may I? Here's long life to your
honour, and when we melt the shilling, we'll have
another toest—" tier Majesty and may the girls of the
period never weer bigger amen.. than they ear take
pattern el from the Ailing," and then they'll he a good
deal more likely to look as handsome as the dear young
Victoi ia did when,ehe tremteingly took the crown, and
she only • girl of 18, bat I'll lay • wager not half no
o.neeited as some of the young women that come down
Chepelry steirs with their heads looking as if they had
great swellings over their pole.. I wonder what A young
milliner or dressinalsr of William the Fourth's time
would have come to if she had mounted • knob as big
as the sheenons you see stuck about everywhere.
She'd have pretty soon lost it some dark night, when
she was carrying home her work, for there were reap
young beaux about then, and • girl that showed any
nonsense wet very coon lost. Late hours and bad men
in the streets and on the Esplanade tried all the virtue
of our young women, for the gentlemen, si they called
sgereselees, of George the Third's (iitirt, hail taught
Inany • bed lesson to the Weymouth beaux, and the old
liberties were next to no Ise in keeping guard. Let's
hope, sir, that the new Factory Act will keep dress-
makers iu Weymouth from making their girls work late
hours in the ball INISIOD and let's hore,too, that theladie•
who went their ball dresses will send their own servants
for the work when done, and not have it sent boom by
young girls in the middle of the night. You know
whet they come to, if led astray, and you know what
bad creatures they get lobe, and how fiercely they turn
round upon the men, and don't care how they rob them
if they get the chance. Tube put me in mind of a tale
about • knob, and bow it helped to screen a Weymouth
murderess. It was in the reign of George 111., that a
notorious bad woman Used in Town-lane. She carried
on her winked trade with peat success, and dressed in
the height of fashien, wearing a knob as big as any lady,
according to the custom of the thstra Among her
numerous visitors were • young farmer, near Preston,
and an engraver celled be the Jew, who used to travel
the country. One night these two men met at her
holm, and a fierce quarrel cause sheet between the
two. The farmer was rather the stronger, and he
managed to fetch his rival mesh • blow as stoggered
him. The woman know that the unfortunate engraver
had about him • good aIiDD of money. and his handsome
gold watch they could plainly see was in his fedi. The
devil ii always at bend to tempt from bad to worse,
and well does Solomon say of such • woman as I am
'peskiest about, that she will" hunt for the precious
life." The delonnieation to rob the man was upper-
most in her heart, and she soon made up hat mind to
murder him. Watching her opportunity she got
bellied the engraver with a lid heater, and with one
blow dashed his brains out on the table by the side of
which he had fought. The farmer was unprepared for
such • crime; bat peasiou blinded him, and lie let the
woman work her will. The handsome gold watch wes
secured, and the money taken from the murdered man's
pockets, and this the woman tent. But now, how to
get rid of the body was the question. In the dark
night, for there were no lamps worth the name, and
no policemen or cooatables of any use, it was tolerably
easy, though it would be impossible now-a-daye, for the
two to throw the poor fellow across the farms r'shorse,tske
him down to the Quay, and let the deed man slide into
the Backwater. The bridge then crossed the harbour
to Bt.. Nicholas-street, and just above it they tried to
let the body into the tide. Bet it slipped from their
grasp, and fell with • loud splash Into the water.
Some one on the Bridge heard the splash, and all who
could be called were stirred up immediately ; but the
female hurried home in the dark to Town-laue, the
farmer jumped on his horse and galloped by the wonder-
ing crowd without being known, and though lanterns,
and drags, and poles, were brought to bear, everybody
pushed shout confused, and hindered each other so that
the body was not foetid that night. The farmer gal-
loped home, and his first care was to put back the clock
three or four hours, his second to rub off this stains from
his horse. Almost directly lie went to bed; but soon
after called up his servant, aid sent her downstairs to
see what time it was, god elm of course reported the
Woe hour told by the cloeck. In deadly fear the farmer
and the bed somata waited that night, for the visits of
the engraver and farmer both to the house were well.
known, and there was Little doubt they would be takes
up. Next morning the corpse of poor Joe, the Jew,
was found near the bridge, and the ghastly hole ill his
skull showed the foul play. It was too plain for even
the Charlies to let blip, and they soon had the witch of
Town-lane in the lock-np. The farmer too was sooa
seised, god both were brought up before the mune
trews, the woman with, as usual, • very big fashionable
knob. Itut nothing was found on them or in their
houses that could oe shown to be,ong to the engraver,
for who amid distinguish money, and who was there to
try will the ease for the Wm of the wandering Jew?
The farmer, too, brought forward his Dermot, a young
woman of spotless ch•recter, who swore that her master
was at haw at limit two hours before the time when
several witnesses declared the horse rattled by them
alter the splash was heard. Nothing could be heard of
the splendid gold watch of the engraver, and no it WM
thought the real robber had carried it off and escaped.
The pri•oners were discharged. The suspicion against
them out of door., however, was no great that they be-
came the objecita of aversion to all; the farmer, unable
to bear the weight of contempt, made away with him-
self, while the woman sank into extreme poverty and
wretchedness, and lived • terrible life-in-death, pointed
and hooted at by the very children nettle witch of Town'
lane. Determined not to sinless, the fate that pro-
claims that "Murder will out" made her drag • linger-
ing existence to a frightful old age. At last, on her
deathbed, she could bear the weight of secret guilt no
louger, and confessed her crime. All were shocked
afresh at what she said; but there was one Point on
which curiosity got the better of horror. The time WY
very short between the murder and the arrest, and yet
all places pomade bad been searched, and DO trace of
the gold watch of the engraver was found. Though she
might have buried it in the garden or thrown it in the
water, her eovetousness was too strong for her not tatty
to keep it, and so, between the murder and the morn.
tog, she earefully peeked it up in the knob of hair at
the back of her heed, end when she was lotions tito