The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-01 00:00:00

THE DEMI-MONDE IN LONDON.

There is • certain shop in Piccadilly which is pro- I
fessedly one for this sale of fancy articles—alas! for ;
the fancy articles which are really booght and sold I
at that little witahlishment ! The business is I
carried onnnder the nameof BernsteiniGobee,and Ochee
was recently plaint drift an aetion tried at the Bail Court.
Ochre hail in account of £.665 124. 6.1. against Kate •
Smith, for goods supplied to that young lady. Her
legal advisers pleaded in her favour, amongst other
pleas, the rinential one that the goods were supplied
for immoral purposes, to the knowledge of the
husband and wife— that is, of the Ochea Kate Smith
was put into the box and told her own tale, It is
not a very edifiing one. but here it is. She told the
jury, in the plainest English, what was her actual
calling. She was married seven years ago in
Birmingham, hut nine months after marriage her
huaband deserted her. She risme up to London; ,
and went to a friend in Pimlico, where she com-
mune, d her deplorable career. This friend intriiduced
her to a Madame Bernstein, then a widow. hut now
the wife th.low, the plaintiff in the present action.
Ma lame Bernstein found in Kate Smith a piece of
tiee iaw testi riot to be worked up into Romething
a tractive. shit supplied her with clothes, to be paid
by instalments; but, like • thrifty chapwoman, she
took excellent care to accompany her new slave to
the Argyll Rooms, the Casino, Cretnotne Gardens,
and other ouch tilacee. %edam* Bernstein bail no
notion of bring ousted of her rights. " We supped
togethet with gentlemen," as Kate Smith told the
jury, "and when either of them went home with
me, she came the following day for money."
Bernetcln shortly after intermarried with Herr Ocher. •
the plaintiff in the Bail Court, who—good, simple
sul! —was supposed to know nothing if the manner
in which his consort carried on her business. In the
year 1565 Kate Smith became acquainted with •
geutleman who hired fot her the house in which sbe
is at present resoling. The kind, considerate
liernstienia:hee furnishes the house for their young
friend ; hut they took 'are to have a hill nf sale on
the furniture for £515 Ills. Now, if Kate Smith
was the witness of truth —and certainly Mr. Justice
Blackburn and the jury seem to have believed her—
it requires strong faith to admit that Oct.. was,
ignorant of Kate Smith's doing. "After the
plaintiff's marriage, he accompanied me and him wife
to the Argyll Booms, and he was perfectly aware
how I got my living. Plaintiff's wife has frequently
seen gentlemen with me in my house. I used to ,
meet gentlemen at the plaintiff's bourn in Piccadilly
almost daily. Other females met gentlemen there."
In plain English, the BernsteiniOchse establishment
in Piccadilly is just an introducing house ; and the
sooner the parish authorities cause Herr Oches to be
indicted at the Sessions as the keeper of what is ,
called, in legal phraseology, " • disorderly house," ,
the better for the credit of the neighbourhood. ,
Ochs., got, upon one occasion, £2OO cash down from
Kate Smith's protector. He died; but another was
found to take his place. From him Ochs° got a bill of
excnange for the little balance, and cancelled the
the bill of sale. Independently of this transaction, •
however, the Bernstein-Oches firm was in the habit
of supplying Kate Smith with little necessaries at
rates which, we can't help thinking, were rather
above trade prices. Smith said-1 am charged
344. 6d, each for six French under petticoats, and I
6s. 6cl. for a frilled one, which is double the price
they can be got for elsewhere; another article, •
lady's drew, was charged £2 as., and a night gown,
trimmed with real lace, £4; but I never had it. I
am also charged £25 for a velvet mantle, which I
can buy at Swan and Edgar's for is ; a silk jacket,
trimmed with real lace, hut it was not, £l6 I6s. ;an
ivory handled parried, £6 101. ; and two others in I
the same month, :kb. each. Mr. Justice Blackburn
said he should think, without there was something
special about the parasol that £6 We was a very
high price. Defendant. —Two °homilies are charged
.C 5 12e. ; • velvet jacket, trimmed with chinchilla,
£35, which was not worth £l5; an riper& cloak,
CIO ISt. and another, £l5 IS.. ; a silk quilt, £7 75.; ;
• black silk spangled fan, £1 10a The account also I
contains a cigar case, £1 IS.. Mr. Bailey—l hope I
you don't smoke. Defendant—No. It was • I
present to a gentleman. There was charged 21s. '
each for silk striped stocking; a green satin dressing.
gown, lined with silk, £l5 15s. ; one satin petticoat,
£s Si. ; a blue silk dress, £32; a pink and white silk
costume, £lO Ills. All the articles are charged more
than dentile what they can be obtained elsowborn
Independently of this class of evideooe, there were
produced by Kite Smith letters pressing her for
money, signed " Rosalie Ocbse ;" but of those letters
Herr Oche° priifeseeill absolute ignorance. The jury
listAieved hum Mr. Justice Blackburn laid down
the law in the usual way. An unfortunate woman
carrying on such a business as this is just as liable
for necessaries as anybody else. On the other band,
any one who supplies her with certain things for the
purpose of carrying on her business does so at his
own peril. The lac will not help him. The jury
at ones found a verdict for the defendant, and the
Ocbses lost the caw.

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Wuri.l's Hair It•mu.rer or Drra-ing never fail, •ly
reatnre gray or 141104 hair to i's youthful colour nil
he.utv, awl with the drat application • hematite!
frarMlCO is given to the heir. It st,ps the hair fr,m
fairing oil it irrowenta baldness : it proondea lur nri a
v„..th ; it callsCll the hair to grow thick and airmitit
it rt ime.... all dandroff ; it 0.111 alit+ neollar oil nor tiy.
a larze bottles. price six ChillillkL Zvlobalsatuous
Mrs. S. A. Allen's) far Clods any pomade or hair oil.
To times whom hair is naturally dry requiring frequent
dressing, to ahaaiginaa mid great value will be proved.
Its early tow on childien's hair will insure an abundant
and bountiful supply from youth to oil age. In tarp,
bottle, price three shilling.. gold by most cheiniata
and perfumers. I epee, 266. High Holborn. London,
ADVICE TO Monies& Are you broken of your me.
by • sick child, suffering with the pain of cutting teeth.
On at once to a chemist, and get • bottle of Mrs;
WillSlOW'rl Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor
sufferer immediately ; it is terfectly harmless ; it
produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from
pain, and the little cherub awakes ' as bright as a
button." It has been long in wai fu America, and is
; highly reeornmeh4e,l by mediral men; it is 'cry pleasant
Ito take; it ',with... the child; it softens the gums,
allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowel., and
is the ho,t known remedy for dysentry and diarrlana,
I whether arising from teething or other causes. Se sure
and ask for Mrs. Winalow's Soothing Syrup, and see
that "Curtis and Perkins. New York and London," is
on the outdo wrapper. No mother should be without
It. sold by all medicine dealers at to. led. per bottle,
I London Depot, 205, High Holborn.

Tire. Iliwr Tulsa IN TRH BED ow Tux Mum
--Thp sheet 'inches.

W ly is the rus4 of transgressors so hard.—lkranso
It is so situ+ travelled.

What piece uf carpentry bocomes a gem as soon um
it is fiaishcd?—A•gate.
(41.1,..ip,51 Fig( THE GFPGRATIIICAL SoCIETY.—Ta
the thy of Tunis a deep cove.

John and Yana were not. married after all; for
thinczli John wooed, Jtoto uut.
" C.irtio here, and I'll lilt t he whole of you," shouted
a schiolboy to a pyruinid of candy.sticks.
The Chinese picture of ambition is a mandarin by.iit
catch a comet by putting salt on its tail.
TI:ASSILL,NIIIIIVATIoN.A proof that port wino when
• &gill, is no longer port.—lt's Madeira (made dearer).
i .Ilow can you prove that blank was white? By
seising an Ethiopian minstrel and giving his face s
goo,' washing.

A Tunt"To•wr.—May every welcher carry the map
of 11'1.as on his back, and may every black-leg find •
place in the stocks!

A country paper, in a notice of a lecture given by a
phrenologist, says, " Behind tho platform is a gallery
of life-size portraits, twenty Net high."

A Negro undergoing Lis examination U& witness,
when asked if his master was a Christian, replied.
" No, sir ; he is • member of Congress."

A lawyer who had • most absurd case submitted to
hint, on being asked if the action would lie, answered,
"Yee, if the witnesses will lie but not otherwise." '
A letter-writer in Indiana clothes • disagreeable
fact in euphemistic language, when he says that the
connubial coalitions in his vicinity the past year have
been mostly second-hand, and that they lack the de-
sirable quality of adhesiveness.
KILLED BY A CLUB.—"I believe that mine will be
the fate of Abel," said a devoted wife to her husband,
one day.—" How so?' replied her husband. " Be-
cause Abel was killed by a club, and your club will
kill me if you continue to go to it every night."
AN ENLIGHTENED AllUtlCAN.—Upon the reading
of the Declaration of Independence at Ypsilanti,
Michigan, by a citizen of that place, a gentleman
from the rural districts made this comment : "Oh,
be read it well enough; but darned if I believe he
wrote it."

HOPE AND N. "Sir," said a burly fellow, of
DO enviable character, "I have the largest neck of any
man in the city."—" Very likely," said his neighbour,
"and I saw yesterday the largest rope in the city.
Now, put that and that together, and we'll see how
tall you are."

NOISY ROOSTERS—At a recent poultry shows fellow
who was making himself ridiculously conspicuous at
last broke out :•" Call those here prize fowls P Why,
they arm% nothtre to what cur folks raised. My father
raised the biggest rooster of any man round our parts."
—"Don't doubt it,"romarkod a bystander, "and the
noisiest, too."
MUSTERED.—" So they have mustered out the bat
-
Wien, have they?' said the ex-corporal.—" Yes,"
replied the high private, ins tone of regret.—" Well,"
continued the ez-corporal, "Depend upon it, that to
be mustered out is better than to be peppered in," and
marched away to the music of an imaginary brass
band among a crowd of civiliaus.
LoNOEVITY.—Oor Daniel says proof enough can be
seen that people now-adays don't live so well nor so
lenges in olden times, in the fact that we don't find
any very old folks but what were horn a great while
ego. lie says that the present age has never furnished
'em, and he don't believe that it can. Hit could, why
don't it? Datil is one of 'etn—he is.

A traveller says that if he wero asked to describe
the first sensation of a camel ride, he would say :
"Take n music stool, and having wontel it up na high
as it will go, put in a cart without spriugs, get on the
top, and next drive the eart transversely arrow a
ploughed field, and you will then form same notional
the terror and uncertainty you will experience t he first
time you mount a camel."
TBE LAw.—ltt the chief court of law in Granada
time used to be the picture of a naked man will% a
large bun lie of papers tinder his arm, and certain
words proceeding out of his mouth, of which these are
a translation, " I yam won my suit am now stripped
to the skin ; what, then, must be the fate of him who
lust it F" Spanish litigation would saolll to be almost
as expensive a luxury as our own.
Scribe, the French poet, hired a house in the coun-
try to pass the summer. As soon as he was fairly in-
stalled in it, he went in search of a farmer who hada
milch cow. Having foam' one, he stated his want,—
" My good man, my servant will cume every morning
to buy a pint of milk."—" Very well, it is eight sons."
" But I want purr milk, very pure."—" In that ease it
is ten sons."—" Yon will milk in the presence of iny
servant ?"—"Oh, then, it. will be fifteen sons."

Tilt: CoNaTlTurtoN INVIoi.Ant.E.--A Western
justice ordered a witness to " eome tip and be sworn."
lie was informed that the person was deaf and dumb.
—" I don't care," said the judge very passionately,
" Whether ho is or not. Here is the Constitution of
the United States before me. It guarantees to every
man the right of speech; and so long as I have the
honour of a seat on this bench it shall not be violated
or invades!. What the Constitution guarantem to •
man, I'm bound he shall have."
A lady arrived in San Francisco a short time since
with a bouquet of flowers which she had brought
from New York. The editor of one of the San Fran-
cisco papers says: "One little pink, that sheds its
intoxicating odour over the page on which these
words are written, has the potency of a fairy wand.
Three thousand miles of spare, and long weeks or
months of dangerous travel through a savage country
vanish ls.forc it. It realises the dreams of twenty
years. The garden pink of Manhattan kisses the field
poppy of Yeaba Buena."
NOVEL CURE 01, GOUT.—Tho following cure for
the gout is taken from an old work :—fitat, the person
must pick • handkerchief from the pocket of a maid
of fifty years who never had • wish to change her con-
dition. Second; he must wash it in an honest miller's
pond. Third; Ito must dry it on the hedge of a parson
who WU never covetous. Fourth; he must send it
to a doctor who never killed a patient. Fifth ;he
must 1111111 it with the ink of a 'ewer who never chesual
a client. Sixth ; apply it to the part affected, and a
cure will speedily follow.
The folk/I%IIIV obituary notice recently appeared in
a Spanish journal :—" This morning the jeweller
Siebald lilmago was summoned away from his shop
to another and a better world. The undersigned, his
widow, will weep upon his tomb, as will also his two
daughters, Hilda and Emma, the former of whom is
married, and the latter open to all over. The funeral
will take place to-morrow. His disconsolate widow,
Veronique Illmaga, P.S. This bereavement will not
interrupt our business, which will be carried on as
usual, oily our place of business will be removed from
No. 8, Tessi do Teinturisrs, to No. 4, Rue de Mis-
sionaire, as our grasping landlord has raised our rent."

A farmer in a remote district of the Yorkshire
wolds met • country rector who had been two years
absent on travel. "Mr. Rector," said the farmer,
"you've been to the Holy Land, I hear."—" I have,
John, and got safe back, as you see."—" Well," said
John, "1 often thon't I'd like to hear about that spot.
It's a fine country, I lay."—" Well," said the rector,
"I saw Lebanon, and Jerusalem, and the Twelve
Palm Trees, and the wells of water in the Great
Desert ; and we went across the Jordan, and went up
Mount —."—" Excuse me interruptin" you Mr.
Roetor, coo," said the farmer; "but, if it be a fair
•,ion, boo was turmet (turnips) looking out yam.
der r

A man in the dress of a workman was lately walk-
ing in tho streets of Berlin with • peckot in his hand,
sealed and inscribed with an address, and a note that
it contained ono hundred thalers in treasury bills.
As the bearer appeared to be at a loss, he was ac-
costed by a passenger, who asked him what be was
looking for. The simple countryman placed the
packet in the inquirer's hands, and requested that he
would read the address. The reply was made as with
an agreeable surprise. "Why, this letter is for me !
I have been expecting it for • long while!" The
muisenger upon this deneurded tell thalers for the car-
riage of the packet, which was readily paid, with a
liberal addition to the porter. The now possessor et
the packet hastened to an obscure corner to examine
his prize ; but, on breaking the seal, found nothing
but a few sheets of paper, on which was written,
"Dona l"
tiolpermneo 'Pn BE THANKFUL EoB.—On one occa-
sion Mr. Charles Dickens was upholding the theory
that whatever trials or difficulties might stand in a
man's path there is always something to be thankful
fur. " Let me, in proof thereof," said Dickens, " re-
late a story. Two men were to hang st Newest° for
murder. The morning arrived; the hour approached ;
the WI of tit. Sepulchre's began to toll; the convicts
wore pinioned; the procession was formed; it ad..
sauced to the fatal beam; the ropes were adjusted
around the poor man's neck; there were thousands
of motley sight-seers of both sexes, of all ages, men,
women, and children, in front of the scaffold; when,
Just at that second of time, a bull which was being
driven to Surill.field, broke its rope, and charged the
mob right and left, scattering people everyw here with
its horns. Whereupou one of the etrielemned Illea
turned to his cquAlly entwine/Ide convene:ln, and
quietly olurerver I 'I say, Jack, it's a good thing we ain't
in that crowd:"

"fossil:W.—Buttons :•• ),sy, voosy, •oot nor.;
you're wantml.”—Oooky , " %trust mean, Imp
ran. Why, there's about s .losou plain cooks
wan:ed, and there's quite enough o' you to cut up
nicely; and you're plain enough for the whole bdiu. '
(It nod nut be stated theta" basting" followod.)

• -
CUTTING OPEN • PENNY.—" Woh't you out op L n
• penny for me, father said a little girl, when Min
oame home from school one day. Cat open a
penny! What do you want me to do that for r Hoke I
her father.—" Cause," said tho little girl, "our tea-
cher says that in every ponuy there &reknit' farthings,
lad I want to see them.

"1 was never on intimate terms with the priooner,"
said a burglar who wee used as queen's evidence
&gaunt • " pal." " lle was no gentleman. I have
kuoun him, when he was robbing a how., to driuk
g*: __Mieraa°, champagne, and go off with his siorcr,
without tearing a card ot thanks ou the dinuag-tah.o.
brought discredit on the prutessio.,"
" What are you staring at, my chdd ?". inquired an
anxious mother of her little six-year old, who was
gazing around h In In the gardeu one bright winter's
uig„ " la," replied the little urchin, "when
we were get: log papa was talkiug about the dog
star socuejwcx appearing red. I baud our pthm.
little Star barking in the ghxduit, so I own. to look
if it was rol pair r.

CORN MARKET&
THURSDAT.—firiala: Fair Rupp!) of Ruglbih wheat, which
Met • nuelerately true at about lawt week'e prkee. Thu
et, ',land for foreign wheat •as very limited, without change in
sable. Ilaitiou barley unaltered ; a Wm, demand for grinding
qualitini at Oil. per quarter reduction. Oats without improvo-
Went either iii value or delimit!. Indian ei .ni no tem inquired
for, but pro buts %slue Mere Simla hupporled.
WHOA?. &
per 4961 b. 0 0 0
.. 43 0 .. 44
.. 42 0 .. 46
.300.40
:rJ 0 41
40 0 .. 48
U 0 ..
SI RLOT.

American, spring,
Ititto nxi winter •
linglinh, red and w We, new,
Duna*, Ibraills, soft,
TfikiCal nit, AC., sat.
nerdinniikl Ilnrianople, tut%
ealifornian.white • •
olhWean, Nioulad, loft,

ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto

ditto

P.ngli4h, good to fine malting—. Jer.imp. qr.. 96 0 .. 44 0
Irinh and French, grinding, per 4061 b. .. "6 0 .. 27 0
Danube and Mediterranean, ditto ..21 4 22
OATS.
- .

Limerick and other, line widi-c,.-per 39:01b .. 23 6 .. 24 0
Cork, Dublin, lieht, ditto
Cork, Waterford, black, per 3041 b .. 19 0 .. 19 0
Irish tawny, ditto .. t 0 0 .. 20 6
Prince Edo/kid Wand, black ditto .. 10 6 .. 20 0
Will.