The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-07-20 00:00:00

THE WAKE OF TIM O'HARA.

To the Wake of O'Hara
(ktme •-ompanle ;
All St PAtli :leo Alley
_

With the friends anal kinamen
Of the funny.
(in the old deal table 'Jim lay, In white,
And at hi tt tallow the burning light ;
While pale as iti-elf, with the bar on her cheek.
Tie mother reeehol full to speak.
But alle heati'd the An:, and with ne.er a word,
Net the Ithick bottle upon thajaard.
While the company gathered. tate and all,
Men and atonal, big and entail, -
Not one in the alley hut felt • eall
To the Wake of Tint O'Hara.
At the face of O'llara
All white with sleep,
Not one of the women
But took a peril,
And the wivea new wedded
&Van to weep.
The mother. elostered around alamt,
An.l pralwal the linen and laving tout.
For white no snow wi, his einding.eliect,
And all looked peaceful, and clone, and ew set.
The old nit,. praising the 111,..01 hail,
Clustered thick around the old prms-1.1,
Where Wilma', widow. tattered and ton,,
Held to her 1.0..10 the tabu new born,
And stabs] all btond her, with eye, (dent,
At the Wale of Tim Wilma.
itt.
For the heart of Cellar%
WM true a. gull!,
And the life 44 brlfam
W. bright and hold,
And big smile watt precious
To young and ohl.
Gay • guinea, wet or
With a smiling tooth and a twinkling eye!
1111.1 ever an answer for chug or fun,
Woulil light like a lion with any one !
Not nnelghl,,ttr of any trade
But knew stone joke that the boy had made !
Not a neighbour, dull or bright,
But ~, i l tiled ...teething, frolic or fight.
And whispered it round the fire that 'tight.
At the Wake ..11 Tint O'llara !
tr.
"Ti God be glory
In death and life!
Ile'. taken allen
Fnm trouble and strife,"
Kahl one-cycil
Tie apl.le.wiio.
"Cool bless ..1.1 Ireland !" mid Mi4rem Hart,
Mother to Mike ,d the donkey awl :
•• (:.Itl MeV% 1•1.1 Ireland till all be tine!
She never made wake for a lietter net !"
And all lined eh. ..v.. and tech OW: mid
et...thing kind of the boy that readied.
The bettle wont round Inau lip toll'
•tul tin, weeping widow , for fellowship,
Took the Inei.of ..1.1 Itiddy, and had • dp,
At the Wake of Tim trilani.
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Then we drank to 011ara
With drams to the brim,
While the face of O'llara
Looked on anoint,
In the corp./tight shirdrig
Yellow and dim.
The drink tient round again awl again;
Th, talk ...T. I..IMICT at every drain ;
Louder the townott of the ',time.. grew •
The toluntottif the her were loosing too !
But the willow her weary eyelids awed.
And, moot lied hy the drop of drink atm tinned;
The mother brightened and laughed to hear
Of O'Hara'. fight with the grenadier,
And the hearts .4 to all took hater cheer
At the Wake of Tim °liar.
The' the face of 011ara
Lonl.nd on a. AD,
In the chimney corner
The nor bqran ;
Lame Tony was In it,
The oysterman.
For a dirty low thief from the meth came near
And whistled " Boyne Water" in his ear,
And Tony, with never • word if Kr.LV,
Ilit out his flit In the lilacktrard's face.
Then all the women wertantetl out for fright;
The men that were drunkest began to fight ;
over, the chairs end table" they threw ;
The curlew-light tumbled, the trouble grew;
The now-boni Joined In the hulloballoo,
At the Wake of Tint O'Hara.
" lie 4111 ! Be ttilent !
Ye do • sin !
Shame be hie portion
Who glares begin r-
Father O'connor

And all Imiked dimmed, aml the row ems done ;
Sorry aml aheepish iok.leVCl)olle ;
Hut the prieid Jug mulled quite eimy and (me—
.• Would you 0.1. the ir laq from his sleep r
mid he.
And he mid • prayer, with a diininz
7111 • kind of • brightnem gilod (Sr !dam ;
The women St up the dim corpm.light ;
The mom rem quieter at the night :
And the Irma: id the I,rd fell m all that night
At the Wake of Tim WHAM.
AU the Fear ROUML

A WOULD-BE poet gine the following as • specimen
of his possess.—

" 'Taint evcry nem can be 3 ;loft.
Ni neoren stump tan be a e•cal."

PUILR PROM WT AU,TRALIA. - Five beautiful
pearls found at the newly-discovered fisheries in
Western Australia have been brought to this country by
the teat mail.

SINGcLAR ROBBIRT.—On Tuesday night II betting
man named Briggs, who was staying at the Lion Hotel,
Clurnber-street, Nottingham, during the rams, went to
hie bedroom with a large sum of money in his possession.
on Lb. 0110 wing morni OR, at half-past six, the " boots "
saw Mr. Briggs's bedroom door open, and shout an
hour if ter-wards the latter raised on alarm, and stated
that his room had been broken into by some one who
had stolen 1:91)) in bank notes from his inside waist-
omit pocket. In another of his pockets were £BO in
gold, snit • considerable quantity of bank notes, which
were left untouched. His gold watch was ale° left
behind.

THE QUESTION OF VACCINATIOII.—An inquest was
held on Saturday, before Mr. Bedford, coroner for the
City of Westminster, on the body of Henry Mennen,
aged five months. The mother stated that the child
had always been etrong, stout, and healthy until he was
vannated on June It After that, eymptoms of a
dangerous character develop-el themselves, and, not-
withstanding the best medicarattendanc,, the child died
July 11th, !run erysipelas. The doctor who made the
poet-modern examination said it was but fair to say
that the death was connected with the vaccination ;
yet not one fatal cue in 59,000 occurred. There were
no symptoms of blool poisoning, es though impure
vaccine matter had been need. A verdict of "Death
from natural canoes" was returned.
CONVICTION FOR IiRRIOUR OFFENCR.— At Warwick
amines, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Brett, James
Fawkes; anil Augustus !follicle Bailey were convicted of
feloniously attempting to procure abortion upon
Susannah liromt 11, of Coventry, aged 18, and un-
married. Pukes was described as a newspaper agent,
and Bally as watch finisher. His lordship, addressing
Fowkee, said, that for mere purposes of gain he had
engaged in a most abominable trade. A more vile
and infamous mode of gaining a li ring could not be
imagined or one more dangerous. The sentence which
he was going to pass wee such that the pnsoner would
in all probability never come out again as • free man.
Ile was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.
Addressing Bally, hie lordship and—l had some
doubt as to what sentence I ought to pass upon you.
I would willingly have pused • lighter one than I am
about to do on aseount of your youth; but on reflection
it does not allow me to do so. Your crime has been
most dishonourable. You have taken advantage of the
young eromao's youth, you have seduced her, deceived
her, promised to marry her, and then refused. You
then, by concerted and infamous mesas, by induoineents
and threats, endeavoured to escape from the nese-
quenoes of your own acts. As she herself most pathe-
tically said. she underwent almost everything she could
for you. You then insulted her by offering her money,
and treating her as if she were • prostitute. Hie Iced-
ship then paned sentence of five years' penal servitude.
ROHNIEY OF £loo,ooo.—The New York papers,whieh
arrived an Saturday morning, bring intelligence of a
gigantic robbery, which erne committed in that city on
the Bte June. The scene of the robbery 11/11 the Often
Bank, at the corner of Fult,in and Greenwich streets.
On Saturday night the Ink was closed Si usual by the
porter, who sleeps in the upper portion of the building,
ani was not again visited by anyone except the thieves,
until nix o'clock the next morning. In the interval
thus afforded the president's room was entered and the
vault opened. This vault was defended by an outer
door fastened with a combination lock, which was on.
locked or picked, it bearing so mules of injury. In
the inner compartment were two safes, both of which
were forced open, and their contents over-lineed. One
safe contained tbe boxes belonging to special depositors,
all of which were opened and "gone through" in the
most thorough manner. The amount obtained from
this source I. not known, but was very large, and will
very likely reach nearly $1500,C00. One man antes that
his box, sontained coupon bonds, he., to the aniollni of
$50.000, all of which were taken. No portion of this
loss falls on the bank, they not being responsible for
special deposits. Only about $20,000, mostly in currency
and legal tenders belonging to the kink, together with
about $lO,OOO in cheques payable to order, which can-
not be used, were taken. The thieves overlooked
between CF/0,(0:10 and saoo,ooo in clearing house
surrency and other certificates. about $lOO,OOO in gold
esetilkates and other securities, which they were
apparently afraid could not be negotiated. There was
In the vault some $lO,OOO in gold coin, one beg
of which was taken out of the safe but left behind,
evidently on amount of its weight. The latest particulars
state that the amount of private deposits stolen
from the (lona Bank is stated by the bank authorities
not to excised • quarter of a million dollars.

EXTRAORDINARY OCTRAGI HY • SOLDtII.—A strange
crime hes just been oommitted at Oaen, Frame. by •
drummer of the 93d Regimeat, named Dupree. Between
ten and eleven, two nights hack, he euemeded in
deemoding from the window of his room by • rope, and
loft the Larracks unperceived, lie appears to have then
wandered through the streets, trying the doors of several
houses, and to have at length effected an entry, in what
manner Is not known, into the residenee of If. imbonue,
substitute to the Proeureur ImperiaL He first viAted
the dining room, and, lighting a wax light with a match
which he had shout him, stole half a dozen silver spoons
and • earring knife, which he found in a drawer. He
then took off Ms tunic and shoes, and, armed with the
weapon he had jostfound, be made his way to the upper
storeys of the house. On opening the door of oue room
he found himself in presence of • young woman,
servant, who wm reading. He seems then to have
suddenly changt,l his intentions, and to have edandoned
his idea of robbery for a more diabolical outrage. He
rushed at the female, and, finding her resist him,
stabbed her repeatedly in the breast with the knife.
Her 'ries were heard by If. Imhougue, who was writing
In his study, and who found Dupre: struggling with the
girl. The soldier then extinguished the light and
seeeeeded in reaching the staircase and escaping,
although pursued by the muter. He was, however,
easily traced by the clothes which he had left behind,
and yea gluiest immediately afterwards arrested at the
berreeks, where he had just returned without his tunic
or hat. He is • WWI of confirmed bad ekesseter. The
young woman. whose 111.110 is Blare, is in • dangerous
state, the point of the blade having peueetaked into one
of the law, sad littk hope mains of ftviag her hie.