The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-02-02 00:00:00

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Profesaor Harrold Browne, of Oxford, ia to be the
new Bishop of Ely.
FRIO KILNED BT • OliterT.—A shocking sees of dm*
from practical joking isms before • carouse's fuze:.
London on Monday. About four months ago, a
maker named Priscilla May, nineteen years elms, west
to • house in Hyde-park Gardens to do scene with.
' At night, when going up the stairs, in company will
the governess and another servant, she sew the dowel
Ow With room thrown open, and at the mate await •
Azure dressed nil in white appeared is the ikdbwess.
The deceased girl instantly fell bwk sersasuisig tete the
arms of the governess, blood cubed from has aaskide,
and sbe was carried down Mails ineenibie. A eider
was sent for, and she was in nosh &clamorous deleihat
the servant& had to remain with her all sight. She
never recovered the shock. She last her ap
bicame fearful and nervous, and at langth ber=
became affected. Bbe gradually sank. and died lest
week. The apparition in white was the work of one of
the warrants, who bad carried out this ghastly praethal
joke unknown to anyone in the bolus. The idlly glib
opuses forward as a wittier at the Inquest, but secepal
• lecture—probably because the story Bea was awes
impressive than any formal reprimand could be. The
jury returned • verdict of death from obscure disease of
the brain and hysteria, aooeleratod,by .fright, sad that
death was caused by misfortune.
HOBRIBLB CF1117.0 MURDER AT CAILDIFF.—The deed
body of • newly-born male child has been dissevered.
with its throat out, in a water-Gloat behind the Prince
Llewellyn lon, Mira-street There are live
whose back outlets extend in • kind of part=
above beerhouse. The fasts of this horrid millet, as far
' as can be gleaned at present, Annear to be that on
Sunday morning Yrs. Fiche,, landlady of the Priam
Llewellyn, went to on. of the cottege wateraleseln,
and maw what she thought to be • young pig. Oa
further inteeiirstion, she found that it was • ADA MAI
child, with its throat out from ear tow. Informatics
waa at onoe given to the police, and the body removed
to the deadhonee, to await the coroner's inquest. Thts
took place on Monday, but nothing further was elicited
than we have mated.

Tal MALT TAI.—An influential gathering of r
farmers of Leioestershire took place in the Cora
change, Leicester, on Saturday, at woo, for the parade
of considering what steps should be taken towel*
obtaining the repeal of the malt tat. The chair wee
occupied by Lord Semen, and amongst those deseat
was Lord john Manners, M.P. The following media-
tion was unanimously carried :—" That in the *aka
of this meeting the excise duty on malt is unjust is
every person; it produces most injurious effects apes
the community at large; the impost primes heavily as
the agricultorista, and greatly decreases the sale of
wholesome beer, which is one of the chief necesserleed
life, while it is totally repugnant to the prism:lipid of
free-trade a lopted by the government of the cannery.*
It was agreed that & petition should be presorted to
both bourns of Parliament, and it was reloaded that
Lord Homers would undertake the duty in the Lords,
and Lord John Manners in the Common". On theme*
evening an anti-malt tax dinner was also held at the
George Hotel, Nottingham. Mr. George Storm, of
Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire, occupied the dab%
The health of her Majesty the Queen and of the
" little stranger" were drunk with enthusiasm."C
chairman, after some introductory remark', said the tea
upon malt was protective to the foreigner and a peat
hardship upon the English farmer. He then reed •
letter received by Mr. Barrow, M.P., from the seem-
tam of the Central Association for the Abolition of the
Malt Tax in London, requesting that one of the
agriculturist. from Nottinghamshire should re
the county at the meeting of the iterociation, to held
in the metripolis on Monday afternoon, the 25eh alt.
Mr. Nixon proposed that the chairman be elected toga.
Mr. Bayley, of London Abbey, seconded the resolution.
On the principle of free-trade he said the codas-
spinner's yarn ought to be taxed if malt was. Many
people had said that if this ten was repealed the lie.
morality of the country would greatly Mendes, bat he
was convinced that the contrary would be the
result. The motion was carried unani
Tim meeting was addressed by several others, ttro
urged that the county and borough members should he
requested to support the measure in Parliament. The
meeting soon afterwards broke up.

EXCITING ASTRAY WITH BURGLARS —TWO Mix SZOT.
—About midnight on Sunday no attempt wan made
to break into the holm of Mr. Thomas Robinson,
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fanner and bricktuaker at Leamington, Warwick .8111-171.
The burglars were discovered by Mr. Robinson's eldest
son, a youth about twenty, who spoke to them, when
one of the ruffians fired at him with a pistol, but the
nap unfortnnately %napped without the charge explod-
ing. Young Robinson then fired at the men with •
gun, and wounded one of them about the legs They
then ran away across the fields, and Robinson anda
father followed in pursuit. As the son was g
over • gate in a field at the rear of the premises one
the burglars sprang out of the hedge, and struck him •
heavy blow across the temples with a life preserver.
He then turned and ran, when Robinson again fired Ida
gun, and hit him about the legs. Herell down and
cried out; two of his oompaniono then came to his
aisistance. snit cerried him nfr. Robinson having dis-
charged his gun, and knowing that the men had fire-
arms, was afraid to follow, and they suoeseded in
escaping. On Monday four men were apprehended on
suspicion, but were shortly afterwards discharged. The
affair has created great excitement in the local,ty.
HIMSAN.—We had a visit front Heenan on Friday,
January 72, and were sorry to find that he was still
suffering (non *evere illness. He has been so muoh re-
duced in weight that he now barely weighs 12th 71b.
He declarm that beyond the first two or three rounded
his match with King he has no recollection whatever of
anything that took place, nor can he in any way account
for the extraordinary falling off in his lighting. H.
felt on entering the ring fit to fight for his life, and be
looked upon victory as a foregone conclusion ; but in a
very few minutes • giddiness came over him, for whisk be
cannot account, and beyond this he remembers nothing
at all, and he declares he has never felt the name man
.iIIOP. His looks on Friday certainly bore out Ida
statement as TA his health, and it will evidently require
greet care on his part to get himself round. He intends
taking a trip to some wanner climate for the renovation
of his bealth.—Bett's Life.

MONDE& (Jr .11 WOMAN IT Bit HOIIIIIJtO in LlVii•
FOOL—The Liverpool Mercury says :—'• Another o
lb.m atrocious erintu for which our town ham of late
acquired • painful notoriety was perpetrated on Saturday
evening last. It appears that there resided at Cassius-
street. • mot named Sirouel Johnson, with his site,
Ann Johnson, and their two children. The MUI fol-
lowed the business of a marble mason. The fan*
occupied • room in the house in queetion, but were It
the moot abject poverty, consequent on the intemperate
habits of Johnson and his wife, who sacrillead every.
thing to their love of drink. On Saturday afteraimin„
Johnson and his wife bed been drinking at variant
public-houses in the neighbourhood where they resided,
and returned home between *even and eight in the
evening. Johnson ley at this time very drunk, and
had a aaa„hieuble portion of his week's wages in hie
po,session. His wife endeavoured to get the softy
from him, but he refused to give her anything. John-
son, being overcorne with the liquor he had taken, fell
arthop: when his wife took the money out of his pockets,
and, it is mid, went to • public-house to get Mae
drink. Alter being there a short time, 4e left,
telling some of her companions she was going to see
how Sam was going on, and would return. :She this
went to her home. During her abasiooe her husband
had awoke front his deep and rained his matey, and
suspecting that his wife had taken it he daoaodedlt
from litr, but she refused to give it up. A quarrel
ensued. Johnson struck his wife, knocked her down,
end while she was upon the door kicked her violently
on various parte of the body. He thee left her in •
state of insensibility, and immediately quitted the
house. The noise occasioned by the waffle &Hunted
several of the neighbours, who urns in, when an
found the unfortunate woman lying on the Sour, end
in the Minnie* of death. She as only able to otter •
few word*, won after which she expired. Medical aid
was obtained, but of moue it proved unavailing. It is
not known exactly whether the death of the
resulted from a blower by the striking of bar bead whoa
die fell upon the door—a question which will aiamaarily
form the subject of inquiry before the serener.
, Johnson's two children, who were in the bones sit the
, time, were removed to the workhouse. Joitaaaa, sea-
-1 withstood lug the effortmo(tbepolieo. hu so far ehided
their vigilance, though it is thought he will sot long
remain at large."

The " Daily News" of May 29th, in ite description of
fl.nson's Great Clock. say.: " The entire firallb is of the
highest cost." Benson's new show rooms contain cloaks
designed by the first artiste of the day, and
include clocks for the drawing-room, dining.
room, bed room, library, hall, staircase, brac-
ket. carriage, church, turret, railways,
000nting-bouse, with musical, utroaonucel,74reb"M
every description of clock, from the plainest to the
highest quality of which the art is at present evade.
Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. How
eon's Illustrated Pamphlet on Clocks and Watches (frei2
by poet, for two stamps) contains • abort
clock and watch making, with descriptions istratosi.
It acts u a guide in t) .e purchase of *aka or will*
and enables them who lire in flootlead, hodsold, Wales,
the Colonies, India, or any wt of the world to seiriel •
clock. Also a sheet paecp 00Caardtal sad labile
clocks, free for one drip.
J. W. Benson reselemi • Pries ms_ti.ra bialmiebis
mention in dimes II end Id. 10 5°67,
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London. Breads Notablicimesetadd, se, oen
hill. Established Mgt
Watch mod sleek maw by special warrant of appeia,
m.ai to H. 2.11. the Prille• Wales