The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-12-12 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

DolusET FRIENDLY Socirri.-The Managing Com-
mittee of this valuable io.ciety has for some time last
been engaged revising the rules and tables. At a
large meeting of the member.; of the Dorchester
One of the remarks made by Prince Bismarck, branch, held in St. Peter's choilrooni, on Wednes-
day, Mr. 11. Gawler in the chair, to consider the new
reported. We learn that he said with some
and that not the least important, has not been
rules and tables. after a long discussion, in which
Meelint. J. Foot, II Pitfiel.l. and ethers took part, it .
was inianitnously resolved '' That this branch decline
degree of emphasis that " temptations bad been
addressed to (lermany which held out baits to to ateeit the game."
ht rin the sense if self-interest tied ambition, Denser Courier HOSPITAL —.lffinitted during the
but that all apprehensions of
week ending December 7th, 1876 :-In-patients, 6;
an acceptance of
discharged, 6; out ',Aleuts'. admitted 4 ; disch ed
;
17 ; emergencien, 3; deaths, 0 ; in:patients iargn th
these offers would he allayed by the clearest
proofs." This was understood by those present hospital, 52; out-patients on the hooka, 183 ; accidents.,
to refer to Russia, although it would appear that 0. Phyeician for the week, Dr. \V. V. Lush ;
the reference may have been to Italy. Anyhow, surgeon for the week, Mr. Emeon ; house-surgeon:
it is said to have caused an exchange of signal- Mr. E. J. Day. -The matron has received and grate-
fully acknowledges for the use of the atients a sack
cant commuffications between the Russian f . I ,
o notatoes from the Rev. H. l'igou, Isatchredy
Embassy anti the Cabinet (if St. l'etersburgh' Rectory, and nine bent of the The Sunday
and a remonstrance is said to have been addressed Meetirise from Mrs. Flyer, of StalfonL
to the too frank and genial talker. hence in 'FHB WILATHILII.—The following is our meteorological
his speech in the Reichstag, while Prince "Pert : -
•
Bismarck spoke of " the ticklish position " in
which the Government would be placed if they oatss. N.... Woad at tenet ' Mate ..f Weather.
' ! !
Were "asked by any one of their friends Stein
to show
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their love by hating the rest," he affirmed that • i •_—
"up to the present no such request had been 46 I 44 le Has
made." 48 I 41 SSW Rain
_ 46 41 W Fine, rain
46 42 Ert NE Rain
I The Conservatives of Promo have declared 44 34 4 Rain fine
. their intention of petitioning against the return 42 32 NW Pine
45 o
of Mr. Samuelson for that borough. Circum-
40 W Cloudy
; have, it is said, come to the knowledge of the CoMMITTED TO THE DORSET COUNTY PRISON.-
' party which induced them to decide upon Assias: Alfred Alexander, inflicting grevious bodily
harm at Bridport.--Hord Labour : James
(Torrrsponorncr. , proceeding with a petition, unless counsel Rawden,
assault at Weymouth, 3 calendar months ; George
I advise that the evidence of agency is not King and Thomas Johnstone, mut' behaviour in Wei,-
I •
I sufficiently definite. mouth Union, 2 calendar months; Ifetwy Edward
, SPIRITI.IAIsIiii-A SHANI OR A REALITY? Adams stealing a two-foot rule at Winterborne
I's eh: Adilor. . Mr. Justice Lindley is meeting out exemplary Sticklaiel, Thomas Brown, John Ashton, and Thomas
in..,,,xin.
anisbealuJianvilisu
LiAiwanßlLin,dfonl llnion,
Sir,-If it were tbe ease, as your correspondent in • uniahment eisou ruffians who appear before Burrows, misbehaviour in Sherborne Union, and
last week's Express aflinea. that " Spiritualism "is him at the Liverpool Assizes. The learned I.ijiamidesWililii.alurow misbehaviour
eeinio, eato.rents tom AJ: rankA of ariciely,,_ an!
eepecially if it were the religivits pan,ces w lii h hd judge sentenced a young Mall named France to in btunnmster Union, 1 milentlar month each.
affirms it to he, rea.on were that ase matter shied spec, years, penal servitude for assauking a ! .1 BEEKEEPER'S Assoc-tame reit Donerr.-We
be eerinusly dealt with awl investigated.
full
who.rrkithngis coordunetr,ythheasonyenret:itauLtetit2,
W° ve" policeman ; and tic, men, named respectively pleased to be able to state that a Beekeeper's Associa.
' ly question both usertions ; and while It must be _
esllool • - i ,a, c0,,,i4.„1,1e cork(' and Corfield, both of whom were con-
beanindgigthnaotwthine
admitted tie,t "Spiritualism ma m
~,,,,,, In g,,,,,e, And eswielally in the United States victed for stabbing policemen, were condemned res of time who wish to become members should
sent in at once to the hon. eecretary Mr. C. E.
that it hw taken any arceial hold on the peopl•
to fifteen years of similar penance. These I
Zealand is rimply incredible. It may lie, wifely left to
ebe--enninein sense and shrewdness of the average Saglidis sentainews will, no doubt, have a beneficial effect : Norton, of ShaftesherY• The objects rii the
i 'et),
snast. to lute nothing of " the most intellectual thinkers of upon the class of brutal roughs for which Liver- I meet c. 111111 l end themselves to all who would benefit
the day," to furnish to Spiritualism and its votaries their
wilvaancemmeaelnist
,iiii Ilie,eetteCriunltguretheine,t,hnediettiTnintyoi
their fellow men, being the encouragenient, improve-
eleeited ilererto : and we are greet!! mistakAi 'fit. is not Viol is feell'lts•
---..,. a ! iin.rentitc,uanhuili7
sidesetet to that " bottomless pit whither all vile and . .
polluting esp„,,,,iti.me end nat„,stee.s. Ltre...ei...re e.t.f.aen .
.We are promised an early
ii Seasiou andh
i cottager' and the Agricultural lahouriii r ('lasses, If,
y, nese& ,
cost But When Tour eirrestsinitent ....lie a Ilan:010e 1
re/brilliant season next year. er Majesty as a. th. B• •
abeHiinva.re
tell us that ' Xpiritualhon' I. a powar to ise ! wtth..:.
°feed to take up her rarters at Buckingham ,ir r rariltirinhalAr'n al agi steit' Tie insBei t I:.itas; ftoneerelitubriyi
religious maladie4 Ad the rani " gre,er then am. Mat. 0 ,
Palace, . . .
ti •nt t'r t ' I "l'e • • •
hey. ev;st. J "sin.- the il lys our rlivi ei.• walk,' i,,,, and a series t er al linen aona • a pn.ht in onlinary seasons of from 100 to am per
darth." we feel buittel to utter .oir
....helii,nt pr ..test t ac,.
111 Dili be giTclt there both lid re and Icent .ni their actual c..st, why it hi abundantly plain
tthhietitriattivte.n.utli.Lbet!atrhebektet:ir,i:6u, rofeobetteag.
raersth:rh..tihitlnttuharnt
against strh rank l•buip: snit' and ` !Per`'.ti T•iat loll' , tse We shall also have an early
form of divine power eau :.. Ism re..tte.l oith the hew, aft er bets.—
.4 .
of di- tem' tern Question and - ~, ,_
n,ont,
sal, nn0f,,,,t.,;L0a,, ~L o Apleitu.lism ' . :abbe', ot seaajoa on aee„ne •--- - , , wmce wenis tO lac the la •ight of rustic amhition '
sad degrading to ibis bet ter Moline,' at' humanity. That
'• is treleible that 1,071" will be us
full in ' 3 13* IV
- e see the Mime of Lady Wolverton, 4
the Divlne iwing from e boa thi . power. ii.i•st he auppeied it I amide:at
to emanate :au lie sopp st..l ii authorise -itch p...weibire February next year MI It is on. ?'..04. The
. . ue,nl in June. the list of patrons, and the president is the Rev. G.
ee wet brought. to li :hi in the laic treit of Prof-5....: is Ale
~., It is, they say
-- , r never too late to in ' ' '
W li' Skeels.
with his ...„.iiiiie contrived t dile- and slates, anal We. ,
.. . 1 .. ~ ' eed lieeouou PETIT SESSIONS, Monday.-Before the Mayor
his dark Maisees. 1 such a w sition that it it were for .0 deb in se.ison leis noun ito nunaturauy protrat. i (Me If Lock), and Gregory.
a moment . e•tiitite i• we'd.' on.. relieve te i te. bisest of that we turn ellll 111111 l int. winter in the saine STUPID SPITS.
all the supe.Poltlons lef which no" I•*- 1.'""! curse • N'`i way aa we tern eight into day. 111 Berlin and
out has indeed revealed • "'widest for healing. the „. . "of Grove Buildings, wise brought up in
• Charles flown
• 'nett maladies of the race, but that lie he comm. led . winid the se-tan is eloalatt about the time it ~,,„e„it.,.esrani h,.."`esitietistell•he lallili the if revems
His &gender t.. me lo.eping and matiiiiiilaion
.of iiiii•its in len A
iso m. Nee eenli Will rl.grnt the chicige eittioluy) evening, near hi. tr.: ---".-Itel'iPtrut" labut
••spiatosii.i.,." of the type of • Slade" m• " illeoli 0.1. is but the operatic stars of the first ' insigin tit e,
t I been drinkiug,went home, had • • ii.. --- bi' widowed
surely a &apposition whic's oersts out). tO lie mentioned to . . . .°."9 • • `4. aillrisll
be contemptieinsly trodden under foot. it-sec truth lies Fume It IR owing to the lateness of our season Hier, (alit, appeared in court very re. iecta
Mina went out and deliber I l I, I
ste.y ..ro-e al .•.ini a
in the op -.. Bide, end themeans and iestrionentality bf that they are able, like Irish labourers, to reap spite," averring that if not locked up for that,' he would
which He lowla Ole religious miseries of the race are .
there unfolded, end when F. J. Theoliald can -Leo Us LW.• hal Vesta Ili one year. They first line their do somethilm worse. However, lie admitted haring done
'•iiin er Ills niraes with !Russian roubles nod it i the mischief, mid was aecommielated with lodgings, free
wherein either the Mender of our rel., . i . s 'strati= oi cherge.-Ile amid he Oen-Iced for Mr. Wellman anti
followers hurried la... Mai er knowledge Ly ' Hpirilitals II i
.. in ita, and then turn up in London, after Easter, rued 2.15. a weeki-lle w•as sharply re ' • 1 1; • I
shall lei prepared te entertain their eln ; 1.. .... „
~
.. for .,, ;Inman' ei 0t le
until then we eau only .ly -ay of each and all of them ' give "" Il' "s 6 ll"teb: Mayor, said he was whaiiiini .if liiiii.lf, iind wi
101 l he would hive to pay a fillet of tkis. including costs.
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whet not, said to s;:e..n. -Thy imam). periso with o
retain lb: hail tio iu •ney with him, mei was allowed a fortnight
thee, because thoo h.:, thought that tho sift( " (i,I , The
ain mi to the expenses of the recent, tp,,y... Ilia mother comoiuml of the facilities for
May be pUr..ltamul with n 1111 l ey. T• 01 La't n,.ip..,- :.'trt 1 Inekingliainshire electiim shows that the II• m. itrinking on Mutiolays, awl thpl ought, the u 1 lilieboi &Weald
nor lot iii tide non.. : for thy he tit is i,ot rho... in :no
Thomas Freetsiantle, who was returned, had be closed on that day. Made% she better keep Master
sight of God. Repent, there:i•re, of this thy wickedness. B
and pray (hod, if perhaps I lio CI t ,tit of thine lira, t may .to spend £6,480, while the lion. Rupert Car- I urson at bowel)
be forsiven thee. For 1 rrereeive t/lat tl
~`irt ringten, who was unsuccessful, had to disburse ,
pll of bitterness awl in the bowl of 'tummy Aile oil., ,- ~-.
KY Il ts are not extravagant,
Th • . •Tonifort&t " for man in all lite :A.iti • • MO
W--43. ere ts on,
religious troulde.,, .„1 t:,,,t, b. the spirit of (tot who considering the size of the county and die
and
takesf
all thtraveetiesof God's wont of the things of 13dist and shows thand em unto UR J fiereeneu if tins contest ; but they certainly
oe , of all the
that ' h uslac men, as a rule, can elver ,lv
degrading and damning corruption, of it, none een he show t only
had in equal vileness and • • ...La Lou as to 'ern ' the lists for county elections. Pretty much the
o spirivalism," What does it rofess tO slot i
To
,_. /rme thin gi
!lin fact, may be said as to Irorolvit
furnisht us with meagre merest..., fropm the
.unseen worm , . e,
written on slates, auneunceil by 1.4.0 retinue.; on tables, contests. ey are necessarily expensive, and
by the eiiblenly liftiwz up of lumvy-bodisd mon and this is a fact which the Labour Representation
women, f
to float nu.kr the ceiliwg ofrau t rem.% and this. 6Om League do not sufficiently take into acconnt.
kind of medium wherahy spirit. he " vasty deep"
:A1m0n.... d to comfort num And Willeeell ill religious All the theoricie as to the representation of
troulile I! bit pusible that others than lunatim can have tibour in l'arli intent, all the denunciations
see faith in s
in uch alounlitisoi, or tit a owe:11(11111..1 4 it.ers tii..n ...r.o.t indulge(' in, and all the resolutions passed by
esse,ds role he f 111111 l I to pa i If on .aad
cre
iialonis people such renew, alsoninal.le impomp., y t iis League, practically go for nothing as
That there are singular. and we may even admit extra- • C nalpared to the hard, stubborn fact, that if a
rdiiiiary phemmiens araisiat,-.1 • ith "Spiritualism " • . ..
O reality
b.
,0.:.it,..a. end I'm the ample e.... 0 , .1, it g • • %tort:nig-mail is to be returned to the
,
there ate extraorlinag phenomena to be aasocial...l a ith House of Liatitlninis, Itia friends lutist pay the
pheideal foram, soda e" . 11111 l el in.eeel."".• "'el 11 hold of any of e orrolt laws
expenses of hie election, and fairly sulire.rt
Sidrittsaliate have got Mes
end forme as it is possible they have, then it will 'si hint no Ling not he rielllailill a member. The
honest ~ii their part if they ...add. on ev.,rY or"..sion leilemr listioreaelitatioll League makes no way,
when such phenutur!es are preditivil, caplet& the h onest cud jimt because it dues not recognise this
ressou of tholes. when it would lie Wale that spirits base
as much to to is ith them. sick'-,,,et he "spiritual* fact• •
liiitiore,- as they hate VI ila with Lk. trieks of the Wiaird
of the North, or our other clever c milder. Bit It is sad to learn that that horrid and fatal
waving these Illore serious aspects of the
nnection qu oi
i:
scalie, ailiall-pidt, le int the increase in the
there are one or two points in co with
• Spiritualism - whieli seem to tire vi oder coiled-flab:a metropolis, and that an epidemic is expected.
ii‘nitiei difficulties ne ill* oor td CrOdittng th0xh,,,,„.,.... hi several districts in London it has been
T•he nr..t difficulty presents itselt with the suediunw."
resodßed to increase the hospital accommodation
It il isecessary ila order that the spirit Mot' rOullelelleleoto
that there .11‘,11(1 he a given medium, which Pi
all • ear,.
for the treatment of this malady. These facts
fully arranged and organised-the 4,,,rk Penn, tte certain may be commended to the opponents of vacci-
kind of table. the slate, the distance of the operator, and nation. That this operation has in some few
the n .werated on, the kind of asetsiance tooled.
wt • ha j have to ask F. J. Theobald -b w y h i oa. nstallers produced other diseases, is beyond
Now, sir,
were these arrangement+ as ewe.: nip niiir.ov...rc:::l. or
.! are question; but it is undeniable that vaccinati,n
they eeprotely specified by the al its sth n I' s t riove, 1,...
materially lessened the number of attacks
ver &newer be returnesi, it is quite cLoor thot ths """'
Iv !Tha.t originally bees; been communicated with by small-pox, and also the proportion of deaths
;Pt .rey' Mum to env such tuedium.:; and, if iince, at not by illness from this dreadful malady. Someone
;away' so ! Why should riot tto spoil. de.: :Odd to
has said that there is nothing so deceptive its
communicate without this elaborate preparation anil con-
trireme I obviously they must have done to at some
cynical re facts, unless it be figures; but the facts and
time-andifficulty whih t le
d why eat :it Any time ? Diffieultv .No. 1. figures of the Registrar-General do not Blue-
Auother c jus wiglyests itself to eas a
no 'or is this -if spirits are anxious to communicate
"till tr •ate this',lark. lie has incontea t' Il iI y
their friends, v liy should thee leave the buseims in Dr. shown that the proportion of deaths from small-
Blade's hands ter ill Mr. Theuhalirsi! Why not go &rat Do, itin,m4 the unvacchisted is very great as
their friends and ao aave hOth WWI ,y Men troutile I •
t°
Tables And sltes IWU ' I Id offer no sperial WS •uuy, compared with thoso among the vaccinated.
.
Difficult Ni .
2. Another difficulty that strmes me is
y
this-why have
the ePoite- wk.". we e`!•lbt eeele,e. If Lord Ileac.onsfield would not listen to the call
would always have been 2,110011/1
tbajhave such new..cat •f•. d _i - i. d 4 tit the country for an Autumn Session. It
___,...... e ateir rico s a, n un 11.4 f I
i° ''''''' ... ' til spirit tic lii end asinces arise! Illtheulty Woltltt have been better for him on every
unualist . ..
Slid it deem strike me as • t 1 I haul I wn Mamma more pliable.
NO. 3. Another itiflicelty is tie ,
.0,........,. a aa-oun i le 4to
a very serious one, that au All the ....':.4e
' ttcy to i;0"..7t; As it is, the St. James's Hall demonstration is
ualiats the mesa... have the singelar ie.
•-charit • te a menace to the Ministry such as they have not
gratifying nature. Now it is no lwead] 0.. ,ur )
✓ap • that roine of the spirits hove a very . civet Teeeired before during their three years of
story to tell, if they would bat speak tho truth : Oleo' ...i (Allen : it is a warning of which there is iiii
we suppose there Mist be tion..st spirits new at.-h,-,,t.
s
when matters don't go quite straight nit the "'timer mile," inAlikilPo Hie meaning
k, .. , ' The hall was (train med
there would be th.a.t human enough to say so, in which to
outioc,suon team ll ill g 110(1 11,ItUrtiooll. Smite
ease our mediums might find themselves in an awkii aril I "Cu l& were present, moue
dilemma! But, sir, the wind° tuatts-r is unutterably bail, four th mem ' 0 uL.
e dulte,ates from countr
lull-
and execrable : and, for de sake of our poor humanity. ' dreds of whom wen. a . . Y
let us hope that "Spiritualism" may speed d)i go ilito WIWI aasociatiuus. nu ull 'llium was .. staking the look
herd of swine, wh i sill run &WI% sane steep Am, into , ,.. • . • -446. It is a sign
the sea and be drowned. But. Me &live, I have gone a' of the Labourers mum* aCifigat .
1014 way about to do what 1 proposed to do when I set Of the theca tip 11140 1110114.1 lIICII all.
, IUL Jriatiph
out With those reinarks- via, to give .meestion (pile ~. .
, Arch has or ' 1 II • 1. Ito tl • Men
gauntlet alit ii.tiit tt ige um.
of our modern ha I p.....0.i0.iee5, who at least had not beim.
Ifs way as
one „f .. the i„,,, iotadiertoat men of hi, 44, • who show till intelligent interest in the emetic'.
Cato ranks of the "Spititio theta" I read the pasmee pation of their fellow (hrietians iti thi• lioit,
gnaw years ago, and. as it Matto a very want:try i
iessm
Oa 1111 l st retimill lon on g tsi.le the pale ..f the
preselect in my ow it mind, met has given " ft:pinto:ditt" .
a "teach job" with me ever ounce, me I caliilot .1..114 ti.lratiChiso in ads ceuntry,
leading et' it, will furled' • tine anteduts. ag.tiest surh
taernicious hurialitlig by those who may tars to read it.
This is what redessor Ferrier in his Institutes of
h Illet4.
des says of lifirittudisin" and all that besteal . on-
taYternity ; and, a ough the pavenie is long. I will make
no apoicKy for quoin.: it entire :--- 'These (elairvoyance
—and even Al), MI -iay 1576) cfcllite lecl'eri ! spirit-
rapping; however, are not to I • set clown -at 1 ask 50 it
is to be hoped -among the normal Mel eatholic sup,e.
editions incident to humanity. They are Howl' worse
Mimi the worst form of the doctiine of materiality. These
aberration. It-token a perverse awl liniment play of the
abnormal fauey- groping for the very holy ut lathes in
ketutels rsin ll ill g with the &loot selittelese and tied alone-
dont,' alio 11l i l iation.. Our uatural superstition, are
enough ; but thUd to make a iystetuatic busies. of fatuity,
imposture, awl profanity, wet to imagine all the while
that we are tour hing on the precincts of tliel's spiritual
kingdom is unspeakably shocking. The horror and dis-
grace of such proceedings were never even approached in
Mae ilarkestldays of heathendmia and idol dry. Ye who
mak., shattered nerves and depravel sewations the it.
terpreters of truth, the keys ebb+ shall tudiek the ewes
of heaven and ,men the secrets of futurity : ye teh I ill.
augurate disease as the ur.ediet of MI 0i..1,,,,i. tioie
making sin, death, :aid the devil the lords paramount of
crwatiou have ye I. Llsought yours:lva. of• tee Kiel:NAM'
and downward course which ye are running into—the pit
of the bestial and the abhorred? Oh ! ye miserable
mystics! when will ye know that all God', truths and all
man's blessings lie in the broad With, in the trodden
ways. and In the laughing sunshine of the universe, alai
that sit intellect, all genius,. ia merely the power of Hieing
wanders ia common things '
I ans. Sir, yours,
Irminger tout

CATTLF.
DORCHESTER. -- At the Annual Christmas
market to-day th-re was a very larg, attendance, and
there being a dose comiwtit: the prices for fat beef
ruled high. The beat fat beasts min:ea from CA to
£l7 lOs. per heel, or He to 17s. per score. Cows and
calves ishl at £l2 to 4:20. and barren's at to £l4
each. Sheep were .omparatively in small pimply; the
best wether mutton made 10.1. per lb.. the beet ewe
mutton 9,1. A general clearance was effected, about
200 head of beasts being disposed of.
NOltWl:7l4.—Pretty gOO4l supply of store cattle on
offer. Trade ruled ate:sly, wix, a slight upward ten-
dency in quotations in none instances.
NOTTINGHAM.—Fair supply of horned stock,
the show consisting mostly of milking cows, and for
good animals of this description a fair demand was
Again experienced, at as much money as heretofore.

LATEST TELEGRAMS AND NEWS.
Sir Jubn Romonde, M.P., for County Waterford,
died yerholdaY•
One of the grew I the fishing smack Dewdrop, be-
longing to Plymouth, has just died at Heiser Hospital,
Portsmouth, from the effects of wounds received last
August, when fired into by the Spy, Revenue Cutter.

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Lord Derby in the midst of his anxieties about
Eistern affairs, has contrived to effect an
arrangement with the American Clover iiiiii !tit by
which the rogues mid vagabonds of England and
the United Statist shall not be able to eseapc
punishment by fleeing from the one country to
the other. It rt..dounded little to the goat sepau
of either country that such a state if things
should have Wen possible for :1 week. That it
should continue permanently WIL4 impossible,
and yet there euein to have been sonic rogues,
fouls enough to suppose that it would. and thus
they have allowed themselves to be caught.
Perhaps we shall got the " Duchess of Devon-
shire back ni,w.

Dorchester, Derewher 1 Ith, 1876.

Since the arrival of the lint cargo of the New Neaa,,,,..
Tea.. by the "alanartney " Steamship. Alicoirs. dungeon,
JOOllOO/4 é Co., have been supplying through their agento
the tinted Tear selected from the first or Slicing Crop. For
purity and richneaa of flavour them Teas cannot lie
igfarpsmed and thiste who ire not using them are recom-
mended to try them and judge for Umniseivea—For local
Agetata, see advertiaement.
fiat the Warwick anima, Henry North, Peetotßce
we.. 4 found guilty of forging part of • Post office
at Aylesbury. by altering the amount froth 6.
4.0 165.., and was sentenced to ten years' pnm.l
oervitud,.
An elderly WAY and Woman who were found insensible
at their home, at Wolverhampton. at Sunday afternoon
eave both died. They were Inch. And were named John
and Macy Ann Murray. The husband was a collier.
They mem to have tippled altar returning from market,
and this to have drunk from a bottle of petroline.