The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

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WaMILIIDAT wil tha t eolith anniversary of the birth
of her Boyd Highness Primers Beatrice Mon Ylibr a
Feodor—the youngest ohild of her lidoity.
The A.TIIIAI RIPIDIIIO/I.—it awe MIMS that
the ozpoodi tiro to ladle was 0,820.000, and the treas.
port °twain £4,100,000, taial £10,920,000
Ile. Gti.Xte's Capital Panishment Abolition Bill
provide. that penal servitude for life shall in future be
the punishment for persons oonvicted of marder.
Toe Kehu newspaper says that Are Biabopt are now
spoken of as anwilliag to eels aitaihst the second reading
of the 1641 Church Bill in the Lord.. .

LORD GlOGiog 11.1filizra Asa bean sleeted the new
eteward of the Jockey Club, in place of be Duke of
Beaufort, who." term barn •xpired.
AGILLIIIAN OCITZ•OI.—at farmer in Clonmela who is
obnoxious to some of his neighbours, was red at "
through the window of his hones • few nights egos '
wac retiring to rest. Fortunately he was not struck.
URAL COMB, the lady at Old Trafford, Boni:heater,
who ••• injured by an explooionof gas in her house,
died on Monday. The lady bad lighted a candle to
examine • zee pendant where there was as escape, and
the expiation was the oonsequarnoe.
THZ Leeds County Court Judge hos decided that
tenants whose rate, up to the pa•sing of the new Reform
Act ilea been paid be the landlord. are eotitled to
deduct from the rent the rate* they are now milled on
to troy.
(-11•Raie Cat KILLING • 11138•ANIL—At Edinburgh
police.co.irt, on Wean...day, • woman notned Graham
was charged with having canoed the death of her
btioband by stabbing him in t•• eye with a table fork.
daring • quarrel from whish the sea died two days
afterwora% Remitted to • higher court.
Tug SiAIICHI Twins. A gentleman of Mattock
write. that he sow the pentino some year. ago at the
'Egyptian-hall, where be played tot games of draughts
with then., the first of widish be gained!, having been
oppo.e.l to one. only; bat be having canal the attention
of hi• loothcr an their native prblirrsh, they set to with
• will and oonqucred him, showing their exultation by
pacing him on the shoulder and exclaiming, " Ab, we
have heot yob,"

Tito Ken. C. H. Jame', ILL, bag been committed
for trial at Cambridge for stealing three 'pions from
the liimac where he /edged. A ticket...files.° was
found among his papers, which shows that he was eon.
rictrd A ewindling • ehopkezrer at Northampton, in
o:tolier, 1,44. and was sentenced to lire yeers' petrel
pervituas in Dartmoor prison. A copy of the deposi.
trona t•ken at his trial wet found at his lodgings,
togs tier with aemon's and priest's orders.
THE Al.erpstre.o. Tunis, in references to the cam of
the litrl rail at I.l.lifihrogeliyriArth, who is said to
Levi. Irv.,i aince the 10th of October, 1867, without feod,
says that • colornittee of -evprclable men was formed
some ,11111: aga to inytire into the sem, and three gentle.
men watched the girl crotiauouely from March 220 d
to Apri bib, and they rialto that nothing whatever was
given to her during that t: me.
SLltiorei Streams:liar z Amities rs. —There wee:.
sonic eri7 Setloll. aceidenM at the Exeter Steeplechaser
on Tuts a, aftemoon. Major Nese who rode he own
horse, Patrick. was th-. own while taking • fence: the
horse fill on him, and another horse abio fell. We
major was taken up insensible with • cot on bin k amt.,
and it is feared motions internal injuries, as, whim
brought to consciraturces, he expretorated blood.
Another terrible acorder t was caused by • hone which
had refused to take • vriter-jump bolting attempt •
strewth knocking some into the water, and it is fee-ad
fatally ihjuring • woman, who had her skull free:aired ;
it the hospital it was doutted whetbrr eh. would her
tbrou.th the night. Teo other women were •leo
it the same time—one having the bones of krr (mei
broken. There were other minor accidents.
Tar lies. J. Collet:I, curate of Buckland &ewer,
mar Built-ford, wars called to baptize the ehild.cf •
coachman named Webber, but when be and it at the
home it had died. Under these oiracinstaimed be
refumil the usual burlal rites and the body was buried
without them. Lying CI in the same house was lite:eta
child of the one which had Mat expired. The parer to
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then became doubly anxious that one ahoeld be Ceptiaed,
and repieeted Mr. Colwell, with tears in her 'yea, to
perform the ceremony. He refused, on the in eland
teat if the child be bacti.ed the parents might neglect,
when it reeccen.d, to hare the ceremocy pobliely
performed.

~1:01,,n141.6•LT_ CONIK.7T • WO/LIH.USI. MlLia

Riggs,e girl of abont 14. was brought up for dieord ly
woodua 10 Ciifton 1.70in0 Workhouse. Mr. Swam, the
master of the beuee, said the accuied was incorrigtble.
When admitted into the workhouse, about twr years
minor, she pretended to be deaf and dumb, and it wee
only when • sold shower bath was administesiodt.hat
she recovered her spiret and hoariest Since that tme
she had need Ittr tongue rather too freely. otmesiatally
uttering the roost disgusting language. It was sictod
that she and other inmates of the house were it the
habit of blteking their faces, to annoy the officers. She
was ient to prison for • month's hard labour.

licrumnotorr You 1 .—At Liverpool on
Tuesday • haked-up :luny begged for a jug of water as
they were almost choking, and it was allowed thee_ on
the ruling of Mr. Justice Maul., who has decided that
watt ris " neither meat nor drink." They were again
locked up, and no kept till next morning at nine o'clock
when Ow foreman said it was a barbarous custom to
lock up 12 men all Mitt, sod keep thaw without ' aid
for 21) hours. They were ready to give their verdict at
a quarter pant nine the previous night, but there was no
one to receive it. The °Meer a the court said he had
been in oboe attendance outside the room all right,
and that nearly the whole of the night the jury were
very ii.iisy. The foreman said that they hail hooked
and kicked at the door with considerable violence, hut
the °slicer either did not cr would not hear them. The
Assessor said be presumed that the jury marked the
door as Dime satisfaction fcr being locket ay all night.
He was vC,y sorry they had bi.ven put to so mach In-
ounvenienoe.

A Dtgarpontritors.—A woman named ll'Cartby had
been for tome time an inmate of Cork Workhouse, and
on Saturday her relativee reisived information of her
death. A wake was intniedlatcly improvised, and on
!Sunday her aon, attended by a troop of friends, came
to the city, and hiring a showy hearse, provided with a
.•ii.pectahle oak coffin, went to the workhouse deter-
mined that the poor woman's life should at all event.
Save a bnllien: &MM. On isquiring in the workhouse,
however, it vu ascertained that Mrs, lirearthy was
240 t dead. she appeared in her proper person, alive sad
kicking, and indeed apparently .Litiving on the work.
!wise dir tory. There might be some agreeable surprise,
but there mu also a large proportion of honest disap.
poiLiuient at tie unexpected adrismateeent, and the deeol.
alive and her friends parted rather unpleasantly.
1111'CartLy offered the coffin for si.:e along the road, but
met no purchaser. and was obligad to carry the incon-
venient article home.

THE NAROB •ND HIS FAXILT.—Wheo the Nabob
was in Pars, he met with the usual fate of lions, out
was hunted to death. among others who solicited •
presentetiot mum elderly young lady of forty-eight,
highly genteel, intensly respectable, very good to the
poor, and as strict in morality as she could be to be
elite. Her name, we will say, was Popkyna— bliss
Popkyn., Singleton Cottage, Batheaston, • plecie said
to be duller even than Bath. Miss P. effected her
purpose ; was introduced to the Nabob and his son.
" Whet • cli.irming youth l" said bliss P. " Has your
ai.y more children ?" "Madame," refilie,l
the Nahib, " I have eleven sonsand nineteea daughters
still living ; hut then, to be sure. I have thirteen
wives !" Ent Ilia P. in bytterics ; and, issdeed,
it does roman I one of Artemoss Ward's speech to the
Mor ..... n party who had forty-sit wives "Well, sir,
mid he• La you like makineay as lag as you've poser

Tan lirst party of emignints for Oasts& rid Liverpool,
namberia4 about 390, seat out by means of the London
Emigration Fund, loft Locales on Tuniday morning by
the Midland railway.
ML agoaaa Dmol, 40., of the Mammy Bar was
thrown from his horse nem IC•Doispou Ov•L London,
on Wednesday, and died from the injuries he then re.
mired in six o'clock on Therm:ley morning.
A FATAL I.ll3AllllL.—Hiigh Friel • farmer, of Rath-
manna has died of lockjaw, from • beating in the head
with • stick, indicted on him a fortnight previously by
James Foy, in • casual quarrel when returning home
together in a state of intoxication from the fair of
MN ord.
Tag Court of Common Council of the thy of London
have negatived a proposition to erects statute in the
ist,r)otoo. the MU Priam Consort, thy mist not to exceed
i A
proposition to greet a memorial window to
Lb. Prince in Guildhall was also negetived, but it is
anderstood the subjoin of • wismoibil in some form will
• be considered at • future day,
0 TNT CILIOUS DEATH 01 • gOT. —On Thuredisy evening
a boy named Bithall, 11 years of ma, wen mot on.
mesange from Wrexham to • neighbouring ethane, and
nothing further was heard of him until to. following
sfternoon, when h• was found lying In n ditch in a
dying stet*, and he expired shortly after. His body
•xhitated gems very serious marks, mad his clothe were
found mattered about.

A srau• attended erith violence, is reported from
Brussel., &Moo g the miners at Borings. The men
destroyed the works of the colliery, and VI la en the
military were celled out, • collision occurred, whisk
resulted in even of the rioters beiag killed and • large
number wounded.

EITKAOLDIMART ACCIIMIT.-00 Tuesday dtarnoon
George Nicholl was amoeba( nun in vaults at Liverpool
when het illed a qoantity over his clothes, and though
be wee Men to enter the emits with • covered lamp /u
eteght are, and was no Leversly burnt that he died the
mate evening iojearful agonise._ . .

Ar TIFAIPTID 11010111 AND BOICIDI.—Jobn Francis
Brown, an edge tool striker, !Sheffield, who has been
sqrsrated from his wits for fire or six years, found Mr
at the Moor Bide, aa housekeeper, sad he made
desperate attempt to murder her by stabbing her, after
hie' he out bin own throat. In neither sue, however,
did he mune death. He wits suffering from defiriam
t-taseas at the time

Tau Government are inquiring into the sufficieney or
insufficiency of the present capitation grant to oover
necessary r perwa, raid, so to whet measures it city be
expedient to tate for the better organiaation of the
ltea-rre Forces, as • =wort, in case of emergency, to
the Regular Force. of Her Ilaksty.
17m-ravings. —Thc Srarmiter says that daring the
current season It bee seen in., lie., and seen 9e.. gravid,
asked for • valentine, the trade price of which has not
exceed 245. per dozen, and recommends the trade is be
minified with • maximum return of 100 per cent.
Mr apt' IT • Fn. I, RIM AN. —David 14 end eree3,
fisherman, of Wick, am apprehended at Dundee on
Thursday on 'charge of assaulting and maltreating hi.
site and mur•fering hie child, while under the influence
of drink. The Mull was fractured, and there
are other marks of violence on the body.
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A cceeta dewioe ham been bit upon by two poyular
Independent ministers it London—Dr. Raleigh and the
Rev. Mr. Joees—to mitigate the labour attendant upon
pulpit duty. It is proposed that each should preach in
the morning in his own pulpit, and in the evening in
that of the other. Ties teen pinecttes twice, bet only
prepense one sermon.
81luaLING 0000R11111111.—At Alowiek theatre on
Mouday nigh 4. a young man named Turner attempted
to pees from the gallery into the side berm An
assiatant endeevoured to atop him, and a draggle took
place. At length both men fell into the bores, Creator
nod. met, with his anus round Turner's neck. Coaster
annoyed to rise, but Turner wee unable to mike, and
was carried home, where itc died shortly afterwards.
Two fleg BOIST DRATEL—Two mew, named
Proctor and ryson, west to bed at • public-botte over-
looking Morecambe Bay iatcuteated. Nest,morsting there
was • smell ef burning material, and on opening the
door the locitiolothes beret into dunk, and both men
were found dead, Tyson's right hand being burnt off,
one half of bin head only being left. Proctor was
sightly burnt, his death arising as much from suffers-
ties es from fire. Pipes and matches were found ie the
poeketa of the men, amt they were in the beet of
smoking in bed.
DRIADYUL DRAPE OF A DRAPER'S ASSIOTAFT.—
Charles Vinton, seed 17. an apprentice of Meeks.
Heyward and Kenn., drapers, Grey's-inn-road, Le3lon,
on Friday night returning home after the customary
hour, found be 000ld not get in. His fellow shcpmen,
whom he awoke, endeavoured to draw him up to the
second-door window by meow of a sheet. He ia4 not
got many fe, from the ground when he loosened his
hold of the sheet, iced fell on the pavement below kis.
taining caneussion of the brak and fracture of the skull.
He died in • kw boars.
ANDREW Joesieog.—A yokes. of entracte from the
speeehes of Pitt, Foz, Burke, and other English orators,
with a grammar, an arithmetic, and a geography Dom-
prised his editeational libra-y, while working as a
tailor. Hk wee is said to bare taught him to write.
His Preeidental Meseages, whsch were far m"repetslied
in style than three of many af his preosalemon, were
written entisely try himaelf. .7.t is believed that he
quitted the White House poorer than when he catered
it, end that beycnd his salsry--eilly 25,000 dols. a year
—he never touched a oent, of the public money.

Cease Boosc.—Mr. Edward Allman, of X Bedfeid•
street, has issued a circular among the scholastie pro.
reason. in which he offer, to mapply all eehool-hoolie
and stationery at the wholesale trade price, for which
liberality be er_ly requires • reiristretion fee of fa.
Another instance sf injury to ths book trade is shown
in a cireularissaed by Mr. 111101, of Houverie-street. in
which h- °Ern to sapply for 10s. ad., carriage paid, •
forthcoming work that is about to be published at 14s.
—TAt Statiower.
HOLLOW•T'II PULL —MIACCOOWILDLI ILLNIIIII3I4
Persons naturally nervous, or those who's nerves are
unfitted to hew with impunity Me reskitt,ni
frequently feel unwell without any sissignalati itesasis:ao
such suffcreni theca strengthening Ks are ateseeall
puce. Holloway's medicine promote. parfeot dige,tion,
whereby • richer andclronger store of vitality is thrown
into the blood, which soon dispels transient weaknim
and gradually removes permanent debility and loss of
mental energy. The gills at the same time preivvvs
due order and scrupulous regularity. sad healthily
superintend every nitoral function. No tperient can
successfully enter into competition with these pills,
which, without weakening or irritating the system,
secure the steady actisa of the tv,wels —that prune
necessity of all ages.

A FIMALI IDSHLTIILX. - Lid year • woman,
narn..d Isabella Knowlee, was Benton...l to sit month,'
imprisonment at Aberdeen. On tbe 4th of February,
ending herself in the washing-house alone, she made
of. The polies were set upon her Wadi. but all of no
avaiL On Saturday afternoon • shoemaker at Ilikon
Qsarry, came upon a bundle of clothing which bad
been stolen. The police kept watch, and in the dusk
of the evening observed • young man in search, and
sppt t heeded him. He mid he was John Brown from
Stonehaven. He wee dressed in rattier a fashionable
style, with light grey vest and trousers, and blue °oat.
and line altogether • omisiderable reasitublanoe to •
seedy midshipman. After he bed been in cust,dy for
some time. the police diwevered that John wag not •
man, but • woman, and in the woman was recognised
Isabella Knowles, the escaped thief ! It seemed that
aline bet escapes be had pared the greater part et her
time in Edinburgh and Glawrow, and it is also said that
she had walked through Aberdeen and boldly itonfronted
the load pollee.

Rtrative.—James Illaesionald, who was convicted
at Cheater of the murder of Jamie Nelley, has been
repriesed.
klatieuisan —Ow" negro boa killed
another in Crawford county, Georgia, homage he would
not go to shunts.
WONDIIIB WILL writ CRUM —We learn through
the Stor's Perin correspondent, that a man died on
Tuesday, at the Maitre Hospital, who had slept there
seven months and three days, and that on the morning
of his death he woke up end swallowed • pint of
chocolate, the name quantity of broth, and some wine!
801111 WING Us. • ECM SDI I--Mr. Thos. Bendel!.
writing to the Mark Lass Express, says—" What I
woold propose in the way of legislation on the ra ne
question is simple enough at any rate—not the less
efficient, It may be, boo suss of its simplicity. I.et hares
and rabbits be confioed, by low, within enclosures,
sesurely tensed, and let thee, enclosures, with their
oontenta, be subject to the local rates."
AT • banquet given in hotionr of an Australian mag-
nate, his health was proposed ; bet he declined to make
• speech in return. Gentlemen," be said, "what you
have done is doubtless true, and certainly agreeable;
but I never made but on. speech in my life before any
large number of people, and short as it was, the result
was so unfortunate that I made up my mind never to
make another." On farther inquiry, it was found that
the speeeh in question was made at the Old Bailey. It
• .naisted of "Not guilty. my lord," and the result bad
been transportation for life.
Tanga BUICIDWL—An inquest was held in Burdett-
road, Mile-and, London, on the body of Rachel
Edwards, aged 51 yeses. On Thursday she was drunk,
and as the next day her dead body wan found dead in
the Regent's Canal. Verdict, Found Dead.—A second
inquest was held on the body of Ellen Haledale, aged
24 years. Deceased had some dispute with " her young
max," in eonaequence of which she threw herself from
one of the iron bridges of the London Docks. She was
got out in about ten minutes, but life was extinet—A
third inquest was held in Poplar, on the body of John
Ran, aged 50 years. Deeased bad been ill and in want
for some time, and on Monday his landlady found him
dead in his room with his throat cut, and an open ran ir
by his side. In the latter two cases the jury returned
verlieta of Suicide while of Unsound Mind.
Saocznio CLes Or CHILD 11.01WEW A brutal and
revolting child murder has been brought to light at
Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. An inquest was
held on Saturday on the headless and mutilated body
isf • newly-born infant, found by two young men Boat-
ing on the guffaw of the Keediv's Pool, at Sutton Park,
Ft. bead and neck had been hacked off by a blunt knife
or hatchet. and a surgical examination revealed
internal injuries- Five of the ribs had been wrenched
from the vertebras, arid there was • stab in the heart.
The birth bad been premature, and it is supposed that
mutilation was resorted to for the purpose of concealing
evidences of an attempt to prof-ere abortion. A verdict
was returned of "Wilful murder againat • person or
persons unknown." Sotpicion attaches to • young
woman who has absconded.

WOMBS! IN Muse (I.ollM.—Anybo4y who is accus-
tomed to peas through Regent-street London in the
afternoon must have noticed • feminine-looking youth
in company with an over-dressed and obtrusive woman.
The long neck bed the narrow waist of the youth, his
.hort steps in w•lking, hirouged end powdered face,
Ilia shape, figure, and deneaisour altogether. attract
moiething mord than passing attention. Sometimes he
may be seen in evening dregs at the theatre, and there
are certain plasm of more familiar resort where he is
as well known as the man or woman behind the her.
The youth who thus figures in the London world is, in
feet, • woman; and although we mention one only, by
w.y of illustration, it is • fact that this kind of
masquerading in new coining into vonge. If women
Ni.guise themselves se men, men retorts the compliment
by iseraming the garb of women. As • nile, men can
'make up" better as women than women as men
although in either ease the walk is pretty sure to,
betray the troth. Among the other novelties in-
toe:Need into the Park this season, the fashion of men
*ma women changing clothe' with each other has more
them once been observed.
MANQUIRADING Is Fugate Aril's—Henry James
Smith, about 18 years of age, was charged at Lambeth
p Boemontt on Thursday. with being found in female
attire, supposed for an unlawful porpome. The prisoner
on being brought bermt the magistrate was droned in
• handsome bladh silk skirt trimmed with white, blank
seket jacket, a black straw hat ornamented with •
green feather, his hair beiag arranged under the present
kshion. The whole makeup was such as to deceive
many, and on *topping into the dock, and the name of
the prisoner being called out by Bartlett, the under
gaoler, Mr. Woolrych looked round and asked where
the prisoner emu—Saunders, 17 P, stated that about
three o'clock in the moralise, prisoner, attired as now,
stopped • gentleman in the Walworth-rced. After
having some seoverktion with "bins," the gentleman
imagined, frees the percher tone of voice, test it was
not • "lady," and gave information to witness, who
afterwards stepped prisoner. On telling him the charge
be became moth confused, but admitted it, and said it
was only done kr • kark.— Kr. Woolrych (to prisoner):
What have yea to say '—Prisoner (in a dejected tone):
Sothing. -A tense!. in the court here exclaimed.
"Speak the trc.th, Henry." They are my clothes, your
worship—Kr. Woolryoh said be should remand the
prisoner for • week in order to allow inquiries to be
made, for it warn Tot so laughable a matter as might be
imagined. Prisoner was remanded. •