The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-11-21 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

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OUR M.P. Tbe Illagrakd London
In an artiste entitled "Member. out of Parli.i-
ment," has the following respecting Mr. T. A.
Mitchell, the member of Parliament for this
borough :—" A. corporeal and oratorical re.animation,
a sort of Parliamentary resurrection, in seine sort
entitles Mr. Mitchell to • place in • category avowedly
of young membere It is true that he has represented
BrlOport uninterruptedly for more than thirty year.,
has witnetaed the lopping off of one of its representa•
tives, and baa found that the constituency behove him
capable of bearing the whole weight of its mentherilotu.
It is true that his actual rage Is a mystery, and eke that
be is apparently not over corporeally vigorous, and he
has been silent for many years. But lest session, all of
• sudden, he showed that he has blood in him yet, The
occasion was • critical moment in the debate on the
Ballot Bill. The discussion was winding up when he
presented himself in that crisp telling way which was
peculiar to members of the last generation, used
argumenta for the measure which were valuable for the
same reason that good wine is valuable—namely, be-
cause they were old—having been held by hiru years
ago, when the ballot was the miaow of deiiiisid
Itedicallem, but which, like old wine, preterved their
flavour in an improved degree. Evidently Id r. Mitchell
haa undergone a physical and political rejuvenescenoe,
for having made this unwonted spurt in the House ho
hae followed it up by • spirited intercommunication
with his oonstituenta:'

THE MORMONS.
Affairs at Salt Lake City appear to be approaching
arida Thome Hawkins, the Mormon Elder, con.
Meted of bigamy, has been senteneed to pay a fine of
500 deli., and to be imprisoned three years with haril
labour. Hawkins is an Englishman, and married his
first wife in England. She was the chief witness
against him. He regards himself as a martyr, and as
the Mormons speak of him, but the interposition of
God in his behalf, which they have so fnquently
Invoked and predicted, does not yet come. lie Is
held in military custody at Camp Douglas, near
Salt Lake City.

SABBATARIANISM RUN MAD.
It is re red thst a Scotch Presbyterian minister
has baptism to the obild of a man who sells
milk on Sunday, on the ground that the latter, by sell-
ing milk, profanes "the Sabbath." The man intends
to appeal to the Presbytery, sad tre may *appose that
if the latter sot with ordinary good sense, they will bid
their strait-hued brother learn :moiling of the nature
of that very useful among God's creatures, the °ow.
The eow does twit produce a double quantity of milk on
Saturday, and she does produce the usual quantity on
Sunday. The milk produced on Saturday and that pro-
duced on Sunday goes sour as soon as that produced
on other days of the week. To refrain from milking a
cow on Sunday is cruelty to the now. To throw away
the Sunday milk is to waste good food. To sell double
quantity of milk to customers on Saturday involves a
double adulteration with water, which is cheating.
To deprive children of a regular supply of fresh milk,
and madman them on Sunday to the sour leavings from
Saturday, is murderous. If any or all of these things
are pisasiag to the Being who made the Sabbath for
and not man for the Sabbath, then our Scotch
Is Mil to the wreeg for ;molehills the Wino
Waugh Lie Aid