The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

aragral Nets.

Thrills Offen BM Paistru.—Operatires striking
work.
BILIKI von A PAITM— A pamper in Preston Work-
house bas lest eons into a small fortune of £6,1100.
The reeipient of this piece of lack has been about eights
years in the house.
A STUD OF • DITMINT COMPL7lloll.—llrobin
" Please. sir, Tommy's : weryin' to go to school!"
Venerable Party : "Very creditable to him, indeed,
sod shows a very proper desire for learning; but what
is it that prevents Ids going?" Vrehin : "Oh. sir,
plesse, be eint scryin. oce be emits to go, but cos be
don't want to go.—Pms.
A PaivArs of the 59th &Tiniest, • young soldier,
has clads an attempt at the Curragb to shoot the colour-
sergeant of him eompany, by leading his rile and placing
the marsle on the window of his but, opposite to that
of the sergeant. A soldier passing ,by struck up the
the muzzle with a stick, and the ballet missed its
mark.
JOH/I JONES, an agricultural labourer, 53 reared are,
was engaged harvesting in a field, and in the evening
partook with the other men of • meat supper, but
suddenly whilst eating fell to the round and died. The
surgeon found wedged in his throat • piece el meat two
inches by two and a half, and in the stomach from a
plated and a half to two pounds weight of meat in an
undigested state, some GI the pieces being but very little
smaller than that which caused his death.
As • young offleer attached to the rifles quartered
in Bandon was fishing in Castle Bernard-park ow
Tuesday he was attacked by a swarm of bees. So beast
was he that to wraps them he jumped het° the river;
but whenever his head appeared above water they
renewed the mem& with redoubl.4 vigour. At last,
stung almost to madness, he rushed to the book and
ran home to the barracks am Mats. be could.
SHOCKING ACDIDZKT TION PLATING WITH Pit.-
Lase.—On Tuesday evening, at CisaaTford, in Kent. a
young man named Skinner, employ at the gas works
In that village, was larking with • girl Rama Millis.
After some rough play he took up • gun which stood,
loaded and sipped, in a corner of the treshouse in
readiness to fire at small birds. Pointing it towards
the girl, he said, "111 shoot you," and pulling the
trigger blew away tart el her bead and killed his ors
the spot.
BOW MOM CAN • MAW Daunt—Dr. Lsokoner,
the coroner, at • recent inquest, said he bad long been
trying to find out how meal working men drink in • day,
both. bad never been able to ascertain. He had ones
asked the landlord of a public-house frequented by
oar•ies boo mush a man could drunk in a day, and his
answer was be did not know—he had only served him
with fifteen quarts of ale in a day. The neat day the
man was dead. Working men could stand more then
others. because they worked it off. Navvies could
stand most of all.

DIABOLIC/a Timna.—On Monday night • crowd
gathered round the house of a joiner named Gregory,
Is Liverpool, attracted by the cries of his wife, whom
he was ill•using. The sight of • number of persons round
his door enraged him more than ever, and, soddenly
opening the front door, be threw the contents of a
bottle of aqttafortis over the people in the street. Some
of the aqualortis went over the faces of two men, and
one of them is likely, in consequence, to loge the sight
of his left eye. The miscreant, of course, is in the hangs
of the police.
WORTH KROWHCO.-81114 TOCk is round to • ems
powder, and mixed with mastic or any bituminous sub-
stance to the consistency of a thick paint, in which
condition it is applied to canvas, cloth, paper, felt, or
any similar substance, for roofing and other purposes.
This is doubtless the "elastic slate" of which we have
heard from America. It soon harden', and by the
action of the elements, or by means of chemical action
within itself, dooms', it is said, almost as impervious
to the action of fire or water al slate itself, though con-
siderably less Ivittle. It has been applied as cement
for cisterns, tanks, oellarloors, leaky hydrants, pipes,
and pumps. Inkstands have been made of it while in
plastic state, which have become as hard as atone. It
has also been applied as • cheap point to outbuildings
and feness.—Beder.

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FALL raox • Dors.—A shocking accident hsppened
on Tuesday evening to a young man employed in
Compton.bouse, Liverrol. CM the top of the building
is &Bat roof, along which, running cut and west. is •
walk enclosed on each side by iron railings. About half
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past seven o'clock • youth named Charles Ste cart,
employed in the establishment, and a companion were
parading along the walk. Stewart wore • straw hat,
which the wind blew off and carried over the railing
near to • glass dome, that gives s light to the shop
beneath, in his hurry to recover his hat the young rnvn
struck against the dome, broke the glum, and fell through
to the shop beneath, alighting face downwards upon a
glass ease upon one of the counters. He was taken up
in a state of insensibility, much lacerated, and bleeding
profusely. He wee at once cionveyed to the Northern
Hospital. There it was fonnd that one of his elbows was
broken, and ttnt, buides the other braises and cutting
he bad received, he was very seriously injured internally.
He lies in a precarious state.
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The rime; publishes the following list of gentian't.
who have accepted appointments as assistant oommis•
sioners under the Boundary Commission, adding, "We
believe it is intended that the harriSers and military
°Moors shall work in pails :"—Parristers : Serjeant
Atkinson, A. Bathurst. J. Rescission, E. Bullock, P.
Cumin, Clifford, J. FL Dugdale, F. W. Gibbs, J. Nave,
F. 1). Longo, Lopez, Merivale, W. B. °Meant, R. C.
Palmer, S. H. Payne, G. K. Rickards, N. Senior. J. L.
Wharton. Royal Engineers General Moody, General
Bainbrigge, Colonel Ward, Licot.•Colonel Gordon,
Major Leahy, Csptain Pratt, Msjor Du Cane, Captain
James, Captain Wilson, Captain Saudford, Captain
Palmer. Royal Artillery: Lient-General Dawes,
Ce1...1 Madly. Captain
Nansle, Captain Braakenbory, Captain %Adolph,
Lieutenant Hosier.