The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

THZ BONNET MAWR MOIL

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The aarrespoodant of •
takes the trouble to inksals=si at llli'
cosicerning the surmised ' ef •v"
troehied tit* quiet Wile d 151_,
&galloon, in &anew Yank to hie bd.
, ding both. 01100M111 whirls appeased le the r
44saidaiort
at the time, there had team nee ei
oessurenees. A eardssey mak i
built, situated Is the perish of
920 yards from • small inn of lid bidet
&rya Oak, vu reputed bhe lusted. . ..
lii.," it was mid, "hi. *dad daas
ta. most anasseentable meaner, mei it
itself to deem egninali Ilm with. The erathery
hoe danced about the plass like parsed, brig
wine, arid ale performing acre very *duet
•••1., _ idiom, has luting with • meadow lett
"" "alai _lad deetroyed Ms udalues far :•••-
ef water bad Sewn about the hum like ea
Ii • high vial. The Sour areek, withal*
masa, was bream tops, end MN door Now
an dimness. Boob sad shoes gasped pee of ine nein
into another, as though they wen linking for ems ene
to.ic: them ces ud weer them. Babeerweee has
lowa the slam step by stee. The heldia Mae
wen made Is the mismdag seedy to nuke emir
alaaraaa it eight were bend keg before thee Mime
Tana Som4ony, win the inn sod bionsoli
=.like • Oafs mum OW it is .11to beire Vli
Irty whams. A boolledp ea the very.W.
the hoses emu ....
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dews dm
esee, and letialisti7bto heetem,= a isdaso bond
cleared the kiethea, ffying stragna saa,mb ih, Aaaa„,
mashed whitlow lab the garden. Ahead ala 46jarip
1"7 Wen*. Xl* mar Plateallaslin esedeue
a lithe
whole it, aim to • great reuse Una it bur
dated, Clee Oda, b guile ark* them meths beam
things, but by who. greasy they were itsebia pe
=I. esily known to the der eresay." Thee.
Geaster al Jose 23rd added to the ahem lad
this marveliens dory "hi. hawed sumilem bin
Hytn sad saber plasm motives' ha rue* to the
Mak IMMO at whom are adielled with as edatlet den
of the haus i aid the fright with which lit dewed
by the credulous is redly maim sad yell 'feral be
Tritons."
TIN Volualdir aornammlioi Ma ilwalsilimillt el
a day's szasono ea the 1111101 Aeon be mei lin
invedigation. He feud that the bad ling bun
000stilst.ly dr tMlen of twe mak Odell
aid build ameediesi In Ble If
bassi that of 'bubble, er " baulk' la asthma, we
called there. Gates at au time bad been wen to de la
the world, haslet nem eb.sp of hie owa • but he Isal
become obargeabie So the psrWs, and rect emellsal
&diadems, be had bees ordered into week.
bows, where he sabiedasetly died. Tin sponnoini
in question, or whabever formed the fondelios at the
reports, onusenced beton his abalh, aid wee ohm If
reasonl Tim sabobines of the fasts, yneaselly had.
was that for mural days in eneoseebe, en lbe
Saturday, sad ending on Tuesday, or 7ree•,, aid
i when no one wee the minim (or ha... Is
hi so) on
bet women and children, draw acing ware
heard Is the haus ; somelimes is one 1•0•11
acieweimee in arsothar ; efier Udell hemillwee
was found thrown down or dieplued, bed
clothes in esefusion, articles of wearing apeuel, with
howls, pals, ke., toned about, aid glees and
brokers, priaapally the window panes (Sits.. Is
tied eat the bath), sad five or az lance sortioniniso
milk jars, Ilse fragments of whir* mad of ethic numb
an lying in the yard. Them things alwers horsed ki
the daytime ; sometimes In thepraises sewed
neighbours; nothing oesurred at night; end the seder
moss wen soalthed to the side of the limes in welsh
Gates bad lived, and which was dill cremided by If
wife and scas—the wife (Kies Gates as alle is 'alai. the
Kentish peasantry ignoring &meg themselves tie we
of the word mistress) being iin old womaa of 75, vary
feeble, walking with difilculty oe aralebes, nukes S.
snout tire stairs without assidarbas, sad dapeadene
in smaller matters ape* the services of a Stele makief-
all.wark, Au Smith, • girl of 14.
The correspoodent, however, pushed hie herelebe
further and inquired what had been seas whoa the
different ankles moved wore in adnal amoeba. " I wee
informed." he says, " that whoa the Mk taw dews
the stain (the proper plus of which,.. on the bee.
room dnwars), it streak as it pealed, one of the
Lookhuret's children, • gbl of 11, witleleat videos*
to leave a black mark on her shoulder. The girl
herself, coming forward, pulled of her sleeve, So dhow
me where She mark had been, and her word algid be
Sib.. for It; but there was nothing to prove that the
Bible had not been thrown at her from the stair-heed.
The two families living in the cottage, ban their own
separate front and back doors, but the as.. dames
Ii common to both • and the rooms thus coat=
internally, offer great facilities for the
ingress and scrim of any active person *rise • .Si'
abievous trick. We have to get up, however, unthet
theory to explain some pats of the 'carmen Mra
Lockhord was standing in the yard by the paling
when the earthenware crock was brans, and the firer
it contained mattered. She she (ea she lard Alb
Smith carrying the dock and netting it down by the
kitchen door, when the crock seamed suddenly
out of her hands, and the flour " steamed up" trire
ceiling in a sort of cloud, Ann Smith at the name thme
crying out, and turning pals with fright. Ma. Looldnuoi
(i striking (hotrod to her neighbour) Is • fine
epecemea of • strong hardworking 'roma, In
vigorous health; although the mother of nine children
living, mostly grown up and oo their own
without counting those she has lost, MOM than awl=
remember; and she stood before me with her arms r
kliebo, deurnuoing with sin eloquesies whisk Gladebone
might am. the absurdity awl blades a the empieleme
that hart been directed against Ann Smith—l wee ad
the person to tell her that she was rereassaing, at
" saying the thing that was not." Nothing would
persurae Kra. Loathers* that what was dew was scathe
work of an evil spirit; and she regretted the we. as
scholar, for she "bad hared say that. was • tertais
chapter in the Bible which, if properly read, sie evil
spirit could stand." What ander it was she did nee
know, and unhappily I could not inform her. Leek.
burst, the husband, was in the Adds at tba thee, and
laughed at what was told him of "the ••I
home in his absence, but became as grave and frlghlsusd
sis the rest on his return. The esaitement inererbe,
the new rector of Bilaingtoo and Beindagtoe, tin Bror.
F. Cameron. same, saw the broken things, was shown
the disturbed beds, had them re-roadri, looked the deer,
and went away with the key In his pocket. Menial ell
ten, when he found everything as be had lilt it.
Another girl has replaced Ann Smith, and sines Ilse
left, and Gates died, there ham been no resewal of the
disturbances; but • eubesquent investigation
the police has failed to brie( than home to
author.

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be 'correspondent we have quoted seems to think tbl
there is room for inquiry into the above feels, old mess
at the Kent magistrates for believing that the nolo
beard and mischief perpetrated originated in nataral
seam. They will at any rate be an adoseplable
meant to spiritualists as Ind.pessdeat testimony—lin
liamaarmarsh peasants, though ignorant and taper-
stitious, having never hurd of spirit-rapping or the
Spirgaial Magnums.