The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

etnttal Nttnt,

A Nice qtrrernow.—&,u; time ago • stockyard took
ere somewhere in &relater.% and did a considerable
amount of damage. Variona **re the tor-intim in the
diatriet aa to how the calamity occorred; mod, following
up many of • similar I. nor, • well-undo neighbour
remarked. "There was flee doot the dead Licosa' set
ifo tat," This coming to thP ears of the farmer, he
instantly vesolred on an action for tautens. sod hut no
time ht laying the matte r before hit lawyer. "
ao If do via think you hare sufficient proof to xupport
Yoa charge!" quietly mked the man of queries and
quild4 I. Ate. plenty d proof," replied the fanner;
" lie mid 1 441 ere ten myself." " Aye, what were
the coact words he otterted?" again inquired the
lawyer. "Welt, sir, he mid. as plitie as pleiri could be,
that the detail liimsel' net fire tilt.— tle awing pra, ye
' ken." " Aye, and you are the John,' "Thare's
one dolt tic sir, nee doot sea," ezelaimed John,
eagerly. " 1;*.e11,- Jp1,,,," added the lawyer, greirely,
" I have no doubt of VS fart myself; but do you think
tint you can prove to the satisfaction of the sheriff that
you ars really and truly the devil?' ;ohs lifted his
bat and vanquished.—Pertlialiire Adetaisil.
! AVM/funs WITH BIIIGAIIDS NEAR Ft-MIKSCH —Tie
follotting s? due pertieulars of • fact which occurred
the sligthbahnod of ffloteme on Thursday evening,
July Zah, and by whieit ottr city has been justly
alarmed. We believe that it isle oar power to muirantm
the exectness of kbe meatot wbibi, e polel4. As the
English lady, Km Dishy Beate, wirs returning, the
evening before last, aboul nig@ o'clock. from Islamics
In her carriage to her villa, Coiled L'Eleno situated
beyond Vowels. in the company of he! aired 17, on
the carriage getting to the Mamoto-rold there was
fired from the *wad skirting the road a shot, by which
one of the homes Wm wounded, and brought to the
ground. Then six sconalrdr, armed, came out from
the wood, and intimated to the Ist and the lady that
they must leave the carriage and foliar them into the
wood, where they would he detained as heasess until
the coachman abonld have gone to the villa and brought
beck from the aame the sum of 10.000 Italian lire (M),
Whioh they demanded for their ransom. Notherith•
Mending the repeated entreatiec of the lady, they
pavane' in demanding immediately that rim, and
then, having changed their mindie, they resolved on
carrying off with them only the son, telling the mother
to go away with the coachman to her house, and
ordering the Litter to return alone with the money
reqofed. Three of them then carried off the lad into the
wud at Itoloiag the road, whilst the other. remained on
the road &Waiting the return of the motebinan with the
sum demanded. Meanwhile it was agreed sle,esPS
them that thme whit remained on guard on the highway
shootl fire off a shtt as oown as they receive,' the
money,•ii that this should seeress • signal for the others
in the wood to net the Enigli-h lad at liberty. Some
time hid elapsed, and when Mrs. Digby Beal,* coach-
man was briosting beck to the villains a sous of money
Wuch lam Ikea that dattionded,there was fired—nobody
can explain how a by whom —a piatolebot. The
robbed on the highway, en hearing it, ran away, whllst
Mum who were keening the lad sea hirdage let him go
wi•hont having done Itilu the ficitlea harm. an I
several liodee later be was found wondering in the
wood, and taken home, Meanwhile, the faillier of the
tad, having got together snit ',tined 16 OT 16 Monststat
had already net out in seen* of leis son. He was
shortly art.re.ms followed by a attnieroue wmadron of
the }Loyal Carhineute, both no horse and OW foothireadoil
by their colonel, liy a lage body of Pollee by the ens•
misaioner of pnblic •igilence.tat the relegate of the
dide let, and not the last to make their appearanos were
the Netional Guards t 1 Finks, command, d by their
expain, Durk Italic,, Penattont. They beat the wood
in all direction., end oucceeded in aerating two
individuals, one of Whom ban been identified by young
11-ate a one of the won who detained him as • hostage.
One of the men speaks the Bolognese dialect; the other
1, sail to be from Borgo San Lou nao.

Tile ronsareas or Dgmat.—The popular idea of
miners—a rough, brutalised set, with low brows and
trarenleat purslane, coarse 'mixture Anil rude manners.
irldch 'atm. to be fostered sossionally by tolling
sketcbee in Penei —however true It may be of those in
other parts is Utterly *Nog and contrary to fact here.
The forest miners beer a favourable emissaries with
town mechanics. Agricultural labourers are as unlike
them, with the eiception of physical power. es they
! are unlike factory hands. Cleansed from the red bees
of the iron ado. or the black smears of the noel pit, and
! in their home or Sunday dress, their general appearance
I. most prepossessing, their Nannies good, their oases-
slim very intelligent, and their manners very easy and
gentle. Their great drawback hitherto has been the
want of Intercourse with edneated!persons. and the resi-
dence of derision and their (toadies among them is
now Isvening and improving th.ir social life. Many
! brutal characters, quite coming up to Pulse's standard
, may be found, but they are the esoeptionable,
the more poliMed the general cbaraoter. They
are. as Mont miners are, great in music, and have er.
cellist voice.; sad, no doubt, when the Choral Aecorill•
non movenient reaches these parte, thee will be Nand
to take • high place in church tams. Hearty, bospit.
able, good-honoured, quick tenssed but forgiving;
ao*lvere can be found more interesting work for a
cleremnan. or more entertaining subjeats for the
! student of charnels, than among tho foremen of Das.
! Their affection is worth having ; for they are is ready
to be led by those they love and trust, as impossible to
be driven by any, and few finer choristers ere to In
found then • thomnibly conscientious Christian
forester. One of their strongest propisaines is com-
bativeness, developing itself at a very early age, and ,
flourishing as long es strength last.. One of the !
forest shoots b. lag assemble I for prayers one miming, !
and the master being on the point of beginning to read,
a" nes bey, a hero of some six year. old, bloke the
silence with the following remark. addrewied more
particularly to the master, "1 can Night ENin
Jenkins—Ed... Tingle Ido mean." The street, of the
village are too often disgraced by set battles, witnessed
by all the peonies, male and fdaste, the tennhatente
being in light userceiwg nrder. A clergyman who made
• practice of stopping this barbarous emotes whenever
it broke out, was on oneoession mounted pick-attach
by • red and grimy miner, while keeping his antagonlet
from ! °barging at him—From " Th• ChareArman'it
Pam ily Mapashee."
There Is a belief that Witabledoe Common may, is
the course of • year or two, fall into the hand. el bund-
ling speculators, and than farewell to the groat annual
volunteer meet there. There is no other pima neer
London, except Wormwood Scrubs, so well suited; but
either Wimbledon or the latter most be bought by the
country, to as to he kept as a national ride ground in
perpetuity. —Court slouromiL
A New PROTtITAIIT ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting
Itsld in Edinburgh, on Monday, it was resolved to forma
" Protestant Electoral Union.( tioolland," the professed
of •thislt it to oriels all 'Minimal's measures which tend
to mite up the Papal bierareb7 again as a legally.
endowed and establlehod body within this realm, and to
defray the coats of Pepsi propagandism out of the public
puree. _

nu Sorra= Cm, or Wnre POI•OPISO A/ TAM..
Woltlll.—En NUN Anon Of • BOOT Arm' Two
Terra. Bliatme—On Tuesday an inquest was held •
Tuowortli on the body of Ma Mary Keith. 42 yews of
age respecting whom death many disagreeable rumours
bad for souse trate hwen in circulation. Pb. died es far
beck 141 July. 1801, and her sister, belie( dissatisfied
with the taros of her will, vs espression to certain
snot iuoes, intnliostiog Mr. Kimble, end leading to the
avant invoitigstioe. An order for the eahurnetion of
the body was aconrilinely obtained from air G. Grey •
short ticoe ago, sod the contents of We 'lama mad
abdomen analysed. Nothing, however, could he tonal
to confirm in the slightest degree the rummies that the
deo-need woman had been poisoned, nod a verdict of
death from natural camas was returned by the jury.
Ti. Farah A ISITIS Ten PoLlcs its lanaLse.
—Michael and Francis !Weedy, fat her and now at whose
arrest for illicit distillation • man named Duey was
ascii by the policy while (it we, alleged) attempting to
mane . the prig/ones*, were charged before the
Innis ozagietrates on Friday with the set for which
they were apprehended. The case baling been proved.
the elder prisoner was ordered to pay the mitigated Ane
of £l2, or to go to pri.on for az month., and the
younger to pay £6, or to undergo three months' ire.
primorneut.
A Mel Ceaaozo irrry re: MURDER or His
CRILD. Oa Tuesday morning a man named Rai atd
Roles' who was movieted some time ego of neglecting
Ins wifa, whose death he was charged with owing by
starvat en, wits arreard at Conely on suspicion of having
murdered his child, aged between eve sad s 4 yaws,
who was missed on the Ilab of July, and whom body
wee foond on Monday, very nisch decomposed, in a
ecirobeld at %het ram. It was so much decompeeed
that it soold only be identified by the clothes. Not far
from the body • silk handkerchief was found with
blood epee it, and in • mimed form, as though It had
been used in tying across mem one'. mouth. This
bendkerchief the prisoner had claimed, and there is
other evidence Meinat
BLACK noOsTIT &AGIN AT LLANGOLLEN. TM
beautiful recta village of Llangollen was Anted at
Monday by several hundreds of persons from the neigh-
beerhoods of Woleerliamptoo, B,lsto, mot other parts
of the " Blak-ounistry." Iminedisale on their
wind they commenced to get drunk, and to outrage
and Lamy the natives with more than the primary
brutally and violence by whirls they ere emninonly
chsracterisid when out for • holiday. At let,th tie
W. lsh people could stand it no longer, end eh.. the
asperity of the eleor•icii.iets reached the Inman to
take their departure • series of illiterate took pima
betimes them end the eller i resulted the
latter going on to the ewe' hank, which ,verliengc the
distiou. and eroding showera .4 atones 1503.0101 tikir
utegooi.V. 11.11 of the exc..rsiouiata were measly
bruised and cot, end if 50,., cols. r peaseogers had not
promptly token .helter in the railway eartiece., they
would doubtless also have been Wined. Lim robin.
it appears, Meats only one leAkeernen, ei..l this
this worthy functionary and the at.itionometer, who
were totally onprepere i for mai rota'. CMG/MOM
could do nothing in tints emeigeocy. For.unandy. so
very serious or fatal ri selts lapponed. It woald be
well, bowev.r, that We a,,zt item • large body of
eloursioniets make ti eir...pea one. in L'aneolleo, suit-
able paws erraagenieure be 111.10 for i'dilLf epectal
re&eireinenta.
rAltStolers ffsnureltD Pull 'Me F. DtUAL STAILI.
Tbe Federal aloe conaul at Wiretpuel h are.. hublicity
to the followiug circular received by him, Roue the

lh partment of State of llke Tinker, States :--" United:
S airs' Coneulate. Towee-boitfittras south, Water-street,
Liter,ool, 2ad Augur. ISSI. —Consuls or. required to-
am,ej„,, all pee.oes here 'far ealeakina at their
respective PoMi. excepting einioants why poopoento
take up their abode in the country, but they must
provide thensselses with pasejs rt., if forei,ncro Irmo
the punier foreign authority ; or, if caroms of the
United Stake, from a oisni.ter, or, if there is my
minister of to Visited State. in the country. hour •
00n,,e of lb. Bolted tgaasaa ahrnad, or limn doe depart-
ment, to be endorsed by Po United States isitii•Ler, no
by the maul it the port of eabarkati in. Persona
arri•ing at • port of the United Mates without each
',seaport and endorsemeat will he liable to he subjected
to examination cooceroing their elisraaderr, and glair
purposes to arming to the Unite I States. ILL, regale-
tion will go into effort in reisrel h' per,one amain
too a foreign joft after • ressooablo time shall bates
els 5,4 for it to im come known at dwell i..,mt."
Muss KIDNAPPING Of AicalloH CHILDREN IN ItoNC •
A !eV et from Rome, published eu a Fo each ne•speper, •
stole. that • Jewish boy mused Michael Cohen, 10'
years of age, has nastily brace kaimapped by • priest
.vith the view of beteg christai bra The priest went
to the bny's father, a shoemaker, to get • pair of 'hoes
toended, sod earn the repair. were compitaed the boy
was ordend to 'arty them, accoaspecit dt by am priest,
to the home of the latter Instead of vine hew, the
priest wont straight to the" Cateconisai" sat kit
hey there, who protested in vain, and with teaseled
oriel asked to be scat boom to hic waster and parade.
The 1.1 or were goo apprised of the affair. bat all
their effort, to bare their son released, or even I. sew
him. were vain. The Israelite community at Rama
complained to the authorities, bnt without sumo.,
being told that tie saving of • soul was a molter of fez;
greeter importance than tbe rigLle tif a fsthrr.
AOCIONN7 T.) Him MAJESTY'S OUR BoAT SIPOT.—
As the brig Croxdsle. of South Shields, from Si.
Petersborgb, was proceeding up the river Tweed, is
tow of a steamer, between nine and tea &stock is
Fciday night, she an affo the Brst•named mewl sod
iind.ated considerable damago. It appears that the carob
of the brig had shifted at see, which caused her to lid
over considerably on her *Larboard aide, owing to villas
the did ant answer her helm, and on nearing the
Sepal the collision occurred. By the bitumen the gin
boat arstained considerable damage in her bulwarks,
stanchiorw, end hall ; her long boat wee woe. Is, sad
her nuiza mnt tarried away. A pilot was on board
the Croxdale at the time the accident took aka.
DAMAO6 TO RIPON CATHEDRAL.—OD Monday
morning it wits discovered nal during • story of the
Peevi .us evenbig shout two-thirds of the Imo
',ram erected at the went end of the nab of =
Cathedral bad been blown down. The fewer
was laid on the late of the chairs, ammo of wt.ch ways
literally smached tit atoeilL The accident was teased bye
the slats being nut of the whole of the lower sod two cot
tbe upper windows of the western front, which is Dow/
oeSter repair.
Acitott 1011 BREACH OF PIION/M1 OF MARRIAGI.—
. . . . . .

An wetiow of this deseriptios;—Tose brought by •
domeric servant 171111544 Higton age.icst the soe of a
retire I needle seseelacterrer.of Hat , Derbyshire,
named Cooker, at the York Arises cm Wedeesday.
The plaintiff had been is the service of the felon of
the defendant as crook, whew the defendant commemzed
to pay her attention, he being at the time twenty -or
years of age, and she twenty-two. Coder promo* of
rorriage he induced her to berme. like himself, •
Wren Catholic; and he •1-0 made her a dieted
writes promisetif marriage. The parents of they
man at length discovered the intrigue, and d
the cook, be the intimacy continued, the parties IM.I.
log oeurionally in • wood, where a gamekeeper need
Booker. who was on the look out for poachers, had
entertained himself by secretly watching than, and
listening to their mate.) vow, ef errancy. He had
distinctly heard the defendant promise to marry the
yodng woman. This irniery appears to have bee
continued to an improper eaten., as the your' woman
became twin.% end on her paresis asking the defen-
dant to keep his protui-e he deemed doing anything of
the lied. For the defence it sir urged that the
ildintiff vim • libidinou. woman who bad take
advantage of the defendant's youth, the due preemies
cont.ined in the leer was not binding,.. the Me-
dant was at that time under are, and the isms ,r's
story a pure fabrication. A verdict for p
damages £loo—was returned.
BRUT/IL OUTRAGE IN KINGELARD.—On Tbandier
informatiou win received by the coroner of so overage
committed on Ostarday evening, in • pusses off Jibe—
street, Kingslmid, end which has revolted In the death,
of • man owned Jobs Sot, aged 50 years, wise em-
pires' on Wi•duesd.y. It appears that the dageseedi
e'ooe worimr living at No. 6, Castigny•olre, Betio
street. 81. Lake'e, and that he was • workman in the
employ of the Independent OwiComeny, at Kisgslied.
Maientay, after leaving work. he sat down to rest
" -elf in . pe-sze leading off Jobs-street. Kip:Wend-
road. A frollisn piosing through rudely kicked deceard's
legs, although there was ample morn for hint to Pes•
4eLeUed I,l,lolO4lDtad, ood said, "YOU need not tam
dime *'rat; you °cold have avoided my kg.," and he
rme to go away. The stranger inalootlf turned upon
the deceased, and, it is .aid by.. eye-witness, rushed
alter him, •Ml Work him 'deb fessful force . blow on
the side of the head, ender the ear. no unfortunate
desired was knocked to the ground.kin br•id nomad
•:ain-t the projection of • brink wall He was taloa
up inasimible, and medical sid was preiletvEli and
the
wounds on hia heed dressed. gurstical afe, b°w.v.i'.
was unavailing, and be died on Tbendely front
the fetuifel injuries which he had received. Yie1p...126
who witnessed the ommrrence have deemihel be
roondrel who indicted the fatal blow, and the OM°
are up • his trek,
HOGIIIIILE Mumma LCD SUOPECTID OUIJA= eV Ii!1
CHILD iii STA FIVIDONIAL —Go Wediesfay •
appeared in the daily papers relating to the al7rdir:rt
luso nerd Hales, suspected of having murdered his,
child, lee or siz years of age, whore body we found in.
an advanced state of decomposition, in • field at
Corly, on Tuesday, 2nd August. At the inquest held
on the hody on Wednesday evening, the man who bad
first discovered the body thus &scriben its pcoitices and
rendition :—" I found the dead child lying ow the
ground on her beck in the midst of some wheat that
was growiag. Her arms were outstretched, and her
bonnet WY lying by the right hand Lida of her head
and shoulder. Her shoe. lay nest her feet, with the
stockings inside, on the same aide They appeared to
be new boota Bhe was being wars by Terme,
and looked awful. Her clothe were turned
op as high as her waist, but were •ot ever her
face. They were all turned up to her mink both
, the that ought to be on her legs and theory wader.
, Them appeared to have been • road rade to It, lbs
I corn being trodden down r if 20 penises had bees thelli
way." A medical gentlemen, Mr. John ficnith, who.
had men the body shortly if tee its discovery, rid
"tier petticoats were short, awl were up, bat not as •
if thrown up. (He here desioritted the very sheireg*
state in which it was) My opinion is the an died •
video{ death, in greet agony, as Moe heads were
clenched. There appeared to have hew bleed on the
clothes, and more eepeerially in 'he (rout ei the.. I
cannot account for • child, ender inch oiremesteare,
coming to its death naturally." Elizabeth &her, •
woman with when Hake has cohabited, Ire Ikea
apprehended on saspinirm of having • knowledge alike
matter.

New ZcALADD WAL—A pleasing haters ilk,
the present looniest is the spirit of humasity displayed,
by the natives In arms lowsrds our wounded who haws •
fallen into their hands. During the last war doer
were ruthlessly murdered, sod their bodies fearfully •
wangled; all the retrometrthors of the niimionarise
were unavailing ; the Maoris deolsred that the caned a
rem was to kill, and that no mercy should he shown loamy
who fell into their hands. When they found, hemmer,
that their own wounded were treated with Itemenjel,
they felt ashamed of their cruelty, sod have
exhibited a more Christian spirit The indiums
missionary labour is also perceptible in fact that
they always abitain from acting tbe offensive oni
Sends'', and it it, only when theT as. attacked that
they defend themselves. It is matter of mime that th•
Dime feeling of respect for the Sabbath hag out boom
exhibited by our ones; Suoday hub... the Asweerits
day of attack, probably because the natives were beet
prepared to resat. On the Ara day of the week Ile
white deg in always unfurled on their pales °retook/ad/se
as • symbol of peace ; and it is set enema to bear the.
sound of Christian hymns, learned in happier times,
Another trait in their character is worthy of notise.
The lives a missionaries or ministers of editpoo
bees sacred in their eyes. Bishop Wiry* wee....
gr.d upon when be bad pealed our lines, bWt 'ohs..
the best authority for voting that be was enlntmars to
the party who attacked Lint The clerical embus, le •
safer mile of Manes than Achilles' shield. It wan
only the other day that a minister was eajoyisg
ride in • district little benefited be the eadees t-cir
turning • corner, he was soddenly coefronted by &Miser
who emerged from tho bask. and preeented his ride
witbio a few yards of his breast. The poor men mew
mended his tool to God, and prepsr.d for his UM.
Jodp of his at:myriad when the ride turned said., and
the motive dinaieared in the forest. muttering
" Minitytniaity." lb. Maori prima:hike cf minister.
He had recognised his praetorian from hie white tie,
snl reeerv.d kis fire for more formidable foanown. All
this tends to show that 90 years of misiocary lamer
haws not bean expended is vain. acid that the 111•101,,
with al hie faults, is not without his redone*
quad ea.—" A. Army Chaplain," in Good Womfa.
A Yoollo LADY BOLDED TO Inalll—An accideat or
a eery dietomeitut oaten pioneered at the house of
Turner, Cneddoek-street. Preston, shoot ball-past our
o'clock on Tuesday. Lae Turner and Miss Jima». •
visitor from London, were in a dtting-room imam*
tlimmelme by turning over the leaves of a book, Min
Tumor bring seated • little distance from lb. Ore=
and her frie Tb nd et her feet. e Ars was no seedy
not that no light not hams mia apparent Tba drama
hie Jewel, • light muslin oots, was freely die
but rem the state of the it, so danger wea eppre=
by tha young ladits Soddenly Mai Terser raised her
bead from the book in which they Mid bees aboarhed,
mid raw thit her friend's dream had brooms *gaited.
Both were for • moment in oonMernetioa. aid Mies
Jorpion rushed wildly net of the witting room fete the
kitchen and back spin, apparently bewildered, mell
screemed frantically. Mr. and Mrs. Turner, who vane
at the time upstarts, hastened down to aserartnie tbe
atom of the semeiotics and Grim of distress, and met
the esfortunate young lady rushing about lit. • pillar '
of Are the rapid motion through the air fthuieg tb•
daises, In which ske was eompletely eannieprd. Mr.
Terser, with prat peopeowe of mind, seised the young
lady and endeavoared to throw her down, is which tip
forentitsly soreeeded, though her reelelasoe lies whose
end harakiri. She was Immediately enveloped in the
carpet sad wane water thrown umm her, by whisk
Dwells the domes were quewelted. Mr. Terrier wee
Murat about the handl sad snots, bet not rerioasly.
Miss Jepson wee borne to bed in a mate of eon
em., and expired about three o'clock on Wednesday
afternoon. film was only 19 years of age, aid is des-
embed as. beautiful and ectiomplihod lady. ,
Oponan OF Tlie OTltTek BRA PION. --The *pier
~la °tweed Thursday, being the 4th of August sad
at fr o'clock in the moraine buying the and aelliag .1
the ighly triad molluscs commenord in 11,ihnvii%
mulct, eight boat loads baying come up the rimir. The
tr.d was very bran, the opiate, primes laity £4 per
bestial for best native.; best nosh, pearls, sad
Chef", Tw3k. 32.; end heolith cteline .sod ementen•
14e. to 16s. per bushel. By eight o'clock the prion, bpi
settled down to the followii.g rates :—Netlera Mb.per
bushel; old royals, peals, sod Clavier rooks, abr.;
and other kinds averagiug from lie. &I. tolls., arporales
to Gm quality, w;.ich, geb. rally speaking, woe rioNlest.
No hitch whatever took place at the latter irkiles and
t.l2m, cargoes von rapidly claartd.