The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-12-08 00:00:00

Itgritulturt.

BATH AID Win Of FJIGLLID 80CTITT AID
BOOTHitall 000111.1112 AMIOCIATIOII.—A meeting of thie
council of this society was held on Tuesday last, at the
Three Motels hotel, Yeovil. In the unavoidably
abeenee of the Hight Hoe. the Sari of Centarvon,
president, the chair was token by Sir. J. T. B. Dock-
worth, Bart. Oa the stock and poultry prise sheet being
brought up for final approval and conernsation,• motion
wee mails—" That so much of bys.law 76 **requires that
' All sheep exhibited must have been closely shorn in
every part at the time determined by the Royal Mel-
cultural Society of England', be reminded." The motion
being put to the vote won lost by a majority of it to L
The tints for the shearing of sheep as determined by the
September council meeting therefore remains unaltered.
A letter was read from toe Bight Hon. the Earl of
Portsmouth, pointing out the important omission trots
the stock prise sheet of any prim for Hampshire Down
ram lambs, end offering • prise of £lO at Sauthompto•
for the hest Hampshire Down ram lomb. if neeeptable to
the society. The offer was cheerfully assented by the
sound!, and Hr. Henry Fookes guaranteed that in a few
days an additional prize for the same class of animals
should be forthcoming. On the motion of Hr. (Jordon,
seconded by Mr. Hussey, • committee was appointed to
consider whether the number of optimal aneetiop may
not with sdbantage be redueul, and to report seawall,
to the council as to the bast mode of transacting the
society's business.

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TEO Roor Sow of the Reeding firm was held
Saturdey. Messrs. Sutton have for some years obtained
from their elastomers the beet specimens of the porn
growth of roots by the offer of premiums, which bays
et length been sufficient to prodites newly MO entries.
The result, in the first instance, ie a very useful and
WY interesting agricultural exhibition; and, in the.
next place, it affords the enterprising seed firm in clues
bon materials of the very best kind for their fumed
displays at Birmingham and London. Visitors to the
Agrieulturalhall this week will see the beat specimens
of mangels, swedes, and other roots, grown in all parts
of the country, by 610•130•11 f• of illemrs. Sutton. On
the present °cession there was reason to fear that, from
the unusually dry summer, the show would not be en
good es nasal; but theme teen were groundless—the
entries were considerably in advances of previous jesse.
while the quality in many instances was r.msrknbl7
fine. Some klaininoth long red =angels, forl example,
weighed 441 b. each, being grown by Yr. J. Mawswwiere
Bonham', Alton. The beet 18 swedes ineinded some
weighing 161 b. .soh. Messrs. fluttou'a sustoutere are
now sufbelently numerous to 1101111 T• • proportion 01
enses to growers from their seed, in whatever parted
the country an eslnbition of root crepe is bad.

DA BING HIGHWAY ATTACX AD WITZEPT fir
- OCI Tues.:ley evening. abott Semi o'cdoelr,
as a geotleman named Jones. of Newport, WAS Mantle(
on foot from Alveston, where he had been on important
binnacle, to mash tte train at the New Passage for
Wales, be was attacked by two men at a very solitary,
dark piece. called Bed Clq•hilL His money or his lily
was at once demanded. There being no time ter
hesitating. Yr. Jones boldly seized his opportunity sea
felled them both to the ground and then made hie
escape, or his life would have been in a very perilous
situation. It is supposed that they were two tramp,.
A sunder occurrent* took pities near the same spot
about four year' ago, when a knife was used.

SINGULAR CAI OF Scicina jr • GIIIL.-0o Tuesday
the deputy-coroner bold an inquiet at Horton 01d.
town, respecting the death of Harriet Baker, aged 16
years. 'I be deceased was the daughter of a widow
living at 4, John-street, Oambridge.heath. She went
into the service of • lady living in the iatoria.park-
road. One day laat with she returned home and said,
" I'm half-starved. I have nothing to eat bat treacle
in the morning. In the day I get only the fat off the
broth. Illy mute's' is • Tartar. She is kind before
atrangers, bat when their beck is turned she is a vixen."'
Her mother asked her to stop • month, in order that
she might get money to hay • pair of boota. On
Tuesday night she wee found dead in the Regent's.
canal, near the Qtmen'sroad•bridge. An open verdiall
of "Found drowned" was returned.

COLOZIL OSDOILSS Co°Marto. When Colonel
Osborne learned that Louis Truelyan had Woken op
his establishment in Corson-street, and had sent his
wife away into a barbarous retirement in Dartmoor,—
for snob waa the nature cl the Information on the
subject whit& was spread among ITrevelyan's Mends
in London ;—and when be was made aware also that
all ibis was done on his ascount—beeense he was so
gamely intimate with Tree*lyan's wife, and Mums*
Trevelysn's wife wee, sod omelette' in outatuirg
to be, so timely intimate with vanity wen
gratified. Although it might be true,—and no doubt
was true,—that he said nuch to bia friends and to
himself et the deep sorrow erlitah he felt that mob gh.
trouble should befall Ilia oil friend and his old friends
daughter; nevertheless, as he curled his grey whisker's
before the glue, and made the moot ef seek remnant
of hair as was left on the top of bin heed, as be looked
to the padding of hie met, end completed a Mod, of
the wrinklee beneath his eyes, so that in isonverestios
they might be as little apparent as possible, be fell
more of plumes than of pain la regard to the whoie
affair. It was very sod that it should be so, but it
was Mimeo. Had it been in hie power to set the
whole matter right by a word, he would probably have
spoken that word; but as this wu not preamble, en
Trevelyan had in his *pinion made • gross fool of
himself. as Emily Trevelyaa was oozy ides, and not
the lees ohm in that the certainly was food of himeelfo
am great tyranny had bee. used towerds her, aod as
he himself bed still the Mu of old family Mood/hip
Co protect his conadenee,—to protect Ids iscosaionee
unless be went an far as to make that plea an eddi-
tional sting to his tionsoiecos,—be thought that, as •
man, he must follow up the matter. Here was •
young, and fashionable, and very pretty 'roma*
banished to the wilds of Dartmoor for his Nike. An&
as far to he mold understand, at. would not hare
been so banished had she coasested to say that she
would give up her amsaistance with him. In such
eirourneeness as them was it possible that he should
do nothing? Various ideas raa through his bead.
He began to think that if Truelyan were out of the
way, he might,—might perheps be almost tempted to
make this woman bin wife. Bbe wes so nice that be
almost thought that be might be rash enough for
that, dthough he knew well the satisfied** of being
• bachelor ;—but as the thought suggested itself to
him, he wu well stare that he was thinking of a.
thing quite distant from him. The reader is not to
suppose that Colonel °Menu meditated any mekini
away with the husband. Our Colonel was sertein
not the man for a murder. Nor did he even think
running away with his friend's daughter. Though he
told himself that he could dispose of his wrinkles
satisfactorily, still he knew himself and him powers
@efficiently to be swan that he was no longer at to he
the hero of mob • romans. as that. He acknowledged
to himself that there was much Lebow to be goo*
through in running away with another man's wife;
and that the results, in respect to pereinal cionifoct, are
not always happy, But what if Mrs. Trevelyan were
to divorce herself horn bar husband on the score of
her husband's cruel, 1 Various horrors were related
as to the man's treatment of his wife. By some it was
mid that she waa is the prima on Dartmoor,—or, if not
actually in the prim, an arrangement whist' the prison
discipline might perhaps make diMealt—that the was
in the eestody oftne of the prison warders who pos-
sessed • prim coatis and a grim wife, just outside the
prison walls. Colonel Osborne did not himself believe
even so mush to this, but he did bells,. that Mrs.
Trevalpwc had been banished to some inharpiteble
region, to some dreary comfortless abode, of which, as
the wife of a nut of fortune, she would have grist
=to outplain. So thinking, he did not Kobe
to hisuelf that a divorce should be obtain,
and that, iota& event. he would marry the lady—betMese same across his mind that direetioa. Trevelyaa
was • end Blitebeard ; Emily—as he was 'tedious to
cell Me. Trevelyan—was a dear inland saint And
as for himself, thoneh he asknowledged to himself that
the lumbago pinched Ida now awl again, so that he
could not, tire from his chair with all the alacrity of
youth, yet, when he walked along Pall Mali, with his
out mealy buttoned, he maid not but observe that
• great many young women looked at him with admiring
arm —"He Kato Helm Righg," by Anthony Trollop%

iii"HerrAne.mary
iyit.duv.we t
1866 oils
Oopynturotullese:l4.—a.Aztos:".t.p.r.l
winwehutheity
hare called eanniballem. Hia pemtherif WOO Ul
out, lb. polaosoai work on their bwg,
to cc..l peat him; ho bows,.r. 0000 Spat this
I suppose, sh.,"..ble, to oar mead • pain..
.ees own. that it they bad i.s
memory owb, • I believe b• yodel have
young frop instead if Wile
wag weei food of cambia, up end staying same tge
bgennealgue,. is.tememeore. (orb. triereimpp...e-irop, ind,a
his fist." Hie favourite food consisted t,l:z
earthwormc the gal of which did net mem to
him in the lewd. Some to peen ago I hai • min.
~u,get. which after • few mouths managed to make
ja,natee. We moon pve up all hope of ever seeing
gar eosin. However, two years 'Mr it made
It. appointee in oar book lashes, bolting se
plump ea seer. I aseurtabeed from an exam&
nation of its eiterement that it bad subsisted
on biaekteethe divine Hi freedom. When the
ealanteader has arrived at its perfet at.. it. Ilk*
our woman newt, prefers to speed most (of its time
(the breeding seams of mune mooted) ra term firers.
Anybody who has walked up St. Martierlans Suring
the summer season and men how the poor eroartree
exhibited in the aquarium shop-window, straggle to 11•11
out of the water, cannot fail to me Seat they would
prefer land to water. I have at the present time •
ealunander which I keep in • ors, Sleet by 11 toot, at
one sad of willed% 1 hare formed, wait esteelet, a small
pod, the rest of the bottom 01 the e being wren&
with kving turf, at which the pewee moot of
his tine, ml y sow and this, 01 00 evednit, going into the
water. 1 hod my pot with the comma garde.=
which it ell eat two or three at • enenl.
mtedese its food with the temps, is the some mealier as
the toad, end while after its pre it lecke rather
animaas
imeted.lisd•Whdia.sen "
by"
matieedisses • *dersdormiaessother.irthineet
an lank or SOOTS Of it, and this mikes • short ran
towards the hapless basest, whine it elvishly espresso
with its tongue On an ocomien is. el the *dere
plsoid in the 13alameAder's sage for food, trawled open
It. trek, and bit it on the nape of the sock,
when, hone each of the warn down its bank
eased • drop of the maw matter eemenem to
some reeptilea I can always obtain some of this seed.
lion —though in • smaller quantity—by irritating the
fielamaoder'e bask with a needle. ne Salamander also
will diem make the mistake whisk UMW 110 ONI4IIOO to
SOON of the Beptills— I refer to the habit it etribier at
slay moving ablest ethether Wade or otherwise—H.
H. Ilott,llnies Gee*, Clepleam, in Hertionedds Scam*
Oats*

PURIM wad PubUAW, It Ob""itissi. Derehosbar,
by ALPSIID Amin. al Nos Parish se Ned*los, far
self sad soproprislor.
Tardily, Nader 14 WS.

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