The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-08 00:00:00

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Irish State trials mot from £15,000 to £20,000.
Tootwoods of aires of land along he course of the Upper
Thome. aro aulimertmi•
Toe 8 iuderland steamer Stamford has foundered off
Uslimo.. and 13 or craw were drowned.
Mr. Fr.,driric Charms. Throne. eldest sou of Lord Charles
Thynoe, and brother of the Countess of Kenmore, has
died at Brindisi.
In Macedonia and Thessaly numerous bands of brigands
are said to be ravaging the country. The whole of Lower
Albania is in a state of tumult and revolt.
An Marmiug landslip has occurred at the Isle of While.
At Blackgang no Friday nicht thousands of loos of cliff
tell, and many houses are in immimeat danger.
At the Cdritral Crminal Court, on Thurs.:ay, Frederick
Meyer, a butcher, for stabbing his former emploVm with
a knife, wee .entenoed to 12 years' penal servitude.
Sixteen th,miande miners have struck work to South
Yorkshire. demanding an adrenal of 10 per cent. In
waxes. The wasters have proposed arbitratiee• wi4ob
, colliers have reject
During the stomping of letters at Portsmouth, on
Friday, the stamp used by one of the dirks struck a hard
substance, which exploded with a loud report. Fortunately
no serious injure resulted.
The tunnel at Wettings:3, on the St. Gothard line, was
opened led t week. All the minor tunnels are expected to
he complet ad before July, hut the line cannot be utilised
for the mails before October.
It is l•dieved that some infernal machines have been
deeptiched from America for some part of the United
Kingdom, and precautions have coney:pm:Mr been token
to prevent their being put to nelariona uses.
Ate meeting of the o.iert of Common Council a report
of the Epping Forest C mirnittee favouring • scheme by
the Orem Eastern C impsny for a branch line
from Chingford to High Beach, taking ten acres of the
Frost, was adopted.
meational ',moues have been current in Berlin to the
effect that ser,ain Ho imanian Nihulurs have endeavoured
to kidnap Prino• villia 004 oF Holmosollern, the heir-
nre•umnt.ve of RUIM6CIiI, who is now studying at
Domeldorf.
On Wednesday. at Slough, Mr. Tait, farm bailiff to the
Queen, at Wind•cr, was tin-4 21,, 'Deluding cert., for
sending a calf sods x swine to the illoush Cattle Market
without • !leiiie";..Buckinbamskire having been declared

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an infected district.
At S'ietliel.l • gas pipe burst in the drapery establish.
main of • Kr. Donel y An widstant Vr..l blown up t the
and • young lady thrown te the other end of the
shop. hilt neither can seriquily injured. A plate—glass
window we. sins•hrel, and oonsiderable damage done in

the chop
A return famed on Thureday of Irish agrarian offencee
reported dining November, 1840, shoes that the number
for that period was 581, c onvictions being obtained
In thirteen case,. The largest nimble of offeocea,
256, was c orninittee in Munster, at teem were coven
emvictione
A broker, name! Donald. has been committed for trial
by the police m rate. St Hammersmith, for assaulting
Jane Roberts. The aessult consinted in taking posuesion
of her 'apartments and timing her out, so that she had to
spend on the doorstep the bitterly cold night of toe 3rd
ult.
A letter was reed at a meeting of the Y•tradfoiwg
Burial Board on Thum my from Mr. Osborne Morgan in
reply to an inquiry, which was to the effect that the
sevens of onnuerati on, being part of the legitimate
expenses of furnishing the cemetery, would have to be
borne by the ratepw•r. generally.
Cowman Wolf% •nerof •, late a '' Captain in the Salva-
tion Army.' has been committed ti g for three months
at Ceestsrfield for stoaling a watch end chain frem • house
in which be was staying while directing the operations of
the "Salvetion foroes. The "Captain" was apprehended
whilst taking part in • ine7sr meeting.
A shocking murder was committed in Liverpool, on
Thured oy, toy am in name i Henry E iword Taylor, who
lives with his parent,. He suffers ft nu epilepsy, and his
wife is in a lunatic asylum. Taylor was constanGl
wombed. hit o o TOlll,ldla morning he eludes! observation
and cut the throat of • rlrl six years old, living in the
bootee. Toe girl did intru-Aistely.
Toe Turkish Bath.. at Sall.bury, opine' about fount en
months ago. were tot sly destroyed by lire on Tuesday
morninz. The fire originated im the hot-re is,, it Is
sompom I from corn. linen being hung up to dry too near
the pp .a. Th • toes is more than Cl 000. ant unfortunately,
it i 4 only notedly covered by in.iiranc.
Among ohs latest intelligence from the United States is
the news of the dem ass of Archbishop Kolb, who settled
muy years ago in that reuritry, and amassed • large
fortune, amounting to 11,000,000 blurs. TDiS he left by
wit', to he divided un meet his brothers and sisters and
their lentils", who are Jews living in Galicia.
The Notth Metropolotee Tram say Company have
decided to admit the 11-atunount compressed ate engine
for use in their system at Stratford. The engine, which,
whop the folly charzed with compressed air, will be
tweet's) 00 travelling 15 miles without a further supply,
will, in all probability, be placed on the rails in cosine of
the next fortnight
Colonel Methuen, the British military attache at Berlin,
was walking through the Tniergarten towards Chia:totter'.
burg, on W.l.:kneader. when, arriving at the bridge which
crosses the Spree Canal, he saw a crowd of people watch-
ing the struggles of a drowning men ill the water benestb.
Colonel Methuen imams itetely sprang over the bridge, and
succeeded with great difficulty in saving the mans life.
The flyer wits full of floating masses of ice, and the banks
of the Spree were muddy.
An exceedingly painful cue of attempted murder was
Investigated at the Cornwall Amiss. The prisoner, Sarah
Cobbletick, lived at St. A.natall with her husband and
five children. Her husband lost his situation, and this so
preyed oaths wife's mind that Me took a rex or, and twice
cut the throat, severing the windpipe, of a 1$ months' old
baby. Discovered almost in the ect, Me exclaimed, "It'.
too late. I knew it would cocoa to this. lint out of my
mind." Subsequently Me "I never meant loses my
baby suffer. thought first I would kill myself ; then I
thought I could not die and leave my baby behind; so I
made up my mind to kill baby first and myself af ler-
wsrds, but when I cut baby's throat I could do no more.
The Lord stayed my band, and I tried to staunch the
bleeding." The prisoner use acquitted on the ground of
Insanity.
If the Irish Obstructives had been specially retained by
the English Press to create a "divertion " they could not
have managed things better. Tee "dull MOOD" has been
relieved in the most brilliant manner. A repetition el the
Great Fire of London ; of the famous Lisbon earthquake s •
a. twig .n of Ettgleno, even, by the potato bug of historic
memory, would have failed to raises tithe of the emits.
ment which has attended the merry antics of the Home
it,iteen Going down te the House has been like going toa
first-rate circus, with the certainty that you would fled the
arena full of clowns, and all of whom would fool "excellent
well. " I have seen the House and the precinta of the
Hone a trifle excited, not to say elevated ; but never saw
such a buss of excitement as en Tuesday and Thursday
evenings. Even the ordinarily stolid House of COMDIIIOII
police, gentlemen who unite the politeness of Parisions to
the stolidity of graven images, where in • nervous gutter
of apprehensioa. Wha: with Irish membiese behind thew
Inside the Roue, and possible i,rate 'Fenian' among the
crowd. besieging the entrance lobbies, they might hive
sung that Deng Attli the Pirates oi Penzance" about
thew hearts bei • n their boots,"
4 terrible meet once— almost unique in military Lungs
—is, recorded at the Cape of Good Hope in connection
witn the march of the Diamond Yield Horse to the suns
of operations in Butuoland towards the end of last year.
Tint men had outmanned for breakfast, when a heavy
understorm suddenly burst over them, so sewers in ite
effects that they were forced t 3 abandon their attempt
to procure a meet, and rernoonte.d in the hope of riding
out of the storm. T.owards three in the afternoon, how-
ever, it broke uponthem with increased violence, therein
falling apparently in sheets, and the Bashes of lightning
oat puring continuous. At la.t a flash struck the troop,
flinging seventeen horses with their riders to the growl&
and killing ten men and five home on the spot. Those
who were not killed were all seriously injured, and it was
long before animation could be restored in the case of
seven of the men. The bits and etirrup-irons of the whole
numher were blackened, and many of the men, through
personally uninjured, had their clothing rent by the term
of the electric discharge,
On Saturday an inquest was held in London on the
body of Mrs. Louisa Rowland, aged 83 yeare, who, it is
stated, had died from the effects of a cat's scrah the
erevioos Tuesday. Miss Rowland, was sworn, &ad said
that her grandmother had been bedridden for the part two
years. See received perish relief, and with the seelstance
ot a benevolent lady and two of- her grandsons she was
enabled to live coutfortabiy. Ogi Thursday nightwrl
prior to her death,• large cat jumped on the bed cime
we. lying 011..4 whoe endeavouring to crush the animal
off it scratched her arm and hand. On the followng
morning her arms began to swell at the bend of the joint,
and on Saturday • small lump formed below the elbow.
joint, On Sunday the hind and arm became inflamed
and ealargsd, Wending to the muscle of the arm, In
consequenee of her condition witness sought medical aid.
Deemed lingered until Tuesday, when she died. Mr.
Wright, surgeon, miscalled. and stated that death arms
from blood poisoning and shock to the system. The Ines
returned a verdict accordingly.
BALCH OP PlaollllZ. At the Leeds Assize
Tillotsoe, aged 40, sued Joseph Runadem
Inspector, of Bradford, for MOO damegas on &count et •
breach of promise of marriage In Soe. the defendant,
who had paid his addresus for several years to the
plaintiff, married another lady. In January, 18$0, she
went from her buotheri house at Shipley to Bradford, and
del endeat met her at the station and took her to his
house, where she had tea with his mother. Before that
she had knitted host sonic socks. The lady's doubts
began to arise in Awil, and she wrote to the defendant as
follows my hole trust in you. You said you
was thrown overboard. I Mut left in the swamps. Good
by." This was followed by some doggrel After the
reeding of this, Lord Justice Lush suggested that the nabs
should be compromised, and counsel retired with the
judge into his private room. His lordship told the jury
on his return that damages heci been agreed upon which
might not be so Mtge as the plaintiff deserved, but it had
been left him to say what would he a proper sum. in Pro-
portion to the defendants means to pay. Verdict for the
plaintiff —damage' 4;0. with costa.
An extraordinary case of " supposed kleptomania" was
heard at the Epsom Petty Sessions on Monday A young
girl named Clime Faulkner was charged with *stealing •
scarf and a quantity of embroidery, collars, cuffs, Am. the
property of a draper. The articles were found in her box,
and she made DO attempt to deny that eke had taken
them. The theft seems to have been going on for some
time. The girl was in the habit of louring at the draper's
shop for her mistress, and on each visit she appears to
have taken something. Curiously enough she seems to
have nut no real object in talus( the thing., for she
neither sold them nor conv,rted them to her own use, bat
not unfrequently gave them away to children of the
village. The magistrat re decided to send this peculiar
young lady to a reformatory for three years in the bops
that she may during that period be cared of her mimeo:
nate propinaities. . • Kleptomania" is • most un&trii
disease, particularly as the symptons are oft%
for tune of another peculiar malady known to sea dodoes
(of the law) by the name of "Isione.• The disease
generally attacks fairly well•todo ladies of middle rage,
and clergymen. In the OW of the latter it often
assumes rather a drive aspent. Under its inflames
parsons have been known to appropriate umbrellas,
diamond rings, watches, and other miffs,. Many persons
have the complaint Ins mild form, and in this die they
do little harm beyond forge.ting their own (old) umbrellia
and walking away with the (new) umbrallael of thew
friends.
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