The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

011itiobtre.

Mr. Thonsaa Foot, e hair-dresser, of Salisbury, bus
met his tteath under very twit ful circornat.ncea. He
took • dos, of strychnine, La he esid, "to sta.dy be
ban 'a." The quantity he deeerihed e be; "shoot is.
iiiu b at would *over a threepenny vtea-." The doctor.
tried the usual antidotes, but without guecter. Th.
eoron-r's jury found • verdict of death by noised.
venture.

Ax ugly old baahelor baguets that b'rtbs should
ho validated aodar tag hood of new mama—American
Paper.
A Poi& rusan SOLDIIB.—A soldier owned Jobs
b.loniglni to the 70th Regiment, at pown.;
stationed at Kiniu b tywapootally Irons. iabona
ol • legacy ot £lOOO, lelt him at the demise of • Math*
ot

SOMETHING LIM' • SPIDER isorreepondept Waal
De Boerrerriersda (Cape of Good Hope pep.,) fr ,crt
Elan,t'd 11.vcr statieg that n spi.ler hu just been k.llet
on the form of Hr. Itautenback as 'sage as a ta.key-
cock. The writer asserts thee the Mout killed three
do6s and r,c<ired three charges from a gut before he
wee despatcued.

TUB or finery definition of an lilted is "a portion of
land eotirely surrounded by water." A Hibernian
declares that thit doe. not meet the ewe of Ireland,
which, ennirderion the position of the !teats Charch,
is best deecTibed as "a portion el land entirely overrun
by the seee."
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A PRUDE'? 1111. X.—A gentleman of wealth and
positi in, end on. who is well known in Mooch, stir, was
recently asked try a Conservative deputation to odor
himself as a candidate for that city, and to pay the
dispenses of the contest. "I think," be replied, after
• moment's reflection. " T think, gentlemen. I can be
beiten •orneertere else for leas Money."—AsAlcusitackr-
Lye. News.
Ttlit Duel OF ECISBUIGII ESJOTING 111WeitLF !-
1 In th• "Cruise of the Gasses," which ha. Jui.t been
published, there is • letter fun the Doke of Ed,nburgh
to the Prince of Wales, narrating his Lieen.nrois •t
the ewe of Good Hope, in whicti the Duke thus
describes hid agreeable sensations after killing and
skinning • Bno elephant :—" The ddy was doe arvi the
wo•ther hot, and my short clay was very enjoyable,
sitting on the yet warm WeS.lO."
A Litialst 0 Tesouscr.—At Rochester, New York,
• woman named Mary SdrinAler, hi. been sentenced to
sin in imprisonment for cruelty Is her adopted
daughter, seven years of are. Th. woman had burnt
the child's hands by forcibly holding them over •
cooking-stove until neighboaris interfered. The
droman's reason was that the obild had stolen a piece
of °Andy, and "the intended to give her an ides of what
HeU is."

INTNITATION OP APPLE INTO Palle. —The first
b ,at, loaded with apples have arrived opposite the Hotel
de VIII., Peri. ; the time is 'Athol. late this year, es they
generelly get to Peri, litmus the 15th of October. Th.
supply continers reviler', for wine months. the numb .r
of vewels being nieally about 130, end as each tiontaini
about 300,030 apples, the result is th.t abont 32 milli us
of this fruit erehronght to one solo point of this capital.
Add to these all that sre brought by road mid rail,
no
I some idea may be formed of the minuel consumption
of Paris.

MAIRIAGte. BlitTBS, AND niATRI.— The Register. of
the United Kingdom chow tbot the birthe of 256.199
children, Lod the deaths of 165,728 persons*, hot,
semis, were regi.terrol in the three months ending on
Reptember 30th. The recorded natural increase was
89,471; the native emigrants were 40.672. The regie
tered marriages of the United Kingdom in the quarter
ending Jane 30th, 1868, were 56,033. Ti,. death -rate
of the United King loin differ, little f... that prevail-
in England and Wales In England 90,452 persons
were married in the quarter that ended on Juno 30th
and the marriage rate was 1-678 per oent, user annum,
og•inat an average oil '717. Ti.. rate bee declined since
the spring of the poor 186 R, when it was 1 840. The
decline was eery rtrielne in London, where the wed lint,
were 8.764. 8,224. and 8.011 in tbe ut throe spring
quarters. Little falling uff ia toted in the Bernie.'.,
6outh-emtarn, or 8 ietn Midland Counties ; but in
many of the mining district., nod in the m•nuieotssing
districits of Cornwall, 80iffordshire, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire, it was well m•rbial. Ewen in Bath the
marriages, so high in 1866, (ell to two third., of the
number In 1868; bet Cheltenham, to some *stoal.
restored the bolence. Lmerpool felt the depraaaion
more than Manchester. The following en the returns
for this county :

DOTRICII.

Shaftesbury .
Sturnsinater
Biandf,rd .
WtmbS
P..ebs ..
Wanes:re ....

Weymouth
Dore...ter
Ptrerborns
Be mintier
Brldport

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.1.• 8491.. Eleps
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110117 18 8 1866 1867 1 181611061 au
74 tI 26 80 111 11 WI 4 62
13 26 21 61 90 4 $4
11 196 13 111 1 9 47
U 1 II .0 18613 1 80
$I ,19 40 146 166 141 67 60
61 27 29 131 64 1 4 119
69 6.1 71 146 190 9 97 130
47 49 67 176 204 1 117 71
'l6 24 411 96 106 110 67 61
23 st ti 101 117 91 4 4 44
SO 147 29 119 131 113 67 el
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146 463 1389 1619 1 7 696 178