The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

Original Vortrp.

DARSET BUCOLICS, No. 3.
TB{ WIATHINCOCIL : • TBOZ BTOBT.
CHAIUsLiII AND JAL
March winds blew strong, and sent the dust about,
Enou h to blow each mortal inside out ;
Eats were no use, " withlears and faces seared,"
With chaps and rheume every visage bleared;
Chimneys blew down, and slates and tiles abound
Where they'd no business, seatteredlon the ground.
The robin earns sod told us at the door
So meth ng, and hod he spoke had tohl us mmetbing mo re—
J .n to his work must go, and though he's late
Must have • word with Chortles at Charelea' gate.
CHA. —Terrible night, Jan ; and jest look ee here,
My weathercock blown down, and pest al cure I wear.
Vor uses thic error took a jolly night,
A treat cur he that turned round day and night,
And they gilt letters N.& KW. and al,
Z noshed induscriminut in this orful wall.
Vire ears moue tide-time did those letters bring
Tiduns o'ohainge, and braved the storms o'Spring,
Last night it came down win sudden orsah,
And knocked this apple dree Wilmot to smash.
JAN —Taint pant al cure— gie onto I to mend,
Allwhitoomiths know sarder's a vaithful vriend ;
111 set this arrer on no strong again,
It wont give wai no more to wind or rsiin,
N.S.E.W. be vastened on no tight,
Whol Nick toed blow and do his oorted spite.
OM —Teak no, and do thy best4Vll 03011) temarrer
Voce more my weather cook shall point to beavun.

ronarrer Brou ig R.

Jgg—The pence, my Bonney, here's thic vidin al right,
Polished and scoured, and is like silver bright;
With thin there ether shootun et the sky,
My &tabard's pride he'll be to every passer by.
CO ao I see, and p'raps thee did thy beet,
But thee bent set the East to vront the West,
The Nsrth vronts East, an West do vront the Zouth,
I wish title orossthar stook within thy mouth,
S+W
And my poor afters' sthirligeguns done,
Tight irixed in 'order on the pin he spun.
At Won pint my temper seems to bile,
Job's salts own *Armee this ud surely rile.
Jas—Out o' thy bed crosswise thee slipped this
marnin,
Or last night's beer pre thee too tight • warm;
There is your Narth— Z glands for Zontb, ye know,
Yerarrer ain't no use • ithout chow!
I'll elisinge sn vrieee, ani to shut your mouth
Wirth shall be Narth, and Narth shall Trout the Zouth;
A spring I'll jine under yer were tail,
Zhall keep un 'pitman spite of every wale.

CliA.—Heres zizpunee vor'ee--buy an A B C. ;
A garter veal than thou I'm share can nev.r be.
W ELI) TAYLOR.

Grnnal Wring.

EIMNBUIGH hu established a "home" for destitute
and abandoned cats!

Tift cattle plague return. show • slight increase this
week as competed with last. The total number of
attacks report d up to A ague! 25 were 148 against 127
in the previous week. There were fresh outbreaks in
miventeon farm,.

FATAL &MAI Exeunstlcw.—On Wednesday, as a
portable agricultural engine was at work in the farm of
Mr. Sharman, at North Tuddenham, Norfolk, the boiler
exploded. Inning two men on the spot Another man
was severely injured about the head. some barley which
was being thnwhed was ignited, and before the names
could be subdued they extended to an adjacent barn,
which wee burnt down.

KITT FLTINO EXTRAORDINARY. —A kite contest, the
first in this neighbourhood, took place on the Townmoor
rex ntly, in the preemies of so imments number of
spectators, e.timatcd at upwards of 20.000. There were
86 competitors ; and the first prise was won by Master
Cross, • brother of the popular settees at the Theatre
Royal. The contest was No great that it is to be repeated
on a larger scale in future years.—Nercastle Journal.
DR. ParrcHARD'S HOOBl.—Passiog through Ranchie-
ball Street on Tuesday forenoon, we noticed that the
peens of the Pritchard tragedies. No. 131, the ground.
door of which has now been oouverted into • shop, has
at last found a tenant. The "association" feeling has
in • greet measure beer. cl. stroyed by the late altera-
tions, and the sign, "Hardy and Co., music-sellers,"
now figures on the tenement after some eighteen months'
unoccupancy. —Glasgow Seeming Citizen.

"JACK AND THI MUNI STALK" RZTIVID.—In the
mouth of April last two hemp seeds which had fallen
from a bird's esge at the window of Mr. John Smith's,
Paisley, sprouted up in his garden, and continued to
grow vigorously, putting forth branches and leaves, till
they attained • height of upwards of ei bt feet. Oize
of the stems measures eight feet four inches in height,
and two inches in eircamference ; th.s other is slightly
smaller, and both plants are at present in need. -
Dundee Advertiser.

SUICIDE THROUGH Loex.--On Tunalay evening an
inquest was held in Saville-plum. Lambeth, on the body
of Clara Gayter, aged 19. The Geese.' had been
agitated recently in consequence of discovering that •
young man to whom she was very much attached was
warned. On Monday night last her mother found her
lying upon • sofa, retching violently, suffering great
pain, and apparently dying. She then said, "I have
taken something." A medical gentleman was called in
bet she died before his arrival. The poison need was
oxalic acid. The jury returned a verdict—That deceased
poisoned herself while in • state of temporary mental
derangement.
Toe BANK Or ENGLAND rate of discount was reduced
on Thursday from aeven per cent., at which it was tired
the previous Thursday. to six, making a total reduction
of four per cent, in a fortnight. The official return
issued that evening, showe 1 • large increase in the coin
and bullion and the swerve, and an important decrease
in the other aecuriti.x. If this reduction prove as ,
effeetise in the restoration of credit as the seven per '
cent, rate did last week, we may expect a succesa!on of
falls till the rate of interest in England has been brought
to • level with the rates prevailing on the continent.
THE BOARD Or TRADE ItirTIJRNEI were publi•hed on
Thursday, and show an excess in the exports both for
the month and seven months over the corresponding
periods cite. TITO DTOTIOWI years. In July last the
exports were £31,957,834. whereas in the same month in
1865 the amount was £14,113,410. On the seven moat OS
the increase is from i'92,440,930 in 1864, and E 84.242,948
in 11365, to £107,815,661. Another fact of some interest
is, that there is an increase of about 000,000 in July
butt as compared with the previous ,11 of June.
The high rate of interest hair, thererore, had I.es
effect than might have been expected in curtailing the
transactions of commerce.
THZ corseepondence that has token place between
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Edmund Scales
in reference to the revising barristership or Middlesex
is published. The Lord Chief Justice declines to re•
apr oint Mr. Beaks thia y pres-ly on the ground that
he has taken so prominent a pert in the recent Eleform
demonstrations, but he informs Mr. Wales that it is not
from any doubt of his faithfully discharging the duties
of the office that he has refrained from again appointing
him. It is clear from Mr. Beales's answer, that he at
any rate is sensible that he has been dismissed front no
lower motive than • regard for the public service.
DRZILDFUL ACCIDENT.—RbORA noon OR Thunder •
dreadful accident occurred at Burton-rued, Derby,
which caused the death of a married Roman named
Heath, and the narrow escape of amen who attempted
to save her life. Kra Heath was carrying potatoes to
wash at a tap in her garden, in doing whieh she had to
cross over an old well, 800 deep, whirr!' had been
covered over with brickwork. Ou re-aromas the well

the covering gave way, and the deceased fell to the
bottom, being covered with rubbish. One of her
children who was near at the time gave an alarm, but
upwards of three-quarter' of an hone elapsed before the
bode, of the unfortunate woman was recovered, owing
to the depth of the well. A man humanely tried to SAVO
her life, and in doing so nearly forfeited his own.
Tee latest attempt at imposition is certainly a very
extraordinary one. A number of teen and wemen have
been pi-meting themselves at the London Hospital,
and representing that they were suffering from cholera.
Nome, whose acting was of • superior order, were ad-
; but they soon fell into the fault of most
atnntourn. They over-acted thearamps and exaggerated
the pain, and this led to discovery and instantaneoua
expulsion. An example has been made of one woman,
who war charged at the police-court with obtaining
medieine under false pretences, and got locked up for a
couple of days on remand. The real object of these im-
postures. supposed to be the desire for brandy, which
popular opinion associates largely with the treatment of
cholera.
PURRRTVO inPßOnti) CORKING MCGUIRK This
machine is constructed for expeditiously and thoroughly
corking bottles of almost every kind, and hi especially
adapted for bottling wince, ales, spirits. ke., Ito.
It is so simple and well-arranged in its construction
that it may be altered to salt the height of the different
shim. of bottles. The two levers, hand and foot, working,
at the same time, moderate the
pressure so evenly that
there is no risk of breaking the I. in the ordinary
method. It is so easily worked that • person unac-
customed to bottling may by its gee. bottle equal to the
most experienced bottler. Price el. zucchini. £2 2n—
Sole inventor and proprietor. .1. P,tnett. Sanwa],
Somerset. " Mansfeeturer of Purretre Improved Cider
Coloring."
Tug meeting of the British Association In hlcitnigham
terminated on Wednesday; but a oonsiderus 'le number
of the visitors appear to have been so char. 'fled with
that really One town, and the interesting (Duni '7 in.lhe
midst of which it is seated, that they emcd t have
determined upon a supplsrnentad shy, and to
devoted it to excursions, no fewer than a domn of O. '"ch.
were organised. The important geological district
eharnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, drew a 000siderak
party, but the large numbers were attracted to Use
Derbyshire series, which included the beautiful scenery
of Matlock and Buxton, Harlden Hall. the re.idenoe of
the famous Peveril of the Peak, and Chatsworth, the
princely manaion of the Duke of Devonshire. A small
party also travelled to the Vale of Belvoir, and visited
the romantic castle of the Duke of Rutland.
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THZ r commenting upon the evidence of the
corruptness of the boroughs of Yarmouth, Totnea,
Reigate, and Lancaster, brought before the Bleetion
Oommioaions, is of °elide.' that Yarmouth might be let ,
oil with a seven years' suspension of the franchise, bat
with respect to the other three pieces the course of I
justice is clear, and there can be no doubt that one of
the first bills laid on the table of the House of Commons
next sessions ought to be a bill for their total and per.
petual disenfranchisement. The specific prescribed hy
the Tones is not a whit too severe. The evidence at all
the places *bows tits most flagrant 'maternity in regard
to bribery and bribe-taking. There are a few honest
men whene political virtue has not deserted them, but
the terrible disgrace in which their towns are steeped
they must hear, as well as the herd who have revived
the worst memories and traditions of Old Sarum.
Went the American iliantononah visited our shores.,
men who were considered great authorities in naval
matters pronounced her to be the most perfect and
destructive war vessel afloat, and suggestions were noon
plentiful that the English fleet should be re-constructed
on a similar model. But one thing bus come to light
which the American commander carefully cone aled
from thaw who paid his vessel a visit. We learn from
the United State's Army used Nary Jeanie', that the
Miantonomah was towed across the ocean by t•o power-
ful wooden ship-rigged steamers, which were dismissed
when almmt within sight of the European coed..
These monitors are very expensive article., and if cash
one that goes to sea must take two others, though in
the calmest month in the year, to teke care of her, it
suggests doubts of tie ir prsetieal value.
THI SAD STORY of Captain John Casey, formerly
manor of the Jane Lowden, was brought under the
notice of Mr. Partridge, London magistrate, on Moodey.
Eight ships, some of them new, ani some of them
timber-laden, sailed from Quebec for England on the
same day. They were mutual by 160 mu, all told,
and not one of those ships reached England. They all
foundered in the same gale, and C.ptaio Casey is UM
only survivor of their crews. times his arrival in
London he has been Hein! with Ilia eisai4n-law, in
extreme debility and suffering. He his now quite
deetitute, and he has not the means of providing for his
wife and five ehildr, ri at Padstow. Canino Casey was
for 33 days on the topmast of his water logged ship, and
was for 28 days of that time without a morsel of
food. lie only weighed 411 lb., incluoing his wet clothes,
when he was removed from the vessel. Two of the
captain's toes and some of his lingers had been amputated
, and he wags helpless cripple. Mr. Partridge said it was
'a very heartrending coe, and he hoped something
substantial would be done for the sufferer. He would
award him two sovereigns front the poor-box fund.
RIFORY —The Tim/ observes that Mr. Bright',
present anxiety for • reform agitation is superfluous.
There is not the least fear that the nubjeet will drop, or
that • new reform bill will not be reduced. We are
convinced that public opinion is kitty in favour of Mr.
Bright's own speeiiil object—the adutiasion of working
men to the francium,; but it is also in favour of other
reforms too. The new reform bill must be a fair bill as
well as an "honest" bill ; and, above all, it must be a
complete bill. To a bill of this dsseription everr,
political party has pledged itself in tarn. That no bill
yet produeed produce! Ilan saticfied the House is true
enough, and we agree with Mr. Bright in thinking it an
argument for Reform that there should he such a "pois-
ing and balancing of the reale." It renders not only
Poliamentary reform, but legislation of all kinds,
extremely difficult ; but we are not at all sure that Mr.
Bright is right In concluding that the working classes
will throw all their weight into the scale which be
favours. We suspect that many of them are more
disci:wed to consereatism than the small tradesmen, for
instance, and more likely to diserimiaate end take sides
of their own.

" WHVI I was at Hang Chow," writes Yr. fortune,
"I determined to Pee the Chinese colour tea for en.
portation. A quantity of bluish mineral powder was
scattered over the hot leaves, while the workmen
turned them rapidly round the drying pen with the
hand, which quickly changed the leaves from a dark
olive to the wel known bluish hue." Can our fair
readers imagine the outery that would be made by the
sterner sex, if their favourite Allsopo or Bass was
brewed from malt covered with mineral power? Why
then should English merchants, to get off inferior Tee,
have the Chine.e colour it, knowing that the mineral
powders are washed offend imbibed by our fair country-
women when the tea in consumed at table. Homiman
& Co., London, disallow mineral powder on their im-
ports •' their green in dark olive, it baa not the usual
bluish tint, and their black is
both are remarkable for lasting strength and extreme
cheapness. As spurious imitations are offered, all
genuine packets are siuned Horniman & Co., "Original
Importers of the pure tea."

FATAL EIPL,,SION AT Sit—On Meade), Robert
Living...one and Edward Bond died at Moreesmbe from
the elites of iitjurien noeived at sea by the explosion of
the boiler of the Talbot, one of the Midland Railway
Company's boats engaged in the Irish trade, and plying
between Motecambe anol Belfast. The Talbot, a fine
vessel, sailed from Morecambe harbour at halfepast
nine p.m. on Monday, with passengers and cargo, for
Belfast. When she Lad gone about three miles on her
voyage—bad reached the "light ship" at the entrance
to the bay—everyone no board was alarmed by an en.
plosion, which was followed by an immediate rush of
deem from the ergine-roorn. Examination was made,
when it wax found that the chief engineer. Robert
Livingstone, the second engineer, Thomas Lamb, and
the fireman, Edward Bond, had been dreadfully scalded,
and one of the steerage passengers less seriotuly. The
ship was immediately put about, and returned to
Morecambe, where 'Livingstone and Bond expired. It is
believed that a deftctive plate in the boiler was the
cause of the accident, The boiler wan • new one last
year.
Tue HALLILUJAII BAND.—The Atom.leelteld Courier
reports some of the &Wisp of the "Hallelujah Bond"
in that town. One of the speakers at a meeting which
they fold was a converted pigeontlyer, and he thus
describe I his convention from lus sinful pigeon fancying
propensitte.—" Now I am din converted piseon-fiyer
that got rid t f the pigeons. When I was converted I
d 1 not want the pigeons any longer, so I said to Jesus,
Thane pigeons have cost me a great deal of time, and a
lot .1 nuteey, what nitall I do with them?" So be said.
Wall, Meek, I'll tell you what VU do with you, 11l
make a avrop. VU take your pigeons and give you a
dove.' So (hallelujah to Jesus) he swopped with me. I
took hi. dove and he had my pigeon, " Another extract
in as folittoes —" In the black country, the colliers
have to give a fortnishea natio° to leave their employer,
but you noel not give the devil any notice at all, just
give him the teetotal sack. You need not fear that the
devil sill summon you for leaving his employ, but if he
due you con got a countor summons without cost or
fees. Jost set a free summon. and summon him to
Calvary. You are sure to win, for the devil is such a
*sward that he won't show, anti you will win your cue
by default. No doubt he will have • shot at you, bat
never mind. he in such an infernal bad marksman that
not one of his bullets will Itit you."

Tug Yarmouth and Reigate election bigotries have
brought to light some mussing facts in illustration of
the prevalence of bribe', and corruption at our Parlia-
mentary elections, hot they are completely put into the
sh-ole by the Mines commission. If only half the abate-
ments made by Mr. Hams are substantiated by subse-
quent evidence, the pocket borough for the Duke of
Romemet ought for the future to take rank as the moat
venal Parliamentary conatttuency in Great Britain. Mr.
Harris divides the electors into three olsames—fire, the
Duke of tdomemet's tenantry, who are driven to the
poll for his grace's 001131110 n by one of his agents ;
seesadly, the higher order of tradesmen, who well vote
for the candidate who well get appointments for their
song, nephews, or sons-in-law ; and thirdly, the
"ignorant Or insolvent," who, it they vote, lOWA be
boouht right out. He estimates that at the last
electi.m Colonel Dawkins spent MOO in bribery, and
alleges that Mr. Pender. after spending £15,000 upon
two eloctions offered £2o,ooodown to Colonel Uawkins's
Palliamentury agent to withdraw the petition against
his return. Ruch outrageous bribery, married on aa it
has how been for fe.,.0,0 leers, looks almost incredible.
The coinueig.ioners intend that their investigation ,hall
he thoroughly exhaustive, and every elector hat been
summoned for examination.

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panti
i ye OEfk..—.EdTh.siii.
on (Ito West yen plan—a. hardworking, hounat, aad in.
dustrioos MAD —Wan IlliSill.g the other morning from his
bo„.e. A sesrch was imtituted, and he was found in •
back room. used for storing potatoes, swipended by a
tope rpm • bran,. An alarm was raised, be was out
down, and a medical man sent for. The unfortunate
man was not dead ; bet, althonsh every means were re-
wrtd to, he dial& few hours afterwards. It seems Chat
be bed not paid his rent, and asked his landlord to wait,
as he expected to be able to procure it as soon as be had
sold a litter of pigs. The sow died in farrowing, and
the litter also died. Be likewise sustained serious
losses with some barley crops some time before. These
things preyed very much upon his mind, and he was
baud to say that he was no more good in the world, On

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jßvia andau44,aobeervythhaeisdrop.pre"in:b.::darwatobeaWs.fweldlier..d riaPftrmaaseenis
si.thetil.esekbeawaleveoa:
Into the potato-room, stood upon a else Marrow, as
then pushed the wheelbarrow from wader Wit. The
sigottotsionee has Greeted a moo painful fearing in tie
locality, the deceased having been highly soot mew by his
nss• hboors. An ioquest hoe been hidden the body, and
a verdict in acoordarce with the circumstances !starved.
CHATHAM CONVICT PRISON.—A spirit of hmet.di„„..
tion havi° gof late been manifested amiss several ef
the more daring of the cooviets at Gm ISt Mary%
cesitanidnviceseteteffioPrifn'thrctoil iebne
kondo:ringh... ihre"..thtivs"
dinner•bour, a day or two since. hi severs I open acts
of insubordination, which at ODS WS*, wee feeseat
would lead to a repetition of the disturbs aces enacted
at the lame convict prison a few years since, wide*
Itoonthhea:dicitmet."folo:enfeveniarisouri
then resulted in the anistance of the r*nary being
celled M. On this occasion however. the go retool
and other °Violas of the establishmest were well Pril•
pared for any contingency of the kind t' sat might arise,
and on the mutinous spirit developing its elf several of the
ringleaders were at once seised, placed i ii irons, and soot
ioto sol,tary eonfinement to await bust mom. leogn the
Director-Genera The whole of tOl drotijostoogog
bays since been investigated. the row di being tbot 12 of
the convicts who were preyed to In token a loodtm
part in the threatened disturbances were cash ordered
to undergo corporal punishment, which was Lobate,'
within t4jsrison, in additio a to which tbe
...Tide A will be placed in • *wrote oat is, some
time, be need to • lower cless? and forfeit all the
privilege. they formerly eejoyeei. Sine. this
action on the pert of the °Meal's, se further attempt at
insubordination has manifested.

FATAL BATHING ACCIDINT.—On Wednesday morn-
ing • melancholy accident °warred at Brighton, by
which four young gentlemen lost their lives, and a fifth
had a narrow escape. A. number of persons betides:
from one of the publis bathing statism., opposite
A delaide-tarrece. and INHOTIG them Mr. Taylor, the pro-
prietor of • scholastic establishment at 4. Buckingham-
place, and his popils. The water was very low' 'at the
time, but the tide was flowing. Mr. Taylor's boys Is
seems went for some considerable distano• through the
shallow water, until they reached the sandbar, where
k t‘e water was particularly shallow. Here they massed
kik .mselves for some time. when • cry was raised that •
was drowniog about 300 yards to the east of where
they were. Mr. Taylor immediately went to the lad's
'cc, and with Nome difficalty carried him on to the
bemb, Be was then insensible, but souls restoratives
lied beaten flowered, and then stated he was
ott77o:rof the lots General Clarke. Alter seeing than
.as all riebt, Xr. Taylor loft the youth in charge GI
some oth,nr poncen who were prwent, and retussod to
she,. Lii bed left hie own pupils; but was surprised to
god that foot of then were missing. Greet ezeitoment
wag in .00nsegletor occasioned among those on the
nuis!la had not afterwards been seen by any
was-hoar afterwards a body was won
eft°MtClbelhint.:;;ll:mhTiters'fibeagrxnb.6l°F.'w:kiash.l":"hl'thedinialrb,d;ll;:aierh:eisnnrelaligtdaKtaannhnregead. Tww:i:lytollumiewlirealledluou:dhtedmabaite to be
kho kikk ming youths. It then became too
plainlyk hat the other three had shared •
similar fate. It is a
w.posed that when the first alarm
given ate yeung gentlemen endeavoured
to gettotr:s7i-orz n
hee t the Bowing tide had faddy oat
thenioff from the shwa tt" thy 01.9 with Dr. Will..
about • week since—sad that in codesvouring to ford
the
et..m
they
were 'ael off their feet and drowned.
About an hour afterwards the body of OM of them,
SamuelfCann,,aged 11 yews, washed a.hore, bed was
taken together with the one s rinualY risked up to the
Brunswick Arms, Hollanehros. where they await the
coroner's inquest. The names • the unfortunate youths
are -John Dann, aged 14, and It `tonal Dalin. aged 11,
brother,; Samuel 'C. Kidd, aged 14, and William D.
Bottomley, sged 12. The ingot% lee the bedlam was
held on Thursday. It readied in ave. tact 01 accidentally
drowned, and the jury expremed ash enlelentrthat Kr.
Motor, the schoolmaster in whose est • the here mares
vas 1n:00 Wise to blame.