The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

Tfit MoBCOR 'WAD •rvta A 870W-lITORM. Many
vehicles of like construction to ours were struggling on
under the seine difficulties, to or from Moscow. At
nine p.m, one of our horses gave up, died, and having
been tut out from his traces, was left to the 'solve,.
At eleven o'clock another horst a blood-veseel, and
shared his fate. A third gave up within • mile from
the town at which we intended to recruit, and finally
we had to get out and walk to a place of refuge, leaving
the three remaining animals to pull the empty carriage
after us. We hail, in sixteen bourn, with three
separate teams of fresh home, accomplished the
distance of forty•Ove verde ; our pace being little
better than two miles an hour. . . Next morning
we started at ids o'clock with five hopes, bit, had noon
triadd a sixth. This day was like the day before it,
except that we killed no horses As daylight vanished
we determined to push on during the night; but ateleven
o'clock we lust the track in the dark, awl stuck fast in
a mountain ridge of snow. After an hour spent in I
fruitless efforts at extrication, three of as set out ia
search of atsist woe. To our astonishment, we pre-
sently discovered by " the smoke that so gracefully
curled" from several points at once, that we were
wrecked in the mitlat of a straggling snow-covered
village. A kind peasant gave us admittance, and sent
help to our lialf-froseu routpanio:is. Tim day we mode
shout tiiirt) -two miles in seventeen hours. As I had
slept with the horses on the previous night, so this
evening the cow gave me a part of her bed. We hail
passed six dhad horses, some of them partially devour. d,
and four overturned conveyances, embed& din deep
snow, beyond recovery until the spring. Where the
passengers were I know not. My companions said,
" o.ld knows," and crossed theineelven. All along the
track we hart seen evidences of distreas—usreeks uf
' sledge., horses up to necks in drift, men digging them
out. But just berme starting the next moiling we sew
the hori ible sight of all. Opposite the hut of oar poor
entertainer there had been men digging, to get into a
house entirely buried in snow, anti they had succeeded
in rescumg • family that had been four days buried.
This faintly was none the worst for its uilshap ; but the
diggers had come on • sledge with halloos. driver, and
two women frozen to death, and hurled in a drift.
They lied got fast, and had perished without help
the midst of a village. Caught in the greatent fury of
the storm, they hail not known their whereabouts, nor
bad their cries been heard. Three mouths after
this, and when the snows disappeared, from 250
to 300 corners were found, all of whom had
iliet their death in thin fearful storm upon the
the Moscow road alone. So I h ive been told, and fully
believe. Diclems's "AU the Year_Rumnd." .

ON THZ °HAND JURT. —We are accordingly
enlightened by the individual upon whom this teak liu
devolved as to the indictment bvfore ue, and we find
tl.ai it charges Willusin Gruhbens with feloniously
toting three feet of leaden pipe from Boxley Church.
We demand evidence of the most conclusive kind, and
the most conclusive evidence In ituitaistly forthooining.
There is the boy who saw him do it, and who told him
it wai wrong, and there lathe boy who saw him take it
away and didn't know it we. wrong, and there is the
policeman who (from information lie received) overtook
the appropriator and Wand lion with the three feet of
leaden pipe in his hand. Nevertheleu, there is one
nodule inveetigator among us who demands more.
We have had no evidetve of the existence of Bosley
Church itself, and, to make thecae* complete, lie thinks
decided proofs on that head ought to be forthcoming.
Att.c some pereuasion be waive, the objection, awl we
return • true hill. We eonementiously purenii•similarly
rigorous investigation through half a down more coeca;
having up every witness we can get hold of, and only
requiring official correction when we mistake the second
count for the thinl count, and niiz up all the other
counts together. Nevertheleu, we improve let, said
'dmsi.lsy absolute foreinic acumen in our elaborate cros.,.
examination of without'', whom we will not let off on
any plea till we have put them under the air-pump of
our interrogations, and have exhausted them of all
particnlars touching their birth, parentage, and socisl
eondition. Hiving coesumed scone human in this way,
• nil hiving agiAraysted the jury below by the lingerilu
reluctance with whirl, we allow the eases to ilrop lute
their hands, our official estricator slides in at the door,
with a grinding remark that we have given ourselves
much tnineoeuary trouble, •• all the prisoners have
pleaded guilty. However, we are r.ot to be tartlet
aside trout the path of duty, and we go on asking
questions with a pertinacity that would do ciedit to •
jury compoeed of Pisinock's Cateehtems. As the day
wears on, and the setting sun begina to throw long
shadows of ourselves upon the wall, I perceive that the
most inveterate interrogators are getting subdued into
silence. On my left I find one who has mildly intoxi-
cated himself with pepperuiint lozenge.., indulging in
such dreams of bine as that carminative confection may
inspire. Other., are via.ble oppressed by the drowsy
repetition of oath taking gone through by • long
succession of witnesses, and by their monotonous
iimilarity of statement. To overcome our lethargy the
more wakeful of us dive down to the court below in the
interests when we are waiting for fresh indictments,
and watch the fruits done labours. ripening under the
glass dome, where the bee& are bnuing with a more
sonorous and sleepy limn than ever. We have just
enough daylight to read the last indictment when we
get it. and have agreeable satisfaction of varying the
routine of our proceedings by ignoring the bill, which
as fix upon the extremity of along rake, and than
deliv. r from the gallery to the intelligent chairman
below. With infinite Kratification tlien bear bum

U!, 'Gentlemen of the grsnd jury, the Court hos much
pleasure ill discharging you, and Cm county thanks you
fur your services."—Diamss's "All the Year liumiti."

HONIEETT WELL lICWARDCD. —bolt week a clergyman
OD • visit at Maidstone gave a Testament to a poor man
who bad come into the neighbourhood for the hop-
picking, end after the man had gone sw.y. on opening
the book he found it to contain fuer Eh notes, left in it
by mistake. He hestened to restore them to the owner,
who was so pleased with this act i 4 honesty that he
completely fitted out the man and his family with shoes
and clothes, to the amount of several pounds.

A FAIISIL ALARM AT thi.uovorica.—A nervous gen.
tletnen was walking in the Aaylum Lane, near this city.
on Tuesday night, when he heard a woman cry" Mu),
dee." He instantly ran into the city, got a surgeon awl
• policeman, and hurried back to the place, and as an
alarm lied been rai.ed that • women had been killed, •
orowd of people followed. fourtunately, however, only
to find that they had been "sold." It appears that the
wife ..fa men who i. said to be a gravedigger, naught
h,r hushard in company with another woman, where.
upon she naturally gave slip to lier tongue. her
only weapon, and her husbmid nut sup o•ing of her
volubility, gave her • elap on the head, when she
raised the cry of "Murder," which occasioned the
alarm.

CURIOUS MODE OF PATIN() MUSICIANS.—Botne musi-
cians Ro.l theatrical 'singers about two year.. ago left
France to seek their fortune, awl after inane journey•
lugs chance took them to the Hervey Idands, part of
o,oli's Archipelago, in the Pacific. One of them, •
female, has just written the following curious letter to
her aunt, who resider at Paris "The King of these
island+. Yokes Gnome, has three times attended our
tiotwerta He is perfectly black, and thickest, highly of
his own colour that iie has had an image of Christ on
the arose, which bad been placed in his palaoe by some
inisnionariet in 1857, painted blank. Our odieertrooin
ilia shed in which fish were salted anal dried. The
have disappeared, but the smell remains. The 1131100er
in which we are remunerated is singular ; there being
no specie we are paid in kiwi, and the King himself.
having no cash, has given us cograveill gourds. Ow of
these bears his profile, and I keep it fur you as it will
litres as a sugar basin. In the last concert, which con.
siated of an sat front Anna Doke°, the deo of Noreen.
the drinking song of Ldwrerici, the air All gas/ pictiair
a'afre midst!. and fir des 'mires, I received for my
part 3 pip, 23 turkeys, 4d lonia, 1.000 c.saia nuts. 1,200
apples, 120 bushels of banan3s, 126 pumpkins, awl
1.500 oranges. In France all these thing' would he
worth 4.000 f., and 4.031 K for five airs is • pretty solo;
but in this lilac* it is not easy to turn what we have
received to account. I hear, however, that • speculator
fmm a neighbouring island is about to come here to
offer na money for what we have receieed. Unforto-
natal,. ea affendang his arrival. I sui ohiige.l to employ
ay fruits and vegetables in feeding my live stock."
/AMMER DEATH AND AX BITRALOLDISART HALLUCI.
nano:A.—OD Yowls,' a young man Douai Look. of
Milvertou. near Wiveliecombe. was bound over to keep
the peace in two aunt** of 540 each, and himself in
Cie. and in default to be committed to gaol for these
months, for threatening his mother's life. Bail not
being forthcoming, he was taken to Wivileecoutbe
poliee-stetion in preference to Taunton Gaol, that his
relitives might st4ll bare • chance of dialing sureties.
When the palmettos carried in his breakfast at eight
o'c:ock he found him in an apopletio fit. Medical emir
tones was soon obtained, but he
pired about ten o'clock on Tuesday night. He was a
young man of very in'einperate babies. Wivileaoonille
AVM thrown into no uproar on Thursday evening by the
report that he wax still alive, and a carienter was sent
for to open the coffin. Two rsspectable women declared
that they saw young Lode without the coffin, standing
on the other side headless and coining towards them,
when they rushed from the room in hysterics, and
doctors were obliged to be is attendanos upon them.
The eofiln was opened for the satisfaction of the public,
and the corner found within.

HOLUM/XS 01 LCD Pius—Tumour'. Ceneern and
Bad Breasts—lf any departure from health requires earlier
attention I. an another to prevent disastrous consequences. it
lithe cam of diners now wider review. To now bawd
end future pain the budding tumour must bare early atlas-
-1".• or "Teel discomfort and nights of diequietude wit be
the sufferer'. portion. Wb never the ailment end v
after Jamming spot Warn] water, Boi=7;
Ointment mu 4 be enemata:ally rubbed on the part WI a eon-
•lderible quantity is absorbed The TUI• too meat hig sow
"Bud with fork 7. If Iwo rumsdlss b. meow; Pirawored
10, 01. Ample tamer at the MI moors ars united. In
Wilgtorati= ellben *Moot zdk kw*. mid
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THE GREAT DISCOVERY OF THE AGE.
EMBRrB MAGIC BEETLE POISON.—
This oelel rated preperatios is mertahaenth to
Bluekbeetles, Cockroaches, Crickets. Rate aid Miss, it
being the original, and the only one to be Felted as.
Tho.„nde way be destroyed in one night, eitheet
danger to household pets. In consequence a the
immense flemao.d, Merits have been appointed la enema
lowa in the United Kingdom. Obtainable Unmet all
Chemists. Oilmen, en, in bow. t 1.. sem
14 Amps. tei Sows & Cobieler Looks.
W. Lund on name hat " anpii es(o„.v
itwifrop eittverNi., .
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ErYOU WANT LUXURIANT RAM
WHISKERS, MOUSTACHIOS, and ET&
BROWS? Of the aumeross amnesties' intreammill
for the HAIR, sone have maistaisied sash miebrity ag
EMILIE DEAN'S CRINILENE, whish Isiiislised
to produos Whiskers, Monsteehios, sad 111 •
few week.; isad will be foam' maineMly anowafel
nourishing. curling and beliatifylag the balm
greyness in all its stages drengthmilag weak Itelars4:ll=
..reventitiu I's &thug of. In the repn4erUam of bob Ili
baldness, from whatever muse sad at winsome' sr, OMR
TRIAL will prove its asioaishingLiserwer. hi the semen
It is indispensable, fanning she ifs beautiful
of hair. Prior Es. per bottle: huge hottlasz aontelaing
more than four times Si,. man MON In mei Sold
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every Chemist in tb• work], or smut post be.. as
of 24 loony stamps, W Mimes DIA. end ODOM:LW
Hair Restorers. he.. IS, Castle-Mmiet. Neornianoode
London, W.
EXTRACTS rear lorrrraa.—" In gee fortnight 1118•111
a beautiful woondaatio."- H. Adams Wflodea. "I am
eon b.em of a bead et heir white many manei was
was quite bald oa the aroma .1 my bead who I beam
using it."—W. B " Hoary eastomer in;elt.e.i, at
it." Jones Chemist a, Parmrse-strwt. "
" HINTS ON THE MANAGENENF6T TRH
HAIR," Whiskers, te.. with Teatimealide, Una el
Agents. he.. mat poet free fog four poesy Mama&