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

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CAEN! FlVlLlTT.—Namerous Meissen have bees
received of canine fidelity, but • mat occurred a few
days ago which deserves to he noticed. A drover, who
resides in the parish of Menai% Perthshire, had
°coition to attend the last Falkirk tryst, and having
taken a tieket at Cried' railway stetson, hiafaithful
collie was of course put into a dog-box to accompany
his master. It appease that when the man was
engaged in business on the marble stance the dog
disappeared and could nowhieve be bend; and after
anxiously looking for the anintal the whole day, the
drover had to return home a distant* of full forty miles
without his collie. Ti. poor animal. however, after
travelling nearly a week, amid dritnehipg rains,
appeared at his master's door tired and scarcely able to
walk. How the dog managed to return will for ever
remain a mystery. It must have swam the Forth and
Earn, or returned by the bridges at Crime' and Stirling.
We may add that the dog managed tu Ind its way bach
on a former oesasion when it was lost in Glasgow, and
now the salami is more prised by its aster than ever.
—PertAshire Advertiser.

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A LUCKY OURPOILALt Some Clair, ago William
Harwood, • corporal in the 911th Begitsiesit. it present
stationed in Edinburgh Castle, resolved intelligesee
that through the death of bis soothes. which has just
tsksn place in Lancashire, he has come into pomession
of property and cash to the amount of at least £3,000.
Use. Harwood, who, we believe, was in bumble ciimain•
stances, had herself only in February bud, become
possessed of a oonsidersole amount of property, in virtue
of a deed of settlement elm:mud by her uncle, Captain
Whittaker, who warn formerly is the 841 Hussars, and
who died in Aocringtoo, Lancashire, about two years
ago. The corporal is • married we.
Sosegeren Wll. MOROI& /MAR DUIIIIIANTON.—A.
man named James Shaw was taken into custody near
Datibsrtoo, on the Clyde, on Sunday, and charged with
the murder of his wife. He ia about thirty years of age
and resided with the deceased, who was his reputed
wife, at Falkirk. Her name was C•therioe Morrison,
and she was about tweety.wielit years of age. It
appears that the amused is owner of two horses, which
be employs in haulieg MN& along the Forth and Clyde
Ofinal, the deceased driving ono of the horses. They
had delivered • vessel at Bowling on Saturday night, and
commenced their return Ininiewards to Falkirk along
the blink of the canal ; sod when last seen together
Dear Thdoinir, shout two miles from Kilpatrick, between
' 11 and 12 o'clock that night, they were both much the
worse for drink. Between Rise and ten o'clock on
Sunday morning, some ones observed a woip and •
penny piece lying as the brink of the meal, on which a
man's cap wss Swathe, and observed the socused's
borne feeding in the oaighhosirbood. Suspecting that
something was wrong they dragged the canal, and found
the body of the deceased. Tlie prisoner was found in
the ncighbourhood,and the Kilpatrick constable proceeded
promptly to the spit and took him into custody. On
the person of the sostsed was found the &sassed's
pocket and 1110011 =Obey. 131 w was In the batik we are
informed, el earning their earmsp. When the con-
stable apprehended kin, to was asleep is a stable,
sad weld give no Mama emus* of hie proceedings the
previous night and on Ssoday inorniag. We believe
the aeonsed and deceased were not married, although
living togsther and having • family.