The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-29 00:00:00

arntral Ideas.

A woirse named Caddiet, tbe wife of a grocer st
Liverpool, hes twen poiwme.l through tasting too freely
of essence of almond., of which she was very fond.

A urns ouu. at South's, fell down as *he waa
etrrying home • pint bottle of stoat, .ben the bottle
broke, and Its jagged edge entered the main artery
Is the child's neck, casting her almost immediate death.
ann. —Master Jack Oda r diaputiog obstinately
the riabt of the railirey company to charge for hi. dog
at all)—Well. I shall only paw half-fare for bins 'cause
Ws ewer so mush ender twelve, you know, old follow r
—Puna.

Ii the Court of Obtamsery on Friday various petitions
forth. winding up of Overend, Garvey, and Co. Pere
postponed for thn present— the tartyliettion for the post-
ponement beine Its-ed syrln the prospect of a more
solid *tory settlement of tbe eutepany's affain.

A GataT FIRE natured on Tuesday In the warehouses of
the Loofon an 4 North Western Railway Company at
ll•nohest.r. An immense quantity of property was
destroyer'. The vane is versowdy estimated at present
it from £lOO.OOO to • quarter of million.

Awocorr the instrumentalists et lidlle. Looces
concert, on Ttmrs lay. watt boy wonder, Master &nest
Bonney, nod about eixht or nine, who performed with
variatimis an nit upon en estreciedinery instrument
play d with two small sticks, and called a Xylophone.
Tax Dora or CANIRIDOII presided on Friday at the
vitenl meeting of the Nstionel Rile Amooletion,
which was Airily occupied with dinewasitig the
arrangements for the Wimbledon meeting to com-
mence V., 9th of Jane. The prises will atnount
to 11.020 •gainst £3 395 not year. TN* incte•se
to be (Men t, the Rot-Id rifles. The number of prises
will to 638 against UM lest year.
OUR •RTIST it not in the b-ist of tempers. He has
been dietnibed often by bargee, .rd bothered by the
blue.hottlee, and then he's aocoeled I y what appears to
him In this irritable mood to be an art oritie (10q.)—
" The picture looks totter. goodish bit off, goenour r
Artist (matidened)—" Gin—found-4o do you, sir r
Party makes off hastily, "sot hiring the looks of him."
—Punch.

DISTIIICTIOIt Or OIAIN BY Flal.-0o 11(nnday •
fine woks out upon the faro of Lord Wenlock. near
York, which re-ulted In the desfruction of property to
the extent of fleetly £l.OOO. The farm in question la
known as Gilbertemes. Four corn Meeks sod two oat
stacksat nnos ignited. Two stacks were wholly destroyed,
an was • thnuthing maehins. it wits nearly midnight
before the dames were extinguished.
Carnie HATTER hsterolo to moo* an an antenelmaht
to Kr. Bouverie's instruction on Kolar into otalmitt,e
on the Rerresentation of the People Bill—" That this
Homes, although dettiroes that the wahleets of the
franchise and of the redistribution of vats should be
eonsidered together. is of opinion that the system of
grouping proposed in the preeent Blii for the Redistri-
bution of Seats is neither oinennient nor equitshie, and
thst the nohow, of Her Wijmty's towernment 1.. not
sufficiently matured to form the baiSe of a satisfactory
moseare."

A GM 0.110 ATIOK TORPID OUT OF CHURCH IT • FLOCK
Pici roan. —On Bandar, after wriest h.d *flamenco.,
In the Free Chuteh, Lorkies. K ..s found these flock cf
pigeons hal teken pools aim of the (thumb, hiielog
ehtedeed encees hp same (4 Use windows which had been
left open, and being onsble to fled their oar oat orain.
After @Mae Li,a• iL wan found that the attention of the
minsremstion was so such distracted by the birds that
the minister instigated that as the day wan 11.. it it etoutd
be b-tier to adjourn to the oton air. This we. done,
and the "maindor of the 'seri.* WY conducted outside.
Bdimbrrg4 Pittance Coampst.

Qutairsaegramionsrion —Tbe shin Battens grripirs,
17M tons bordrn, obariarrd by Marers. T. IL Meck•y
end Co., sail&l on tl • 1811 Inst., from Gravemind, for
Quesnoland, Cepa J. C. Prinemon. Commender ; Sur.
irecn-Bnperinten4ent. Dr T. 13 D. Byrna. The Eastern
B,flpire i• the 790 i vriverl that has milled on the land-
order eptem of emigration, and.., the iiniordist• direc-
tion of Kr. Jordan, arent-grneind for Queenelinni
government. She ountains 450 souls, divided into pc..
In', amisted, fnei paesengers. and ronsi•ting of 278
membered families; 18l single me.; 11 single females.

' Ti. Doirsoorton Poems or FOSSIL —A few days
ago ths shepherd of Corriemuklult, Perthshire, In •
mut of th. rock, which eeloreotly bad hens recently
frequented by loses, found upwards of 100 b•ad of grouse,
35 mountilo hoe., mine pertridges. Icor lambs, • young
As all of which appured perfectly In sh. and had
only been lately captured. The distriet hu for some
time past been completely overrun by tome, and the
ravages eosomitted emu' both elmep and Socks and
mune are beyond oslcu'ation. The proprietor. and
fanners bane commeneed to exterminate the vermin
poseible.—Auftwion.
Ti. GUM? DISCOUNT CONPA.3 T. —4o Important
, mutiog of perenns intimated in preseming th • busi....
nf Omen& Game.. and Co., hu been held as the
London Tenon. Kr. Sheppard mond a resolution
approving of the re-estahlinhaamt of the company on
I pertain safe end well-oonsidered principlea Kr. Shop.
hard wan of opinion that • good dui of the busiees,
could be kept tocether and that the institution et net.
• &mount company was • commercial necessity. A
lam and rsther warm (Sununu ensued, and initteally
• emninittee was appoiated to determine what coarse
a:anild be pursued.

Butoxiour &Min. —Two soldiers (a corpolorl
lead prieatel of the 14th Infantry, who ogre 4sepatnlsid
from Ethel livid to arrest and brute beak • de atter, after
swptaring their man In Liverpool. j 'teed with the
papaw in • Caron.e whleh lasted for iaveirol days, and
when at length they Camel their way to the railway
station to rotten to 136.111-Id, all Woe wares sea •
W0(041141, briPlfts osodision that they had to he sorted
Ito On Friday the ems w-e broaght breto•
the Liverpool magistrates. and the deserter will to
retained until • mere rellolmie essort &sties' from
146.411-Id. olois the moldier, bare Woe hooded over to
It. militory jariedisties.
TIM Ankrria Cana —OM Tondo, almost EC miles
of Ike sew •tlastle Telegraph Otig• bad boo Well
stowed amMay la the MOM as %cord the Great Smotera.
The smoriviag haUm the Amethyst sod WM tria, aro
riamgragdg*Mig Wry.= Ilms tido esidl the smargame,