The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

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lla. HINIT CUIRLIMI L3rs of the Western
Circuit, Wog suoppase.i. ws. on Thursday T.Wrnld ma
represents.ive in Perbement for Lsonosmon. The
now member ennonnom himeelf to be s supporter
of the present Government.

A STRANG! ATTAIIR ho. Jed occurred AA NODOIROU'
about nine miles from Coventry. Two platelayers, in
goiog through • !soul on ti.. Midland Railway, just
after • train from Leicester bad pared, found • brown
paper parcel musing the body of • child. The gppesr.
ones of the parcel showed Mist it bad been thrown from
the train, and come into contact with ths wall. At the
Inquest on Wedneedav night, it was stated that de.th
heel resulted from suffocation, and • verdict of wilful
murder against some person unknown wu retuned.

EiIItaORDINART 801CIDIL—hn inquest hu been held
at Pimlico respecting the death of William James
Stowell, a muter tailor, who resided at Denbigh•plau,
Pimlico. The deceased and his wife had not lived
happily together, and when the wife died, one day last
week, the husband appears to have been struck with
remorse. On Frdav, the day upon which the body of
hie wife was interred, be stabbed bimetal repeatedly in
the breast with a penknife, and died in leas than two
hoar. Jut before death he said, at intervals, "1 bars
bij ...; me ; hit me die." A verdist wet
returned to the effect that he had committed =kids
whilst he vu temporanly imps
A GOOD THINO roe Pool BAlllll.—Larly Petre is
shoot to try an experiment which will make itself felt
on the abominable aystem of baby-ferrning, which
threatened at one time to become an " inatitation" of
the country. Her ladyship contemplates taking a large
bows in the nsighhourbood of oxford.street, London,
In a very poor district adjoining Waatnhestar-equare, and
to establish there creches, inch as have been long
established in P.ris, whore soothers who have to work
for their livelihood will be able to have their babies
properly eared for daring the du. The children will be
attended by the sisters of Si. Vinerat de Peel, and will
he fed and clothed free of expense to their went&
Thei„. o.,frAti are declined for the nee of the Roman
Catholic .poor of the district, the subscription for them
having been raised exclusively amonpt the wealthier
members of that perenaaion.
Ii a resent interesting lecture to the Social Seisms
amosiatioa, Dr. Letheby, analyelat tOthe corporation of
the City of London, mentioned that water is pat foto
milk, lard or dripping into better, {Amory into ooffee,
and Week tea I. 'feud with black lead;" the green le
slue" got up" with minerals, powdered apical, and
Priassian hi.. Hence the peblie have . groat desire to
pueblo* ankles that are guaranteed to be pure by
well-known firms. In no sommodity ia there more
general dissatisfaction than in tee IS ordinarily supplied,
and in no individual instance has there been more
satisfaction, than by parebuing the strictly pure tea,
bearing the signature of" Honiimen k Co.. London,
original importers of the pare tee." It is supplied to
sealed paakets, to the public at a cheep rate, by 2,500
wow.

A MAD DOG ;fll • MILLIWNIT ENTABLISHEMIT.—A
terrier deg. under the effects of canine madness, Teased
from the Flighatrest, Hartlepool, where it was pursued
by some people, into the millinery establishment of Mrs.
Wilson, who employsdi wards of a dozen young women.
The dog sprang through the workroom window, but
was unable to drag its y through the square, and fell
down into the shop It rushed behind the winter,
dew upstairs, capsising a large flower stand on the
landing, and breaklng all the pota, and scattering their
*outsets down the staireue. The young women on the
premises were in the greatest state of alarm, and the
wildest commotion eshrted, si the animal was evidently
labouring under the worst form of madness. The animal
ascended the stairs until it reached tbe tiro of the house.
A neighbour, armed with a inn, went upstairs, and,
with • well-direcited aim, blew the brute nearly to pieces
before it had hurt any one.
" OLD Tom" Oti.—" Old Tom" takes its name from
Old Tam Chamberlain, • relative and partner of Hodges,
the distiller, whom distillery was at the early part of
the present century eituased on Millbank. While
Hodges managed the commercial part of the bulling...
Old Tom superintended the distillery and the manatee-
lure of the compounds for which the firm via almost
as celebrated as for its en. For this porpoise be had
small laboratory at the bade of the premises, when, he
compounded the necessary Ingredients; and where he
always had a small supply of superior gin, flavoured In
• peculiar way. When en ordinary customer mane to
give his orvl re be was simply treated to • glass of
ordinary gin, cloves, or whatever be preferred. But •
desirable customer, whom it was considered advisable to
propitiate, was invited into 014 Tom's s manes and
trearod to • glass of "his particular." The fame of
this gradually spread; end when • customer was asked
what he would have, "A glass of Old Tom" soon
becatrie such a regular reply, that the Arm decided on
manufacturing that especial good quality of gin for the
trade. and giving it the name of its originator—" Old
Tom." Notts and Qwerias.

FnMins 11•Dit BY dDrirrlettno.—Few Of 01If
readers, we believe, can be unaorpainted with the name
of Holloway, tlie greatest of all advertisers It is not
our vurroao to make any 'Minions to the properties of
his medicines, hot rather to allow boar much mu be
done by enemy and industry, and • judicious course of
publicity. We are told that when be oommenoed the
sale of hi. medicines, some thirty years ago, it was on
the smallest poedble Peale, making his pill, and oint-
ment with his own heads—the latter in • small iron
pot. We refer to this fact that some may not look at
the Professor as he now stands, a rich and princely
Inerclant, and who might say to them.slrss, "Ah
but who could think of doing as he had donor We
reply that thousands might do almost as much
in Tarim'. way., keeping in view Lord Chesterfield'.
advice, that Little barques should keep near
shore, while larger epos may venters fee-1.4 year
beginning be on a small and progressive scale, Miring
but one careful upward step at a time, mid the higher
you ascend 'be more careful you should be, or the
greater may be your fell. We know Holloway has
given the followinr advice respecting advertising :
“ Commence," says he, "in one or two papers, not
more; continue thus ooarse fore considerable ttme, the
malt will be that you will be as well known In the
end to the readers of those two paper. as Holloway
himself; then, if your wares be such as can be
brought into universal repute, add another paper or
two to your number, and so go on gradually, taking care
to pay the proprietors faithfully, that they may not
damage you by any unpleasant 'critique' of their own;
for assuredly, if you don't keep on good terms with
them, as you begin to rise in the world, yen will bays
many envious of your nieces, and who may write
damaging articles against you; but if," says Flolloway,
"yea have no jest °tun for this, the editors will not
insert the same to your prejudice." The new establish-
ment of the Professor in Oxford-street Is now outset
the rights of London, both no regards its exterior and
Interior embellishments. Ills counting-hones and lie
fittings far noel many ofitb. London banks. and bush
of clerks is composed of gentlemen ef both Unit and
education, sad able to conduce his correspondence in
almost any Isogon*. No bons. In the New or Old
World, even those of Harinp and Rothschild, have, we
presume, a aorrespondeata of one-tenth part that of
Holloway, as his tendentious 'Amid to all parts of
the globe We make these remarks, Dot for the purpose
of serving him, but father with a view to ensourage
many of our readers and friends, that they rosy
endeavour, although by • different route, to follow in
his footsteps. Now, wino we look at the astonishing
senses wbtob hos attended tbsselle of two simple, though
so doubt valuable, remedies, we oak if there are not
many Important branches of Industry which might raise
sass to the highest pinnacle of fame few more easily
than Holloway bas been able to do, by his now
renowned modicums. If there remarks have the affect
that we desire, we may perhaps seaside, that we have
dose soma servise to the world in a licissimerslal point
of yiew.—Goirlen Ape.

HOW ILLIOTTIWSTS °WILDS= All DIMS= 09.
Souse extraordinary disclosures have been made at two
inquegts hold at Deptford upon the bodies of illegal-
meta ohildren. In the first sass whines to the follow-
ing afoot nu given: On the evening of Saturday week.
servant girl, peened Jane Genrga, aged 29 vein, went
home to her mother, a widow, living at Albert-street,
Deptford, and on Sudsy morning she was delivered of
a child. Mrs. George took the child away from bar
daughter at once, and within an hoar or two she sent
It away with Mrs. Billups, the midwife, "to find •
nuns for it." This was done in order that her daughter
might go back to genies. The Georges never at. the
child alive again. On Sunday swelling Mrs. Billups
told a woman named Matilda Harris, who slept in the
house whore Mrs. Billups lived, that she had tat the
child la • bath, and that it would not live. She
appeared, however, to have fed tin child o. gruel on
the Sunday. On Monday she wont oat at four o'clock,
leaving the child, she wild. to Harris, in the can of beg
eon, and whoa she emu book at half-past six she found
It dead. • Stu had hum drink ia tin interim. When
milked why Us bad taken the add from the mother,
ehe mid, Tbat was her busing's." Dr. F. Fisher
made a port-mortem examination of the body, and he
found appearances which might have been caused either
by oonvolsione or by drowning. The case wasadjoarned,
Mrs. &linos not beiag examined brosnee ste was drunk
at tho tin» of the inquest. On Tuesday night Mrs.
Billups, being reported pokier, wu allowed to give
evidence in another osaa. The baby, whose death had to
ho investigated, was the skid of • widow nsmod Hamner.
Th. first witnese celled wes Maria Bunion, 9 HisAborse.
fields, who said that the mother of the auesead had
thirtnen children, of whom sight wen living at hem..
She bad bun • widow throe years, On Thursday last
ohs gave birth to the deceased child. A doctor rotund
to nate anises be Ina paid 54., mad therefore Mrs.
Billups was the only person present at the birth. She
was not umber. When the ohild was half an boar old,
Mrs. Salope gave it to witness to tako it to a doctor.—
The coroner said that was • nes, good w„, to kill the
child. Hlt had died as the road from the exposure,
the witness, who Dad talon it out at the mum*
of a drunlion woman, might hays been committed for
teaulangliter.—Witness said that she took the child to
DT. Anderson's and showed it to his assistant, who
ordered it brandy. —Mrs. Billups, on bong sworn, said
in answer to questions—l do not know whether lam •
married woman or a widow. I seat the abild Immo-
diately alter birth to the doctor's. It la the prattles
amend miderlne to do go. Children are often sent to
clergymen to be christened, and as the clergymen
always mend them to a dootori I thonsht I might as
well send it to the doctor irect. My mother did
00, and I do the same --Coroner : Did you police that
the child's head had bun fiatteried in at the lido
That, vie, is • post-mortem appear:tau.—
Dr. Andoroon : It most aortainly is not
appearanee.—The : Them is preindice against
se. I mast make up my mind not to 'Hoed liaise
who have not got husbands, Or GIN I shall be brought
I. trouble abost IL—The Coroner: You can keep out
of trouble by doiag no more than your duty.—
Witness: I ban the °hereof's:lr of being a drunken per-
";;
„ek I try to do good, aed I was born
I;Xlik. 641 the plejedies of the world is againglimo.
_,The commie said rho wink of the facts deposed to
wen of a most sasatigfagtory chancier. Theee sm.&
tehen been sa opinion on the part of those who were
soorisnied that the mown the child was got rid of this
belitse.—The, jury after three-quarters of an hour's de-
liberstion, said they wished the eine to be adjourned to
us if additional whines gonld be °bashed. -The
wooer the ases beeoelliagly.—Dr. Flaw
said that ehlldgie were oostinsally being sent away Is-
modistsly after blrth in order to Prevost diegrace to
10161, or likal work might sot be bummed wifik,