The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-13 00:00:00

CHARGES AGAINST CONVENT AND

PRIESTS.

Edith O'Gorman Au(fray, known as "Edith
O'Gorman. the Escaped Nun," gave last vr-ek two lectures
at the Augusta Awerably•rooms, on the Evils of o,ovont
Life, followed by a statement OA to her rmape, and sub-
sequent lectures against It nnenism, and especially aireiost
convents and priests. On the first evenins the attendance
was very fair; but much !trier on the following night,
and the majority of the audience seemed fairly carried
away by Kra. co.Clorruan kiffray's eloquence. The lectures*
Is a little under the ml idle arc, and about the average
height for • w 'man, of pleasant presence. robustly built,
end of great power of voice, for although she d-livered
souse passages with frequent Vehereale 5, she never became
shrill, ails the case with too many lady lecturers. She
spoke entirely without note, of any kind, and dashed
into her subject with the utmost confidence and confers
that showed she was perfectly at Pomo on the platform,
and also well-grounded in her sullen., for bei,dee dealing
specially with convent life, eke revved bevel( no mean
dialectician In dealing with the peculiar doctrines of the
Church of Rome, and was particularly severe on the priest's
" making Ood" out of • wafer, such as she had often
cooked out of plain Sour end seat by pronouncing the
wort. "boa est corpus mews," after which it boom. the
"very body and blood, soul, and divinity of the Lord
JaausChriat," a tranaiibitantlei ion which was so repugnant
to her that she dealt with it in both her lectures. She
was accompanied by her husband, M. Auffrav, • very
courteous and gentlemanly man, who int•oduced her
evidently with some pride, and we noted that two heauti•
ful children accompanied toe firmer nun and her husband.
She, however, advertiaes and lectures under her maiden
or professional news,
Mina EDITH 0. 001)101 enjoyed the usual wordly
gaieties attainable by • young lady owning thousands of
dollars till she was, In • year-andbalf, satiated with them,
and applying to her "confessor," was told she was
intended to be the bride of Christ. She realised that the
salvation of her soul was the one thing necessary, and on
October lasi 1862, entered St. Joseph's (herons, Jersey
City, New Jersey. U.S.A.. taking the nun's vows and
the veil. For three months she was under the control of
the mother superior, and afterwards her head was shorn
clods to eel heed, and trampled under her feet, she
saying—" Thus do I tramp's under foot the world and its
vanities," She received • plain silver ring, the seal of
bsing "welded to Christ,' prostrated herself as dead, the
service for the dead was read over her, and she was culled
by the bishop to rise to • new life, under another name.
Under a most awful curse, she took the vows of poverty,
chastity, and obedience, giving up all her property and
herself. so that she could not even say "my or " mine "
without being guilty of tin. One reason she entered was
became, she wi.bed to be made happy by relieving the
sufferings of the poor: but there were no reel rioters of
charity In the Romiah Choral; the only true ones lacing
those who laboured on the battlefield or among the
sfificted not letting their left hand know whet their right
hand did. Many of the nuns are liberally disposed but
they are fast bound by the vows of obcdience and poverty,
to as not to be able to Else away without rearznis•lot the
food allowed th•mrelvea. She
Poverty, suffering, and neglect, as in the last four
years of her life in Jersey City. when Me wee
an termite of St Joseph's Convent, yet she we.
without the means of relieving It, and during the

terrible merles made by the 'nnnissa in ISA shs was
tired of her life, and prayed such nigat and morning
that she might be dead before the next. Toe nuns were
bound in blind obedience to the priest., who were called
Holy Father Superiors, to the Holy Mother Superior. and
next to the Assistant superiors. To the p We nun had
owiou and to a
towconfess. everyt uothe
notthought or e y
word
thought d deed, and
an
ol
desire of the heart, in order that her !laurel desires
might be crucified, and therefore if a sister deliAted in
labouring anwaget the poor, she would not be ovrsed ;
but a penon to whom scenes of poverty, diaries, and
minty, were repugnant was chosen to du so. As to the
philtre, she had never known one glee • dotter to relieve
the sufferings of the poor, or say e name for a and in
oppurgatory,,
ith•e, a. they were only edurt4soye.c.itiridoieenttemonhadysinwbano-
day, and two on Sundays. This moos wee considered the
holiest thing on earth, for when the priest pronounced the
words—' Hoc eel corpus memo.- toey &china the war
was at ones the body and blood, soul, and divinity of the
Lord .14•1111 Christ, and if a person hesitates to believe
that article of the Ramesh faith, he is • heretic, for
whom there is no absolution, and no salvation. The
esilerihnime in
ft. the
th:jah:biiiinindtpr:;isOeiflirise4a."".7.l: divinityeagt.vNn according toit
In people"l.l A"e dp;tirChignaC.tert iii.—entbreed budY,
pro-
bably
=nitre. Amoag the rules of the nuns, they are foe.
a glass, and forsthe while she was tune she never
saw the reflectacio ot her lace—a great denial to
woman. If toe nun happens to tail in love with the
priest, she is bound to tell his, and ask his advice
about it, and if she should kir the face of an innocent
labs she would be guilty of sin, but sae had kno au six
sisters in lore with one Prima at once. Ad num and
riensoisace must be radioed. though in the convent are
women of all characters some quite pure, and some.
tunes the worst of all are superiors. She UAW
not been lone in the convent before she witnessed that
her superior, Sister Merl Jasph, wa4 %et worthy the
naine of wouille, hod the 'pester had to kneel to her
'week after week. confessing coat, she tasted and loethed
her, shrinking from her as from any unclean thing. Sot
the rule say you must not look at the indivtdual, ouly at
the aline, and respect that. Seery Roustus Catholic is
taught the same doctrine in regard to the priest, who
may be a devil ot iniquity, but has to be reverenceu &I •
hely priest. lionsernata in general need not confine to •
priest they do not lies, for they have • choice; but in
the convent there is no choice, and they hays even to
sacrifice all conscience and intelhaence. Many beautiful
girls have altered betwesa 16 and 90, and intim become
insane or died shortly afterwards. Daring HOZ five
sisters were removed from the Convent to as say fun for
the means. Conscience la the key strooger than any bolt
or key Invented, width keeps the nuns in the convent;
for they feel they mat go through toe never-enuiug
crucifixion of their nature, in otder to save their souls.
Eno cloistered nuns know where the potterer hangs her
gays, and the active nuns go out in toe street; but they
have always the naes dress on, and not • cent, of mousy
in them paerrion, and if she wishes to leave she cannot
arty toe heretic, or tea Human Catholic. If she use
home, she disgraces her tamely, and, above all, she
rings aciandal on her °meant, and that is the
sin that the Amish Church gays cries to Heaven
report of the ColOasitio• app.sinted for the purpose of
for vengeance—the unpardonable sin "Woe be to any
Catholic by whom scandal shall come upon the Catholic
Church," and Isle taught that perjury Is a good thing to
commit lilt saves the church from scandal, and Roman
Catholics would wooer see item children in their graves
• hundred tames than they should bring gouda on the
church. Nuns must rise at the first sound of the bed at
tuitpast four, and for the long day till h &Upset nine must
nine look at anything they dun to see, in fact every
one of their five senses must be mortified. Twice she
to confess toat she had not risen promptly at the sound
of the bell, and for this she paianced--once to lay herself
on the threshold of the refectory door, so that the sisters
trod on hers. on a door-mat, and on another occasion she
had to eat her breed off the door, and it consisted of
crusts thrown to her by the other nun.. To see the die-
guetingly cruel penanose imposed in tee cooventa, one
ought to read the Lives of the SAWA Ce.holic saints. It
Is strictly prohibited to have any electiou for any earthly
mason, place, or thing, and thus woman whose only
humors is to love and be loved, is not allowed even to
ax her affections on • child. She lud the care of 33 orphans,
, whose meals wets of dry bread, with refuse coffee, without
sweetened with moLuees, and musk or stuabout and
buttermilk, and it wee a ilia to carry ous of the children
in her arms, eo that • sister who was sent to show her
how to inure them dragged the little ones out of their
sleep, and made them walk on the cold floor with bare
feet, while one whom she pitied we.. to spite her, beaten
till her flesh rose in wails and even ,de-I, and then she was
drenched in an ice-cold bath. Anoteer child was put in
• place where her feet were eaten by rats, and she became
ea idiot. Though select paid pupils were treated
• differently, they were not allowed to reed the Bible, and
every effort made to proselytise them, for the bishops and
' erchbishops take an oath to eiternainate heresy, and would
do so by the sword if they had tee power. Proteemate
are putting in the hands of it zusniats that sword by
whica they would try to cut off their heals, and it was
boasted it was only • question of time when tbe Romanist
religion would rule England but bef,re that day arrived.
'aught we all he lilted wan the Pollen spirit of our
protestant forefathers. (Applause.)
Oo the second evening there wail • much larger audience,
and the Steeped Nun, stated that so the 31st January,
1868, the lather assistant curate attempted a crime than
which a fiend could not be guilty of one more enormous,
and it was the mercy of God that sent her flying Into the
snow on that winter day, She got • little newsboy to
walk with her to the station, and got on board a train of
care, foslin_g she must rape se far from the consent as
p 'sub* Ya, although 11•16tont-superior, and with the
handling et much money, she hied had to give strict
ucount of it, and did not know tbat she had any, though
had she time to reflect on the thournde she took to he
Convent, some of it she certainly would hays taken.
Fortunately she found • flve.d ol Mr forgotten in her pocket'
took, and having paid her fire to Phil& bards, had juit I*
dollar. In the Contonent-d Htl her first night was
spent, alter throwing off the vow.; buiaiehains of the
Rumen Catholic relief/1i she could not widths only
cousolation was that had she remained iu convent she
would have Met both body and soul, and it dr wee to be
lost, her honour and purity had been saved, and she would
' rather be lost with it than without. But woe to the
Catholic by whom scandal comet on thtt church," and
during the year and hall alter she escaped, tile world
heard nothing of her, for she clung to it till nothing wee
left to grup. Renumbering a Bishop Wood. who, with
another bishop prepared themaet•ea toe midnight mesa by
nuking merry on champagne, and who had told the
sisters he was brought ups quaker, she mit to him, and
under the seal of confession, related what the Father had
done. The Roguish hierarchy due not break In oath of
secrecy as to what is told thom at confesaion, not even to
, save • commonwealth from destruction, or their own
live,, and this was her only security that he would
not compel her to go back to the convecit. The
father bed begged her to leave the convent, that both
should abandon the Roman Catholic religion, and be
married at the Protestant Church. He pointed Olt that
Rome could not be the true church, for it was not till after
the 6th century that the doctrine of papal supremacy was
pecimuleated, not till 1,215 the doctrine of trensubstaatia-
Coo or celibacy of the priesthood, whir reby the errata may
not undertake toe duties of husband' end fathers, though
they may All the world and the foundling hospitals with
their illicit offspring. The father showed that not till
1,1570 was it necessary to believe the Pope is infallible.
Atter she had told all this, and the crime the father
attempted, Bishop Wood upheld the father, and blamed
the nun, saying Providence would never hold • man
responaible for what he did when made crazy by love—s
very convenient domain., abe thought, far the men. He
triA to get her back; but she ref seed, though she would
do anything to avoid scandal out of the convent. He
ordered the nun's clothes to be laid 641,10, • 11.11. Wilt
fitted her up in black, and Ara she west, till the part of
a widow, but objecting, she wee dressed as an orphan,
which she quite felt, and sll the falasboode were not only
justified, but unaided. The bishop promised to get her
a secular school to teach, and sent her to Archbishop
Spalding, a Baltimore. He [aid the school she had to
teach should be in a convent, and he would have forced
her in, not allowing her to leave his sight till she was
there; only he meant to punish her, and bring her on her
kneed to ask for re-admission to the convent. He knew
it was not easy for • human Creature to die of starvation;
but she preferred death to being sent back. After wander-
ing the streets of the wicked city, feeling like a Wet sheep,
,he breed her living from Baltimore to Philadelphia
tah,he 12 days in the terrible journey, many times tempted
to imp into the river, and thinking of the happy home
far away in Rhode Island, while She was Starving al:Cause
she would not be forced Into • convent. When most
tempted to suicide, God would send flashes of breezily
lUbt, and she thought of the Son of Kan who had not
where to lay his head. But three weeks Wore her con
version she experi,nced the bell of the goal all alone Init.
Iniquity, and writ. to a fri-nd in Yerachuestta, saying
she was out if God, out o' the choral, and alcocut out of
her mind. The friend was • pious Roman Catholic, and
th-y believe that to 11,d • soul horn infidelity, or heresy
will save :heir own route An invitation was tent and
acceotrd. and a not, d Jeolit, Father Heicheleiurger, argued
with hi r from 6 e.ru. till p.m. that she must go back to
the R 'nun Catholic frith ; but the only argument be
opposed to her doubts and grottoes was because the Holy
Roman Carbolic Church ray so. When he returned to his
college, her soul was plunged in deeper darker. than
ev ir, and feria u log el they an end troubles of her life
in hitt irni sa of soul, she blasphemed and cursed God.
Suddenly she was overwhelmed by His omnipotence, felt
that she deserved annihilation; but wu drawn to Him
In peniteuee and filled with light and joy no earthly
lengusge could describe, and she heard • voice awing
" Daughter of sorrow rid darkness, arise and shins I Go,
teach the world the brow which yon have been tsught,"
and she answered aloud—" Yee, Lord, I will." Her
fri-nd through Father Heichelhorter had produced her
rue and joy; but, when she explained, replied—"Elith,
you are pone Mgr. you talk liko • Methodist' Elbe
✓eiled, '1 ern goini to leclure." though It was mart
tier desires, and she knew nothing of how to proceed.
Frit she barbel the lion in .I..rieey City Dwell. A friend,
the editor of the gamine Journal. said "They will mob
you and kill you," hut, tlnding she felt immortal till her
work was done, promised to do all hit could to make her
unlertaking a ill/Geese. The Congregational tabernacle
was r 'fund her uoleu rhe would guerantee to pay all
&mates from mob violence, and as ohe rould not, she
went to the person whi let the Hooper Hall. His custom
was to have 26 dollars in advance; but, se she could not
pay, and he was favourable hamneed with her, be let
her have it, telling her to per it it WM • alta-ess, and if
not, she eras not Li trouble shoot it. The edit or of the
Evening Journal sea we'd every effort to give her lecture
pub :betty, she Li pay him only Inc 'se of suite is. Though
Om Hooper Hall had not been very popular, and was
nearly the larest in the city, it was full frtru one end to
li the oer, and though she felt se it eh, should faltit at the
b-ginning, yet the lecture was a great succeis, and four
young 1131131P1 Catholic lad'es, eh, r in the convent
when she camped, came f ir mud and supported some of
her facts, ard promised they'd never grin enter •
C Rem an stholk Church, or kesed to • priest. In
/Isla w, eke unit le-t inn were given. else had
many narrow maws flora the mobs, every column,,
every elutes' was beap'd on her, the hall was no longer
large enough boletus. of the excitement, and the President
of the el orth Baptist Church let her have that for the third
lectum and the three last were given in the Coverer -
bona' Tabernacle. On Good Friday, 18/0, she had agreed
to glees lecture at Madison, fir the biinellt of a church,
the Roman Catholics Ind gathered from mil e round
Madison with hither, pistols, and stones, to put to death
oars poor little woman. At night she was ems:renamed by
• bodyguard of 60 undente, and passel through the Penhie
tithe carriage the mob roarinr sub shrteking—" Tear her i
to pieces I Don't leave a limb of her together !" The horse
took (richt at the yells, and among the many pistol shot.
fired at her bead one was 63 near and sod aim -d the t
the Whit went through her bonnet, an the filets set her
veil on tire. The only weep no Rome had ever wed usinet
her were mob violence, slander, and calumny. She bed
bed molly narrow escapes : bid had lahoored from east to
west through the 1.7 r Pei Ststee and in Canada, leetethili
Is every town of luiportanre. and hod pass cons, to Eng-
land. Pir England needed Ii be awakened even mire than
the United Steles, through thet terrible mine of Ritualism
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beire Church oft!
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itinrdf, standtb' Ibis oh
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second place sbe bat tithes at since lending from
America, and at Bourciemooth • led) reseed the rosary— •
(here 'hi Leavese held it up)—lnto bar hand, 'Jiving
—'l have done will it for ever. thank 0 ed." (ANA iuie)
God hod h 'ion to Mae hsr work In England, and she
asked their penes that He might continue to d to, for
she enema t go to Ireland, and perhaps even to ('-rk, the
heed quarters of Roman Catholic smi—Upplause.) Many
of the egdiene- presoed If3War IS the L ctureek to shake
hut& 4.4 wish her succis. In her 'Orli.
1

SWAMI:OM.
AMONG THE QUARRIES.
A ce3rntapond ant of t.Duly Now Is wask,in an mild,.

entitled "Among the quarries," gave • capital scoount 01
the ancient oases and customs of the &moms, quarrr
mot We have made the following extracth which no
doubt will be found interesting to our Swarms. readers :
" From the quarries we look straight down tut, the little
town of Seanage, over the broad blue bay to Bollend
Down, where the seagulls are whirling slowly to and fro
In the quiet air, and below which the twin rocks—locallY
called Old Harry and his Wile—glitter in the @outline,
Uif carved out of solid ivory. Everything is very still
lost now Meng the gorries, and we can somas the
curious pleas from which most of the stone that once
proved London is taken, and where the work le very slack
at prevent, and we can almost see, too, the immense
masses of et one called "banker," that lins Sono, shore,
spottiest that otherwise lovely little wateringsplose, and
giving it the appearance of an overcrowded church
-
yeti. To hankers extend one side of the bay, and thence
the stone is shipped into natal with enormous wheels. that
go far lot, the sea to the barges, whence the 'donate again
shipped into re& els—a costly promo that it is believed
the coming railway will do away with. The railway will,
should it Lome, do away with • at many other thing.
—with the q det of the little valley below the quarries tor
example, where the dusky gloom of the midsummer
tulle/psis gradually assuming autumn tints, and where the
onnet all slope one way, as if • kade had been drawn
sicross them, and speak volumes for the strength of the
wind, that comes moaning along the valley through the
gap In the hills by We:barrow. When the stone comae
down shoe on the shore it may put a sudden end to the
sleepy silence of the occasion& farms, where nobody *Yet
seems to go, and where at times the mist rolls up from the
see and endow.' them as with a veal ; and it may put an
end to, it must certainly altar—many of the curious
customs that rule and regUlAtti the quarriere bees.
The quarries themselves are separate, each sur
rounded with its own particular wall, and in moot eases
hsving its own sheo, where in wet weather the
"Mt' can " Chinning his stone into torlawe
shape, and which is sometimes the home of • pstent,
shaggy donkey, whose lite is spent in going tollwu
aad round, dragging miniature trucks Laden with atone
up the small income leading to the quarry itself. Brat in
these days of Free Trade it is curious to find centime
body ot men wh in,, bound by • charter that is rigorously
obeyed, to keep the working of toe stone in the bands
alone of the Freemen of the quarries. To be able to take
up ones freedom, one must be the legitimate son of •
Freeman; and as the original holders of the guardss
were iew in number, this has caused an amount oi inter-
marriage that his had • serious effect upon the mantel
health of the abonguies, and often two or three unfor-
tunate creatures are during the year obliged to be carried
awey to the county asylum. Once during the twelve-
months the gnu-rain meet at the little building known
as the Cone Town Hall, and there solemnly read over
their charter, and on that occasion. vi., Shrove Toothy,
" Free hit ll' can claim or tithe up their Freedom, having
prev.ously expressed their intention of doing so by
tiling on Candleuma Do and pooling Corte and Stone',
streets, headed by a bend, and accompanied by to
stewards of the quarrio or mertgers, ss they are oiled in
the old papers relating to the body. The man who as
anxious to take up his freedom mast be 21, up to which
age his wages belong is his parents: but altar he has
signed the roil of Freemen, raid his fee of 6e. fid. (hall a
mark in the old days), and provided • penny lot, made
on purpose by the bakers of the place, and two pots of
beer, he become. nis own master, and am a quarry all to
himself, should he choose:. Then, should he talus to him-
self • wile, he has to pay to the stewards what is called •
marriage shilling, and stiould he omit this, his wile loses
all interest in the quarry, and cannot take an apprentice
to work for her, as she would otherwies have been able to
do. The parade of the "Pros Boys on Candlemas Day
was I.rmerly rather a riotous proceeding, as they used to
claim the privilege of kicking any woman they happened
to meet, wtdch sometimes led to awkward telecoms-se.
This, we believe, is not now misted on, being one of that'
customs bettor honoured in the breach than the Wore-
&lna. Nothing will induce the guarder' to allow strangers
to work among them, and • person who Was employed in
• quarry at Swiumge who was neither • Freeman, nor •
son of • Freeman, was instantly objected to, and hal to
leave, no grace being allowed him, which le rather •
stricter rule oven than that to be found in the neighbour
lug island of Portland, when &stranger can have • wok's
wore, but &tor that must toks his departure. If he do not,
he Is token down to the sea, and shown a plank, up which
he is requested to walk. As the plank is so prepared
that the result of a promenade thereon would be Instant
Immersion, the would-be guarder depute, doubtless shak-
ing the dust of Portland oil his feet The Soilage men
will not even give the week's work, and keep rigorously to
themselves, occordigg to their charter, which is kept in
the hands of the warden who lives al Langton, &straggling
village above Corte, in the very heart ot the stone
country. The wardens are two in number. One is
appointed to act for Corte itself, and he is called the To en
Warden; the other or the parts of Purbeck out of the
borough itself, who is celled the Country Warden. The
great do is, as we said before, Shrove Tuesday, and then
the odic.irs are noininetsd by the outgoing ones, subject
to the approval of the general meeting; and should the
nominee be considered an unfit person,another is regularly
elected by the majority. Alter this is done, and the
Freemen are sworn in. the earemony of kicking the foot-
ball begins. The foot-ball is provided by the mau who lot
married among the Freemen, and is presented in lieu of the ,
marriage shilling. Should no Freeman have no whit since
the lost Shrove Tuesday, then the o 4 loot-ball is used. It
was the custom to kick it from Laagtoa, througa C ale,
down to • little quay on the river that mean toe slowly
through the heath to Poole harbour, calla 1 Ours; but as
the kickers were generally any of those among the Crowd
that looked on who could get at it, at I.e now, we believe,
discreetly c /flied, iii e Inpany with a pound of pepper, as
an •cknowlecignien: to the lord of the manor in respect of
the way to Cure, and the cottosr who lived there used to
provide pancakes for the stewards, who brought the ball
and poplar, on Ash Wedneeday, when the Strove Tuesday
fuss was over. The stone run in blocks, with dry clay
lines between each block, which enablers the quarrier to
insert his instruments and work out the stone without
resorting to blasting, and this soft clay (Ladens somewhat
the sound of the worker underground aud over. Ono of
the men used to work at night, gradually grating into his
neighbour's ground; while, curiously enough, his neigh-
bour, being struck with the same desire for other people's
property, waa working a• ey also at night with an eye to
approprieting the stone. One night the lot layer of clay
was divided, and they met, or rather the glimmer of the
candle, by which they were working caught the eyes of
the two men simultaneously. Without a word they cuugbt
up • lump ot clay and filed up the hole, and, discreetly
retiring, no one was the wiser, or else doubtless the fur
feiture of " flive windier insisted on by the charter as •
recompense would have had to be paid ' unto the owner of
thequere unto whom(thequanf)theoffenceshould Odom):
Quiet little out-of-the-way Swansea, that slope a melan-
choly sleep nin• months out of the twelve, and just opens
Its eyes for the remaining three to blink at its crowd of
visitors, has, it is believed, slept its lot sleep, and mother
of the scarcely known lovely comers of England will be
rampaged over by the " ArryS' of civilisotiot, and then
doubtless the quarries will be thrown open, and their
customs will become obsolete; but at present they exist
as we have described them, anC to all who really care tor
primitive, old-world custom end queer ways, we say go
to Swansge before the railway demon engulphs it, and
wander for yourselves among the quarries, where the
women still believe that • ride on • donkey's beck to four
crossroads, or wearing • bit of hair clipped from the cruse
on • donkey's shoulders, lean infallible cure for whoopio-
cough, and where the men rule themselves and believe
themselves to be quite outside the regulations and laws of
ordinary humanity.

RSET couNrry EXPRESS AND ARICULTuRAL GAZETFE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, Dia

exhibition of comb honey in elections, each not more than
mos, in weight. Mr. W. EL Duninou, jun. seitond,
Rev. G. H. Wynne, Wnitechurch ; Uteri. Rev. N. W.
Greeley, ililborne St. Andre*. For the largest and best
exhibition of run or extracted boos? in jileseek not to
exceed &be. each, Rev. L Stanton. Gambit, Keynes; second.
Mt. W. ki. Duninan. For the begs sample of bees
Mr. Downes.
Corraosaa' CLAW& .For the largest and beet exhibition
of cline honey in supers. W. Dibben, Rempetone; second.
J. Woodland, Troytop. For toe largeet sad bast exhibition
of run or extracted honey, W. Diboep ; second, .J. Wood-
land. For the °onager residing in the Isle of Purbeck.
t,r the best honey in cmib, W. Dibben ; second, G. Day,
Btoborougb.
The Gods brass band wee in attondiinoe and played
sale .tions during the day. The distribution of the
prizes in the evening by hdies Bauble brought the day's
proceedings to • successful termination.

toward' the evening of the same dny he was in his nasal
I state, and did not complain further. On the falowing day
he did not complain ter •pt of being tired from moving
the furniture. On the Friday morning be went to his
dutbm as usual, and in the evening was arrentily
tures ardund the walls. with a Young man named "Id°,
at the barracks. Al ter his return home he made • hinny
gopher of bread and cheese, and went to bed. About
twelve o'clock ea night he was noised with violent plains
in the stomach. They had had bear from the sergeants
moos, and he partook of thht beer for supper. When he
complained that night of the *it in his stomach, she
ask. d him if she should et lihn a cup of te•,and he said
" Never mind I shell be better presently." He continued
in pain, with oomaional vomiting, until els o'clock next
morning. Then she mint for the hospital sergeant, who
administered fomentations to the stomach. At nine
o'clock they sent for Dr. Heineman the regimental depot
surgeon, and he arrived at about' half-past ten o'clock.
Dr. Hangman ordered medicine to be given every hall-
hour, and to continue the fomentation', but the vomit-
ing continued. The pale did not cease, and Dr. neasatan
Can" Maas about one o'olock, and ordered the foments,
time and medicine to be continued, and this order was
&Candid to The deceased had seine beef Ma The pain
was not relieved. and the doctor came again about four
o'clock, and remained with him some time, and at that
time administered an inj,ctioe. While the child went
to fetch the medicine that was ordered the third time the
patient became worse. Re said he telt sick. She held
hint up, and he vomited, and aaying "I feel better now.'
he die.t.—Dr. Beeman. the regimental depot sorsorm, dim
cribed the tree ment adopted in to. deallaaed.lll case, stating
that he believed at the tame he was mitering from chows.
Finding that be could not give • certiticate of the cause 01
death, he made a poi Anon m examination, and discovered
traces of arsenical poisoning. He therefore sent the
stomach to Dr. Alford, the county analyst. This was
after the inquest. Dr. Henry Altord, county analyst,
gave the particulars of the anallyea he had made of the
. contents of the stomach. He found the ante:aims§ very
much ingamad, and there were distinct traces of a-eeninel
Pols miug. His opinion was that • very %trona dose of
are•nic had been 11,1111111lIteted. Supt.. GOltielalal eluded
Last on the Bich of April. Colonel Montgomery itod Surgeon
Hemmen called upon him at his office and reported that
a post-mortem eastnination had been made upon the
body, and that Mr. Housman and Dr. Ali ord had found
anemic in the stomach. The metier being lel lin his
hands he had done what was necessary. He had made •
*carob, accompanied by Solt. Self, of the rooms occupied
by h• widow Arbery, but bad found nothing to Med to
the suspicion that she pad enyteing to do wits the matter.
He could not trace the purchase of any arINOIC either. lie
thought It thould be stated that from inquiries be bad
made the decamped and his wile lived comfortably together.
He had directed the person who supplied Artery with the
drink of the men on Wednesday evening to be Dropout. as
well as all toe sergeants of the staff. Tee officer in charge
of the canteen teat night and hi.• wile went called, and
they stated that the b...ar the deceased bat was from the
same cask as they had been drawing trom for the rest if
the eergeants. Most of the sargesints of We calf wets
celled, and Miry stated that Atbee7 was very much heed
by the staff, and was on good sum, with them all. One of
the sergeants stated that Ite beard on one ocimaim berst.
Bishop say that he should like to upset the "little bempir
(meaning the demised), but he did not think =Ohm( was
meant by that. The widow repelled, stated that she had
her own impression in the matter, because her husband
had told her several times that Slatiop threw slurs at him
In the beets:Ss. On the otiose band one or two sergesais
&peed that Arbery had told them he did not live very
eomfartably at home.— Eventually the inquest wee
adjourned until the SOth mat

Domain= Cam.; Ssturday.—msall attendance and
short supply at Usla usarket. Heifer, and calif.' sold at
Irons LW to .C2O; Garrotters, LAO to .e. 26 10a. pe, put ; tot
beef. 13a. 61 to 14a. 64. per .core ; bolas, LIO to .C 1.5
ewes. tj. to 951.; withers, Oil. to 10d. Toole erste no
Lambe la the market. Everytoilig was sold.
Immense' Coax, Seturder.—Faa attendance at the
C.,`arn Eta:woes. Sd.6l/41 samples of Zogaish wbeet on
iv Mir, but at was mostly out oh *iodation ; best sold quiet.,
at 50a to Mit : interior, 45e. to Ms. ; foreign *beet.
'Lowy trade, at lest week's prices ; Kaglish tarley (Dew
malt), discoloured, at late rates; anithing cool sold at
Irons 34e. to 38s. 9 • out of condition. 304. to Us. ; foreign
barley, arm. at late rates-295. to 31as ;old oats menitaintd
recent advance-25a to Ws. ; new oats offered at 23..;
maim Arm at 34.. to 36.. ; flour. 41s. to a&
BATH COM. Satiarday.—Weeet coma more freely, but
the bulk os it was out of condition. Good samples of
new and old corn met with a ready sale at • redo-bon,
wilds inferior sorts were neglected, The range an prices
were very wide, theta, being as much as lee. per sack
difference between the good and interior sorts. Flour was
unchanged in value. _ .

(hoopoes's& Corm, Sitarday.—There was • good .upply
of Eugnen wheat, ad plums were 1I• per qr. lower.
Foreign wee in commuinpure request, st het week. tam.
MAIMI we. very farm Oats remained without change to
value. •
Samoa mhuxr Cosa, Saterday.--Wheet. 50• to 586.
per qr. ; barley. It, to Yds. ; oats, 23e. to 16..; Owens, 45e.

-ir-a-aianurraa CORN. Baturday.-There Wil• • fair supply
of new wheat, which met a slow sal• at a decline el 3e.
to 4a. per quarter on um week. Beet samples of new
made Ms. per qr.. and inferior from 255. to 414. Old
wheat to. mine as Mat week. New barley sold at fl&t.
Other grain about the same. New vetches made 104. per
bushel. Oats, 265. to 305.
Sotrramarron Coax. Friday.-Wheat Is. to 2s. per qr.
cheaper. New Kristian wheat offering at all prig,' secord•
lug to oonchtion. Barley 6i, and mouse 14. per qr. lower.
O•ts dulL Flour quiet swim at 11, per sack decline. New
red wheat, 1/12 to £l4 101.; wring, £l2 to £l5 Per load
raw rote. 20It to 26•.; mama, ala to 35..; flour, tas.
44.. per sack.
8OUT11•111/70N C•171/4 Friday.-There was • small
supply of iit..ck at this day'a magnet. Trade was goo , for
stock of the hest quality at the following prices. ve :-
Wombat.; 6a. 4d. to na 84. per stone and Osamu I3s. tid. to
lie 6d. per some The lotto* ing were offered :-Sneep.
; basis, 26; Wyse, 9; pigs. 180 ; home. 6.