The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

grunt Webs.

n yonng man 11111Ined Fogg, • railway clerk at
Co% ohtry, who has boon out shooting small birds, loft
a charge in his gun. By some accident it went off as
lu ontoro I his house, and he was killed on tlie spot.
M. Paul Meyer wit, publish this autumn his ac•
count of his fir,t. visit to ()shirt and its manuscrints.
The first of his soloct " Early l'roi,cl, foils" front
manuscripts. "A Romano° of Aletauder," is in thu
IMMO.

A New York Taper says :—" Among the lunatics
Oil Blackwell's I.land there is a man to whom the
•eves of his fellow-creatures are a horror and a blight.
Ho stands behind a door all day long, and bowmos
oartnystnatic when anybody looks in at him."
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As James Keefe, eighty years of age, was standing
at Lis door the other day in Roynl SI iiitlitreoi, Lon-
don, a billloa that hal oteane I from a butcher's
pound rustic I at him, and, tossing him in the air
three litma, so istjurel him that ha died shortly
after.

Mr. Farquharson, of Edinburgh, has boon tusking
some arto.d.hing shouting nt the Ti, National nt
Itrus.els with tho henry breech-loading ride. Ho
li,w noon hit back 11111.1 rests his gun upon his knees
IMP! toes. At fivo hints Ire I yards ho 'coral five bulls
es out of 55 055 shuU.

The Prime Minister left Balmoral on Tao.lay for
the smith. lie was warmly cheered at the Abonloon
Railway Station.
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A second cron of Victoria nlnms ham been plucked
from a tree at Rrhill, near Wakefield. The crop wee
pole I early in August.
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•
The Archbishop of Canterbury has retnnied from
•the roLtineot mnch relieved from rheumatism. and
w. • nhisto hnl•I his online' ion on Sunday, in Addinir
though suffering somewhat -from a brow,
.chin! ntiack.

At r. Inagnw a shonmnker nnmeA Paterson ham bees
to four months' imprisonment for having
pre.krit,.. I en ointment containing • largo f.rtion of
ere,..ic for it supposed case of cancer, am! from the
rereate 1 application of which ointment the patient
die I.

r. Oscar Dickens writes from Gothenburg that
Lis iiicleavonte to introduce Scotch 1:1,." ink)
sive len menthe very ifooi results. Re has tido year
at tenet half a I lose,, browle in his grounds, and he
has rearoi some birds from eggs laid by •
'tr"tio.• hen confine lbn a wire cage, rod which were
at..larl under a common hen.

A eniprItABLIS PRE•I3IPTION.—A young man,
Twore.io,nl renorter, kieke4 down the stain of
. _ . .

Serj.,ant Barry's hotel, at Dattgarvan, on en-
tering in take • report of the proceeding!. The only
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CRIPIe thnt eati be. assisrnml for this eon.lnct is thal
the gentleman in question Mut been in the habit of

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retertine Mr. Matthew,', speeches, and is supposed 1 WATER-gee:TO IN TUE IBJeit CHARNEL—The
tolave dealtknells, with the °pewits, party. If this singular phenomenon t.f leo waterspouts was nit.
be true, Mr. Barm:'s friends have dbne him serious penal at the mouth of St. George'. Channel on Thurs.
harm, for the imnression that has gone abroad is day. dhe following report of the occurreme is made
that he would enrol, public opinion if he email and by Captain Stevenson, of tie chip Ilavelaw, which
Hue kifkitar out of the reporter certainly gives • lots arrived at Liveneed from Bombay, whence elle
colouring to the statement.—Wal. rford Mail. sai;ol on the 4th of May : 'lie the 24th of September,
. _ at Man, in lat. 50 N., .long. ti W., two waterspouts
Ehee-rtelf OF LORD M•ToR. 'roowlaY '"Rtrussed the Bavelaw's stern from east to west, the
'Michaelmas, Day, the appointment of a Lord Mayor wind at the time being light from the eastward, with
of London by the Livery took place in acoonhince rain, the barometer 2/Poe,the thermometer at 64'3. The
with the custom. There was a good sprinkling of the sea and sky 110111 in Timed° connection, • large column
Liverymen Present; but as it was generally pre- of cloud and vapour, iii the shape of a bow, rising
tindernutel that no oppt•ition would be ofeere,l to the from west to north, the smader mid becoming lost in
return of the senior alderman, James Clarke Law- • huge minclotel. the larger end want:mina:tell with
reefs., }:sq., lint little excitement was manifeste,l
, the water, causing the sea to boil and bubble tremor,-
won the occasion, and the Thine forme were re''„, ' &male, and apparently ...Tering • circlethe diameter
through as usual. it was unanimously decide, to
,‘„, 1 of wild., would be 20 feet. The first one passe I about
elect James Lawrence. Egg-. who wee in eeneelnee''''' one.eighth of • mile astern, and broke immaliately
dorlAre I "Lord Maver-eleet." for the rear ensuing, after, the second coutinued its course to the west.
anal the cheers and congratulations of his brother ward as far as the eye could follow it. When nearest
aldermen anti the Livery, the ship, a furious puff of wind heeled the ship over
The new Sheriffs of borlon and Middlesex, Mr. , for a moment, and when it was gone the revolutiou
*Heyman rat., fuel Mr. Hutton, wore sworn in at , of the circle a agitated water was from east round
Gnil float on Monday. The seem:lies at the inaugural south to west, north, and east, and seemed • perfect
breakfaet which fulliere 1 were interesting from the cyceme, though on • small scale. The wind duriug
political alhisions which were male by one or two of tit° passage of the second spout across the ship'seteru
the weaker.. Mr. Alderman Cotton, in toasting the j shifted in an Umlaut from east to south.
More, of Loris and Commons, referrel to the fact . TUE REARCU FOR Slit JOUR Fe.a3firetet.—For-
that the Conservatives were fighting every pomilite ther news has been reurived from Captain Hall, who
vent. and eypreese,l hie opinion that they acted rightly sailed front the United States IMMO time ago for the
it so doing. Mr. flosehen. M.P. in responlingi re- . Arctic regions in search of anT trace of the expe,li.
joked that the party now in power haulnosiste. in Lion under Sir 'John Franklin, the news is furnished
Passing a reform bill, for they were now, equally with by Dr. Geoid, of Dublin, who had arrival at Now
the Liberals, desirous tlutt the new constituencies London, Connecticut, from Cumberland Inlet. Dr.
slionlil prove worthy of the intended franchise which Coda saw Captain Hall at Repulse Bay in August,
bed been ;mantel by the Legislature. The right tem. 1t.6;. He had learned that Captain Cromer MA mina
gentlemen truths" that the election might be tontine, ther, thought to bee stewarl, had died so lateen 1414,
tat free frem all t arty acrimony, ant without env in Southampton Island, the head of lindsou's Bat,
imputation of motives on the part of either Liberals , to whki, they haul made their way in the hope of meet-
or Csentervatives,
i lug some 'Whaler. He Mel obtained what will no
A SFBAtil*Forls RAtt.wAT FS Izr.SFON. The di- deubt be accept° las • tangible evilenee of the truth
:earn.a of the Lower Subway Company have issnel a , of this—Captain Crosier's watch. He had also Marne I
.-stiteise statement of their prospects and intentions, that he would in all probability. secure further know-
-he-encomia! by illVcial act of parliament and em- I ledge of the fate of the °vie [item, perhaps find some
reeeral to construct under the Thames a salienty records iii King William's Lend. The people there
'between Tower Hill and Southwark, for the convey- are unfriendly to strangers, and the Captain Mel
rime of nmsengers att.l parcels, the company hopes to , made arrangements with friendly Esquimaux to nc-
accomnlisti its teclertnking within eight months. 'flue company him on an expelition--forcible, if necessary
rmsle of communication anthorise Iby the company's —into the dominions of those tribes, • fact intlicatetig
nut is n line of steel mils laid es • tunnel under the that Ito had great hopes of obtaining there some vale-
ball of the river, on which an omnibus will travel able trace of the long-sought objects of the worlTs
each way, and be bronght to the surface by hydraulic , solititucle. Capt. Hall had with him when thus seat
lifts. The engineer of the project, Mi. Parr W. I some five European atteisslaote, Is will be remem.
Barlow,jun.. leo renorte I to the directors, "Nome- 1 bere.l that he left New Leedom in lege, intending to
turns borings have been male in and near the line of I voyage to the Arctic reztote, and leaving the ship to
the tunnel, all of which indicate that it will be every- search in the Esteintaux country, from the shores of
where tteen in the gelid London clay, and that no lin loon Boy, towards the Polar Cir.*, fur traces of
water is at all likely to he mot witk; but any injury ' Franklin's company.
from the river it prerentel by the etthwaybeingmade I TILE CATTLE PLAGUE Is AllERlCA.—TheChicage
itt out ' and air-tight, so that the air process may
be annlie.f, making it practically into • diriteebell, (D....cm/Gem% Deelt.bk., ever beeitginte,,,.ttrigiarerfee. ii.tienque.f it'iroe;
NB hes heen done with sserfem snow°. in sinking rirer of the w eietrof the spleen es au tut le v iti the tiresome
cy limier, to a depth of ninety feet. The tunnel is of
lof disease ID cattle. it was soon discuvered where
sufficient diameter ti permit the pacsage of n feli-
ne
carriagel the enlargement is vere great the test is sufficient,
sine 1 omnibus carriage. viz. 7ft. 2in.
but after several days' investigation it was (ouzo I tLat
will be ronstructed of steel Witte,. 'flue rails will also
the setae of touch anti texture of the spleeu were u
be of steel, great atteistissn being raid in each case to
much safer awl surer maths of aseertathing the von.
Ott...rine no•nincv, in orler that smoothnelill of motion, dit' of the animal ; sell when any doubt existe I,
Littertotinnttainel, may be nrrival at." the micruscope easily settled it. The weight, feel, and
't
MINS e. t, 11 1 lel INO AN ti M Fri I.ATIoN OP • CIITLD texture of the spleen, and condition of urine, have
—A few days two two boys were passing through turn found to be almost infallible in diagnosing the
Mettler° walk, St. James's Park, when they found • disease. Over 2,000 spleens were examine I, and •
Parcel on e the patliwn near the kerb, and on opening large number uf livers were also !submittal tu the
it ',mod it contaiae,l. some remains, apparently of • fame test. The averaee weight of the spleen mot the
chill. A pellcatonstable took the parcel to the liver of the different kinds ut healthy animals slaugh-
nation, where an ef amination of the remains was tercel at Chicago were as follow. ,—Spleen of oaths
mole. 'they were wranne lin a .laOrr towel, alai I tattle, 1.51 b. ;of the Teem tattle 2.51 b. ;of Cherokee
ontai•le was a sheet of brown enter, I earinz • written I cattle, 2-1:11b. Liver of 'mai, e cattle, 12.4:db. ;of
ilaWription, " South .lustralian .titeety, 11. Copthall Tette, cattle, 12-151 b.; of the Cherukee tattle, 10.451 b.
court, City." Inquiry was there made by the police, lie enlargement and disurgeuisration of the spleen
when it was aseertane I that the cempany had re- are always present in the form of cattle disease new
moved to Crest Georze street, Westmiester, near prevailing, while the liver, in some of the most
St..lames's Park, the Immr being kept by a police- marked cases, was not affecte lat all. When the
Than, his wife. An'i Iwo daughters. It was further animal is in good condition the spleen weighs lowland
shown that the premises in GOOrgairtreet were oc- Ha, liver inure than when in a diseased state. The
tulle tin tenements its ofii, es, and the waste paper, celom, of a disoased Tempi animal WWI folllsil to weigh
which was not allowel tot be sold, was thrown into 1.16., while the spleen of • healthy annual of the same
the .Instliole, and, preview. to the discovery of this , species weighed only 21b. Professor thew° sect-
buret to ly the ,lust hal been remoyml. Ott Monday 1 gents the mane of 'plonk fever for the prevailing
evening sin inquest WWI held mon the remains before dis,,,,phaudgiphia Ledger.
Mr. Linglaam, the deputy frotter for Westmlieter, ,
when the above facts were elitital in evidence, Imo? ..
.; .ht a the
otr NE AT AN UPS:M.—An accident occurred on
rf rMauce of the Italian
Mr. T. Bowl, surweon, of Parliament street, said that fm ' F.
opera4conimrany.. in Dublin, that might have beets at-
the burnt remains were thteeof a child, but he could
net tell the sex, and from its burnt and charnel con- l len es- .
del with aerial! On 11110liala to Signor Iluim4lii
'll tOiao, Lanai a the awkwardness of one of the
diti (((( he could not say that it had been horn alive, I 1„ „. 1„ . •,. .. . o .
though it was certainly of full growth. The holy was 8""11T.• 11.0 opera Wall 14011 iItIgUeSIOLI, and
I the acci.lent .
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occurred at the clew of the last act in
Mail mutilate I, some of the limbs Lavine been
broken off, and the skull was missing. Witness be, !the course of • met,a !xinitict. buyivlers says . w e
loved the child hal been place I on a fire of robhot I, regret that 'in accident U"evUerr":" ,t.t.l'e,
_r_lur_e,
_ef.th_ e
coal, The housekeeper having deposel that she I Performances, which, how
tends I with snore serious , inagm...naveduc,,eihia,,ti:
knew nothing whatever of the CrLIO berand the plating
of the paper in the aesthete, the jury ultimately re' created eOnail eleahle excitem"rett,"°Ung 'the stein:tete
turnel • verdict of "Found burnt and deal, bit how who were remaining, for the hour was late when the
or by what means there was no evidence heehaw."
'rre termieated, and many haul retired. In the
od scant° Raoul is represented as wounded in the
PALL OF TWO HOLIREII AT Di7litEY.—On Mon- etruegle in a street, on the euays of Paris, by the
clay, shortly before mitl-day, twe Louses at Low-town, outliers, tel on by St. Brio, mei Ile curtain falls amid
Holly Hall, fell with a loud crash, fuel carrie 1 with the contlitt, and the strife of armed meta. Justat this
them • nailer'. shop and isutdiouse. ibe block thus juncture, Maße. Titieus ruthe hi,, front of the stage,
destroyal was situate at the end of a ruinous row of calling out, in an agitated arid earnest voice, to katuw
buildings in what is talle,l Beg's-gutter, a part of the ; if there wm • lecher present. Dr. Moore, of Stephen's
town thoroughly utolermitte 1 by the neighbouring I Green who fortunately, happe.ial to he present, came
pits. At the time of the occurrence One of the homes I forwaid, arid he found Signor Morignei sittiug on a
was not inhabited, but in the second sat two aged chair behind the scenes, and the blood flowing very
women, named Ann Blunt (the wife of the tenant) copiously from a wooed on the sile of the face. It sp.
end Ann Hirt:boll, who was paying a visit to her peered tohave beet) inflicted bya swami, and giveu by
friend. On the outside of the bull ling, between the • down stroke i but, although causing a considerable
nail shop and the first Malan, were two bricklayers gush of blood, it was nuts, serious am if the paha had
(John Darby aml Isaac Williams, of (omel), engaged entered the face. Signor Mengel was much on-
to repairing • portion of the wretcliel Places. Police- Inmates I, but Dr. Moore prom p:ly applied the necessary
constable Pitt, who is station° I at Wood
Woodside, was means for urrestiug the flow et blood, and reasaured
u the soot in two minutes from the time of the those present, who ustenthy displayed groat eo
fall. He found that the lower oetennotiee of the two citemout and alarm at the u.e. orient°. Sigma Full
women were buried beneath a terril,h, 6.1 of bricks, was so much moved when he saw the blood streaming
timber, &c. but that their heads and chime were ,town the face of his friend, at the moment not know-
protected by a joist which had fallen, but lay in a leg tout that a dangerous, if hut fatal, injury bat
&intim; direction across them. The officer at once been inflicted, that he becani/ insensible for a time.
di to! three or four volunteers to release the Peer Drs. Striven and Fogerty arrived subsequently • but
creates , whilst he kept beck the crowd. After happily the wound is not of a ,lescriptieu to produce
half 11,1 hour's lard labour, both were rescued hem inure than • temporary imouveuience.
their dangerous position. Stimulants were applial, ,r.,. Euvrvos
op I,l;svvivs.—A
correspondent
suet under the direction or Dr' Riggs. the Mike writes to the All. encruni horn Naples, September lath:
surgeon, the victims were carried to the Workhouse.
" As the state of Vesuvius lusts for some time axe-
where they, now lie in a most precarious condition ;
Pk,' public attention, awl as the mouhtaiu is still
in fact, it is almost impossible for Blunt to recover,
smokiest, • report of its doing' in the interval of my
the tour Woman has liar legs fractured, her hip .joint
„ nleetice from this city may not be without interest
thrown out, and liarabdomen smelly crushed. Mn.
to your rewlers. I left it fuming and puffing in the
Birchen's injuries me confined to the legs. Bo—t 1;
month of Ility, and in this stelae( indecision it seems
britklayen are injure", though not in • very serious
to have continued until the 13th June, when the cone
inanner, one being thrown from the ladder, and the
began to throw out Meal. stones, On the 3.2 ed of the
ether tot an,' bruise Iby the falling material. The
same flume, the sloths were so violent that the in-
two houses are a oneplete wreck, and the adjoining habit/seta of all the nei..dds,uriug pieces passed the
one uannut last many llays.
Ilii.rlat in Ilan open air, fearing • catastrophe which
Tee LATE lit„sy toi,i,t Lriog down their houses upon thorn. Ott the
olf ST. rAISOL—The Rey. Canon
Melville prattle-1 at St. Paul's Cathedral on Ilotelay Ist of July thus moussbiin commeuisod a yet more xl-
afterm.n. Lis a.rmoll baring 111.mill' reference to gurous arum, thruwittg out large quataitios of stones,
the late Doan 51iltnett There was an immensecon• sumo of el,i:li might, lan, ri,„lnui,, t ji.it,,nik.fi°4,,b)i.hth,,t.,,,t;..; gresation. The test was from the Epistle of St. Paul pollation of tucks. '"e ""''''''-' - ---- -- ---- ----
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to '''' PhiliPPie"' *Die Preacher dwelt with much time wore violoist, treating lesions throughout the
eloqueece on the character of the great apostle, at 1
" cone. It was few drip later then this that a party of
close" his sormim with these semerhe : "It would Americans asuensled Vesuvius, accompanied br their
hardly become me to speak in this cathedral of in guide and as the love of enterprise is strong in our
ebrir-thi, course ttio,t is Wiiiiß On tO PerfeCtiollaud to blood,' English and Americana, they determined to
omit all mention to lust honuarei an,,.teeentwo o, mount to . the summit of the tone in order to gaze on
the Dean of St. Paul's, who has just gone hence to his ,
the Mks of boiling lava. The enterprise was rash
ex erlasting rest. A lengthencel mention would in- ,
aced be better when the cathedral, which tot k, ettough,autd every prudent MAL 11110U1,1 abstain from
h rionce of the party alleged
king • attempting it, al t e expo
dignified by his presidency, shall have received, as It to sh wed for as i hey were ascending, the mote-
00.111 will, his honoured remains ; but I may not hosi- ' utii, firedu a' vol ley of basalt stones, which, falling thick
tato to express the docet Sallie Whkh all ounnectal , ei. t 1-I ftl ern Early in the
out., meet, a every one u i .
with SL Paersentertain of the irreparable lose ',bid, ,
' 'elk.; I t ere visible, which
mono tet of the -a n v wo cones w
his decease less cutthilea. His vast fuel tsriol Iww"' however, in a temple of {tours, were formed lateen° by
jug, his extraordinary diversified powers—the scholar, 1 the internal violence of the volcano; betas if deter-
the poet, the historian, the critic, the divine--his -
lon having two I rue l'esuvius soon erected so ,
large awl tolerant views, his simple, nuaffectal piety ;
oh where min we Loire again to find such h • uniout • another much more menacing in its action. Vast
columns of stones were thrown out, and with.° much
yiu'tter than all, bolter tlia+, (hue accumulated stor",_ force that they fell back many of them into the crate_ ir
of knowledge—aoMenulatml, bilt ever ready.. 1? w, whilst others which were ejected to the height of 300
coin munitater I —heft, r than the strivings cis
.a ;!litur" metres, transgressed its bound.. At the beginning of
of • on itant
pus intellect, better than the moorings .
.. August the big mountain reposed a little until about
imagittatiou, better than allot any of these was& eel Use 14th of the 'meth, when it began to play its
simple and child-like docility with which, as w
_l4°, Cycloemet tricks again. Rumblines and roaring* and
hare,
one dean rea,,i,,,,i the Gospel or Christ, !Do sltueks were heard and felt at Keane, awl three were
the firm, unflinching faith with which he restee on followal lay volumes of stones thrown high into the
Christ, his Re,leemer. We shall lay him in his grave air, which fell uver &LA covered a eonsitlaralleciaaloa.
in the sure and certain hope of a resurrection touter' I ference. Since Um begiiinio of September nothing
eel life, itot because he has left few to rival him in hns occurred beyond
a faw
stacks
and
a few
shower,
erudition, in aagacits, in hogebeartednees, and in of atonal. 'rho column of smoke always ascends, in-
&Acuteness, but because we believe that as a Christian diadem the challefahh, and impetuous winds which
1111411 he daily entleavuured to become more what • have been sweeping O'er the bay, and at times its
Christi.. .weld be, and that, conscious of defects, dean black colour shows a temuonii., toormpe in ha
but yearning after perfectiao, las would have said to action. Vesuvius, thee, is far from Going asleep, and
(hue Li.. i„ a. wow. ~, our test, "Forgetting the is as to likely prove as greet eo
things Ulster, bolded, I mail itdwiliti W thedd Mask thinei it did dosing tits eurialim lasi winter,
aro Wore."