The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-24 00:00:00

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RESIGNATION OF TUE CI.FR—K TIIE PEAC6.—Wu regret
to learn that Mr. W. G. Merriman, the able and esteemed
clerk of the peace for this county, has f lit expedient,
in cow...pleura of impaired health, to resign his office.
THE Right Rev. the I. rd Bishop of Salisbury ha., con-
ferred upon the Rev. Townley Want Dowding, clerk,
M.A., Rector of St. Peter, Marlborough, the Rectory of
Brixton Docerill, near %Varminater. vacant by the recent
death of the Rev. E. Strickland. His lordship has licensed
the Rev. Frederick Thornton Down, clerk, M.A., to the
Curacy of Notherhury, Dorset.
SHEEP SALE AT WINTIGISOVENE GENNER.—On Weiner
day, the breeding dock of Ilainpshire Downs, the property
of Mr. Edmund Cuss,, Winterbourne Gunner, who is
retiring from fartnit.g purstaits at Michaelmas, was sold
at Manor Farm. by Mr. Rawlenco, of -Messrs. Waters,
Son, aWi Rawlence. The auctioneer mentioned that the
stock had been in the present family fur 250 years, and
I that they were &wended entirely from the old original
Wiltshire 110WIIS. TI. • :iverage of the two-teeth ewes was
61s. 10.1.1 of the four. teeth ewes Mts. 8,1.; of the six-teeth
ewes Sas. 14.; and of the ehilver lambs 3.1.1. 101.
iSPORTANT SHINY SALE AT SHOUGHTON.—Tho valuable
breeding Hock of Mr. James Pain (who is leaving his (Ann
at Michaelmas next) Was disposed of by Messrs Waters,.
; Son and Ilswlenos, of Salisbury, on Thursday. The average
; of the two-teeth ewes Was Int, I,l,—one prime lot of ten
falling tr Mr. Parsons (Monk. Sheris.rne). at M.. The
founteeth ewe:terra:tired Mr. Parsons being again
the purchaser or a piked lot at Hist. The six-teeth ewes
averages' roi. 1,1. The chilver lambs averaged HS. Id.

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ALLEGED MITRI)ER OF A GIRL IN SUFFOLK
Fanny Plea:ant 'lsrke, a young woman employed u'a
dontiatie servant at Inauthain went house mortally
wouteled on the night oi Sunday s%ok. Before U.
siudoth coroner evidence was oveas tending to imok.,
Froderiek Eruest Page, a young, MAU who had Wan 1411. d.
ating with the deeeti.imi, in. her intuder. and the jury
having returned a verdict agamat lihu. he WWI eioniemmt
(or trial on the coroner's warrant.
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EXTUAORDINARY Nt'ENE ON THE PARIS
HO ItSE.
While the Herzegovina panic at the Idnirse nmum
day wai at its highest, pistol shot t were heard in Peri.
style. Thcy had, however, nothing to du aith the
speulations of the day. An engineer named Leaned
oa mg a grudge to a nieney.clianger named l)egas, waykia
and caned him. Degas, expecting the attack, drew
revolver and tired four times. He not only wounded his
adversary but a policeman and a porter. and broke the
windows of l'iver's perfumery shop. None of the wounds
inflicted ate serious.
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COSMETICS FOR VOLUNTEERS.
At Aldershot, on Wednesday, the Provisional Battalion
of Volunteers had • brigade drilL A great number of the
volunteers are suffering from swollen fares, some being
nearly blind, the effecta of the exposure to the sun. Many
of them are compelled to %tear paper masks as • tem.
protection ; others use powdered starch, giving
;Listly appearance.

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A PARIS TRAREIsY.
On Thursday night a :serious affair happened in the Rllll
Mealay. A p.dicetnau, Dimwit CalishlalllCA. a Corsican,
tired at his wife, who had been obliged to leave him on
account of his jealous and violent temper, and then I.lvw
his own brains out. The wife lain a critical condition.

HORSE 1IISEASI: IN I.ONDON.
There has lwen a serious epidemic among the omuilsis
horses of the metropolis, during the last few days, several
hundreds having been affected, many fatally, by a
disorder, the exact nature of which has not yet been ewer.
tainted. The prevailing idea is that 80111 e noxim a
plant has formed an ingredient of the hay which has lien
supplied to the horses in the form of

EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
While the 'trimmers in the House of Detention,
Clerkenwell, were king marched to church on Sunday
morning, one of them, who was under remand on a charge
of burglary, marmite,' to climb the wall of the primm, and
drop on to the pavement, a helzht of thirty-five feet.
amidst the screams of aevcral women. The next moment
the pritioner WU again on his le. and having first torn
the badge off his arm, ran off before the crowd recovered
from their amazement

A SPANISH DILA3IA.
A strange story is reported from Spain. A detachment
of .tlphonsist soldiers recently discovered, in a secluded
part of • nionntain chain, • cavern which was inhabited
by robbers, who had taken advantage of the civil war in
order to ply their criminal avocatbas. An alcove was
attached to this subterrananis dwelling, the door of which
the soldiers broke open. They were astonished to find the
apartment decently furnished, and provided with books,
: flowers, and even a limo. In an easy chair sat • vener-
able lill wan. The soldiers intscrogated him, but
obtained only incoherent replies. It has since been
ascertained, from the confessions of one of the robbers,
that the old man was the cashier of • banking firm at
Burgos, that they had broken into the bank, stolen the
safe, and taken the cashier with them, in hopes that he
would assist them to open the safe. During their retreat.
which was marked by many adventures, tho intrepid obi
man succeeded in evading the vigilance of his guardians
for a short time, and secreting the safe in • place where he
would lie able to recover it afterwards. When the booty
was missed and the robbers failed to induce the ca-bier to
reveal to them the place w here it was concealed, they
revived the proceedings of the famous CAA It fre,l r, by
roasting the feet of their victim, in order to extort a con-
fession. But the inflicted tortures had • different effect.
The man got mad ; and it was with the object of restoring
bins to reason that the robbers bestowed the utmost atten:
tions on him, in hopes that when he recovered his reason
he would reveal them the place where the safe was
concealed.

EMOHIAL CAR DS.—
ILL The friends of deceased persons are invited to
irumect a variety of MEMORIAL CARDS, embossed,
cameo, or plain, at the Aim of this paper, 8, High
West-street, Dorchester; at 4, Queen-street, Bridport ;
or at 7, Bond-street, Weymouth.
25 Embossed Cards, with name, dates, ages, and a
-4 of poetry, or text of Scripture, supplie4l for as.