The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-30 00:00:00

ROMANTIC nom(' FROM PARIS.

A Paris correspondent writes :—An extraordinary story
Is told by Figaro. A young lady, the danghter of a banker,
was engaged to he married to a man bearing an honourable
name, and holding the rank of marquis. The young
lady's father discovered in time that the bridegroom
elect was • clever swindler, trading on his title, and
broke olli the match. The " marquis., however, contrived
to decoy the girl into 1101110 disreputable don. The scene
which occured there is not to be described ; suffice it to
may that the young lady stabbed herself to preserve her
honour. An alarm was raised, and this model manplis is
now in custody. The young lady's wound, though serious,
Is not likely to prove fatal.

The North Wilts Horticultural Society's allow will
be held in Roundway Park, Devises, on Monday,
August Sial.
It is proposed to hold the annual meeting of the Wilt-
shire Archeological Society at let jug this year, from the
kith to the 10th of September.
A marriage is arranged between Mr. Edmund Foster, of
Closter Manor, Berkshire, awl Miss Fslith Grove. daughter
of Sir Thoina.s Grove, Bart., of Ferne House, Wilts, late

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Ml'. be that county.
It is dated that Mr. Benett-Stanford M.P. has placed
Preston Place, the family residence near Brighton, at the
disposal of the Empress of Austria during her visit to that
neighbourhood.
• ANOOrIII WOOL FAIN., on Friday war well attended.
The quantity of wool pitched was about equal to former
years. between 8,1100 and 9,0110 lleeccv Mixed sorts were
meetly in demand. The general price was Xs per tat.
Ewe fiee‘Nes were worth rather more than teg fleeces. One
lot of ewe wool was wild at 151 d. lb.
Joseph Arch, spea.kinc at Sheffield, on Thursday. said
there was room in i:ngland for all her agricultural
latiourem He was reluctant to initiate an exodus,
but if the farmers did not make some reasonable settle-
ment, he would drain the country of the labourers by
emigration.
leFser NURSERY AND MISSION big—On Tuesday
their Royal and Imperial Highnesses the Duke of Edin-
burgh and the Grand Duchess Marie opened this institu-
tion. at Wellclose-square, near the London Docks.
Though it is not called a "creche," yet, literally, it is so,
and meant foe the care and teaching of poor little children,
whose mothers have to go Inn to work during the .lay.
The building, which is not quite completed, is intended
to accommodate 80 children, who, for 2d. • day, sire
wombed, cared for, and get a light meal of bread and milk.
and whatever provisions they may luring with them are
cooked for them.
Isyser Moarsuev.—The Government Bill on Friendly
Societies having contained a clause prohibiting the
insurance of lives of infants under three years of age. the
Prudential Assurance Comisiny, who do a large business
in all classes of assurance amongst the working classes,
'ave issued a table 'bowing their experience in respect to
the mortality of children from one to nine years of age.
The Registrar-Geneml finds the average annual rate of
mortality per lin in the whole of England fs 18.028,
i whereas n 1872 the Prudential insured infants only died
to the extent of 8.716 in males, and 7.18 in females. In
1873 the rate of the Prudential was still lower. At the
Aber ages there is very littlevariation fron the Registrar-
-:ienerals average. From acre figures it would seem that
infant insurance, conductal on the principle of the
Prudential Company, is not justly amenable to the
suspicion which has been brought upon it by the old
burial clubs.