The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-22 00:00:00

ONE DAY'S CRIME.

A New York paper one day contained reports of the
following occurrences :—A lawyer at Memphis, Tennessee,
shoots dead a "learned friend' for words spoken in con-
versation. A Member of Congress from Alabama takes
redress by shooting his calumniator with a shot gun. "A
man of great wealth," in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, shoots
and kills the Town Marshal, this being the wealthy
Kentuckian** second murder. At N'ickaburg an editor is
shot dead by a citizen who was offended by a personal
paragraph. At Beauregard a clerk and his employer have
a quarrel, and settle it with pistols in the hark yard, where
one is killed. An editor at Indianapolis, Indiana, shoots
the seducer of his daughter, who commits suicide by taking
laudanum. At Evansville, Indiana, one man stones another
to death at a dance, for taking sides with the murderer's
wife in a family quarrel. A young man at Hillsboro, Ohio,
shoots and kills a rowdy with his own pistol, which pro-
truded from the man's pocket while he was pounding the
lad's father. A policeman is murdered at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, and a coloured school teacher is "Ku-
Kluged at Nashville, Tennessee—that is, "she was taken
out of her bed at two o'clock in the morning and shot dead
for teaching a colour.' school," A light between rival
ferrymen in Mississippi results in the death of three of
them. Marital infidelity leads to the shooting of four men
in West Virginia. At Culph, Ontario. just over the line,
a man shoots a lady and gentleman whom he mistakes hir
his daughter and her seducer. A lady is murdered in Iowa;
and a gentleman is shot dead at Savannah, Georgia, by a
negro, who is hanged by the mob. A young woman dies
in childbirth at Jersey City, New Jersey, fathering the
child upon a clergyman, who has been forced to leave the
town by an indignation meeting. A revolting case of sin
and abortion occurs at St. Louis and Fort Wayne, Indiana,
where snail is sent to the penitentiary for rape. Rape
cases are reported from Traverse, Michigan, Pawpaw, and
Delphos, and cases of abortion and seduction from three
other towns_ At Council Bluffs, lowa, a rejected lover
bursts into the chamber ot is young lady's mother, and
inflicts a dangerous wound with a pistol To escape the
mob he is spirited away to a neighbouring town for safe
custody. In one of the suburbs of Chicago a young lady is
assaulted by a villain, who nearly succeeds in his designs,
when assistance comes, and the wretch escapes. A similar
charge is telegraphed from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Ilimaaraer.—Erra's COCOA. —OIILATCFII. SSD COMFORITSO.—
" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern
thu operations of dlgtation and nutrition, and by a careful
api4leation of the fine pmpertim of wulLselected omen, Mr.
Epps hae provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage a Inch may save us many heavy doctor,'
bills."—Cied Service Gazette. Made simply with Boiling
Water or Milk. - -Sold by Grocers In packets only labelled—
" Janie EPPS & lloaKeliiathic CliersaFtil, 48, Threadneedle
Strout, and 170, Piccadilly ; Works, Euston Hood, London"
MANCFACTUaII OF eurtiA. We Will now give an aocouzit of
the processadopted by Moors. James Epp. & tto., manufacturers
of dietetic article., at their work, In the Euston Road, London."
—Eke article in Caubeitis liou.elisid Guide.

ONE-lIALF 01, TEE DEII I EILMENTE OF LIFE would be
avoided by the ocautioual use of Cooke's Pills.