The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-10 00:00:00

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, ROMANCE is Rua. LIFE.—In the Glasgow Sinai
Debt Court, on Monday, an action of damages, at the
, instance of a Mrs. brlarlanc against • Mts. Murray,
fur slanderous language, was called, concluding for £l2
of damages. It appears that • valiant rifleman had
become enamoured with the charms of the defendant's
daughter, and so far bock as August last, with consent
of parties, caused proclamation of banns to be made for
the purpose of marriage ; but the lady's mother, having
taken WINO dislike to the rifleman, caused the bride
to be kept at home on the evening oftlio intended cere-
mony, and, it is said, caused her to be tied to a
chair. Thereafter, to defeat the bridegroom, the bride
is sent to Liverpool; but it basing been found they
were in cononuuication, the lady was a;ain brought
back to Glasgow to be inure immediately under the
parent's eye. A few weeks pass and the lowa are
again found to he in communication, when the another
sends for the bridegroom, asks him his intentions, and
being assured by hint that he was willing to accept the
daughter, she there and then turns her out of doors,
and with • slap, Wispier to go, and she would have
nothing further to say to her. The hard-hearted
parent having relented, however, and found out her
daughtcr's lodgings, where she had been placed in order
to give time to get the banns a second time proclaimed,
on Satuialay fortnight goes with her husband, and by
force carries off the d ughter, and places her at homs
safely under lock and key, and for a second time delays
the marriage—plainly demonstrating the truth of the
adage, "the count, of true love never did rain smooth."
The efforts of the bridegroom to aeo his intended were
unavailing, and in the meantime the action above re-
ferred to is raised by Mrs, M'Farlano to clear her
character from the slanderous remarks of Mrs. Murray
and the bride cited as a witness to appear in court
against her mother. Tidings, however, having reached
the bridegroom that his intended was to be at • sermon
in the Queen's Rooms on 'Sunday night, he waits, and
at the dismissal of tho congregation, meets the fair one,
whent both decamped, and were on Monday morning
Joined in wedlock in time to attend the court and give
their evidence. The Sheriff granted a decree against
the bride's mother for I:I.

MURDER IN levegeess.—On Sunday morning last,
says the Inverness Advertiser, the community were
horrified to learn that • man hal been found dead, and
to all appearance foully murdered, in • backyard of one
of the house, in town. The facts of this painful case, in
so far as they have been allowed to transpire, are
believed to beau follows :—David Cumming, joiner, a
young man of twenty•three years, in the employment of
Mr. Mackay, of this town, had been working for his
iseater at a job in the country, and returned to Inver.
netts on Saturday to visit his parents, who are decent
respectable people residing at the shore. In the absence
of his master, Cumming, we believe, received (ruin Mn.
Mackay LI as wage,, and thereafter lie appears to have
been engaged chatting with acquaintances, one of whom
Ike treated to a bottle of lemonade, leaving him •t
eleven o'clock on Saturday evening at the head of Church •
street, So far as yet ascertaiued, this was the last
titue Cumming was seen in life. About seven o'clock,
and while yet dark, Mrs. Fraser, who occupies the lower
part of No. 37, heard heavy moaning outside, as front
some person in distress, and, proem ing a light, she went
into the back-yard, and openiag the door at the centre
cellar, from whence the sound proceeded, to her extreme
horror and surprise she saw a man lying on the floor
amid appareektly dead. She instantly gave the alarm,
and the burgh police and Dr. Manford were itnine-
diately on the spot, and had the body removed into Mrs.
Frkteer's house By this time, however, only a little
wartath remained to indicate where life had once been.
The poor lad was dead; nor was the cause of death diffi-
cult to discover. On his temple were the marks of a
blow, sad from • heavy hanimer, which had cut in and
indented a portion of the skull. When first seen, the
body was entirely divested of clothing, with the excep-
tion of two stockings and one hoot. It being at once
apparent that there had been robbery, if not certain and
deliberate murder, the police set to work to
discover if possible any traces of • struggle near the
place, and, observing marks in the court-yard as if •
body had been draggekl along, they followed the traces.
These led through to the back garden past the stable,
and from a point here across the garden of No. 36 into
the one belonging to No. 33 of the street, sad through
this garden immediately to the back of this particular
Nouse. Farther search revealed the clothes of
Cumming, which were brought from an outhouse of the
saute garden, and a little later, Superintendent
Sutherland having observed something protruding from
the ground of the cabbage plot at the house, only • few
yards from the back window, the spot was dug up and
Li-ought to light the watch, a broken guard, • necktie,
and Is. Id. of money, belongiug to the apparently
murdered 'nen. As a matter of emir*, • watch was
placed over the inmates of the house No. 35, and in the
course of the day they were apprehended and carried to
prison. Many stories are afloat, seine of them abso-
lutely false ; and whatever trustworthy information has ,
been obtained by the authorities it 'meld be manifestly
itn prudent at thia stage to reveal to the public, in case
the ends of justice might be thereby defeated. We
should have mentioned that the greater part of the
money believed to have been in Cuiuming's possession
on Saturday evening was not found.
EITRAOHDINAIT ESCAPZ FROM LIGHTNING.— On
Thursday last the parish of Denies', Sutherlandshire,
was visited with a terrific thunderstorm and very heavy I
fall of rain, with the wind blowing from the S.W. At
twelve o'clock, noon, a handsome cottage, belonging to
Mr. Oeorge Low, Smoo House, and occupied by a sea-
man and his family, was struck with lightning. The
fluid *yews to have entered by the chimney, rending it
asunder. On entering the room it ploughed the paved
floor like a furrow, utterly destroyed the furniture, and
finally escaped in various directions by passing under
the foundation of the gable—by the window, breaking
all the penes, and flinging all the glare several yards
from the house—by the doors, wrenching them off the
hingerk--aikd also by the roof, stripping off the slates,
and leaving most dismal-looking apertures. The escape
of the inmates, consisting, at the time of the accident,
of the seaman, his wife, sister-in-law, and a neighbour,
was most miraculous, The wife and sister were sitting
beside the fire ; the former was knocked down aud
tendered quite insensible for a time. The fluid ran
along her body, and left marks on several parts. It
carried off the shoe and stocking (rein kkee of her feet.
On recovering she found the chimney lintel lying on
her limbs, inflicting • serious bruise. Her eyelashes
are burned off, and she still lit, in • very critical state.
Her eider was also knoelted down, and flung quite un-
consciously several yards back wanls, but has escaped
comparatively unhurt. The two men happened to be
standing beside the window, and were thrown in oppo-
site directious, the one along the ikassage, the other to
the back of the room. Beyond the fright they suffered
no serious injury. At the time of the ocident a shock
was felt iss the neighbouring IR/WWl—panes were broken
lied several individuals stunned. This occurrence has
caused great excitement in the parish, as this Is the
fourth house damaged by lightning in it within the
memory of the present generation.

The prohibition of the export of the materials for the
maeufacture of gunpowder has been followed by a
proclamation prohibiting the exportation of all the
munitions of war. including rides and percussion amps.
This will be bad news to the agent of the Federal
Government who arrived by the Persia a few days since
and is now said to be at Birmingham purchasing war-
like stases forth. Northern States.