The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-06-02 00:00:00

A "'BOHEMIAN" HUSBAND.

A Tindrawn aasistant, named .ieskia Junta, who
preferred travelling the country hawking pills and mock
rings, to steasly work at his businew, amL while on his
rambles left a wife NO three children to Poplar Union.
was apprehended at Woolwich during the visit of the Czar.
find last Thursday sentenced at Thames police court to
three months' hard labour. The following letter to his
wife was real:—

My dear, very dear Wif,,—Tou will see, by the address,
that IWM in one if the larcast hotels in London. I have •
onnfornable apartment to nowelf, everything pleasant
eatrentely as. Miserable wcsither yestenlay ; I eumuse you
di.l wit venture out. Of course you know I intended to visit
Blacialnuth yeatenlay, hut owing to the inclemency of the
weather, it would be rather indiscreet to osnunence proceed.
logs. Probably you and some of your friends are at the time I
sin writing welting unintentent, and enjoyment In
that rural and oulnarLan villlage Lulled Kew. My tbaawhts
were wandering toward. you yesterday. When I wee taking
any ramble an or,....anifender struck up and played, to my
surprise. the popular tunes of It's nice,' 'Tell your Ma.' On
Saturday, a hand .4 nigger* arrested any attention ; they were
Corp ussaing yes. and to more people than they had any Idea
of. They adayed a arious tutus, soul sung • First she would
and then she wouldn't • I heard that you Ladled In the 'gnu.
on Thursday, and although I was there I did not see you. I
SUM.. pu Will now ssay of me the words if Tom Moore, so
whether we arc there or whether we are sanewhere else some
tabachiaf wenm to wait. To love you au pleasant enough,
but, Is it is ti,lici4JUn to hate you. Well, well, well, never
mind ;lot bygones he bygone. There taunt he a change, end
It cannot tamubly lie worse than t is now. Therefore •
change must be for the bettor, and I hope and trust that, you
sill yet say , • With all thy faults I love thee stall.'"

l'AUTlON.—Mesers. RCCnITT HoJIS lief to caution the
public against imitation square blue, of very inferior
quality. The Paris Blue in squares (used in the Prince
ef Wales' Laundry), is sold in wrappers bearing their
name and trade mark.
hammer xi' To Knannasennt—Ainonest other novelities
in Lavlon that of • Masonic t 'Mb is announced, to which
only Freemasons are to he admitkel, atel which is intended
to promote the interests Of Maaons, lit is propmed to
establish It MIA central position at the West End, and to
ensure every comfort therein by at once arranging for
library, ballard rooms, sinokiog. and ,reading rooms, and
xienerally all the advantages of env other club. Twentydive
per cent of the pronto is to go to Masonic charitia. Masons
will le gLel to hear that it is mimes( to make its lodge of
instruction as well as • club.
Tam Porn AND Feme.a.taitea—lt is an inexplicable
mystery—the dislike the Pope ill ROlllO has for Free-
masonry. Not only has his Helium. examuniunicated the
whole craft, but their very proximity to his sacred person
exercises an influence upon hint which loads him to do
most extravagant Ras. We learn that un Whit-Monday
a number of these lois:field.' mystery-men were announced
to held a general assembly in Rome, poeitit ely under the
very calls of the Vatican. Ilia Moline,. considered that
the Holy City had been contaminated thereby, and there-
upon onlened special prayer to be offered ui. as • sort of
deualuri.tion. We believe some of the most
eminent Ranee Catholic divines have belonged to the
masonic " 1iCrat1414.40... and have probably been canonisal.
It would Ise WU:resting to know whether his Holiness
edit of exeonimunicatem has a retempective effat. If
so, it will play havoc with sles calendar.
A SRARION ON PURCHANIC tier 111111 l on Purchase in the
Church was preaelial last week I.y the Rector .1 Merthyr
Tydvil. After describiug the traffic, Iced showing that it
extended to PAM, or about one-half um parishes in
England, the preacher said —"You see hew it :0 that
parish"o are saslalled with incumbents who are thramahly
unfit for their office. A bey rector, for instance. or • week-
headed one, comp down from Oxford to fill the In.
eaunbeney of • large said populous parish. He introduces
all sorts of ginteraekeries, amnuttects to the altar, bows to
the Host, burns incense, lights candles, prays to the
Virgil', kisses the crucifix, gad drives the eld parishioners
perfectly wild with his mad Rointsla tricks. it there is
not a mul among them that eon foment him. The
11,11Millatt of some great man. he is perfectly 'aft in his cure.
Rhos been Imeglitnnil paid for. Every soul thorn is his by
law established to cure and to bless in the way he thinks
moat tit. . . There is nothing really to prevent •
joint stock company of High Chumhnien, Low timed,
nen, Broaal l'hurchmea, or es en Jews, from buying the
111.1VOWSOOS and next preamta/ions of re than half of
an the livings in England and Wales, and nm in one day
take steps to aecure to themselves aid their own views
IMMO perishes. Looked at in a spiritual petit of view, the
tairkg Is frightful, abominable, and ridiculous."
Tea ARCIIDIAOO3 Of Satiset RT 00 lkorlisialolf. 1%. Ten.
William K. Hotly, IL D , Arehticso at .4 Salisbury, has Just
completed the visitation 4 that tart 4 the deame which is
within has Jurbelletion. In the course ef his remarks he n,
leered to the petition recently prescoted 1.. C.tnyucation, signed
by 400 clergymen, on the subject .4 AbsoleUon and Conforion.
It was • qmsnmtkei *lnch damndest tern serious atteets,
H. did lee allude to the general state .4 the subject, but t.,
the greet of Weil preethes on the morality of Mew Cho
andessal and received alwolutioe Mariner...id lea Freud
hook that adulterers and adulterwees were In the habit .4 eon-
Wang sad reoelvine absolution in Italy, he took ...we.
In the mune ad • tour in that o.untry, to ancertaln the
eflect of such practices upon the residents in certain districts.
The result proved that the marrialm, vow was literally an at
'bought, and that women in particular, whim. molar', mniftneed I
and remised abodution, did not generally change then. e....rec
• life, e.en in ramt alit.., a change wan nest nee4.4l.
MlLlcrent unantrien nen; mark.* t.;, digurent sins, and his fmr
was that 000100miOn Wmallil hare Use hirect .4 presenting true
if,., had he In the .Macy cont.:mom ,
g▪
/. wee asked that duly -qualified ministere should be licensed
o,gdoool's ; het that he regarded ies aippawal the spirit
and prat-the .4 the Church up to the present tline. He gaoled
from the chant. 4 the late Bishop 4 Exeter (1•12111puuo
and the late Bishop of Wit/chaster (Wilberforce) in careliti
to the Introductiaica content.* loto the Church of
sad madsusesad the practice a• ear of the worst elements 4
popery.lt, wee • bled of dnintdenikin,, Injurious WIWI to
the constitution sad the Church. It substituted ouldeselen to
atm f." the opening of the heart to God. datording to the
ntbric, eversion wee to be mortal to only In extreme maw,
• he aaeoaggy entreted his homes to resist any attempt to
'undueçe it, pirtletearly late their beam