The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

THB Northing Whip lope Tient so Liberal politician in
Trained, or Liberal journal of eharnoter, bag endorsed
then.. Sgitation for repeal of the Union.
WWl} A MAST/11A. TII•nAs Union 114,
Vs disputa in Me I n trod.. in NiithSt.ffo,d•lite has
terinin•terl, the lOt h•ving airreeri to concept the rorine•
hair in -ad-no' niijoh notice ha. Seen given. Tb• moo
nUbflijt nn the principle th•t "half &loaf in b,tt,r than
no
bread." but arecrding to their representation. the
reduction of lenges will make their half loaf vary stualL

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MaNUFACTORI OF 0A& —lt
his been found that by o ,mbining bitumen with eortl
in gas retorts th• gas is reole.d with great rapidity,
and that it gives an illuminating power front one
Karver I clad to 25 sperms.. ti eendlea 200 Inns of
bitumen have been ordered be the War•Derartment for
itse in the Royal Armmil. [lt would be gratifying to
hear that both the Deraturder and Weymouth gas com-
panies had ordered a quantity.]
THE UNE or Till "GAO" I]f Tilt NAVY.—The
following circular joined by the Admiralty, conveys
an iv...tidal:tory impression of British navel diuiplioe
In 18d8

It httipt t 0, knowledge of my Lor. s Commierionen
of the admiralty that the use o, a '' eke ha. been eons thnet
resorted to nu boa•ti her alaje•ty's ship.. their lordahipa desire
0.1 it.. Prwt'o- met ito disbottilmmd and that men who are
Poise or otherwise violent thould be counnal in
HIJIRYO. L.oooz

DEATH Tani( LEAVIACI • TRAIN IN MOTION.—Os
Tuesday, at Shrundoll railway station, Woroester, •
carp inter named Sired, residing at Merryvale, near
that cite, insisted in jalopies oet nf tbe train in which
he had travelled from Birnsingliam. before it had soma
to • standstill. He was thrown back on the line, and
to dreedfolly injured that he died at the Weresister
Infirmary in abut three hours.
A NOVEL QI/lISTION. 4. year or two ago It wu
d•terrisined to aid • new traiisept to L.amington parish
ohoreh, and the iiibehitante having subscribed the
newsman:7 funds, the work was set about by •onntractor.
The ricer t,colc no part in the matter until within the
last few der, when he sent in a claim to the builder,
dem aiding £2O for one year'. occupation of that portion
of the char.'hyard in which the scaffolding was erected,
and farther notifaing that he should proceed CAM.,
the contractor for the reonvery of • fine of £2 per day
as long as he continues to Me the churchyard while
completing the pari•li church !
THE '9I•T LI?'" OF A SOLDINAL-00 Saturday, the
113th, moor reader. will remember, ate rAlci gala raged
in the channel, with • heavy rainfall. ya the mist of
this tamest tbe authorities at Portamnuth sent by sea
the Royal Viet-tia limootal, N. tier, two hundred
invalid., mod of II en bad joist 'rival from India and
Malta, with • prorestion of women and. ildrn. Th •
disembark •ti. n of thi, forlorn party at Netley oseni ied
jest three hoer., the men bi-ing meanwhile exposed
to the pelting of the storm, and when at last they were
hoard, they were wet, cold, and miserable, and it is
said, which seems very likely, that some of them have
had their complaint, aggravated by this cruel and
unnecessary expomme.

A HMI hi "NON FIGHTING MIN IN THN
The Untied Service Ongege makes the following extra-
ordinary rtatmoent :—" We Cr. informed the on board
"f /I+4es Royal Oak, during the late commis.ion,
were a number of men, memb r. of • mot known is
Oermanitee, who ' never attend divine minim, were in
direct nporraition to the tear:hiog of the chaplain, and
termed thernetime " nno•fighting men."' One of our
correspondent. nave : '1 nine tell you that this ease
or ...a never or very seldom misoonducted therneelvet
on b°""l• always oheyed the pipe, and were slow
workers ; but my firm belief is the, they are se dangerous
• alms of men m ever • itered • ship, private or public.'
Some of the tan years' men of tine sect, on claiming
their discharge, were asked why they wished to leave
the service, and replied, ' For the love of the Lord and
liberty." Three Cr. a number of them non.fighting
men in the Mediterranean Fleet at the present time.'"
Mn. Lowe, M.P. ON lIIDDLNCL•aS EDUCATION.—
Mr. Lowe delivered 'speech upon middle-ohm. education
at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Philomathle
Aoeiety on Wedneelay night. lie argued that the
mid Ile element required more oniture and elevation of
motel., and that their ...Notation await not be an
inot.t on if that of the higher o'amee. Ile denounced
the old.faetioned trystent ati I in vogue, of teaching
dead lango.re. lii.tory, logic, and grammar, as the
alpha and the omega of education ; arguing that the
English language, English comprwition, French, and
German, the study of physic.) geisha* and pure
mathern•tics, were the most dmiralde and usefid
*twin,, for a clam who had to week for their living. In
conelu.ino, he •driae4i the middle &mites, while stem.
m or were trying to use them their ancient rights in
rn,lnarr.l .chnole and the univer.itie., to combine and
net up schools for ti e•hatires Ike 'lv.e originated and
den • loped to aoceerof ally hv Mr. W.htlarard, at which
a good education could ho had for E:3O a year.

A Wow•s's Love. Among those who presented
thems.d.e. mr P,•,llll,tion upon their own petitions at
the Ch-intsfrod County Court. on fisturday. to be
adjudicated bsnkrupts, was Maltide Grigg.. the young
wons in who at the heeinning of last year wan the
eie,iin of what was them popularly known a. the
B tragerly. She •as detain. d in ...Rod, to
.atisfy a tilsim of the Crown for £4O, the amount of
.eogoisioces entereri into by her to aup.ar sad
proercute the men who attacked her She stated that
the reason she did not app-or to prosecute was because
she thought that without her evidence the prisoner
would net be cm-victor!, and that when he was liberated
they intended being married. The pr'soner was, bow.
ever. sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. The
'scrim's, told her that she would have to remain in
gaol till March next. On this being med., pahlics, sours
of the readers of the Pail, Te/egraph trot to the nape
of that paper the money necessary to effect her litter..
tion, and it w•s done on Wednesday. Mr. Ruskin sent
els-ete for £4O, with tbs following Dos. -• p.goops to
4111 Si..,' I
earth so perfect aa the story in Your fourth Artecle to-day.
I *end you a eh. q.t. for the Chinoellor. If 40, in legal
terms, means 400, you must espla/0 the farther require-
ment. ts your impulsive public."

DleellerlTOßl OF • ?title WHO W•HTED VW) WITS&
—William Barrage, csrpenter, and Either Smith,
mein iter. both of Brighton, hiving ben duly "eaked in
church" on three conarecatiee Sondem repaired.
gooompanied by the "hest man" and • brideamaid, inn
cab tot •rr church at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, to
be " lined together in holy mewl nony." On this;r
prefenting themselvea, the Sedating clergyman asked
lturr•ge if he Wu not Ores ly • rnairied man? A
negative reply being given. Willi•m was st vow, intro.
deiced t.) a female, the mother of four 06,1 Iren, and
naked if that was not hi. wife. The fact being mill
certain " marriige lines" ware Prodatwels
proving beyond all nos ibilit• of doubt that the mother
of four children alluded to was none other thin Mrs.
William [terrace. The consternation which ensued
mey b. imagined. Of canna the merrier was
prohibited, and the reruns left tLe church ; and Mrs.
Barrage heel,' sweoned on reachin the open air, her
devoted husband, who mu odd to have resided with
her until' very recent period, immediately procured •
slew of water. with whieh he proceeded to bathe the
foe. of kin "bettor half." In the meanwhile, Miss
Belltar Smith had rev is-at the cab, and eat Metairie t.
•ttantionis paid by Willi•m to hie wile from this vehicle.
Mrs, Barrage shoiely revivrd and left in the company
of acme friends, while Mr. Barrage made th• beet of
his may out of the churchyard, amid the hooting, of a
consalerstd• crowd.

A !TAUNTED !form —Rinee the middle of last
October a very singular system of persecution ha. been
going on in Kensington, which has hitherto healed all
attempts to discover the author, or the means by •hich
the mammonce complained of is effeetcd. Some years
ago it would have been pot down to • ghost, or perhaps
to his &tonic Bajeety himself, bet Dieu the great
spiritualistic bobide of the Brothers Thmenpert haa
burst, there is nothing left hot to pumile on till She trick,
clever es it may be, is font Unfortnnetely, in
the present ease, the trick. though clever, is becoming
cruel and hearties% In a •mell about twvoll
yards from the main road, liv. an old lady, 81 t ears of
op., and her daughter, with one sermint. They had
heed in the same house for nearly IS year. without
soy annoyance; but for the last few months they had
been constantly startled by & sharp loud knocking mon
the panel of the street door. Upon opening
the do ,r, however quickly, no sign of any one
is to be discovered. No sooner sr* the ladies quietly
settled eosin than rapiramrap ! comes upon the door.
And this in repeated at irregular intervals through the
evening. For a time it was attributed to some imps of
schnobbny, who are always ready for mischief, and but
little 110106 was taken of it ; but the continuance, of
Clint was only annoitng bee •me at list a *scion.
Diligence. The meet nimble off Teat were made, with-
out sucaue, to "catch" the °Renders, but until • few
nights ago the attack, were so arranged a. never ti take
plus in the preemies of male visitor.; con-
sequently the ladies Hominid much goity, but
little eympathy, from their friends. After a time
they became nervone, and at lest really frightened. Oa
Thursday emning a gentleman. the son of the old lady,
called.an i tonal them quite ill (re, excitement,
end w,. comforting the o es well as he could. when •
quick rap•rap-rap at the front door male lem jernit up
in two seconds he we, at the door, milled out, looking
in every direetion without discovering • sound or a
trees of any Ition•n being in any of the adj.. ent roads.
Then, for the first time, he was able to understand from
what his mother and sister had buffered, sod net to work
to mown* the sprout.. to the dour inside and out,
and to Adve the mystery, if poem ble. No sooner had he
gone hack to the little diningirnone sad Amend a chair in
the open doorway with a big ati.lt handy to "trounce'
the rpetrator the next time, and begun to diem*
what it was, than rap-rali rap I sent him fly•ng out into
the street, to the astonishment of a plowing übinen,
who must have thought • madman had just memped his
keeper. This happened four or five times mire; in
jest, only ewer/ shoat a quarter to eleven. He went
**lnd to the Police-station and had an °Meer put on
medial dote opposite the house for the next day, and
rpint the following morning in collies upon the notch'
boors and earefolly examining the gardens cod maga
l which abetted up 'abbe "tweeted" house. Not • mark
of any port was tube limed, and he we, quite acne
,i.ced this 1.7 nojoteginable device could the
door have been ruched from an, point, but right
in front, from the street. There to no sada, or
drain under the house. The more torefully the
eumination was eontineed the greater the mystery
appeared. in the evening he took • friend down with
him, and two mere of hie friends looked in later. The
' jamas were fiend in • painful Mate of nervous fright,
as the aniseeds bad already been going on, and the
maid unmet was crying. Altogether, it was a scene
of misery. In the mums of unversation the tollowing
farts came out. It began on a Friday, the 18ah of
tatober, and has never mired a Friday since then. It
hag never been heard op Sunday. seldom on Seterday.
Never before the gas lamps us lit, nee., after etas...
Jest as all were talking at onem &pimp-rap I In an
instant all four gentlemen were. in the front garden ;
the audicenum mu quietly stanchnghe dooropp f
te trhoe.doothr.;
the lady of the bon-e watdblng i
ramie°, and another gentleman from the leada. All
declared that not • living creature had been near the
hoeu for at lust • gutter of an hour. The whole
thing seems ioexpliciable, and bee crested quite a
sensation in the neighbourhood. The creel pert of the
telek Is the effect prodoeed upon the venerable lady.
wheals age wakes a *bangs of maiden** • serious
difilaelty. aod when. barna are like to Elva Intl
allogether if some arias are not disonvered to put •
• le elle Sehelealie. The pollee uts doiag their bed
le NW Oak bob Womb Tithed elheeelli