The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

LITERARY EXTRACTS.

OLD If %Dirs.—Mb good friend, who amonmit on
Wiinfil not be the btdter if he would gate up some old
habitt ? Yes, ye-, You agree with me. You take the
allegory ? A•at ! at inn- tone of life we don't like to
give up thc.e ilo Sc? It i• ill to change.
There is the gocl old loose, eaty, alovenlv
1:4111,101, fur example. V. 111411 of ',tow likes to fling
it oil and put on ii Ilhit yirini/C prim drett co.t that
pinched loin? The rr is the I to,y , w r etie•r emcsel WI( •i
01, —how eatv it it! Boer W.irtil ! flow it nlmoys
ociiin In ! Yoil con walk out in It; yoll go down
to iiimier in it. Viii can siy ot ant+ what Tully same of
li.. hooks : tit/oven/v. perryrintiiiiir, rash-
e/i/ro•. It it a lotle s itterilly—it it *good deal at shoed
it isn't smells cigtr mooke ; but,
olloss./one,l let the world esti no idle and tloviii. I
lice my eete than any neighbour's ummon. 1
I live to lileave mytelf ; not poi, Mr. Bandy, with moor
051ert:1110ln' airs. lam a plidotopher. Perhaps I live
in nay tub, mei don't make miv other use of it.— We
won't ;initiate (either t.l.lii shis4ooll iv inetaohor ; but
I with regard to some of your 1,1,1 livloil A, let tit say-1.
j The habit of being censorious, anal spe ill of your
neighbour.. 2. The loiLit of getting into a pmation with
yeur 1.41 W-silt 111, VI.O til.i,i-verv.int, your daughter,
wife. pie. 3. Ike habit of indulging lust 11111011 at tab's,.
; 4. foe livint of ...oinking in the alLii:lg.lo..ts after dinner.
5. The iimiwt inm Willis 111 nioney 111 bete
it foot% tall oil It., knifing. ke. ; '2O port. mite -geontly
Itille apron, Oavtitat ions into:rt.:l iiiii •iits, awl what not ,•
or, CI. The habit of 'clewing memly, when nit, •nil
I Clint khalif liver tic taming of !init.-crown, whiltt you
laroiiiiinutiitig your family tint fuarn,ls with hail stile.
. 7. The habit of &piing to sleep immediately alter dinner,
inmetil of C' ill entertaiiiiiig Mrs. Jones and the
family ; or, it. I.mdims ! Tic habit of running up biam
With the manlier., and as llllhilllg paterfrittiili4o on the
boos, bdi., 9. The habit of keeping lion waiting for
brenkfamt. 10. 'mi.. limlot of sherrii.g at 31 ii. Brown
till the Mi-s Browns, herrn, they an. not quite du
monde, or quite to g.•ideel es Lilly 11. Th•
habit of keeping your wretched father up at balls td!
five o'clock in the lemming. when he has to be at los
office at eleven. 12. The habit of fighting witli each
other, dear Louisa, Jane, Aranella, Amelia. 13. Tile
'labile of always or tering John Coachman three.
qiimrters of an hour before you want Liiu.—Curehill
Mugu:eta for January.
Tilt: 1)1.1, F MLA IoN 1.11 FENDER. —lf there is a lady in
the riedn it it ten to tom that she is sitting very near to
the file, and it IS ten thoutiand to one that her drets
hulges out LoWitrilv it, urged by the expanding neture
of the steel Lands which lie concealed lienemth its
fold.. Am you I,iolt f folde to the tile, •Isil
from the lire to the loldt again, you are struck by the
awfully short mi.ace between them, and you inttinctively
request your fir comicnion lii niove lier apparel out
of haitn's way, upon which she pats her dress iIOWII
Mien or twice, ateuring you that it is all quite life ; hut
111 truth there Winn remain for your
Thvt two Snell flange to (list 0011111116-
, tible drvtii and that leaping ni.mrilig home thould be ao
hear together, with no sentinel to 110.1111,t gilorli fort ween
them. is a legitimate reviiuti for aepreliention, w list-
ello inay Ire 01111 to the contrary. What him hevoine
of the old i i iii ied fender ? It used to mount up
al • t eranit high, 'rho kWer half of it was of per
forated sine, or iron pulled green, and abet thil roc
four or five perpendicular brats roils with a bras, liar
, which they nut dned placed trent,. early along the'
hips of them. TM, Was a fender or de-fender win thy
of the name, and it may still be seen in our nuiteriea.
But what ha* the fender in our tittingcomic ha lulled
down to It Inis go: unutamlly lower and lower till
now it SO Deafly u.smay be fiat, and level with the
length, a Mere receptacle for the lire•irmins and a inni of
to tile general effect of the stove-tatting. at
laily'A dress twea pa over it and into the tire ao ettily as
if there was nothing there at all. The thieg happened
only • sheet time ',dice, as a lady wat .t.inding talking
to an invalid who lay goll • toil uhcawua roilrel to the tire.
In do re fill way f gettiog haek the old fender ? Or if
the laws of fathion forbid thie why not have S guard
perpetually user the tile? It netil not be like the
fire.guatil, which has all unconifottable look.
and has to be reliVived wt. never the fire is poked.
Four air time brats liars descending in a curve from the
top of the grate.arch to the hearth woiild serve every
pulite.. 01 tenting in the fire, siel would neither be
is/011:1111y ha( inconvenient. They would b., SO far
sport that not only could the fire be poked betwcen
them, hut the coal •0110 p full it coals could be intr.,
ilueed without the removal of the guard--AU the leur
1111054.

" iIF: K!I.)MSTIIP RICASON ill not gene
rally known that the late Si r Jalisco Graham WIPS the
author of this familiar ...ring. It occurred in a ..precli
itclivered by I in 1818 on Mr. Diardele. Mot to
introduce, without delay, &immures for the inure a cc•
tnal relief of the it ii•treaseit oeuvre minion:Niers of laud.
_ . . .

Sir James. in the esUse of free...trade, said,
" Now. I will Hot velitUre to snake any prediction with
rwl.eet to the NOM of coral U. future; but thie, air, I say.
that be the price whet it ut..e, the tiiiie lica arriv.il
*heti it inuat he In to timid its listoral levil; slid thdt.
for atiy goverainent or for any legielature, artificial!)
end be Power.' law to enhance it. I say the day is gun.
by. Anil why do I say SO May there iv telt a olough•
boy who plods hia weary way on the bealrieat thy
England who does not feel practically his cooditios,
i.hproved within the bud tiara years—spill Ise knowm th•
resmol why. I tell you again, there is not a Shepherd
en the nowt distant mid barren lot of Sudan.' who dove
alit DOW how .l-ily a clirsi..r slid a larger slice, of iul -
ridge Caen lie ever had beforc—and he knows th.
✓eswin why. I tell you again, there la not a weaver iti
the cottage io Lane...shirr, who hss not (title.
Nutt cheaper niesk, without- any fall in his wag a than
lie ever hail I. fore —and he knows the re.son why.
Now, I tututt tell you the whole truth. The time liar
arrived *ben the tru.h, without awirwuhuent. twwet fw
wilien. I will steak of aliotlwr chom still. There
ie.s a soldier who ryturns England from abroad ilia.
does nut irsetically feel that bia daily pay is au.;iiietited
and that he has a cheaper, larger. sod a better mess,
and that he enjoys greater eoinforte—eud be also knows
the ressoa."—Nareastie Doily dirfaisis.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

BIAII DROWN•D IN • WELL AT By, Grosoes.—On
Tuesday afternoon Mr. Gaisford, coroner, held an in-
quest at the George sod Dragon Inn. Kt. Geotge`a.. on
the body of Oa-ore !nook, a diveharged moldier. Eli•••
heth Mott, stater of the deceased, identified the body by
a handkatellief that was upon it ; slit last sew icr
brother alive eighteen weeks previously. P.S. Porter
deposed to areing deceased then from • dimmed well in
• garden beloogiliz to Mrs. Leonard, of Pile Mardi.
There were no marks of violence on the body, but
several apples in the clothes' pockets. tied no doubt
that deceased went to the garden to Meal apples. nod
steppe.' into the well soMilentsdlly. To,. jury returned
a verdict that the doctored Was found dead in a well,
but by what moans he csme there, there was no evidence
to show. .

A 24,,THRR MILITARY °MARL A private, named
Joseph, belonging to the lislh depot. quartered in
Birr b ha, wan observed on Monday Mbroing by
km,* of the moo in lois corps to be disinclined to eat to
breakfast, and they remarked that his manner was some.
what odd. He neglected to turn out on parade, and be
was watched rather closely. A •Ohlier. named Power,
and another approached his window, which is on the
ground.floor, and looking in they otsvrs'ed Joseph LittlM:
hi' the fire. loading his rifle with a cartridge; at this
time hie door was locked. They itutnedi.tely reportel
the circumstance to the colour-sergeant of bia company.
wl.o proceeded with an escort for the purpose of arrest-
ing bin., but findng i the door lucked he want round to
liis win low, 111 ico was open. Joseph presented kin
rifle at the wergnt with the bayonet Axed, hut fortu•
stately it mine fire. fit order to put I, i ttt MT los guard
his company was di.inissed drill, when he at once opened
the door, and was arrested, but nut v. ithout ..ostaiderelhe
re.ittance.

LIKATEI FRON CIIOIIING.-00 Tneaday afternoon an
inque.t was Inad at the Dolphin loth Unott-street.
Birmingham, concerning the death of • woman, severity.
four years of age, named Ann tieusitaw. who sodded in
that locality, and who met her du.th under very
singular circumstances. It seems that while the de-
ercued and her sou wore sitting at dinner on Howley.
the roe noticed his mother to have Wangle very Mack
in the face. As she coubl not speak. I.e iuuunedietcly
sent for a aurneou. Mr. Water.ou was soon in mitred-
Alice, but before hie arrival the unfortunate woman
had expired. Mr. Waterton has shoe made a Post-
Mut examination, and found in the windpipe a
piece of heel measuring 2 in. long and 1 in. wide.
He WI" Of opinioo that the deceased bad diet front
suifinition or choking. The jury returned a verdict of
" Arcidental death."

TM Igo To SHOOT Two OPTICS." AT PIROTOM.
—A Preston ciorrespendent writea :—A letter was
recently left on the table of the orderly room at
railroad Harriette, Preston, intimating that Lice•
tenant-Colonel Hardy aid Aristant-Staff Surgeon
Clark mast beware lest they meet a similar fat* to that
of the late Colonel Crofton and Captain Hanhas, who
wore shot by Patrick M'Cafferay, whilst they were
walking across the :iusdratigle of the came hamcka in
September Ist. The reason allege.' in the letter, as far
as we have been able to gather, is strict disc:.
plisiarisnisio. Of Conon the authorities at the garriaon
hats stone. commenced a rizia inquire. We haie
been informed that a clue has bola obtained to the
writer of the letter.

A PeXITIXT man named Beard has just
giten himself up the police authorities of igh
Wycombe, for • robbery committed at Downhain
teenty-fuur fears ago, lie then worked fur a Mrs.
lieeston. • painter. and altsronciad f her service,
robbing the house of a 1:10 and Rh note. • spade.ace
guinea. a halfniovereign, some silver, and • cost with
gilt buttons thereon. From hie own confession lie
hired • horse and cliche and cent to Cambridge, where
he borrowed • mit of the ostler, which he nev. r re.
turned. Ile adds that the affair had no troubled hie
mind that he had determined to g iv.. iiiinaelf up to
justice. Mrs. Beeaton left Dowidiam some time b.. k,
and is since dead, NO that Beard edit probably be din.
char;ted with all racier conscience.
FINIS AT Sr. JOHN'S 04.1.1,014 OXFORD.—A firs,
which might hoes been attended with isatr4 serious
result% broke out in the library of this College on
Tucsday morning at about three o'clock, the diacovery
of which was • pure matter of chance. It •iipeani sosl.o
of the felloes and their frienila had tern keeping
Christmas, and were about to retire, when they dig-
covered a flickering glare through i the library window
which they at once, from the unusual character of the;
occurrence, tiaced to its proper origin. The alarm was
instantly given, mail, with, the assiatattee of the resides
fellows, night policemen, arid aome townsmen who
happened to be painting St. Giles's at the time, the Ire
was gut under—a plentiful supply of water and the
small college engine having contributed in • eery large
ineaaure to its subjugation. Although the fire was
kept to one spot, still, we regret to hear, many valuable
MSS. and unleash were destrojed by the lire and water
combined. The ere, it appears, originated from the
ignition of • beam near which • flue had recently been
constructed.
_ . .

Tint Blume Muantn.—Tlie seven torn apprehended
for the murder of Mr. John Bagott, at Balaton, were tried
at Stafford AU•ils. The 1.1.1 clioe.l with • vir list of
wilful murder against Braudriek. Jones, and M edilox,
who were sentenced to death. Tile other four prboners
were acquitted. The murdered 'nen oas • clothier and
draper, was of eccentric habita, lived alone, and was be-
lier:d to possess • large hoard of money. After dieing
with • commercial traveller, on the 28th a September
lest, lie entered his linehe in • state of iutusieation. 'rho
opportunity was wised by the prisoner, to break into
his dwelling aunt murder him. Ti,.. next morning it
was discovered that the house had he. n plundered. Hos
bedroom set on fire, and Hr. B•Cnit deprived of life,
evidently after • deeperate struggle with hi. amailants.
On Setirlay Sllohlot wide a coif... Mon in one of
the turnkeys. He osid that the right men hail been Cols-
imedniich as only he I self and Jones and
Branclrick were cineerned either in the burglary or the
tuuider. An maw, bring °Whit,' In, the house, he ler,
through a tartly open door. Bratoldek riosli to the chair
is Imre deceased was ending. clutch him by the throat,
awl force him to the ground; awl Jeer.. then picked ail
the fire shovel. and premed the bottom mlge of it against
their victim'a chits..

AX AMATEUR CALCRAPT.—A little hoy named
Frick. r w.o recently taken before S. Moulton. W. M.
idger. end J. H. Wehb, Es Ir.— at Bs. Ifool-on-A von,
oh.rod with at. &tog a fowl, vain, Is. 6.1.. Co property
of Mr. Stephen Misen, carpenter. It came out io
evidence that the proneentor, finding iii,, bail ntolen the
bird, went for the boy, who, thiultmg L. woos golog to
I. perdonel, went to the torpecutor's workshop. A
wilt...* named Stokes, went there alsootly site: war
and saw the boy %Pill his arms Planned in free I
Newgate style, his legs toed together, and a row nowt!
14. truck, fnatened to* beam overhe..d. The itmecutor. I
in reply to the bench, tail he los I "only Cot, tied the I
hoy up to prevent liii entitling away tid the I &ace
came." The lather of the hot lotto I Mint his ,on had
been frightened so much that lie had not Pen Pooped
billet'. Ti.. Bench considered the priormer iond nuffered
punishment enough by the indioro I. of Moo oh end
having olincloarged the lad, censured the proneentor for
taking the law into his own loan.lo.—Rolk Vhronte4t.
A Clhing or 2000 About a lirtnight ago,
the orpmer of Coed Car Collierv, Doll* Pontypridd.
swhh.tily dlopprored with £ll7 in his posneoh.th the
property of the Company, which lie I.nd received to pay
the men's wages. His name is Thome. Jetikinn, •
, native of the neighbourhood of rencopl. The ease wan
placeoljoi the hands of Thomas, the police sergeant at
Llandnff, who lost no time in endeavouring to get upon
I the scent of the fugitive, Ile followed him to New
I Milford, Liverpool, Holyhead, Muldin, Cork. Quorum.
I town and Waterford, where lie finnlly sucrepted in
capturing him, and, what is better mill. with nearly the
whole of the money in lain posonnion. The cheer
onxiipicol .is days, mod wan upwaran of NOM miles run.
Sergeaot Thommo lop returned with loin prisoner, and he
now awaits his trinl.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED &WIDE or Tile Ullt•

DICKYAS AT BRIGHTON.—This town ha. hero thrown
into a state of consternation by this pen. tration of a
tragedy of . horrible, •nd at tho same time painful
t.16..019, the victim Is log the child of a real...viable
married woomn, who made • 110.1•CTIO0 attempt on her
own life, after hewing axeritiectl that of one her of.
'tiring. The circionstances iif t lir case, sot elicited in the
o•ideiion adducer' before the corner. I{l4ek,
may be briefly atatr.l. At 8, Higli,•tieet !raided, A well-
to-do-mechanic, whose name waaJiaton, together with
bin and • family of several children. Mrs. Jottim
lids for some abort time ;um. Leen bobolink,' • al. in
feet, ainee her last confinement her health has been in •
state which Mal to a belii.f that mental derang.inetit wee
aided to her bodily sufferings ; and this view of the

ease was continual by the circumstance ti at, some
three years ago, her mind was so affected that it was
lout." necessary, for a brief period, to confine her in •
lunatic asylum. From this, however, she recoseied,
and she loom since resumed her place in her f. ly.per-
forming the lomat I seliell duties- A few day, ago
her husband. Laving held a converxation with her, left
her room for • short time with a view of taking some
rarexliment, and returnuml bearing Millie nourishmunt
for her. it being then noon ; lint, to lois surprise found
the door (roomed. Nut receiving any reply to his
knocks he raised an alarm, and in the interval which
elapsed hefore the arrival mm( assistance. ("reed open the
door, wheim lit was horrified at seeing his wife in the
net of stmuglisig lima( with • handkerchief. Having
interlerred au as to prevent the completion of the
suicidal attempt, he (the huslendi, on glancing round
the room, won further horrified at perceiving Ida child,
• fine little girl, nearly a year old, lying in the lord
apparently dead. Assietance having arrived. • neigh-
bour, named fiddle., went to lie haul, an: forind the
ehild to he quite dead, with • string tied tightly munml
the neck, from which fact, and the general Irun.
numtras in.pearaisce. no doubt remained that death had
beco c.tute•l iiy stratigulat. . Although there was
no do ellbt as to the ill-unity of the unfortunate woman,
time police were necuadtated tim tare charge of Ler, and
her medical advice, she wax placed in proper re-
atralist. _ . .

-
TUAGEUT.—The town of Porbarlington war
thrown into a fearful state of eacittstuent on Tuesday
wonting by the Warman* intellsento that the post-
ina-ter of that town. Mr. John Brun,kill, had cut los
rife's throat with a kn le, awl also afteroanla attempted
hi. own life in a rintilar manner, with the seine indria
nient. Fisher, whn area promptly in •Metolance,
lid •Il that inellical skill could devise to alleviate the
.nfferingn of the unhappy woman, *linos injuries were
.51 a fearful character, awl though A. rem•ius in • Ircry
orecarious state. hopes are entertained of her recovery.
The unfortunate man w attended by Dr.
la-oh, of Illarylinrongli, an I alter Lis WisUled• were
0.. enuAidereil alviashle to trice !am reolo.tal
'is Mu mogil 'Aortic as lie was tuoupletelt
.ott of a 'hill I. Vsriou• maw., are adoat al to the
l3fllle event. He w. 6 in the well.,
.4 • lianiNntne inenine, in. ha VIM eloik to the savino•
haiik and loan hedilea ',scow moue Agene.,., a,
n• the pet4tus.atership. What the I a•al rea,ly was
Lii Meult buy, bat some 'whey.. that his mind sea
tuisettled using to his pecuniary matters.

An intereetiou eeteatony took neon on Taeolay at
;he offires of the Society for the Propsuat of the
tiosisi in Foreign Psrts, whys the llishoptf London.
in the name 1.1 the society, lode fisterell to fine ylong
guru who wrre about to procreil to depen.lenc.reahroa.t.
Iwo of the missionaries were Turks. and one of them a
gooiest from the klahlomdso redgion in mature tile
rho Imo Bi.hor or Honolulu was present, and ad•
trrased a few words of affectiouste bympsthy to ti,e.
missionsries, reminding them tiled be was about to be
'ripped io the tome Missionary work is eaglet part of
the world.