The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-24 00:00:00

FItEXCH SWINDLER

Another daring-s77e.n-t-u-re. r-biss—j-1-I,lt-b-Con tried by the
Naneilles tribunal. His real name is Emile Villain, and
a most appropriate no; but he preferred to call himself
the Comte de Kergalec. A whole series of charges of
swindling were brought against him, and he has already
undergone imprisonment in Paris, Implon. and other
places. It appears front the indictment that the prisoner
succeeded during the war in deceiving the Empress, the
Governor of Paris, and other ditinguishell person. Ile
dined also with Admirals Saisset awl La Randers to
Noury, and was thought Co much of by the Government
that it bestowed on hint the eras: f the legion of Honour.
It further ooze.l out that he played the part of to Prussian
spy during the Beige. He was sentenced to four yeara*
imprisonment and 2,500 f. tine.

THE GRAN) LODGE OF GOOD TEMPLAR.
At the annual session of the Grand Lodge of Good
Templar., hell at Swansea, it was determined to frame a
bill for Wales alone, to be brought forward nest Parlia-
ment session, embodying the entire closing of publichouses
on Sunday. the abolition of grocers licenses, restricting
publichouses to one for every tire hundred inhabitants,
the withdrawal of licenses from river steamboats awl all
places of public ainwienieut and entertainment, and
closing at ten o'clock in towns, and at eight in the country.
In new districts no license to he granted without a
majority of the ratepayers, cancelling licenses where gross
violation of certificate bad been committed, abolishing
Quarter Sessions appeal, nod other stringent regulations
named to additions to be settled at subsequent temperance
and social reformers.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY OX PUTNEY HEATH.
On Thursday, in a thicket on Putney !loath, near Roe-
hampton, was found lying upon his back • inan—or the
remains of • man —f ashionably-dressod with an eyedrlase
fixed in I..ition. The smell made it clear that death
had taken place long before. As the body was about to
he lifted the head drceme.l off, the body being in point of
fact one muss of decomposition. The boughs of some
trees and shrubs had to be cut away to get at the body ;
and the deceased must by a laborious process have crawled
Into the thicket. Deceased was evidently • gentleman;
and although the body was very much decomposed the
clothing was entire. It could not be seen if there were
any marks of violence upon the body, it being too decom-
posed to ascertain. Deeessed was dressed in blue ribbed
diagonal coat and vest, and light grey trousers with
raised military seams: merino stockings, and side-spring
boots. In the waistcoat pocket was a small Remington
breechloading pistol and six cartridges, and lie had also •
handkerchief spotted with blood, an eyeglass, • hunch of
keys, and threepence in bronze. Dr. Sheard found that
death had taken place certainly three weeks before the
discovery. It was impossible in the present state of the
body to say what was the cause of death. The ingury
was adjourned for farther evidence.
The remains have, after the explosion of • rumour
intimately associating them with Alexander Collie, been
identified as those of Thomas Grant, • man who, a month
ago, was dismissed from a clerkship in the City.

An Irishman named- Belly, on his way home from a I
wedding near Enniskillen, has been found dead in a pool
of blood.
A detective pulicman has, it is said,
_proceeded to Spain,
where it is thought Alexander Collie may have taken
refuge.
Over 400 pigs have died in the Charente district, near
Dublin, from a disease which has broken out during the
the last few days.
At Wolverhampton Workhouse u Monday night •
pauper luntic named Cartwright, in a fit of passion, throw
down • male warder awl bit ..f a piece of his ear.
Several children at Brintol who had eaten laburnum
reeitS showed symptoms of poisoning, and had to be taken
to the hospital.
At Stoekfmrt a wan named Wilson was sentenced to a
inontli's imprisonment for kissing • young lady he met in
the street.
John Ariontrong, chief mate of the hulk Kent, was
sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude at Liverpool
Assizans for the manslaughter of his captain, by throwing
him overboard while the ship was at Bonny.
The Bishop of Manchester speaking at Wet Damen, on
the occasion of the laying of a fuundationedone of a new
church, condemned the flimsy style of ecclesiastical archi-
tecture somewhat too prevalent in this age.
At the Liverpool Assizes, before Mr. Justice Archibald,
William Baker. aged 35, was convicted of the wilful
murder of Charles Langan, by shooting him with a
revolver during an altercation, and sentenced to death.
Both were betting men.
It is mid that the cost of preparing the Serapis for the
voyage to India with the Prince of Wales is estimated at
£5,0151, awl the expenses of removing all Whitman'
fittings no as to raider her again an Indian trooper
aeconling to pattern, will exceed I:2.iiud.
Eces'a Coro ..—CRATEVIVL AND 0)111,011111N6.—" By •
thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the
operations of digestion awl nutrition, and by a careful ap.
plication of the fine properies of well-selected cocoa, Mr.
Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy
doctors' bills. It is by the judicions use of such articles of
diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until
strong rmuomigh to resist every tendency to disease.
I tun.lis..l4 iif slibtle maladies are Minting around Ila ready
to attack where. er then: is a weak point. We tuily escape
many a fatal shaft Jr keeping ounsAves well fortified with
pure blood and a properly nourished fratue.--Civif .4.:rrke
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ISHONIMT PILACTICIL—For the sake of extra profit
sonie unprincipled tradesmen, when asked for Itnatirr's
BLIMis Istinsaint, substitute inferior kinilt in the
same fony. The Paris Blue. "At own IN TIM PRINI E
or WALLS* LIMNIMT.* it now so universally eiteemed
for its splendid quality —above all other blues —that it is
Important to °beery° it is only genuine when sold in
squares, wrapped up in pink paper bearing I. Reckitt and
Sons name and trade mark. Refuse all Blue which is
not so wrapped.
Coomeratum it not unlikely to find a considerable rival
in tlie tradesmen atsociate i with the Society ealled the
General Expetriliture Atturanow Company, s, Olil Jewry,
Loudon, which is increasing by hundreds the number of
its illCauberd in London. The Company hat been in
existence about a year and half. and its tharehohle ma,
who are distinct from trade members, hare already
reivived a very fair dividend. London tradesmen are
liei;inninsto find their rattamers who had olegertoll theta
for the "Stun*" returning to them for the advantticce
offered by the Coupon system, which, without roquitin4
, .ythim more than the payment of ready money, secures
the puisser the ultiluste return of the amount he hle
expendad.