The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-12-14 00:00:00

A .MAMIAN IN AN JIOsTITAL.

Mi. morning a man named innytte of
Norwie.h hogpital. golTerime from .Ij.,mejil, attwkel
several of the inmatex, afl 1...v4. with a pair of tone.
Three were kille.l, aml two othera were lieverely injured.

THE (i)1.1.111; Asp,
Wu to-day further po.toontsl for xi: luonths. Alesan,ler
being atilt at Isrze. The finer intimates that he it at
Barcelona, in Spain.

REPRFAVNIT‘TION OF WIIITEITAVEN.
George Anzinitini Cvrnll.h Ren•inelt. Corianrrativa.
and Charier nonunion. Pormi.dve Bill candidate, were
to-day nominated for Whitehaven.

FOIITIttLL
The annual match lhanwl and Camhridige
resulted in • victory for Oxfor I with a try to nothing.

TII E WIIITECIIAPEL MURDER.
LATVAT.
Henry continue' to eshil.it the lame outwardly calm
diem... Dion. lie receive. the Onlinary of the primn daily
with every xymptcon of earnmtne.., an.l hie conduct in
chapel In reven.nt awl becoming. lie "rem. toenioy mound
steep. and G. rclimh hi. food. Mi.. Mintore ha. made
errantement. for wring up Harriet Lane's children to
their maternal arandfather.

THE MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR
NURSE.
Great excitement prevails In West Snmereetshire,
canoed he the confession of two merrier. and arson by
Rosina Roe. Her crimes bear a striking reserablence to
the Goad murder, in the same county, fourteen Years age
and Roe herself, like 4 lonstatire Kent, is a wellnrewn and
stolid girl. Further examination confirms the idea of her
guilt, although she has withdrawn her confiestion of one
murder. The first was committed three years ago, at
Pitney, where a fine boy, of whom she hail been left in
charge. was found dead In a well, end her agitation and
equivocations when examined at the inquest calmed the
general belief that she was eelpilde. Four months ago
she entered the serviee of a large farmer, named Barnard,
near L‘agport, and appeared attached to all the seven
children sive one. But one day the plunges*. child,
nearly two years nll, WU missed, having been seen ten
minutes before, and his body was awbsequently discovered
In a small stream, two (Rids nff. Reel has noc admitted
that she caught the child off the door-step, ran over to the
stream with him, and threw him in. She can assign no
reason, only that "something possessed her," and she
could not resist A similar reason she assigns for throw-
ing the other child down the well at Pitney. She now
coMewien to tete her men words, "eke would have two
years' imprisonment for setting her master's ricks no Are
last week, and hanzin4 will he only one shock." The on-
fortunate family in which this has occurred are greatly
horrified. The girl is in custody, and has been with
difficulty towed from the violence of the neighbours.
Both the deceased were remarkably fine children, the pets
of their families. Rise eeems indifferent, and has been
dinging merrily since her arrest.

TIIE SHAKERS: EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
An extraordinary steins, amounting
shooed to a riot,
took place at a meeting of the New Forest Shakers. at
Exeter, on Thursday night. Mr.. Carling was accompanied
by eight young women and four men, and whilst she was
in the midst of her address one of the girls commenced to
dance. This caused some excitement. a. the flaming was
prolonged. and V 1,4 pronolinreil by Mr., fiirling to be I lue
to religi.,os ioduence.. One gif the alptience, got up arpl
denounced the with thing as a blivmheniomi fares. This
expremin wss loudly cheered. Kra Minna Intik:A any
one who wished t. spent to roma on the platform, and at
teat one gcntleman went there. At the name moment
another girl c inenced to dance, and the excitement
Increased. The audience mooed an a Inale to the platform.
and a large her nralinl it. Indescribable eon/notion
followed. so the midst if which attempts were made to
MAP the but they yenintral. one of them shutting "I
will rejoice: "Tom+ not the Lords anointed." The male
members of the rota 1111 l nitv were remonstrated with for
permitting such an exhibition, hut they expressed them-
solves poweriesa to sbm the dancing. The girls were at
last forcibly stopped. 111 l one threatend to gine one of
the male Shakers a thradling upon which he commenced
to demos, and the disturbance wee only ended by the
whole body of Shakers being forcibly ejected from the
platform.

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER AND DISSENT.
Some interesting correspowlenee has passed between
Yr. Thema:Bus Smith, of Ely House, Richmond. Surrey,
and the Eirhop of Winchestrr, relative to the refusal of
the Rev. C. T. Procter. Vicar of Richmond, and his
curates, to attend the dedication service of the newly
Areeted Nonconformists' mortuary chapel in the Richmond
Cemetery, on the ground that it was 'altogether contrary
to the doctrine and discipline 11( the Church of England
that either her clemy or faithful laity should attend a
service in • Diowirting chapr•L Mr. Smith wrote to the
Bishop, "Ac a member of the Church of England and as
a worshipper therein during upwards of half a century, I
.t+ig your lordship, as the Bishop of this diocese.
whether I or any lay Churchman woubl lay ourselves op en
to any spiritual censure or ecclesiastical penalties if we
were to attend • service in a Nonconformist mortuary
chapel, Are we to be deharred from being prurient st the
obsequies of • Nonconformist relative or friend, lest by so
doing we should forfeit Mine of our priviliges as lay
Churchmen I A. I feel very ansiour on this subject, I
shall feel th.inkful if your lordship will inform me,"
In reply, the Bishop wrotu an follows:
" Fanihani Castle Dec. 11.
. .•

" Dear Sir-1 esnnot find fault with the view of Mr.
Procter that an Enzlivli clergyman cannot with propriety
attend a N..nconformist service. There is every reason to
feel with kindness towards all Christians, though in some
points we may think theta wrong. but it appears to me
that no well instructed ehurdiman can attend the
services of other communions, for if the English
Church id tot the true Church of this lend,
she is a usurper cud an impostor. I am far from
wishing to burden anyone's eonsieence, or to may that
• Churchman may not with propriety attend the funeral
of a 24 oicouforini.t relation. This it quite another matter.
The church does not. and cannot, MCI. Pt the theory that
Christianity ought to consist of a multitude of differing
ejects ; therefore. he must desire to bring all teen into the
one body, the I lthrrh, of which in England the English
Church is the representative. Rot churchmen miv have
the kindliest sympithy with Christians who see different-
ly from herself, though she may earnestly desire to
reconcile them to herself.-1 am, my dear Sir, your faith-
ful servant,
"Mr. T. Smith." "O. H. wirrroN.
A SUPPOSED MURDER 25 YEARS AGO.
Lately a tavern which was to let in a low part of Imith,
named Queen-street. was taken by • new comer ; he had
occasion to effect some repairs, and while this was being
done there was found under the flooring of the peafle
the skeleton of a tall man, without any vestige of clothing
Or other article that could lead fo identification. It does
not seem clear, indeed, that any marks of violence could
be detected. Here was a invatery, and as Leith iv by no
means the met of place in which stalwart grain porters or
lowt.legeed Highland bagpipers who may die • natural
death would be buried in pa.mmaes of houses, while there
Ste so many cemeteries and churchyards **convenient."
suspicious of foul play were at once aroused. Then there
seems to have dawned on some persons' memories the
incidents of • very strange occorrence which transpired
just a quarter of a century ago. On the evening of the 13th
January. 101-,01,1 New Year's Day—a party of students
grew Edinburgh University started off Leith-wards to
make a night .1 it. They indulged in drink but do not
beam to have been guilty of any excemes. On their way
home one of the number. named Norman Mackenzie, a
tall young fellow from Sutherlandshire, was accosted by •
girl standine at the entrance of a " close " or passage in
4;jueen-street, but after speaking to her for • few minutes
he wag Induced by has companions to leave her. In a
Mtge, however. he insisted on returning ; and giving his
Companions the slip, he succeeded in rejoining her, as was
supposed. At all event., hi. friends lo.t sight of him,
and, strange to say, he was
appearance attracted notice: inqolne. were set on foot,
sod an investigation was held by the Procurator Fiscal,
which led. recanting to the statement• lately puldished.
to the arrert of two of young Mackenzie *a companions ;
but nothing was discovered,. and the matter was allowed
to fall into oblivion. Now ilia suggested the skeleton di.-
entombed from the dark peraage is all that remains of the
hapless yoath, and that be was decoyed into .11110 vile
den, dragged, murdered, robbed, and then buried out of
Meat

A YEOVIL BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
The case of Penman v. Watson has just hem called in
Court of Sessions, Edinburgh. before Lord CurrichilL It
is an action at the instance of Eliza laminae Penmaib
daughter of the late E. W. Pateman, at present reading
at Cambridge. against John Watson, son of a dr/salter.
Springbok*. Galeshiels, fur i:Laki damages for an alleged
breech of promise to marry. The laxly ‘Va..l first bend
milliner and saleswoman in the shop of Messrs. Combat
and Co., Galashieli, in PC& and it was then that the
defendant began to lin his addresses to her. In February
last be made her • formal offer of marriage. which she
accepted. The promise was made both verbally and in
writing. She left Galashiels in March last, and sub-
sequently proceeded to Yeovil. in Somenetahire, where
she was engaged as a milliner. At the outset he fre-
quently corresponded with her there; but in JUDO the
leftism, though not the less ardent in their terms, were
lees annierous. About the middle of July last she got •
letter from him beginning "Mi.. Pateinan." sad asking
her for return of his letters in exchange for her's. which
he
transmitted by the seme post, and stating that he had
been warned by I. father to return the correspondence.
Again. in September he intimated to her Ins letter cow-
man's/ " Madam- that their 'little courtship" was "at
an end." He concluded this letter as follows —"I: shall
thank you for • reply hy Wedseeday next. otherwise I
lama go to • lawyer and ink him to deal with you."
Shortly afterwards a lawyer did write to her to obtain
n of the correspondence, but without effect.
this breech on the Part of the defendant the
plaintiff My, she has suffer.' so much in bar health, feel-
sad rsaitatAon that she has been compelled to give
DP her situation in Yeovil, and return to her mothers
house he C..
-- The defendant's answer is not yet
dos.