The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

titntral Ness.

A renrseat. of paroehial choirs will be held in Salisbury
Cathedral on May 110th.
LARS YIAR 1811,510 marriages took plane In England,
747,870 births, and 491,380 death's.
Ti malts of the election petitions hitherto are that
ten Libentli and two Consarvativee have berm unseated.

IT le said that gr. 13. D. Home, the Spiritualist, ii
about to app.ar an an actor, and that he Li derbies the
pert of Ilemlet.

' A fume,.nerned Loa, susted of giving Informa-
tion against some Feniena hnien found manlened near
Kount-Ifallidk. Dublin.

Tem National Life-bott Ansociation bas now pro-
vidod 187 boas*, and of these 16 aro stationed on the
dangerous °oasts of Devon nod Cornwo.U.
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DTeta found st largo in Mancbaster Lod Salford are
killed with prussic &old by the police. Tbe people arc
alarmed by recent mess of hydrophobia.
I(ou thaa 3,000 kir el brosoli hays leen iospatebed
by rail Mk @soon from West Oorawall. Loudon Las
bad by far the largeal portion this rangy.

Tire body. of X. Hobbs, eolisiber, el Beading, wbe
bed been musing above fortnierbe, bee bees bend in
the Kennet Canal, bla gold wateh safe In Ws peeked.

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Ix roasomics of an order of tie easidoiraise
beadier sad aaelsined doe Win imftria
blascharter polio* oa Tandy, end adini —who ii;".y.
yard, ware tbey wen daddroyed by pekoe.
A inaaft mom ran from • wbsalwielt daring awe&
to, at Thorebory, • few days shwa, sad was mind fr,
ban dy th. 89.01 e breed, which, after • seeesen of
ew
violent bannasrings on the mead, killed sad Ibis Me

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Mc BMW'S Erroaat arnat.—Tb• Nook" 84r
meatiest* that so great was the bsteseet fsk ia MS
that Br. Bright woo to spook on Ifooday that "WOO at
midnight oo &today there won appikaall far shairima
to tbo lobby."
A Loso's B•110•111111.—Ae roe& Wei. vilo WOO le
a solo of foes, articles lately hold it rho ilibilatrf di
War, Porta, far lb. basalt of lb* poor, is algid to hero
okra 3,006 francs to km. tbe baud of • lady waiting at
ono of Ilia stalls, sot 6,000 trawls for • Ina of bra Oak
&ad " be departed pleased with his birgabts

THIIILI to rUlining on the South Wedets liai• • lia00••••
e•gime built to draw • trans it tditaidloadied
eighty mike hi three boar., *tab r
about tea tone While &yeas 1,000 to:l=M
to soothe:noon with almost the speed of • bird
the engine wU opossum one too of teaks Nod • few
of water.

Tee litectimil 881 P, the city of Wm/Anton, respede
ing t•bleh them has boom ...sse Jars, is Ws,
although injured. The vessel has last bee redder sad
propellor, but ber mails pawn/en, and scummiest/
atQueenstown on Friday on beard du tis, sag
the caplets and mew of this Otty of W a are
sailing her home.
Tem committee on petits pelitiose report that up to
the 90th, 818 petitions, with 511,198 signatiaree, have
been presented to Parliament in tamer of the Govern-
ment Franchise Bill. 227 petitions have begin eigoe4
offloWly, or under seal. Three pelltions bare bees
signed in favour at Lord Groseesmoo sanoadmoint, wits
1,918 signatures. Thirty petitions have boss payments/
earshot the bill.
Tel THAWS Al • PUSUSIO Srassn.—During the
past week bream, roach, sod dam have been men in the
water. at St. Hatharine's Dusk, sod apeciresse of mak
have been actually tsken sod preserved by the desk-
Master. The last salmon caught lo the Thames hitalsed
15d. per lb. Salmon fishing is but /Us likely to to
common unless the sewage is carried mast further down
Crossness Point or Barking Creek.
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Timms is a story going that Yr. ILU mitted
&lona roma to memory, and that this imusueript was
afterward font up to the repAiers who towed it to be
word for word aa be had dAvonel it, including some of
hie rensuks in sneerer to Ar Salyer IqUos, Wnire
were Ingeniously fitted in at proper Owes at thlic
pared speech, and lure afterward' theammless
out and marked for the guidance of the printer when
each wee to be ineerhod.

FATAL FIGHT. —Two gunnery of the Royal Arta
They
at Shawnee., nam,d Brisk and Grogan, baying .ligh2
quarelled about a portrait of Befall which f ;roam h
broken, agreed to mettle it by a light. On W. doomelsy
evening they, with other gunners. out, and atter Ile=
about twenty taunts:, during which tinas both
pretty equally matched, Grogan bit bis antagoolet
under the ear, the molt of which was that In two or
three minutes he fell deed. The jury bewaght in a
verdiet of manstaughter against Grogan.

FATAL DISPUTE IN • WONIIIOO4I. —The porter at
Wolverhampton workboase gemplaleed to Kr. Ashton,
baker, that the bread he brought there was deleient in
weight, when the latter called the porter by an oppro-
brious name, and pushed hint as violently that be fell
with his aide against the edge of the table, sad reerivei
injuries which sent him to his bed ; and the two eargeose
who were celled in pronoanoed the ogee hopeless. He
died on Wednesday. Kr. Aebtoo is committed ter trial
on the charge of ouutalangbter heti admitted to bail.
Etruria AND DITZININED 801171D1. —George
Tattendell, aged 56 years, an es-escape °Beer, bet
lately a wool sorter in the Landes Does has emninitted
suicide. The deceased was at times a bard drinkrr, and
on flunday morning he was found Is his bed-rocon
hanging by the nook to a olothes line tied to tbe post of
the He was quilts dead. An iron hammer lay
close by, and it was clear that be had made an attempt
to best Hs brains out with it, for his bead wee all over
bruises and cute, and the bed-cloth., were sprinkled
with blood. The jury returned • sordid* of gaited* .411
Ins state of unsound mind.

Tex Bonne luau tit Tnearant —Mr. Weirton, the
proprietor of Bolton theatre it.. summoced before the
magistrates on Thunday for permitting se indigent
song to be sung at his theatre, purporting to be a parody
on a recent breach of prorates ease at Bolton. The
names of the parties oonoerned were partially introdused
in the song, as well es references to the mooning ear-
respondence, but so indecent am to be a matter of midis
complaint. Mr Westoo denied that there was anything
offensive and indecent In II; there mast be pug. &boa
something. nu. Mayor : But you should wok to fin.
pram the public. Mete, and not to deprave it. Mr.
Wcstan said be mold produce 40 atelier mop now being
sung at the principal theatres in the kingdom. The
defendant baring diaeontinued the sou, alter receiving
the summons, the charge wee dianinied on his under-
taking that it should not be repeated.
Tin SENSATION STORY from Brighton about a boy
being street blind I r blasphemy turns out, beiwith-
standing the circumstantiality of the details, to be a
f.bricotion. One of the Brighton papers, tbe Xmcatiner,
han taken sameilins to arrive at the Mats, if there
wore any coder ng the tale, and publishes follow.
ing as the rend of its invat.eations it appears
that on Sunday menniebt a large number •1 b went
by rail to IlauMek's nat., for the ptimme of stelndioli
the day in bade' nestinc. After waiting about ail nay
a lad named .1, ffery, living at 26, Ben B.ra.e, minim
street, complained to one of his oompanions that he
could not am. He was taken to the Haseoek's lea,
where he remained till the, train started in the everting
for Brightee. He was placed in the earri.ge, and
before be reached Brighton Me boy was all right, and
what he mitered was owing to over exertion."

SHoCILING ORATE, TOON Pus BITS OF • DOG. —The
pareh clerk of Iliadtetra, near Dorierten, was bitten
on one finger six weeks ago by • dog be lofted front •
rabbit trap. The wound healed. hots few days bask the
poor fellow showed fevereh symptoms, felt smarting In
the bitten finger, and • desire to seise his wife like •
deg. Four Retied men ettended his. and curio's re-
melee were tried, but he got worse. Chloroform
afforded temporary relief, but the simple motion of the
handkerchief applying it mused hint to lamp from his
bed, and go down on his bands and knees in one corner
of lila room, barking and spitting. He eftereards
radially yielded to the drum but never wholly. As
latgth he had to ho bound to the bed, hie feet and head,
however, Ileum left at liberty. He wee generally eon.
menu, and wanted off all about him when the p•roxyams
mune upon him, which happened frequently. Then he
frothed at the mouth and nostrils. boiled, spat, yelped,
and gnashed his teeth. In a week he got thoessahly ex-
hausted, as/ hie death, which occurred shortly after,
WY comparatively calm.
5H.W.21110 Sweveatsus OF • TINILY TN Hoke
An inquitit WY held on Thursday morning by Mr.
Humphreys at the Geese Mae Teem Hendon, on the
body of Walter Robert Maridt, aged seven and • half
years, one of a hinsily of children who were found
starving in a home in Nit:Wall-square. Shoreditch. It
appeared that three children were found lying in •
corner of the room without any covering. D.eesaed
was aleo lying envered only with • bit of dirty sloth, and
was breathing hard, being near death Another child
was laying stark naked with only a bit of cloth over it
There WY no furniture whatever. Deemed was takes
to the fiborediteb Workhosse„ where he died in
thirty
boom from as the doctor certified, eareation. t
transpired that the father was cialesman to • ponderer,
In Leadeubiallinarket, and in the receipt of NU. • week,
In-sides perquisites. A daughter reluctantly derariked
the roiaerabte life of the fatuity and deposed that her
father gad her 1%. every Saturday night and some
mutton, and generally every day, except Monday, be
left her sixpence or • chilling to support all the family
with. There were six children, Tbe water bad hem
eat off, and there was no means of weehing. No red
had been paid for the house, and all the furniture was
raid under a distrera Witness and her deter sometimes
, earned • shilling or two by the needle. The eldest boy
got 3r. a week at an irosmonger's, sod kept it for his
own food. Witness did the best she could for the
diadems, but they never had enough to eat. ftlet told
her father they wanted food, but be said nothing. It
was proved that on the week eliding the 7th A ern the
accused had received £3 foe hie week's wages sad coon-
, missions. Re never went home except on Sundays.
After some further evidi nee, the ODrODPT SUM OW up,
and the jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter
against Walter Marsh, for felocionaly killing and Ida) ing
Walter Robert Marsh, his eon." The commie then made
out hia warrant, and the simmer was removed ia
custody.

Ragan ficenote.—One lady teaching its Lowiee, end
yesdlog in the Bible about "whed ch.fr. Need
thet not one of her seh.ilers had an Wet of eh.t wheat
we.; but or ;making them what "(Asa" might be there
was an immediate holding up of bards lumina] of own.
prehension, and • unenlinous reply of' Impidenew,
!" The dreadful puniahur.nt allotted to each
" chaff" seemed to follow quite annul. tweed. Another
ledy (as es have told elsewhere) asked her ekes. in the
course of a lecture on "Gratitude," wins. pleasure la
the course of the year they moot thiroarhly mijoyed.
After • thoughtful pause, the lac' boy le the cia.. looked
up and "mid , with simple candour, "Cock lighting ma'am."
"Oh, no, B," sald the lady, "I'ani mire you 1111111.04
like that ersel sport." "Y.. I do ma'am, thosgb I
There's • pit up by the Black Boy as is worth anything
in B—." A similar story is to he found Is an sloth,
abl- little tract In the series" Odds and Enda," on

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" Penitentiaries." p. 30 :—"Thor. use (at the ragged
schooi). boy who iavariably interrupted all histories
of heroes and mints recorded in Scripture by d
jut comparisons with Toni &mu. II ism and orert.
was all .or, rII. be would soy 'bat slut wu they
to OM little ship a•busdla up as rm as a beaten,.
cock Mori bat gout thsadmin' Yantis.. ead • kaockin
of him down like a nieenin Bless you Noah sad
Abraham, and all that lot, weren't 31 10 hold a miudie
to hi.. lie war a hero. IN
A amen boy, to whom some ou bad tried to &mob Um
..i.ohiun, obstinately refused to believe ha
bat the articles of the Christmas Pout; and heitolir salt
for suns farther esplanation, said 'A lolly nlam-podrlin
us the, beet on 'cu." Oa sowber oomolon the writer
p,ropused ,o a class of lade of about iiishrr n, the quokka
• What vu oun..aisnrer Immense •a
found in girls; an answer, but evestu •lly the followia
ingenious definition wu supplied:—" Yonne:Ouse is •
thing which a gen'oas ern% got, who when a boy gads
hI lisnrikersher sod rives it bias buck, dust% give tb•
boy e When the teeeher asked whether, eves
wirier the so, sashed wrong of getting no sizimemill
roe, boy did not feel rather glad to hue returned ths
lost artisle—aod whether. main, under the contingently
(suggested by the sight of • obit. handkerchief in the
lrands of a young gentleman anprovited ottb Aces) a
h. boy not restorsig what be Neal, be did not dislike to
think of tbe trousseau—then wag in each sue •
Chet= of • Of tuns the Isms tasted.
Well, boys t which makes you feel entefortable ekes
yon bay* dose right sad gas mriMing, sad very mama.
futailde whim you b.,* dune using sad phisi your
end, that is conseienee.. Perhaps few lads who eould
hare given a eorreest &ignition of the word were ers
touch alive se they wore to Um reality of the thin. -
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