The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-26 00:00:00

LITERARY EXIILACT3.

A HINT TO rOUNG WOMICI.—A sensible, prudent
man known bow to estimate outside adorning, and
artificial smiles at their real worth, which in, in fact,
very low, lie knows that the gay dressy flirt often
makes • slatternly wife, and a still wone mother—that
the girl who trien to make herself no very agreeable
and bewitching while angling for • husband, frequently
turns out • very vixen when she has caught her finli ;
that the attractionu slue exhibits in public art, in most
instances, the very reverse that are to be ncen at home ;
in alma, that though idle may be Ruch an one as many
young men love to flirt with, blie is the very hist whom
prudence would select for a wife. A female whose wile
recommendation is • oretty face and • showy dress,
may excite a little attention ; but when it is dincovered
that the attinction in extental, and all its einptinen
within, than the prudent man %hiss off, saying to binp
self. " Thin is not the girl to make a wife of."—Brinsh
Workman.
FAT•LITT OF FUNCRALS.—It in said that the Great
Duke took with hint many of lain old companions in
arms, became they were kept waiting in St. Paul's
for no many hours At his lad review. No doubt every
year hundred, and hundreds of --especially obl—persons
are killed by their attendance at funerals, but what is
this to the hecatontba which were annually offered up
as victims to the sh Wen as a conneipience of the practice
of intra.oural iuterincatn.-0.1C2. 14 N.Cek.

CLiAR ANC& UNDER Tug New BANKRUPT ACT.—SAD
Calia.—William Miller, a prisoner for fifty years, was
examined on Thur.lay by Mr. Registrar Witolow, who
attended the debtor in his own room, at the Queen's
prison.- -The Registrar: I ern early, Mr. Miller, you
cannot come to me. I wish to ask von anise quesnionn.
—The prinoner Was then ewora.—The Rogistrar : You
first came into this prison in the year 1854 ?—Yes.—
Registrar : You were first arrested in 1815?—No. It
wan the 3rd of September, 1814. I Imre I reason to
reinember.—Regiatrar : What were you ? I caroled on
business an a carpenter and general cabinetmaker, in
Christchurch, Hampshire. I wits born there—Regis-
trar: What were your debta contracted for ?—There Was
no debt. I owed nothing to the man who arrested um.
YOU will see on the docanient on which I was arrested
Cot there was no sheriff's liaise attached. —Regintrar :
But the 'l.OOO for which you are detained was recovered
is wine o ; there were no proceedings in any
ourt whatever.—Regissrat : Have you ever petitioned
the Iliiiikiuptcy or Insolvent Curt?—No, 1 could not,
ail I owed no man auything.—ltegistrar Have you
any property ?—Yes, I have a life interest in some
house propel t.—Registrar : Du you receive the rents?
—Not since I was imprisoned.—Registrar Have you
got any relatives living?—Yes, I have sisters—poor
people. My mother Was alive when I was arrested ;
but she died since. Cull, who arrested me, seduced one
of my sieter&—Registrar : Do your sisters receive the
rent'—No; Ido not know who receive. them. The
only money I received from them was from one tenant,
who sent me from time to time £lo—Registrar : Did
Cull take the rents?—! don't know. I We. in prison,
and could learn nothing about Claim—Registrar : What
became of Cull ?—He has been dead for years.—Regis-
-1
trar : Was lie the only one who had primeediogs against
' you ?—They were not proceedings. Ile had no right
whatever.—Registrar: Well, say unlawful proceedings.
Are you willing to he made • bankrul,t?-1 root. I
owe nothing.—Registrar : I don't ask what you can do,
but what you are willieg to do. Are you willing ?—I
am not.—th. matter Was adjourned. . _

DISTRESS IN 111ACKOUICS.—Tlie reaction of the
insane struggle in the United States upon this country
has, as our readers are aware, long since commenced to
manifest itself in the shape of shortened employment
among the opeiatives engaged in the manufactuie of
cotton fabrics. Blackburn is feeling the force of this
reaction severely, and other ulaces, there is too mach
reason to believe, will speedily do so likewise In the
town just named during the pest week there were 639
relieved from the poor rates in excess of the number
relieved iu the corresponding week of lest year, and as
the season advances the numbers will no doubt increase.
The Board of Guardians, we learn, have made special
provisions in order to meet the unusual &mends which
will be made upon them, and these provisions are
characteristic of wisdom and humanity. It is proposed
:ntoeweinj all the able-bodied males 'Ai the woika of a I,:'l,Yliouse in course of erection, and to pay each
labourer the sum of Is 6.1 per day. This will find
employment for • large number of people; and, should
other labour be required, the Guardians propose that
tie Corporation should find tome other work in the
Corporation Park, or elsewhere upon the extensive
improvements being vfferted throughout the town, the
Guardian. oonlributing out of the poor rates to the
expense thus incurred. Already • body of men are
employed on the new workhouse property, and others
are being set to work.