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

foreign intelligence.

ALGERIA is scourged with plague of lootuits.
Simms has had an interview with General Prins in
Paria and will, it is said, pay a visit to Garibaldi.

Piixi joints of beef and mutton are now in
Bremen (Germany) at 6d. per lb.
As American paper suggests. as CO improvement, in
Bibles. the preparation of a leaf or two I. the " family
record" for divorces.

An agricultural labourer of Bordeaux we. lately fined
a franc by a tribunal of that town for baying ploughed
a field on All &iota' Day.

An Americas) paper says that by the electric telearsph
and a type-setting machine, a person in V- ~bington
tan net up types at the Alms of the New York paper
A PITITION lan been presented to the Lieutenant-
Governor et Bengal from 21,000 orthodox and donated
Bengalees, praying for the suppression ol polygamy in
Bengal

PonVOGOEnn Maui:ix...tea —Count de Vervain
has just died at Oporto, leaving • Voltam of • million
sterling, the whole of which he has bequeathed to
°heritable institution,.

A Faunae professor b.* discovered that the earth
dose not move so feat.. it did-2000 years ago. The
learned man compute. that in one thousand six hundred
millions of years Imam it will come to a standstill.

A LOU event has happened at Tangiers. The Sheriff
of ouasou, who. considered a "holy man," has flown
in the face of his Koran, which forbids the faithful to
imitate by the painter's art aught eine than Sowers and
arabesques. The Sheriff has had hie "portrait" painted.

80ICIDS IT PIMMUSION.—An engineer was sent from
Japan to Now York to buy • steam corvette. On Me
r.tunin, with It the Tycoon was dissarmfled, and the
°Send, believing himself dishonoured, asked for and
obtained permission from the Time+) to commit suicide.
He consequently ripped open Ins abdomen, as is the
custom, in presence of his colleagues, who stood in •
circle around him.

A PLIACHIX OX FILL —ln CO. of the Presbyterian
churches in New York the other Sunday morning •
nunister wee officiating with all doe decorum and
entemutty, when .11.1 once he begu to cot queer antis,
and shortly disappeared from view. Smoke arose from
the pulpit, and the excited congregation learnt after
awhile that the minister wee on Are. It seems that he
serried In 64 pockets a lot of loose Inciter =abatis, and
they ignited and net him on fire. Asetstnnes same, and
the minister (ire) was put out.

A mums story of a duel between two French
officers of the P•ria garrimn is published. One was
killed on the sptt, and the other, having received •
swot% thrust in his lunge, lo net expemed to live. The
surgeon who wee to have attended the meeting profess-
ionally was thrown from his hone while going to the
ground, and falling upon some iron spikee in front of •
honer, was trensiged. He we. taken off the rails quite
degd.
lug news front China is important. The Imperial
army has obtained • complete victory over • body of
50,000 rebels, supposed to be the residue of the
Timpiegs. The °orient lamed two days, and resulted
in the whole of the body of rebel, being either
slaughtered or taken prisonem Some of the troops
have set out with the victorious general for Henke...,
I, order to tale the deld against the Nyenfei. The
third instalment of the indemnity money has been paid
by the Chinese Government.

—Thefuseemporesidadr
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Loin Apr ABpilril.l I.l.(bEntrlnningin.).
formed Congress that preparatory measnres had been
taken to send • fleet to the fishing grounds, but no
collision is apprehended. Davis's 0141 is expected to
teke place in the Circuit Court, Richmond, within two
months. Sheridan has ordered all persom on embarking
from New Orleans for Mexico to obtain passports. The
orders supposed to be directed against Confederate
colonisation schemes. It io reported that Mount Desert
is our of the Fenian rendesvons in Maine. A British
gunboat it reported to be cruising near Frenchman's
Bay on the look out.
WHIT& SAVAGIS.—We find the following horrid
paragraph in an American exchange —"A: town
meeting at Owyhu, Idaho, recently resolved that three
men be appointed to select twenty•five men togs Indian
hunting, and all those who shell fit themselves out
shall receive • nominal son for all Kelps they may
bring in ; and all who cannot fit themselves out shall be
fitted out by this eoinutittee ; and when they bring in
• scalp it shall be deducted out. That for every back
Kelp he paid 100 dollars, and for every squaw scalp
fifty dollars, and twenty-five dollars for everything in
the shape of Indian under ten years of ege. That each
scalp shall have the curl of the head. and each was
shall make oath that the scalp was taken by the cam-
pony."
111).11031=AS PRATII Yon QUERN VICTOSIA. —For
the first time in India the " Rhatba" has been read in
behalf of the Queen of England. The eventkook place
at Lahore, by Mir Hassan Shah, Firssdalt of Batulia,
at the Fad festivaL in Alsmgir's Musjtd, which has
been inside over to the Mallomedus for public worship.
Tranalstion.—" 0 Lord help and befriend her who has
bestowed on us this splendid mesjid, and bu given us
this noble building, namely, the Empress and excellent
Lady whose empire extends from east to well, and wh,i
has become victorious over the kings of Arabia and the
rest of the wadi' ; her whose name is Vietoria. God
preserve her empire and authority. end hubs on her
subjects the blessints which now from her goverument.
0 preserver arid gracious helper of mulrind. Amen."
Ti Cavaco letter from Naples in tie
Tempe says that the lets dispute as to nuiver-ity
stridents hes led to a duel between the 000ducite•rs of two
journals: the Popoki if Italia, absolutely devoted to
the students, and the Roma, whielt had wished to take
• middle course. "After misalt abuse and the free use
of such phases as 'shameful liars,' an appeal was made
to the sword, winch is here the usual weapon for duels.
Tbe person who represented the Pops& was a priest.
He fought bravely, and wounded the champion of the
Roma in the band. You Might suppose that for •
prhst to fight a duel would eases gra it surprise. But
It did not. This suerdotel pugnacity is here regarded
as nothing at all extraordinary.
litillf.te Or Agwcss LADIn: Taunt NOTION•
Or Titillan.—The American correspondent of the Spec-
tator, writing of American ladies, says:—" They shrink
from appearing in full dress, however moderate its so-
milled fulness, in • shall, or in the open boxes of the
theatre, or at the dinner-table of an hotel which is open
to the public, and where they may be is does proximity
to catire strangers of whom they know only that they
can afford to pay for their seats or their damn. A
lady whom I knew had rather an tinplesent experience
In an attempt souse years ago to disregard this tacit un-
derstanding among the sex in regard to dinner dues at
hotels. She belonged to an ultraduldoemble eat, and
' having married • South Carolina planter, soon adopted
what we cell plantation manners,' and &Ceded no
little morn of simple-usannued, reserved New England
folk. She was at Newport, our great sea-eide watering- ,
place, and having jut retuned from Eames, took
great sin upon herself. One simian at the tee-table a
gentleman sat down near her, and the batter-plate be-
fore him happening to have no butter-Imile by it at the
moment, be, Instead of calling the waiter and waiting
for one to be brought, used his own perfectly fresh
bright knife to take a bit of butter. He was a man of
sultan and social standing, but • Yankee and one
whose social pretensions she wished to flout She
seized the opportunity, and tolling • waiter, said in an
elaborately subdued but decided tone, 'Take away that
butter, that geatlemen has had his knife in it. He
took no notice of the remark, which drew all eyes upon
him and upon the lady, but byandloy she ',retched out
her band and took from the plate some chipped dried
beef which stood between Mr and her victim. This was
well enough, of course, bet he turned at once, and
calling • waiter, said, only as if he were asking for
more tea. 'Take away that dried beef, this lady his
had her floors in it' In this esesmater, such as it was.
he was thought to have bad the hest of it, and she dad
forgive or forget. So • few days afterwards (I should
have mentioned that there wee the slightest possiLle
acquaintance between them), they being at dinner, she,
conspicuous in the full dress she Lad adopted sinee her
tour to Europe, and which was so very 'full" that it
would have attraoed atteation under aey circumstances,
took one from • dish of fresh figs before het and
putting it on • plate, handed it to him with an ex•
prudent of complaisance, but saying in • tone of un-
mistak.ble sianificance, which could be heard all around
her, 'A fig for you, or.' He sceepte4 it graciously,
and taking in his turn • leaf from tio garniture of tee
dish, offered it to her, with 'A fig-leaf for you, madam.'
She fled the table, and kept her room until her intended
victim left the hotel."