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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-09-25 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BEWSTTIVR BURGLAR. —A thief, well known to the Paris police by the sobriquet of Pompette, has just ootuniitted suicide from a mistaken sense of amour proper, in having failed in • job he had long premeditated, lie had broken into a hone and forced open an iron safe, but was disturbed at the moment he was shout to make off with the contenta. The next day, while in • state of intoxication, he wee heard to exclaim, "I have missed an opportunity which would have made my fortune. I shall never get over it." Early on the following morning he was found hanging to • tree at La Varenne.  Tug Catholic world beano! been so startled an it might have been had it not been prepared for the shook of hearing that Monseigneur Behr-aloha had been sent by the Pope with an antagraph letter tn Queen Victoria, and that Mr. Odo Rms.li had been in ClOft conference with the French ambassador, evidently tieking over Malta as a refuge for the Papacy. The Ultramontane Journals here have been semi...taming people to expect thie transfer; and should the an-uneement cotne that his Moline., bad embarked on bospi of a British menof-war, the news would hardly oeouion suprise. —Paris Corresposdnit.  A Rumania crrT, indeed, has Vienna been. For months back it has been little better than • camp. In the months of June 4,600 men, 180 officers, and %OW horses were fed &Hy. In July 400 officers, 15,000 mon, and 3,000 horses were provided for daily, and seven generals' rations, 538 staftofficers' rations. 8,142 field officers' rations, and 369,000 r.tions, with 66,637 horse rations were provided, at • coat of 91,714 florins. fia August the coat increased to 127,000 florins. I. the district of Vienna called Leopold.tadt quarters, were foetid for 53 general., 189 abiff, 1.593 officers, 19R army surgeons, and 73,623 non-commissioned officers and privates from May till August, and not less than 190,000 torn were quartered in the district since the beginning of the year.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-05-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

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 professionally 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 eAnetitivsigentd—Ntheew 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.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-05-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

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 earrespondence, 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 undertaking that it should not be repeated. Tin SENSATION STORY from Brighton about a boy being street blind I r blasphemy turns out, beiwithstanding 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
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1866-10-30 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

PARLIAMEST.—On Thursday morn• hut the ceremony of prineiguing Parliament was performed in the House of Lords with the customary formalities. The House now stands prorogued till the 241.11 November.  AT Four-post hill, near the tiletthenden ststion, an the Southampton and D ingetshire Railway, there is now • hor.e chestnut tree in leaf and bud for the second time this season. and if the weather continues mild, it is likely shortly to be in bloom. A M arTI NG was hell in the Mayor's-parlour, Exchange ball, Nottingham, on Wednesday, Mr T. C. ;line in the choir, when it was resolved that an earnest effort be made to collect a national sub-ctiption with a view to raise a memorial in honour of Bryon. A VrrtairtAßT SUMMON, named Bunnell, wee fined 255. on Tuesday by the Liverpool magistrees, for stopping the prison van On its way to Kirke Isle gaol. and insisting upon the horse being taken rut of the shafts on the ground that it was deceised, Mr. Bunnell was intoxicated at the time.  IT is said that the amount crest this year by the liberal and hospitable Lord Mayor exceeded ,C 16,099 out of which the Ott Noveinber, "the great stow day," with its gorgeous procession, recalling the splendour of olden times, and A stlet's by daylight, with the evening's gluttony, Mad L 1,102 14x. A C0H014111.8 inquest was held in London on Thursday relative to the death of William Ward, a brewer's porter. Deerssed committed suicide by enterir it a at which was empty of beer but filled with carbonic acid gas, and the boly had to be recovered by drags. A verdict of ixsanity was returned.  Five very entertaining Stanserit books are announced es "in the Press." The titles of the new book. are lie n as under—" Swapantaol akehaviinabaniantrastoira," " Trigunatmik skaliksatotra," " Upangalalit terstodysnana." " San karehtatachato rthivratodys• pane," end " Anantatachaturdaricrataketha." Stile workmen, who have been employed is digifint near London Wall, have found, at • depth of about 30 feet, • large quantity of bones of borsea, oxen, deer, and 'pieta. A few spears, armed at the end with born, have also been diatottered. From the nature of the moil it is considered probable that the workmen have coine 'iron th- bed of the creek whi,h formerly ran from the Thames op into Finsbury Fields.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-08-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BCHOOLB.—ThO annual examination of the boys' wheel by Her Majesty's Inspector, took place on Thursday, the 17th Inst. It was conducted by Mr. Trail., from tho education department, Whitehall The result was moat satisfactory, showing that the boys were well grounded in the, elementary !subjects. The elder boys had aleo a written examination on the geography of England and Wales. The coloured maps which them boys had prepared for imposition were very well executed. The girl's school wee examined by the mine gentleman on Friday, and with equally good remits. The needlework was mush commended. Several of the elder girls had prepared maps for inlineation. The Infant's school, widish in point of numbers is new in a nourishing condition, was also examined on the same day. BOICIDL —On Thursday morning last a very painful case of suicide occurred, the deceased being Mrs Sarah Garland, aged 66. living In Hlll-street. She had rented • room for nine months of Mrs. Cook, who saw her about ball-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, when she went to bed, complaining that she swag "lost" in tbe head. Mrs. Cook heard her getting up about half-past six on the following morning, and also beard her moving about at seven. The decosaed had been in the habit of going into Mrs. Cook's room, as the latter was 111, but she did not do so that morning. Mrs. Cook went to her room about eight, when she mund the deceased kneeling against the door with her Gad downwards and a pleoe of twine round her neck, fastened to the handle of the door. Mrs. Cook sent for Vie son•in-law of deceased, Mr. G. Lookyer, baker, who lives opposite, and who went Lwow at mos and audited in taking her down. A. medical man was mat for, and on his arrival he said she had been dead about three-quarters of an hour. An inquest wee held on the body on Friday, by G. H. Aldridge, Esq., coroner who spoke of the melancholy nature of the cam The evideuce of Mrs. Cook and Mr. Lookyer was taken, and the former, after narrating the circumstances connected with the act of suicide, said the deceased had often complained to her of feeling • giddiness in the heed; she had also had its, but not duos she had lived with witness. She never complained of being moontfortable ; indeed, she ma provided with every comfort, Mr. and Mrs. Lookyer paying the greatest attention to her. She was very fond of reading religions subjects. The jury retarned a verdict of "Suicide during tempiracy -" Perri Thursday.—flefore the Mayor (Alderman F. T. Itogeeta tralul W. L. C. Adey, Ben, POOl-11ATIL—Tbe tee confirmed a poor-rate oils the pound for the parish of St. darnee—TU Mayor had no recollection of No small • poor-rate having been dined. Coavionox OF A
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-10-31 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HORRICLE SUICIDE AT WEYMOUTH BARRACKS.  wutdmafbwroono:edyn..::sainbtiliohimiidffeb:. ad bent About eight on Thursday morning, a private of the 7th Fitailirs blew his brains out. Dermased had obarge of the small armi chest. He took a rifle from the arm chest in No. 2 passage, and tied • bootium to the rope handle of the &rut chest and to the trigger of the rifle. It Is @apposed when his resolution was formed ho leant back, the trigger wu pulled, and the «intents discharged through his bead, blowing away the whole of the right side, and spattering the wall and blood, bOllOll, laaa brain& gig thene wan TGehlielmngaswCitiairk, a native of Ireland, and he enlisted with tbe 7th it F.. at Manchester in November, 1857. His chsraeter was good and be was in poseession of throe good-conduct badges, and partly on that account was entrusted with the ears of the spare arms that always remained in the arm chest. The mea of his oompany have not notieed any intimation that he was about to perpetrate the deed, but he was of a quiet solemn di.. position, and for the last week had been drinking herd, but he never got into any trouble through drink. Joseph Drake, groom, met Clark at the door about eight o'clock, and saw him walk towards Um Walter Muggleworth saw him take the gun arm chest, and witness then went into No. 6. A. little named Walter and as the boy ran past him, the inn and Muuleworth ran back into No. 7 room to Drummer Pemberton" He's going to shoot found Clark lying down on the floor, close to the batik Drummer Pemberton ran Into the passage, end pool of blood, with the riflo across his fare against the skirting board. He took away the rifle, which was still smoking, and *Wed out the men of his company, who immediately sent for the dootor• Dr. Carey was instantly in attendsnoe and found that the right side of his face we' shot away, and he was quite dead; Deceased was then removed to the post-mortem room. A non.comosinioned officer was placed in charge of the arm-abut, although there was no ammunition there. A court of inquiry was held at the orderly room, and the borough police were informed In the meantime. There is rather • mystery as to how he could have obtained the ball cartridge, with whith the deed we. done. No more ammunition was found on him, and it is thoggise he might have obtained a cartridge at the butte or lit skirmishing. No reason has been assigned for the sot' only a minute before Private Bowdery spoke to hiau. an damaged answered "good monde( "in his umw way. The bell was hand in the papa smeibed two put* A oboe 91 disemses vemik-ibelo ins
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-07-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT CUARMTOCK. Mr. Broster held an inquest on Min lay touching the death of Widow Elisabeth Gale, aged 76. The old woman used to be a coek at Uffoulus, and four yo •rs ago tde.l to hang herself, alter which she came tol've wit'i her daughter, Harsh Dimond, at Charlat”er. Dimond said: At times she has b.en very excited, oil repeatedly said she was sorry she did not du it to the purpo,e. Some few days before In r deat'i ales id 014 La 1 not been able to sleep—she had the horrors so bad, and that she hod a mind to Gall me np. fdie bee be. is In the habit of drinking spirits neat ; she would een.l for a half-a-plot of gin at a time, and drike it r,a7ly all off without petting Any water with it. She had tow pounds in money ; she paid me 41. 61. pr wed( for her board and lodging: she has not got any money lef ti I don't knew what money oho ham when sho came Ito Chardatock. She told me when her money w, a done si,o should be done. Tiler., was only one tarthieg in In r pocket when she was found dead on Taesday hal. I had 'eked her for some money; she gave me one shilling, and thou sant that was the lad shim had got'. She had been keeping her money in the Devon and Exeter Savings' Ihnk, and Mr. Paulen toll he., in the presence of a girl, that she ha.l only £2 odd left. This was some weeks ago. I have told my neighbours that I did not know how to live with her, as she was so excited at times,—Elisa °hick said that she was at Bra. house, and the decna-ed came in on Friday about two o'clock, and said she owed let three fai thin for mile, and gave Mra. Lewis n penay to pay for it. She lookoa rather wild ; she alw..ya bad a pecult.r look; elle then left, and went round the corner to x..rds the brick kiln. Thir was the let time witnesa saw her alive.—John Forsey, butcher, found her in the stream drowsed, and it appeared she had walk..d into tha water voluntarily. Verdict: Temporary insanity.°
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-11-07 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

CHIDEOCH.  STIANGI 81710101.—0 n Monday afternoon, Mr Joseph Barnes, aged about 60, • retired butcher and farmer, was found hanging at his lodgings. the COAlle Inn. He gave up business about three years ego in eon. ' sequence of enfeebled bodily and mental powere, and it Is said three of his relatives have died by suicide. He has spent his Use by wandering about the kale or the oharohyard, and has often gloomily remarked on his own 11/010411120•11. Mr. G. Thorne, farmer, says he has been strange in his manner for years. A few evenings previously he said to him, " You know i am in • low and nervous state and I wish, please God, I was pre I . pared to die as am • nuisance upon earth, and • trouble to every one." Mr. Thorne reminded him that if be troubled ony one he paid them for it, and enquired what had put that trumpery stuff into his head. He replied.," I am queer in my heal and manners; I am very sony for it, but I cannot help it. I de not know whether you noties it, but other people notice it. On Sunday evening he went to bed about 7.30, and next afternoon he was found banging in his bedroom, and was quite cold and dead. He was at ones out down, but wee of course beyond human aid. By his will, signed In August last, and of which Mr. Good, Bridport, is executor, his brother from whom he was not supposed to have heard since Jane last, Memos entitled, it is said, to • life interest in property worth between £7O and ESO a , and between £.lOO and £4OO of a balance at the . The deceased's carpet beg wee procured, and having been unlocked, was found to contain his will. Deceased had 25s lid in his pockets. The brother, who was in but indifferent eireumstrumee, was lest heard of at the Mesons Arms, Dorchester, and the pollee there have been cionimuniested with, with the object of discovering his wh weabouta. At the inquest the jury found that the dammed committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-02-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE IN SOIIO.-11. Lingtion, residing at 27, Great Pauiteney-street. L union, and his wife, have been found dead. Mr. Slight, the surgeon who examined the bodies, and the inspector of pollee, gave It as their opinion that the wife committed suicide by firing off a pistol into her mouth, and that her hatband killed himself by shooting himself through the heart.tlt is supposed that the wife first killed herself, for immediately after the report of a pistol, a fall was noticed la the back room of the first door, and that was followed by another report and a fall in the front room. The deceased had resided in the house for about four years, and in the coat-pocket of the mau was found a letter written to his mother-is-law, asking her to take charge of his two children. DN. VANCE SNITII AND THE 111Silor3.—The fuss in Convocation about the Unitarian Dr. Vaaoe Smith continuing one of the revisionists of the New Testameat, bas ended in a way that does not redound to the credit of Convocation. The 1.-Jurer Home by a email majority has postpoued its reply to the Bishop of Winehester's resolution sent down from the Upper House until the revision committee have made their report, which seems in fact a parliamentary way of shelving the resolution sine. dic. r. Vance Smith is not to be expelled as one of the revisionists of the New Testament company, and the Bishop of SL David's, without publicly withdrawing his resign stion, has consented to remain as Praident of the Ohl Tedsiment company. Tho report that Dr. Smith was in ill-health was unfounded.  INSVITICEST PREP ‘llll •r or Nyw,rAl.F.R3. T,.c following notice has been issued by command of Vie Post. mootwr Gentral, dated Feb. 23rd:—" A large number of newspapers posted for places abroad are found to bo prepaid with a halfpenny stamp only, arid are con-.saliently not forwarded. It is "dearly stated in the '-4 notices upon the subject of the use of tbo half. BlotiM, which have been issued to the use the rules laid down in the " British Postol " that • postage of one half penny is audit:dent only news Dent through the post between places in 1. Kingdom, and for inland book and sample weighing not more than two minces. A great nowsP•Per, `ro also posted for foreign beyond the prescribed limit of eight days rot of publication. It is very desirable that thaw newspapers and book and sample packets for lied or foreign countries Should carefully consult British Postal Guide," where .11 nsee,sary {obi, is given so rekal to podt.ge and °tiler matters ; sarded of th.• rules not only unp.,aes asuch troubis Depiirtment, but is also to cause diaappeultoont and ,aaaoyoults to the Ilromeigns.'r
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1871-02-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Christopher Leedham. • brick manufacturer at Stallingborougb, fire miles west of Grimsby, somejln years ago became • widower with five children, and afterwards married • young IVOMAZ, who was his junior by many years, and who Las now fallen • victim to his eldest son, George beedham, aged 45. This son, when working as • labourer in • mill at Hull, a few months ago. met with an accident which caused an internal injury of the nature of • rupture. This injury, from which he had not recovered, led to a depression ef sptrits, and produced great irritability of temperament and partial aberration of mind; and he had become more ungovernable the last few days. On Saturday, Mrs. Leedham was preparing for dinner, there being also in the room her husband (who had just entered, and was reading a newspaper), the unhappy son George, end another son, Elijah, aged seven years. The mother was about serving up • rine pudding, when George, who stood by the table at her side, began to eat the pudding out of the dish with a butcher's knife. His step-mother requested him not to do so, and b..ued of him to sit down and have some of the pudding on • plate. Simply ejacalating, "I shan't," be struck • backward blow with the knife, which entered the lower part of the right side of the unfortunate woman's neck, tad above. the breast bone. The blade entered to • depth of three inches, and penetrated the 'jailer vein. He withdrew the knife, threw it down, and rushed out of the house towards the brink-pond, and jumped int) the water. He wee quickly followed by • brother.in.law, aged 17 and • labourer named Jackson, who succeeded in dragging him out. Tie youth then left them, and hurried home to ascertain the fate of his mother, who had staggered into the next cottage, fallen down, and died Immediately. Meanwhile a struggle ensued between the murderer (who was determined on self-destruetion) and Jackson, in which Leedhana proved ths stronger, and as Jackson clung to him to prevent kis carrying out his intention he was dragged into the pond, and to preserve himself was outspend to release his hold, and the murderer suceeeded in drowning himself. The deceased woman had ever behaved in the most kind and feeling manner towards her invalid stepson, and had the previout day taken home for him from Grimsby market brrldy. wine, and confectionery.  A "