The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1863-08-25 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

WOMIL—It is not surprising that the eat should be thought the analogue of woman. Her very sobriquet of Grimalkin—the grey maiden—intimatee that she suggested to our ancestors the idea of • fair spirit esuerjent from the gloom, like the White lady of Anna Her vagueness of colour, and the laminae** neer of her eyes in the dark, led the ignorant to conceive that there was something supernatural about the oat and gave birth to superstitions not yet quite eradicated from the popular mind; and • very disagreeable impression is undoubtedly made by the weird and uncanny a of • black cat under certain circumstances. Adopting de the more kindly view, Gray, in • charming poem, familiar to all, terms pass • "nymph ;" and indeed what better representative of the grace, sensibility, witchery, artifice, and malice of the sex can be found among brutes? The frisky volatility of the kitten, yet Innocent of blood of mice., irresistibly reminds us of the wild glee of • girl yet ignorant of the power of her charms; and the noiseless movements and sedate demeanour of the mature Tabby regal the silent activity and thoughtful composure of the experienced matron. From this involuntary association of ideas the volatile girl is spoken of as " • mischievous kitten," the Frenchman fondly addressee his spouse am "ma chatte"? and some persons by a strange mental obliquity vituperate any obnoxious old woman as "that old cat • Week.  Two oonst•bles stationed at Cloughjordan, county of 35pperar7, were nearly murdered on Saturday evening by • prisoner. The head-oonstable, with his party, had arrested several persons at a faction fight in the afternoon, who were placed in the lock-up of the station. About eleven o'clock at night the police heard fighting among the prisoners, and head-eenstable Quinn, together with sub-constable Territt, took g light and proceeded to the lock-up. They had scarcely entered when one of the prisoners, • man named Pierce rushed at them, knocked the candle from Territt's hand, and, seising his sword, stabbed the head-constable in a dreadful manner through the body, • little above the heart, and then, turning on Territt, he ran him through twice in the abdomen. The two °Steen lie in • very preserious eondition, with little, if any, chance of recovery. On Sunday morning Captain Sterling, of the town of Moneymore, shot himself in his own bedroom, deliberately discharging the contents of a loaded gun into his forehead, drawing the trigger with his foot. His death was the immediate result. It appears that Captain Sterling had been a bard drinker until a late period, when he became • rigid teetotaller. He was subject to great melancholy. The unfortunate man leaves • wife and three children, yet young, to mourn ' hie untimely end. A curious action was tried on Wednesday at the Croydon Asthma. A Roman Catholic clergyman, Dr. Melia, was the plaintiff, and claimed damages from Messrs. Spielman and Neate, solicitors, and Mr. Fish, a builder, for false imprisonment. Mr. Flab bad contracted with the plaintiff to build the n•qw Italian church in Hatton WEIL When the work was completed he made a claim for £2,800, and was told by the plaintiff's architect that he was already overpaid. Mr. Fiala t an action to recover the amount of his claim, brwahDr. Melia said he should defend. In the course of the interviews which took place Dr. Melia said that he should go abroad, meaning, according to his evidence, that he ahead take a holiday. The defendants, however' assumed that he was going abroad to avoid payment of Mr. Fish's claim, and caused him to be arrested. He was subsequently released on bail, and brought this action. After a prolonged consideration the jury returned a verdict for the defendants, on the ground that they had not been actuated by malice. Mr. Robert Golding, who was born at Lisburn in 1760, has died at Lisburn within the peat week. When the French landed be became a volunteer in the Lisburn company, in which he remained till it was broken up. In 1796, be was enz oiled as • yeomen in the Lisburn Royal Infantry, and served with his corps during the rebellion of '96. After a long life of civic usefulness he was laid to red at the venerable age of 103 years.—Bellnd News Letter. . . . . . .  A watehmakez74 Rienne, in Bwiis;rland, e lover of the chain, who for want of game had set his dog in pursuit of a cat, and had torn the animal from a tree in which it bad taken refuge, and then abandoned it to the dog, has just been condemned by the tribunal of police to four days' imprisonment, 501 . fine, 30f. Indemnity to the owner of the eat, and oats. Public opinion in the neighbourhood fully ratified the judgment.  _ IitLANCHOLT DEATH Or _ SKI 113001114)113 OF Cnicnorren.—Dr. Lankester held an inqueet at the Middlesex Hospital on the body of William Milton Bridger, Esq., Recorder of Chichester, and magistrate of Bradford Avon, who was killed on Wednesday night in Regent-street. The dammed gentleman was • member of the United University Club, wipers he dined on the seine evening. He walked up Regent-street, and when at Argyll-place one of Chaplin and Horne's vans turned into the place, and knocked the deceased down, and be was killed on the spot. Mr. Bridger, it appeared, was very deaf, and the driver called out to him, and did all he could to prevent the oxidant. Two gentlemen who were crossing the road were examined, and Meted that the occurrence was purely accidental, and the police gave similar evidence. Mr. Humphries (Humphries and Morgan) appeared for Meseta Chaplin and Horne. He said the driver, Combe, had been ill 'roan excitement since the occurrence. Combs was called forward and made a statement. He was going slowly, mid did all be could to prevent the accident. The Coroner said It was for the jury to say whether the carman was to blame. A verdkt " Aecidental deeth" was retorned. The jury exonerated the carmen from all blame.  81710117 S lts Cuitiu,o IL —The Armourer-Bergeant, 4th Dragoon GPM*, sh the Curragh of Kildare, committed suicide on Friday. He loaded • carbine in his shop, and deliberately fired it into hie month, motile=.d himself in • @hooking manner. No reason sea bs for the act.