The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

Nampobire.

CRUM OF THE YACHT MIRANDA.—A few days
ago Mr. Gray's yacht, the Miranda, arrived in
Southampton Water from a six month.' cruise to the
Canary Islands, the West Indies, and the United
States of America. The Miranda is about 90 tons
burden and has • crew of nine men, chiefly natives
of the Isle of Wight and Southampton. Mr. Grey
undertook the voyage in search of entomological spe•
clinical*, and obtained a rare and beautiful collection
of insects, particularly from the Canaries and Barba.
does. The Miranda reached Jamaica about the time
at which the American man-of-war, Susquehanna
arrived there with her crew struck down with yellow
fever. The Miranda's crew escaped the fever. Mr.
Gray's inscote are in a beautiful state of preservation.
He landed at Charleston in South Carolina, and sent
his yacht home hence, purposing to travel 1,000 miles
in the United States, and then to come to England
in a steamer. He fully expected to reach this coun-
try before his yacht, but the latter has arrived at
Southampton before him, having made a splendid
run of 4,000 miles in 23 days, averaging about 160
miles a day. There is only one instanoe known of
such a yacht performing a similar voyage as the Mi.
rand& has done durlpa lAst six months.
Wmcgxergn.—Ffirnpahire Friendly Society.
The monthly meeting of this society was held at the
Grand Jury Chamber on Wednesday, the 19th inst.,
when 21 new members were admitted, claims to the
amount of £lO2 considered and discharged, and
other business transacted. The meeting was then
adjourned till Wednesday, the 16th of June.
The annual meeting of the members will be held on
the 10th inst.
The Hampshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry,
under the command of the Right Hon. Lord Vis-
count Eversley marched into this city for the pill..
pose of undergoing the usual eight days' permanent
duty on Wednesday.
IWaiuto.—A Female Deteetive.—On Friday week
• very intelligent and well dressed young woman
arrived in this town, and applied to the police for
assistance under the following circumstances i—She
stated that she was • married woman and resided
with her husband, • Mr. Matthews, an herbalist, at
Bridgwater, Somerset, and about five weeks ago her
husband became acquainted with a Mr. Jones, a
hawker of silks, ko., and at present travels the
country with his two eons. About three weeks ago,
Mr. Jonas bought a pony and cart of a Mr. Edwards,
• coach builder, at Bridgwater, for £26; he paid
£lO at the time, £6 of which •he borrowed of her
husband, Mr. Matthews. The remainder of the
money was to be paid by instalments of £2 a week,
and her husband had been induced when under the
influenoe of drink, to be bound to see it paid. As
soon as Mr. Jones had got possession of the pony
and cart he quitted that part of the oountry, leaving
her husband to pay the remaining £lB. For the last
week she had been tracing Jones and his sons from
town to town, and had found that they had
come into Ramsay. She found them hawking their
goods I the town, and wished to settle the account
for the pony and cart, but Mr. Jones treated the
matter very lightly, and threatened to give her in
charge but this did not frighten our detective.
She then proposed that he should pay her the re•
minder or the money or give her up the pony and
cart and she would pay him back the £4 which ho
had paid out of Ms own pocket, but this was re.
fused. She kept a good look.out all the evening and
retired to bed the last in the house (the Bell Inn) and
rose np at six o'olook in the morning, when she
found that the "JOlleeee" had all Had. After some
Inquiry, she found that they had taken the pony and
cart from the Boar and Booed Staff Inn, about
three miles out of the town, early In the morning,
where they had left it. Elbe then went in pursuit,
and traced them through Kingsoombe and Stock.
bridge to Andover, declaring that she would never
leave them until she got either the money or the
horse and trap.
ODIKAII.—ArtHat A ooident. —As a man named
James Palmer was passing through the town on
Wednesday afternoon with a wagon of ooals for his
master, T. M. Wayne, Becr., he stumbled and fell,
and, the wheels going over him, he was killed on the
spot. The body was removed to his home at South.
wanaborough, there to await an inquest.