The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-29 00:00:00

BUTCHERING A RACEHORSE.-

_
" Kettledrum," writing in the sporting Chroniete on
the Manchester races, says :—The weather was flue
and genial throughout the day ; and the only occur.
rence which marred the harmony of the day's
proceeding, warn agree and unmanly act of cruelty on
the part of Mr. Robert Howett, the owner of St
Estephe. After the race for the Irwell Stakee, in
which St. Eri.ephe wax beaten, Mr. Howett publicly
declared that the mare should not live another half.
hour, and immediately ordered her to be shot. F.
Archer, who rode St. Kstephe, and Harry Constable,
the jockey, begged hard for the mare's lii.', and even
offered Mr. Howell irk if he would sell her to them ;
but the Nottingham rough blood wan up, and nothing
but the mare's blood would amxase him. The poor
doomed animal wan led out to the 'want ground
behind the stand, and there renorrirelessly butchered,
an cold•blooderl an atrocity as over was perpetratild in
In • civilised country.

ON Wednesday morning Don Carlo; Wail expelled
from France at the urgent requeet f the Spanish
Government. The Ultramontane party h• greatly
vexed at the meaeure. _

On Thursday the mr received the Afnerican
rilgrims, who presented him with offerings amounting
to 100,000 dollars (C 20,000 Other offerings were
presented by the American Catholic Associati,ma
The Home Secretary hws commuted to six months'
imprisonment with hard labor a sentence to ten
years' penal servitude, passed by Mr. Justice
flmbilestan, at Worcester nice, last I mecember,
William Winter, agricultural labourer, f,e• an
unnatural offence,
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At the Cambridge University bicycle race., Friday,
the lion. John Grant Feville Keith Falconer, son of
the Earl if lint, ire, Lord- Lienteiliiiit of Aberdeenshire,
won, in succession, the ten mile, two mile, and twenty.
five mile races, in the most brilliant manner. In the
long race he changed bicycles to ice.
A melancholy affair happened in Bristol Friday
morning, by which John Adler, aged eighty, lost his
life. The oil Mall has been heflrhlden some time, and,
in the absence of his wife, a lislger gave him a pipe Si
tobacco, which he smoked. Deceased waA lilt alone
for half an hour, and the rises having been discovered
to be on fire, the poor fellow wee found burned to
death. _

Till SHAMS of Lymington on Whit Sunday had a
good many visitors at their afternism service. One of
the brethren called out to have all seats removed from
the chapel that they might have room to rejoice and
praise the Lord. This being done, some fiddles, •
piano, and triangle. were brought into requisition.
The musiciansetruck uy "The Campbell's are comin',"
then "Jack', alive," and "Spring, spring, beautiful
spring." All the Shakers then c immenceil dancing
with great spirit. Mrs. Ulu ling nays that the end of
the world is 5, clue at band that her " children"
should now ,to nothing but sing, rejoice, and praise the
Lord.

A VISIT To THE CLAIMANT—MIS paid on Wednewlay
by Lord Rivers mid Mr. Guilford Onslow, by pertniss•
ion of the lime Secretary, at Dartmoor priwm
During the interview the convict attempted to dwell
upon the exceptional hardships of his treatment, but
was reminded by the warier in attendance that that
was a forbidden subject. He seemed much dis-
heartened at the hopeless failure of any efforts to
obtain an amelioration of his condition ; but Mr.
unslow and Lord Rivers both admitted that he was
apparently in better health than they had previonely
known him to be.

A PECI,LIAII WILL CASE—A somewhat peculiar
case is at present being heard in the Probate Court,
Dublin. A young gentleman named Kerr, educated
at Eton and Oxford, and entitled to about £5OOO,
became acquainted a few years am, in Dublin with •
widow lady named Baker and her niece, Miss Mears.
He first fell in love with the widow, for whom he
proposed three times, and was rejected. He then
proposed for the nelee, and was al., rejected. In
June last, while on a visit with them, be was seized,
after bathing,with illness and during the night made a
will bequeathing his property to the younger lady. He
recovered then, but cut his throat in September. It
wan alleged that he was of dissipated habits, and the
will is disputed by his' stepdivither, in whose favour
he made a previous will, on the ground of undue
influence. The bearing is not yet concluded.
Mr. Richard Carter, farmer, of Pointou Fen, near
Grantham, Lincolnshire, was found dead in a drain neat
his stack-yard n Sunday night. On Tuesday an inquest
was held, when several neightssuragave evidence as to the
bad terms on which deceased and his wife had lived. The
wife said she left her husband on Sunday evening to go to
a neighbour's to seek sonic ducks, and that was the last
she saw of him, but the neighbour said when she arrived
at her house, she was trembling and looked queer. lier
dress was wet round the bottom and for some distance up.
She had nothing on her head, her dress was undone in
front, her hair hanging down her back, and no shawl or
apron on. She was nioreover very excited. No further
light was thrown on the mystery, and the jury returned
an open verdict. On Thursday morning, however, the
body of Mrs. Carter, willow of the decease:, was found
Hosting almost in the otnet place whence her husbands.
body was taken. Carter was 65, his wife -10 years of age

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