The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

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Ma. Easoes HAPOIUTOIT BALL —There was nein a
very large sale last Saturday, at Kr. Encore repository.
embracing 140 head of cow stock and 800 fat and store
sheip. There was • better demand for heifers and
calves, and upwards of 45 sold, the best making from
£lB to £25, middling £l3 to £l7, and Inferior £9 to £l2.
Fat utters and oxen realised £26 to £29, and some
prime heifers, belonging to Mr. Best, of Dewlish, made
£22 10s. to £22 154. Barreners sold for C 9 to Fl 4 10.. A
number of extraordinarily good balls fetched 1.22 to
f:39 eitolt ; bog bulb LS to Ell. Fat calves made £2t
£3. There was a good trade for fat mutton: Down
wethers realised 50, to 655., Down ewes 40s. to 55,
Horn ewes 47a. 6d. to 58a. Fat lambs 30e. to 375.
Rimt bogs Xs. to 40e., Down bogs :93e. to 384. 6d.
jonples 435. to 50s. There was • large attendano• and •
brisk trade.
" A bull in • China shop" expresses in a phrase the
popular conception of the ineorigruorm, but it is not
hard to believe that half.a-dozen Southdown 'ethers in
• lollypop and toy shop would be almost u undesirable
clubmen. Yet Mr. Woolston, of Cornbill, had such a
visitation last Saturday morning. Perhaps the sight of
ti e horse which occupies the fore front of the shop,
with bit and bridle ever ready, to perform for juvenile
enjoyment the nursery semblance of riding, is so like a
noble steed that the poor bewildered sheep rushed to It
for that sympathy which four-footed creatures in the
fields ar remarkably display towards sack other when in
trouble; or, we may regard the incident in another
aspect as a singular illustration of the Darwinian theory
of development. We talk of • man looking dumpish,
though that of coarse will only apply to gush examples
as are degenerating from their species, so that we may
conceive of the inverse proposition —a sheep being
maivieb, and regard the conduct of theee sheep as
indicating the development of human tendencies in a
crude forcu, even the love of toy. and lollypops. For
the sake of Ihrwinlanism it is to be regretted that Mr.
Woolston, observing these individuals—animals—what
shall we call them ?—had not reached that stage of
development which would lead them to some provided
with certain pieces of the current coin of the realm
called shillings, summarily ejected them, so the inter.
eating inquiry what would they have done with them
had they been supplied—say with a humming-top each
and a pocket of sugar-plums— is left for the imagination
of our readers to solve.

BOROUGH PLITT SESSIONS, Mosday.—Before G.
Curme, Req., J. Bishop, Esq., Dr. Aldridge, end J.
Gslpin, Req.
Joan Trereff, carter, from East Chiekerell, was
summoned for a highway offence. P.C. Keech, said
that last Tueedai, at 2 a.m., Le met two horses attached
to a waggon ooMini down High West-street, unattended.
Looked for • driver but found none. Put the horses
in • stable at the George Inn, and Inquired for the
carter. Found defendant about three o'clock looking
for the horesa.—Defeodant said he was going to Sidling
sad stopped at the Weighbridge Inn tort • pint of
beer. Two other men were with him. " 'rhe horses
turned right round and he never lumwed."—Pined El,
inelnding meta, or fourteen days' imprisonment, a
fortnight allowed to pay in.
/mac Pm-sons, carter, employed by Mr. Jun. Well-
spring, builder, was summoned for cruelly ill-using,
torturin& and abusing a horse. When the charge was
read to defendant, he said with much astonishment :
"Ms abusing • horse, sir? The Town Clerk : Those
are the words of tbe statute." Defendant : "I put
the horse in the shafts, but I
Symonds, "Th. law says that if you work • hone In
an untit state it is abusing it." George Monnery, an
officer of thc Society for the Prevention of Cauelty to
Animals, said that on Saturday morning, April 3, at
Grove.buildings, he saw defendant with • horse
attached to • waggon, standing stilL Saw the horse
was in poor condition and wincing • great deal
Examined it, and found an old raw wound on the off
shoulder the size of • florin, • similar ooe on the withers,
and • third under the harness pad as big as • ss. piece.
When asked why he used the horse in that condition,
be said "I don't care • —, I shall work the horse as
long as my master sends me out with it."—ln cross.
examination, proeeeuter denied picking off a scab from
the back.—John Holley said when Monnery we. with
defendant, the latter asked him if the bores was "liable"
to work. Monnery lifted up the collar and showed him
• mark on the shoulder. Witness maid "That's
nothing, its only akin deep." lionnery then pointed
to the shoulder, but witness replied "That's nothing,
but it do look a little fresher than the others." He
lifted up the pad, and witness again "thought that was
nothing." Monnery remarked " I've nothing to say to
you; and I mid I had nothing to say to he, and so we
parted— (laughter). Knew tho wounds were no depth,
and that was what be looked at. Kept horses himself,
and had worked the, a good deal worse than that. No
man could help it sometimes. It was the hot weather.
—The Town Clerk advised him not to let Monnery sos
him using horses in that state, or he should be obliged
to tell the magistrates it was cruelty within the law.—
Witmer : Then it's a great pity there is such • law.—
Mr. Symonds I thick it would be • great pity if there
was not. —Before deciding, the diseMed to hear
the case against Mr. Wellspring, for sensing the horse
to be worked—The officer spoke to seeing Mr. Well-
spring about the condition of the horse, and telling him
he ought not to have worked It. He said he knew the
horse was bad, and he kept it in three or four days on
that account- He was not going to work it after that
day, but intended turning it out to grass on the follow-
ing Monday. Defendant called Isaac Parsons aa •
witness, and he said Ur. Wellspring asked biro before
going to work that morning if the horse was Si, and he
said 'Yes, what was on was nothing to hurt." The
wounds were trilling to what Monnery had described.
When Monnery inspected the back of the horse, he
pulled off the soab.—Mr. Wellspring denied that the
herell was out of oondition • it cost IS.. • week to keep
It, and never shrinked from its Work, Nobody took

more sere at his horses than be did— ha kept them in
for weeks when they were not fit for work. —Fused ss.
each and eoete—in all 7/.. .

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A Sad C 40.. Tanury Thal", 28, • married woman
of Dorchester, on bed, was charged with stealing 9s,
belonging to Mrs. Gibbs, hairdresser, Ac,, High West.
street. The large hall was crowded during the hearing
of the case. On Saturday evening, the woman was
brought up before J. Gelpin, and J. Bishop, &qrs.
when Mrs. Isabella Gibba said: In consequence of my
having for some time past missed money from my frock
pocket, which I bang up in my bedroom, I sent for the
police to-day. About two o'olook this afternoon P.S.
Cousins Caine, and, at my suggestion, he concealed
himself under the bed in my bedroom. I pat four half.
crowns, two &trios, and seven shillings, which bad
marks on them into • purse, and placed it in the
pocket of • dress hanging in my bedroom, and left
Cousins under the bed. Between three and four o'clock
Mrs. Button, of whom I Lai previously mats a friend,
called upon me. I was at the time in the shop, and I
asked her to walk up-stairs into my sitting-room, and
she did so. Boon aft- rear Is! went op-stain for some-
thing. She was then in the sitting-room. Having got
what I wanted, I returned to the shop. Mra. Batten
came down to ask me • question, and returned up-stain.
A few =Mut s afterwards I sr: s • tint for. I went up-
stairs, and found Cousins Ind her in c',erge. He had
the parse in Lis hand, aid he'sp nod it in the trounce
of myself and Mre But. , and there was only 12s. in
it. Igave prisoner into custody. Cooing then handed
me the purse, and the money I now produce. The two
half crowns and four shillings are my property, and
form part of the 215., which I pot in the puree sad
P'nend in my Poolcits —P.s. °Annus said that he
concealed hims,ll under the bed.. Mrs. Gibbs had
lasted. About • quarter to Ave o'clock, I Pao the
'intoner enter the bedroom, and go to where the dress
was hanging. Her back was than towards me. She
moved the dross about, end than turned pertly round.
I tkeo saw she had the puree in her left band. She
opened it with her right hand, and I saw her take out
one or two half-crowns and then close the purse, but,
Immediately afterwards, she opened it again
and toot out some more money. The money she
abstracted she put into her own pocket, and returned
the parse to the pocket in the drug from which be fint
Volt it, and then left the bedroom, and went into the
sitting.rooni. I came from under the bed end (allowed
her into the sitting-room. When I got there I said
"oh ! Mrs. Button, it's you, ia It'' and the answered
"Yes." I acenowl her of stealing mon.y from the
pocket of Mrs. Gibbs' drug, and she said "Oh ! do
forgive me! it's only a shilling I have tab, n." I
asked for Mrs. Gibbs, and we curnMed
the purse. Told prisoner two half-croens an-1
four shillings had been taken, upon which' she give
gush coins torn, from her pocket. I showed them to
Mrs. Gibbs, and she identified them u a portion of
money she had pet in the puree, and she gave Mrs.
Britten into custody—Being told by the Town Clerk
that she need not say anything unless she wished bat
might go for trial to the sessions, Mrs. Batten said "I
wish to plead guilty, and I hope you'll be lenient with
me—l hope you'll have mercy on me."—Mrs. Gibbs now
appealed to .the Bench to be allowed to iritiw'r .w the
case, but she was told that was impossible. Both
proseeutrix and prisoner were now crying.—The maga.
crates retired to consider their judgment, and, On
returning, Mr. Carme, addressing the prisoner said:
You have pleaded guilty to this charge brought against
you, and the maguitrates consider it • case of a most
decided character, and one that deserves the ettresnis
penalty of the law. Y. shave gone to Mrs. Gibbs'. ass
friend you knew very well that other persons haws
been discharged from her eervice ander suspicion, and
you probably were the cease of it. The magistrates
would have 'edictal the satrense penalty (sic months)
because you betrayed the oonfidence Hrs. Gibbs reposea
in you, but for her raking us not to deal with you
severely. You are sentenced to imprisonment for two
mouths with bud labour.—Prisoner was then led into
the Council chamber, hanging on the arm of her
husband, and subsequently he accompanied her with
Supt. Penney to the prison. For him and all her
relatives general sympathy is felt.