The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-15 00:00:00

THE NEW SHERIFFS.

At the Court at Windsot, the 12th day of February,
lBff6 ; present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
CounciL Sheriffs appointed by her Majesty in Council for
the year 1276 :
Dgronentim—William Henry Peters, of Harefield,
Etimagrsimuc—lohn Clarell Mansel-Pleydell, of Long-
thorns. Ifor.
Sougnagraning.—Henry Duncan Striae, of Warleigh,
Bathford, Bath, E.g.
Vitursittitg.—Witliani Henry Poynder. of If arthatn,
Chippenkarn, Esq.

THE HERZEGOWINIAN REFUGES&
The following interesting' extracts are from a lettei,
dated February 1, which has just been received from an
English lady at present staying at Rages •—" Six
thousand unfortunate Hersegovinum refugees are there in
the district of linguae, and I suppose in the town itself
there are several thousand. Never shall 1 forget the Satur-
day evening when we crept into the little harbour of
Ragusa. The new moan and one or two stars have just
come out, and the whole landscape was melting into that
tender, delicate grey one sees only in the Mediterranean.
A more peaceful scene could hardly be conceived. Nothing
was audible save the lapping of the waves against our
vessel and the harking of the watch-dogs every here and
there. We sat on deck chatting and Laughing, enjoying
the idea of getting into port and seeing* new place. What
was our horror, then, to learn as soon as we arrived that
if we had looked carefully at the hill-sides we were sail-
ing under, we should have seen three villages burning
which the Turks had set lire to that afternoon, murdering
of course all the old men, women, and children. A body
of inaurgenta, 1,500 strong, had also marched across the
face of the cliffs fertile the sea, after having routed the
Turks in a skirmish. We have come into the midst of the
Insurrection with • vengeance. On the side of the hill
just over the harbour we were lying in, we can see an arid
rocky space in front of • long, low building like a stable.
We can see creatures crawling about hardly with the look
of human beings—children with nothing on but • ragged
shirt; while wretched looking women sit crouched down,
trying to mend their tattered garments, and every here
and there • brown heap of rags moves, and shows one
there is • human being under it. These are the refugees.
The people here have come to the front most wonderfully,
helping them as much as lay in their power, but the
strain has been tremendous.. The lazaretto was put at
their disposal, and that is where they are now crowded like
brute besets over one another. The Austrian Government
allows them ten farthings • day each, which just 'offices
to keep them from starvation. The Ladies Committee,
however, and the warm clothing sent out by ladies from
London, are doing wonders. We went up on Sunday after-
noon to see the poor creatures. First of all, in the princi-
pal and best apartment, there were the wouuded(brought
110 Vill here after the Mat fight between this and Trebinje)—
only about • dozen, as all the rest, and those the most
smiosuly wounded, had begged to go to their homes at
Cattern nr ',Nowhere. They would listen to no persuasion,
and, as I was tolcLa great many must have died on the road,
whereas nothing could be nicer or cleaner than all the
arrangements about them here, and one would have
thought it a haven of refuge for these poor creatures after
their privations on the Uls. It was quite touching to
see the patient way they bore their sufferings. The only
one that was really
_complabibis had an attack of pleurisy,
and it seems that illness they cannot fare at all. A. wound
Is all in the way of business, and they will bear their
enfierinp like heroes but illness is • thing of which,
with 'their constitutions and healthy life, they hardly
know the existence ,• they casnot Deer up against it
From there we looked into one or two of the dens where
time sick among the poor people are housed. They con.
elated of one dark, dank room without a window, where
on Rise stone floor we taw huddled up in their brown
blankets the forms of the wretched invalids. We then
scrambled up through groups of women and girls (who
came to glue on us as a sort of curiosity) to the main
building, and what we saw there would require a more
eloquent pen than mine to describe. I should think
there were about • hundred and fifty people living,
sating, dying, end sleeping side by side. The atmosphere
was so thick and close that we had to stand for several
minutes before we could either see or breathe, and then
by degrees weird and ghostly figures became visible. The
women rushed at us gesticulating and pointing to the
holes in the roof that let in the rain, and the hard floor
they had to lie on without any bedding or covering. But
I think I have given you enough of the refugee now only
one cannot be here without being absorbed body and soul
by the subject, and so I inflict it on you. If one goes into
the lovely country surrounding this picturesque old town
and tries to throw it off for • time, one is rudely called
back again by something one comes across. Yesterday,
for example, we made an expedition to some old mills at
the foot of some of the mountains in the insurgent
distria The scenery was most lovely, and as we went
dons wily looking up at the blue sky, we were
astonished to see • number of vultures. We observed it
to the boatman, and he said.. 0 b,bl:o2.thlre are hover
over the place where the hist was fotti,:idyA shudder make lOVIff us all. It la the 'Human
with • vengeance."

Another' death unwed by the
this
at Sooty
occurred on Saturday morning. In this case It wee a
feu_i years old, son of Kra, Kay, who died on W
The father and Ore children of the same lanillyedaZdZi
prostrate by the illness, and other deaths are expected.
Catherine Outten, • woman who it is alleged wee thrown
from the orindow of bulbous* in Liverpool,lfy John Lynch
snd Mary Lynch. who lodged with her, has gun mad in
th, Northern:" where she has been linos the com-
mission ot the outrage.
Th. London 8 'titillate are talking a good deal about
a a...profiled trance-medium who has been doing 41
kinds ol wonderful things. She it a young
from
Cardiff, Rhondda Lawrence by name. But she las had
occasion to regret that she ever came to London. While
to Cardiff she was • vegetarian, but when she came hither
she fell away from the Isla as it is in cabbage, and ata
mut. The result itas been that an evil spirit who professes
to have belonged to • gentleman who is now a lunatic has
been entering Miss Lairremnes and mains her cry out with
The young lady should in future eschew perk and
07rdiationary, and mutton. sod bal.