The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday. Wheat
in large supply, at a reduction of Is. per quarter of
the previous week's quotations. Barley was freely
offered, and previous rates were about supported.
Oats (for seed and feeding purposes) in good demand,
at former prices.
MEL ENEIOR'B REPOSITORY SALE, Saturday.—This
was one of the largest sales ever held, and was
numerously attended by butchers and dealers from
all parts, under whose notice were brought about
200 head of now stock and 450 sheep. There was a
brisk competition, and nearly the whole were die-
posed of at the following quotations :—Beef,
13s. to 14s. per score ; mutton, 9d. to 10d. per lb. ;
wether tags, 425. per head; cows and calves £l2 to
£l9 ss. ; barreners £9 to £l4; and steers from £l3
to £l5 each. The chief feature at the horse
repository was Mr. Bridge's 16 powerful cart horses,
which were much admired for their symmetrical
proportions. There was a large attendance, and a
lively competition ensued for the animals, which
realised from £22 to £47 each.
BOROUGH SESSIONS, Monday.—Before the Mayor
(J. P. Aldridge, Eaq.,) J. Bishop, M. Devenish,
and R. Davis, Feqrs.
A HUSBAND AND W/TE IN TROUBLE. —Richard
and Sarah Rogerson, an aged couple, were brought
up on remand, the latter charged with stealing soap,
tobacco, sugar and other articles, valued at 5a., the
property of Mr. Joseph Morgan, grocer, and the
latter with ,receiving the same, knowing them to
have been stolen.—lt appeared that the female
had been employed as a charwoman by the
proseoator, cud on Wednesday last during
his absence she went into the cellar and
took the articles in question. Information was
given to the police, and on her house being
searched by Superintendent Pouncy the articles
were found. The female prisoner pleaded
guilty, but said her husband was entirely
innocent, and in this statement he also
joined, although he afterwards admitted having bad
some of the tobacco, and which he told the Superin-
tendent had come from Mr. Tulloch's shop.—
The Bench, however, did not believe the state-
ment, and they were both committed for trial at the
Anima.

RATIIHR Doti/err:lL. William Champion, a
travelling hawker, was brought up in custody
charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance
on Saturday night. As he had been in the lock-up
since that time, and as he promised that he would
reform and bea teetotaller, he was discharged.
AN AITSCTIONATS (?) CoUrLS.—Dorcas, wife of
Thomas Riggs, landlord of the Bull's Head,
Fordington, was summoned for assaulting him. —Mr.
Weston appeared for complainant, and tar. Howard
for defendant. Thomas Riggs stated that on
Monday, the 27th ult., his wife same to his house
about liallpast 11 in the morning, and came into
the kitehen where he and a man named Thorne
were. She said "I have come to bear what you
have got to say about my mother." He replied "I
have nothing to say about you, or your mother
either, and wish you to leave my house." She
said " 1 shall not leave, for I have as much right
here as you have • and I shall leave when I
like." He requested her to move more than
once, but she refused. She had a child with
her, which she put around his neck, and began
capering about the room. He took up a cup, when
she knocked his elbow, and the contents went over
his face. She called him names, and said "if I
would kiss the child she would leave the house."
Ho desired her to leave, and caught hold of her arm
to pat her oat, but she eat down behind the door
and would not go. He then left her and stood in
front of the fire, and began to drink out of a cup
which Thome had. As he was doing so she again
knocked his arm, spilling the contents over his face.
He told her to leave him alone, and went to a table.
She followed sad struck him in the back. He again
desired her to leave, when she put the child around
his neck, and jumped and danced about the room
for about half-an-hour. He then went after Honey:
bun, the parish constable. He came and advised
her to go away, but she refused, and said, "I will
not leave the house, if my husband puts me to
prison 40 times." He then sent for P.C. Cousins to
put her out. He allowed her 6s. per week, which
he paid every Monday, and this he had always paid
since she had been bound over.—ln cross-examiaa-
lion he said he had not been diinking,nor did he pull
her arms, or call her bad names. She had the baby
in her arms when she struck him in the back. He
bad not felt any ill effects from the blow. Thought
sa, a week was sufficient to allow her. —A cross.
summons ha, ing been taken out, this was gone ihto,
and the wife's statement was this, that oti the 21th
ult, she went to her httsband's house, and said "Riggs,
what have you got to say about me or my mother; I
want to know ?" He said" Get out of my house. I
have nothing to say about you or your mother.*
She replied "I shall not go ; L have as much right
here as you." He then took hold of both of
wrists and her baby fell to the ground. She said
"You leave me alone ' • I have only come to hear
what you have to say about me or my mother." He
replied "Get out of my house you nasty ."
She then put her baby to his face, and said "Kise
your pretty little daughter. Is she not worth
kissing?" He said " take it away, it is not
mine to kiss." She replied, " Do look at
your dear little child ; she is worth anybody's
looking at. If you kiss the baby I shall
want you to kiss me afterwerds." He then went
for Honeybun. Riggs and Thorne were drinking.
He refused to give her a glass of beer, and she struck
his arm, but the beer was not upset. She again
said "Do kiss the child, and I'll go." lie was
standing by the window, but when she put the baby
to him he turned in an opposite direction. Thorne
repeated a verse from one of the Psalms, and she told
him that was not a proper thing to say in a drunken
place. The cross-examination did not elicit any
thing material. After considerable discussion
between the solicitors, the matter was settled
without the enterference of the Bench, but in case
either of defendants should not fulfil their promises
as stated to the Bench by the legal gentlemen, the
magistrates adjourned the case until June, when
they would give their decision.
Doxtszv Liner Atismits.—On Thursday, the 9th
instant, the commission for bolding these assizes I
will be opened at the Shirehall, before Mr. Baron
Channel! and Mr. Justice Crompton, and on the 1
following day the business will be proceeded with.
There are two special jury cases, namely, " The
Earl of Shaftesbury v. Lewer," and "Wellington v.
the Mayor and Corporation of Blandford," and there
are three or four common jury cases, including one
of much interest to the agriculturists of the county,
being an action defended by a farmer in the neigh-
bourhood of Wareham against a claim made by a
firm for supply of artificial manure, the question in
dispute being that of agency. The following
prisoners are for trial :—Henry J. Honeybun, cutting
and wounding at Broadway; William Head,
bestiality at Lyme Regis; Mary Edmonds, conceal-
ing birth at Weymouth • Thomas Foster, obtaining
a pair of boots by false pretences at Dorchester;
John Williams, arson at Poole; George Lucas,
stealing eels at Arise; John Morley, stealing two
paintings at Weymouth ; William Way and
Elizabeth McKinnon, stealing wearing apparel at
Burton Bradstock ; John Dodge' stealing a pair of
boots at Weymouth; Thomas Andrews, Charles
Swindles, and Henry Whiting, stealing a pig at
.= Chola Betting; Henry McLaughlin, stealing
from the person at Dorchester; Thomas Manley,
stealing • silver watch and 9s. at Shaftesbury;
Henry Taylor, forging a bill of Exchange at Wey-
mouth; Rhein" Green, stealing • lamb at Iwerne
Minster; William Bowles, stealing corn at Fontmell
Magna; Joshua Moody and Daniel Byzdy, obtaining

money by false pretenoes at Bothenhampton ; John
Ironsides, Matthew Hallett, and Robert Mitchell,
stealing ducksat Monckton ; Richard and Sarah Roger-
son, stealing grocery at Dorchester. —On Bail : S.
Stickley, bigamy at Sturminster Newton ; George
Strong, Elizabeth liaison, and Elizabeth Newman,
arson at Bridport ; Henry Christopher, manslaughter
it Evershot ; Solomon Wedmore, attempt to murder
at Spettisbury ; James Beck, stealing corn at
Fontinell Magna.