The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

evening, IL D. Seymour, Esq., IL, P., who takes a
great interest, in the inetitutien, was present, and
notified his intention of conferring a prise on the most
exemplary scholar attending the *lasses in connection
with the Institution, during the conning winter.
A RANA Aelth—fn the 'lope of some far-famed
Federal 'green hack." may now he inspected actougst
Ito eurinetice in the P.mle Mummer,. These specimen'
of putter currant:7, yelept " shin plasters," of the value
of twopence helfpentiv and upserds, are certainly the
ntost contemptible "flimsies" extant.
klito Rawaen.—A placart posted at the Police-
station annoutioes the above reward for the &epee-
hension of an 11. D., named James Bailie, for whe
employing fonds to the amount of 4700 held in treat.
He lea Sootebman, sad is supposed to have absconded
to British Colombia.
A RUNAWAY PRISONEIL—On Friday afternoon P.C.
Beaken had apprehended a man blamed Clepoott, for
the not-payment of the borough rates, and was ordered
by the Superintendent to lodge him in the borough viol,
King-street; but whilst the officer was in the act of
ringing the gaol bell to admit himself and prisoner, the
latter effected his escape, and his "skiddadling"
powers being greater than that of his corpulent pursuer,
trammed to beet an effective retreat.
THE EARTHQUAKE —The shock was felt with far
greater force in the Northern counties than in the
South, and the district from Briatsd acres, to Poole is
reported to have been but slightly affected—indeed, the
few people in thie neighbourhood who were bold enough
to assert eueli a thing as the shock of an earthquake, were
laughed at for their,credulity. It in, however. averted by
sonic fishermen who had been out to see, that on their
landing on Poole quay at about twenty minutes past three
o'clock, tho whole extent of the quay seemed to be in
motion, oscillating to and fro, in the manner of a beat
tossed by the waves. Several other incid• nts are spoken
of, hut in no case of so extraordinary a phenomenon as
elsewhere.
TEETOTAL CHEAP ',URIC—This celebrated character
has been in our town during the past week, and delivered
nightly oration, on hie particular forte—temperanoo—in
conjunction with his avocation of vending cheap but
good hard ware. Considerable diasatisfaction is felt by
the temperance people. Mr. Rees was not permitted to
occupy part of the Marketplace, the public house
interest being poweifel with the " power, that be."
PROPORKD RAILWAY ENTENTIONS. —An important
public rn sting of the inhabitants of Poole was held at
noon on Friday, convened by the sheriff (.1. Pitt (hitch,
Esq.,) at the request of a number of the leading inhabi-
tants, for the puree of bearing a proposal from Messrs.
Vaal*. eminent railway contractors, respecting a
extension from the South-Weetern station at
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worthy to Poole, and continued to Bournemouth
as an independent line. 'there wan also a proposition
to connect Poole in the north side with e direct line to
Wimborne. Thw eheriff cern pia lb. shale, and there
were present Fl. I). Seymour, Esq., member for the
borough, the Mayor and Corporation, and influential
merchants and gentlenien of the town. H. D. Seymour,
Eel. M.P., having been called upon by the Sheriff,
addressed the meeting at great length upon the merits
of the proposed line as a continuation of the Somerset
and Dorset Central along the Vole of Blackrnoor. It
was, lie thought, neceseery that immediate measures
should be taken to bring in the bill before the
next semi in. Ho had long known the unanimity of
the inhabitants on the importance of railway coinmunication between Poole and Bournemouth, and
expensed every feith in the project. Mr. C. Waring
proposed on behalf of his firm to commence operations
as soon as the bill had passed, irrespective of any
guarantee whether Poole subscribed to the capital
required or others ise.—The scheme was also warmly
poken of by the Mayor, W. Pearce, J. W. Martin
Evirs., and others. Thanks being tendered to the
Messrs. Waring, H. D. Seymour, and to the cheirman,
the meeting terminated.
LEIGH COURT. —MURDER 0? A CHILD SY A
DOMESTIC. —The household of Sir William Miles,
Bart. M. at Leigh Court, has been greatly shocked
by the discovery of the fact that • young woman
named Emma White, one of the domestics, bad
been confined of an illegitituate child, and had—
there is too much reason to fear—terminated by
violence the life of her offspring. The unhappy girl
in question had only been employed at the Court
about three months, having come with a good charac-
ter from the service of Lady Williams, at Swansea.
Her conduct during the period named bad been on
the whole satisfactory, and although her appearance
lately had given rise to some suspicion amongst her
fellow servants, the members of the family of Sir
William had no idea that she was enceinte. A
coroner's inonest on the body of the dead infant was
held on Wednesday, before Bruges Fry, Esq., and
a respectable jury. Mr. William White Day,
surgeon, and Agues Brown, cook in the establish-
ment of Sir W. Miles, Leigh Court, and others
having been examined, the coroner having made a
careful summary of the evidence, and pointed out
the law bearing upon the case, the jury, after a leng-
thened deliberation, retcrned • verdict of "Wilful
Murder" against the mother of the child, and she
was fully committed on the coroner's warrant to take
her trial at the next Somerset assizes.