The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-12 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 12. 1870,

purpose was that about eleven at night she was In bed. when ;
her husband came up curving and swearing. Pulls Io the
clothes, and attempted to strike her. She took up • chair to
defend herself, when her husband came round. and struck her
three times vn the bead—" It wee very hard blows." She ran
down stain naked, and he niter h• r her heal names. i
She ran out of the house, but three-paters of an hour after,
fancying he was saleep, she, finding it was very cold ad rain-
ing, opened the el 'Lotter, to get into the boo.. again.
There was • tea cup on the table, which he threw at her, and
also threatened to shoot her if he could And the gun. He got
It from the back place, end pointed toward. her, and she woe
..raid be would Ere it, and It was not the first time he had
threatened to do 50.—Knight : " Oh ! you bad, bad woman!
Wife : I am too good for you, my man ! The Mayor
tried to stop the altercation, on which Knight
muttered, virtuously, "Oh ! I do like the truth! The
truth', my way I—Wile : I don't wish to hurt him Knight
I shouldn't think you did! If you hurt me you'll hurt yourgelf.
—wife: lie said he'd give me • load of shot if I cement ar the
house—Knight : Oh? you —Wife: I bare bten weikiolt
about two nlghts.—Knight : 14:op a bit; let me have my say
by and by. Mr. Arden Wert you sober ?—Wife (laughing)
Yes, air, of course I wet sober as lam now! lam not in the
habit of drinking, though I like • hat-pint when I have been
working hard. He don't illtreat me till he is drunk. He hes
leen a teetotaller for four months, and we were nes er hammier
in our life. I wish for peace and quietness. —Knight said he
went home between four and Are in the afternoon to get his
Ira, and he was then more sober than he wee now.—The Mayor:
I we you are not very sober now.—Koight : She was sitting in
a chair that drunk she could not speak to me. —The wife here
expresed her surprise. —Knight: Let me have my way for •
little hit! finlike the right* of • thing.—Susan Rockett, wife
of William Rockett, said she had been lodging with Mr. and
Mrs. Knight about a week and never saw Mr. Knight the
wore fordrink Mr. Knight had come home several time,
and threatened his wife's life.—Witnese was here &nailed by
defendant with disgusting epithets; but in an low a tone that
the Bench did not 'hear—The Superintendent : If you don't
ley attention, the Bench wit edicurn the earn, and you will be
locket up—Knight: All right, melon! I'm willing to be
locked up! I would rather be than locked up home with her.
—Wane= continued to speak of defendant's conduct with the
gun. —The Bench rnked Mrs. Rocket if she graa living at
Knight'..—Knight : She don't live there much longer. —lle
Anion : I should think she would he glad t lease your house.
Knight i A liering bad woman! I do like the truth, dr ! A
liering bad woman. --By the Mayor: Witness has never beard
Mrs. Knight elm anything to excite her husband ; but she called
him • naatY old mesh—Defendant : When I went at Ave, she
(his wife) was ea drunk as any "tuella." I iv-madder:hey are
trying to sell me like a bullock in SnOthrield. (ears wick of the
lot of them. I have been out working like • slave all day, and
then to cotuehonie, and no tea for me? Am Ito bide usd starve,
—Superintendent Vickery said he went home on Tuesday night
about if n'clnick, and Maid the defendant's wife say she heti
writ him (Knight) to prison, and ahe would transport him. She
also called hint a rogue and • villain. Shecertoinly was not
drunk, and said, "You have hem n away cleaning somebody's
windows for Ad.. and 111 go and see about it tO-11110111,. 1110111-
Ing."—Kolffht I can't earn di.. but she ears, "Oh! you've
maned more." She might as well kill me out of the way.—The
Mayor said the wife had sworn she was In d.nger of her life,
and that warn supported by • witness. They did not think the
ease was weloo• as she had and they would bind
smith& over in £lO, and two sureties in LS each, to keep the
wax for two months.
COUNTY PETTY Sgssiggs, Monday.—Before Et; ff.
Eliot, Req., and Dr. Smith.
CAAXISAL Alliall.T. —A private of the 7th Punnets was
brought up charged with reault at Portland. About battlet
wren or • quarter to eight on Saturday night, P.C. Cooper
wag tent for to the Welcome Stronger, and found three soldiers
and several Portland men there. There wIlk• 11 Mat disturb-
ance, and one Portlender and the prisoner were strusgling on
the Boor. Before they could be separated, the soldier seised
his antagonist with his teeth by the Meek, and held him till
P.C. Cooper choked the rarnal off. The policeman got him
outside the house; but the fellow then lapped his belt round
his wrist, and stood at hay, threatening to murder any who
came near him. The policeinan wee misted by some gallon,
and they made a rush in and took away the desperate fellow's
belt • he kicked and bit in every direction, and one of the men
helping gut • severe bite. Time cannibal snot laid hold of by a
powerful petty officer, who dared the soldier to bite him, and
said If he did so, he would give him something so that he
should never bite any one eosin. mis rather cowed the cannibal,
and he was taken into custody. but still he wan so violent that
it took four men to convey him to the station.— Before the
Bench, the eulouraenreant pve prisoner an indigent charac-
ter, and he as, sent to prison for It day.

Dr. llooDuc read the Medical Report.
Mr. ANDRaWS submitted to the Chairman the report
from the Tre.surer, showing, balance due to the •
treasorer, £33 is. 11.
PAUPER PATIZNTS.
Dr. RHODES wished to mention a certain point. Fie
thought it rather bard upon the Infirmary that they
should have patienU sent in trom var.ons Unions, and
some not in the county. There were many oases of
cataract which were brought in and remained in the
Infirmary some weeks and even months, free of all
charge, and it was very exceptional that they ever gots
donation from any Board of Guardians of the Unions
from whence they came. He %Tithed to have the
°pion of the meeting as to whether some small charge
ouuld not be made.
Mr. MAUNDIRS referred to Rule 10, which stated
" Out•Patienta coming from • distance whose Mime
oquire their remaining in Weymouth, canoot be ad-
mated without producing • letter front the overreera
of their pariah, or from some re•ponrinle person, mistier'
toting to defray the extence if their board and lodging
during thaw stay. For such patienttl prover accorn.
!natation' are provided in the neighbourhood of the
Infirmarr."
Dr. litioDXB said the rule had never been enforced.
On the motion of the CHAIKHAN, seconded by Dr.
Mum's, it was decided that patients not living in the
...Anti, should not be reoeiveri except by paying •
snm at least for their maintenance.
The proceedings terminated with • vote of thanks to
the Rev. T. Greases, for the able manner in which he
had discharged the duties of chairman.

tinned, made enquiries of the boys, had the sufferer
placed in a warm oath and administsred stimulants.
After about half.an-hour's perseveranoe, the boy
recovered.
A CCIDINT. Wednesday morning a little boy of
Easton, named William Charlet. about 8 years old,
went with his father'. breakfast to Mr. Hodder's, where
his father was assisting at the sheep shearing. Oul.
aide the barn, in fact by the side of the med,
is the horse gear for driving a chaff-cutter,
and the little fellow must seeds clamber up into
the driving seat, the little driver being. playmate.
When be had driven the horse to his heart's content,
he got down • but is doing go, the poll to which the
hone is attacihed, caught him in its revolution, and
I squeezed his legs against a beam of the drum. He
shouted, and the horse instantly stopped, or his legs
must have been orushedoff. As it was, they were fears
fully bruised. He was irnmedietely extricated, tsken
brine, and attended by Dr. Hawks. Oily a ',holt time
ifiogro,d?e sairebi:ynofe.llindoftwdnouabills;..rywatezd was tektu up

CERNB A BRAS.
CoNORICIATIOIAL tOVIVIIIISART. —The anniversary of
the C..o.gregational Church at Cern.. took placid on the
sth inst. At 3 p.m. there was a public servioe, when
the Rev. W. Lewis, of We‘ mouth, preach.d. A too
meting f.,lllnwed, in the sahoolroom, whim a goodly
numb-r from the town and surrounding parts assembled.
In the evening there vac • public meeting, over which
tile p•stor (Her. D. Thawed) presided. Thn report for
the past year woe preiented by him, and proved, in
reference to the spiritual
a. d _ ..her anp.ota, of a a.ri
enrouraging kind. Addresses on practical Chriatianity,
the signs of the times in their bearing unon Noniron-
forwity in relation to the great politiaal questions of the
day, indi•idual Chri.tian w..rlt. and other appropriate
ivies followed, by the Hey. Messrs. Beckley, Native,
Brown, Mi4l, and W. Levi. The service of song,
under the ediductorilip of Mr. H. Derriinan, was most
ably rendered, end toe whdle proceedings of the day
I were of a very satidsotory k:nd.

an accredited officer with bread, of duty, and endeavours
in himvelf to upset the interests of the Lesi.lative
which he has been empowered to maintein.—Yours
truly,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
Alderney Manor, Poole, July stb, 1870.