The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-18 00:00:00

TUE AGAPEMONE.

PECUNIARY lIIMOURCES OF THE ABODE OF LOWE.
—From an extraordinary document which has been
sent by one Thomas Williams, to the London papers,
we extract the following :
There have usually resided at the Agapemone about
sixty persons. Of those now residing there, the only
persons who have possessed property are those named
underneath.

Brother Prince sunk the sum of £12,000 in building,
enlarging, furnishing, and otherwise supplying the
.kzapemone, and has contributed besides the yearly sumn
of £2OO, I:150 of it being Mrs. Prince's annuity. Mr.
Starkey has contributed the sum of £1,000; Mr. TllOlllZi.
since IMO, has contributed a yearly income of £l7O ;
Mr. and Mrs. Cobbe have contributed the cum of
£7,10 ; Mr. Sieber, the sum of £1,990; Mr. Turner, a
yearly income of £4O, with the exception of two years,
when it was about £00; Mr. Holder, a yearly income
of DM; Mrs. Starkey mid Mrs. Williams, a yearly in-
come of about £BO each ; Mr. Price (in conjunction with
Mrs. Price, not now residing at the Agapeinime), the
sum of £5,873 ; the Minces Elizabeth, Frances, and
Harriet Maher, the suin of £1,990 each ; and a yearly
income of about 14.00 between them ; Miss Penny, II sum
of MO! Two other persons resident in the Agapen ~,,, e
have each contributed • small sum— one I'9o and the
other about £3O.

Eight oiler lemony, formerly residing at the Aga-
petnone, contribitioal also to its support. Of these, two
left it many years awl six are deoeased. Of tl.•
former, one who resided there between five and six
years, contributed about the sum of MO, and a yearly
income of about £l4O for himself, his wife, and
daughter. Another contributed a sum of £l3O, and
also a yearly iii ome of between LW and I:70. Of the
hitter, one contributed • sum of £5OO, and a yearly
income of about £130; another contributed, in capital,
money, and income, a sum amounting to about £2,200.
Another a yearly income of about £7O. Two others
tog the contributed a small bum amounting to about
£5O. The remaining one was Miss Nottidge, whose
property (.0,7210 was the subject of the late suit in
Chancery. In addition to these sum., various other
monies that have casually fallen in as debts, legaciwi,
6:c., in the course of 13 years the Agspoilione has
existed, have been received by Brother Prince and
others above named, sonounting in Brother Prince's
ante to about D4OO, and in the other eases collectively to
about £2,310. . . .

This Statement ii followed by certificates; from
several of the regenerated and happy inmates of this
terrestrial paradise, setting forth how infinitely the
benefits, both spiritual and temporal, received there.
have outweighed the money value of their respective
contributions to "Brother Prince" in hundreds and
in thousands.

After • series of unsuccessful attempts to rescue his
wife from the influence and custody of the Arch- Agape-
monite, Brother Prince, the perseverance ,if the Rev
Lewis Price has at length been rewarded by the attain-
ment of his long sought-fir object. On Friday last Mr.
Price received sonic reliable information that Mrs.
Pric • was at Exeter, and lie at once proceeded thither
to secure her. Although he found on his arrival at
that city that he was on the right trick, and that his
wife had been there, yet the bird hall flown, and he was
again disappointed. His agent, however, remained to
follow up the search, while Mr. Priem returned to Bridg-
water, in order to be in readiness to receive any fresh
intelligence that might arrive from that or other sources.
The agent succeeded in tracing l's. Price to Salisbury,
where she wa, I.CC.) in company with Mrs. Stark),
another follower of Prince. He also discovered that
they cent to Wilton, a few miles from Salisbury, far
the purpose of purchasing new bonnets and wearing
spicrel, for the object of effecting their disguise,
alter which they returned to Salisbury. He for
warded a telegraphic message to the Rey, mr, price,
who lost no time, but at once proceeded to Salis-
bury, where lie arrived on Tuesday evening.
Soon afterwards he discovered the whereabouts of the
two ladies and captured his w;fe at her lodgings. On
Wednesday afternoon be returned with her to Bridg-
water by train, and arrived at that station at about
half-past 6 in the evening, but bid not alight from the
gret.elese earei.ge in which lie and his wife and Mrs.
Starky had travelled, but the whole party proceeded on
to Glastonbury, where Mr. Price has temporarily taken
up his abode. The agent went on by an earlier train to
make the netters/try arrangements for their accom•
inodation. The result of the Bev. Lewis e,eetiona
has given evident satisfaction to the inhabitants of the
neighbourhood in which he has been residing. Several
pwapit from Bridgwater Mall aarioutly waiting his

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ppovrtuin the railway
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Inslie of Ids scheme. The blinds of the carriage were,
however, closely drawn, and the desire of the public
was nut satisfied. As the train was about to start a
orimspondent opened the door and recognized Mr.
Price, who alau informed him of his identity.
TA UNION. —Police I liArection. —Captain Willi.,
of Bath, Her Majesty's Inspector of Police for the
Smithery' Division, inspected the police for this dis-
trict in the Shirchall grounds near the police station
on Tiluriday evening last. The Inspector spoke in
eulogistic terms of the force.
The Taunton Market Trustees having decided, in
pursuance of their powers, on making all persyns,
residing within 1.1100 yards of the market and sell-
ing vegetables, pay a license, were occupied a con.
aiderable time, at their monthly meeting on Friday
week, in fixing the amounts wl:ich the parties were
to pay, most of them having appealed against the
sums charged in the notices served on them.
At the Guildhall, on Wednesday, Frederick
Talbot, a fish hawker, living in Snuttern, was
brought up on a charge of defrauding the Bristol and
Exeter ItMlway Couipaiiv. Mr. Blackinore, super-
intendent in the company's service, stationed at
Bristol, appeared in support of the charge. It
appears that the ilefeinhait got into the train at
Welliii4ton on the. 2:lril of Auguat without paying
I.i. v 31.1 liroVllllng hilliSelf with 3 ticket. TII.!
indAistcates tined liiin Ilk., including costs, and
I alloy' el a week for liayment.
.110fifts I. KI:, MON UNIENT. —The admiration
called forth int the exhibition of Bailey's splendid
: busY, of Blake, which wan set up a short time since
, at the Shirchall, had not been confined to the county
alone. The Duke of Somerset and the Lords Com•
niissioners of the Admiralty have purchaaed the
model from the eminent sculptor, and a copy of the
inemouial, written the last few days, has been placed
in Greenwood Hosiiit:d.
Cu iii,. .1 /Warr Early on Wednesday
morning last a journeyman Lair, mulled William
Norris, betty ...en rni and fill years "(age, committed
suicide by sti angling himself with a piece of small
rope. Ile had for a long time been of a nervous
temperament, and lately exhibited increauing symp-
toms of dejection, openly wishing persons " good
bye," saying that lie was too low and nervous to
work, and that be should never see them again. He
was a frequent companion of Mr. Joules Nuth, who
committed suicide, was one of the witnesses to his
will, and one of his bearers. Ile also attended the
Initial of the young wan Crouch the day before.
We understand that lie was very realists during the
night and unable to sleep. and thus prevented his
wife from sleeping, and that on her entreating him
to comisyse himself so that they might both have
sleep, he said, he felt strongly teuipted to do some-
thing, and he feared lie should do it. He was in the
habit of rising early and walking out, and between
four and tive o'clock he dressed himself as usual and
went down stairs, leaving his wife in bed. Soon
afterwards she heard a fall, and on going down
beheld her husband on the ground with the cord
round his neck and in his band, but he hail not
ceased to breathe. She immediately called a neigh.
Lour, and sent for Mr. Marshall, surgeon, just across
the road. Ile wan soon in attendance, and declared
that the vital spark had lhal, although the body was
warm. The unhappy man attempted suicide ten
years ago. Fortunately for his widow he has left no
children. Ile was the eldest non of the late Robert
Norris, the well-known sherilrs officer.