The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

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hOine manufacturer on terms of fait , Atli)
competition withContinentai mantifillttirers."—Ayes)
t efbeaoa, k.- Brembrid..ge' A. R.
Cochrane W. Fernand, R. S. Gard, W. G. Langton,
Sir M. Uspas, Admiral Walcott; and the following
in the msjerity—Hoes, 140.—T. D. Acland, C. C.
Clifford, Sir R. P. Collier, W. &wart, W. Gladstone,
Lord Grey de Wilton, Sir W. G. Hayter, J. A.
Kinglake, R. Lowe, W. Mackinnon, M. H. Marsh,
T. A. Mitchell, Hon. W. Portman, A. Seymour)
R. B. Sheridan, W. Tite.

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BOIIOVeIi POLIOZ, Fiddly. —Bebre the Mayor
(Dr. Aldridge) and J. F. Hodges, Esq.—Mary
Smith, of Bristol, brought up in custody charged
with dronkenness and begging by P.C. Cousins, was
sentenced to seven days imprisonment —Two
sailors, named Leonard Langdon and William Henry
Phillippi., were charged by P.S. Davis with being
drunk on Friday morning, He fotthd them under
Mr. Oalpin's verandah. They were fined to. each,
or 14days' IMprisonment.--John Evelyn, a militia-
man, was charged with robbing the garden of Henry
For, living in Grove Buildings, on Friday morning.
A quantity of lettuces were missed by Mr. Fox, and
In consequence of information reoeived, he went with
P.C. Reech to the Castle public•house, in Fording.
ton. Prisoner attempted to conceal the lettuces by
covering them with • dress. A militiaman named
Burnett, of Sherborne, stated that pfisoner was hot
out of hie billet during the night. tt tiantpired that
proseetttor had not told all he kite* abolit the case,
And iefuned to give all the information he could.
Thili being so, the base *ilk dismissed, and prosecutor
was told that he wall responsible for giving the
prisoner ititb custody.
Volatirr PoLICI, Saturday.—Before E. W. '
Wilhite* and E. Pearce, Esqrs, —George Symes, a
collector of marine stores, was brought up in
custody charged with stealing a sail cloth, value
305., the property of Mr. Aaron Smith, of Winter.
bonnie Steepieton. Joseph Legg, • man in pro.
senator's employ, said that about the 116th of Octobef
last he mimed • sheet from his master's barn. Verly
the same morning he foetid the prisoner there lying
down. Ile Made him get up, and taxed him with
knowing something about the loot sheet Prisoner
denied all knowledge of it, and said, " Depend upon
it, if it has been taken it was done early in the night.
I got a drop of drink and came in here for a sleep."
Prisoner then walked off. The sheet was borrowed
from Mr. J. Yeatea, of Upiertiert and had his name
on it. The pieces of cloth produced he believed
to be the theet he had missed cut up.—Mary
Sirnthonds, the wife of a marine store dealer at
Fordington, spoke to • man, whom she believed to be
prisoner, coming to her about October 26th, and
offering the pieces of sheeting produced, for
sale. She thought they were stolen, and would
not boy them. Prisoner told her he had
brought the stuff to sell for a named
George Gale, from Grinastooe.—BulatTaWhitei ot
FordiogtoniApoke to lindihg the stuff near a heap
of stone* in Fordington field, and to giving informa-
tion to the police.—Superintendent Underwood said
the pieces of sheeting were brought to him het
Monday. After he had called Mrs. Simmonds to
see them, he went to prisoner, who acknowledged
that be took the cloth to Mrs. Simmonds' to sell, but
said it was for a man named Gale, of Bradford: Thb
superintendent said there were ho Hales at Bradford,
and asked prisoner if he should know the man be
took it fbr ff he saw him. Prisoner said he supposed
there would be some difficulty in finding him now.
In defence, prisoner alleged that he took the cloth
for another man, and Mrs. Simmonds refusing to bay
it, he returned it to him; the man carried it sway,
and he had not seen him since. Being called to
plead, he said, not guilty, but, being told that the
case would have to be sent for the tensions tiniest he
pleaded guilty, he amended ,his Plttii ittid bald guilty.
4-The magiatratee bob/Adored the cane clearly proved,
MO kettfebbed him to three months' hard labour.
Ditasiliolle Ftos.—One of the most 'extensive fires
that have occurred in this neighbourhood for many
ears pest, took place on Friday evening last on the
-m premises of Mr. John Bayne, in Fordthgton. The
'dings form • quadrangle around • barton, and own.'
granaries, • house containing a rwerfel iteam-
., and boiler, with loft, nontnining machinery of
...clang kinds fo; the preparittiob at groan and food for
stock, stablios, • etre,* house, two labourers' cottages,
and other offices. The stabling, which occupies one
side of the square, had a roof of thatch. The liventock
on the premises consisted of about 130 pigs and 18 horse%
and the granaries contained something like 130 sacks of
corn, and there was about 60 seeks of wheat in straw, le-
a loft, randy for threshing. In the yard stood 3 admeall.,
ricks, each containing about 140 seeks of etnti, a, litre%
stack of bay, and part of another stack. On Friday
the machinery in the lititatilishment was not at work.
About Six o'clonk in the evening some men were em-
ployild in the yard, unloading • waggon, laden with
furze, and some children were playing in the straw-hones.
It is believed that the children had got some Inciter
matches, and that the fire waslindled by striking them.
Be that as it may, shortly before seven o'clock the men
in the yard perceived fire and smoke &Tieing from the
straw house. One named Protege mada„ to the spot, alid
jumped ID, thinking to atongldisb, the &Mee, lu doing-
s°, he gut slightly burnt. tie raised an alarm,
and then tornad the horses out of the stable, and
with maiitanee drove most of the pigs off the premises.
Several of them, with the stupidity for which they are
proverbial, would rush into the fire, and the result was
that two were literally roasted slivs- their charred
remains being found next morning in the straw house,
three wore no badly burnt that they were "killed to
save them," and others received iti conaidersl le Ininries;
but each as it is expected they will redoing. rn. The
fire engines were sent for and be,f, orb eight Fre oek hoth
the Forttington engine; iiiidar the superintendence of
Mr. lairegmblit and the Dorchester engine, directed by
floperintendeut Poaney, were at work. his. stand-
pipes sad boos kept at Dorehester to ,attach to the
wlter werks hydrants were also brought ,into requisition.
A Itrge ntimber of ~. .ple haltallembled 14 this timit
The Are had bktend il fibre the strew•house to • consi•
deAtble distant* both right and left. The firemen were
overwhelmed with directions and advice of the most
contrary character, and the result was that they gave
satisfaction to nobody. It was, however, manifestly
Impossible to save thane InuMings immediately adjoining
the straw.loase and engine.lionse, and the efforts of the
firemen were in the firm instate>. Created ta praventing
the are from spreading. Tbeisbectiedett in thlt after
working for shunt an hoar. Sakerawhilis tin principal
buildings had Burnt furiously, and there was little left
attlidihg save the bare walls. Much of the corn in sacks
was burnt, , and the other lay scattered about, and was
dt.maged by the water. There wen- about four,londs of
straw in the hone,' which made an jmntense Este as
aid also the unthreehed wheat in tbe loft over 'the
engine boss.. Such wet the heat that the stones of •
mid were foetid efixt morning brolen in pieces. The
'vu Outages ractusted by Robert Sereen and Mimi
_ortlett were foe • tune in imminent danger„ and eetieral
people -wont into them and tumbled out the goods in
'he moat unceremonious manner. As we walketi over
vane on &tardily Morniroyidili pool` 13boPle loudly
t their low, tlndlithitilatned of the unneorrisary
'‘, tlf thblr property that had taken plate. The
...re wrenched from their hinges, she-Ives pulled
the walls, bedsteads torn asunder, furniture re-
moved most carelmely, and in one instance a stone
mantelpiece was forced from its place—all this to stye
the property, The poor people lace ettrely goollreasfiti
to complain of their
_officio% liblhlitsi? &file of the
spectators when the arlo was at its height walked about
amid thit bUiting and falling buildings with the utmost
. 'recklessness. Anthogst these were • ' considerable
number of women, inheriting, we may suppose, a fair
share of the curiosity of our finrt mother, However;
not a few of. those present exordia themselves
in • very prioweerih,y taahnOr, rendering all the
wisistanee itt their Pbtleer. The people occupying
the imitates in frbnt of the farm builddiga
esoried Out into the Street sod neighbonring
headieseteet,of-thele4ernfeerei-butc mppila thel=m
!preyed tet, he grottefileas Updit aldiolt ,e, tir i
.ftuft in OA loafity thmti Wes Ital.& a .2.-ro-;
;tiro. *kW honks*, Of *eh toady' to-himitiguish any
huridnig. thatbilk that might falL Every precaution,
laud,- mut taken to prevent an 'extension of the fire to
et' premiers, . and the efferta -were S ul. The
wag needy extirgotehed ten o' althea/it the
mass in the straw,/ --etermot4toed to stne-----
nearly the whole t , Thep-
were ineured in 1
gala equal to tbb,
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' iialiltlataTronit Su . Mania Ornileilm.—iindag.
the pest week there lulu beau two- • ing in-
stanons of the •ou.Ctsili *kink .ci - . • "e4-the
men of the Dars4 Mihail enli MAW binders. Captain
Botrso has be tsStarded irfth it handsome and
lblil4iPiditied hunting-whip by the non-conarais-
lom°"ili 04":1 *64 .0, L. 4,4 company ; and on
Pridsy teat a 'presentation' ttlit mad* to '
and
Adintant Soda who Limo Decently r ' front V
regiment, of a handsome Ohureh Service and a be
entitled "Family Worship." The event took pla
it the orderly room. Sergeant-Major Collins was
selected to make the went ' - on behalf of the
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