The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-11-02 00:00:00

we the 'idle °ceps, who would be each more than a
watch for • lot of convicia armed with stone pi_ hi.
Thal& later.gatheted body might be posted on the Wyk.
tames. where they would at great advantage Iteetd the
narrow stenos of- escape from Portland. Thus there
would not he the slightest chance of • °envie. Setting
on the mainland. As to the remotest poesibility of an-
noyance, leaving out danger, at Weymouth, that is
quite out of the question. Of course the 'NO WA delay
in gettina on the mainland (and sash escape is thown to
be impossible) would be fatal to the convicts, for Itor-
chetter and the guardshipt in an limy could teed enough
men to overpower them in Portland. Consulering the
promptitude with which their plies wonld be rvvealed,
the force to be brought agatuat them, arid the impossi-
bility of their map; a convict rising must, by any who
weigh the whole of the facts, be pat mide as a most
eabktly thing.

Fooy-anowours Dusuams.—This dimes bee broke&
out at Tisrrton. Weston, rind Doyoten, Somerset.
dummies laws Munngs.—An IsMk . landlord, rimmed
O'Brien Mobiles shot dead near Illobill, empty Wyk..
Tiii whole family of M. Louis Chev.lier,hving at ISt,
Andri-de•Crusiere, Fromm, imordsting of lOpersons, have
died from eating poisonous mushrooms.
Tits Primates Royal of Pruesin (Princess Vietotis 01
England), with her live children. and lur birdi r, the
Prieto as Aliso of Meese, have arrived at Cannes to paas
the winter.
A notice appeared in Ter is Icy night's Ga:ttes direct.
ing the creditors of the Albert Life A a Chmpecy
to ...d in the particulars of their debts or claims before
the lit of January next.
Tire Queen has ordered corspl if Hirt to the Dean and
Chamber of. Exeter, empowenng them to elect a
Bishop for that bee, and reoommendisur the appointment
of Dr. Temple.
Tun deed body of a man bating the appearance of a
mechanic, was found on M. nday in • pond, in Leigh
Woods, Bristol. A stone was fastened to the nook, and
probably the man committed stuiside.
Al' oak casket. together with • penis containing £44.10,
has been presented to the they. W. F. Addison, M.A.
vicar of Christ Church, Reading, who is about to leave
England for Gibraltar.
Talc Irish Times states that Mr. °argue, steward of
Mr. Farnell, of kloynalty, near Trim, who was fired at
some time since toere, bed his lira again attempted on
:sunday night in • det,rinioed manner.
Le AMMO, trOde/Sa states that five bodies were die-
covered on the 11.11. huddled together in • hovel at
Moldavanka. 'the murdered family were Jews, ant bil
acre deul, except a wounded infant, whose life is
despaired i f.
MU. STANOTELD bag roneented to undertake the
duties of Financial (keen-tag to the Treasury (the ram
of third lord bring abolished), Mr. Layard having
accepted the appointment of Minister of Madrid, and
, Mr. Ayrton that of First Commissioner of Works.
FATAL It•ILWAI ACCIDILST.--A tale ran off the
i metals near Welwyn junction, on the Great Northern
. Railway, 411 Sunday night. Two persona were killed,
one has since died, and several were injui ed.
Wire MORDZIL—A labourer, named Osborne, at
Bottishare. Cambridgeshire, went home drunk on
Saturday afternoem. and discharged • gun at his wife,
which tore MI the upper part of her heart.
TuE island of Jersey will shortly be in possession of •
railway between its two chief towns, St. usher and St.
Aublu. An English company has reso:ved to construct
a line round St. Aubin's Bay for passenger and goods

ATHELHAMPTON.
Denßumen Frac—About midnight on Monday •
fire was discovered to be raging inn bun in the ocaupa.
tion of Mr. H. W. Homer. at atlielimuipton Hall, but
the flame* spread with such rapidity that in • very
abort tune it extended ton stable, aheda and a cottage
adjoining, in the oocupetion of a labourer named Watt.,
the whole of which fell • prey tothe devouring element.
Tile here coutained about El5O worth of flat at the
time, the whole of which, with the greater pert of the
cotteeter's furniture, was consumed. Tie damage is
ePtilested at about LBOO, and is covered, we learn, by
insurance in the Waste( England °few. The property
belongs to Mrs. Vl'otyl, of dtdelbampton. The Dor.
cheater fire-engine was seat for, but was of little Berme,
on Amount of the saacity of water, which had to be
obtatood from a small well near. Fears were enter.
tained at one time the fire would spread itself to a num-
ber of corn ricks—the whole praluee of the farm—
stacked at 1101118 short distaace from where the walla-
grat.on originated, but this fortunately did not occur.
Nothing positive is known sa to how the fire originatedl;
but during the day some workmen bad been engaged in
drying • quantity of ass near, and it is coejtetured
that either some of the embers of the fire must have
been carried iitto the barn with the flax, or else the
speaks were blown by the wind on to the roof of the
barn, which, Lemming ignited, led to the outbreak.

EAST LULWORTH.
DitMATlnettro Uaserrous. —At the Exeter District
Court of Benkruptce, the acting COMM nlitioner.
It. Roope, Esq., beuri- the cue of Pumas Joseph
Donnelly, grocer and schoolmaster, of haat Lulwurth.
who we* strougly opposed by Mr. Howard, solicitor, I f
Weymouth, on behalf of the creditors.. Mr. R. R. M.
Jaw, of Exeter, appeared for the estate. Meetiog for
last examination and discharge. The official assignee
reverted that the bankrupt owes to unsound °rather.
£405 1.. Id., and to creditors payable in full 1:7 l.—
total debts an I liabilities. £412 Ile. ld. Assets—good
debts, £3O; furniture, estimated at £:l5 ; stockdiestrade,
£160; Gest, handed to solicitor, DJ—total assets, 1230.
Deficiency, £lB2 lie. Id. The besiktupt's expenditure
for the support of himeelf and bawdy in the year pre-
ceding his 'moister's was ISO, and in the previous
year lea. Of the amount owerg to creditors nearly
£3OO wee contracted by Mr. Thomas Coles, whose
grocery business the bankrupt too if! in April last.
The sum of 1.37 Si. 4d. wee owing for furniture bought
in 1568, and 1:22 for cash borrowed in the present
year. The bankrupt had appended to his " strtement"
a goods and usli account fur the six months preceding
1 his insolvency. From this amount it appears that in
I February lost be had furniture of the value of Off.
' He purchased in Atilt lest. • 'Thomas Coke his stock-
inerade, furniture, and book debts for 1:600; goods
I purchased since,l:42 1 ts. Gil.— total. 172911'. 64. Goods
, 501d,£154 124 64.: furniture sold, £67; btook and
furniture, on hand, £195 ; leas on stock, lec., £312 19s.
I The amount of cash received and paid was 1:2630, 2.1.
I The receipts include tun, en ; salary, £32; furniture,
167; goods sold. £122 Os. 24.; and board and lodgings,
£l5. About £B5 of the payments were msde on
account of debts contracted by Thomas Coles.
Mr, Sarah Coles stated that her husband ferns. rly
untied on the bankrupt's business of gr. oer. The
bankrupt purchased it. She had nevi r heard him say
in the presence of Mrs. Gillingham, of Wareham, that
he had 1:3,0110 in the fends, lied sot heard her late
husband nay to Mr. Gillingham, " You may feel easy
about your usouey, as I feel about mine, and mine is
much more thats yours ;" nor bad she heard three words
said in the presence of lie. Penny, of Weymouth. Her
I husband did not say just before his death, in the
I presence of Mr. &seek, the bankrupt, and herself, that
1 the bankrupt owed hum money. Mr. Cobs was indebted
Ito the bankrupt. Did not recollect • cheque which the
bankrupt paid to her husband being diehonoured.
Never heard bankrupt say that he heals lot of money
coming to hiss. She saw him give her husband elle
in gold and notes, but could not charge het memory as
to the time. Her husibaud pia his debts witb it
as far as it went. Her husband had nearly £5OO from 1
the bankrupt and he paid him bark Peet —Mr. Howard
said the nason of all the opposition was that the
creditors beliewed the bankrupt had not dealt honestly
with them. Mr. Cole. was in bedtimes 40 years, and a
more honourable and straightforward man 'sever en-
isted ; but ever shut he had ben (I snouted with the
bankrupt be had been borrowing money from different
pensons on the plea that he was going to Iced it to
Dolmen, (the bankrupt). lie should produce evidence
to show that, and also that the bankrupt was son.
coaling the true state of things. Myta Belson,
sclueltnistrass, of East Lalworth, receiving £24
per annum salary. said she formerly resided at
Henley, Staffordshire, where she carried on business
with her mother and sister as millinery. She gave
the bankrupt 1.67 for the farniture. He kit the
school on tatting Mr. Coles' business. She produced
the reoipt. Her mother was possessed s 4 more then
£2,01.5.1. She gave the bankrupt £lOO on his marriage.
Part of this money that the gave she received from her
mother and part she saved out of her own warnings.
Baukrupt, next examined by Mr. Howard, said he
recotlected the messenger of the Bankruptcy Court
coming to his house on August 24. He showed him
over the hous., and helped Unite make out a schedule.
When the u.v•senger had finished he told him that that
was ell he posse eel Ile ilid not show him a box of ,
crockery hidden under sonic bushes ; did not know it
was there. Did not show him • ladder that was after-
wards found. Del not knew that there was a cupboard
at the top of the house, or rather • spsoe between the
ceiling and the roof, Sll4 with things. Wasn't aware
that there was such &place in the Loa.. Never stated
to anybody that he was entitled to £3,000. He did not
show a paper to Mr. Gillingham, of Wareham, and say,
"There, it's all right, the lawyers say they have
invested cl,roo for me." He knew Mr. Gilles-
ham. Did not know whether he was a respectable
tradesman or not. He never told him or wrote to
him, saying that he had money in the funds. It did
not seem likely that he should write this, and if he did
it was false. He never told Me. Peony the same, nor
that he had houses which he had mortgaged. The ugh
or
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entitled
Neverbeing r
esesount filed included all his cub accounts as far as he
Fould remember. lie knew Mr. Barnes, coal merchant,
of West Lulworth ; had not paid him any money. It
was true that he gave Mr. Barnes a cheque which was
dishonoured. The cheque was for a:8 • be gave it Mr.
Dames to pay 1:4 he owed him for coals.; he received £4
change, but Mr. Barnes never got the L. He told Mn.
Barnes not to give him the change, as he was not quite
certain whether there was sufficient money in the bank ,
to cover tlse cheque. He had not entered Mr. Barbee I
as one if his creditors—he quite forgot it. Never gave ,
Mr. Jones, draper, of Wareham. • cheque that was '
dishonoured ; never had any trnuactions with him.
Really could not remember whether he bed done the
same thing to anybody else that he had done to Mr.
Barnes. Borrowed 1:2:1 of Mr. Bates for Mr. Co'es's pur-
poses. Now he recollected that the cheque for 1:25 which
he gave him was dishonoured, sod that he had received
5.3 out of it. Those were the only two eases, lie did
not think that he aver told Mr. Gillingham he wan
entitled to money. lie would soli swear that be had
nit; he never told anybody that he had any such
• sum as f 3,500. The telegraph messages were all
nonsense—mere shams. He told Mr. and Mu. Coles
and others who saw them that they were mere swindles,
that a man in London was trying to trick hint. lie
might have written to Mr. Gillingham saying that he
was about to receive money from his mother; but oer-
tainly not that he had money in the funds. He could
not say that the letter now Landed to him (by Mr.
Howard) was his handwriting. He would sot swear to
it nor the eignature. (Mr. Howard read the letter ;it
\VII as follows :—" October 15, 1868. Dear Mr. Gilling-
ham.—Your letter of this morning has put me very
much about for the amount of your bill. lam un-
able to pay you at present. It is quite out of my
power to do so; but if you wait till Christmas I have
amounts of money coming to nu from several places.
My salary will be due, also my rents and what is
allowed nu. out of the funds.") He would net swear
to the letter unless he was positive. By the Acting-
Commissioner : Would tot swear that it was his hand-
writiog. His Honour: Look at it. Bankrupt: Well,
I think it ie mine; but I should not like to swear to
'rillengtiht. lied
had
good'
from
It, for 1 know Mr. Snook has signed for me before.
By Mr. Howard: Never told anybody that be
had four £lOO notes, mid that they turned
out to be sto)en. Mr. Coles never said
g b a a 1 e sayit
'hehs oilitsi.mlra. ewHyt heeßrantrerma shkee'dmi'weba:6l:.
Penny's presence that he (bankrupt) owed him
cisblel:olus'besklY,.b;nyhudMeid:s.:::CoLlitdlsabenesyost.toautsee Mr. Coles, and meeting Mr.
Mr.
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in Mr. Gitlin
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b'cgete
.bh. Inp, his
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snook till him of it, for be had ntver ieforintd him
shoo' was 1::kl per eneam. Nothing was due to
him ~,,,, ; he had rather overdrawn if anything
Received nothing as organist. Owed Mr. Robinson
£9 10e. for music -for songs, ke. Mr. Coles's stook-te-
trads was worth 1:600. Mr. Howard, having finished
its, examination, raid he should apply for a further
investigation at an adjourned nieetirg. He also asked
for arts months' cash aocount. His Honour adjourned
the case till Noveuslea 11th, at ten o'clock, and directed
the bankrupt to bring up a rough cash artoonut for the
period stated.

traffic.
MELANCHOLY HUTH or Two Locate. —At West
the other night a girl, mimed Bentley, took
and her lover was so frightfully crushed that
Bthherersspiwleb.theert, John Huelp-s, his supper. As they
ppltodliesim.o
nThileigtiEcrliswasT
okilLedvi.o_n
addition to 9 yr owls
d.
the
um.' from destruction. In the same perind the crews
wbNelLnbti
National
talking
ac en
: daSi •
Lifeboatel' boiler
cr
Ileztitution, tit
of lifeboat, either suetubled or put off 31 times in reply
11)/f1" ipen grsoihilbelh gibe
en
of
Ob• uee ipa.laty sod
te presentl
if eatewol
to signals of distress from vessel. pot attire .tely re-
quiring their services. The Society has now 210 lifeboats
' under its mann. meet.
bliayabaahnseafbeetana
THANI-orri KING YO LITEBOAT.—E. B. h.,
through Mr. Mark Whited', of Bristol, sent a " thank-
co& . for irolCies received," of MOO to the Nn• lora'
Institution during the recent storms.
alsioaleabsefartamlusattuaaatiorin.r B. B.
Fueß Royal acoeueltement• are expected either next
ttotiebeexe•ot.)
month er in December, vie :—The Princess of Wei's,
B▪
li.y rosy of the
Italy, sad the Duchess of Parma. The Pope Ma promised
the Princess Marge:riot
tic e s•Queee of N•ples and the Duchess f P.irtua.
Francis 11. and his Q •cen have been hurrying lock 'o
lufasetphe7tpohtiawodoNl Naples, the
infants, Lb.* of
soil.— Coert Journal.
EAST.LND Nooll ROMANcIL—EIIen Monson,
Rome, it, older that the birth may take place on Haan
about 1 years of age. was brought before Mr. Paget,
at Thames police court charged with being drone •nd
disorderly on Friday night, and attemptieg to coomit
mock's. On Tuesday the prisoner was before Mr.
Woolryab at this court. on a charge of being drunk end
disorderly. She ear then Ellen Hickey, amid o sailor
...II be was repered to marry her "with ell Nolte." Mr.
Woolen& opposed no obstacle, and the sailor men,ither out of hand. On Friday however, the pri-mer got
tipsy again, and at • late beur threw herself from the
swivel bulge in New Gravel•lane, but instead f falling
into the waiter, fell into the rooms in which the bridge
swings, acid was seriously hurt. The woman'. bii,bal
a healthy robast-leoking toulor, got iuto the witto••••
box, and said his wife wee "three sheets in the wind"
on Friday night. Mr. Paget, after a converutiou with
the miler, gave the woman None good advise, and
alldwel him to take her away.
Pierreotion Fault nat.—Bryant and May give the
following as • type of what is constantly occurring
through the inceutiom use of ordotsry Lucif rs, arid
would mint out the perfect wearity afforded by their
Pat..rit Special Safety Matches, which ignite only on
the box—for if left carelessly about within the reach of
children, they are perfectly harneless—as it is only
possible to light them on the prepared surface of the
box :—" Friebtful death front Fire.—Lut eve eine an
enquiry was bold at the London Hospital by Mr. Join
Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner respecting the
death of William Poley, aged woe n years, who lost life
under the foie:ming •bocking circumstances : Thomas
Foley, 11 White Row, end that on Tuesday meriting he
beard • noise in the room were deceased and his
brother Alfred were. He went to see what was the
matter, end he found their bed in dames and deceasod's
clothes on fire. He was Mindere fearfully, and he
screamed out, 'Oh, it was Alfred made me do it, be
told me to light the matches.' It appeared that
deceased had got some limiters and se' fire to the bed
and himself. Witness had much difficulty in cities
guishine the flames. and wee himself severely burnt.
Mr. Appleyard, house eurgeon, soil that the skin and
ii eh were burnt ott decesserdstornseh and limbs. He
was dreadfully charred, and recovery wee of coarse
hopeless. A verd;ct of 'Amid' ntal Death' was
returned."— Horning Star, Bth At ril, 1863.
Tug PoLlct Asti Tat Pt:M.lc. A case was
heard at the Salisbury County Court, helmet
Mr. "obey, judge, and a jury, which has excited
a groat amount of public interest in the neighbourhood.
One evening last June a number of the Salisbury trades.
men and their friends had a croquet party in a held be-
longing to one of their number, Swabia' up with a
supper in a tent on the ground. On their way home,
between twelve and one o'clock, they gradually di...
persed, till only four or five were left. Two of these
stood talking together for a few minutes in one of the
street', when they were scented by Sergeant IFGough,
of the city constabulary, who charred one of them Mr.
Holmes. muter of the Milford station on the South.
Western railway, with being drunk and riotous. Me.
Holmes indignantly denied the chaege. but waist once
token in monody by Sergeant Wl:lough, who marched
him off to the station-house aid placed him in • cell,
refusing to call the inspector, who was aleepiug upstairs,
or to allow the accused either to be bailed out or to send
a message to his wife. In the morning the impactor
allowed Mr. Holmes to leave the station. Mr. Holmes
was summoned to appear before the magistrates, and
after • long and patient investigation the charge against
hint was dieruissed. The town council then held an in.
quiry into the matter with closed doors, but the result
wee never made known. Mr. Holmes, not satisfied
with this, entered an action sexiest WCeough in the
County t. ourt for false imprisonment, laying hie dummies
at C5O. This mae came on for hearing on Friday. Mr.
Whatman. solicitor of Salisbury, appeared fur the
plaintiff; and Mr. Collins, of the Western Circuit, for
thedefeudant. At the close of the opening speech of
the solicitor for the. plaintiff, Mr. Collins made a erivate
communication to that gentleman. acd the result was
that Me. Collins, on behalf of the defendant—although
two or three policemen bad sworn Adore the magistrates
that Mr. Holmes was drunk and riotous—withdrew all
charges simian the plaintiff, stating that the plaintiff
was neither drunk nor riotous, and that he (defendant)
now felt that he had exceeded his duty in taking him
into custody. A verdict was ultimately returned for DS
and coats; and Mr. Holmes, to show that he bad not
prosecuted the action in any vindictive spirit, at once
handed the money over to the treasurer of the Salisbury
Infirmary.
AVENGING • IILIIIIII. The mission to
Abyssinia, partly as ezploiers, partly as avengers,
imposed on Ur. Powell and Mr. Jenkina by the fate
which befell their murdered 'relatives, has been
aucoessful. These gentlemen were able to identify
certain relics as those of the unfortunate victims; and
friende
Ab kindlyperpetrators
oe.iaa Aided
our by o
they also ieilliettedcoudign punishment on the uppmed
Kasen of Tigre, they executed a raid against the
shengalla tribe, who bed committed the murder, killed
eight of them- one of whom was supposed to bare been
an
anma
Princefor
the chief instigator of the erinte--destroyed five villages
and captured 1,400 head of cattle. We can quite believe
that the Shangallas will not soon forget this sudden
and sweeping chastisement; and if its resells bring
greater security to the lives of wandering Europeass
civilisation will be u far • gainer. But we earnestly
hope that this instance of private Enelishmen levying
war on their own amount, even against mirages, will
not be deemed a precedent worthy of frequent
imitation.
Novrt GALS Pionorrunt. —At Wakefield,
on Monday, John Bottomley. • former living near
Huddersfield, and several meu, chiefly weavers of
Kirkburton, were charged with trespassing in pursuit
of game at Faulty Moor. Bottennley is the
veteran huntionan of the Henley harriers, a pack well
known armed Huddersfield, and patronised almost
exclusively by foot people. On i-atui day, the 9th inst.,
the meet was at Shelly, and the harriess, having nosed
the land over which they had permission to hunt with.
out finding • bare were put into Capt. Stanalleld's
preserves, where Mime hales were found and bunted.
Henry Hurst, head keeper to Captain 'Mansfield, and
Seth I yson, a wateker, were looking on, and Dyson
etopped one of the runs by shooting over the honed',
which were then stopped and withdrawn. Bottothley
was fined 17e. nicluding costs, aed three of the other
defendants 12; each, the remainder being discharged
The 'mein roes said they did not look epos the defend.
atits as common eoachers, and they bad no objection to
the sport being followed, but cue must be taken that
the land of gentlemen who keep preserves at a groat
expense is not trespassed upon without permission.
BRUTAL Wins MOaDtt. An Inquest was
held on Monday. at Wigan, on the body of
Ellen Deepen, the wife of • collier. It
appeared that on the previous Monday her husband
who had been th fere the magistrates for drunken.
nen, had asked her to pawn his coat, as he wanted
• pint of ide. She said if she pawned the
coat it would ho for something to eat for the children,
and not for alit. This exasperated him and he rushed
THE Egyptain locust has been caught in Birmingham, it the woman, knocked her down, and kicked her
Tat worn of bad women, as a rule, are probably behind the ear causing a large wound which bled
worse than the worst of had meth—Revue Dsox freely. She became insensible,Abodes. and a man named
ail Globe says Hilton who was present, and had tried to cheek the
T
the Mall green parroquet mull. prisoner's violence, said to him "John give ovet
matised himself in London. Troops of them may he thon'st killed her." moon '.
seen ; 7 feeding with the sparrows in 1 wife would but come ,In reply , said that d
some places round he would never kir& bar
The following advertisement
"An broth appear. in the Tina : again. On Tuesday night • surgeon was cent fore
would
ierrequims • loan of £lOO. As Iselifilys and the prisoner endeavoured to males his wile drinkm t dy or gentleman into his family cringe , some brandy from • teacup. She *odd not swallow it,
board and lodge. Reference, required.—Apply by : anti bit the teacup, a portion of It remaining In her
letter," Sec.
I How I mouth. On prisoner endeavouring to extract it she bib
SAVZ COAL.—Is correepondent writes us his finger, upon which he swore she was sh•runt_ neei and
(Mechanic's Mooning) that Sir Titus Salt has recently hit her acmes the face with • table-spoon. Moo
had ex Oar
pension valves fitted to the whole of hie steam _rna' ,arrestrd_tba saws night., &ad d___,°"red...„.ll.4„°_,°
enginos at ir,duire_sii numbet__ek. being Tturmay. In* jar, returned verdict Or Inillit
it oaring 410 tons of omi per wick! j murder against John Greens.