The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-23 00:00:00

SALISBURY.

PRESENTATION.—The Committee of the Wilts Horti-
cultural Society have presented Miss Matti° Spinney
with a valuable work on Horticulture, " as a token of
their gratitude and esteem for her valuable services in
performing some exquisite pianoforte solos at their 6rat
spring meeting in the Council Chamber."
SALISBURY AND DORSAT JUNCIIION IKAILWAT.—Th•
works on this railway are now being rapidly pushed on,
and the contractor, Mr. Jackson, hopes to get it com-
pleted by the end of September. There are about 400
men at work on various parts of the line, and an engine
has been put on at the Salisbury end.

FIRST WILTSHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS: NOR. 1 and
2 Salisbury Companies.—About 80 rank and file, beside
the baud, left this city on Wednesday last for battsdion
drill at Warminster, and returned by the 9.30 train
the satne day. The band played from the orderly-room
to the station. The members are well-up in their drill,
and look remarkably well.
COUNTY POLICE—On Monday, John Wootton was
taken before James Hussey, Esq., charged with leaving
his wife and two children chargeable to the parish of
Fugglestone St. Peter, in the year 1863. He WU
sentenced to two months' imprisonment. —Emma
Holly was at the same time sentenced to six weeks!
Imprisonment, for leaving her two illegitimate children
chargeable to the same parish. It would appear that I
since 1863, the parties have been sway from this neigh-
bourhood, cohabiting together. They returned on
Saturday, and were apprehended on Sunday.
ACCIDENTS.— On Monday morning • man named
Henry Newman had been into the Great Westernl
station yard with a horse and cart, and when passing
under a plank used for wheeling the coal out of the
trucks' the horse started, and knocking against him
caused him to fall. The wheel passed over his arm and 1
body, and he was very much bruised and aha.ken.—On
Monday evening a man named James Noble fell down
near the dairy at Broxmore Park, where be was
employed, and received • compound fracture of the
right leg. Both were taken to the Salisbury Infirmary.
STARTING FOR "THE PLATE."-Mr. Richard Long,
one of the candidates for North Wilts, complains that
he has been strangely misreported in a recent speech.
On the faith of a newspaper report, Sir George
Jenkinson charged his opponent, Mr. Long, with assert-
ing that "he (Mr. Long) had more plate upon his side-
board than Sir George had." Mr. Long explains that
this was a complete misapprehension. He says "Sir
George Jenkinson, in addressing the electors, dwelt
with considerable emphasis on his connexion with the
late Earl of Liverpool as a passport to their favour and
attacked my pretensions as %candidate. In reply I
said that though lacking the advantage of being related
to Lord Liverpool, I possessed that which they would
value far moss—yin, descent from a family from which
the electors of Wiltshire bad often selected their repre-
sentatives, and whose present head, my father, had on
his sideboard a piece of plate given him by his tenantry
as a testimonial of their respect to him as a Andlord.
The confusion which took place during part of the meet-
ing may possibly have caused my latter remarks to be
incorrectly reported, and may consequently have given
rise to an impression of my having uttered sentiments
of which no one who know, me would believe me
capable."
COUNTY Prrry SEssioNs, Tuesday. Present: E.
Everett, Esq. (chairman), James Hussey, T. E.
Fowle, and R. A. Ferryman, Esqs—John Adams,
' tailor, was brought up on remand from Saturday,
charged with picking the packet of Mr. Flower,
surgeon, of Codford, Wilts, of a purse containing a
cheque for £3O and notes to the value of £l5, on the
race-course on Thursday last. Prisoner pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to six months' hard labour.
CITY PETTY SESSIONS, Monday—Present: the
Worshipful the Mayor, F. Atwood, and James
Hussey, Esqs.—James Phillips, was brought up on
remand, charged with steeling a shawl of the value
of 10s., the property of Levi Downer, of Wood-green,
on the 16th mat The shawl was pawned at the
shop of Mr. Sewell, Milford-street, for 2e. Prisoner
pleaded guilty, and begged the magistrates to deal
leniently with him, as he was under the influence of
liquor. The magistrates sentenced him to three
months' hard labour in the house of correction at
Fisherton.
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ROBBRRY.—A tramp broke out of Dennis's lodging-
house in Brown..street, early on Monday morning. He
had been staying in the house fer some days, and he and
two other lodgers slept in the same room. He got up
about two o'clock on Monday morning. and passed
through the kitchen, got into aback yard, in which there
is a door leading to Dennis's private sittingrootn. This
.door, which was fastened on the inside, he opened, by
taking out some bricks in the wall, and then proceeding
upstairs, to the room in which Dennis and his family
were sleeping. Having taken a watch, which was
hanging at the head of Dennis's bed, the thief returned
down stairs, and got through, into the f ront shop, where
he posseseed himself of a quantity of wearing apparel,
L.and then decamped. In the morning the police were in-
formed of the circumstance, and steps are now being
taken, to effect thelfellow's apprehension. He has been
Southampton, where Is pledged the watch on

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The following is an extract from the Seoond Edition
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pharmacopmia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. G.
F. Collier, published by Longman and 00. —"it: is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking at the
Pharmacopceia) that we have DO purgative mass but
what oontains aloes; yet we know that hcemorrhoidal
persona cannot bear aloes, except it be in the farm of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes
ecoimmony, and colocynth, which I think are formed
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline prooesa, and by a
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic
'nature. I think no better and no worse of it for Its
being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
commerce and domestic convenience, and do not heal.
tate to say it is the beat made pill in the kingdom; a
' Muscular purge, a mucous purge, and A b AMMO.
purge combined, and their effect' properly controlled by
▪ dirigent and oorrigent. That it does not commonly
produce hcemorrhoids, like most aloetio pills, I attribute
to ita being thoroughly soluble, so that no undissolved
doles adhere to the mueous membrane.