The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-10 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

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At the Lancaster assizes Thursday ThomaeJohnson
(28), labourer, wee charged with attempting to murder
Cecilia Ritchie,at Blackburn,on the 29th of November,
Kitchie lodged at the house of prisoner, as did also a
young man of the name of Rhodes, with whom she was
keeping company. On the night in Tiestion Rhodes
was sitting talking with prisoner's wife and Ritchie,
when, in a fit of jealousy, prisoner came in from a
back room, and after giving Rhodes two or three
blows on the head. he attacked Ritchie with a
plasterer's axe, fracturing her skull and injuring her
arms, and for several weeks her life was in great
danger. Prisoner was found guilty of wounding, with
intent to do grevious bodily harm, and he we.
sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude, tip, judge
characterising the case as a most barbarous one.

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Kensington House and grounds, built and laid out for
Mr Albert Grant, were on Friday offered for sale by auction
at the mart, Tokenhouse-yard, by Messrs. Driver. As,
however, the bidding' realised only £165,000, the property
was not disposed of.
The Rev. Charles Henry James, 8.A., of Trinity Cols
lege.Cansbridgetwas charged before the Abingdon borough
magistrates Friday with obtaining a quantity of core.
minion plate under false pretenees fmm Messrs. Keth,
of fl, Denmark-street, London. The goods were obtained
in the prisoner's own name, the orders being dated from
Bippon Parsonage, near Abingdon. The plate was then
taken to Oxford and pawned for about one-third of its
value. He was remanded.
The sospension is announced of Mr. John Oldroyd, of
Fitly Park, Huddersfield, and Britannia Mills, Dews-
bury, carpet manufacturer, with liabilities amounting to
from £270,000 to C2e0,000.
Mr. Patterson, • Liverpool magistrate, giving evidence
on Friday, before the Lords' Committee on intemperance,
stated that 710 public-houses, Is Liverpol were held by 71
persons. The present Mayor alone held 43.
On Friday, at Bedford Assizes, the woman Jane Favel
was tried for burning her daughter to death in October
last at Leighton Buzzard. The prisoner had a quarrel
with her daughter, and in the morning following the
quarrel the daughter's body was found burnt to ashes.
The jury were a hour in retirement, and on their return
they acquitted the prisoner.
Mr. De Tonrville, the (naturalised) English barrister
charged with the murder of his wife in the Tyrol under
wellAnown circumstances, pushing her over a precipice,
has been found guilty of the crime by the Austrian court
at Botxen, and has been sentenced to death. An appeal
against the conviction, however, has been lodged, and a
fresh trial will take place.
HOLLOwAY'S PlLLS.—Worthy of special note. —These
purifying Pills excel every other medicine for regulating
the digestion, acting healthily on the liver and bowels,
invigorating the nervous system, and strengthening the
body. At all seasons the sYstem is liable to sudden
checks. In such causes these Pills restore the balance of
the circulation, and ward off dangerous attacks of
diarrhcea, dyeentery, or cholera. They are the hest
correctives of the stomach, when disordered by repletion
or by the presence of indigestible food. They speedily
rectify the flatulent weight, and general uneasiness which
are experienced in the bowvls prior to the accession of
re serious symptoms, which debilitate, if they do not
endanger.

ltEl.lll, or COUGH ATM ASTHMA IN Try MINUTES ST DI.
1.0(7013C9 WAFEMS.—From Mr. Iroz
Omnibus Office, Whitefield•roail, Liverpool.—" After
years of severe suffering, and fearing many and many.
night I should hare died from suffocation, itc., I was
induced to try Dr. Locock's Wafers. Ten minute* after I
had taken two wafers I felt relief." In asthma, coneump•
tion, bronchitis, coughs, colds, rheumatism, and all
Hysterical and Ntromm Complaints, they give instant
relief. Sold by all Druggists at Is. iIL, is. 9d., 4*. Od.,
and Ils. per box.

hAOACITY OY A Don.—A Mr. Powell, an inhabitant of
Weston-super-Mare, of the highest respectability, owns •
Skye terrier named "Rough,' which has shown most
extraordinary ..agarity by acting upon verbal instructions,
such as being toll not to vratch at a certain newly.
varnished door, but to bark for admittanoe, which he ever
afterwards did. on one oroasion Mr. Powell's wife having
incautiously walked out in a pair of new boots, on her
return she suffered considerable pain, and throwing her-
self into a chair, exclaimed, "Oh I I wish I had my old
boots," without anything beyond the words to lead to
their meaning. " Rough " immediately proceeded up-
stairs, and to the astonishment of his master and mistress,
brought down one old hoot. "Well,' said Mr. Powell to
him, as you have brought down one, go and fetch the
other," which he inirnediately
THE PRINCE Or PATExT MCWINEC—The stamp upon
newspapers was a ready test of the extent of their circu-
lation, whilst it was compulsory, and the Government
stamp, which must accompany every Patent Medcine,
now serves, in like manner, to show the extent of 'ticket).
lotion. We have recently investigated this interesting
subject of home and foreign interest, and find that there
are no less than two hundred and forty different Patent
Medicines in circulation, which are regularly catalogued.
The extent of each of them, and consequently the
public estimation which each enjoys, may be inferred from
the number of Government stamps which each of them
requires. It is impossible to get at the number of stamps
used by each of the two hundred and forty different Patent
Medicines, tut it appears that Holloway's Pills and
Ointment takes just one-fourth of all the stamps fumed
by Government for such articles. Such being the case, it
Li clear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not
dispense with Holloway's Pills and Ointment as a matter
of mere revenue, even if he did not consider them in other
respects a most profitable investment and invaluable boon
to the community. The magnitude of the figure, the vast
amount expended for Government stamps, and the
Incalculable number of bushels of pills and tons of oint-
ment required from Holloway's eetablishment to make up
that large expenditure for ;damp; enable us to conceive
the colossal dimensions which Holloway's extraordinary
remedies have assumed. But that is not all. Glancing in
as you pass, you behold the signs of the vast business
done in that establishment Enter when you please,
during business hours, and it is imposeible not to be struck
f with the magnitude o the concern which requires so many
attentive beads and active pens from day to day, from
month to month, from year to year. Not leas than thirty
clerks and other officials are required to do the work of
the establishmstit—maoy of these being men of superior
attainments, for a correspondence Is carried on in almost
every language, since every part of the world gravitates
towards it as the magnetic pole of the healing art, of
health, and well-being. Such is the present 'tat, of the
I'atent Medicine known by the name of Holloway's Pills
and Ointment. No wonder then, then, that, inquire for
them where you please, you not only had them, but on
further questioning you will he told that everybody takes
them—that the demand for them is perpetually in!reasing.
If we ask the cause of this immense demand, the answer
invariably is, that they have been found a safe, certain,
and perfect remedy in nearly all diseases. —Tke Seca ilf loon,

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BIRTHS.

June 20. • t Broadmayne Rectory, the wife of the Rev.
William Urquhart, rector of Welt Knighton with Broad-
maynv, of a a9n._

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June 25, at the Parsonisige Farm, Fording-ton, Dorchester,
the wife of Mr. Robert Hunt, of • daughter.
June 28, at Cerne Abbas, the wife of John Parry, of a
daughter
June 29, at West Lulworth, the wife of Mr. W. Dyke,
of • daughter.
July I, at littekland, the wife of Mr. R. L. Legg, Inland
Revenue Otter, of a eon.
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July 3, at Hansfordeow, Fordington, the wife of Mr. R.
Groves, of a sun.
July 4, at Pease-lane, Dorchester, the wife of Mr. J.
Singleton (Dorset Militia), of a son.
July 5. at Portesham, the wife of Mr. Pitcher, of a
daughter.

June 21, at the parish church, Winfrith, by the Rev G.
Philipp., Mr. William Bullock, Knighton, to Miss Rice,
of the same place.
June Xi, at St. George's Church, Battersea Park, S.W.,
by the Rev. T. Kirk, Walter Pisttison, to Frances Ann,
daughter of Mr. S. Vine, Milton Abbea.
June 28. C,erne Abbas, by the Rev Hoeegood,
Samuel Cave, to Charlotte Tor. widow, both of °erne
Abbas. •
June M. at Stickland, Mr. William Watta of Chedding-
ton. Crewkerne, to Eliza, youngest daughter of Mr. 8.
Cross, of Stlckland.
July 3, at Upway, by the Rev. Mr. Benham, M.A.
mbe ,
Henry J. Ruagg, of Broadway, to Frances J. Legg, of
Melcoßegis.