The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

OFFENCES.

A PATTIZ' Pusan) IT gin 80g.—William Henry
Skye., 19 years of age was charged at IluddeuBeld on
Wednead .y with dabbing hie f .ther, Joshua Bikes,
keeper of • beer-honee in Castlegate, Huddersfield. On
Sunday, the Bth May, the prisoner was getting Dome
tobacco in the bar, in which there was • little girl,
noting as waitrese, and Laving roma di-pate with her,
his father Came to him, and told him to leave the
how*. Th- prisoner left the house by the back door,
bnt re-entered it by tie front door, and asked him for
his clothes. His father told hi,, to take his clothe,
and go, and, as he did not i.ffer to do to, laid bold of
him by the shoulder, and pushed him net of the house.
Whilst he was doing th.t the pnooner .tabbed him in
the right bros.t towards the side. Inflammatory
syniptomsappeered,aud the precntor WIL, laid up in bled
tor tea day. In the meantime his win had run aeray.but
wee apprehended by Inspector While, at Btalybridge,
on the 19th Hey, and •beo charged with the offerioe
said, " It's a lie. I was cutting •.me tobacco, and he
r.n against the knife. It's• pity but the o.d bad
died." In defence, the prisoner said that Ms father
vrpubl not give him his clothes, but called him "an
idle devil, and told him to work for them," and pot him
out of the house. He (prisooer) had • knife in bin
hand st the time cutting some tobacco, and " it we,
them that thew:silent happened," He was committed
for trial at the asaises.

.
nig CHAltil 01 ATTEMPTING TO MOLD'S A WIT,.
—OO Thursday niornincat the New Bailee. Manchester,
Cyrus Travis, "rho had been remanded front the 17th
May, on the charge of having attempted to murder
his wife, was again brought up. Mr. Bellringer, who
conducted the prosecution, said that since the last
merry • portion of the cake which the prisoner had
give* foie .if. had been analy•ed, and found to contain
aniimony of • similar preparation to that found on the
prisoner.-11r. F. Hudson said he had insipid one-
third of the cake, and found le grains of aniiniony.—
Ar. Trafford : Is that sufficient to destroy life I—Mr.
Hudson said four grain+ would be sufficient in the case
of a person in di-health, and sia grains for • robust
indimelitaL There were about 12 preparations of
antimony, and the preparation found in the prisoner'.
poellet, whiel was tartar emetic' -es the same as tlmt
he had found in the cake.—The depositions were then
read, and the prisoner, who entirely
_denied the charge,
was committed to the assizes for trial.

In order to have tea mote reliable in quality, as well
an cheaper in price, it is now well understood that it In
aboolutely ostensory to disallow the use of all artifioial
colour on the %arise. of the leaf. It was this that first
induced Horniman and Co. to prohibit the nos ol
powdered Promise-bine and pluming° on their importa,
aa the Meese have long dieguiowi with thane miners!
Dolour. tea for English consumption. purposely to enable
the low brown wintry sorts to he unused off at high
rates with the beet. The consumers of Horniman'.
per. tea therrfore not only have it more reli.ble in
quality and cheaper in price, but also now. wholesome.
,us. Grose, attest the usual bluish minor on the leaf.
Is an olive his; the Bleck is not intensely dirk. An
imitations *bound purchuera should notice that every
Packet hi vested, sad doled by norahaaa and Co.,
otighaal importer, of pies Ms. Ms list et asehorieol
Goals tee this losality ts ex: asinine,