The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

I enclose my card.

London, 16th November, 186.5.
To the Editors.

In the Daily Telegr—a—ph—i;f—ti; 16th inst. I saw
paragraph headed "A Doreetahire Labourer ;"
appears to have been taken from the Dorset Ezpress
wherein a poor man named John Cross was con-
victed before the Wimborne Justine for stealing II
hurdle, and sentenoed to 14 days' hard labour.
you please send me one of your papers with the
account of the trial in, if you have one, and if yea
can oblige by sending any information to me re-
specting the man, or refer me to any one that could.
I shall be thankful, as I believe a few friends in this
town would, if his case deserves pity, wbieh to all
appearanoes it does, send him or his family s tan
to help in the time of need.
J. R.
Fareham, Hants, November 17th, 18415.

Lierra• 7130 M nix buir's murram.
To the Editors.
In your paper of last week a paragraph is inserted
wherein my name appears as the employer of ors
John Cross, who was committed to prime far 14
days, for stealing a hurdle the property of Mr.
Thomas Martin. As regards the statement that
"Mr. Bartlett being in the town was sent for, lm
admitted the prisoner was a first-edam labourer, and
that when he worked by the day he gave him 0•1$
Be. • week, but be let him have his thatching and
other tat-work, including hedging," I beg to say
what I stated to the Bench of Msqi.trates was, that
I would venture to say John Crow average
were equal to those of any labourer in theeF,,
but (as be worked sometimes at piece wo and
other times at day work), I was linable to eay whet
his average weekly earnings were without
to my labourer's amount book, and that I bad no
ratan:, to find fault with him as • labourer. On my
return home, 1 examined my last payments to Crow.,
for the past twelve months, and found that his
average weekly earnings during that period was Ik.,
and at the time of his committal (with which I w. •
in no way oonoerned) I was paying him lls. Abet $
ten years since Crime (being then • widower with in
children) married • widow with five ohildren ; sinew
their marriage there ham been six more obildrus
born, and this in itself will explain the man's state-
ment that he was badly ofL His circumstanoss arw
and have often been considered and relieved from
my house. Mr. Martin his requested me to state that
he did not know anything of the ems, till Crone IMO
in the cuetody of the polWomaa who detested hint
stealing the hurdle. I beg you will be kind enough *
to insert this letter in your valuable papss„ and
oblige
Your's obediently.
• - dA.ML.
Shapwick, Blestds4 Nov. 18th, 1865.

The Daily Telegraph quotaiirom this journal
the report of the case of john Cross, the Shaperit
labourer, sentenoed by the °aunty magistrates, to.
14 clays' hard labour for stealing a hurdle. In that'
paper we. find the following :—Reoeived on behalf of
Joha Cross, the Dorset:shire labourer, and en-warded.
"Live and let Live," El ; the Clerks of W. 8.
Bhuttleworth & Co., £1 ; J. 8. P. 2s. 6d. A few
friends at Gravesend £1 7..; a labourer 2s. ed.;
Oliver Warrens es.; Richard Moss and Win. Jamas
£L

FENIAN BONDS.
New Bonds have been engraved by the Conthrestfil
Bank.note Company of New 'York, and will be issued ia
about two week.. They are of live denominations--
10's, 201 f, 60's, 100's, sad 500 s, and are in dollar.; the
old bonds were in pounds sterling. The number of
bonds issued ía for • loan of $20,000,000, although the
moat sanguine Fenians Ceareely expect to get more than.
one fifth that amount. The followingbis a copy of one
of the larger bonds :
D ill hereby certified that

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No. Vignette N.
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Irish Sunburst. --
THE IRISH RTOTTBLIC
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is indebted unto or bearer in the sum of
Five hundred dollars, redeemable ix months after the
acknowledgment of the bider
pandenee of the Irish Nation,
with interest from the data
Portrait hared, inclusive at six per
of pay
on presentation of ;his letd
at the Treasury of the Irish
cent= per annum
Robert Republic. 41411818 i
Emmett.
-186 11l .
Agent for Irish Repabile.
The $lOO bonds have Emmett on the right uppv
enrner, and Wolfe Tone on the left upper miner. Thw
vignette on all odesialle of a yonng woman 17pr/ranting
paining to the "Irish finabozst ' struggling
dpward front behind dined hills. A sword lies en the
ground, sod an Irish aoidier anxious for • fray, also
gazes at the a LTheJIUIIS Mir inveited an ie.
(onions system lain=asilsrfsiting;
but if the bonds' int rolar.wha_i
law in Inland or. .111114114111,, the 4'nua'
punished
To parsons willful to extend ill* trade, eir ineCelar
their income, the greatly increased donned for fe• Sao
is likely to follow the late redeetion of duty, rendin
the present a favourable opportunity for parsons mita
spare thee at their sommand, to nadarta agencyr
for the sale of this important article of domestic use.
Oamall's Tess, as well as Coffees, have long been bola
in Hat alai repute by families in all ports of Me
kingdom. and to meet the deammad, Candi.
••ftM sad 00. are nosy r- _
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