The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

£45,877 11 2

Cr. s. d.
By Gross Profits for the Year ending
31st December, 1881, after pay-
ment of Income Tax, and making
provision for Bad and Doubtful
Debts . . 45,877 11 2

SURPLUS YUND ACCOUNT.

£45,877 11 2

Dr. g s. d.
To Balance of Unappropriated Profits
or Surplus Fund ... 36,741 8 10

£36,741 8 10

Cr. £ a. d.
By Balance of Undivided Profits last
„ Amount now added... ... . 6,658 12 6

£36,741 8 10

ALEXANDER HAYWARD MINTY,
Chairman.

A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman. and the
meeting separated, every one feeling convinced of the
permanent 'novas of the Company, and of the stability
of the Joint-Stook system.
MORETON.—This neighbourhood was thrown
into considerable consternation on Friday morning
in consequence of the finding of a child, six weeks
old, in • ditch near the sandpits, about 200 yards
from the Moreton railway station. It appears that
a young woman, named Morris, whose parents
reside at Broadwey had been living in service at
Southampton, and that some six or seven weeks ago
she was delivered of a child. On Wednesday last
she took a third-class ticket from Southampton to
Weymouth, and came down as far as Moreton by
the train which arrives here about ten minutes past
one o'clock, and got out, but ordered her box to be
taken on to Weymouth, saying she would send for
it from that place. She then proceeded on the
Warmwell road, but returned to the Frampton
Arms Inn about a quarter before two o'clock, to get
a glass of beer, and await the arrival of the
xent down train. Nothing more was thought
of the circumstance till Friday morning,
when a labouring man named William Notley,
on passing along the road, thought be heard a hare
cry, and supposing poor puss had been caught in a
wire, jumped over the bank, when, lo! instead of •
hare, he pereeived it was an infant. He was
too much scared to take it up, but went back to
Moreton station, where he saw one of the porters,
and informed him of the circumstance, but even be
was afraid to go and pick it up, lest, as he said, it
should be "saddled" on him. Notley then went to
Thomas Saunders, the ostler at the Frampton Arms,
and acquainted him of the circumstance, when he,
having greater sense and more humanity than the
others, went and picked the child up, and took it to
the house of Mr. Barnes, the guardian for the pariah.
Mr. Barnes immediately directed the poor little
thing to be washed and fed, and subsequently it was
taken to the union workhouse. The circumstanoesoon
got noised abroad, and then it was ascertained that
many parties, on going along the road on Wednesday
afternoon, Thursday, and on Friday -morning had
heard a child cry, but being only a child they had
taken no notice of it ; and the probability is, it
would have laid there and died, had not another man
supposed it was a hare. Inquiries next began to be
made as to whom the child belonged, and one of the
railway porters then recollected that two days
before, a young woman who got out there, had some-
thing like a child in her arms, and that when she
came back to go to Weymouth the child-like parcel
was gone. Clue having been obtained as to who the
woman was, on account of the box that was sent
forward by the previous train, the police constable
stationed at Moreton went down to Broadway on
Friday, and apprehended her, and teok her to
the Wareham lock-up. She acknowledged
to having placed the child where it was found, and
on two occasions she had made preparations to go
and fetch it. I'he child had nothing on but a thin
nightgown, thrown over its head, and a flannel
covering its waist and feet; yet notwith-
standing it was exposed to the cold 42 hours without
food, it is still living. The young woman, Morris,
the mother of the child it was expected, would be
examined on Tuesday.

DEWLLSH.—An inqueert was held at the Royal
Oak Inn, on Thursday last, before H. Look, Esq.,
deputy coroner, on the body of Charles Westley, a
child about 4 years old, who on the previous day
accidentally fell into a well, and was drowned.—
Verdict, " Accidental Death."

BLAHDFORD.—Parry Stittetorts.- -Before Lord
Portman, J. J. Farquharson,and G. P. Manse!, Esqs.,
and the Rev. J. Watts.—Edward Toms, of Gunville,
was sentenced to hard labour for fourteen days for
stealing barley straw, the property of J. J. Farqu-
harson, Esq., on the 25th January last. The case
was fully proved by P.C. Wyles, and after the
evidence had been read over to prisoner, he pleaded
guilty.—Aaron Pitman and Alfred Hook were
charged withidrunkenness, and riotous conduct, on
the 11th January, at Blandford St. Mary, and were
each sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.—
A charge of assault, preferred by Charles Phillips
against James Way, was dismissed, both parties
having been equally in fault. .
SHROTON.—On Wednesday evening H. Ker Seymer,
Esq„ M.P., delivered • lecture before the
members of the Shroton Literary Institution, Sir
Edward Baker, Bart., presidsd. The subject selected
for discussion was, "The House of Commons," and we
need hardly say that, in the hands of Mr. Seytner, it
had full justice done it. The innerlife of the House
of Commons was fully laid open, but we are not aware
that he advanced • single sentence that the well-read
portion of the public did not know before. It was,
however, a subject new to many minds, and the lecturer
deserved, as he received, • cordial vote of thanks for
he information he had afforded thereon.
WIMBORNE.- -We understand that Lieutenant
Willett, of the Wimborne (4th Dorset) Volunteer
Rifles has resigned, and that he will be succeeded as
Lieutenant by Montagu Guest„ Req., of Canford
Rouse.

BLANDFORD RIFLE BAND.—On Thursday evening
lut a splendid dinner, served up at Laing's Hotel,
in the proprietor's usual style of abundance and
excellence, was given by the members of the band
belonging to this corps to their own and district

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Perry SimmoNs, February 7.—(Before C. J. Parke
Esq., chairman, Major Portinan, I). F. G. Dalton,
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hill, was charged dY y
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stealing two hen fowls, the property of Henry Cox,
of Hill Butts, and sentenced. to three months' hard
''.
Aebe Superintendent Baynton with
labour. --John Sergeant was also charged on
suspicion with stealing four fowls. Prisoner was
stopped in the morning offering them for sale, by
P.C. Smith; the Superintendent asked for • remand
to trace the owners. Remanded till Wednesday.
--Alfred Wiffen, of Colehill, was sentenced to 14
days for beating his sister, Mrs. Longman.—
Stephen Scott, of Colehill, was sentenced to one
month's hard labour, for leaving his wife and family
chargeable to the Uffion.—George !Matthews, a
fisherman, of Lytchett Minster, was charged with
assaulting three lads, named Short, Toop,
and Handel], of Lytchett Minister. It appeared
the lads were in the habit of continually
annoying the defendant, and on the night in
question they and others assembled together opposite
, his cottage, and fired off guns, as late as nine o'clock.
Defendant went out, wlien one of the lads made
use of very obscene language, on which the old
gentleman went out and made use of a stick, and
struck at them right and left. Mr. F. W. Freeman
appeared for the defendant, and called witnesses who
were in the cottage at the time, and proved the
great provocation defendant received. The Bench,
in the exercise of their discretion, dismissed all the
informations, which appeared to create general satis-
faction. Complainants had to pay their own costa.
RINGWOOD.—Prm Slaftrofts. —Wednesday, Feb.
sth.—Before Lord Somerton, I. Mills, and C. Castleman,
Esqrs.—The business was unusually heavy. There were
eighteen cases heard, and the court and arenas leading
thereto were crowded.—Mr. George Barrow, of Burma,
near Christchurch, was summoned under the Income Tax
Act, for making a fraudulent return, the allegation
being that he had omitted to state his annual salary as
. foreman of soup Chain Works at Christchurch. The
Government ably-represented by the Surveyor of
Taxes of the riot, and Collector, who proved the
neceapary facts, ter which the Bench said it appeared
to them a very gross case, but would hear what could be
said in mitigation. Mr, F. W. Freeman said that his
client, who, as their Worships would see, was labouring
under severe mental disability, (Mr. Barrow kept
uttering incoherent ejaculations, and was evidently
suffering both mentally and bodily sll the time
he was in Court,) in so far as to render him entirely
ineabable of business, and therefore unequal to
, the arithmetical niceties required in making an
I erroneous return, at the worst it was a mistake only,
I and did not come within the terms of the Act which
I contemplated fraud, The " Income " was a obnoxious
I and unpopular tax, and he feared his client was not the
only one who occasionally made similar miscalculations.
I However, he urged that Mr 'Barrow was incapableihim-
I self of making • legally correct return. These prosecu-
tions were calculated to render an already cruel tax on
the " sweat of the brow," more disgusting to the
English people than, if possible, it was before. C.
Castleman, Esq. : I can assure you, we think it • very
, bad case, but will mitigate the penalty from £2O to £l.O
and £3 3s. coats. Regina on the prosecution of John
' Bower v. Martha Amey. this was a case of alleged theft,
I from a carrier's van, prosecutor swearing that the
, prisoner was a passenger from Salisbury to Ringwood in
his van ; that at the end of the journey he mimed a paper
parcel addressed to a lady near Christchurch. He
discovered the prisoner and said to her" I think you
have taken a paper parcel by mistake." Prisoner at
first denied doing no, but offered afterwards to pay for
it, which would have been agreed to, but Mr, Supt.
Sfaminard happening to come up, said the felony must
not be compromised, and then took her into cnstody.
The contents of the parcel were found near the King's
Arms Inn, Ringwood, where prisoner was seen with it
wrapped up in • new piece of paper. After other
strong circumstantial proofs as to identity of the oontents
of the parcel Mr. Freeman, ingeniously of an hour's
duration contended that the taking was accidental and
not felonious, and such a common place event as might
ordinarily occur to any passenger by rail or otherwise,
who in the confusion of unloading, might mistake a por-
tion of their luggage, without any idea of theft. The
prisoner was however committed, and unable to procure
bail, sent to Winchester; she was pregnant, and hourly
expecting confinement.—T. Tuft v. G. Wagg—Com-
plainant sought to obtain from the defendant sureties to
keep the peace against him for using threatening lan-
guage to him on the 3rd January. The complainant
ssid he was a gamekeeper in the employ of Mr. G.
Berkerley, at Christchurch, and deposed to the
threatening language set out in the information. Mr.
Freeman, who appeared for Mr. Wagg, proceeded
to cross-examine the complainant, but the Bench said
the law did not permit this, unless malice or ambigu-
ity could be shown.—Mr. Freeman said it was well
known that this summons was a splenetic attempt to
annoy Mr. Wm, arising out of some former proceed-
ing.—l. Mills, F. : "I will read you the cases which
prevent you going into any inatten but malice or
umbiguity."—Mr. Freeman: "1 remember them, Sir,
they are reported in East, 13 vol. p. 171. and I
am sorry to be obliged to admit that the law is in
that bad state on that point, for therefore any defend-
ant is at the mercy of the oath of a capricious or
spiteful complainant, leaving the defendant unable to
impugn such an oath in any way, even if the person
committing perjury all the while, I am instneted in
this ease he has done." I. Mills, Esq. : "It is eO,
but we are bound by the law as it stands, and you have
your remedy by indictments, if perjury has been com-
mitted." The usual auret.es were then entered into.
—Defendant was then arraigned under an old Act of
Parliament (19 Geo. 2, ch. 2nd.) which inflict a Ina of
24. on any person under the does of a gentleman, for
" profanely cursing or swearing," thesame complainant
(Toftin) being the witness. Mr. Freeman said there
bad no doubt been violent swearing on both sides, and
consented on behalf of Mr. Wan to the penalty pre-
seribed by the Act. Judgment accordingly .

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VALE OF AVON.—VaLn op Avon AND STOUR
FARMERS' CLUE.- 071 Monday se'unight, Mr.
Derby, of Poole, delivered • lecture before the
members of this club on "The Functions of Plants
in obtaining Nitrogen from the Atmosphere." Mr.
Derby was of course in favour of ploughing green
crops in to manure land, and the Chairman enu-
merated some experiments that had been made in
that direction with complete scams. We only
regret that space forbids our giving a full report of
the lecture. The proceedings were brought to a
conclusion by a unanimous vote of thanks to the
lecturer.