The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

'I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
• • • "IL WADDINGTON."

The following circular letter, addressed to the
Mayor of be sent at the ',Assent time to
boroughs in the counties of Wilts, Haute, Dorset,
Somerset, and Berke), has been issued from the
Treasury _ _

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" Whitehall, Sept. 11.
"Sir,—With reference to the disease now pre-
vailing among sheep in certain districts in England,
1 am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to call
your immediate attention to the provisions of the
Act 11th and 12th Victoria, cap.llo7, sea. 1, and to
the fact that the statue in question is still in full
operation, having been continued by subsequent
Acts, and ultimately by the 21st and 22nd Victoria,
cap. 22, until the 3rd PI August, 1863, and the end
of the then next Session, and lam to add that, in
the opinion Of ir George Grey, it Would be
extremely expedient for rti to appoint, withodt
delay, a person well acquainted with the subject to
attend at the markets and fairs about to be held for
the sale of sheep or lambs within your borough, for
the purpose of executing the powers conferred upon
a peredn so appointed by the Ist section of the Act
abovementioned, •

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Cortirrrrith To Tan Doncirrarra Gam..
Assizes : Edwin Alfred Preedy, wilful murder at
Portland. Hard Labour Eliza Davis, misbe-
haviour in Bridpert Union, 7 days- ' • Samuel Allen,
leaving service at Broadwinsor, 1 calendar month;
Thorned Smith, vagrancy at Frathpton, Z days ;
Thomas Keeley, vagrandy at Bridport, 7 day.;
Mary Ann Grinter, misbehaviour in Bridport Union,
7 days; George Paul, leaving servioe at Beaminster,
1 calendar month; John Willis, misbehaviour in
Sherborne Union, 14 days; Joseph Robert Young,
stealing smock frock at &nation Caundle, 1 calendar
month; George Brown, stealing 27 pears at Sutton
Waldron; 1 calendar- wraith: ,
WEYMOUTH.—A Slum LUNATIC. —fast Mon-
day evening, between 10 and 11 o'clock, P.C.
Mitchell found a man wandering about, apparently
in an unsound Osta of mind, near Mr. Taylor's
brickyard, on the Dorchester road. He had nothing
on but his drawers, stockings, and shirt. The first
act of the constable was to send for Superintendent
Lidbury, who, on his arrival, interrogated the man,
but could learn nothing from him only that he was a
son of the devil; and-that lie Vail infra Ile iffilso4lll
to hell. Ass matter of course the man undid not be
led through the streeto, and Superinscudent Lid bury
very humanely had him taken to the station-house
in • wheel-chair. At the station-house he still
persisted in claiming relationship to the "gentleman
in black." He would eat nothing that night nor
the following day, saying he could live better with-
out food than with it. On Tuesday night he became
more communicative; and informed Mr. Lidbury
that his name wait. Jebn Young, that he had
escaped from the Erminster Luontin Aityltim
month ago. He _said he had been sleeping in the
woods ever since and bad lost his clothes; he could
not form the least idea where it was. He also
said he had been a sailor, that he was a native of
the tape of Good Hope, and that he bid a wife and
impish ohildraii there; Whom he elhotild nevt the
more, sate Was going to the bdttOWlesill pit. In the
Union Workhouse, whither he was then sent, his
appetite returned, and he ate voraciously'. In the
meantime Superintendent Lidbury wrote to Dr.
Suckill, of Erminster Lunatic Asylum, who replied
that John Yliung had been discharged from that
asylum cured, that he had been in Nieral sáylunsi
and that he very mush doubted his insanity, as he
seemed to have been in many asylums, making those
institutions a convenient refuge when in want.

ALLEORD AOCIDIGNT BY DiOWNING TO PRZTINT
PAYMENT Or BOARD AND LODGINGS. —Oll Saturday
last a rumour was entrant in the town to the effect
the a Twirl had been ancidentally drowned while
bathing off Greenhill, between 9 and 10 o'clock that
morning. It appears that a man calling himself
William Webber, from Budieigh Salterton, Devon-
shire, and representing himself as being an agent
for the National Provident Institution, London, had
been staying for the last month at Hillear's beer
house, in St. Thomas's-street. On Friday night, on
his retiring to rest, he stated that he should get
up on the fdlowing morning and have a good bathe
befOre breakfasp; !mitt that by the tale he returned
he was satiilleda letter containing a Icing promiend
remittance would-be awaiting him, lie accordinglY
arose between 7 and 8 o'clock and left the house,
and nothing more INA heard of him till between
9 and 10 o'clock, when a person to whom Mr.
Webber was well known, going in the direction of
Greenhill, saw him bathing at a considerable
distance from shore, and.suddenly lost eight of him.
Finding he did not make his appearance be kindly
kept guard of the clothes and sent for the police.
Superintehrl4nt tifilitirif, OR attiring at the spot,
took charge of the Walks', and on searching the
pockets found the following letter addressed to his
wife, at Chapel-street, Prildleigh Salterton, Devon.—
" 3 St. Thomas-street, Weymouth,
"12th Sept., 1862.
"My very beloved wife. -I now sit down with mash
pleasure to drop you a few lines, which I trust will find
you quite well. lam happy to inform you that I am
perfectly well—thank Clod for it. I have been to
Elkton' today to tee Thiele John, his wife, and family,
dna brptight llama wine of my clothes from there,
which t mean to hart dogma, To-diorrow I am going
to turn out at daybreak dud bat" a orrud intim id the
sea before breakfast, and then return honle and have a
good breakfastr I know you will be happy to hear that
Mr. and Mrs.- Efillear are Inch nioe people, but I wish
my money was some, so that I could pay them what I
owe them; and I should be happy. I shall come home
after you in two or three days, please God all Is well,
and shall, when you are here, have all I am now in
want of. I mart Mose, &sit it late. I cannot post this
before tomorrow, 40 shall. do so when I have had a dip
to-morrow morning. Nisi the baby for me, and I will
repay yon when I see you. Good bye. Ood bless you. I
Am your loving and affectionate husband, Wilddalf
WIBBIR."

Inquiries were made, and two gentlemen who had
been bathing near the spot said they had seen no one
else swimming there. A fisherman cast in his net,
but no body was caught. The clothes left on the
beach was very old, and not worth halla-crown.
Ahoy said he saw a man dressed in that clothes
going towards the spot with a bundle under his
arm. The prisoner's room was then examined. All
the clothes he usually wore? and indeed, everyttsg
belonging to him had disappeared, and a
sum of money which Mr. /linear had put away was
also missing, but of coarse he oould not tell who
had taken it. The faot of the missing clothes was
acknowledged to have something suspicious about
it. But the letter—was not that conclusive that an
aoeident must have occurred? The landlady thought
it was. Superintendent Lidbnry, on the contrary,
thought the reverse, arguing that it PM a rose, which
one, owing for a Month's board and lodging and
wanting to get off without paying, would naturally
retort to to throw them off their guard. Thus the
drowning case at present rests., and Webber's body
will he anxiously soareited for in other places than
Weymouth hey,...