The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

Alderman John Cronby, Mayor of Sunderlandi
dial on Friday night, in the ettli year of his age.
We understand, on good authority, that the Minis-
try do not intend to deal with the question of the
Irish railways this session.—lrish Timer
On Friday, as Sir William H. Humphrey, Bart.,
of Peuton Lodge, Andover, was returning from hunt-
ing, he was thrown from his horse and rather
seriously hurt. Some of his ribs were broken.
The Brighton Railway Company have determined
to reduce the prices of third-class return tickets, and
to issue chomp tickets to the suburban districts, with
• view at stimulating that description of treffic.
Mr. George G. Adams, sculptor, has been commis-
sioned by the City, Lands Committee of the Corpora-
tion of the city of London to execute a marble bust
of the late Lord Brougham for the Council Chamber
at Guildhall.
Archdeacon Stopford writes to a Dublin paper
denying the report that "the Government made
overtures to him to assist them in the preparation
of a bill for the disestablish ment and disendow meat
of the Church in Ireland."
It is said that Mr. &Ahern does not go to America
this year. It seems that after the engagement was
signed the New York manager ignored it unless the
date of opening was altered, on which Mr. Sothern
refused to go on any date.
On Saturday evening, at a general meeting of the
members and associates of the Royal Academy,
Messrs. George Mason and Edward Poynter were
duly elected aisociates.
William Thomas Gill, a beerseller, and keeper of
Forest View Sporting Grounds. Ovenden near Hali-
fax, was on Saturday fined EIO sad eCists by the
Halifax bench, for permitting cook-fighting in his
house, and resisting the police.
THE LoNly-di NIGHT Houelet.—The appeal of
Kate Franks (alias Kate Flamilton) against her con-
viction by Mr. Knox for keeping a disorderly house
was heard on Saturday morning before the Middle-
sex magietrates, who quashed the conviction, but '
refused costa against the police authorities.
One of the first measures, the Late Times under.
stands, the Government intend to introduce when
Parliament meets, is a bill to amend the law of bank-
ruptcy. The bill of last session' framed on the re-
port of the committee which sat to consider the de- '
forts of the present system, will, so doubt, be the
basis of the intended legislation.
Mr. H. E. firenleil writes to the NU .iffeff G,-U.:
"The sum I am out of pocket by the South [Weal
Lancashire election is the coot of a first-class ticket
there and back. Any sacrifices I may have made
for the purpose of assisting in Mr. Gladaone's re-
turn were not of • pecuniary nature. Those uteri-
fires were fully shared by the Lancashire Liberals,
who took upon themselves the expenses into the
bargain.
A watchmaker at. Chepstow, named Claridge, had
seven gold watches worth £BO in all, stolen from
his shop on Wednesday. A young man, of respec-
table appearance, named James Rawlioson, who had
been seen walking about the town for several days
in company with young men well known in the
town, walked into Mr. Claridge's shop and inked to
see some of the gold watches. The one which Mr.
Claridge produced did not suit, and he said he
most see some more. The unsuspecting jeweller
opened a box containing the articles required, and
laid them on the counter, and the thief instantly
seized seven and ran away. He was followed and
caught, and the seven watches were found in his
possession.
ANOTHER COMMERCIAL FRAUD AT DIMIY.—W.
Parkinson, the secretary and cashier of the Derby
Waterworks Company has just absconded. For some
time peat it has been suspected by people well ac-
quainted with his habits that Parkinson was living
beyond his mama, a fact which gave rise to acertain
amount of gossip. The Waterworks Company, how-
ever, are said to have placed implicit confidence in
his integrity, but when he suddenly disappeared •
few days ago, an examination of their books was
made, and it was discovered that he had defrauded
them of £3OO. A warrant for his apprehension was
placed in the hands of the police, who are endeav-
ouring to trace the delinquent. Betting transactions
are believed to have led to his defalcations.
COMMITTAL FOB FORGERY AT YORK.—On Sa-
turday, at York Castle, George Nelson was charged
with forgery. The prisoner, up to the 4th of Decem-
ber, was a foreman in the employ of Mr. Abbott,
farmer and potato merchant, Weston° when he left.
A few days after he called upon James Colbork, of
Cawood Perry, with • uote purporting to be signed
by William Abbot, and asking for the loan of £6.
Believing the note to be a genuine one, Mr. Colbeck
let him have the money, and afterwards learned that
the document was a forgery, Mr. Abbot neither hav•
ing required a loan nor written the note, as he was,
in fact, riot able to write. The prisoner was appro..
hended at Selby, and, in reply to the charge, said
lie must get over it in the best way lie could. lie
was committed for trial at the next 'York assizes.
A YoUTIIYUL BUICIDIL—An extraordinary cam
of suicide occurred at Longsight, on Friday. A girl
about twelve years of age, named Elizabeth Bentley,
had quarrelled with her father, who is • mechanic,
and resides in Sarah Ann street, Clowes street,
Gorton, and so much had she taken the matter to
heart that she determined to commit suicide. In
consequence of the difference, she told her mother
she would drown herself; but as the former did not
think she really intended to do so,she paid little heed
to what was said. About eleven o'clock, however,
the girl left home, and proceeding to • reservoir
belonging to Mr. John Scott, Knutsford Vale, deli-
berately jumped into the water. She was seen by a
boy named Timothy You, who gave the alarm, but
before the body was recovered life was extinct.
Bunions RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A singular acci-
dent occured on Friday on the line between Llanrwrt
and Llandudno Junction. which runs alongside of
the river Conway. At Talyeafn, the station next to
Llanrwet, the recent heavy rains and the flooding of
the river suddenly washed away a quantity of the
earthwork, leaving the rails quite unsupported for
some yards. The train leaving Llanrwst at 1.18
met with an accident in consequence, for before the
driver could stop the train the unsupported rails
gave way, and the engine and tender were precipi-
tated into a large fissure. The driver and firemen
fortunately escaped with slight bruises, as did also
the few passengers in the train, with the exception
of &young woman, whose legs were broken. A cattle
truck next to the tender was smashed, and • number
of pigs and sheep were killed.
A SUPPOSED ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR CAR-
LISI.E.—A mysterious attempt at murder, as is sup-
posed, was made on Saturday evening, near • place
called "The Rallies," two or three miles from Car-
lisle. Shortly after six o'clock, John Ward, a far-
mer near Great Orton' was on his way 'home from
enriirle market, when he was suddenly shot in the
shoulder from behind. Re turned sharply round to
see who his assailant was, and at that moment
another barrel of a gun was discharged, the shot
lodging in his chest near the right shoulder. The
pin &prison to have been loaded with small shot,
es Ward's clothing, where the pellets struck it, was
completely riddled. The man managed to crawl to
an inn within a short distance of the spot, where he
was immediately attended to. Dr. Brown, of Car-
lisle, soon afterwards arrived, and by his advice
Ward was conveyed to the Cumberland Infirmary.
No clue to the offender has yet been discovered.
FALL OF A WOMAN PROM • WINDOW.-3dIRA-
CIITUIUS EaCAllL—While a young woman, eighteen
years of age, named Barbara Small, was engaged
hanging out clothes at a window in the fourth flat
of a tenement in Giles-street, Leith, on Friday fore-
noon, she lost her balance and fell to the grotind.
In falling, she struck on the clothes-pole at the win-
dow, but it broke. and she fell on another clothes.
pole on the third fiat. This gave way too, and she
fell on a third polo projecting from &window on the
second fiat, which alao snapped, and she was precipi •
tated to the ground, though fortunately the force of
her fall was very much broken. She was taken up
severely bruised and conveyed to her house. Medical
aid was at once procured, and it is thought that her
injuries are not very serious. Some years ago • wo-
man fell from a high window in the lame building,
and as in this case the formed her fall was broken
by some projections, and she was not seriously in-
TILE QUEEN r. HIREERT.—This case came before
the Court of Exchequer Chamber on Saturday. The
defendant had been indicted for having unlawfully
taken Elizabeth Holden out of the possession of her
father, she being under sixteen years of age, and
seduced her. The facts of the case were these
The girl lived at Ashton with her father and mother.
She and her sister went from home with the inten-
tion of going to • school; the defendant met them
and Induced them to go with him to Manchester,
and there, at • public-house, he seduoed the girl.
He than returned with them to Ashton. He was
tried at Mancharter before Mr. Justice Lush, and
was convicted, but there was nothing to show that
the prisoner knew or had reason to believe that the
girl was under the care of her father or any other
person having authority to take care of her, and this
• point the learned Judge referred to this Court—The
learned Chief Justice said there was no statement or
finding that the prisoner knew the girl was under
the lawful care of her father or any other person,
and therefore the conviction must be reversed.—
Conviction reversed.
M INIVICKET EDUCATIONAL BEQUESTS. —We
learn that. Mr. William Muir, formerly merchant in
Glasgow, who recently died at his house, 22, Lyne-
docketreet, aged eighty-six, has by his will made
poirision for the education of the poor children in
Glasgow. After leaving some handsome legacies and
annuities to his nephews and nieoes, and also making
small contributions to certain charitable and other
benevolent objects, he leaves, in four separate funds,
the sum of £15,000 for the education of poor children.
The directors of this fund are to Principal,
and also the Professor of Divinity of the College in
Glasgow; the ministers of the ten parish churches
in Glasgow; also one elder from each of the tea
parish church sessions in Glasgow—the elders to hold
the office for three years, at the expiry of which
term the same elder shall be eligible for re-electiog,
the elders to be ohmic each by his own amnion.
"But," as Yr. Muir has provided, "no Papist, no
Nowa*, no 'Praetorian, no Booinian, no Arian, nor
any man who by mote or speech is known to defend
or to mune or to propagate the • lee or
of these mote bare ; who.
practices they may deny or terms the appellation to
themselves, yet none of them shell be allowed to be
• directors or although otherwise their office
might have entitled them." The testator also be-
queaths the half of tbe ream to the School Fund,
• which msy thus ultimately arciouat to 08,040 or
LIM&