The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-14 00:00:00

DORCESSTER.

COMMIT-MD TO HIS Majui'e PaLSOW, DOW.
C WIT Oa —Scuioni : Edward Kirby. stealing clothes
at Poole. Hard Labour: George Benham, poaching
at Flurleston, Joseph Ellis, stealing coal at Bradp.l:lA,
James Powell, rogue and vagabond at Bridport, 1.1
Masters rogue and vagabond at Wareham, and
Arthur Norman, vagrancy at Wootton Fit:punt, one
calendar moth each; James Brity, assault at Sher.
borne, Henry Cutler, drunkenness at Firsdpole, 14
days each; Ellen Short, drunkennees at Weymouth,
Sarah Pike, drunkenness at Lyme Regis, seven days
each. /Imprisonment Clement Christopher, poaching
at Dewlish, two calendar mouths, Henry Hodges,
drunkenness at Charmouth, 14 days.
Song TWo WOWFHS AG" a printed fortn, emanating
from one "Thos, Cook, tourist agent, London," and
advertising • trip to the Paris exhibition front any
railway station in England for something like 30s.
(third return) and £5 for a first-class family ticket for
four, was mint to these Aloes with a written intima-
tion that if we would give it a nicely displayed Plus
In the paper the editor should receive • first-class
return ticket. Mr. Cook was not quite as successful
in this instance as with other papers. We forwarded
the advertisement aid the latter to Messrs. Cook and
Son, the well.known touristegeute of Ludgate
Circus,.and of course received what we knew before
an intimation that it was a swindle. Mr. Cook was
unearthed and found to be one Johnson, printer.
His advertisement luid appeared in several of the
north country journals (the (Annie ones of all papers
In the world) and Mr. Cook had made • pretty good
harvest. He was committed for trial, and on
Wednesday the Recorder at the Central Criminal
Curt presented him with • tourist ticket for One
of Her Siajesty's jails available for five years.

TERRIBLE SHIPPING DISASTER.
About:hrse o'clock on Friday afternoon the Allan
Lino otwaw,,cr Sardinian arrived in Lough Foyle to
receive malls and pa-wagers before proceeding at her
Transatlantic voyage. Shortly after comming to
anchor an explosion occurred in one of the coal bankers,
and tke vessel immat'ately caught fire, the passengers
In the forecastle MINI cut off from their comrades, and
for some time the greatest confusion and consternation
prevailed. With some difficulty the captain was able
to communicate with the shore, and the telegraph
wine were at once brought into requisitioi for the
purpoee of obtaining the assistance of tug stesmer•
from Decry, and making eremite in that city to
accommodate about 400 of the 460 passengers on board.
When the officers of the vessel succeeded in restoring
comparative order a hasty examination of the various
oompartmenta was made, and it waa found that about
forty of the pareengers had sustained severe injuries
on various tart. of the body. Several had their legs
broken, others their arum injured, a few were burned
ati ut the heal and face, sal three were found dead.
It is not yet kaolin how many were killet. It is
generally believed that when • scrutiny of the
phrenetic lit is made the number already *wild will
be considerably inFreamd.
Shortly after nine &clock three steam Oman
brought to Derry about 400 of the passengers The
wounded were temp warily placed in stores running
parallel with the Quar Wharf. They were Promptly
attended by tottirWilliam Miner and other medical mg.
men. The spectacle wee harrowing in the extreme nig
shrieks of the unfortunate sufferers atteected large
....”.thetfc crowds, and for a time the thoroughfares in
the r..th•diate neighbourhood were chiefly Germans and
Italians, but there were oleo • number of Kurdish and
Scottish emigrants on board.
The Sardinian was • comparatively OM MOGI at
We. one of the beet of the large lest owned by the
Messrs. Allan Brothers. of Glasgow.
On Thursday the fiftieth anniversary of the day on
which the Act for in. Repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts received the Royal went, • deputation went to
Pembroke todse, Richmond Park, for the purpose of
presenting to Rad Russell an address from the Committee
of Dissenting Deputies. The ...to of Earl Roasello
health rendering him suable to recede the deputations
Lady Russell received therm and replied sa behalf a his
lordship. The address expremed the gratitude of the
mubody of Nonconformists for the services of Bart
to the asses of religious liberty by Ws saccessful
efforts to obtain the repeal of the aberetasetkeed Acts.
An Inquest we. held in Lond 7, upon the
body at the late ffir
.. died
from injuries received at the Waterloo tuition on Tit
seselag last The baronet's valet, who woo trwool°4
compertment of the train. derenbed the
mew.% bad said that when he spoke to Sir growou.
while be woe kribS .° the platform, he mid "The carnage
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= yen that the 4,1 •aoo LT. that ao door BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.be opened on. • i.e. -
mat. =int ln the United Kingdoms the births of 217,9711
although every effort ha, —4 Ws door. each was"'
who was alleged to here *nano_ ...duo a, ma. children, and the deaths ot 188,4513 persons of both
anotand_ ut,
_Th„L _ promo a." sexes, were registered in the aim months aiding Sljt
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