The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-13 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1869.

SUSPICIOUS AFFAIR AT HILTON.

Law Thursday an inquest was held in this village,
before W. H. Atkicau, Esq., the district coroner, on
the body of • male child, which was found deed under
somewhat circumstanees, its mother having,
directly after its birth, left hr home, staying away five
hours. The following evidence was given :—Eliza
Howe, wife of f.:harles House, labourer, said I have •
daughter twined Jane Hotta, who is the mother of the
deceased child. Yesterday shout ten o'clock I went up
stair, to make my heel, nod then went into my daughter's
room. I took up tb• brush to sweep the room, and I
then now on the door close by the bed side something
wrapped up in • cloth. I did not touch it, but went
down stairs. As I got down, her father came in, and
she went out. I told her father that I thought it was
a child I had seen upstairs, and called after her to come
back and go to bed, hot she did not answer, and I went
of Betsy Coward, the midwife. My daughter did
Sot return for five hours. When Betsy Coward came
we went upstairs and took op what I had seen by the
bedside, and on opening it we found it was the body of
a male child. She washed it, and pot on an old pinafore
on it, and put it into • box as it was now. The child
was dead. Thera was a bucket of water in the room
when I first went in. My daughter took it up to wuli
the room, and oho had washed a part of the door, near
the window, before I got up. I knew that my daughter
was expecting to be confined, hit not when. She bad
made no preparation for the child. I asked her
shout that a fortnight ago, and she replied that
Mitre woo plenty of time for that in two or three months
time. My daughter had breakfast with me about half.
an-buy before I went up stairs", and I did not hear
any noise or disturbanee before I west up Gaupt the
noise she made in washing the floor. She woo not oon•
fined before she went upstairs after breakfast She
made • hearty meal. My daughter name back home
about three o'clock, and we, that is my husband and
myself, made her go to bed, and she has been there ever
since. Dr. Fielding awns and maw the child about two
o'clock before in, daughter's return. He has not
seen her.
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Elisabeth Coward, wife of Joseph Coward, labourer,
said I go out occasionally am midwife. Yesterday
Elise House came to fetch me about 12 o'clock. I saw
It. an op-stair room of her house a dead child on the
bed coovered up with a piece of flarinel rolled round it,
and a bit of a striped shirt, and a piece of sack beg
thrown over it. I looked at the child. When I first
saw the child it did not look sail it had been washod or
put into water. It was quite dead and cold. I have
not men the mother at all. It is • fall grown and very
gee baby. I did not me any marks upon the child
except that the month and nook looked dark. I was
Dot engaged by the mother to attend upon her. I did
n t see any marks upon the door oxoept that part of it
bad been frvsbly embed.
Thomas Fielding said: I an. a doctor of medicine and
surgeon residing and practising at Milton Abbas.
Ysterlay, about 12 o'clock at noon I was cent for to see
the deceased. I went and found the body in a box, at
the boast of the first witness. I examined it externally
and found no marks of violence exeept some •vreiiing
and lividity of the lips, nothing to account for death.
I have since made • poet nonce' ezmination of the
body. On examining the heart and lungs I found no
evidence that the child had breathed, otherwise it was
perfectly developed, and healthy and well nourished. I
cannot say positively that the child did not breathe, but
there was no evidence that it did: From what I
observed I am not in a position to state whether the
chiii was born alive or not.

Aft,r a few obwrratione by the Coroner on the
conduct of the mother, the jury returned an open
verdlct of " Found dead."

STOUKPAINE.

Ca ussuar Tut rata se cs. public meeting convened
by the rector of this parish, the Rev. R. R. Watts, II AS
held in the national schoot.room on Tuesday evening
last, to consider the temperance question, and the
desirability of forming one In connection with parochial
work.—The Rev. It. R. Watts presided, and there were
Nhal pre•euk the. Hitt. H. B. Visard, rector id Spent.-
bary, Rev. F. lisiuteell, rector of lihroton, Rev. Mr.
Darby, curate of Ashmore, Mr. Lewis, of Ash, Mr.
Barvdt, Stourpeine, end the greater part of the in-
habitants of the villagathe room being densely crowded.
fur. Watts, having commenced the proceedings with
prayer, said he had called the meeting for various
reasons. lat.—To sonsider the whole question of tern•
per..noe and its bearings on them in that
parish. 2nl.—To state some of his objections
to the plan which had for some years past
been advocated for the suppression of drunkenness,
Lamely
.total abstinence.. 3.—To consider what
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atere could be taken on Chrietienfrinciples, to put •
stop to drunkeeness. The sub est bed been very
prominently brought forward, an it was one which be
Lad thought of and read upon a good deal. It wee
not, therefore, In • booty manner he approached it.
Ile woo still further desirous of stating his views,
beceose it had been put forth as a reproach to him and
his brother clergymen, that they took no part or
Interest in there endeavours which were being mule to
rescue the people from the sin of drunkenness. This,
or. his own and their behalf, be most positively denied.
In him public ministrations he vary often brought the
water before them, and every Sunday they were
reruin led of the dirty of temperance to the services of
the church. Mr. Watts then proceeded to date his
objections to total abstinence. First, there was no au
mud Is the Word of God to abstain. and, therelace, be
Considered it enemiptural. In proof of this, Fe referred
them to the 14th chap. Deuteronomy, v. 26; to the
litith Psalm, 31st chap. Proverbs, and in the New
Testament to the example of Christ at the wedding
feaht ; to the reproach which the Phariases coat upon
our Saviour that he came sating and drinking and was
• winebibber; and to the exhortation of St. Peal to
the young converts of the church, wherein he bide
them "not to be drunk with wine, wherein I. excess."
Neither St. Paul, St. John, or St. Jude, who wrote
strongly contemning excess, ever forbade the moderate
use of wine. It bad been said that the wine mentioned
In scripture were unfermented; but this was clearly
refuted from the fact that wherever wine was mentioned
It w, expressed by the same Greek word, which meant
the fermented juice of the grape. This was then his
shod objection, that total abstinence was not war.
recut by Scripture. But there were other °Nestles&
It ice-loud men to rely upon something done by them-
e:lee., ant not on Cod's sustaining and restraining
Pa... It was the panacea, with its advocates, foe
thnnnenniaa. The baking of the pledge was by very
z°nnt considered • meritorious est, even those who bad
‘".". inveterate drunkards, when they dried, leers phi
inrwsni to tell their experience. This he emuidered
decidedly eontrary to the spirit of a true Christian, who
would rather lament over his past sins, and be humbled
on aecnnut of them, than be iodated with pride, as, it
sea to be lured, many of thus advocates were. Again,
be strongly objected to what were called "Banuia of
hops." A uumbes of little children eneoureged to Inks

the pledge, neither knowing what they say or do, end
the yoke el trader often proving • snare to them in
after life, by their not keeping their vows. With
reined to any pledge, be considered it might be useful
and even desirable for those who mould not refrain from
ether to bind themselves to abstain, but this would be
f-r better, and more likely to be kept, if 'aide by their
bedsides, and in humble depeedanee on God. Kr.
Waite then spoke of the intemperate language used by
the adsorb= of total &betatron, and their total die-
regard of the views and feelings of those who differed
from them. The right meanie( of the word temperer)s
wan restraining oneself, end did not court in • total
denial of enjoying what warn kindly given us by God.
It consisted in the happy means of suing, without
abusing, God's gilts, and he believed that the only sure
and effectual means of putting • stop to intemperance
wan the inculcation of Christian prithiples, and for men
to become truly manned to God, having Hi. Holy
Spiritu • restraining power within them. Haying
stated how far be could go with abstainers, Mr. Welts
proceeded to unfold • plan of which be expressed •
hope that it would tend not only to the diminution of
drunkenness in the parish, but also unite his people
with him and with one another, and promote a better
faring of unity arid good feeling among them. This
was the &depths° of • Christian temperance serration.
The object of which would be by committees formed
from its members to aid in any measure calculated for
the public good ; of these he mentioaed the planing of
beer-houses seder the jurisdiction of tth magistracy
and police, the finding out and prosecution of what were
know by the name of "Sly hour' " which he remarked
w:re hundredfold more hurtful than beer-house,; env
porting any measure whirr would do away with tbe
wholesale adulteration of beer and sash kind of drinks,
whereby • wbolethere beverage was often converted
Into an unwholesome and very intoxicating one by the
infusion of tobacco and other deleterious ingredients
the formation of • reading or working men's slab,
wheie those who joifith could be supplied with &Aso,
and have interesting and instructive books and papen
to peruse, and therionally reed to them, and an in-
creased interest in night schools. He also proposed
once • mouth, at the evening lecture on Wedneelays to
bring the matter more fully before them in his sermon.
He earnestly trusted that ell total abstainers and others
would join in tire so that the reproach, unjustly to.
great extent is he believed, under which the pariah lay,
might be removed. In thesis and other objecte of • like
natant they would find him ever ready to assist, end he
eernestly trusted that • betmr feeling would moon be
shown by aLL—The Rev. Mr. Darby, curate of Ash-
more, who was introduced to the meeting. a pledged
abstainer, said that though he went mach farther on
the temperance question than Kr. Watts, he most
eordially agreed with his views an to the dissimilation
of their principles. Hs considered Kr. Watts bad meet
candidly and fairly expressed his views, and be believed
nothing tended more to injure the cause which they as
total abstainers considered was • good one, as the in-
temperate, personal, and uncharitable remarks made by
some speakers at tempera.« meetings. He then snot on
1 to shoe the retire( some of the arguments which such ad-
vocates deduced from the Bible, such ea, that the children
of Israel only drank water for 40 years in the wilderness
ea
an argument in favour of teetotalism, forgetting that
it was manna that sustained them. Taking Suwon,
• Nerrite from his birth, as en example that strength
the bestowed upon him, forgetting that it was not
because he drank no wine he was strong, for his strength
lay in his hair. The example of the Reehabite. was
also used as an argument to favour of teetotalism, bat it
eu forgotten that they were preload for obeying the
command of their father. To sho• that an implicit
reliance could not be pieced on those who took the
pledge, the rev, gentleman referred to the case of a
soldier who, after keeping • vow of abitinenee for seven
years, seven mouths, seven weeks, seven days, seven
hour.. seven minutes, and sena *soothe yea so eager
to be relieved that, having enured all kinds of
intoxicants, be held his watch in hand till the final
moment, and thew drank himself dead drunk, there
having been, as the rev, gentleman remarked, evidently
a moral intemperathe going on for a otheiderable period
in his mind. Mr. Darby concluded by expressing •
hops that the abstainers would endeavour to Donetsk.
thou who differed from them. and assist the rector in
his work.—The Rev. H. B. Visaed cordially sounded
the views expressed by Mr. Watts, and strongly con-
demned the conduct of those who, having no interact is
a perish, rude it their haziness to promulgate doctrines
and codes of morality, without even giving the clergy.
man an opportunity of expressing his views and
sentiments. He also siondetaned "Bands of Belie,'
considering that permits were the proper persons to
divide for their ehildren, and with regard to the signing
of • pledge, asked if it was reasonable to suppose that
those who looked lightly upon the solemn vow made in'
beerier and at conirmation before God, to mouths
the devil and all his works—and certainly drunekenner
was one of these, for • drunkard was both • fool and •
devil—weird he restrained for any length of time by the
signing of • redo to man, and in excited feelings.—
Mr. Horlock, at the request of Kr. Watts, then addrered
the meeting, and defended the total abstinence cause as
the only sure care for drunkenness. He also claimed
for Rands of Hope that they were excellent Kulturelle
of intl.—The Rev. F. Mansell replied to his obser-
vations, and serially alluding to his remark that only
abstainers could conscientiously were the drunkard of
his danger, raid that he totally directed from him.
Neither Christ or His apostles were abstainers, and yet
they reproved the vire of men, and exhorted them to
repentance. He bad never signed the pledge, nor did
he intend doing so, looking upon total abstinence merely
as a policy of expediency, and not as a matter of
Christian duty. After a few remarks from Mr. Lewis,
of Ash farm, strongly supporting Mr. Watts, the meeting
broke up.
Hen Millen held a drawing room on Thursday at
Buckingham Palace, which was attended by most of the
Minieten, the lathing member. of the Diplomatic
Gorr, and the memben of the royal household. The
presentations were very numerous. The next drawinr
room of the season will be held by the Queen on the
11th of May.
Luta ewer AND BEAUTIFUL HAIL—Mrs. S. A. Allen's
World's Hair Restorer or Dresdne fails to quickly
restore gray or faded hair to Its youthful colour and
beauty, and with the first application a beautiful
fragrance Is tithe to the hair. t dope the hair from
falling off; it prevents baldness; it promotes luxuriant
growth; it amuse the hair to grow thick and strong;
it removes all dandruff; It contains neither oil nor dye.
In lug bottles, price ela shillings. Zylobalaarnam
(Mrs. S. A. Allen's) far excels any pomade or hair oil.
To those whose hair to naturally dry, requiring frequent
dreseing, its theapsees and great value will be proved.
Its early use on childien's hair will insure an abundant
and bountiful supply from youth to old age. In large
bottle., pries three shillings. Sold by met chemisto
and perfumers. Depot, 284, High Holborn, 'Anima.
°Woman WOn..—Tbe procrees of SAO art
manufacture in this branch oS trade is strikingly
exemplified in a little work published by J. W. Bensons
of 25, Old Bond Street, and of the City B.team Futory,
58 and 60, Ludgate HilL It isenricbed aid embellithed
with designs (by Italian, French, and English artistes)
of Brooches, Bereleta, Earrings, and other articles,
mirage for persona wear, or Wedding, Birthdet. or
other presents. with their prises Kr. Beason who
hold' the appointreest to a.a. H. the Prins) of Wales)
has also pubed • eery lateroolied posp4lot on the
Rime and Progress of Watch end Cloreamaking. Thar
pamphlets are seat pod free foe two stamps each, and
they cannek be too strongly reernmesmied to those
oontenpLating a perms., especially to residents in the
country cc &broth, who are Maas enabled to select any
article they may require, wad have it forwarded with
perfect safety.

A NOTE= ECCILMASTICLL Pao/acme Y. -rt. Church
Adoinatioa, who wen th• promoters in the suit
" Martha r. Ildkonochis," have determined upon
inditating • suit against the Rev. Mr. Parches, of
Brighton, with a view to test the question of the legality
of fe Endaristic veetments and proesdons in church.
These questions were not raised in Mr. Ilackonochie's
Moe.

Tin "agony eolniOn" of the Dail, Tekgrapli how
recently eontalsed the following curious edveetleccoenti
TAGOILBSTON.— Whaled In vain on Tuesday. Meet me on
11. Friday Evening, at wren exectly, at the Kele of the
station where tee parted on Saturday, es OMNIBUS.
nEAR O. o.—For God's sake, return to yoth. distracted
BU,. My house h desolate without you. I trust your
mind Is more cameolel than your unhappy wife's. Write to me,
dear Norge If only one little word. The Almighty guide you.
—Your ever sod only, Erflf.

DnEhlit —Your olden brother, to whom
you addremed envolope with 811C10.111111, on Monday,
ham favour to aak of you Reflect, and return In•tantly, and
all will be wall. Turn prment torture, suspenne, and misery
nu° joy.

M.—HaFe you are well, dear. I want to we you.
In. Arrange to gto. me as much time poaUble.—Yours,
to ever.

I/I'B7EIIIOEBLT DISAPPEARED from her home, in the
Jl. neighbourhood of Portland-place, on Monday evening,
the htit inst., • YOUNO LADY, 17 years of age, 6 feet 3 Inches
In height, mei face, fair complesion, large grey eyee dark me-
brows, and an abundance of fair hair worn out square on the
! forehead and en chignon ;" we, e, drtimed, wnen last wen, in
' short beset eilk droo, double skirt, trimmed with slolet ;
tizlet black selmt braided snort emit, and black bonnet wit),
duesson rese.—lntorneation to he find to Mr. Pollaky, Primal
inquiry Dike, 19, Paddington-green.
if Mina. HILL, KEDDLS, AND WA LDH•II4 Nsw
Patented—These large premises in Kingalandsroad.
London, have lately come into the possession of this
firm, who in the extrordinary short space of four
months have covered them with buildings and
applienme for carrying on their extendre business.
which were opened for inspection on the 20th ult.
Approaching from the main enterthes in Kinpland-
road we find the boundary occupied by store.rooms,
euporintending forman's, yard foreman's, watchman's,
aid iretclpssper'a offices, while the but floor won:wises
a noble snit of general rafts, fitted up with every
regard for comfort and convenience. The right hand
sole of the yard is coupled by the plumbers, painters,
glaziers, and audit** shops, and e "dry materiel"
ehed, foar stories hies, in which all timber and deals
are left to season previous so use. On the right are the
stables, sawpits, and a stage, capable of holding ten to
fifteen thousand deals, while the whole of the remain-
ing portion of the premises is commanded by • travail.
log wane, capable of lifting an amount of weight, and
made expressly for them premises by Messrs. Appleby
Brothers, of Bankable, Opposite the °Blue, and
forming the boundary of the premises in the Hackney-
road, are the extellesive workshops 150 ft: long. between
Ad'. and 40f1. wide, end three stories high; the ground
or basement floor being used ais the sawing mills, and
will be fitted op with the most approved machinery,
the first floor is csompied exclusively as joiners' shops
and the machinery more immediately connected with
this department of the trade, while the upper floor is
devoted to painting rooms, modelling and plasters'
shops, drying rooms, he. The premises are protected,
throughout by fire mains, which are always charged
and several hydrants arranged so as to fit the hoes of
the Metropolitan Fire Brigasie,if the lengths kept upon
the premises should not be sufficient in ease of fire. In
connection with this a very itterreding episode
occurred on Tuesday afternoon last, when, as we have
before mentioned, the premises were opened for inspec-
tion. A quantity of shavings ooneealesl in theses...pita,
were without previous warning, set on fire, and the
alarm given to the men who have charge of the ere
mains daring the day. The flames were almost im-
mediately subdued, and the hose "made up" and
deposited in its proper place, when another fire woo
discovered in a quantity of straw in quite • different
part of the premises, and as qmodly putfout. The men,
now thoroughly drenched, were leaving the place, when
they were suddenly called bath to find a third and
larger lire ranging in the stables, which quickly
demolished the gius in the sashes, and alarmed some
of the viittors present, quite needlessly however, as the
men had their hose in working order even quicker than
before, and pluckily entered the building, and &tier
some dilleelty put out the flosses, though the smoke
nearly suffocated them. The whole of the foundations
of the premises have Win carried down to the Loudon
clay, and the work ezeuted in • really substantial
manner, every precaution being taken to insure
sufficient dreinege. The shops will be always kept at
an even temperature by hot-water pipes, while the
offices are fitted op with every modero improveoest
in the thape of spraking•tubes, electricebells, he. The
whole of the works have been designed aud carried out
by and ander the personal superinteadenee of the
junior partner. Mr. Waldram ; Mr. Stamp, the
superintsmiing foreman of the firm, acting for the time
being as alert of the works, and Mr. Willis as general
foremen. The inauguration dinner took pleas in the
evening, when these well-known and enterprising eon.
trusters entertained a select number of their employees
and • few visitors at dinner, in the Throne-room of
Crosby Hell, Hishopgate-street. In the absence of Mr.
Hill, Mr. Liddell presided on the eamaion, the vioe-
chair being filled by Mr. Waldrans.
Tut Crag or SEIZWeaD.—Mr. 0. B. Kennett, the
clerk to las Norwich magistrates, has received another
anonymou letter. This communisation, which is
addressed "To the Chief Clerk of the Magistrates, or
Stanley, Esq., Norwich," is in the following terms:
TPS MORN= lITILOLI, April 6.
Sir,-1 muld not unjustly prejudice or Condemn any man;
hula. an Iltactict Ott we has been made of **name of •ocertahs
gentleman—a use exceedingly po•feesional ionise, and mime-
lated to MA* myself and family—l beg leave to my that the
gentleman In question died on the Chdemas Eve of 1846, he
haring f,d sway yes. up to to t period lived with his wife, who
had died t myelin previously. Illative that he had twat lead
*teen yewi, and that to the pecuniary nein of his family, kept
Martha Prods Ins state ol allinence,anddistributed gam with
• proillml land upon anybody hat Ma allectdonate wile and
ily. nod, from sin years or dre (with the exception of
eighteen meths when I was at school), not lost sight.' the
said mothsean ; on the *misery , I for the last less years of
his Mee, Mild utmost stretch of my exertions, manned Men.
for he had meted an ample fortune. I deny, therefore' as.
base alandd that he had ever been transported for any aline
whansm Ilb wan formerly • builder, and might have done
well 1,1 t tor he Immorality, Martha Francis Was • handsome
worn., md alba harshest, murdered (which I doubt, not), Icon
truly gmeopet Such an one might look well at err, bar es
Euripidee myd
en.* very autumn of • form once heir
Retains its beauties..
A emitlessakerhich Plutarch mys does not universal=
gond. 11 theborribly mutilated nem** he those of
Prances I wised my that the medical gentlemen might well
hesitate' as 'deer age, for the tester& and thrum of such a
!My, men at "Sty, might deed man anatomist. lam almon un-
nerved. prey, let there be no mierspresentedions, for 11 you
do, death lel not, after all nay saddles* and sullisinge be
unacceptable* me 11 the prisoner have committed the foul
! murder, let Sae evince • redeeming quality, which, II selves-
! thin, he eanmt do otherwise. This letter Is no hoax, and I
have no objedion to lighting published, for, as an Inglidetuan,
111 bate anything that Is underhand • and (while I do not wide
my name tob made public) I will subscribe myself
Ono. rue CaItDIO•TILS roe Till PIOTSS•011111? Of
RAITOILIO DI TIM Gansu* Comm* es Aran. 1863.
P.&—elhostd the prisoner have made • COntioutton, I Implore
FOY not to Wert this letter. But, of course, you may Inform
the gentlemen of the press the year that Mr. M. died, and that ,
he had nesighesn transported. I ern reedy *drop. But what
bevel to do with the horrible matter 1
The public will form their own conalladons as to this
: letter, built only states one Important point, els., that
Wonseitthe died in December, 1848, while the theory
sought to be set up le the defence has been that Mrs.
ffheward lift her husband In June, 1851, for the pur-
pose of reyothing her old lover. • memorial, prelim
for a commutation Of the convict's sentence, has been
I signed in Norwich by 200 respectable citizens, the
I list, i•eleding, indeed, many of the leading Inhabitants.