The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-15 00:00:00

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Tug Ltroso•e.—R. 0. Chessamen, Seq., boo. Ma.,
hos received El from Hemp Walker, Esq., toward. the
funds of the local kennels of the /loyal National
lA,-
boat Institution.
Fug. nor Tot If arr-tisao.—A senor belonglnto
the &Adele, of Whitby, bound from Shield to Cart
gnu, was brought Into Weymouth on Thursday morn-
ing last. He hod fallen 60 feet from the mut-head,
end injured hie back and hoed. The poor fellow was
removed on a later to the Union house.
Ftrro D.R.V.—Tbe monthly Inspection of this oorpe
look place on Thursday evening. in a hell near the Dein
cluster rood, kindly granted for the purpose by the
Worshipful the klayor. About 20 file attended, sad
were put thiough ounpany and light infantry drill, by
Captain and Adjutant Barrett Captain Thresher was
want in command ; but Lieutemant Traard was an-
eversubly abseat in London. The movements were
executed in tint-rate style, and elicited the approval
of the Adjutant. It is pleasant to find that the
rearuits are advancing rapidly towardi eticisory, wader
the instruction of Sergeant King.
WITIOCTIS AI • MAIL POIT.—Tb• very day after
Alterman Howard made his able speech in the Council
as to the capabilities of Weymouth for a mail port, an
illustration of its value ass given by a ship muter who
could have had no knowledge of what had been said in
the Council Chamber. The United Service Agnew., of
London, which had come from Hong Kong in 30 den
was short of coal, and put into our Loy for • supply.
She Ins provided with the needful fuel from the
cellars of hkun. Cosine and Co.,and her captain, Yr.
Semtril aline, had three begs and two panes of
roans tended end transferred to our Post Office, awl
Mau,l it, pasungen also came on shore and prceeeded
to Louden by tram.

Tug aithiffign's BAG. —Newly all titterers of false 0010
carry with them • smell bag, formed Of • peculiar kind
of thiesd, in which they rub any pretended silver coin
that they wish to pass, audit immediately loses its dull
pewtery appear•nce, and, without being marked by any
ecrstclook assumes a subdued brilliancy like that of •
genuine coin. Owing to the extreme caution of smashers
in general, ills almost useless to attempt the find's; of
any quantity of had money ; but the beat detectives
advise a search for the " sausber's bag" instead.
Bast. Vickery has dis...vvered at the lodginp of the
men llama and Morgan, who have been more than
osce brought up at our police court, a carious little
beg, to which we will not give a name. as the prisoners
yet lace to stand their trial, and tillafterwards ore pre-
sumet to he intiothot. The beg le about 4* inches long
and 14 Inches brood, and is coarsely woven of bite and
whay brown threaci,arranged in the way called "twill."
Wheo a pewtery looking oosnterfeit was rubbed &little
in this bag, the transformation was wonderful, for it
looked like good silver on being turned out. On close
ezimiustisn, however, there scald be noticed a peenliar
in the impression, very different from that pro-
duel by even hard wear. Theedges around the ports
in rdiel were slightly rounded instead of being sharp,
limo the rooms silver. A Victoria haLf.crowo heaths
real ring a! the genuine metal, but this could be tested
by bending it, although those was not meets difference
bet•een its stiffness and that ef is good coin. Perhaps
the best n.y of detection is the 1 ring in those coins
which have • lustre inclining la bluishness, and a ehisrp
eye willdetect In those which have the clear ring a
yellowithiseth and alight deadues it the parts Impressed
below lb. surfacee. Doubtless there are a great many
of both kinds in eiretilstion, for It would not pay a
wash, of owe to live In Weymouth for days, and only
sass • coin Sr two. The polite her. to be thealehd
to Mr. Vickery, for his pensverease In ferretting up a
difficult case.

Borovaa Prm Bunion. fistarday.—Before the
11.70 r (.1. Trani, Esq.), J. Dyer, Lg., Lad. Dr.

Mary Baker, a loom eharaerer, was charted with
kaving a obild chargeable to the Vaion.—Ms. Ham
clerk to the Board of Guardians, appeared for the
Union.—Hannah Orchard, the nano,eaid Mat deka-
dant and the child alert at her house three nighta, and
Lb. mother made an agreement with her to keep the
child; but on account of what the norm beard, she
refused to keep the shild any longer, and returned it te
her grandmother, who seot it back with • 3d. bit, on
which ate sent it no the mother herself, but ber own little
girl, by whom she mot it, brought it batik again. The
mite kepi the infant two or three weeks,and then placed
it in the Unioo-boade. The Int morning after the child
was sent back, she fouad that the eollar-bane was
inured.—Robert Courtney, porter at the anion,reeelued
the child Hose Baker from Charlotte, lb* daughter of
Mrs.Orehard. It was about 18 months old, sod being
it, it was sent to the infirmary. The primmer did not
come to the workhouse the whole time the child was
there; but she now asked the porter with team what
time it died.-11r. Bryant, marker of the I/Moe-house,
said the child was brought on the 281 b of May, and died
on tie .7th of Jonia,—Dr. Bimpsosa, wadies' aMeer to
the Weymouth Union, said be saw the child on the day
of simision. On examining it be found it sufferingfrom
poeumonia, or inflammation of the langs. Throe ribs
were Molten on the left aide, the left collar-bone was
hroltev, End the left forw anti just above the elbow. It
gradually sank, and died on the 7th of June. He ex.
✓ained It, and found death had resulted from Influstao
boo of the longs alone, not ia any way influenced by the
fractures, which had united se far that he judged they
must have happened quite • month before. The arm
el the ehild was bent quite at ea angle, and no medieal
atteedamte meld have been given to it--The girl s id
she Mew nothing about the brealtiag of the shild's ribs
nor its collar hose. It bad he.. taken to • doctor at
Portland, and he saki the boa* had grown out.—Tbe
Bayer sail there was no *widens. to show that she
had oau,ed the injuries to the child, and they had only I
to deal with it as • oat* of desertion.—One month in I
Dorchester gaol aids bard labour._

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The two smashers Harris and Mogan, were brought
up on re and f.om Wednesday last charged with
uttering bad mentry.—Mrs Ellen Keeley, landlady of
the Sun Inn, King-street, said that this day fortnight,
one of the priaoners cisme to her house aed asked if he
maid have • bed fur him end his friend. In the kitchen
she saw the other prisoner, who was pointed out as his
friend. They had one bed and bedroom, and slept there
for two nights They did not appear to do any work.
The stoutest of them, Jenkins slept at her house some
bine months ago.—Elisa Abbott, of Nicholas-street,
N 4 tie prisoners came to her house a week ago yester-
day, between seven and eight, brought some dannal with
them, asked if she took in needlework, and wanted her
to sake them some flannels and drawera. Rho agreed
to make them up two pairs of drswers, and two Beane]
skirt+, for which they said they would give 4s. on
Monday.
In the ma* of uttering the half-crown at the London
Jeakias pleaded 'silty; but Morgan said he was
Ist sear the place.

Trey ware next charged with attempting to utteir. a
taunted. it half-erown at Use Cross Keys ; but neither
prisoner ssiii anything to tbo *harms Nor dtd they on
in.rl ay. of passing a shilling at the Eagle Tavern.
The) were next awned with pawing • Ind halt-orown
It Mr. Obed Caster, of 81. Mary•strest, whin* • strip.]
Wirt wee bought by Morgan, who pas • bad half.
C 1.0.11 for it Th• shirt was found by Reperinteadent
Viik.ry at his lodgings, but Morgan, in defence. said
that it had bteo awn, and bow mold he have worn it
tam Ise was taken into gusted, lb. Wipe nights Lad Ii
Iris found at the lodgings! H.
Carter's slop to buy a shirt. —Jenkins we. committed
at the nisi it,.. cases, and Morgan on Mao lass cam, to
the *moos for trial.