The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

Nampobirt.

SOUTHAMPTON. CILLOOF OF ISDICZNT
ASSAULT AGAINST • CLISOTMAN.—On Friday, the
Rev. David Edwards, a clergyman of the
Church, residing at Sholing, near Southampton, was
brought before the oouaty magistrates, charged with
an indecent mean on the pence of Mir Jamie
Bingham, a child of ten years of age, daughter of
Captain Bingham, formerly a commander in the
P. O. Steam Navigation Company. The °Banos was
committed on Sunday, the 13th of July. The cam
waa fully proved, and the prisoner committed to
take his trial at the neat Hampshire ameiona There
are throe other charges against the delinquent of a
similar nature. The prisoner appears to be about 35
years of age, or older.

If you desire the common people to treat you ea a
gentleman you must conduce yourself as a gentleman
should do to them.
On Thursday two convicts ware hanged together at
twelve redo*, in front of Maidstone gaol. Both had
been ID the WWI, and both committed murder for •
moat trivial mad almost ridiculous reason. Hoiden out
the throat of his own child because he fancied that a
sergeant in his regiment had caused hien to be discharged
from the office of mess cook; Eldridge slew his victim,
• letter-carrier named Steed, beaten the 11001 men to
whom be owed some fnon.y, refused to take a Fiction
of the sum in full discharge. There was MOOG ODPOCiD-
tioa that Holden would be reprieved, on the ground of
insanity, but it would appear that the evidence did not
justify this interference. There was a oceneoures of
about 6,000 persona, end both men died without •
struggle.
Mr. Sydney Turner, her Majesty's inspector, reports
that the number of young offeodere in the sixty-five re-
formatory echoed/ of Great Britain was 4,535 at the and
of 1852. 3,582 were boys, and 954 girls; 3,533 Pro-
testantik and 1,003 Roman Catholiss The avenge cost
per head in Ragland for maintenance, management, and
industrial training (not including building expenses or
rent), was £l9 19a. 3d. for boys, and £lB 16e. sd. for
girls. The total expenditarce of the reformatories ex-
ceeded the Treasury allowance of Ss. • week, or L'ls 12s.
a-year, by upwards of £26,000- ate-third of this was
contributed from the rites, and C 12,000 from voluntary
subeniptiona The parents' payments amounted to
£2,564; magistrates, from a mistaken fear of compaasion
for the parents, or • fear of ultimately bringing them on
the perish rates, excuse many who certainly ought to
pay. With respect to industrial mboola certified under
the Act of 1861, the inspector has little to report. There
were in them at the close of 1862, 641 boys and 308
girls. Of the children admitted in the course of ths
year, 194 had lost father or mother, 29 both, 57 were
deserted, and the parents of 25 others were in pot.
At the ' • Court, Birmingham, OD Tuesday,
Mn. Sarah Gilbert, • widow, brought an arnica to re-
cover damages for the low 'of the senior of her
daughter, Zella Gilbert, occasioned in consequence of
the seduction of the latter by the defendant, Charles
Bennett, chief clerk in a house of busbies in St. Paul's'
square, and residing at the Losells. The defendant did
not appear, nor waa he represented by any a
The damages were laid at The praQn
intiS
daughter was employed in the warehouse of the same
establishment as the defendant. They became ao-
quainted,and he was accepted as a lover. In October last
he took her to a concert-ball; at the conclusion of the
p_erformanoes they started for their respective homes.
When they were about to separate, Bennett said to Miss
Gilbert. "You olive not go alone' I'll accompany you."
Plaintiff consented to the proposal, be walked with her
a few yards in the direction of Moor-street, when, as
that was not the way to Miss Gilbert', house, she asked
him where they were going to. He replied that he
wanted to call upon • friend on his road home. Believing
he was telling the truth, she walked with him until
they cams to • house in Freeman-street, where defen-
dant said his friend resided. They were shown into a
sitting-room, and every thingseemed respectable. After
talking together for a short time defendant made im-
proper advances, which Miss Gilbert resented, and,
becoming alarmed, made an attempt to leave the house.
The defendant, however, prevented her, and effected her
ruin. Mies Gilbert subsequently discovered that the
house &he had been taken to was • brotbeL Some time
afterwards, discovering that she waa pregnant, she spoke
upon the subject to the defendant, but he treated her
coolly, and said he "Never had any intentions of marry-
ing her, as he was engaged to be married to his cousin."
He, however, promi-ed to pay all the expenses of her
acconchement, but had never does so. He now res.
fused to make any compensation, and said, for the first
time, that he was not the fattier of the child. The
under-sheriff Laid the only question to decide was the
amount of damages the mother of Miss Gilbert should
receive for the lose of ber daughter's services. The jury,
after a brief consultation, gave a verdict for the plain-
tiff, damages £lOO.
Roman MULACLL —The following is from a letter,
dated Route, the 12th inst. —"An: extraordinary in-
cident, and one which very rarely occurs, has just
taken place here. A number of Romero are in great
delight, for they have bled the Pontifical treasury
rather extensively by means of • lottery, and the occa-
sion was furnished by the Madonna of I. Augustine.
This requires some explanations which I will try to
render intelligible. In all Roman households is to be
found what is called a lottery book. This work con-
tains an infinite number of learned sornbinations which
are the result of forty-four years of assiduous labour; it
indicates the favourable lumbers for each month of the
year; gives an explanation of tbe cabalistic pentagonal
or pyramidal figure.; shows the influence of the phases
of the moon upon the drawing of the numbers, and,
lastly, gives a complete vocabulary of the voids in
general use, with one of the 90 numbers of the lottery
placed against each. There is not a Roman who does
not know the work by heed. The robbery of the Ma-
donna was hardly known in Rome when the infallible
lottery was consulted. In it were found, Madonna, 60;
thieves, 68; jewels, 52. A tame and amble were
largely playednoon those embers, and they all three
turned up in the lottery of Saturday lag. A number of
Romeo' consequently gained. That was sufficient to
render the Saint-Augustine Madonna more popular than
ever. The Government dist:nand this week, in paying
the winning lots, the sum of 55,000 crowns, or about
300,0001. This is the largest sum that has been paid
for a long time on a single drawing. The calculation
has been made that the sum so paid will nearly absorb
the profita.of.the lottery for a year."
. . . . . .

Ar dreadful steamboat- catristr-Ophe has occurred in
America. The steamer Ruth, Captain Pegrain, bound
for Helena, left Cairo on the Mississippi, on the
evening of the 4th instant, having on board 100 head
of fat cattle, for the use of the Federal army, 122
mules, and 2,600,000 dole for the payment of General
Grant's forces. About an hour after the vessel started
a fire was discovered near the stern, and In a short time
the flames had got the complete mastery. The
captain ordered the head of the vessel to be turned
towards the shore, and she ran aground with consider-
able tom, some 30 feet of the stern being broken off by
the shook. A rush was made for the shore by all
except five soldiers left in charge of the money chests.
Before all could leap off, the beat recoiled from shore,
one wheel still foing,and shot out in the stream. Five
of the ninth Wisconsin and several passengers, all the
cattle, mules, money, freight, coloured chambermaid,
one of the clerks, the son of Mr. , pay-
master, Greenwalt, of Harrisburg, WabY three pay-
masters' clerks (names unknown), were knoWn to bs
aboard. The names cracked and q read ; cattle and
mules broke loose and jumped overboard, or snorted
frantically about, rendered insane by flames and heat.
Some passengen jumped overboard and swam ashore, one
, with his trunk,ruid others, nearly naked, swam out into
the stream, seeming almost insane, and were carried
under and lost. Soon the wreck sank, and her
seething fires were quenched in deep waters.
Altogether there are about thirty lives lost. Four
hundred tone commissary and sutlers' stores, and about
one hundred tons private freight, were engulfed.
There were about 200 persona on baud in all. The
boat, valued at 100,000 dole, is insured for 50,000 dolt.
The soldiers are said to have acted heroically,
and to have stood by the boxes containing the
money until it was certain all was consumed.
The bores were iron-bound, and too heavy tube removed,
besides, the llama spread all over the boat in less
than five minutes. There Is no satisfactory theory as
to bow the fire originated; it is believed, however, to
have been fired by an incendiary in the interests of the
Confederate Government. An effort was made to fire
the naval depot at Cairo on the previous night.
It ia stated from Frankfort that Earl Granville and
Count Rechberg hold frequent conferences together.
The Pope has been trying to throw a little cold water
on the heat of the distemper of A:narks by sending
letters to the Catholic Archbishops of New York and
New Orleans. His Holiness counsels both parties to
mutual charity and forbearance.
The electric telegraph announced last week that a
copy of an order issued by Federal Rear-Admiral Porter,
providing for the escort of trading ships down the Kis-
siaappi, was sent to the London evening papers by Mr.
Layard, Under-Seoretary for Foreign Affairs. Our con-
temporaries, however, do not seam to have received the
document in time for publication.
A n assistant surgeon writlng from Gettysburg, says :
" Will you allow me, as one alleviation of the harem of
the battlefield, to tall your attention to the use of coal
oil in suppurating wounds? As volunteer aasidant, I re-
oeived permission from the surgeons of the fifth division
of the fifth corps, Gettysburg, to use it in the most
offensive cases. By it. manifest utility and the solici-
tations of the wounded, I was induced to enlarge its
use, until I became satisfied that what cold water is to
a wound in its inflamed state, coal oil. is to it in its our
state, dispellingpro==ernulszet
cuing the wound. and gran
It can be used by an easistant of ordinary judgment
with puled misty, and to the pest comfort of the
patient. flare seen two patients whose wounds had
been dreamed with it salon, before I was through with
the third."—Yissorri Democrat.

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Netta to have been proved whist her. She was taken
bemuse she was • marked vemeL A. the matter is now
being referred to Washingtou. the ultimate
will be watched with pest intoned by the
world, from the important)e of their bearing on Inter-
national law.

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