The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-01 00:00:00

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The Merck Review states that "pie. the issue et
the Ritual Commission repnrt, thirty pariah priests have
begun to wear the vestment.. This is owing to the
report's having convinced them of their legality.

BANE FAILUINA AND THAI VICTIMIL—Tbere is at
present residing in a small cottsge near the ontakirts of
Liverpool a widow lady and their two young daughter',
one an invalid. A few years since this family was in
affluent eirmenstanoss, and resided In one of the fashion-
able suburbs of Liverpool, and to-day, in order to gain
a livelihood, they take in washing and sewing. This is
another of the aid multi attending Me 13arned's Bask
failure.

PARLIAMENT MID TEI ABYSSINIAN EIPIDMOW.—
Ws have reason to believe that, unless by some happy
but improbable circumstance the oecessity of a war with
Abyssinia should cease, parliament will be ammabled to
vote supplies during the month a November. At the
instance of Sir Roderick Murchison the government
have, we understand, resolved to send oat geographer,
a geologist, and a naturalist with the Abyssinian ex.
pedition. The sort rnment in making their preparations
for this expedition have also derived valuable auistanoe
from the aeonmulated information of the Geographical
fiociety.—Pall Mall Ocuette.

The judges la the Supreme Court of Natal have given
judgment in the Nee of the Biehop of Natal v. the Rev.
J. H. Wills, the object of the suit being to prevent Mr.
Wills, who had been Jimmied by the metropolitan Bishop
of Capetown, from officiating without Bishop of Colonies
license. The Chief Justice contended that the court had
no jurisdiction, and that Bishop Coleus°, as long ash.
held the lettere patent, was to all intents and purposes
the Bishop of the Anglican Church in Natal Mr.
Justice Connor and Mr. Justice Phillips held that
Bishop Colons) had no authority is bishop over Mr.
Willa, and refused to bind the court by the principles
laid 4own by Lord Romilly.

In is universally known that in early spring the leaves
of all plants abound in rich juices, and tea gathered at
that period ia full four fold stronger than the withered
Autum gathering; consequently consumers prefer to
purchase tea that has been prepared from young
but the Chinese to increase their profit. and pet rid of
low wintry torts, do not scruple to disguise tea for
English consumption with powdered mineral colour.
Horaiman's Pare Green is never 'faced' with Prussian
blur, it is in colour the natural dark olive ; and with
their bleak, produces • most essonomical and delicious
combination; the public for the past quarter of a
century have provel this by extensively steins
Hornimen's Pare Mixed Tee. All their tees are sold
secure hi panels, sod retailed only through outboined
agents. As spumous imitations are offered, it is needf al
to Amine that each packet of this truly good and cheep
tee la signed, nommen and Co., London, original
importers of the Pure Tea.

I Fg•nrot. SCAMS AT NOTTIFOHAY STATION. —A I
frightful accident occurred at the Midland Station,
Nottingham, on Saturd.y evening. Shortly before eh
o'clock the station was very fall of people, as is ,
generally the owe on matket days. The market train !
for Condor Park and Alf reton was due for starting at
six o'clock, and • good many people were hurrying over I
the crossing to the platform on the other aide. This I
was about 10 minutes to six o'clock, and at that time the
engine for conveying the 5.55 train to Manchester came
slowly up from the engine-house to take its place. The I
"crossing man" warned several persons of its approach.'
and had caught one woman in his 'rms. A few seconds
after, however, • drunken man, accompanied by •
woman, MOT emu • little further down the line, and
in spite of the warnings of the "crossing man" and
bystanders would make the attempt to run scum the
rails in the front of the moving engine. The woman
was literally cut to pieces by the engine, pre-
senting a shocking spectacle. Her remains were con-
veyed to the Wellington Hotel to await an inquest.
The woman's nuns is Sarah Kendall, and she is the
wife of a labourer living at Ripley, Derbyshire. Her
husband, though intoxicated, saw the dancer she vu
In, and endeavoured to save her by pulling her shawl,
but she rushed excitedly on and left the shawl in her
husband's grain.
Guialtino —What Rath might have expected had
she been found guilty of gleaming in Shropshire in the
present day appears from the following report of • cue
which ennui before the Wellington magistrates at their
last monthly petty sessions i—Elizabeth Doilaway, a
married WOMAN ITAS charged by Mrs. ClaTiOn, a well-
to-do fanner, residing at Dawley, with stealing • quan-
tity of oats, her property. It appeared that after the
oata bad been cut and 'ticket Mrs. Donsway had gone
over the Said gleaning, or "liming," as it is called in
Shropalaire. and bad been caught in the very act with a
bundle of ears under her arm. The prisoner did not
deny the commission of the crime, but begged hard to
be let off, offering to pay the fall vales of the oats
gleaned and all expenses Mrs Clayton might have been
put to in the prosecution. The magistrates declined to
be parties to such • compromise with juin*, and SM.
feared Mrs. Donaway to fourteen days' imprisonment in
the county gaol. In the same court, on the unse day,
two little girls were charged with a similar offence by
the same pragmatic In this MIN however, the tears
of the children and their terrified appearance when
ordered to eland up before the bench, prevailed over
the stern principles jut enunciated, and on the inter-
position of Mrs. Clayton they were discharged on paying
the instil of the court, and solemnly promising to
eschew gleaning for the future.
01.1011 EATING IN Tug Banns COMITIES. —Opium
eating, it is said, goes on to an incredible extent in the
eastern counties. Dr. Hawkins, of King's Lynn, tens
the renders of the Medical Journal that half the opium
Imported Into England is consumed in Unooloshire and
Norfolk. One Lynn chemist sells 2n01b., another 140Ib.
• year of solid opium, besides Ire or six gallons of
laudanum, and five or six gallons of "Godfrey 's Elixir"
pint of laudanum in every three gallons) • week.
People will be startled to hear of drawers full of half-
drachm packets of opium, of which many elastomers take
three a day. A farmer unie in to get some good lau-
danum. "How many drops?" asked the chemist.
"Draper was the reply; "give me an ounce and •
half." The chemist looked at him, saw he was in the
habit of taking it, and gave him the due. He drank it
golf; returned twice in the day for the same quantity,
and took home • belt-pint bettlefoll with hiss when be
left the market. The habit is no new one. The
present writer can vouch for its existence in and round
Spalding, and even across in Leiesstonhire a &men years
ego. The excuoes would be °belong —deficient food with
the poor, ague and "rheumatic" waging an anodyne,
with others. But it is • growing habit, and Dr.
Hawkins speaks very strongly of Its pernicious effects In
poisoning the blood. To it be attribute* the exeessive
Infant mortality in the district, and the "miserable
feeble, brownish yellow eountenaness so striking among
many of the inhabitants." In fact, be thinks its effect
on the system almost as bad as those of syphilis, and
calls for some interference to discourage what is
heooming • canes of wide-spread degeneracy in the
breed.

liniment= UI MiUTAST TOWill—The magistrates
of the borough of Colchester have jut given their
dee:Lion in reference to the thirteen publie houses
charged by the clergy and dissenting ministers of the
town with affording facilities for prostitution by attach-
ing to them houses for the resort of "unfortunate."
and the lowest elan of the 'soldiery at the barracka In
the oath of six, where a change of tenancy had occurred,
the licensee were renewed conditionally. As to five
catch saidiere in," they were unconditionally refused;
which the Mayor characterised as "den, traps
other,,
and the consideration of the renewal of the homes of
the remaining two wee again adjourned. The mayor
enlarged on the fact that in Colchester there are 117
public-hosthe and 53 berrhouses for a population of
fisomi, being one drinking hones to every 145 of the
inhabitants, and to ever, 25 or 90 dwelling houses.
There were in the Colchester Camp Hospital not fewer
than 100 soldiers suffering from venereal diseases, many
of whom had traced their position to the particular
houses the bench had just dealt with. At the Colchester
Union Workhouse a similar state of thing. existed. He
was sure the Contagious Diseases Preveud= Act— which
worked well in one or two military towns after an
operation of two years—would be beneficial If applied
to Colchester and all similarly eirenineasneed ;
and he urged on the parochial authorities the Impiety
of exershang a more extensive vigilanee, espemagy as
to the low beerhoeseu whisk were as greet a ntneasee,
and unfortunately flld not directly 'sine under nicer
weid regulation.

Tug Elinor or Wiseman' ON 111° OWES ii
TI! Cnuacn.—The Bishop of Winchester has been
paying an episcopal visit to the Channel Island., which
are in his dimes.. After dwelling with satisfaction
upon the increase of churches, be went on to speak of
the present critical times. On the one band there was
O widespread and increasing diffusion of aurora,
neologian, latitodinarian, and infidel, throughout all
Cho i.tendom, propagated in many ports industrionaly by
w. ri ri mouth, and elsewhere, if not orally, in work.
railed to the capacities of all classes, and circulated
largely. On the other hand, there was C dote. mood
antagonism to the notional church making steeithy but
ferinideble progress by various plausible claims for
privileges and immunities under the specious name of
tcloration. Among theme espcciely there was an in-
creasing tendency to test all institutions by their results;
and having alleged unfruithilneea against the church,
her foes, in their own opinion, had proved its ageless-
nos. On that ground it was especially desirable that
the clergy at this time should be both earnest and
learned :—" This is no time for folding the arms in
slumber, or for acquiescing in any low, cold standard of
inoffensiveness, satisfying it may be the requirements of
the law, but not of onnscienoe. The very schoolmaster
will shame the e'ergyman if he do not keep ahead of
him in knowledge and intelligence and spitude to teach."
Referring to ritualism, the bishop said that while there
ought to be no mutilation of the services, no want of
reverence on the part of ministera or people, no scant
observant.e of times and seasons, which are faults of
great magnitude—there ought, on the other hand, to be
no approach to that form of worship which speaks to the
eye rather than to the heart, "or, worse still, which
symbolises doctrines repudiated by our 'church at the
Reformation, carefully excluded from her liturgy, but
surreptitionsly reintroduced by what is called the
educational power of ritual." He should express no
opinion as to the report of the royal commissionm, se
it would not be fair to do so till their final report • but
meanwhile he feared that the ultraisms and sitnva-
winces of • comparatively few were bringing diavelit
on the whole body. "Like the safferers under some
contagious disease, they bring the suspicion of taint on
all their compatrions, and subject the whole ship's
oompany to quarantine. The whole church is brought
into disrepute, its prestige lessened, its authority
shaken. Essentials and non-essentials become con-
founded, andcalna and thoughtful men themselves
find it diffioult to know where to take their
mond, where to draw the line, where to insist, and
where to yield." The bishop conaluded by calling upon
the clergy to "preach the Impel wording to the
examples of the gospel; so may we be built up together
In the same faith, partakers of theaters'. sacrament..
strengthened by the same hope, governed by the same
discipline, and firmly united in the same bond and
clarity."
A Coltman IS HIS CollltT.—Tbe following paragraph
taken from the Lincoln, Skistford, and Raliteled
Mercury, affords a sad illustration of the condition of
our labouring poor. As to coroners, we do not know
whether they are above the law, but surely there mast
be some way of dealing with • person Ike Mr. Boldest*.
We shall be curious to see what steps are taken by the
local magistracy :—At Yaddlethrope, near Brigg on the
6th instant, the steam thrashing machine belonging to
Messrs. Footer and Lockwood, of Messingham. was work•
ing on the (atm of Mr. John Barley. A girl named
Elms. Steak aged 16, the daughter of John Stocks,
labourer, of Yeddlethrope, had been cutting bands upon
the stage, and when they bad jest finished • smart
shower of rain drove the men to take shelter, and SOON
loose straw was thrown over the drum hole and the
steam partly shut off. The girl had forgotten her knife,
and on returning for it it appears that she put her fool
upon the draw, which immediately gave way, and bee
foot was caught by ,the drum, which dragged in her leg
smashing it to atoms, and the machine wan not stopped
until it rushed her thigh; then It brought the works to
a stand. Assistance was on the spot in a moment, bet
it was more then ten minutes before the poor suffering
creature was extricated. Every attention was chow' to
her by the neighbours, and memengers posted off fee
medical assistance, and on the arrival of Dr. Tenors*
of Messingham ; Mr. George, of Kirtoa ; and Dr. Yost*,
of Brigs; the limb was amputated. Medical aid was,
however, unavailing, and the poor sufferer died at three
o'clock on the following morning. Noties of the event
was given to Mr. Holdgate by Police-constable Bow.
bottom, of Ashby, and the coroner gave orders that the
inquest should be held on Monday at two o'clock. Or.
the Saturday afternoon, however, it was found that the
tome would not keep. ono the constable was seat with
an urgent request for the coroner to bold the inquest as
early as possible • but Mr. Holdgate still ref seed to hold
It till twelve o'clock. The house in which the parents
live Isa mere hovel, and their only dwelling room is not
more than ten feet by twelve. The family consists of
nine pereona, who have to live in this room, where all
their cooking, getting their meals, and other household
tear sections have to be done, and in this room, not more
than five or six feet from the fire-plass, the corpse was
obliged to remain. The body biome so offensive os
Sunday morning that it was absolutely necessary to I
remove it ; and on the return of the six young wooers I
from bearing a daughter of Mr. Lintsy to the grave st
Messingham church, they proceeded to take the body
to Bottesfield church, when part of the funeral NMI"
woe read by the Rev. F. Moon, and the body then left
for the inquest on the following morning. The inquiry
was held at 12 o'clock, at the house of Mr. John Haaloy,
at Yaddlethorpe. The jury being sworn they pro-
ceeded to Bott_sford church to view the body, rehiring
axain to Mr. Barley's to give their verdict. The jury
consisted of Mr. Peacock, P.S. A., of Botteilord Manor
(foreman) ; Mr. Godfrey Twidale and Mr. Jollands, of
Bottedord ; Mi. Charles Middleton, Mr. Straw. and Mr.
Maw, of Yaddlethrope; Mr. T. Wakefield, Mr. Beall,
Mr. H. Lockwood, Mr. Taaylor, Mr. R. Hyde, and Mr.
J. D. Powley, of Messingham. The coroner, on being
remonstrated with in • perfectly becoming manner by
the foreman, as to the cruelty, Ac., to the poor parents
that hi. delay had occasioned. used most offemimi terms,
calling him • "natural fool," and emits other improper
language. The verdict of the jury was that /Ilia
Stocks, aged 16, died from so occident caused by esteem
thrashing machine; that no blame whatever attaches to
any one; that the jury ari or opinion, and recommend
that women should sot be permitted to work on the
stage of the machines ; that they consider that the
coroner acted in a most unfeeling manner in not holding
an inquest at an earlier time: that they consider the
coroner has conducted himself in • most improper
manner in aging abusive language to the foreman of the
said jury."
DISoOViIIT OP A SCIALIZTOW.— An inquest was held
on Friday, in Amhureteroad, Hackney, at white
evidence of a very singular character was given. It
appears that a Mr. and Mrs. Batley, who had for some
time pad resided in Loddiges-road, restored from that
house to one In Grove-villas, South Hackney. The
stepmother of Mrs. Butley's servant had been called in
to assist in the removal, and on Thursday sondes last
week she chanced to be looking up some things in the
cellar. She found there a hamper, which she pulled
from the place in which it had been lying. There was •
string tied round it, and Mrs. Bransome, the servaat's
atepmother, cut this string, and found the skeleton
of a child lying at the bottom of the hamper. It was
wrapped in white flannel, and tied round the nook, the
body, and the legs. The gash had been almost all
eaten from the bones. Mrs. Bransome called Mrs.
Batley down, and told her what had been found. Mrs.
Batley said, "For God's sake put it away until Mr.
Bader gee. oat." It was then between oven and eight
o'clock. After Mr. Batley was gone oat, Mrs. Bransome.
Mrs. Bulky, and the servant returned to the hamper,
Mrs. Bransoine suggested that the skeleton should be
thrown in the dust bin, but Mrs. Butler would not con-
sent to that owing to its being fpll. Mrs. Batley then
suggested that the skeleton should be burned- bat Mrs.
Bransome said that would never do. the smell would be
so dreadfaL Then it was decided, on the suggestion of
Mrs. Batley, that it should he taken to the new house,
which was her owe, and that they should bury it in the
garden there. Mrs. Branson)e consented to be silent
about the affair, bat her stepdaughter told a woman who
resided next door. It was only when the police had been
infect:mad that Mrs Batley told her husband of the dis-
covery. In giving evidence before the coroner, Mrs.
BV
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said she did not know to whom the ebild had bo-
los , nor had she seen it before the hamper wfoand
by re. Srmsoms. Some time ago her mother, Mrs.
Clarke, came to reside with me; before that she had
lived in the same house with a Mr. Webster, a con.
tractor, to whom she was engaged to be married, bat
the match was broken off. Mr. Webster lived with Mrs.
Clarke for three years, and wee in the habit of drinking;
and, as he emotion.' behaved in an improper manner,
witness persuaded her to leave the house. She
brought with her three van loads of furniture. Mrs.
Clarke died in a fortnight after she went to her
daiighter's house. Kra Batley denied having sag-
gested that the skeleton should be burned; that sug-
ration came from Mrs. Bransotne. She did not tail
her husband because he was 111, and she thought of
burying the skeleton in the garden of their new
house become she was afraid of the trouble and
annoyance which a talk about the affair would cause.
A police surgeon was milled, and he deposed to having
examined the skeleton. He thought it must have been
about six months old at death. It was not possible to
say what had been the cause of death. The flesh had
been eaten off the bones. A previous witness had
stated that for some time a live hen was kept in the
cellar, • dark place under the stairs ; and the coroner,
having learned Irmo the surgeon that the ben, if badly
fed, would feed upon the child's flab, suggested that
the hen had been placed in the cellar for that purpose.
The coroner made some remarks upon the evidence, and
upon the singular story which had been laid before the
jury, and then adjourned the inquiry for a week, but at
the resumed inquest very little fresh evidence was
elicited. Mr. Webster, who had cohabited with Mn.
Clarke, the mother of Mrs. Batley, gave evidence, end
swore that whilst living with him Mrs. Clarke had had
no child. The coroner at the request of the jury,
again adjortreed the inquiry, thinking that some further
and ',anointing evidence could be got at if time were
allowed.