The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

DOICOUGH PETTY SEMIONS.

TVESDAT.—LIefore the Mayor, J. A. Deseuish, J.
Ayling, anJ W. Talbot, &Ira.
butxxxxivras.—Joirn Ipe, labourer, was clisr7e, d
with being &auk and exposing his person on Suuil.,y
evening whilst the people were leaving Triuity Church.
Prisoner at:witted having had too touch to drink, and
said he did not know what lie did. Fiuod Ws. and
costs, or six day:: inipriso 1111 l cut.

SUING FOR 'lVAGia.—Jtsonc-; dlittery, chapel-row.
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was sued by John Watd for the auto of I:3 18s. MI.,
being a balance due to him for wages. sir. John Tigard
mippeared fur the plaintiff, and 314. Ilett.mrd for the de.
fendant. The plaintiff said that the defendant was (lit
captain of the Kammer Liberty. Ile (plaintiff) shipeed
in the Liberty as nAte at I:3 10, per month, on the m
tli
or Bth February last. Ile did not sign •rtieles. They
went first fr Portland, and thence to Hartlepool.
The ship drifted her anchor on her hot voyage, and at
another time went ashore at the th of the Tees
and the vessel was taken to Hartlepool. He mate°
the captain for the last month's wager, lit on being told
lie could not have it, he asked fur I'2, and wax roused
anything.--Cross exantieed : He shipped to go time usual
round to north and back. Sometimes torn left in the
nottli, if anything trecured with the captain. The tat'
S rst voyages were settled on their completion. The
captain went ashore at Enith, soil left the ship in charge
of a watermaii, who, busever, left, and wittiest, went
ashore to see where they were to lay to ballast. Went
ashore at half-past 8 and retun ed at half-past 11, mid
huh. long pull to find the vemel. Went iiitai a public-
house with the defendant'. brother. Found the vessel
next morning at Barking Creek, and the captain had to
pay 1:4 for the liberation of the vessel. Witness would
have paid part of the £4. The captain diml not object to
his leaving the vemel in the north.—Mr. Howard, for
the defence, urged that plaintiff had neglected his duty
in leaving the vt.sel against the orders .4 the captain
and it was against the rules and regulations in the north
that • vessel should be left without being in charge of a
vrarterman.---The defend.int was called and lie said the
lint two voyages the defendant Asked fur no wages duo
ing the voyage—er.cept a few shillings, leaving the te-
',minder till he returned home. The vessel drifted
whilst it was defendant'a turn to he away from her. On
his return next morning, he found the eemei was gone,
and afterwards learned it had drafted up the river, and
on going to it in a boat, found it in charge of 'another
loan. Plaintiff returned between 3 and 4 in the aftei-
noon. The party who took charge of the vemel while
drifting asked loin 1:17 for taking charge of her. He
afterwards compromised the matter For £4, and told
plaintiff be should deduct die anoint from his wages.
Plaintiff went with him to the north, and then demanded
his money. He refused to pay him acuourt of his
having lel t the vessel to drift at Filth, and plaintiff then
left the vessel, which put him to great additional ers•
pense.---Case diamissed.

FRlDAY.—(Before the Mayor and Dr. Griffin.
DKUNKICSNEsoI.—Junies Paull and Wiliam Page.
two coastguard volunteers, were charged with being
drunk on the previous day. Paull waa eaceedingly
violent, and bit the policeman on the arm, but when
before the Bench he trembled like an aspen leaf.
and sued for mercy moat imploringly, declaring that it
wu the first time he had ever been in a scr•pe, and that
he would take warning for the future. They were lined
is. each.—Junics Slava, an itinerant razor grinder,
from Rosetnaay-Dne, London, wu charged with being
drunk and assaulting a female. On the charge being
resd to him by the Mayor, defetilatit said it W. not h
female lie assaulted—it was his wife, and it served her
Jolly well right, for he gave her cone money to buy
supper with and aim spent it in drink. Tim constable
who took defendant into cnatmly stated that he Man
avid fur to Mrs. Lionella's be, rhouse. ac it was said a
loan was killing a woman, lie and another officer went
and found defendant's wife on the fluor, and defendant
kneeling on her and pulling her hair, and there was
come blood about her, lie uparated them, and "dis-
persed" the defendant, but on he return • few minutes
afterwards he saw defendant b ating his wife again, sad
he then took him into custody Defendant said
wife, was "outlawed" drunk. Fined ss, and coats for
drunkenness, defendant's wife not appearing againsit

PORTLAND.—A BAD CHARACTIR.---7. Limo, of Port-
land, wioi on Monday, July IGth, taken by Sergeant !lite,.
before H. Goodilen and R. F. Eliot, Esqs., at Wey•
mouth, charged with inisaultins Ann Stephens, .4
Portland, on Sunday night, rietween 7 and $ o'clock,
at the end of the mosage bridge. He Imo, al., charged
with inemulting Sergeant Huck and I'. C. Fripp, while
iii the execution of their duty. It appeared that the
officers saw prisonet take hold of Mn,. Steuliesis aa she
was passing along, and throw her down, and thet
consequently took him into custody, wh, n lie was ver)
violent. lie had about half-an hour before nmantilte,i
another young woman, and broken the wiudows of the
public Mom. He was hued 12, u in default, ti week's
impriron went.
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CHARGE or FELoNT.—Charles Curter, of Portland,
was charged with staling a ecythe, the property ut
Itichanl Mud. Mr. Howard defend..l the iiriumer, and
Ow pron.:lain withdrew the charge on l.iauliera pay•
lug the coats.

BLANDFOILD. A ('1,11,1 Seriowdy Burn). —lt
appears that on Monday morning, the 16th
instant, two children belonging ti Mr. Dominey,
hair-dresser, living in Salisbury-street, the one
a girl of five years of age, and the other a
boy of two, were playing together in their
night-dresses in the bedroom, which tueir parents
had left a short time previously. A Weiler match
had been used in the night by the mother, and one
or two left upon a chest of drawers, within reach of
the youngest child lying on the bed; and it is supposed
that whilst the little girl was seated on the fluor occu•
pied in putting on a portion of her tiros the younger
child took one of the matches from the top of the
drawers and, playing with it, rubbed it up and down
its bedguwn, and thus caught the loosely hanging
garment on fire: The screams of the elder child
alarmed the mother in the apartment below who,
on hurrying up stairs, saw her frightened child
burning on the bed. All but frenzied by the sight
the poor woman instinctively seized hold of the
blanket and holster, wrapped them mewl her child,
• and fortunately succeeded 1111 extinguishing the dallit,
curling round its body, before they had conimuni-
cited with the furniture. Mr. Daniel, surgeon, was
immediately called in who, on exauiining the child,
found that one side of the hotly was fearfully burnt,
the skin hanging in a shriveled state off the body,
and though the child appeared to suffer little or no
I pain the shuck given and the physical injuries 11m.
tamed gave but little hope of recovery. Hail anis.
tance arrived but a few minutes later the event must
have proved inanediately fatal to the child, and
might have led to the burning down of flinch vallia.
ble property. From inquirioi made we find the
child still lies in a very precarious state, but entirely
free from pain. .

Svc antNsTEit NEWTON.—Samuel Oilloii,a vagrant
Well known in the neighbourhood of Nlaruhull and
Stalbridge, was taken before John Hussey, Esq.. at
Nash Court, on Friday, charged by P.C. Batty with
being on the premises of Mr. John Hopkins, at
Stalbridge, on the night of the 2nd instant, for an
unlautul purpose, and, in consequence of several
previous convictions, he was committed to the next
Midsummer Quarter &unions, there to be dealt with
as an incorrigible rogue.- —Julio hue!, a labourer
of iklanihull, was taken before John Homey, Eau, at
Nash Court, on Monday, charged by Mr. Jeremiah
Andreas with leaving his serene before the comple-
tion of his contract, and was committed to Dor-
chester gaol for 14 days' hard labour. .

f:ii.bi-soniam.—An- accident occurred at Pruins
Mill. on Tuesday last, by which a young woman had
her hand nearly severed from her arm. Her name
is Rachel Hourton, of Kilmington. Somerset, and
she was working at She machine, when her hand
became entangled with the cogs, which cut off the
forefinger of the right hand and the top of the
second, the cogs nearly meeting through the hand,
which was mutilated in a dreadful wanner. Mr.
Nlay,gs, who was on the spot at the time, immediately
rode off for Dr. Miles, of tiillingham, and it is
likely that amputation will have to be resorted to in
(=sequence of the severity of the injuries.