The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

lab) anb Crane.

A FLOIN• IN TUN MeNcUlteTia Agana COMM.
kleleld• Macdonald. 19, was tried on Wednesday after-
noon for attempting to shoot Daniel Connel, a pollee-
num, with intent to commit murder, on the 4th Nov.
A letter woe produced on th• trial, in which ehe told
Griffiths, • witness against Allen, that be would be shot
like • dog. The pistol, it was stated, did not go off,
because the ceps were inferior and did not flt the
nipple. A verdict of guilty wee returned, with • strong
recommendation to mercy. The prisoner said the
pistol was not in • stet* to go off. BLe did it only to
frighten the policeman. Mr. Justice Shee sentenced
her In five years' penal servitude. The prisoner
exclaimed, "Lot me be banged as the rest are I" and
rushed from the dock, shouting excitedly. " Allen!
Allen! Allen r in tonss that reverberated through the
crowded court. The exclitemsnt a through the court
Wes intense.

RITIAOIDINART TIINATIMIT OF A Boy.—At the
Winchester naiads, on Tuesday, two ploughmen named
Limburn and Sunday were charged wilt causing bodily
horns to • boy 12 years of age, named Whit*. While
ploughing in a field in September last, the prisoners
took hold ,f the boy and put him in the farrow and
"ploughed him in," covering him with the earth. He
remained there while they made • turn. The prisoners
then tome hub sod drove the horses opposite to where
the boy was, and turned them round, and in doing so
one of the horses repped upon the boy'. thigh and
broke it. Buntay then pulled him out of the furrow,
and Limbun pot him into a cart as.) took him home.
He was attended by two surgeons, and was laid up for
12 weeks, and his leg war still week. It wan urged
that the boy was put in the furrow for • joke, got
sulky, refused to get up Again, and surtsined the injury
by not getting out of the way. Prisoners receive I •
'OO4 charseter trim their employer. A verdict of not
guilty was returned.

- SINGULAR BLEACH 01 PIONITIN CAM- no cannel
lingers v. Clegg wan hoard at the Manchester amiss, on
Tuesday. The plaint.ff is the Ilfth daughter of • small
farmer near Loughborough, and a dressmaker, but
occasionally workitig in • mill. The defendant is •
lettn-r-press printer, formerly in paternahip with his
father in Rochdale. The learned conned said the
plaintiff was evidently • person of considerable attrae
Mona Weave the defendant seemed to he ah,ee her in
station, but not no much as to jeopardise their happiness
had they married. He appeared really to have taken
a deep interest in her, and began • kind of education of
her very early, affsetionately mixing the patron with t •
lover. The scquaintanoe began in 1862. One Stinky
in May in that year the defendant woe out walkirg
the neighbourhood of Loughborough edit some friends,
when • storm of rain came on, and be and his friends
called at her father'. hours for s ielter. They were
hospitably invited, though strangers, to tea. The
plaintiff was present, and evidently attracted the atten-
tion of the defendant. They met • few times after-
wards, and in November he began to correspond with
her. They were then under age. At the end of 1865,
or beginning of 1866, the plaintiff, through the long
anxiety she had been kept in, and through hope
deferred, fell stok-1. laugh), and bad at last to be taken
away for change of sir. When she name bark the
defendant begsn • kind of correspondence which wan
not at all in aoconlatioe with the caner part of it. It
resulted in his finally desiring her to send in aunt of bill
of costa of her affnetions, admitting that she bad been
Injured, and that be ought to pay for it. He afterwards
warned another woman. The first lett. 1' was dated
"Trafford-street freehold," November 24th, 1862. It
fell into btu mother's hands, and she retained it for some
little Uuse. In another tatter the Catmint.; &eland
himself her daughter's accepted lour. The first letter
was an follows :--" Mademoiselle-It was • saying of
the celebrated Freeehman, Jean Jacques Rousseau,
whose name you very likely cannot pronounce, that to
write • good love-letter you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say, and 6niah without
knowing what you bare written-(laughter). Now,
with all due deferent* to Rousseau's talents in other
respects, I must any I do not believe this saying to be
true, and I shall endeavour to write in opposition to it.
I mean to think about what I write to you, Mary. that
may guard against poisoning your mind with flattery,
Sr saying anything that may offend you. I wish you to
understand that what I say I mean ; that I neither write
for writing's sake nor to please my own fancy. I have,
I hope, • higher aim, and • more honest sod a more
noble intention. I need not blush to own that my only
object into whisper in your ear • pure and tender tale
of love-(laughter). I entreat you to consider It as •
symbol of the honeetneu and truthfulness of the writer,
as a proof of his affection for you, and ag • bond which
shall unite um for ever. Know then that from the
moment I first beheld you I hive felt a lively interest
in your welfare, and your image has frequently pre-
sented itself to my mind. This will amount for what
pseud between us on Sunday evening. 'I have loved
you for your bawdy, but not (I bops) for that alone'-
(laughter). 'Beauty is but skin deep,' although it is
very agreeable, as every one knows-(lauhter). It is
possible that 1 can know what other qualities yos
posases, but I should wish you to have a good knowledge
of household matters. You may depend upon it that
there is • good deal of domestic happiness in • well'
dressed mutton chop-laughter), Or a tidy beefsteak
for breakfast -(laughter). The woman who ean nook
contributes 11101.0 to the happiness of *a iety than twenty
who cannot cook-(great laughter). Further on, in the
same letter, he said, 'I never expected to find you
perfect, but as you are yet young and have much time
to learn. for my sake endeavour to approesh as near
perfection as possible. Bromine me intelligence,
Industry, and cheerfulness in the future, and I shall not
hesitate to make yob my wife." Writing in Dec. 1862,
be said, "This very night I was made unexpectedly a
muter printer, and henceforth I shall have an case and
busmen@ of my own. I suppose the next thing will be
our marriage." In • letter of January, 1863, he called
her "the girl of his soul," and used other very proper
expreesions-(langhter). In one, dated June. 24, he
said, How I long to clasp you in my arms." In
July, 1866, he wrote • letter, beginning "My dear
Madame," intimating that their lives would be miser-
able if they were united:and in July, 1867, be addressed
her as Min Mary Roger.," saying be had beau
astonished to receive a letter from her attorney, and in
which he inquired what injury she had sustained-Mrs.
Mary Bocern, mother of the plaintiff, gave evidence
proving the commencement of the courtship. End pot
In • letter from the defendant to herself, telling her uf
It, and saying that the intimacy, with or without btu
consent, would lead to their marriage. He signed
himself her future son-in-law. Mr. Jacinth Rogers, the
father, also gave

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and promise of marriage. No v._ _ were called for
the defenoe, end, 'Nu • speech from Yr. Higgin and
the summing up of the judge, the Jury, after only •
few minutes oonaideration, gimes veggkt for plaintiff,
damages rum.

PILFBRINCiB PION THIII COMIC PAPERS.
Press " Plata."

CAUTION TO SWIM —" Harriet: "I say, Charley,
I've been steeling solar of your scent ; but it isn't very
aloe—something odd about it —smell I" Charley: " Not
wiped your lips with it, I hope? It's the new stuff for
my moustaches —brings 'era out an inch every night r
FOOD YOB THI Imaolawrioa.—Fancy breed.
A Hogs. (Mazisz).—The Walrus.
Hadmiltin waistcoats are undoubtedly warm, but for
the sold weather we prefer the (h)otter-.kin.
THB FACULTY OF A DVOCATNIL —Breech.
THI NUT THING ouv.—Au aching-tooth.
A DoUBTTVL RECOMMENDATION. —Tobacco direct
from the Docks.

ANOTHER Darn/mow Or MARRIAGE. —Old Crnaging-
ton, on being told that the LoseW., boson to quarrel
before the honeymoon was over, remarked that their
behaviour only strengthened him in bin opinion that
matrimony was like an Englbh summer—" Three an.
dajs and • thunder-storm.'
RaTInG 0011 CH•RITABLI INSI7TOTIONIL —One ChM
of charitable institutions is already the subject of very
heavy rating—sad that ii our Union•hafirmarata

Prost "Pow."

POT THAT 111 TOUR PIPE! —Yes, gentle reader, put
that in your cope and awoke it. "Pitt what r yea
ask! Why, the tobsooo of Messrs. Will., of Bristol,
who have intimated to their workpoople that, whenever
the price of the quarto:a loaf is above W., they will
advaaos the wages of the men It • week, and of women
Bi. • week. Boeli benevolence deserver a record, and
every smoker eon amid to smoke it.

THE CMITIPTID TRAMP.
Don't tell me of grand dinners, which
Make folks with envy fret;
While hers I lie beside the ditch

I'm getting my bank-wet.
Don't talk to me of splendid wins,
That seta folks longing so—
Hem on this deal•phink conch of mins
I'm getting my Board-oh I
Don't name cigars of rarest brand,
That Britain' seldom see -
For ovory hedgeeid• in the land
Ends lots of weeds for me.
I lin so well wiserVer I go
In Unions any day -
Prince lletteralek bluish, you know,
Migla am my Tok•410