The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

BOROUGH 818siozie, Monday.—Befote the Mayor
(J. P. Aldridge, Esq.), and M. Devenish,
NSIOHBOUIt'S QUARRICUL —Fanny, wife of Beau
Lueas, of Fordington, was charged by Mary Amey, of
the IMMO place, for assaulting ber.—Complainant said
that she resided • short distance from defendant. On
the 28th of December she wanted to go to Mrs. Clarke's
house, but in order to do so she had to pass de-
fendant's residence. When she got by her window
defendant ran out of her hose, and swore that she
should not pass. Complainant insisted on passing,
when defendant gave her • severe slap in the faoe ; and
afterward. picked up an old bag full of dust with the
intention of throwing at her if she psssed the house.
Complainant did not return the blow, but told her she
should take her where she had been before.—A witness,
named Mary Ann Burt, who was called on behalf of the
oornp'ainant, said she did not see the blo* strttok, but
added that the parties were equally as bad as one
another with respect to the bad language made use of.
--Defendant dented striking complainant, but admitted
that she pushed her, and asked the Bench if it was not
enough to make any one do so when she was "twitt,d''
about poisoning her husband and children, as com-
plainant had "twitted" her with.—Mrs. Amoy maid that
Mrs. Lucas had "twitted" her about her husband being
transport&d, and her daughter being in prison, and she
retaliated by saying that she (defondant) ought to be
hung for treating her children as she did.—A woman in
court, on being appealed to by defendant, said the
language made use of was equally bad on both sides.—
Defendant who is a well.knewn character at the court,
was bound over to keep the peace for &is months in two
sureties of £lO each.

--000-lIT -P-614-T--§l4BloNfil, Siltarday. Before H.
Williams and G. T. Bullock, Esqrs. _ .

STEALING WEARING APPAREL Thomas Droyton
was brought up in custody, charged with stealing
wearing apparel at Portland.—Elisabeth Merton, •
servant in the employ of Mr. &exiledlon, landlord of
the Greyhound. said the prisoner slept in her master's
honee on the night of the 20th of October. -In the
room in which he slept she bad a black silk jacket, and
• black show! in a box, which was looked. When she
went to her box on the 25th she missed the articles
mentioned. Those now produced were her property,
and were worth 308.-1411 en Curran, the wife of a soldier,
who lodged at the Greyhound, proved that she put the
jocket and shawl in the box, which she locked, and put
the key of it in a chest of drawers in the room where
prisoner slept. —William Norris said that on the
21st of October he was coming from Portland to
Weymouth in a wagon, when be overtook prisoner
dressed in a sailor's garb, with a small brindle under his
arm. He asked witness to give him • ride so far as
Weymouth, which be did. He asked him if he would
buy a shawl, and showed him the shawl and jacket pro-
duced. He said he bought them at Malta for his niece,
but was now compelled to get rid of them. He said he
gave £1 for them, but offered to sell them for 155., as
they were slightly damaged with salt water. Witness
only had 7s. 6d. with him, and prisoner said he should
have the things for that sum. Ile afterwards gave up
the articles to Sergeant Pitfield.—Sergeant Pitfield said,
that on the 25th October he received information that •
jacket and shawl had been stolen, the property of prose-
cutrix. He afterwards traced them into the possession
of last witness, and the articles had been in his posses-
sion ever since—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sen-
tenced to four months' liar labour. He had only been
released from gaol dtiritig the week, *here he had been
nMergoing a terns of itnprisonntent for stealing • watch.
CoaluirfltD to rag DONUT COUNTY GAOL.-.
Hard Labour :—Willism Blake and George Biles, drunk,
/to., at Sturminster Morahan, 7 days; Edwin Scutt,
poaching at Oranborne, 6 weeks; Daniel Gibson,
vagrancy at Shaftesbury, 14 days; Elias Long, moat&
at Woodlands, 2 months; Simeon Hayman, stealing •
pair of trowsers at Wimborne Minster, 2 months ;
Charles White, stealing • piece of wood at Buckland
Newton, 7days ; Thomas Drayton, stealing a shawl, lea,
at Portland, 4 months j William Coil stealing hay at
PtinclinelHe. I itiOnth.
WEYMOUTH.—ML SPonozoN.—At a tea rodeitng
held in the Baptist School-room on Wednesday, the
Rev. I. Birt informed the meeting that this celebrated
minister would preach at the Baptist Chapel in June
next.

COURT OF DIVORCE, LONDON, January 27.—(Before
, Sir J. P. Wilde.)—Sanger v. Singer and Nugent.—ln this
I ease the husband, Captain Singer, petitioned for a
dissolution of marriage, on the ground of his wife's
adultery with the co•respondent—Dr. Deane, Q.C.,
and Mn Bunting appeared for the petitioner, but no
, appearance was entered either by,thtl reSpondent or ore
resp,ondegi The marrigge took olden On the 16th
ApHl, and the parties ciihabited together in a
variety of places, there being three children lune of the
marriage. On the Bth of January, 1863, the respondent
passed the night at the George Inn Fronie, with
the co-respondent, a major in the Royal Engineers
quartered at Weymouth. Subsequently adultery was
oommitted on more than one occasion at other places.
The case was adjourned for further evidence.
BRIDPORT.—Txamrio Eximosiotc.— On Wednes-
day, the 94th inst., &gunpowder explosion took place on
the premises of Mr. Dunham; irontildnger, We4-street,
from the effects of which ooliaidereble damage
The has been
done, although, fortunately; no lives are lot e ex-
plosion was heiird all Crer the town. and i e greatest
isinsternetien and alarm prevailed. The diteuhistanfies
under Which the accident occurred appears to be there:
—An assistant, named Peach, went to the safe in the
counting-house, where the powder was kept, and
fetched therefrom a package containing about two
pounds, which he carried to • counter some eight or
nine yards from the front of the shop. About • yard
from him, and above him, was • jet of gas burning,
and, at • short distance, was Mr. Dunham's son at •
desk, writing, Peach says that he had just cut the
string of the package of powder, intending to weigh and
tie tip slime small pardels, *hen an explogiOn took
place, which oompletelv demolished the shop, and the
windows in the vicinity were literally blown to
atoms, Immediately after the explosion Pesch ran
out of the shop, with his face scorched and his hair
in a blase. Henry Dunham was thrown violently
to the ground. His face was bleeding, and his
hair burning. The shop front of Mr. Longhorn, ,
draper; Which tionsisied of Plate ghisti, Was blown
to fragmenti, and hurled a distance of about 400
yards. The drapery goods were removed from the ,
shelves, and a man was literally blown from one aide of
the shop to the other, but marvellous to state he was
uninjured. The windows of the Council Chamber ass
ale* Very, mech. injured. At the Market House Inn,
which adjoins Mr. Dunhait's shop; the walls and beams
were rent asunder by the concussion, and there is
scarcely a whole pane of glass left on the premises.
At the time of the occurrence, there appears by Mr.
Dunham's stock book to have been about Sibs. of
powder on his premises, which was kept in a Milner's
safe in the counting-house. The safe stood five or
six yards from where the explosion originated, and
alongside it were two cans of pariffin oil, each con.
tabling from six to ten gallons. The property, we
understand, was insured in the West of England office,
and the stock in the Phainix office. It is estimated
that the total damage will be from £7OO to £l,OOO.
MORETON.—lbtustria CLECUMETANCE. —On the
18th instant a house-sparrow's nest, containing five
eggs, was discovered in the roof of • labourer's
cottage in the above parish.

WAREHAM. The Rey. Frederick Francis
Tracy, M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge, and
late vicar of Worth Matravers, hu been instituted
by the Lord Bishop of Chichester to the reotory of
St. Pancras, Chiohester, Taunt by the cession of the
Rev. C. P. Phinn, rector of Long Critchell, near
Wimbore.

BOROUGH Fern Szasimrs, January 20.—Before
Stephen lienuett, Feg., (Mayor,) and Freeland
liter, Esq., (ez•Mayor. ) —Jonathan Warner ap-
peared in answer to a summons issued on the com-
plaint of his wife, who charged him with threatening
to do her bodily injury. From the evidenoe it
appeared that the defendant, generally speaking, was
a good hatband, but when under the iniluenoe of
drink be was ungovernable, and she feared he would
do her grievous bodilyharni. —The magistrates bound
bleaoverinthesnmofio, and to find a surety in
like amount, to keep the peace for NU montlui,
,4.4 advised the wife to make her lumbaad'a home
• omnfortable as pomible.—The two oases of
t and damage to property ic the grown
hope, North-stoat, were adjourned until
_day, pa tho applaktiou of tbe dolemlak
StrAN4Wt.... Pau The seventh
tor* Of rft! e«..0 up owing,