The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

SBERBORNE.

Yam%As Hoerrra.----liii7;os-ord—im, late of Leweston.
Ellierborne, bee recently given upwards of £4OO to be
applied for the benefit of this institution. This is the
second or third gift from this munifieent lady.

CAUTION TO DESERTING HUSBANDS.
A good many cease anew in every Union in the amine
of the year of men absconding, leaving their wives or
families chargeable to the parish. In the Sherborne
Union this has lately been a crying offence, and the
Guardians determined to apply the break to it. Accord.
ingly some months ago hearing that a labourer of
Compton, who had started four years since, anal, to use
his own expression, had gone half over the World, had
found his way back to his desert ei wits and family,
they ordered • warrant, which bad been lying in wait
for him, to be executed and he was sent for three
months' hard labour to Dorchest sr. A caution was
administered at the time to others who .toed in peril,
imid last wash an offender of spoilt sr class was appre-
hended- a Mr. William Spong, who was once a '
respectable shopkeeper here and aft erwards landlord of
the hotel at Blartock. After lea ring his wife and
family he went to Southampton and afterwards to
London in company with a Mali .me Alexander, a
vocalist. Our readers may rememis •r the trial of this
woman's husband a few weeks age , on a charge of
wounding his unfaithful wile, and u icy recollect that
on •ccount of the provoeetion which he bad received,
the judge liberated hiss on his oe •ri recognisance,.
Spong's wife has oommenced proceet Lings against him
in the Divorce Court, and his ten ohildren have
received relief from the Guardians. A fter Alexander's
release be gave " the office" and one or orning last week
Superintendent Watts, and a London detective, were
standing in &bedroom in some place in Holborn with a
warrant for Spong's apprehension. F. le was brought
down to Sherborne and left in the look up all Sunday
and next day. His case was partly he ard by Captain
Falwaseer, but wan put off until Thuredi it on light bail
which •relative procured.On Thursday las t he was again
brought up, being defended by Mr. Ellis, rho contended
th.t the children were not left destitute, as defendant
had left some EIO for them before going a way, and bad
since rent as much as he could, he bein g now in bad
circumstances. It was also shown tic at his wife
h.d an income arising front the 'Merin t of a gam
of about £I,BOO, but this she was p aid for the
education of a child by her Brat husband. The magis-
trates, blesses. Falwaaser. Benthall, and Littlehales,
ate. retiring for half-an-hour, declared their decision to
be that the defendant should be conveyed to Dorchester
gool for one month's hard labour. An oder was made
to pay the money expended by the parish- -between £4
and £5-bnt the magistrates said it was a matter of
discretion on their parte, and they thong ht it a very
bad came. Notice of appeal was given, inc, Spong has
been bailed till the Sessions.

TIII bringof the llordaunt Divorce ease is fixed for
the 12th Pebruar).
Mt. PKNOLEBORT, of St. John's. haa come Ont at
senior wrangler. Ile the son of Mr. Pendlebury, of Fairtlekl,
Liverpool.
AMITWaLIAN NUT. —Tbe Board of Guardians at
Merthyr have ordered a supply of ittuitralian tookfid and pew
terved meat for trial in the workhouse.
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II a Lows h.. reetriated the refreshments &Howie,' to
U.. Ritual Oommtedoners to two bottles oi sherry and. shilhoe's
worth of blacults per dims.
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THI Premier is particularly fond, it is said, a axing
r.rpenwes mom, as Lord Palmerston wan an Inveterate follower
of the hounds, while Mr. Bright lee man given to angling.
EXTIskuRDIN ART
Ps pen ,rs of
Boer hat just undergone traluderinal ion from an Infant to a
man, • husband, and • father of twin t In twenty-four bourn.
It wee effecte.d In this wite :—He, •t elng under 20, was an
infant." Ile married • girl under IS, and became, as all will
admit, the heed of • family sod • man en within a few hours
after the marriage Ma wife favoured htrn with two boys, and
su he thus suddenly become. • remarkable parsonage, and we
wish him Joy.
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"nil best tea only." The ores t wooer that has
attended the law of Hornirnan's Pure Tea for 30 years, is
attributed to its uniform strength, purikr and real cheapness:
this desideratum is obtained by selecting only the choice young
teases, end not allowing them to be artificially coloured, aa
is usual with the ordinary sum. kloniinava's tom. as
2a -34. id. alld 3e. dd. per lb. Scald in packete by Local
Agenta advertised in our Murano

ANOTHER PASTING CASE.
A trustworthy oorresporidsot write' :—" There in
rseiding in Workbouse.sereet, Leek, at this time, e
man who hie not eaten any solid food for nearly six
years. The last ti.ne be remembers eating anything
was on April V, 1864, and the edible was a Portion
of a Dover ban, which took him three-quarters of an
bur to swallow. At the si.ht of potatoes or flesh
meat he feels • sensation of 'Winona ; and though he
occasionally experiencies a ravenous sensation of
hunger, to attempt to swallow an) thing_solid would
bring on violent pains and vomiting. The case has
been seen by the medical antborities of Leidi, nod
also by the faculty at the North Staffordshire
Infirmary, and has been pronounced as incapable of
curs. Tbe man is just able to go about, though, an
may be expected, be presents a pitiful appearance.
At 17 years of age be worked in the manufacture n
silk, as a twister, and at that time its heartily of al
kinds of food. While at this employmeot in the
summer time. be used to drink noisomely of cold
water, which caused a severe cracking sensation
between the throat and the ear; gradually getting
worse, his powers of and desire for eating quite left
him. Milk is now his only nutriment, and this is
only suffered to be takes; slowly."—Statori fakirs
Aduerlseer.

EXECUTION OF A NEW ZEALAND REBEL
A New Zeelander, named HMOiOI46 Pent, was hung
recently at Wellingtcn. for high treason. On Inving
bi cell he was sobbing bitterly, and evidently ImM-ring
from intense mental agony ho longed ansioudy
around, yet stool firm and ereet while lig was being
pinioned. repeating no well Si his trembling voice would
allow, the prayers 'het wean offered. limnedistely the
rope wee round his neck the moaning creased, end the
final words of the seivice were repeated in a reniarkably
ele.r and 'firm voice. The drop fell and he died by
banging in due course of Idw.

MURDER BY A MADMAN.
From Rome we learn that the other rlayr at the
asylum in the Trait • lunatic escaped from his
room the door of which was socidentally left open.
Hemet the asylum "bleeder," with • largo pew of
scissors sticking cut of his pocket, and Ringing him-
self upon the poor wretch, cut his throat and half
clipped him in pieces. At this ghastly operation ho
was found by a turnkey, who threw himself upon
him, and then and there strangled him on the floor