The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-01-11 00:00:00

FLOGGING OF CONVICTS.

At the last assizes held in Liverpool, two men, named
Renard M'Conville, a labourer, 29 years of age, and
William Whitehead, a young man of apparently 10 years
of age, were tried on charges of robbery with violence.
Mr. J. It. Aspinall, who sat as commimioner, sentenced
Whitehead to fifteen months' hard labour, atd to eighteen
lashes with the regulation whip. The sentence of the lash
was carried out a few days ago at noon, on both men, at
Eirkdale Primo, in the presence of the governor of the
prison, the surgeon, and several representatives of the
press, as well as those prisoners who are undergoing
punishment for crimes of violence. On the two men Milne
brought into the centre corridor, • vast difference in their
physique was perceptible, the one being very short in
stature—probably not more than five feet—though not to
call small in breadth, whilst the other was small and wiry;
both, however, being men who appeared unlikely to stand
the infliction with anything like fortitude. Each having
been well strapped to the frames, order was given by the
governor to the floggers to begin. The men who had
entrusted to them the "cats" were experienced hands
at the work, and each stroke was laid on in a style
which soon told severely upon the quivering convicts'
backs. Speedily the shoulders of the unfortunate men
became escoriatol, then livid, and eventually almost
a bright red, the blood mesinwhile trickling down their
thOulders. Veizlfew exclamations of pMn were uttered
by either man, tit is evident that both suffered fear.
fully, each lash o the "cat" apparently telling with the
most excruciating effect. Whitehead, whose strokes were
seven fewer than the number given to his companion in
peniahment, although he was a better built man than
hrConville, suffered most severely, and it was =doubt.
ediy a satisfaction to him, when the eighteenth stroke fell
on his shoulders, to know that be had received his full
allotment of stripes, and could rush away to his cell to
hide his sacrificed back from the gaze of his fellow
prisoners, whilst M'Convillewas receiving the additional
seven strokes which, according to the sentence of the
Judge, were still due to him. If 'Conville, although light
and slim, stood his punishment well; but when be was
released from the frame, it was seen he had not borne it
so well as he wished the onlookers to believe, as he tottered
to his cell immrently half-dazed with the pain which he
endued. The whips, as on the last occasion, were accord.
ins to Government regulation, and were much heavier
both in handle and the cord, then those which were used
some yews ago.

• tattifinsetanti.—We learn that the ship o crow:L—
. which left London on the liith Septentler
arrived at her destination about the 20th December-IZ..
Bank notes and gold to the value of over 4:1
been stolen from the Three Teel Hotel, nea'rXiet
bridge.
The medical officer of health for Bolton report. ,ro
break of small-pox. The Itsease also prevails
cheater.
Mr. Scudarnore has already made hi. preeouro r ,
t Turkey. He has introduced the Ench.h system of poi
cards, but the car-I4 are nearly twice ..large a.Mr. Fyfe, Mr. Plimsoll s arient in Liverpool, hee
telegram to the Queen tWeelni for the r‘leoee of the ere.
of the Wild Wave. •
It is reported that the Lordship of the Treasury
by Earl Stanhope's elevation to the House of Lorgle-7',
be filled by Viscount Crigliton, M. P., for Enniskillen
A service of silver plate, with an illuminated addny.
MIA on Thursday presented to Alderman It. Newsprou''
mayor of Flint, on the occasion of his election for Lir;
eighth time.
The failure is announced in the London Baukruptoe
Court, of John Chown, warehouseman, carrying on boot
nest at King-street, Cheapside, under the firm of itichord
Foot and Go., with liabilities of £lO,OOO,
John Duff barns that a county meeting for Devon is to
he held at Exeter, on Friday, Jan. 28, under the
dency of the Earl of Devon, to oppose the progress grf
Burials Bill,
The final heat in Cook's billiard handicap, at the Guild-
hall Tavern, London was played on Saturday. Kiikrozy
wins the first prize of the handicap, fifty pounds, and Hunt
*te second • cue case and cues.
rbarbre krenglen, a dairyman at t% edwich, for selling
milk from a diseased Coe, was lined the full penalty of
C2O. The cream taken off the milk sold contained In per
cent, of blood.
There is some talk of a new step in the glirection 'fanny
trewl:rmmo—ntha sewin.pthinegi;alvalir",l' fwoirtthheorputiiioit towheoualareif;•Lsetrhl
volunteer force.
The g und lately raised in the city of London, for the
' relief of the sufferera by the recent disastrous Mends-
Bons and ft Kele throughout the country aineUetA to
117,1 Vin
A singular death took place Friday at Lincoln. A
grocer named Picker, who keepo fowls, was last week feed.
tog them, when • bantam cock spurred him in the left
, thumb. Mortification set in, and all efforts to gave the
unfortunate inan's life was unavailing.
tyvecutiexce in A I'm. —A correspondent of the A ninial
World write,:—" A tenant erected a pump in his piggery
to pump the whey out of the cheeserocen. One day I saw
an old pig deliberately take the handle of the pump into
its mouth and pump Reel( sonie whey."
A hall porter at the Midland hotel St. Pancras named
Victor Sebastian, committed suicide in • horrible manner.
Having ripped up his stomach, he jumped from his boil.
room window into the courtyard below. He was taken up
gii.ise dead: .

Mr. Frederick P. Lemprieret a grandson of the authorof the "Classical Dictionary, is now living at Church--
street, Wivelisconthe, Somereetshire, and endeavouring by
bill-sticking or other light work to earn a living fee his ate
children.
The establishment of the Alexandra Pahce as a
permanent place of entertainment for the public may now
be looked upon as MI fad assompli, since the directors'
contains such satisfactory items as is balance of LIAM
4d.
Stephen Blundell, the Southampton undertaker on
whose premises the bodies of fifteen infanta were found,
has recently died, and the Home Office has resolved volts
proceed with the prosecution against Mrs. Blundell and a
Journeyman who was employed by the deceased.
Mr. W. Wilson, a young gentleman belonging to Stir.
ling, was found dead this week in a bed-room of an hotel
at Killin, Perthshire. He had taken part in a f.dhall
match on the previous day, and the medical men are of
opinion that death was caused by the bursting of a WOO 4.
vessel, brought on by over-exertion.
The report of Captain Shaw, of the Metropolitan Fire
Brigade, presented to the Board of Works on Friday,
showed that the number of fires in London during irs
was 1,868, • decrease of 41 compared with last year. 114
number of lives lost during the same period was 2ti.
At the Carnarvonseire quarter sessions Friday, 14,
Welter Winston, late assistant,-surgeon at the LI-inhere
hospital, was sequitted on a charge of stealing tee
sovereigns from Miss Humphreys. the matron, wheas
bedroom he entered at midnight while in a senti,nturi.
cat.' condition. Mr. Winston is a native of Breconshire,
and well connected.
A beg containing over £l,OOO in notes and gold has berm
stolen from William Barrett, of Tunbridge Wells. It
appears that Mr. Barrett placed the bag on the counter of
a public-house in Billingsgate whilst partaking of SOM.
refreshtuenta, and having taken his eyes off the hag
for a few minutes, it disappeared, and he has not Leviable
to get any tidings of it.
Preparations are being made, for the opening up of a
new line of communication between England and the
Australian colonies, by which it will be possihle for a
traveller to leave Liverpool, visit New York, Kin Frarri,e,
and Hong-Kong, and return to London in 71 days. Five
new steamers are being sent to San Francis-u, and it is
estimated that (nun that PIA 01) they will reach Auckland
in 21 dart, and Sydney in sa
At the Sheffield quarter sesaions Mary Ann Bennett,
until recently employed as a nurse at the Rotherham
Workhouse, was charged with having plexsi titmice' hoe,
under two years of ago, in a tuft of boiling water up In
neck. The poor child was horribly scalded. The chairman,
who characte.rised it as the most liorrilde °Hellen he had
ever tried', ,sentenced her to two yeare imprisonment with
hard lalaur..

The powerful iron-clad turret .hip and rani, the hoPert,
is now complete in the hno. divirion of steam reserve at
Chatham, and reml, fir cmilinisaion. She ILIA a displace-
ment of :Oat tons, and her engines work up to 4.Q0
horses power. She carrier in her turrets two lStan
111-inch mins, throwing 401 pound shot, and on her upper
dock two smaller guns. her complement when commis.
'dolled will be 200 officers and men.
Bogue Bayswater burglaro have made rather a bad shot
,of it. Haying broken into the !muse of a well-known
doctor in the neighltourlossl, they were disturbed in the
act of attempting to break open the plate sheet, and had
to make off with the lint thing they could lay their hands
on—a suit of clothes. thifortinottely for the thieves, this
suit was one specially kept by the doctor to he worn when
visiting cares of malignant fever, and? if ignorant of thit,
the burglars have been " trying it on,' the the police will not
have much difficulty in securing them.
On friday. the Mayor, on behalf of Her Nlaiesty, pre-
sented David Webster, late second mate of the harp.
Arraean. the Alnert medal for gallantry. The atpry it of
a romantic character. Webster was in charge of a lost 4
Shipwrecked seamen, who had been some days without
food. They cast iota who should ho kiltri, and the lot
fell on a lad, hut Webster would not allow them ti kill
the lad, and was the means by his bravery if saving Me
lives of the men.

It ia becoming a common expression anwng the lower
classee of our larger towns to threaten to" Wainwright
any female with ahorn they might have a quarrel. This
adaptation of a murderer's name into ) a vent, active ii very
itld. Here is an almost similar ihetahre. only in thitrue
it is the name of the milan who was muniered, that. used.
To threaten to De-Wit a person was, in seventeenth
century slang, to threaten to treat hits at the great John
De Wit and his brother Cornelius were treated by a Dutch
snob in 11,72, by which mob they were harbariously
murdered.
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The Court of Assizes of Tarn-et-It:tromp, has just tried
the wife of a email fanner of Saint Vincent, named
Grienmard, for the murder of her husband. daughter,
grandson, and the father of her all by poison.
The woman from the time of her tnarriime, 10 years um,
hail constantly manifested • most vicious awl sinilictive
disposition. She appears to have resolved to destroy all
her relatives in order to inherit the little property they
isismssed. The jury returned ave Mint of guilty, and the
.ourt condemned her to death.
ANOTHER CURE OW DINE \NZ OF TAR LUNGS OF le
YEARS STANDING Dv Da. Locoat's Pcososic %Vastly.
--Mr. D. Verrent, Coast Guard, Nountcharles, Honegsl,
writes :—" They are all they are represented to lie. I
have a child who was affected in the limits (for ten yearsk
and they are the only thing that have done him any good
In asthma, consumption, bronchitis, coughs, coil, rheu-
matism, and all hysterical and nervous pains, instant
relief is given. They taste pleasantly. Sold by all
.Iruggists at Is. lid, per box.
Mr. GOULDEN, a town councillor of Salford, is erecting
a row of houses in Highfied Road, Seedley. and On
Tue•la) evening an attempt was made t Mow up one ni
the buildings. Two kegs of pebble gunpowder were
placed under the staircase with a slow fuse inserte,l. in
each. The neighbourhood was startled by a terrific
explosion, but fortunately only one of the barrels wns
fired, and the damage done was not very considerable. No
clue ham been obtained as to the persons concerned bathe
affair, but it is said to have been the work of uniotusta
who have complained of the houses haring been built of
bricks made by machinery.

BIRTHS.
December 24, at Hilton Farm, Wyk° Regis, the wife of Mr E
Cooke, of a ion.
I/in:ember 24, at Moreton Station, the wife fMr F. Cos Of
• daughter.
December 2.5, at Moreton Station, the wife of Sir I.
station-master, of a daughter.
December 27, as Deptford, the wife of Sir Fred. Illaker..4
ion
December 25, at Bradford revendi, Ihireheseee, the nib
of Charles B. Aylmer, Esq., late Captain 17th Regiment. of a
daughter.
January 4, at North Square, Dorchester, the wife of Mr.! L.
Tracy, of • son.
January 4, at Dicker). Banks, the wile of Mr John Hellhohi
of a daughter.

MARRIAGES
Doeember 20, at St. I.uktes, Nes Kentish.town by the Ser.
C. 11. At...trews. vicar, Omer ',entry ward, oldt..t •...1
War,l, of Bridport. to Maria, eldest dauglater ,4 Mr 6 Cr soh!.
of I, R. cheater-road, Catodett.nrad, N W.
December 2, at Fortlatal-street Chapel, Southport, Rotel
W, Stuith, Montpelier House, Nottingham, to Emma. dAui,°l6
of the late John Suttill, Esq., Fyutore, Rridport.
Ihvetuber 29, at the Wageyan Chapel, St Falmund-ouvet.
Wev mouth, by the Rev. W. It I.ewis, father .4 the bride.
assisted by the Rev T. Harvey, Joint ilumphreyt, 1 N..rth
Avenue, Dublin, to Elizabeth Ann Lewis.
December 30, at the parish church, ShelSeld. II 11°'
Francis Murray and the Re, Frederick Moray, the IV,
Talbot 11. 11 !taker, vicar of Preston, Dorset, to Auo mlon.
fourth daughter of the late I.ieut.-Gdottel Marryat.
Iteventber 30. at St. Mary's, Itrywist.m.square, ha th.
W. 11. Freetnantle, Captain R. W. Ifollowar,,d
Widow of the Into Alfred F. *wilt.. .4 Itrigitton.
by
D'-"nr.' or 30. at the Congregational Chapel Conte 60
Am..
the Rev. I) Thomas, Mr 11..14att n Ilristol. to Annie,

patmhter of Mr.) Bherm. of Bucklaud
Joh. Dallas, M. A , Mr Jamee Harvey, of Allitmt".• t"
Jane, daughter of the late Mr William loicock, ,if
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daughter of Colonel Akers, commanding Royal Wm."'

DEATHS.
December 21, at Preston, the wile of II r John Mille""'.
wed 75.
December 98, at Radipole, Weymouth, Mr Wiliam /4411 Y.
formerly of Dorchester, aged 75. 101
December 27, at the Yeovil Union, John MAY, ard
years

formerly

-15;cember 28, at Mk)!tampion, hr Oeorgv K". i" " "th

year. .
January 1, at Wert Walks, Dorchester, Henry Barna.
agedJansGuary. 5, at his residence 4, Belvidere, Wer.4ll'. 'lll
Hon Frederic Barney&ll Best, second cm of thr lae 17:
Wytiford, formerly of H. M.'s 104th Regiment, and Ow -
ones nf Gentlemen-at-Arms
The Right lion. T. Sotheron Estrourt, forma! th.'°)e
Secretary, died at noon Thursday, at liAteoort-houre,
Tetbury. He retired from public life in Starch, Pa
account of a severe attack of illness. lard
We regret to announce the death of lir.
Fabester, who had been for about 16 years a rec....1160a
the staff of the Western Deify Preu. lie
respected by all. Icr. Sahester was in 47th Veir

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