The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-13 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

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On and after Thursday next this band will play at three
o'clock in the afternoon instead of at five ad hereto.
lore. _

- Tit FOOT asri-Morrnithartaan. —An alarming series
of outbreaks of this disease has happened around Wry.
mouth. On Saturday last the diipatse was observed in
• cow shed belonging to Mr. Gray. acd jwit outeide
the Railway Arch, on the Chickerel road. 'Chia being
within the borough, the Town Council were summoned
for Wednesday last, to consider and adopt the
necessary step.. At osmington, on Sunday, 13 of
Major Wood's ooses Were attacked, and on Tuesday 21
cows belonging to Mr. Chiloott. For about a fortnight
the disease has existed at ChickereL Lieut.-Colonel
Swankld has three cows attacked, and on Monday a
ricent outbreal was reported at Wyk..
M iliC ELL •It WM COLLECTION AT THE LI NEBO AT
PILLAIL—We hear that the pillar contribution box on
the Esplanade, belonging to the Royal National Life.
boatinstitution, has been used by the inhabitants and
visitors of this fashionable watering place as a recep-
tacle for a vast miscellaneous collection. On one Gana-
sion a female was seen endeavouring to push a letter
duly addressed and stamped into the opening at the
top, and her dismay may be more eloily imagined
than describel on her being informed of the ludicrous
mistake she had made. On the box being opened this
week, the week's collection was found to consist of •
large quantity of pebbles, lollypop., matcher, buttons.
latest telegrams of the war, foreign money, &a, dm.,
and last, though not least, 67 legitimate coins of she
realm, including one sovereign and one balf-auverelgn
representing the sum of El 18.. Id., to the unknown
contributors of which amount we have been ri'qoested
by the local hon. see, to return his thanks oil bi- half of
the parent institution.

ToWN COOtiCIL..—A meeting was held on Wednesday
morning last, to appoint a committee under On
Contagions Dimities (Animals) Act, in conaequenoe of
an outbreak of the foot and-inouth diaciase, in tire cow•
shed of Mr. Robert Gray, at Town-lane. Out of three
cows in the shed, two have been atttcked. One cow
was attacked on the 2nd, and another on the 4th, and
the cues bad been duly certified by Mr. John Ford and
Mr. Samuel Vickery, inspectors for the borough. At
the Council meeting there were preaent —Messrs.
Councillors Buck, Bauntgn, Commina, Wehb, Betts,
Vertu", G. Eliot, and H. Thomas, with F. C. Steggall,
Evq., Town Clerk. Mr. Eliot was called to the chair.
Mr. Stoggall said this was not one of those serioun
affairs that required publishing in the 'payer; and
atringent measures to be taken—it was only a case of
foot-and-mouth ilcuse, and the meeting was eall,cl for
the Council to appoint an Executive Committee In
whom tie Council reposed all powers except that of
making ratoa• The coturnitee would grant licences to
remove beasts, to communicate with the Board In
London, and to select • pleas at which foreign cattle
shall be landed. Messrs. Thomas, Venue, and Webb
were appointed the committee.
ENTERTAIN/It:CT O BEHALF OP TIM SIR •ND
WOONDILD.—Mr. N. A. Hunt's entertainment of lekr-
detuain at the Burdon Hot. 1 V•smibly Room., on
Monday last, was • moat remarkable one, Mr. Hunt
pooesses astonishing dexterity in his art, and caused
cards, eggs, handkerchiefs, rings. money, Ice., to obey
his beh,ata in startling ways- Cards selected by the
audience, unknown to the conjurer, were shuillul in •
puk, and afterwards rise from a stand in wi.ich they
were placed, seemingly without any interference of Mr.
Hunt , icept his command. Half-a-dimen rings bor-
rowed from the company were placed in a pistol, a kid
glove being used as a wad, and apparently blown into
an egg, which being cracked, five of the rings were
fouud, one on each linger of the glove, and the sixth in
a ease in an opposite direction. Money wag produced
from the neckties, collars, hair, and feet of those look.
ing on, till quite a large quantity was collected. Be-
tween the whole the conjurer kept up a rapid fire of
amusing talk and jokes, and Miss Dawes ably played •
number of aelections on the piano. An immersers num-
bar of articles, ii,cluding half-a-closen Chinese lamps,
vete produced from a bat, and in tut all, or nearly all,
the astoniabing tricks of the greatest conjurers, were
repeated. One of the most remarkable was the manu-
facture of plum cake. In this Mr. hunt placed a armee-
pan in • hat, and ioto it successively put water, eggs,
flour, spice, currants (the latter being, as a
lady said, unwashed), stirred them up, borrowed
• handkerchief, and apparently burnt it to warm the
sausoepu, after which be it:immediately produced •
good plum cake from the saucepan, and this was cut
up before the spectators, and distributed, evidently
being of the motel kind, and nothing behind in quality
for its extraordinary style of manufacture. The hand.
kerchief wag aft-iwuds restored injured. The elegant
and cl.flimlt trick of producing two bowls filled with
water from underneath • shawl, which the moment
before the operator had waved in the air, was repeated,
and was a fitting climax to the whole, At the close
Mr. Hunt returned thanks to the eompany, and
acknowledged the kindness with which his eft it, had
been supported. Mrs. Sendamore and Miss Roper had
generously given the use of the room free. Mr. J.
Tigard on behalf of the Gss Company, had offered to
present the gas; but Mrs. Scudarnore had insisted on
paying for that also. Mies Dawes had kindly provided
music, Mr. Upjohn had lent a grand piano, by Collard
and Collard, winch he (Mr. Hunt) bad ciollar'd without
payment, Mr. Wheeler gave the printing gratis, and
the local Press had opened their medium', and adver-
tised the affair. About 20 guineas would thus, he
believed, be available, (after paying a few very trifling
nes:winery expenses) for addition to the funds of the
National Society for the benefit of the sick and wounded
in the war—(applause).

BoROCS II PETIT StElllO3B, Monday. Before G.
Bette, &A., .11.1 Dr. Tigard.
Tux Al ATMS AND TIMID Snout.--Wiigais Lao° was charges'
with stealing .quantity of Iron. weighing 22511 i., from the blaelc
Aiip of Mr. 0. E. (lilllngham, also with breaking an.
entering the tilackann• lie shop,
Mr. Gillingham, shoeing smith, mid he had •bleeketnith's
shop In Lower Boodoitreet, On Saturday last, about nine
o'clock, he found the lower window turned In.ide out, and
%then he examined he mired a number of hors, shoe., and
t h ree lon g han of Iron. Some of the were off th late,Mavor,
(0..7 off 'Oa ht.'. I) 1..• 0 .11 /4r Howard, the present Mayor,
two off Mr. Smith, and a pair Mr. Dominy. Hooks, Identified
an Iron rig, ho took it up a 'out a week ago, and that would
do first into to Hall t ;IV o,d. to timer hi, little trow by.
Prisoner said he stood guilty to the charge, it irsa proved
against him. _ .

-.iiiina";;;;lntinu^d that he could identify the iron am having
been taken from his shop within the lasi Jew days. It we.
worth 4, pia cat. 110 gave information to the police, and
some of the inin wax found in Mr. lonic?, 01\11,10 store.
Mr. Robert, Fowler, tnartne store dealer, f Petticoat Lane,
Aid that on the 314 August prisoner brought him 2iirs. and
231 b. of old iron hong: shoes for which he paid bun is. 4}d.(hi the 14 September he litlll,l sold him a lot- Win 1711,. -
and Is. Sid. we. paid for It. At that time he said he •
clearing out • blacksmith's shop near the station. The next
day prisoner brought Vv. 1411 i., read, ing la. &I. On Satur-
day morning Supt. Vickery came to hint about the iron, and
all that prisoner sold him wax given up.
Mary Ann Chick, who lives opposite prosecutor's shop, mid
that between iiix and seven o'clock she saw prisoner inifaaten
the allop shutters by force, open the window, and get Into tho
shop. When her husband MlllO home she sallsal ho attention
to Legg's being In the ahoy; but he said it we. all right,
perhaps he had ,one In to put ou a cue. She did not suspect
that prisoner ass doing anything wrong, as he had limn work-
ing for . .

Ann Foams!, living nett door to tbe blacksmith's shop, mid
thst on Friday evening between 10 and 11 o'clock, she heard
some one rattling the smithy shutters, and on going out, said
to the prisoner "What are you up tor when Le",rg sidle I
" Some one has driownod George's black dog." She told him
that he had better tell tivorge (prosecutor) of it, when prisoner
closol the shutters and went away.
Robert Whaar, a workman for Mr. Gillingham, said he
always shot up the shop at nights, and on Wednesday, den, and and Friday, he dosed It about six o'clock, leaving every-
thing swore. tin Friday alumni...li, he put six Mom on 11r.
Smith's hors., and four on those of Mr. John Tigard, and folati.l
mist a number of the horse shoes were gone. Ile identified
nine of the horse shoes, and the Iron ring. lie could swear
they were safe in the shop within it fortnight. They hvl no
in:toy shoes in the shop thst they would not rsdily mini them.
Tile) had • nice lot uf the shoos in the shop before UlliKl were
token.

SMS.. Ticker) said that on Saturday from information
resvived from the prosecutor ho went with Mr. llillimMant to
Mr. Fowler's stores, and Mr. Fowler showed th, in a quantity .4
old Iron and witnesa toll prosecutor to pick ...it what ho
Mooted was ProwcuLor picked mit all the Mut produswd,
and wituma took Ch111)(0 .4 it.
P.S. Haney apigreheonled rwlsener about 10 an Saturday
kW. 4; at the lack of thu Motel. Told rwismter the
cliar.m, and he said he new nothing about IL Ito
corr..ls.ratssl the Super...le...lent as to 1.11.011 wr seltsSing the
in,.. at Mr. Paster's shop.
Prboncr asked for thy Bench to mile the case at ones.
Mr. Arden futon:led the Part the bench considered
this mileh too serious • charge to he settled there.
Prisoncr, howover,
Svt. Vickery ...MI that pripsoter had been apprehended three
times, once for stealing lead which was dismiesed, again for
Sealing a watch, for which ho. had one month, and also for
rtealing horn° hair, for which he had one month.
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