The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-06-26 00:00:00

OORIPZ MULL.

POOLE.
COI7IITT COl/111T. Monday.—Before Judge befell'.
Bali and Co., artificial manure merchants, Redbridge,
V. Jamas Stir/UM, farmer, Holton —A claim of LT Ifis.,
the value of a ton of manure.—Mr. Trevanion for plain-
tiffs; defendant dirt not appear. -Mr. Jame, Syme., agent
to plaintiff, at Wirnhorne, proved the delivery of the
manure, and His Honour gave judgment for the amount
forthwith.
Robt,rt Ridont, Sturminater Newton, V. Jena Adams,
poulterer, Poole.—A claim of El I7s. 6i1., the value of 13
ducks. —l)sfendant said he bought the ducks to sell again,
and plaintiff charged him too much for them. He was
willing to pay £1 10a—The Judge heard the opinion of
one or two person. in Court as to the value of ducks, and
gave judgment for 304. and coats, payable 4s. in a fortnight,
and 4s. a month.
West of Knyland Sae; Company. LAngport, v. Sarnuai
Niles, Cann, Shaftesbury.--Plasutiff, sued for .£l2 lirs 01.
at the last Court, and defendant paid It, 24. into Court
and diaputed the remainder. The case was adjourned for
the plaintiff's convenience. and Mr. W. H. Atkinson,
defendant's 'solicitor, now soil he bad received • notice
from the plaintiff's that they accepted the amount paid
into Coort, but nothing was said ea to coats. He there-
fore applied for defendant's costa of last Court day, and
His Honour allowed them.
William Saunders. haulier, Longfleet, v. John Walters,
Poole hill, Boonnesuouth.—A claim of £2l 11, 14.—Mr.
Trevanion for plaintiff: Mr. Atkinson for defendant.—
This was • case of disputel accounts, the claim being for
turf, gravel, roots, stc. It was ultimately shown that
plaintiff had made wrong calculation, WI to the quantity
of turf delivered, and Ilia Honour gave judgment for the
reduced amount of Its. ltd. payable in three inetal-
rnents, the first in a week, and costs to be on the higher
scale.
John tint, carpenter, Constitution-hill, v. Jam.*
Pearce.. builder, Constitution-hill—A claim of £7 12,. 44.
—Mr. Atkinson for plaintiff ; Mr. Travers for defendant.
—The claim was a balance due for repairs to • house at
Parkstone, wet plaintiff swore that his charges were
reasonable. D dendant, however, swore that several
items in the bill were exorbitant, but there was no
witness present to prove this, and His Honour gave
judgment for the amount claimed, to he paid forthwith.
Jul:lower Surroxim —John Case V. George Young.—
His Honour reduced the order to 3s, a month, aid
adjourned the case.
Soma v. Port...v.—His Honour ordered defendant to hi
committed for 40 days unless he pays the first instolment
in a fortnight.

TWO BOYS DROWNED IN THE STOUR.
An ingnest was held at Mrs. elisrrett's, Cone Hills,
on Monday, 18th inst., before Mr. J. D. B. Rawlins,
dep, coroner, on the bodies of two young lads
named
Thomas Prior and James Fry, aged 15 and 13
years respectively.—From the evidence adduced it
appeared that the decumed lads, with other boys, were
bathing in the river Stour (which rune through this
parish) on Sunday, about sir o'clock in the evening.
The two deceased lads tied some bull-rushes together,
and laid on their stomachs, and Boated down the
river • short distance, when the rushee carne to pieces,
and both the boys sank. The bodies were recovered
about eight o'clock the same evening by Dr. S. G.
Parkinson, of Wimborne. who was on the spet noon
after the accident occurred, dived, and brought up one
of the bodies, whilst the other was brought up by a
pole. Mr. Parkinson tried artificial respiration on
both the deceased, but without any effect. After a
short coneultation ths jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental Death by Drowning." [rnder our
SpettU'utry news will be found an account of the death
of another boy from drowning in the Stour.]
SPDTTTABURT.
A BOY DROWNED IN THE STOUR.
On Thnreday taut four little boys from the adjoining
•raiage of Chariton, after leaving school, went to a
part of the Stour known as Spearbed to bathe. One
of them named Frank Palmer incautiously went a
a little too far, lost his footing, and was soon carried
by the current beyond the reach of his compenions,
and drowned. The other boys were no frightened that
they left the body in the water, and went to their
homes without informing anyone of the accident until
somewhat late in the evening. In the meantime the
body was found Mr. Sampson, and conveyed to the
Railway Inn to await the inquest, The inquest was
held the following day, before Mr. W Atkinson,
coroner, and a jury, of which Mr. Israel Leaning woe
chosen foreman. The first witness called was a boy
of deceased's own age, named Joseph Hopkins. son of
Charles Hopkins, a labourer of Chariton MarshalL
He said he was with deceased shout half.past four on
the previous afternnott. They had been to echool at
Sretiebur.aad left together. The deceased, Walter
Eatont William Bims, and himself went down to the
Spearbed and got into the water to baths. They
went across the water awes, and damaged want Amen •
little way to • clod in the river, sad said be woad
have a " duck." Deemed went down and eme,
again three times, sad this leak. They west is kik
for Ida, sad Shea pat oa &dr dotage, sad weal ea
Isom to Miaow This wire MOWN& old

not tell anyone what had happened till about eight AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
o'clock, when he told Chutes Di &vie. He put deceased's
(1
clothes alongside the river in some high grass. The 11115 IL 1
water was about up to his chest,
and up to decoaaedva The musk is a fine old sweet-scented plant, and it ,
chin. -He c .cild stand upright- in the water, but will require another eentnry of noveltiesto throat it
deceased could not. After they were dresaed they ,
altogether out of cul!ivation ; it is so sweet and agree-
went to look for the body, and could see it tinder the ,
able, se powerful in its delightful perfume, as mu lest '
water where deceased sank.—Walter Eaton, aged 10 find winsome, snit so easily grown, that no wonder it
years,
son
of Jesse Eaton,
and William Biota aged Is SO jecpular. The monk ti u rare villa gardener's
eight years, son of James Sims, the two other hove plant, if only he will gr.weit an it deserves to begece of
son, son of the landlord of the Railwa Inn Spetis-
rovrtt
who were with d m deceased, coiboratel. James SAM-
it is no use to plant it out in s dry hard pi
ground, and leave it there uncared for; or to pot it in
y ,
bury, said he wits a publican, and live l at Old Ford, a wretchedly poor soil and neglect it. Some of the
London. On the previous evening, about twenty test plants of musk we have ever seen were raised
minutes past eight, he was walking by the side of the from cuttings taken in the spring from old plants of
river at Spetisbury, and saw deceased lying at the the previous year, as soon as they began to make
bottom of the river on his face, with his arms out. growth. The bent cuttings crop up close to the sides
stretched. He fetched the policeman, and returned of tbe pots, and if the soil be loosened and opened, and
with him and Williarn Master-man, who got into the
he cuttings taken off widow down as possible, and 'cut
river and brought him out Deceased WWI quite dead, into a Ist of light sandy soil and kept moist, they
hot the body WON not stiff. The jury returned a will soon make root. No bottom-beat is required to
verdict of "Accidental drowning."
assist them to strike root, but a little solar heat is of
,
great assistance after they have made plants. If
four of the best-rooted matinee be put into a 24-sized
pot a capital specimen of musk can be hail. But rich
soil is of the first importance, for the musk likes a
weal soiL Another point is to pot the musk rather
low in the pots, say from 21 to 3 inches below the
level .4 the rini. If, when the musk has pretty well
filled with roots the soil in which the plants are ',Tow-
ing, Rome more rich all he fulled, sufficient to fill up
the pit to within an inch or so of the rim, the plants
will gain added strength, and grow and flower with
renewed vigour. In nome country districts it is
customary to meet with fine examples of musk grown
Icy the cottagers, and it is by adopting this practice
that such excellent specimens are obtained. NVe are
growing Harrieon's new hybrid mask, and a fine thing
it is, and we commend it to the attention of villa
gardeners as a most desirable pl int for them to
cultivate. While the musk is growing, and also when
producing its flowers it in well to keep the pots stand-
ing in a pan or saucer of water. There is a strong
growing variety of tip- incidc which is grown in some
quarters under the name .I the giant musk, and the
designation is an appropriate one. It has a peculiarly
rolcu+t growth, with larger and stouter flowers.

THE C:iTTLE PLAGUE.

Happily the cattle plagne seems to be stamped out.
The Lend,,,, o,,:etc states that no further outbreak of
plague in Great Britain has been reported to the Privy
Council since the notice in the London Gazette of the
22nd May last A month's interval ..light to he
mufficient to guarantee a complete cessation of the
distemper.

C l'C I'M REAR.
From this time forward the mist impudent point in
this department is daily attention to detailed manage-
ment. Real summer weather has lug set in, plants in
all stages are growing rapidly without the aid of fire.
heat. Those in bearing will require cutting over twice
or three times in a week to preveid interlacing of
I young growths and over-crowding foliage. Use the
! syriugefreely early in the morning, and at the time of i
! closing n the afternoon, after which the temperature
' may run up to 90 de4. %Veer overhead occasionally
I with tepid water if the lights are movable, SA few
' plants are more grateful for a thorough cleansing than
She Cucumber. After the house has been closed about
three hours admit a little air for the night, and see that
the bottom-heat does not fall below 80 deg. Red-
, spider, one of the most troublesome insects we have to
I contend with, will now advance with rapid strides.
The best remedy for its removal is a weak solution of
• Gidiurst or sulphur-water, with sufficient soft-soap
• I dissolved to make it slightly adhesive.

WINMOMME.
THB INJUNCTION AGAINST THE COLIHILL BRICK Kuirs.
—At the Poole County Court on Monday, Mr. F. H.
Tanner, applied to Judge Lefroy, to rescind or vary the
order made by him in the action of Rataliria v. DarlMheard
at the last Wimborne County Court) by erasing the
injunction not to burn at the kilns again, such order
having been improperly made. Mr. Tanner said he under.
stood that he was to give An undertaking to put the fires
out and nut to burn again, he hadn't the slightest idea that INTER EiT IN G OCEAN-TOWING.
an injunction was to issue forthwith. The fires had been 1 __
put out, and the time for an injunction would be when Under the heading of " Atlantic Perils," the Times,
they were lighted again. lie had looked carefully into . on Monday, published the following letter from a
the Act and rules, and found that the Judge hadn't the passenger on board the Natilnal Company's steamer
slichtest power to issue pitch an injunction as had been , " Spain," writing from litteenstown : 'On the
issued in this ease. The Judge only had Power to iseee ! morning of the 2nd of June, as we storxl watching the
an interlocutory injunction during the hearing of a caw.
long-shore men casting off cables which bound the ship
and such injunction would only be in force till the day
~e,,,in, to her mttorings tm the North River f , a cry o
delight went up from the passengers on deck as they
after the action had been tlecided.—Mr. 11. T. Trevll/Iklll
-characterised the application as a breach of taith, but be
1 nghnittg.d that the Judge had no power to issue the saw the beautiful hull of the 'City of Berlin' gliding
injunction—Ultimately the injunction was erased, and past with her colours flying and her decks crowded
Mr. Tanner gave a written undertaking to discontinue with passengers. 'She is a swift ship, and will be at
burning at the kilns, in any way that would create • chmenstown to-morrow next week,' said one t I the
nuisance to the plaintiff. more knowing ones, whose business often carries him
Prrrt Sassioss. Monday.—Before the Rev. Carr John
on s tp. roar over the seas. The usual routine of life 11. I d
Glyn, and Sir K. 11. Greathed.
at Leigh, a lad of shout begin as soon as Sandy Hook was passed. Nothing of
Albert Edwin Harris, residing
16 years of age, was charged with stealing the sum of more than usual interest occurred until the morning
sews shillings from the drawer in the counter of the shop of Sunday, the 10th inst. The evening previous had
of Mr. George Ward, of King-street, tallow chandler, on been spent delightfully, with music and song, and the
the 11th inst —Bella Ward, the daughter of prosecutor, family, tinder the care of Captain Grace, hail retired
stated that just after one o'clock on Thursday last she was to sleep the sleep of the just. At about five o'clock,
at dinner with her father and mother (there was no one however, it became suddenly apparent that the for-
lef t in the shop) she hear a noire in the almp, and at onstas
went in. sod as she enterd ed she saw the prisoner jump off ward motion ttf the great vessel had ceased, Igtrt a
the counter. She asked prisoner twice what busine,s be few turned uneasily upon their pillows, and some
had there, when he said he wanted a halfpenny worth of opened their eves and wondered. But a few minutes
chocolate. Witnere found the money drawer in the desk elapsed when the voice of a passenger NPAN heard in the
. open, which she left shut when she went to dinner, and saltmn exclaiming, "Roll out ; the 'City of Berlin' is
' alongotitle with signals of distreas.' One announce-
she asked prisoner if he opened the drawer, and he said
he hadn't She asked him if he had any money, and he ment woo sufficient to cause a general scramble for the
i showed her a halfpenny and then left the shop, and she
~,,_,.
and..
was .
it even as reported. Drifting helplessly
I then went and told her father.—George Ward, the prow. ~,,,lE,
horated h daughter's yhlence nil matted
on the long Atlantic swell lv the long ldeek hull ~,f
rotor. sorrois e, a
that in consequence of what hi, daurhter told him he the mammoth steamer. Captain Kennedy WM just
went into the shop and saw the money drawer opened swarming down the ladder as the writer emerged from
and missed two hta-crowns and a two shilling piees, and the sahmn. It seemed that on the Friday previous, at
he then went in pursuit of prisoner, end found htti in the 821) p.m., the shaft hail given way with a tremendous
churchyard under the west tower, and he took him back crash, and ever since then the vessel hail floated in an
to his shop, awl, after his danshter had identified him, he , almost unmanageable condition upon the quiet sea,
armed prisoner of stealing the money. Prisoner at first
The I.dreak was due to an undiscovet able flaw. When
denied it, hut afterwards admitted it, and said he had
bidden it in the churchyard. He then took Prisoner to descned by the looluout of the 'Spain' the ' Berlin'
the churchyard and looked for the money. but was ' INKS fully 17 miles away, and quite 50 miles 'rut of her
unable to find it. Ile then took prisoner to the police course to the southwand After some conference it
station and handed him over to P.C. Brooks p.c. Brooks was concluded hy the captains of the two vessels that
one o ! stated that about two o'clock on the 14th iinst.he received f two lairs should he adopted. Either Captain
Grace would take the mails and .0 of the mssen sera the prisoner from the prosecutor and searched him, hut
fir wnorn he null provide act.ornmmlat 11111 l and pros
only found three half-pence and a PM"! 0. him. and i . . ,
.. • . . , I _ls .
ceed on his way, or else lie would lit the " city of
while he was searching him prisoner said " I took the, 1
money and hid it in the churchyard." Witness had sines '
been to the churchyard where prisoner said he hail pat 1 Berlin in tow. I:p.n returning to the 'Berlin,'
the'money, but could not find it. The prisoner, upon i Captain Kennedy signalised his acceptance of the
being asked, wished to In tried at once, and was sentenced latter alternative, and so for 100 miles, like a giant
one calendar month's hard labour. shadow, the huge xhip has foll.. Wed Ili until she now
1 - ! rides safely at the entrance of Harbour.

safely at the entrao— Queenstown
'lt has been the biggest itieca of towing ever done on
the Atlantic,' said • ate of the ship's company. By a
strange coincidence the first officer of the Berlin,'
who came over to the 'pin' after Captain Kennedy
had returned, is the same person who was first to
board the ' F.rin' on the 31st of July, 180 bearing a
request to Captain Grace to take on b srd the pass
sensers and ere, of the City of Glasgow,' which was
on that day burnt off Nantucket. Captain Grace had
never seen him since that time until the morning of
the 10th inst., and he would not then have remem-
bered him had he not himself recalled the circumstance
of their former meeting. It is scarcely necessary to
say that a thanksgiving service was held that Sabbath
morning in the saloon of the 'City of Berlin,' and
that a corresponding feeling of gratitude at what had
happened prevailed upon the 'Spain.'"
Apropns of the occurrence thus alluded to In the
Times, It IR interesting to find that the steamers of the
National Line have been singularly fortunate in
rendering timely all to vessels in distress, or in
rescuing crews and passenger.s from crafts which have
afterwards foundered, and for which the captains in
the employ of the company have received a full
appreciation of their kindness and humanity from the
heads of the various Govermnents. It is within the
last month that the Local Marine Board of Liverpool,
at the request of the French authorities, preseated
Captain Thompson, of the National Line Steamer
"England," with a gold medal of honour, for services
to French subjects °in distress. On this occasion
Captain Thompson, when on a voyage between
Liverpool and New Yortrk, sighted the French Trans-
atlantic Mail Steamer "St. Germain" in a disabled
condition, and flying signals of distress. He bore down
upon the steamer, and, at the request of the French
Commander, stood by her all night, and, when the sea
I moderated in the morning, the whole of the passengers,
to the number of 150, were transferred to the National
Steamer. Notwithstanding that the "England" had
nearly a full compliment of cabin passengers, the
latter willingly placed much of their accommodation
and comfort at the disposal of the French passengers.
The" England" then took the " St. Germain" in tow,
and placed her safely in the port of St. John's
Newfoundland, a distance of 150 miles. Shortly before
the " England " fell in with the Transatlantic steamer.
she sighted a vessel in a sinking condition. The sea,
at the time, was running mountains high, but Captain
Thompson, nevertheless launched a lifeboat, and sent
it to the rescue of the helpless crew, which was
brought safely on board the "England," though not
without the greatest possible difficulty. For these ser-
vices the American Government, the crew saved being
that of the American schooner "Middlesex," which
foundered on the following morning, presented Captain
Thompson with a valuable Chronometer Watch and
Gold Chain.

On three occmiona the National Steamers were
instrumental in saving the crews and pa..nengers of the
steamers belonging to the Transatlantic Line, besides
numerous other vessels. It is the present Company's
proud boat that during the whole time since the Line
was formed, not a single steamer has been lost, nor a
life sacrificed by any neglect of their employee.

EXTRAORDINARY BREACH OF PROMISE
CASE.
An animas breach of promise case was tried before
Chief Justice Morris. in the Court of Common Pleas,

A NEW VERSION ON STEPHENSON'S

"c 00.
A black hull got upon the line on the South Coast
Railway Thursday evening, and wan about to charge
the 6.16 train from Polegate to Elstbourne when the
driver stopped the train. The animal wan driven
off, but returned to the charge, and the train was
stopped a second time to avoid undesirable a contest.
The 'taker, armed with a long poker, sesktel the driver
to drive off the hot inc trespa,ser into a field, and the
train was then enabled to proceed.