The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-06-08 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE $, 1869.

_FRAIcPTON.

DAMAGING TEI SPITING'S -8-11-M038. P.C. Butt, eta-
tinned as this pleas, has hasty bees engaged in watching
some shrubs the Squire has pleated by the roadside,
bemuse children are found to pluck the laburnum and
GiWes roes (or as P.C. Butt calls it "snowball"). A
few Sunday evenings back the constable caught a young
man from Dorchester and two Stratton girls breaking a
few flowers from the trees overhanging the road, doing
damage to the amount of twopence He took the
flowers into custody, summoned the depredators
before the county magistrates at Dorchester last Battu,
day, and produced the biome= in his pocket handker-
chief to allow the extent of their guilt. Owl of the
girls didn't think there was any harm in pickings few
flowers, the other averred she simply remdved a few
from the young man, and be was Dot present having
left the tows. The costs in the cue were Si. and the
maghtrafee ordered them to be paid. and the amount
of the damage The twopence was duly forwarded to
'Squire

RAMPISHAII.
Amu:mgr.—On Wednesday last an soddent whia
fortunately did not terminate fatally occurred in this
village. It wows that • little girl named Elisabeth
Dunford, aged fivs yams, daughter of Mr. H. Danford,
Slough Farm, was playing in the road near the School
house when • horse ridden by a lad named Peter
Peach, mins gallooisg by, bombing the poor child
down, and severely Jollying her. Ambiance was
quietly rendered, and the child removed to Slough, bat
although math hurt and frighhined, hopes are enter-
Mined of her recovery. We Mast that this narrow
escape will ace am • caution to others, and be the
meths of preventing inteh furious riding and driviag
which use so prevalent Is this neighbourhood.

GIIINIAGE ALL SAINTS.
SAD A °MIXT TO • SOT. On Friday morals:
yocll boy, named Oubboos, west with some o
pie to de dram plough which was se work in •
ui
is this pariah. On getting near the maim. the
boy a .thinkingly placed bis kande es the wire rope, and
wu dumped aka' and severely Injured. He was som,
ver d to the 13,1ary Infirmary, when three angora rm
each bared wars amputated.

BLANDFORD.
AoIIOULTUIAL SOCUlTT.—Abouneral meeting of the
subscribers of this societylsras at Um Crown Elated,
Blandford, o &hada, last. Br. O. J. Iress win
elonad seenlery in the room of the late Mr. J. a Bowe,
deceased.
Bin.. !lima. —A well-oontested match wee shed
batmen ten members of 7th Dorset (13hertioree), and
tan of lb. 81.11 Dorset (Blandford), at the beds, on
Wsdaesday last, and resulted in Use defeat of the letter
by 000 POW{ OW,. TM weather was modsralisly
Ilvoershk. bet the shooting on neither Me was gilts
ap to the average. The highest Norse made were by
Corporal Gloms, 52; Corporal Monk 51 (of the &V ;
thd Corporal King (of the 7th), who seared 50. n•
talus wen —Bbarborus, 377 ; sad Blasultusel. VII• The
=es 'in° WO, 500, sad 600 yards, seven shots st
Tho have arranged to shoot mother matei
with lb. 9th (Shaftesbury), on Wedssedsl silt

Wal BOHN&
Pim lthamon, Friday, Jima 4th. —Wore C. J.
Parka. aariiiii• Oarr J. 017 s.
Ems( P i—Joe* Hoare, of Broaclitan•
Bolton, sad David al woo saramothid
lor 'ldyls" • dog lo tuthwthou, without a
limm the gthl othe the Beath lamed • laid
25i. lad daubing tita Math.
Gnome Heave was good Ts. 64. Widths Goths for
ruin. in I youth draws by two hones without rag.
6Z,v, Look, was laramosmid far With/ bear after
boars on tho lee Muy.—Fisul 64. sag alai. maw.
rhoeida paw, Jana /Mier, Mart May, sad
Chow Draws won sevorslly gaol IS., i24jalul4 cons,
piaTiall is petalssod toth on Surly. May nob,
dariag Siss boars of Diria• marries.

A obarge o/ permitting drankes sod disordsrly
medost, whieh was brought by ttie pollee aphid George
roams& of Masao, sod adjourned for fusilier evidence,
was disabled.

The as defendant was then oberged with hiving
his bones oven for the mile of bear if ter haus on Satur-
day Mod May. After bearing s good deal of condielieg
evMenee, the mgionstee disabused the chugs, giving the
defoodiutt the benefit of • doubt as to whether three
men seen by the polies to corns from defendant's boon,
mune out of his seller or cot.
Williams Hillier, of Higher Lytobett. was Seed ea-
sed Si, loots, for allowing his horse to stray on the
highway.

Visa Hayward and /Were King, the former of
flaseprerton, and the latter residing at Leigh Common,
were each goad la for having outdo straying on the
highway, the costs in each cam being remitted.
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Richard Promily and Mathes lair were fined 10s.
resh, including meta, for being drunk and riotous at
Stursainater Marshall. on the morning of the let June.
Arpami Fry, of Lykdreit Minder, was cherged with
shooting at Thomas Jeans on the 15th Kay, and Jeans
eel eicarged with wilfully damaging • gate. the Property
o: Fry. Aft., a long investigation the Bench believing
both to be in fault. bound them over La the sum of E2O
to keep the peace for 12 months.
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Barry Gallop and Marks Howard pleaded guilty to
damagtag, by troops., • piase of clover_srasa, the
property of St. John Coveatry, &q.—They we"
ordered to pay tho oasts 3a. 6d. each, the information
beidg withdrawn.

Jana Saunders woe fined £l, inelnding coati, for
being drank and riotous in the streets of Wiinborne.

Two *harps, one for killing end taking s bare, and
the other for tuing • dog for the purpose of taking IMMO,
were preferred against Williams Clapeo44 by Sir Ivor
Goest's koe . The Ant charge was adjourned, and
the second

Robert Roes, apprentice to Mr. John Elmes, was
charged with unlawfully &bonding himself from work.
He was cautioned as to his future euridect, and his
master kindly took him back again.
Whoa Holloway was charged with stealing four
deal boards, the property of St. John Coventry, Esq.
The boards in question formed part of the partition of
in old building which was being pulled down, and were
marked and numbered by the carpenter, Nathaniel
Hooper. They were found under the prisoner's ben tby
Sergeant Groot, and identified by the bailiff, Kr. Outlay,
and also by Hooper.--Committed fog 14 days.