The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-07 00:00:00

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SINGULAR ADVERTIREMENT.—A curious announce-
ment has appeared in the Dublin journals. It pro-
fesses to come from an officer of the Indian army, at
present resident in England, who is desirous of obtain-
ing the agency of an Irish estate. He is of business
habits, and has the highest testimonials from general
and other officers with whom he has served; but these
are not the grounds upon which he rests his fitness for
the office. He coolly winds up the list of his quali-
fications by stating that he "does not mind being shot
at I"
A meeting was held in Belfast on Tuesday for the
purpose of raising funds in aid of the distressed opera-
tives of Lancashire and Cheshire. The Mayor of Bel-
fast Presided. Sir 11. Cairns made an able speech in
support of the object of the meeting, and moved the
first resolution. Upwards of £l,lOO was subscribed in the meeting.
MURDER IN THE COUNTY GALWAY.—A most horrible
aragedy was enacted on Sunday at the Weir village,
within about a mile of Team, involving the sacrifice of
human life under circumstances of,. most revolting and
unnatural character. An old man named (palter,
upwards of seventy years of age, quite blind and
infirm, was found lying dead in his house about three
o'clock p.m., with his skull fearfully ?matured and
several other marks upon his body, which leave no
doubt whatever of his having met an awful and violent
death. An old hatchet atained with blood was found in
tile room near the corpse. Suspicion having strongliy
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family who lived with him, and consisted of two sons,
two daughters, and a ilangliter•in-law, the police arrested
the whole party, who were brought into town and
underwent a preliminary examination at twelve o'clock
on Tuesday before Mr. Redmond, Rid., who has re-
manded them, pending the result of the coroner's
inquest.
The Tralee mob have served Gavani greatly. Ile
lectured on Tuesday night in the Metropolitan Hall,
Dublin, which was very mind' crowded. At the con.
elusion of his discourse he referred to the riots at Hoene
length. After all, he said, the 'Niko mob did not
touch him, because it won not the first time he had said
to an Irish mob, "Take care not to approach too near
sic, became I ant a Garibahlian." He respected the
Irish. They fought well in the British army in
America, hut it was not courageous to attack a meeting
in which the majority were ladies. Some of those who
did so wore the medals of Castel Milani°, where they
ran away after a few shots, and left their general in the
hands of Cialdini. He exhorted the audience to take
care of their rights and privileges but not to retaliate.
He concluded by saying "Long hie to Queen Victoria I"
which caused prolonged and -enthuaiastio cheering,
chipping of hands, and Kentish fire.
TII6 ASSASSINATION OF Ma, 1311ADDELL. The
murderer Hayes is reported tot,be still in the immediate
vicinity of his own residence, although reports have
been industriously circulated that he had gone off to
America. His continued success in baffling his
pursuers is one of those extraordinary and mysterious
foots which in any country but Ireland would be
thought incredible. The police are still unceasing in
their efforts to trace him, but, with the aid of his
sympathetic friends, lie continues to elude them. In
addition to the large extra reward offered by Mr.
Howley, R. M., which, together with that offered by
the Government, made the whole amount nearly £7OO,
it is stated that Mr. Richard Hare offers a further suns
of £lOO for such private information, to be given to the
resident magistrates at Tipperary, as will lead to Hayes's
arrest. The Hon. Colnnel Hare, of Devonport, the
owner of the property over which Mr. Braddell was
agent, paid a visit to it last week, and instituted
inquiries, the result of which was that Moore, the bailiff,
who was with Mr. Braddell at the time of the murder,
has been dismissed.

A poor deserted child who bad been found straying
in the streets was on Thursday brought before the
guardians of the North Dublin Union in order that he
might be admitted to the workhouse. The question
was raised whether ha should be registered RS a Protes-
tant or a Roman Catholic, a subject on which ho was
not able to give any information, being less than four
yearsold, and under the circumstances it was thought
by many of the guardians that he should be registered
in the religion of the State. Mr. Arkins (a Roman
Catholic guardian) contended that the law on the sub-
ject was that a found child should be registered in the
religion of the finder, who was a pax Catholic woman.
A long discussion arose as to the course to be pursued,
and it was finally determined to have the boy brought
in, and, if possible, ascertain his own views on the
matter. The child was brought in, and the chairman
asked him his name. He answered in words that
sounded something like "Dan Nash." He was then
mired what prayers he had been taught, and he indis-
tinctly repeated a portion of the Lord's Prayer. The
chairman then asked him to "bless himself," but he
did not appear to understand the question. Mr. Arkins
(in an insinuating tone)—Now, my little dear
will you say the "Hail Mary'" Tho child
repeated the words " Hail Mary." Mr. Arkins
then asked the child to " bless himself," and the
little fellow, putting the knuckles of his diminutive
clenched 6E4 to his forehead, repeated what appeared
to be a portion of the "Lord's Prayer." Mr. Arkins
considered that that act had established the fact of his
having been brought up as a Roman Catholic, and
others took a contrary view. A division took place,
and by a majority of 8 :o 6 it was decided that he
, should be registered a Roman Catholic.
The Rev. Daniel WAfee, Wesleyan minister, was
prevented from lecturing for the Young Men's Associa-
tion at Drogheda, on the 29th ult., by a riotous mob,
who deemed his visit to the town an insult to their
! religion, in consequence of the part he took at the
' Orange meeting in Belfast. The Mayor withdrew his
permission to use the Mayoralty Rooms, and Mr. M'Afee
did not appear.
The Limerick Chronicle gives an amusing anecdote
touching the family of Hayes —"It: is stated that a
few evenings since a ylice party visited and closely
searched the residence of the fugitive Hayes, and when
about retiring managed to leave one of their body under
a bed to learn some information. The daughters of
Hayes, with their brother, who were in the house, re-
tired to their beds, unaware that a stranger was under
the same roof with them, However, betwsen 3 and 4
o'clock in the morning, the policeman, tired of his
hiding-place, made some noise, which VMS heard by one
of the daughters, who, upon awakening, exclaimed
there were robbers in the house, jumped out of bed,
seized a double-barrelled pistol, and fired after the
absconding policeman as be was running off, but did
not wound him. A party well informed assures us that
Hayes had his passage ticket for America purchased a
fortnight previous to the perpetration of the murder of
Mr. Braddell.

A young fellow named James Rourke, who was to
have been a principal witness against an incendiary who
set fire to the Carrick-on-Suir workhouse sheds in March
last, kept out of the way of being made a crown witness
by "hiding himself in gaol" under an assumed name,
and for a trivial larceny.