The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

Debonstire.

EXETER. —The Worst Paid Men of any Class.—
In the Exeter County Court, on Tuesday, a plaintiff
claimed of a defendant 19s. 3d.-3a. for rent and the
rest for bread. The defendant was represented by
his wife. His Honour: What is your husband !
Mrs. Loram A letter carrier, sir. Mr. Dave (the
registrar) : The worst paid men of any class. His
Honour: What does your husband get a week!—
Mrs. Loram : Thirteen shillings. Q.: How many
children have you : Six, under my care. Q. :
How many miles has your husband to walk per day
—A.: Eighteen, your Honour. His Honour (to the
plaintiff) : You must allow him something for shoe
leather. Judgment for plaintiff, to be paid in 3s. a
month.

The death of Dr. Bull vacates a Canonry
in Exeter. He was Canon of Christchurch, Oxford,
Canon residentiary of Exeter, Prebendary of York,
and holder of two fat livings. He had thus emolu-
ments amounting to much more than £3,000 a year.
Prebendary Woolcombe succeeds to the Canonry of
Dr. Bull. The latter vacated it not long since, and
it was given to Mr. Brown along with the living of
Heavitree, both of which he has vacated in order to
retain more congenial appointments at Cambridge, it
is said.
EXETER AND EXMOITTLI RAILWAY. —The half-
yearly meeting of this company was held at Exmouth
on Saturday; Mr. J. H. Aylesbury, the chairman of
the company, presided. The report was carried
unanimously, on the motion of the Chairman,
seconded by Dr. Brent, one of the directors.
The proposed agreement with the South-Western
Company was considered. The latter company pro-
pose to make a line to Topsham, which is distant
four miles from Exeter, if the Exmouth Company
will carry on the line from Topsham Quay to Ex-
mouth. They also propose to work the line when
opened at the rate of 50 per cent, on the gross
receipts, leaving 50 per cent to be divided according
to mileage between the station at Exeter and Ex-
mouth. On the motion of Mr. Burch the agreement
was approved and adopted. The retiring directors,
Messrs. Aylesbury and Hawkins, were re-elected and
the meeting separated.

COLLOMPTON.—SteaIiny a Railway Ticket.—Mary
Jane Rickard., of Collumpton, wife of Benedictus
Richards, brass founder, was charged before the magis-
trates last week with stealing a railway ticket, at Wel-
lington, and travelling with the same from Wellington
to Collumpton.—Mr. Blackmoor prosecuted, on behalf
of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and Mr.
Thomas Bodhein defended the prisoner. The evidence
against the prisoner was so conclusive as to her guilt
that the magistrates, after hearing the defence, convicted
the prisoner under the Criminal Justice Act, and sen-
tenced her to 21 days' imprisonment, with hard labour.

_
SrosiouTH.—Great interest is excited here with re-
gard to one of the parties said to be implicated in
the late attempt on the life of the Emperor Napoleon.
We allude to Thomas Darrell Hodges, Esq., son of
the late Dr. Thomas Hodges, who is a native of this
town, and who, it is alleged, has been arrested at the
Hotel Della Villa., Genoa, Sardinia. The young
gentleman has the sympathies of the public in this
town, as he is quite an inexperienced youth of 22 or
23 years of age, and possesses an amiable disposition.
He is just such a one as might easily be led astray by
the smooth tongue and sophistry of a man like
Orsini. Mr. Hodges has about £7OO a year. He
met Orsini when travelling on the continent, and re-
newed the acquaintance in England. Mr. Hodges is
nephew of Richard Bath, Esq., of Glastonbury.

A GOOD EXAMPLE. —Two farmers at Totnea, who
had a dispute about a cow, took their differences be-
fore a jury, in a county court, and the plaintiff was
awarded .ClO damages. It is very gratifying to state
that when the trial was over plaintiff and defendant
shook hands, and they and their witnesses retired to
the Seven Stara Hotel, and dined and spent a plea.
sent evening together.

GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION. —The Government
emigrant ship, Admiral Boxer, 1,116 tons, Captain
Jones, sailed from Plymouth on Thu-sday the 26th
ult.' for Geelong, Victoria, in charge of James Wal-
lis, Esq., M.D., Surgeon Superintendent, with 391
emigrants. The Emigration Commissioners have
given notice of their intention to receive tenders, for
ships to proceed to Melbourne, to be ready for the
reception of passengers on such day as the Corn.
missioners may fix upon between the 7th and 14th
of April.

ILLICIT DUITILLATION.—A practice prevails in
the rural districts of Devonshire of distilling a spirit
from cider dregs, which resembles whisky, and is
said to be an excellent medicine for cattle. It is also
drank by farmers and agricultural labourers in the
shape of toddy, or grog. This practice of distillation
being contrary to law, the inland revenue officers at
Exeter have lately been on the alert, and several
stills and some spirit have been seized. At the
Castle of Exeter a few days ago an agricultural
labourer named Deusham was convicted of having a
still in his house which be had used in the manu-
facture of spirit from cider dreg'. The magistrates
imposed the penalty of £lOO, but mitigated it to
£25. A farmer, of Christow, was similarly fined a
short time previously.
FALMOUTU. The loss of the Oldenburg ship
Northern Empire, reported on Wednesday, is a
serious one having 2,4000 tons of guano on board,
and can only be accounted for, as the gale was rode
out by 150 other vessels without accident, from two
causes,----viz. the light weight of her ground tackle,
or the fouling of both anchors. The second anchor
was sighted and found so on the Tuesday, when an
attempt was made with the aid of a steamboat, un-
snocessfully, to change her berth, and it may turn
out that the other was similiary situated. The ship,
drawing 23 feet, was well berthed on arrival by the
pilots, but was not moored; and if on drifting after
the second anchor was again let go she had not
touched on the Eastern side of the Black Rock and
holed herself it is more than probable she would
have brought up all well in the very spot where she
foundered in five fathoms of water. The upper part
of the hull is visible at low water, and when the
weather moderates she will be stripped, and the
stores saved; but the cargo, valued at £24,000, will,
it is feared, be totally lost. It is remarkable that
not more than three vessels have been known to touch
on the Bias Ruck in the last 40 years. The crew
landed without difficulty at 1 a.m. on Wednesday,
from the ship at the Town-quay during the height of
the gale, which was then blowing from E.N.E.