The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-20 00:00:00

LETTER FROM THE TICHBORNE
CLAIMANT.

The following letter has been received by Mr.
Gui Iford Onelow:—" Thomas Castro, August 5, 1878.
Po r, tam Convict Prison. Dear Onslow,— Many thank.
fors our kind letter just received. The declare ions
of M:rs. Cromwell and of Peebles are very good; hut,
alas !in a case whete the troth is not acceptable what
use are they If an angel IMMO from heaven and
gave evidence in my favour it would not be believed
and all because when put in a place were I was called
on in conscience before God to speak the truth, I
spol se it. Had I feare I God lees and wily man more
rah ould not had been here now. But, notwithstand-
ing all I have suffered and still likely to suffer—if God
dose not relieve me—l never have and never shall
reg ret baying done so. nth declaration, my I Isar
On slow, I know will bring fresh odium on me, but what
car e need I have for the opini in of such peed They
m. y be able to crush me bodily by influencing others
to keep me here but they cannot affect my conscience,
an, I cannot injure me in the sight of Go '--that Go!,
wh will judge them that judged me There will be
no prejudiced judges or paid juries there. I fear all
vii and my many trends have done for me is only
lab our lost. Sir Alexander Cockburn having threatened
to resign his seat if I am released comparatively
speaking, not only vrreets the attribute from the
Horse Minister, but the very prerogative from our
Fuer-boos Majesty, became it would be considered a
disg race for the Lord Chief Justice of a nation to resign
his ..at on account of a prisoner being relemed whom
he load exhausted all his powir and energise to con-
vict. lam goin; to petition the Home Secretary
next week, asking him to make the two sentences
, concurrent, so as enable me to finish my imprisonment
when I have completed one sentence, Or otherwise to
I order me to be tried on the charge of forgery. If I
I am Arthur Orton, I have committed forgery on each
and every petition, for I have signed my own name
to them. I shall do all I can to get a fresh trial on my
liberty. and sincerely hope all will unite in helping me.
Since reading Peebles statement I have no doubt
about Cresswell and lit,,, being the 'time, for I
remember him telling mesh tut the ferret biting him.
Please take all compliments to yourself and friends.
Yours, Bocce—THOMAS CASTRO."

THE BULGARIAN PETS OF HOLY RUSSIA.
A collection of despetches reoperting the affairs of
Turkey has ju.t been tooted. The despatches range in
date from July 2to Angust 2. Accomitanying them Sr.
a numiter of appeal+ vidreased to the Berlin Congress by
the Mutsulinens of Ettropeau and Asiatic Turkey, setting
forth the wrongs and lotrdships which they &lege they
have suffered since the signing of the San Stefano Treaty.
Thom appeals occupy about forty pages, and are given in
French. Among the despatchea is one from Viso—Consul
Calvert, in which he Faye :—" Of the difficulties
encountered by the few Turkish landed proprietors and
merchants who have returned in endeavouring to recover
their sequestrated property, I have alteady at different
times informed your Excellency. I need only state now
that heavy bribes continue to be the only medium by which
those unfortunate people can recover such of their
I property as haa not been sold or equanilered, and that in
general they are too impoverished to be able to pay the
douceurs demanded of them. Out of thirty mosques
'slating in Phillippopolis, only one has as yet been
restored to its legitimate use: the ',malodor are used sa
depot. for provisions and ammunition. Oite story of
persecution of the mist horrible nature, to which I have
alluded elsewhere in this repot, has nue to light within
the last few days, and A is this that has obliged toe to
qoalify s• retain, the immunity from outrage which the
Turks may now he said to enjoy. Yesterday • young
T.ohnsh woman came to me, and made the followini
statement : Her name is N orik ; she is 28 years of age,
and is • native of BuyaksHimetly, in the district of
Kt saalik. Her husband, Said, died three months ago in
this town, and she has no relat ye now living hut an uncle
who is tt tying at Philippopolis. With about 100 returned
refugees from different vilWres, Nasik was not away from
Philippopolis two months ago. "When we left Philip-
she said, "we slept the fleet night at Tchirpely ;
the second night we *topped at Uunkioi, a Bulgarian
village. The Ruud= soldier., who had been given us as
an eecort, had left us on the road, and returned to tiwn.
At Yunknoi. the Bulgarian, received us badly. They shut
us all in • barn about 31 feet IlLUIre. men, women, and '
children together. It wee then about the hour of evening
prayer. Shortly afterwards the door of the barn was
thrown open, and • crowd of Bulgarians rushed in among
us, at their head a • papa. ' (priest). I cannot describe in
dettil what then ttok place, for I was ill and lay helpless
on the door in • corner of the barn—my two children, one
• girl of twelve months, the other only 10 day, old at my
side. The Bulgarians were all armed some with swords
and guns, others with axes, clubs, &c They began by
demanding money of us; they searched our persons, and
took the little money we had, beating us because w• had
not more. Then, alter binding all the men among us,
they rushed upon the women. Each man maned the first
woman in his way, and dragged her int the fields and
gardens around; they ravished every female of our
party, down to girls of eight years." Q —"Can
ton name any of the children who you say were
outraged T—A. "Ye.. Hassan Prankadji'd stater,
Ilasime, was only eight years old ; they violated her.
Also Itushid's daughter, &Utah, 10 years old ; and
Yugh•shrs daughter, trrkieh, all of Boyitioi. The priest
himself violated &Um Buhl's wife, Lutfieh, 24 years of
all& In the confusion which took place when the Buis
garians were seising the women and the women resisting
and trying to elude them, my two children were trodden
under foot.. I cried out, 'You art killing my children r
But one of the Bulger., who carried • gun with fixed
bayonet, turned round and thrust his weapon into the
body ol my eldest child. It only lived • few minutes
longer. My baby died the nut evening of the injuries it
received. The outraging of the women went on from
shortly after sunset till the fourth or fifth hour of this
night. In the morning we were allowed to proceed to
Buitiol, which the Bunion authorities had assigned to
us aa • residence. On the way to Berkloi, the family or
Konkon Mehmed, consisting of himself, his wife, son,
and daughter-instate, were all murdered, having
behind the others and been overtaken by Bulgarians. The
life we have led at Beykioi for the last two months. God
knows what it has hewn! Not • week has puled without
some one of us women being forced t submit to the worst
indiguitist. And if we resisted, which we knew to be
useless, beating, luting. beating I We have become like
autumn, and have forgotten what it is to feel shame.
Colal now the tchorhadju of Beykioi would not allow
any of is, to come to town, ben.se they feared we would
come to town to complain Two other women came with
nte to town. Six others remain at Beykioi, and they hag
for the love of God to be allowed to escape from their
pusecutora I was not outraged by the Bulgariana,
either at Yunkini or at Beyktoi, because I was seriously
ill till lately. One day. at BorliLi, they dragged me into
a yam., but aneiog that I was unable to walk or stand
they let me go. I could not identify any of our
tors at Bey kioi. but my competitions can. I could
some of those who ilitreated us at Yunkioi. "rtnat
almost lost my mind. In the space of three months I
have lint my mother, my husband. and three children.
My eldest child, my husband, anal my mother died In
Philippopolis"

TlFas onalty Kr. Idmund Peters, late of IA poet.
land- h hem sworn under zuk000; that of Mr.
R. Merton, late of' 7, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-mirk,
under 100,000 ; that of 11. r. Henry Percy Hamer, late of
IS Dover-street, Piccadilly, under .030.000 ; that of
General H. & Stephens, late of 13, Wilton.place, Belftram-
saw% under £16.000 : that of the late Admiral Sir W.
Er. sax LC B , under £2.HO; and that of the late Lord
hgeawue William Graham under a nominal turn.
sink Brewer, an inmate of Bed welty Workhouw, Fn.
&gar, ham conf sued that 45 years ego, when at &insane,
Herefordshire, she murdered her illegitimate child, a week
md, by a vmg large does of Godfrey's cordiaL In ax vears
afterwards mewled a waggoner named Phillnota, at
Stoke Elitla, and lammed of two more child ren in the mune
way. The doctor said they died from Lamentation of
the lungs. She says dm could not rest any longer and
home at. i will forgive her.
Armenia Swann ix IDaltathaffx —4 man named
',tn... smith, aged about 30, shot himself with a revolver on Pride,. in Weer, Dining-teem. Bath, where he had
been Lsig ng. He discharged two but rale one at his head
and the other in his body, but neither of the shots proved
taut although the man isti ie. h precarioue state at the
local ho-Ptal- Smit at been an maistant paymaster '
the American nary, from which he was ~.K.aorgad In
April. The meson for the t.tuarat. on Ids We Is not
t
known. He has been_ an t of Ohs Taunton
Root an; Jallats thought he bleu Naar* trim maid

BIRTHS.
August 7, at Taneridge Court, the Countess of Cotten-
bun, of a daughter.
August 8, at Pew-lane, Dorchester, the wife of lir.
Supt. Coward, Borough police of a son.
August 10, at Winfritb, the wife of Mr. Edward Wing.
too, of • eon.
Antrum 10, at 4 Alington.terrace. Dorebestsr, tie wife ot Hr. William Baotou, fitter, of • daughter.
August 10, at Long-street, Corns Abbott the wife of Kr.
J. T. Stayn•r, of • son.
Atut IS, at Newland, Slierborne, the wife d John J.
Martin, retired Commander LL of • daughter.
The wife of • labourer, named Holland, eioJloyed at th•
!limiter Gasworks, gave birth to three
Friday morning oa
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- MARRIAGE&
August & at St. Pleura Clifton, by the Rev. W. P. 8.
Bingham, vicar of Berwick Buren, brother of the teids.
the Rev. Canon Bingham, rector of Bingham. Msleogeg.
Dorset, and the Rey. Canon Mather. ,iCar of the parish. i Mr. John Bury, of Gotta's'll, in the bounty of Worcester,
to Leonora Frond,, only daughter of the late Captain John
Bingham, gm., of Roster.
August 7, at fit Lrenard's Chunk Buttes* Somerest.
by the Rey. Prob. Neville, uncle of the britleadailisted by
the Rev. William Neville, cousin of the and the
Rev. C. Carey, curate, Yr. %Patient Janes tlasuil.
of Craven Rill Gardena. Lactuister-gate, l.OltdOts,soA.s
Magialene, eldest daughter of Mr. It. Novlls.
of Butleigh Court.
August 8, at South-lane Chapel, Downton, Nd ward
Fodor Pye-Smilt, of I. Belmont Pa,/,..., Kees,
Youngest ein of Mr. Pyii-Elinith, of Seven to (tetrads
Eliaeheth, third daughter of William Taunton. of Rod.
lynch, Wilts.
Au mit 13, at Bberborne Abbey. ~ the it.,. Charles
Niinrd Bear* Fellow and Tutor Pembroke °olives.
Cambridge, assisted by the Rey. F. Chase, Joseph Tanner.
of Pembroke College. Cambridge, and of Lizard/Co-MA,
Barri...ter-at-law, eldest eon of Mr. Joseph Tanner, of
Seaton, Devoe. to Csroliae. youngest daughter of the late
Rev. Jenne MaWlilliat of Mt Phlok. 00 Cornwall No
cards.
August 15, at St Mary's Church, Wffmoutii. by the
Rev. Talbot Greaves, Thomas
.George Woodier. of Irs
Lodge, Brunawick Hill, Reeding. to Meow 12inangrA
(Bessie), eldest daughter of J. .1.- H. Longman. MM. of
Weymouth.
August 19, at the church of the Holy Trinity. Diseelhar
ter, by the Rev. H. Everett, vicar, y_oungeort son at kit•
late Mr. John Dale, et Beverley. Yorksh to lAMB.
800004 aMBOBSZ 01 Mr. J. R. Taylor, of asersaseter.
DILA
Jul/ IS, at WeTraenth. 31.arisTnitkile. tramway of the kng
Mr Robert Cole, of Me Isle of -t. August 3, at the White inn, eh. of
tionsuniption, William Burch, aged GA
August illaa,AWeytnouth, leas Niles. lisoced I.o=
surviving hter of the late Vice-Admiral Kr
Lewis Passe ii. isc is
Anrost le at the Alan
_Oft* kW. Dateheitle. attar •
i thIBOSS Mit Alfred essawaye. for dome TOMS
of tics atove-esamell Inn. seed 38
Aurae' 111, at Icallliasseon.Theeaes Coombs Oos, third
ems of the late Mr. James Cu,, roman, siMgell„t
Amp:gel& at Glebe Varna Fordiagton, eHague%
Infant me of Robert end Nancy kliut_t. aged • week
August I& at B_roell...ftold 001440. bonia..i. Poole, Mr.
George Traver aged en years.
August 18, Mr. Greek, the collector of rates for Sher.
borne. He WSB found dead bt Lie bet He wee • neglected
Inhabitant of the town.

An ellequee—and Poseelos orders joyalado to
WI &Luis Malik 8, High Wett-etr•r. leartiOnntnr.
Printed and PUblishe4 Inr UM :ILR Waoart, at
the osces 8. 4.411-Btreet Wait, uoccirstar, ha tie
pad* 94 *is adY tar the Pragdstat. Tned&Y• *Ma IX&