The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-02-28 00:00:00

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lIIETROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, February 27.
There warn a full average supply of foreign stock here
to-day, in bat middling condition. Sales progressed
Awl, at late rates.
• The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing
ellistrieee were seasonably good, both as to number and
*Wilk From Ireland and Scotland the receipts were
solar limited, but the Scots and crosses came to hand
llllrst-rate condition. On the whole the beef trade
tree in a sluggish state, and in some instances prices
mere a shade lower than on this day se'nnight ; how.
owe% the beat Soots realised Is. 2d. to be. 4.1. per 81b.
v The show of sheep, though rather on the increase,
tam again very limited, and the quality of snot breeds
wee only middling. The mutton trade was slow;
prices ruled higher. Downs, in'tbe wool,
teelitedle. ~ out of the weol Sc 21. to Is. 4d., and
lopped Lineolas 4s. 10d. to ss. per 81b.
• Lembo met a dull inquiry, at from Gs. 81 to 7s. per
M., being 4d. lower.
The few calves on offer moved off steadily, at full
quotations, viz , from Is. 6d. to ss. 83. per Sib.
• like demand for pigs was heavy, and prices have had
aping Mo.:Fenny.

GREAT ROBBERY ON CORNHILL.

04,

;;lIDIFir URIC OF TRE BUROL AES AND
rood, RECOVERY OF THE PROPERTY.
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eiDePriday afternoon a clever capture was effected of
she . no behoved to be the thieves who have
committed the extensive burglaries that have
sated so great • sensation in commercial and other
*ries.

:The arrest was made between two and three o'clock,
bgt was not completed without very oonsiderable
dUieulty, one of the prisoners, Thomas Brewerton,
kaown as the "Velvet Lad," offering a desperate
reeintaisse.
On Saturday the prisoners William Fleury Geoffrey,
Murtha Geoffrey, Thomas Caseley. Ann Casely, Thomas
Bremerton, and Louisa Bremerton were placed at the
bar before Mr. Flowers, charged with having been con-
certed in the recent burglaries at Mr. Abrahams',
jeweller, Strand, and at Mr. Walker's, jeweller, Corn-
Mr. Thome% Walker proved that about half-past five
o'doeir en Saturday afternoon the 4th of February, he
left bit fatber's premises in Lr;ruhill in the bands of a
pesos' named Smith, whose duty it was to see them safe.
Outlionday wham be returned he found they had been
bridles into, and property to the value of £5,000 stolen.
Heeetild identify the property which had been shown
him as belonging to his father. Ile valued the property in
the bands of the police at £1,300.
After some further elAdenee the prisoners were re-
Numbed.
•
Swing tie AN Lama Potace-courn—At the Sligo
petty Sessions last week a girl named Langhare, a
unmet to Protestantism, charged some of her Boman
Catholio relations with assaulting her. Mr. Us Sedley
ttppeared for the girl, and Mr. J. D. WDermott I,r the
scraped relatives, and in the tonere of the proceedings a
dispute mese between them. Mr. Sedley demanded the
erre& of his opponents on the ground that he had given
hint the lie in open emit. Mr. Howley, one of the
magistrates, then directed Mr. Sodley to swear an
information he that effect, which being done, Mr.
WD•rinott claimed the right to cross-examine Mr.
Sedley, and asked that gentleman was he afraid of him,
or that he (Mr. M'Dermott) would horsewhip him ?
Mr..liedley replied he was not afraid of him, bat that
he believed Mr. hi'Derusett was capable of resorting to
violence.—Mr. Hewiey : Mr. M'Dermott, do you deny
that you used the words —Mr. M'Dermott : Ido not.—
Mr. llowleye Then our duty is clear.—Mr. WDermott :
Mr. Sedley accused rue of improper condnet before I
used, the words, and I must say, under the circum-
stantial, you should not have asked me the questioo.—
Mr. Rowley: Well, perhaps strictly speaking I should
net have done so, but as an honoarable man 1 knew you
would not object to the Bench having the issue on the
real facta.—Ultimately, after a very stormy scene, Mr.
Phibbe. chairman, announced that the Bench required
Mr. IVDermott to enter into his recognisance to keep
the pease to all her Majesty's subjects, and to Mr.
Salley, in the sum of £lOO for 12 months.
As AIiZatCAN MUIDIRIII.—The Cleveland Leader
(leederal States) of the 4th Instant gives an account
of the murder of a wife, father, and mother by a young
recreating officer named David L Bivins, who lied been I
stationed at Gratton, and wished to release himself of
his wile as • preliminary to getting married a second ,
time under advantageous circumstances. He went to
his former home near Coldwater, Michigan (where his
young wife resided with big father and mother), on the
Ist of the present month. During the absence of
MMus is the evening his wife was suddenly seized with
trte pains of childbirth, and as his father was spending
the evening at a neighbour's the old lady went out to
find him and send hint for a doctor, leaving the sick
woman entirely alone. Dyeing her absence the husband
mitered the house, and, unmoved by the delicate
otanden of his wife, deliberately killed her. While
• thee engaged his father and mother entered, and the
Villain shot and killed both. He then hid their bodies
is the cellar, set the house on fire, and hurried to the
wallow station, forgetting a horse and sleigh, which he
left Mending in front of the burning honss. He took
the night train, then due from Coldwater, arriving in
Grafton en Wednesday. Meantime the horse, frightened
by the conflagration, had broken away and got hcme
to hia stable; and the fire had been extinguished, and
the bodies—recognised as being those of murdered
persona—discovered. A fragment of broken strap tied
to a post in front of the house led to the discovery of
the stablekseper who had let the horse to the
murderer; his identity was thus established, and on
the foilesemig day lie waa arrested in Grafton, when he
boldly sad fully eonfessed his crimes. He distributed
among the crowd who gathered around him a number
of his autographs, written as follows: " David L
Hiving, murderer of his wife, father, and mother." He
jocosely bade good Lye to his acquaintances in Grafton,
invitiag them to some up and see him, and telling them
they would find him "playing checkers with his nose
on the gaol windows." This so incensed the crowd of
spectators at Grafton Cation that they were for lynch-
ing him on the spot, and were with difficulty prevented
from doing so. He was placed on board the Toledo
Main and takni back to Coldwater. He is in no danger
of meeting his deserts there, as capital punishmem is
prohibited in Michigan by special enactment.
TElLLeserrwa BUSINESS is TIM FEDERAL C 03618188.
—The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial devotes& letter to the "Lobbying business."
We make the following extracts: "Lobbying in Wash-
ington ie getting to be the most imitative business that
a man eau engage in. The stock in trade necessary to
carry it on successfully is nothing more or less than
impudence, though I know it is commonly supposed to
be political inflames. There are men here who have
made ten thousand doilsrs in the lobby profession within
the last year, yet who have hardly enough influence with
member* of congress to get the time of day from them,
let alone to change their votes on important measures.
The way they ply their vocation is this: An important
scheme is under consideration—say the chartering of a
new railroad line from hare to New York. Of course
there are two sides to the question, having opposite
interests to serve. The friends of the measure coins
here to spend money to secure its passage, and the
enemies of it must be equally with their friends to
effect its defeat if possible. The acute lobby member
calls first on Mr. A., who 1,1 largely interested in the '
new road, and has a very confidential inerview with him ,
explaining that for five hundred ore, thousand dollars '
he will make ten or a dozen vetes in favour of the propc•
atioa. He tells him how easily he can manipulate
certain congressmen, and very soon persuades the
required amount of the pocket of his victim into his own,
Br is very likely, in the same day, to visit parties whose
interests are directly opposite to Mr. A's, and sell out to
them also—sio that he is paid by both sides and pledged '
to work in the interests of each. With the money
in his pocket his labour is done. lie does not care
a fig what becomes of the bill, and the chances
are that he will never speak to anybody about
it.. It will seem incredible that business men
should be so easily gulled, but it is a fact, nevertheless.
Men who were famous for close bargaining at home are
a:infrequently cheated out of their thousands by these
Oily Gammon fellows who infest the lobbies of congress.
A deputation from the Quarter Sessions of the
Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, consisting of W.
Raynor Wood, Esq. and Nathan Worthington, Fsq.,
had an interview with the P. - George Grey,
at the Home P - on ' a memorial
In faro carried into
effect •