The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-09-18 00:00:00

SEIERBORNE.

A HIINORT MAN STEALY A COAT.—Mr. E. Benthall
and Mr. Littlehales had before them on Thursday
George Smith, on remand, on the charge of stealing a
coat, value 13a. 6d., the property of Messrs. Wood-
ward and furling, drapers. It appeared that the
prisoner had only a little while before come out of
Shepton Mallet Gaol, where he had been incarcerated
for a period of 600 days from a breach .4 discipline at
the Cape of Good Hope in Ha On the 6th inst. he
was in Half Moon-street, and, seeing a number of
coats hung in Mr. forting's doorway, he deliberately
took one, and swinging it on his arm walked off with
it. Mr. furling watched the theft, and went after
and caught the prisoner.—The Chairman now asked
him whet he had to say, and he pleaded guilty, re-
marking he took the coat to sell in order to buy bread,
as he had had nothing to eat for over two days. As
he wished to be dealt with by the Bench he was
sentenced to mix months' hard labour. The Chairman
said this was not the first case that had come before
them where parties were charged with taking articles
from Mr. Woodward's doorway, an!, though he did
not mean to imply that such were unduly exposed, yet
he thought that hanging garments outside the shop
was a great temptation to tramps and others ; although
in this instance it would appear, from the man's own
statement, that if he had not taken the coat he would
have stolen something else.

SCRAPS.
This late Dr. Norman McLeod, it is said when a student
at the L'oiversity, stole a b•xitmaker's si.rn and hid it 'l2
his bedroom. In reply to a noisy deputation who insisted
on its restoration, be said, "A wicked and perverse
generation seeketh after a sign, but there shall be no sign
given them."
" How many of you are there r asked a voice from an
upper window of a serenading party. "Four," was the
reply. "Divide that among yo," said the voice, as a
bucket of water fell on those beneath.
At St Andrew's, Holborn, a stranger recently read the
evening prayers. He was an elderly man, and made •
good many pauses. When he came to give out the hymn
he named the number, and then Tussle • very long pause
indeed. The organist thought it was only one of the ordi-
nary rests; no the clergyman., after waiting a long time,
added, " Paradise !—I can't see it without my spectacles."
He meant he could not see the context of the words he
had read; but it sounded very dubiously India

The battle fought by Oman Pacha on Wednesday
last against the left wing 01 the IN odan army moat
have most cerium result.. On Tuesday, it will be
remembered, the Russians took not only the great
Grivica redoubt, but two redoubt.' on the southwest
of Plevna. The strength thun given to the Russian
left, affording it the opportunity of threatening the
Turkish rear, determined Orman Pacha to attempt
the recapture of these work. even at the risk of great
loon of life. There is reason to believe that he had
further special reasons for taking this c mrse. 11 In
pomitions had been cannonaded on Wednervlay morning
at rthort range; two powder mrwasinen had been fired
by the enemy's Ardis, and the town of Plevna was on
fire. Au the Turkieh artillery replied but feebly to
the Russian cannonade it in not improbable that the
cause won a want of ammunition, as reports from
other quarters assert. In these circumntancem a force
was sent to recapture the redoubts. It wamencountered
by Skobeleff, who had taken those works on the
previous day and placed three gone in them. The
Turks attacked with fury five times and were remit.
sett Both cite, bet heavily, but Skobeleff, perceiving
that ().man Paella was e mtinually sending new
troops to replace his fallen men, asked for reinforce-
ments. General Levitsky, however, considered that
Skoheleff had anfficient troops for the duty entrusted
to him, and acted upon this view, although lie could
not have known the estent of the Ruseian 1,0, sll well
an the leader of the fighting ft tree. The sisth
Turkish attack was muccessful, and the redoubt, with
the three gum% were loot. After the crinie of the
battle reinforcements were sent forward, brit it was
then too late. Our Corresimrelent remarks that this
defeat in dinantoms for the Ruertiane, as they eannot
now resume the offensive. There seems no reason to
question the correctneas of this judgment. A. 4 well
the lenenes they have stint:Lined as the demonstration of
the kind of work they have before them mud have
sati.fied every impartial observer that they were not
strong enough for the enterprise they had taken in
, hand
The Grand Duke Nicholas in a bulletin dated
Saturday last states that the Ru.sian batteries
cannonaded Plevna all day on Thursday and Friday,
the enemy not replying. On Friday evening the
Turks merle an energetic attempt to recover the
Olivier% redoubt, but, after an engagement lasting
three bourn and a quarter, they were repulsed. The
Grand Duke states that the Russian tomes before
Plants amount to about 12,500 men, and that of the
Roumanians down te Friday morning tt 3,000. Adding
the loss on Friday in the defence of the Grivica re-
doubt we get a total of 18,0110 men. The Grand Duke
declares that the mpirit of the army is eseeliont.
A telegram from Comitantinople dated yesterday
Mates that the Oran,' Vizier has informed Mr. Layard
that Onman Paella had beaten the liumtiann "pester.
day"—which, scomling to the Constantinople date,
would nignify Satortlay —anti that the latter lot 4,000
in killed and wont-vied, and several gunn and ammuni-
tion. The battle 'till continued. If the term,', of thin
announcement are compared with another Constauti.
nople telegram dated yesterday, anti which relater; to
the battle of Tuesday last, it will he ft. 1111 l 1 that they
are all Init identical. There are tho Ramo ;admen, the
same lose, and the Caine concluding statement that
fighting eontinnes.
Front r 'natant 'mule it in announced that a enrpn of
10,10151 nonotanian infantry, with a regiment of eavalry, is
posted in observation near the Orkania road, by which the
Turks receive their supplies. Thin is a good arrangement
if it can tot maintained.
Suleiman Paella reported on Satrirday from the Mink&
NMI that he hail hir two days incennantly bombarded the
"ennobling fortificat:tm" of the enemy, anti prevented
anything being done to repair them. The fire from the
Renitn batteries in feeble. We hear nothing of reinforce-
ments being sent to the all of General Radetzky, who
most now need them, but Suleiman Paella's despatch
shows that he 'till. Mid, bin tionilion.
In a telegram from Mehemet All Fiche, dated Saturday,
he !Wes that the Russian 11th Army Corp+ hen lawn
withdrawn from Tirnot a. and ham gone in the direction of
Biel& to loin the 12.11 and 13th Army Corps under the
Czarewiteli.
On the same authority we learn that A oaf Nehlt was
lI,VVICO4I tnt, the 12th Russian Army Gone on Friday at
Linen°, lint defeated Ms annailantn, the Ititowians retreat-
ing to itaniekalom.
A despatch, receitel at Goterantinople from Wiililin,
Intel Thursday. states that a Roumanian force ha.l been
defeated at
.D loot 'f with a lo of eight sun., but that,
having reeetved reinforcement., it retook ['intik.
KLIMA.
The Porte is determine,' to bring its differencen with
Mervin to a head The Minister of Foreign Ati;rien
has addreseeti a final remonntranee to the European
flowers or the oultjeet of Sends, reminding them that
Servia in indebted to their goml officere for the peace
which she enjoys, mid callinr upon them to restrain
Serria trim the groan breach of faith if which she
would be guilty if elle were now to take part in the
war. If no satisfnetory result in obtained by thin
appeal M. Chriatiche will receive ifig pasvorts, and
war will he declared against Mervin.
TV Rif SOLMERft.
The marvellous nerve which enable. the Tnrkieh
soldier to 'Milldaml the shock of operationc under
which the nobliers tif mord other conntrien would
succumb in no doubt in great part attrilmtable to his
constant sobriety: but, apart from thin, his tranquility
anti cheerfulnesa tinder intense etiffering are beyond all
;unite. It is, perhaire, lwcanne he in eo patient engirt°
long-nuffering that his stiperiors take so little heed of
him. If he were of a mutinoun dinportition, the War
Office mud perforce either mit him tint of the world or
make some decent effort toiceep him comfortable in it.
As it in, the War Office merely lets him alone. it In
no esaggeration to say that all that is now being done
for the wminded Turkinh moldier% in being done by
strangers, and that the medical arrangementa of the
Turkish military, administration are absolutely worth.
leen.

THE FIGHTING AT PLEA-NA—RUSSIAN REPULSES AID
LOSsES.

The operations before I'levna on Tuesday have left
the Russian army in the position of besiegers. The
fine louter defences has been broken, but the greater
part of it stands while the inner circle remains iin•
touched. Still in the advance of the siege batteries
which has been established is 'tensible advantage has
been gained. The three redoebts which Skolgeleff
captured on Tuesday, lying as they do near the
Ottoman line .4 communication with Sofia, would
prove of immense importance if the gs,liey were
aslopted of closing the road to that town against
Turkish convoys. As a means of penetrating to
Plevna their 1n 'sin has also much importance ;
there are others, however, quite as strong between
them and the town. This, however, is no more than
might be affirmed of every advance that in possible at
Vienna under present conditions. The place cannot
be carried by a coup de main. A Russian battalion
ascending the elope before a redoubt is expoeed all the
way from its cover, may for a half or a quarter of a
mile, to a terrible fire from the rifles of Turks who are
Invisible, and if the latter were vosl marksmen, not a
man of the corps would reach the shelter trenches of
the enemy. Such attacks as that made on the redoubt
south of Pleena on Saturday simply consume the
Russian infantry without any compensation. The
Russian commander will have to call upon his field
artillery for more efficient service ii, these advances.
All that can be claimed for the Russian operations of
Tuesday last is that they have done much to enable
the Russians by combined advances to make Osman
Pacha's position untenable. Now, however, that so
much has been done to give the Russian operations no
much the character of a siege, care ought to be taken
to command the Turkish lines of retreat. It would be
a most melancholy termination of this sanguinary
struggle if the Grand Duke Nicholas hail to announce
some morning that the Turks hail retired in the night.
Rather the aim of the Russian commander should be
to draw closer the girdle of fire until the Turks find it
impossible to live under it, and equally impossible to
get out.
A telegram from Plevna is published at Constanti-
no, le, dated Wednesday last. It makes no mention
of the losses of the previous day, but say that all
attacks have been remilned. These statements are not
authenticated by Osman Pacha or by any other officer.
Much has been said lately of the advance f a re-
lieving force to succour Osman Puha, and it is
reported that Suleiman Paella ham crossed the Balkans
and is within ten miles of Gabrova. That General,
however, gives a very different account of himself.
On Thursday he was in the Shipka Pass, telegraphing
successes which he claimed to have gained. According
to his report, on Wednesday morning he opened a
violent canonade upon the Russian position and dis-
mounted several guns. In the afternoon the ltuosian
artillery was silenced. The Russian losses are
described as enormous, being chiefly caused by the
explosion of ammunition waggons. If there 18 any
truth in these statements the Turks have probably
brought up seige guns to use against General
Radetzky's batteries. Musketry firing is stated to be
going on between the outposts.
The Political Correspondence of Vienna, which may
generally he relied on for its war news, states that the
army of the Czarewitch, after a series of manquinasy
engagements, has withdrawn completely behind the
line of the Jantra. If this is true it is strange° that
it is not officially announced at Constantinople.
According to the same authority the entire Russian
guard is not expected to reach the seat of war much
before the Ist of October.

FRIDAY.
The Turks attacked the Russian left flank at Plevns
five times, encountering defeat on each occasion' but
at the mizth attack they recaptured the roeitions they
had lost the previous day. Of 11,000 Russian wounded,
3,500 have been carried to the rear.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 13.
Intelligence received here from Shumla of yester-
day's date announces that the army of Mehemet All,
advancing from Kazelevo, Sarnasouflar, and Popkoi,
continued its offensive movement against the Russian
positions on the JAntra. The Russians, it is added,
were falling back.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SOO. 14.
B %/CPR PACIIA.

A despatch received here from ?Mumla of Thursday
announces that Baker Pacha, advancing from Sarni'.
Houflar on the 12th instant, encountered four bat-
talions of Rumian infantry, supisirted by cavalry,
near Karadatche. Aided by a Circassian detachment.
Baker Pacta attacked the enemy, who, being shortly
afterwards reinforced by five infantry battalions,
succeeded in driving back the Turks. Later in the
day, however, the Turks received cavalry and infantry
reinforcements, and compelled the enemy to retreat
with loss as far as Voditzka.

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