The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-17 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT
,To
.SHEFFIELD:

Ilayalligliness the Prince of Wales arrived at
at 2.:kr. After luncheon he opened Frith Park.
The meridian was most enthusiastie.

WAS lIE HUM; PROPERLY 7

Peter Blanchard, of 1...11th, who stahhed the girl he wits
courting, hecans...la. wished him to give tip follow hag her,
WOO 111111 g, in counts: .1 law, at Lincoln. Before his CNCCII-
Iion he wrote the UMOi !Otter of warning, hoping it would
hate effect " that they may meet the writer of it in
leaven.' It's a piti this hysterical iiihl,ish joOVOr 11111.1 e
rielic. Al, inquest was held in duo course by Dr.
Mitchineon. lie told the jury they had to inquire whether
the tleeewsil was the person sentenced to death, and
whether the sentence was earried out with due skill,
ruler-dr. anti humanity.
Wm. I'ook, head warder, .leposed that the body shown
the jury wwt the I.ly of Illanchani.
James Foster, Boventor ef the Castle, Mill I received
tie warrant for his execution; he Was to be hanged
by the neck until he was dead, and his hotly to he after-
wards buried within the precincts of the prison in which
be was c.ontined. That order was carried into effect at nine
o'clock this morning in toy presence, and the body just
shown to the jury is the Issly of the man so sentenced
The tletttettOO, to the best of my judgment, was awried
out with be skill. telerity. humanity, anti satisfactorily in
every way.
Mr. gilwanl Yarr Broadbent saol : I Lon a surgeon anti
medical officer to the Lincoln rastle. -(Mr. Broadbent was
here so overcome with emotion that he we.. unable to
IVO.VOrilig he saki that it SOLII very foolish of
him, hut lie could not help It.—The Coroner : I can quite
„,,eimthiee with you. Mr. Broatilwitt, and to would any
humane man. It is distresedim to see a young lean cut off
it. the prime of lifej. Mr. Broadbent detailed the
conduct since he had ls.en in prison, lie once feigned
having alit.
The Bev. W. Beckett saki: I tun O Minister .1 the
United. Methodist Free Church and live in uneoh,
attended upon the de•eased prisoner frum the 14th of
March, and I w.is present at the execution this morning.
t' cunvictioll Is that the execution was carried out in •
coat satisfactory manner.
The Coroner, in sumniing up, said lie could quite under-
stand when the witnesses spoke of the skill anti celerity
with which the execution was carried out. It would be
...ther hard to imagine a penton being hanged with
humanity: what they had to enquire into was whether
the sentence issued on that unfortunate man had been
carriesl out preperly. and althea any persecution or
suffering.
The jury expressed themselves quite satisfied that the
dessmseti was Use Itoll who 1118:4 sentenced to death at the
Assizes, and that the sentence had been properly carried
out, and they returned their verdict accordingly.

THE CRUPS IN WEST DORSET.
her. &dm Pit& (Syniondsbury). the well known
ageicultiarist, writing on August Itth, says :—" It i. to be
hoped We shall mon have smile line weather, as the time
fe now emu* for getting the harvest together, about three
weeks later than last year. It will he much more difficult
than usual to tut the corn owing to the craps being so
kuocked :dont by the late rough winds and heavy mina,
.asel in elute hist-ewes inipoioffile to me the machine. On
land that lel in high condition the wheat M good and pro.
mi. 3 fair yield, but there is a good deal of thin corn
in the country. The barley i• very much much laid.
fognerally 'pinking a great burden of straw, but
glse quality indifferent. There will net be many
choice samples to offer. It is a good ear of barley
to contain 3.; grains—ifl is very rare to meet with.
data are a fair crop in this neighbourhood. but in
*mu arte the yield will not lie more than live
quarters fier acre. A few days ago I counted ll grains
on a stock of. Tartary. Beans are pretty good, but
some distriets are much blighted. Flax is a good
crop generally. quite four 'WU per acre in some
dells, and a fair quantity of seed and most of it is
well secured. Au i lorry to my the potato crop is bad,
seine sort, seem more affected than others. We
were taking up 'MOO Aiffileaves a little time sines; about
one-sixth only were good, and the quantity of wet we
have had of late have made matters worse. There are a
great many apples, but the crop is very irregular, some
*met being heavily laden, whilst others have few or none.
like everything else they sadly want sun. Roots of all
descriptions promise welt and are growing very foot;
.as a rule whim we have an unfavourable time for hay-
making, we have the benefit of it afterwards In our green
mom •

rum. Cumberland to Westmontland a large extension of
thu foot and disease is reporteL
A child has died in Slid oil front the effects of taking
laudanum, adminatered by its mine to induce deep.
Engßali pointer awl ...Der dog', to the value of over
1.10,61.10 were importel int. the Undid States last year.
The outbreak ti reported of a war of races and religions
in the Hercegovina.
Thu foot and mouth ulijen..e is reverted to have broken
eat Leung the oven belonging to her Majesty at the dome
Park.
At the .tirdr.4 police-court, Jalues Fraser, a ...Bier, has
'leen sentenced, to sixty days' impriionieent fur cursing
a' the rope mid the what.
:Mops are lUilig taken in Siam to procure the abrogation
the law which allows a Ulan to pawn his wife in Par-
akeet of at deht contracted in gambling.
Mr. J•ueph Arch haa luau deputed to represent the
agricultural labourers at the forthcoming Peace Conference
at raria.
A lionised victualler at ltrentword was tined on Satur-
day. under the Manny Act, for refusing to take in •
soldier who had been billeted on his house.
An explosion of paraffin. at the shop of an oilman in
Walworth. on Aaturdsp, causing considerable damage, ia
'attributed to the exceriivc heat of the weather, uu other
ranee being 'milt:liable.
TIIIL lIVREN's VISIT Ti) Scirrtaau.- -The arrangements
er her Majesty'. vialt to Scotland are new beitlg Male. It
is the intention of her Majesty to travel direct from the
Isle of Wight to Scotland without calling at Wiadior.
At I.ivensiol Assizes out Saturday. Edward Cooper, au
Asuman, was sentenced to death for :hooting Edward Jones,
bostraWaili 01 the British ship Colluck. dunng a voyage to
Valpareim.
Some children at Chedleigh. Devon, on Saturday, ex-
autimenting with a 1..1 of ferias, set tire to a cottage, sod
bercix, help could arrive nut uuly ass it entirely Mutreyed,
but marry °theca were touch damaged.
A diver, named Tippett, was engaged ea Thursday at
the bottom of the Humber, in about thirty biet of water,
in laying torpolom to blow up the wroth of the seeken
steamer Shatureck, when the gLme in front of Ms Lined
eras broken. and was drowned.
000.--1:p pi the Mit ult, the wheat imported wm in
as dia•larad at the t'Uslotila .4:191 l 7 last. >ea
w r
ffm like period. 1:15,6116.3W. The value of that from the
Stat.,. was 17,112,173; an) of that from Russia,
.1.1,211.170.
At Littl.•ll.unpton, out Saturday. a lady &awed Burgess
maa breakfastiii4 with her sister, Mrs. Coquet. when she
middeldy jumped up, ietied r knife, aml almost eurered
bet hewl fr ..... her lady. The blood covered the breakfast
table, and oven isit4shr:ll the ceding of the room. She had
been in a deepen ' • condition.
An juluaut was chi on Srtiarday 'at Hanley oil the
bodies 0 two imys, one aged $ and the other 7, who
e tlimeleratorm on Thursday afternoon took
during th
shelter in a ••alvert, and were carried by the rush of
water into a load an drowned. A verdict of accidental
death returned.
Errs., co. v I.rt VIE! AL AND COMFORrINII.—" By a
thorough knowledge •.f the Malarial laws which govern the
f digestion and nutrition, and by a careful &p-
-ane 1 ' cie—haa-oi'prothevlilneal" uPru°rltnaikries fluir.taelibleesiecte'witht acurd.rcateMl`Y
flavoured beverage which way save us many
.heavyt
doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such attic o
built up_ until
abet that a conatitutiun may 1.4 greduallY
mouidi resiat every tendency to disease.
Ilutt"%el. suhUe maladies are Hooting around lIN ready
to attack wherever there is a weak peint We nutYvvelPe
many a fatal abaft by keeping min...lves fortilled.with
bloksl sad A properly lioUrishe.l Clea
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