The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-04-01 00:00:00

EXTRkORDIN•Ia RACAS IN • VOLUNTEER

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At Bomereet aseism on Friday before Kr. Justice
Groves wea heard Gnat v. Itstimg (6.J.)—Mr. Cale,
Q C., sad Mr. Bowen were cionneel for the plaintiff;
sad Kr. hopes, Q 0., and Kr. Warry foe lb* &handset.
Kr. Bowen having opened the pleadinp,whieh he said,
were rather roluminocut, Kr. Cole stated the nese,
which, he sad, was se extraordinary as the pleading'
were curious. The plaintiff was the landlord of the
Royal Lea hotel, at Lyme Bogie, in Doreetshlre, and
the defendant was adjutant of • brigade of Volunteer
Artillery in Devonshire. In August last several artil-
lery corps of Devon and Dorset were brigaded together,
and is was arranged that they ware to 11111CSOW for
abort time at a spot Galled Colwayolown, at Timber.
hill, near Lyme. The defendant was the adjutaot of
the brigade, and he use called Captain Hesung. He
' made arrangements for the formation of the °trap, and
engaged she defendant to supply certain rations sod
also the °Mews' metes, beside. 20. b. weight of etray for
mob in.. 11 to sleep upon. Kr. Grote put up a b-ut 75
yards loog, and stored underneath It many hogsheads
of boor, a large quantity of wines and spirits of all
kinda, in bottle and otherwise, and an enormous (pan-
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tity ofglum
At night the defendant rods down on his h/res to
the nteen, and began to abuse the plaintiff inn every
shape and form. Els mid "You wine, you thief. you
bleekgoard, d you were in the army I would bong you
up thievery night." And he aharged the pleint,ff
with not having fulfilled his ociatzset. The defendant
penisted in abusing him, celled biro • rogue and •
selendrel, sad he tarrod round to some volunteors and
said if he were they he would down with the canteen
and throw It into the road. However, be rode off,
saying as he went away that he had a great mind to
bring the ONIS round and pull the tent down; and
he was as good an his word. About • quarter pad
twelve the Topsham Corps acme into the tamp, and
otter going down to the canteen to get th•ir rations
they made some complaint to Captain Keating, the
adjutent, end he should be able to prove, by wither."
that the defendant told them to go and pull the
old canteen down. They came redline down to the
captain (the defendant), and the captain went into
*ever.' of the tents, and said "Corn, out, tome out,
my men; come out and have the old canteen
down." Away rushed the men ; down come the cap-
tain, and away they went to the canteen. "Pull the
thing down," ho said, and the men .et to work
I mad some cut the ropes, and in Ism then five minutes,
tinder the orders and by the repo:vie' eornisiand of the
defendant, the ropes were out, the supports were pulled
down, and the whole thing was pulled to the ground,
and it came crashing down upon the beer. There were
five or dr hogsheads of beer newest, the gloom and
the betties were smashed, and a very eonalderahle
quantity of wine and spirits was waded; the men who
proceeded immediately to pall the tape out of the beet
barrels and to o&rry the boor away in buekets, and a
scene of confusion easiest sash.. they said in the news-
papers "it was more easy to intagioe than dessribe"—(a
laugh). There were SOD Of 300 men no the epot, and
the men kepi to throw bottle' at the heads of Yr.
Ralph 66d the waiters. Semi of the men ran away
with the biscuits and some with the beer in bucks%

end the most terrible confusion signed, and the deniers
done wee very conaideraWe indeed. Many hogsheads
of beer entirely ran sway, sad there was a great doe! oi
smashing of glees and crockery. The matter was put
into the bands of solicitors on either side, and the de-
fendant declining to compensate the plaintiff, the pre-
sent 1104011 wag brought for the damage done on the
0001141011, which was put dowo at DM.
Mr. John Grove, the plaintiff, corroborated the
opening statement of the learned counsel, end in cross-
examinstion by Mr. Lopes', said he arranipd to sopply
the beer at IL a gallon, and charged Is. a gallon for
every pint consumed.
His lordship suggested an arrangement; hut Me.
Loosened, after the way in which the case bad been
opened, and the things that bad been said of an caller,
that would be impossible.
Anthony Palmer, assisting Mr. Grove at the camp,
and P.C. Williams corroborated the plaintin evidenoe ;
the Latter, crow-examined, said he heard the can say
they had no'hlag to eat after walking seven mhos.
William Lansing. grinner In the Ist Dorset Volun-
teer Artillery : Thomw Aplin, ostler; Frederick
Edwards, George King (who likened the marsh upon
the canteen to the chsrge at Malaita's," and beard
tAi captain say If he had not been In drink it would not
hare happened), and other witnesses were called.
TLornas Ralph, nephew of the plaintiff, who wee in
*barge of the wanton at the time the teat was pulled
dews, deposed to having heard the defeodant threaten
that if the plaintiff had boon in the regiment, he would
have him banged for not having performed his °natl./id
about the straw.

James Phlpose, wafter, esti defendant rams to the
tent, and Inquired "Wheelie that fellow Grows, the
rogue 1' There was swne altercation, and the
defendant said,' Your canteen shall woes down this
eight," and to tt dli.
dergasat-Ilejor Wsa. Illantleld said Captain Kestiag
MOO SO hie toot, and said, " Hergeant-llsjor, the Top-
sham seen are coots in, and there's nothing for theca
to eat, and 110 straw for them. I shall have half the
men In the hospitel to-morrow, and shall be tried for
zny Hs added, " the teat, I'll have it
down." The captain was very much excited. Aker
the tent was down ha said ' lien, you have done all
that is required, not. your tests."
J•bo Slog. of Ilminstore, the owner of the tent, proved
the damae• to tt.c.tsnt animated to £l3 as. 61.

lira. Grove, wife of the pLeieliff, also gave evidence
al to tlie damage do!". •

Yrs. Grove deeied in oremexaminetion that her hot-
head mid to Qaarter•mmter (Abbe that be had broken
his eontreet, and that some damage had been ,10115 to
him, bath. was willing to let bygones be bygnies ii
haven permitted to re-erect hie tent
. .

This was the p/ointife ease:
Mr. Lopes addressed the jury on behalf of this &fon-
dant Ho said Use aid= which was toad* was foe
comparativelf • small vain of roomy, but by season of
tho Gets sod eliountstanses whioh had been artfully
baterwoven into the aim a very muoh more serious
Mae had bows raised, affecting t the itharsotor of Copt.
Hooting. as an oilier sad a coachman—whether he bed
Goodwood blinsolf ea on °flow and • gontlemio should.
or whistber he nagleiled his duty as an and
was in • drunken state at • time when abate ad others
ho ought to have base eobor sod had his wait about
biro. lie should be &blot* prove that everything that
Oaptein &Min did on that night woo done in • way
that ..titled him to the isommeadatioo of tho jury, so
he hod rewired it in Uglier qaitters, for his conduct
They would find by and bye from Clapham Hosting that
a full Investigation by the War Ofllos was mad. In
regard to the (sots of the case, and his sooduet
throughout was highly commended.
. . .

Adrutent Patrirk -Arthur gesting, the defendant,
mid OS had been in the regular serviee—the Royal
Artillery—for 17 years, alai was made &dialect of
Volunteers in 1860. Plaintiff eantraided to provide good
wheaten straw for 800 men. 20th. per man. and it was
also agreed to pay I.e. per man for a plate of bread and
meat and pint of beer. Bad and inauffeimit straw was
supplied, a large number of the men having none at all
The Topsham men *sine in late, and were sent to the
canteen, but they could not get their supplies of food.
When he got there they were noisy and dienatieSed, and
under no control They were crowding round the beer
and helping themselves. Mr. Ralph said there IMO PO
more food for the men. Witness exclaimed matters to
the men, but they became very exalted and made a
! nub for the beer. Witness ordered the tent to be
cleared of the men. dome left; but, ea others would
I not desist, he ordered the tents to be lowered, and
milled some of the men from the testa for the purpose.
He their sent for the guard, and plead th round the
tent all night. Gave no other order to the men but to
101 l them they had does their duty, sad if they had
any respect foe him they would g 0 to their tents. Every
-
thin appeared to have Mee cleared from the tables for
the night. Never told the men to go and pull diem
the tent; nor did he cull Grove any opprobrume
names. He did tell them that if he had beers in the
regular marries. and Lad served men as be I.ad served
them—if before an mienty —the general would have tried
kin by eourt-matial, and would meet latiay have
mallimeed his to be banged, sad heated he would have
been that night Al the dose of the eatempreeet he
bold Ralph that he might mare? to Mr. Grove hie setts-
' hellos at the manner is with* he had 1111611 ml the
latter part of his ormiceet, sad that he was sorry there
had been any implementeres. Had never stated to any-
one that what liappmed on the eight of the 16th would
not have occurred if he had not been in liquor. He
was never under the intleenes of liquor in his We, and
he diked any ins& to el so. 11. rose from the renkr,
and be took a pride in paying so.
Oronvexamined by Mr. Cole: He ZOOK made UN of
the had leagues* aseribed to him. Only half the toots
lltio up on the 15th August. Did not know what
policemen and others were around Mr. Grove when be
rode down to the canteen. Never celled Mr. Grove •
"swine' or SOOUgIIIOI ; he was gait* polite to him.
Would admit telling him he would pull hie teat down,
bet he did not Mink ,that a threat. Tire men were
belying themselves to beer, but the quartermaster was
checking it off. He bad the tent pulled down to
prevent the men getting drunk and to protest Grove's
property.
Re-examieed

_ He noted on impulse when he lowered
the tent to prsvent hie men getting drunk; and he was
afterwarde coovinoed that it was the beet thing he could
have done.
Mr. Matthew Henry Cheritoe, qua larsamter
Dymond, George Taylor (a volumes.) Lwoutensui
Schnunda, rith MOTOR, Sergeant Lawton, Sergeants
Manisa() and Gould (roperwun), Lieut. Sharp, Sib
Devon, Qurternmatie Garbs, Lieut. Herbert Adams,
Captain Lloyd, William Eltormaa, and other; ware
called and examined at great Nog* Sturman observing
that he wee sastating in the motels as about hall- put
ten o'clock, and be said to the panes in charge 'As
we have got no more grub we had beteg, shut up and go
to bed, became If more men come them will be a row."
This eonaluded the defendant's ems.
Mr. Lopes will texamenoe his suouning up tide
(Monday) morning.

Bingham, Use wonld-bs Mime murderer, lute been
remanded, at GsWhat, an Use charge of stealing •
oath-box from • friend's beide, where he had rtoefred , e bed for the night. He iS said 80 be very respectably
I cooneened it lasAer.
A Warn of the &umber et oesornirdose vacant in the vonanteer fosse ea the lot of the math gives • toted of 1,278 ii admirdeirative regiments, mid 965 in sorbs not
&ming part of adininletrstire regiments. la the Artillery there are 346 of the former awl 238 of the
latter vamardes ; and to the Itlihe, 906 'ad wq respectively.

TUB UMlViltBll'Y BOAT RAM
Toe Videarrity Beal Base wss rowed oa Patetday
at wooer., browsers Pettey sad Mortlake. 1a the pro.
swan el oae et the meet immense eat' wings which
IlisOClbi•ti cid such an eeiterlen. T. • demi* fog while
envoi( peel the metropolis early in the day was suaseaded
by aa atteruocra of brilliant auswhine, awl the ewes,
bolt upon this hiuko of the river and urn the surface
of the stream), was au atittna.• 1 as 007 ever witaemed
on lb.. Thanes. The stern was 'Crawl at 232, sod
the lead baring ar• a takan by the Light B sa., was
malathined the, ageout the grade* part of the (aware,
Centhridge wino or by thee. Iznitba. The tiotation of
the root was 19 Init,ut. s 36 wounds, the entwine cc
, poor& to tb.. erect.; th• level wows wore Inter-
Wool by the Lord Mayor tt t banquet at the Mamas
It rase.

Meru Borob, of Southasoptos. have reeteeeted to
build the new law courts for f 750,000.
A 0115 years of age has e.rried the mails over 34
miles of lowa road three timrs a week all the winter.
Mary ilisabeth Davidson, lying la Leicester eastle
under sentecoe of death, for the murder of her child,
hu been respited.
A "tea-dealer," of St. Luke's London, has been
hoed £lO sod odete for ulnas tee adulterated with
Iron filings, gritty m.tter, fragments of wood, goo
The strike of thirteen hundred LsnouhiNeolltsro le
the Bolton and Fernworth district tom been terminated
by Mr. Diakensoo's intervention be having point.
out to the deputation whioh waited on hint that the
new rules throwing es the men think new legal
responsibility on them, framed by the masters, regain
the unetiots of the Secretary of State.
Jou* Woolf, the Liverpool atwoonder, 'ho was
arrested
.antoCatiretkvoitnestuse pfieeitenfoorigbieselogaimehpelicieattodeein
the
forgeries on tbe Bank of Sokland, has rewired boast
Alliance Bank.
1 At lust oar London magistrate has gone in for the
enforoement of the Adalterati in Ate. The °cavities&
obtained the other day at Catkin well Polies court
against • tee dealer, was followed up by mammonism
agaiost two loud milkmen. Their "himpeoc," at 21d,
per quart, °anteing' 45 per cent, of water. Mr
Barker held that there was ground for a sonvictioa.
hot he did not ichust a peaalty, as these were the first
oases that had 001310 before him
Mr. Georgh Smith, of Ooslville, wu on Saturday
presented with • bandeouse testimonial, at the rums of
the Social cn.noe Association, iii recognition of his
dna,' to untlionate the ousoltems of the children
employed in brictirlields. The ohair was taken by Lord
Shaftesbury. The testimonial undated of a handsomely
bound Bible, a purse aoratelalug 100 guesses, an ilium&
sated address, with the names of the subscribers, a
silver teapot to Mrs. Smith
Lord Romilly took care to provide berths for some of
his kin before retirieg. A crrrelsonient writes to a
contemporary to sub attention to the number of
relatives his lordship has put fails:Aid. The numbest,
intending Lord ltomilly blmo.lf. ta seven, and the
wilted salaries amount to £13,000.
Ttri linucirion Coom—This oode for the Fremont
year has jut been aimed, sod oonsiets of 115 articlea
The managers of every elementary school which has
met not less than 400 times In the morolog and after-
noon in the amuse of a year may claim 61. a scholar,
added to which iodividual grants ore male on behalf of
evdry scholar presented foe ezenioation who has kept
250 attandanoss at least. These vary from St. to 125.
The qualifying cumber of attendanoes for creates
scholars bee beau reduced Iron 80 to 60. The grant
for these is 4s. for each on the average attendance of
the jest, and 7s. 61, entjaot to exunivatioo, for every
scholar who has &tundra not less than 40 time.. tione
Important mollSoations have also been made in the
schedule of qoaliflostions and eartilleates of pupil
teachers.

110/D1141)11 Oar&iui DT —SbOrtli thee
*levet, on Tuesday night, • brutal outrage wee com-
mitted upon two women in Birmingham, Five OW
mitered the Hope sod A.oebor, La Dentiold, and naked
for rum. They were told they were too late, when one
of them locked the front door of the house. The bar.
maid wait towards them, when she we. strack on the
I bud with a loaded stick and rendered sanselem, one ed
the ruffians kneeling upon her to keep her down. The
others ruthed lot, the bar, and exhibiting • dagger,
threatened to run the landlady, Mrs. 80b.., through ff
she =de any noise. She promised she would not,
wheo one of tie men dealt her a terrffir blow on the
head with • loaded stick, which united a way wound
nearly two inches In length. Mn. Baker was
rendered slut unseless, but she saw her assailants
take the ouhlus from a compartmeut Ii the posater
and leave the house. The box contained rainier
papers. The barmaid, cn reoLveiing consciousness,
hastened cff to inform the paellas, when she met the
thieves, one of whom threw a bury bludgeon at her.
They then ran away. Mut Baker lire in • pieurious
condition.

A Lamy ow LOittai.—Mrs. Fawcett, if. of Professor
Faecal, M.P. for Brighton, delivered a lecture us
'kbureday at Birkenhead the subjeet being, " Luxury,
11. thee and Abuses." In the course of her lecture,
Mrs. Fsweett said that • Clair* for luxury not only
stimelatei industry, but was an incentive towards the
cultivation of the virtues of prudence sod forethought
lied the high wags& lately earned by workmen easaged
In the 03111 and iron trades been scant In obtaining
better houses, the formation of a food against a rainy
day, arid the superior @donation of children, the money
could not have been better disposed of, as the result
would have benefited the ohildren, accustoming them
to • higher standard of comfort, at which, in after.
life they would aim. Referring to the pleasures of the
working classes, lirs.Fawcett raid that thew favourite
sports would 'rompers well with those of the wealthier
clam', who mewed themselves by slaughtering tame
pigeons, or performing the hercie feet of standing in a
out and shooting en ox. Ceetinning to &Bede to the
workinz plasm's, the lectures" obsereed that if they
would practice the prudence and restraiat of the profes-
sional classes, they would cause an immediate and
permanent Monaco on the prioe of labour, and would
give a practical solution to many of the most perplexing
social problems of the day. To that, however, were
opposed the present poor-law system and the mass of
public opinion supporting it. Would it never he
reoognised that a system which tended to the motlplica-
lion hungry months without • corresponding
multiplication of bcel sad pudding neoessarily prodused
poverty and its aeoompaoying 'qualm? As was taaght
by that loug-negleoW science, political seonorey, there
was no escape from the ooneequenem of • reckless dis-
regard of econ)inic laws. Proceeding to the woad
part of ha lecture, Mrs. Fawcett said that the use of
luxury appeared more striking and more impostaet
than its alma". It eou'd not be denied that luxurious
habits made slaves of those who indulged too freely in
them; resulted in the loss of halependeesse and strewth
of chareater, sad dew:lewd sympathy towards the
misery of others. Bbe was bedded, then, in sayiag
that the benefits the use of Usury prodseed were
ospable of outweighing the evils its abuse created.
Luxury was, therefore, • powerful lastrument for the
amelioration of the condition of 'society.
Timm UM= who have not yet used Gurinzu)
Sykacyl, are respeetfullyllsoludied to give it a trial,
and carefully follow out the directions painted on every
paakage, and if this is done, they will say like the
Queen's Laundress, that, it is the finest starch they
ever used. When you ask for Glendeld Starch, is.
that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted
for the sake of extra Droll's.

•
BUNTING A FPOINT NEXT&
Cattlatoek tiounda--Tuaiday, (this day) North
Parrott; Friday, April 41;b, Nether Cars•—at 11.
Mr. itadelyire's Nomads— Wednesday, Chinalborss
rilll4*—at 11.
Bast Dorset Hounda—Wedoesdar, No lhatrow
Friday April 4ib, Tollard Gismo —at 11.
Bisarksioar Val. Hoop& —Taseday (Ulla day), Noriford
Bridge, Taursday, April Haotor's Lodge; Friday,
4th, tut ; Bridges—at 11.