The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-23 00:00:00

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EARLY CLORINI3.—Tbere is an agitation on foot in
the town having for its objact the closing of the drepery
establishments on Wednesday aftercooha. There is
said to be only one dissentient to the movement.
Time CUANXIL SQUADRON.—On Thursday last one of
our townsmen received • letter from • gentleman on
board the Achilles, in which the writer itaites that they
are cruising about 500 miles from Queenstown and 900
miles from Weymouth. It is rumoured on board that
the squadron wall return to Portland at the latter part
of the first week in July, but will wily remain for • few
days preparatory for • cruise to New York! The writer
doubts the latter report, and wishes himself 000 e more
on shore, as the squadron ia tacking about, apparently,
with no motive hi view, causing a disagreeable state of
monotony on board.

THUNDERSTORM. —This town was visited on Friday
evening last with a terrine thunder storm, which did
some damage to house property, and several trees in the
neighbourhood were stricken down. Happily no fatal
accidents have been reported. A 'hip looting up
Channel was struck by the lightning bat it only
damaged her rigging. Towards the afternoon the
atmosphere beam* oppressively sultry though a strong
wind was blowing from the eastward; and the sea was
running so high that the Premier pleasure steam
ship (('aptain Reynolds) was prevented going on
her Brat trip to Swansea and Bournemouth. At
six o'clock the barometer fell rapidly, indicating
an approaching storm, and at half-past seven
frequent flashes of forked and sheet lightning were
observed towards the southward. As the evening
advanced • magnificent night presented itself ei a large
number of people srembled on the Esplanade, especially
when the sky became overcoat. The rapid flashes
illuminated the whole heavens, and with the stormy wind
and heavy surf at sea there supreme n ted one of those rare
'pectin:des which ars only witnessed by the sea-side. Not
• drop of rain fell till half-past ten o'clock, when the
storm broke out in all its fury, and the rain descended
In torrents, temporarily inondallng parts of the town.
At the corner of St. Nary-street and Upper Bond-street,
where some improvements are going on, the street was
quite impassable, there being several inches of surface
water for 101110 distance, caused by a stoppage of the
drains, and the inhabitants in other parte of the town
suffered considerably by the water penetrating Into their
dwellings. The storm did not abate till past midnight.
On Sunday evening another storm passed over from the
&S.W., accompanied with a heavy shower of min.
Nearly all the hay was mown and earned in this
distriet before the storm tante on, and the growing crops
will be wetly benefited by the rain fall.

Tux -Beturscrem Case ON CHILD Mnatifia.—On
Monday afternoon the deputy.coroner for this district,
H. Laik, Esq., bell an inquiry at the Duke of
Cumberland Inn, Weymouth, relative to the death of •
female child which was found drowned in the harbour
on Sunday morning. The jury, after being sworn,
viewed the body, which WM lying wrapped up in a black
skirt at the roar of the Guildhall. It presented • shock.
lag appointees with its little bands clenched. and the
skin and bead partially ipaten away. Decomposition
evidently had net in for some dam—Alfred
Watch said be was a labourer in the employ
of Mr. Thresher. About half-past nine o'clock on
Sunday morning, as Is. was standing on the quay
near the swing bridge, on the Meloombe Regis side, his
attention wee drawn to • bundle fioating on the water,
It being flood tide. He immediately jumped into •
boat, and brought the bundle on shore. He opener, the
bundle, and found there was another skirt beneath the
first, and the damaged fell on the quay. He com-
municated with P.S. English, who shortly after came
and fetched the damaged and took it to the station
house. —By &Juryman Ths skirt in which the damaged
was wlutiPad up wee oomposied of twill. He did
not notice any marks upon the skirts. —Mr. J.
Tigard said he was in practice as • =ripen at
Weymouth. He was called that morning by the super-
intendent of police, Mr. Ledbury, to examine the body
of deceased, which was lying at the rear of the station
hour,. The deceased hat the appearance as if it never
breathed. He formed that opinion through the chest
being so fink The deceased was • fall grown child. The
ambition cord was separated but net tied. It might
have been through ignorance, or done on purpose—By
&Juryman : He did not notice the hands being clenched.
They might become clenched by the action of the water
after deoompoiision had set in. In his opinion the
, deceased had been in the water upwards el seven
days. Decomposition had set in, or the body would not
fioat.—This Coroner then summed up, and the jury
returned an open verdict, " That the deemed was
found in the water dead, but bow it cams la the water
there WIM no evident* to show."

Bngiagtre BARIUM/TOT. —Them vu • meeting for
last examination and dideharge in the ease of Henry
James Wilson Shemin, china and glass dealer, •
bankrupt, at the &titer court, loot week, before Mr.
Commisaioaer Andrews.—Mr. Petheriok appeared for
the ettite, Mr. If irtsel for creditors, and Mr. Flood fcr
1 the bankrupt. The bankrupt's liabilities are 1:812 111.61,
I and his wets 187 4t. 64.—de6oieney £4259.. He
sets down as the ex penditiue for support of himself and
family £llO for the year preceding his bankruptcy. and
the previous year £7O, The debts have all been con-
tracted during the years 1867 and 1868. One debt of
£126 is duo for balance of account for lease of house,
which lease was bald as security by the Will, and Dorset
Bank, who are creditors for £2BB 10s. &L The lease is
of no value, being void by the bankraptey.—Mr. Hirtsel
sail the Wilts and Dorset Bank, for whom he was con-
cerned, wished • goods and cash account for nix months
preceding the bankruptcy. The bankrupt bee been
served with • notice to Ms fibs amount, but he refused
to comply, and there were very good meals for his not
having does 80. g.• alisild *ow that 1b• beakrapt

been In bushiest oaly abost twelve mootha; that at Hoe
beginning he became of stock, through the
1e47 he married, a t • value of 11100. for the sworn
prob fie under the will of the lady's previous husband
was sworn •t that sato, and since hi. marriage be had ,
sold stock to the amount of Eno. His Honour : What I
DJ the interim between the marriage end the Probe"?
Mr. Hirtsel : Irnmediat I obeli be able to show
that one of my clients charged not only f..rtbe mourning
bonnet but the wedding one in the name bill—(l•ughter)
Th. bankrupt has been living C very extravagant and
debauched life sine*, and that haa brought bum lure.
Ti,. creditors wanted to know what had become of hi•
goods—The bankrupt said lie married the wid'w ot •
Kr. Scattergood on the 4th Kay 1867. She wag
possessed of stock to the amount of £3OO. She had no
°Mom property that he was sorer. of. He was not
aware th it the probate of the will was for 81100.-11 r.
Flond said the bankrupt was startled in 1867, and the
probate was in 1867.—Hia Hdnour thought it wee. cam
fore goods and cull account, and he therefore adjourned
the case to the 30th July, in order that one for sik
months previous to the lankraptcy might be Bled.

BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.
TOZIIDAY.—Before the Mayor (J. Tigard, Esq.), Copt
Proems, Z. Bayly. Em., and R. Griffin, B q.
UnLAWFOL A WA 0 LT.-11Arrist Junes was summoned
by hire. Anna We-t for unlawfully assaulting her on
Friday last.—Mr. 8.. N. Howard appeared for the de-
fendant —The complainant said she lodged with the
defendant, and in consequence of her giving her warning
on Friday she shoed her and struck her • violent blow
on the forelbesd.—By Mr. Hower I : She appeared before
the magistrates last week. She took the blow col-
leatively—(langhter). litbe never stria • Man or
woman in her life. She had summoned &seers' people
for asualta. She did not attempt to remove her goods
from the defendant's house.—llluthe Crum said she Was
the wife of John Cross, and resided in Hish-atittot.
She heard an altereation Uking place at the New Inn.
Sloe saw Mrs. Junes take up • basin to throw at the
complainant, but the defendant was so intoziaated that
she was not capable of throwing the buin at the com-
plainant, bet abe came round the bar and struck the
complainant. —By Mr. Howard She had nothing more
to say. (The witness then marched out of the witness
boz, but was ordered back with • caution.)—Ezamination
continued: She dig not know whether any rent was
owing. Her name was not Pitman but CMOs. The coin-
phdosnt odd she had taken ell her thinp out of the
house. When complainant said that, the defendant
took up the dish. The defendant struck the oom-
plains:it on the left cheek and on her foreheed. She
(witness) drank the greater portion of the beer. She
runoved the goods to the husk of Mr. Hurdle's premises.
—The Bench, after taking the matter into consideration,
'elicited • fine of is. and 7s. 10d. east*.
CHAINS Or INIMINGIIO THE DOO WIND& William
Studley, a hawker, was summoned at the butanes of
Mr. Henry Radford, an excise offioer, for keeping • dog
without a Hoene', on the 21st of April tut. —Mr.
Hower) appeared for the defendant, end Mr. Beach,
supervisor, oondnoted the proosedings on behalf of the
Crown. —The Mayor said thecae. ...proved arrainat the
defendant but they would mitigate the penalty from Eb
to El 17s. 151., including cuts.
Henry Dennis we. summoned by Ur. Nent7 Radford
for keeping • oertain dog, without having in form a
license granted under the said Act, contrary to the form
of the said Act, on the 21st of April. Fined £1 5.. and
12.. 6d. cute.
Joseph Smith was alao IWUMOOIIII for a similar offence
and fined El Si. and 12s. 6d. matt
John Ball we. similarly fined (or not hiring • Hoene,.
Samuel Honeybun, a labourer, appears I for a similar
offence. The Bench said as Mr. Beach did not wieh to
preen for costs In this WM they should only inflict a
fine of El ss.
THOUDAT.—Before His Worship the Mayor (J.
Tizard, Nag ), and R. Griffin, Esq.
Sailors CIIAZON OF ASSAULT.—James Wells, •
rtilQ,Pedrlvtoiotilthon.hsbeltasy:divoyiTi.neliniottodo
hawker, was summoned lot violently assaulting George
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remanded
Osborne, fruiterer, on the Tuesday *Vining. St the
Foresters' Retreat, in St. Thome-street. The coca.
plainant said be lame over from Jersey on the same
day, and on coining on shore he went tato the above inn
to obtain some refreehment. He met the defendant
there and treated him to several pints of beer, and
shortly falter he (complainant) dropped off to sleep on
the table. As he was lying with bis head on the table
the defendant bumped his head and gave him two black
eyes. The &fondant. In his defence, gait the cow'.
plalnant insulted him first. or be would not have struck
him. The Mayor said the defendant had been guilty of
• grievous offence, and if the complainant had appeared
to give evidence whilst in a sober state, the punishment
they were about to haftiat would have been mach
heavier. The defendant was fined 155., or in default of
payment to los impri,oned for seven days. The prisoner
could not pay the fine and he was locked up.
Strirtao is Alf OCT.lloollL—Chules Woodland, a
butcher, wan brought up in custody charged by F.C.
Hendon, with sleeping in an outhouse near the Marsh
Wall. Superintendent Lidbury said tne defendant bad
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his master, Mr. Talbot, baker. Prisoner hail been
examined on the Wednesday previous, when it transpired
that he had received the money from several of Mr.
Talbot's customers without accounting for it to his
master. On Mr. Talbot's mending in the bills they were
returned, and 'he " uplifting" on the part of prisoner
disoovereel. At Friday's bearing there were seven or eight
*Wiles brought against the prisoner; but two only
were taken. In one of these prisoner had told the
customer not to be frightened if Mr. Talbot should send
In • bill, admitting that be had kept the money he
should have given to his meteor, having spent it, as
his wife had been unlined. He asked the customer to
take the bill, and pmsintoed that the next day he
(prisoner) would receipt ti. —Prisoner pleaded guilty to
both charm, and said he should reserve his defence.—
Lie was committed for trial at the ominous.
A }WASTING PROSZOUTIIII.— Elisabeth Warren was

*barged with steeling two dresses, a petticaer. two
antb:s,ilkr.hpaiileid.lreraph ie. u
fi.frromlrilisi not h
tbeth Keaitei
of No. 2, Enze
to press the charge, did not appear ; but the magi,.
trate, caused her to he emit for, and, the offense having
bow proved, prisoner was oomintttd for a month.