The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00


THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1866.

THE RECENT STORMS AND THE
APPROACHING WINTER.

'EIK 00E1141TFES of the Stestititoßgo
1- nuns" Sootatv which le repreeseeted la
ivory pert of the meet of dee lizzaoalby v!p-
, wards SOO honorary agents. EARNESTLY APPEAL
for HELP to Clothe lad Forward to their Howe
Destitute Shipwreeked Persons, and to soothe the
sorrows of the widows sad orphans of the drowned.
Between 9,000 and 10,000 porton. are annually re-
lieved. The cose is urgent. The Society bevies bees
Erztly premed, its current cash Is consequently very
Donations arid Subscriptions thenkfully reesived by
JOHN MONTEITH,
Howorary Agent.
Dridport Harbosr, Ist January, MEL

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CALENDAR.
16.—Trissday.
17. Wednesday. —BenJunin Franklin born 1706.
18.—Thunday. —Prison, Rom. Virgin sod Martyr,
270.
19.—Yriday. —First Bogb. P.rharnrnt, Ism
20. —Bstarvay.—Fwinan, Bishop of Rom* nod
martyr, 260.
2L —Sunday. —Third Sunday alter Dm Epiphany.
Agnes Rom. virgin arid martyr, 304.
Loss: Morning, Iseinbi iv., and St
Matthew, ; Evening. Iminh.lit, and
1 Cor., iii
2IL —Monday. —Vincent, Spanish Demon and
mwrtyr, 304.

DORSET CO EJ NTY EXPRESS
DIRCHE4TER, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1866

NOTES OF THZ WE

Qussw is still at Osborne, taking
daily carriage drives. Prince Arthur has,
however, returned to his studies, occupying
the Hanger's House in Greenwich Park.
There has been • grand battue at Holkham,
in which a thousand head of game, mostly
pheasants, has fallen daily before the guns of
Ithe Prince of Wales, and his best, the Sul
of Leicester' . The Prince, by the way, bids

fair to verify a certain page in Pseel'•
Almanac, since we find him on his way to
Holkham, stopping the train to join Captain
T. ler, the Government Inspector on the
engine, for the purpose of seeing the vforks
of the line. Some will tote this English and
manly, as perchance it is; but, others will
hardly fall in being reminded by it, just the
I least in the world, of Mr. W. F. Wyndham.
At all events, the immediate result appears
to be that the Princess also must affect being
a little fist, although we shall never believe it
comes naturally to her. Thus we learn from
the Court newsman, that each day, at or
after luncheon, in the Holkham covers, the
Princess of Wales, Countess of Leicester,
and other ladies joined the sportsmen in the
coverts, and remained until the close of the
day. Heaven knows whether the daughters
of England in our day, required this example
of fast life in high places as an incitement.
ll.—Seatit, always in a chronic state of
revolution, appears to have worked herself up
at length into acute military insurrection.
The telegrams (if the storm which has been
pervading Europe, has left any wires in
existence), being in the hands of one of the
parties most interested in keeping real occur-
rences dark, only very little information of
what is going on can be gleaned. But that
little is very ominous for the peace of Spain.
An army of revolted regiments, favoured by
the Progressistie party, and commanded by
two generals, Prim and Latorre, closely pur-
sued by Laval*, have crossed the Tagus,
destroying the bridge of Fuenteduenos, in
circler to delay pursuit. And on Tuesday
last, rumour had it in Madrid, that •colume,
commanded by General Concha, had been
defeated by Prim and his insurgents; and
subsequent consternation was created by the
report that he was marching upon Saragossa,
which had been with all Aragon proclaimed
by the Government as in s state of s;ege.
The Government naturally did all they could
to allay this alarm by counter statements,
that the insurgents were still in retreat on
the mountains of Toledo, pursued by Zabala
and other.; that General Prim's carriage
and baggage had fallen into the hands of the
Royalists; and that troops had been sent by
way of Fatremadura, to cut off his retreat.
The Government also posted proclamations
to the effect that they would act with great
rigour in maintaining tranquility. However
this may be, some confirmation of the revolur•
tionary rumour was speedily found in the
precipitate return to Madrid of Co- cha, the
General illeged to have been defcatedlby Prim,
and the announcement of his having been
superseded by another General, Serrano. In
Barcelona too, there has been a collision
betwixt the inhabitants and the Queen's
troops, under the Captain General of Spain.
The soldiers fired upon the crowd, who were
throwing stones, and three persons were
killed and five wounded. Martial law has,
moreover, been proclaimed in Madrid, aud
the existence of a vast conspiracy with
ramifications throughout Spain, is publicly
announced by Marshal O'Donnell.

M.—THE SPREAD OF ERE CATTLE PLAGUE
becomes more and more appaling. From
the end of the third week in October to that
of the first week in January, this has been
the arithmetrical, almost geometrical, pro-
gression of cases occurring weekly i-1,729,
1,8/3, 1,765, 2,580, 2,669, 3,610, 8,828, 5,856,
6,054, 6,256, 7,693, and 9,120. A very large
proportion of these cases have been found in
Scotland and the North. And out of eighty-
two thousand attacked within the•ct twelve
weeks forty-seven thousand have died, whilst
between fourteen and fifteen thousand have
been killed, and only eight thousand re-
covered—exactly twelve thousand remaining
over. It is not a little remarkable, considering
that the outbreak has been most severe in the
North, that, u Mr. Gladstone points out in
one of his letters, Aberdeershire should ap-
pear to be the only place where the disease
has been what it is the fashion to call
"stamped out," after 272 cases, according to
the continental practice, by the use of the most
rigid measures. The explanation simply is
that by a desperate resolve the Aberdonians
determined that it was better to make a prb;
pitiatory saaifice at once than to suffer the
disease to run its course. In another point
of view (still quoting the authority of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose own
property in Cheshire the plague has
now reached), the natives of "Bon Ac-
cord" present a laudable example to
the world, in the union of land-owners
and land-occupiers in an iudemnity fund for
which they are to be rated in equal propor-
tions. Keeping this example in view, let us
want the cost of disregarding all precautions
and bewildering one another with mere talk,
as we are doing now. Taking the cue of
13-gland %lone, with its seven millions of
cattle stock in jeopardy, there is seventy
millions value tobe protected—not all destined
to be lost—but it may be remembered that
Professor Gamgee has said from the first that
nothing on earth could prevent one-fourth
from perishing. We shall take, however, the
more moderate estimate of our friend M;.. J.
Chalmers Morton, in Saturdal's Apiewittleal
Gazette, and say one-fifth. Ihus of the neat
xtock of England it seems inevitable that one-
fifth will die of the plague, that is, nearly a
million and a half of cattle (1,400,000), of
I the value of £14,000,000. This then is
what our farmers and graziers are in process
of losing. How is such a loss to be met, as
met it must be, in order not to destroy a
course of industry so intimately connected
with the staple food of the country? The
Farmers and Graziers would be contented
with an indemnity for actual losses of two-
thirds the value, as afforded by the Govern-
ment in the case of a similar outbreak 100
years ago. This would require a public loan
fund of' nine millions, to be raised at once, and
Sir James Kay Bhuttleworth proposes that,
like the loans under the Public Works Act
of the manufacturing districts, it might be
gradually repaid and extinguished in the
course of thirty years by a moderate rent-
charge over the land, payable, however, only
by insurers, so that those who did not like to
insure might take their risk of loss. At six
per cent., the amount of these annual instal-
ments of rent charge for thirty years would
be about £560000. It is for our agricultural
friends to consider how and whether they
OLD preferably provide for this, or face the
terrible possibilities of this destructive
plague single-handed, as they have been
doing. Mr. Gladstone speaks of pledging
the rateable property of counties to bar the
burden in equal proportions betwixt landlord
and tenant. Sir James Kay Bhuttleworth
does not interfere with the adjustment of
details of that nature. He seeks by his plan
to avoid the necessity of any guarantee from
the Government on the one hand, or any
grant or subscriptions in aid of the losses of
insurers on the other, and, therefore, if it
could be accomplished, his would be the more
independent method, and in fact a great com-
bined triumph of the insurance and funded
capital principles. One word more. We
lately referred to "isolation" as in our notion
the only means of extirpating the disease;
and as remedial measures must not for a
moment be relaxed whatever else may be
done—we are glad to see Mr. Algernon
Clarke coming out in support of that plan in
one of the ablest letters that has appeared in
the Zeus.

DORCHISTEB.

Tau albite sad Monday *weak* Matta@ to hi coo
of tho moot taossastal atattiap over hold in the town.
W. am Wormed that amity the flats of Um Nakao to.
Woo hays already tosa takes.

Daum Qom Hosorrot, spook tooliog Jan. 11....
I.lodsolo stholstod, 11; ditio dbobsniod, 7; out.
pallis sashes& 4; MSS* illsobsrood, 1; 10-paskato
rososlots, bsorilmg, bl; oub-posissis roroabang
boobs, 74 ; enorpssiss, L

WI ire gratified to learn that George Assiut**
Aldridp, Bq.,—tha youngest moo of Dr. Aldnige, the
Moor of Dorcheater—iste Lieutenant in the Dorset
Militia, wsa plotted on the 12th ult., to the 71•1
Highlanders
Coax MAatn, flaturday.—The greeter pert of the
wheat offering, being out of condition, was not lo very
good demand—that sold worst late rates. Bailey Arm
in pries, and in rathor better demand, espetoally for
grinding qualities. Oslo in request, with an advancing
burden', in pries.
Thu !brow-mai of Werineaddy night totally dis
artangnl the railway teal& in this nelgi,booth,,od. The
Greet Western down two whist, nee due at half.part 10
oa Thai-day did not arrive till dye in the evening, and •
similar delay took pleas on the South•Westero
The Anit two to Bnelport from Maiden Newton did not
mach that tows till nearly four o'clock in the afternoon,
sod the traMe between Dorshester and Weymouth was
stopped. Many of Its• telegraph posts on thia line were
Moen down Tbe sheep in the fields have suffered son-
siderahly. We ham that Mr. & Pope, of Toiler, had
150 ewe. mad lamb, lost in the mow, and that 80 of ILL
Groves's wen to • similar plight.

PIWINTATIOIL—The Rey. C. I'. Procter gave his
annual treat to the Junior members of All (Mists' choir
con ThundaY evening, when every provision was made
to ensure the enioyment of the boys. The obortiters,
we believe. most heartily mimeo their parish priest, as
his unwearylug care for them deserves, and they took
adesokapi of that oomaion to present to him a slight
tribute of their regard, in the shape of an ekgent ihk
shad, a pair of rase, (which they had tastefully glad
with bouquets of choice flowers), a bookcsend for the
library table, and • blotting.,.., accompanied by an dress. Mr. Mr. Procter a knowledsed gm gift i° his 000
affectionate, earned way, which afforded great plc* ore
to his young fiesta. It was, indeed, a happy evening
for all.

Ti. Gras of Thursday morning did but little
damage, so far as we ate learn, in this locality. A few
glates and tiles were detached from old buildings, the
cattle shed in the fair field was partially destroyed, end
the trees in and around the town were rudely die.
membered. The dump of trees standing in front of
Mr. Lovell's earrings manufsetory seems to have en-
perieneed the anaemia§ of the storm, and one of the
trees is almost destroyed. We bear that Mr. J. Myer,
M.P., narrowly escaped serious injury at this point on
Thursday morning. Re warn pawing in his carnage, he
driving, when one of the large limbs of a tree fell. The
branches erased the em-lags, sad startled the home,
Int the boo. gentleman being "s good whip" moon re-
strained them.

Bononan Perry Bugloss. Weeder. —Peron the
Mayor (Dr. Aldridge) sad R. Davin Bp —Jaws Harks
was sanuomsed by Sands Brows for an meault. Tbe
girls owe of the lowest elan, and heels Hillntreet. On
Monday eight they mot at the Swan In., and alter
drinking there, they went out and quarrelled. It warn
quite evident that the defendant beat Brown without
peovottatiou, and the Bomb deed her El 'or, in default,
14 days' imprisonment She was allowed • week to pay
in, and warned that tf ette came before the magistrate*
win, she would be gent to gaol, without the option of
pityieg • fine. --George Bert, • middlwaged man, was
abused with amaulting vary Werke. This took place
at the Crowe lon, on Friday night. Complainant's
face was shockingly bruised, end it 'speared that be had
aliw kicked her violently. Defendant said Abe girl
called him foul mimes, awl that her fate mast bavitite,
belittled when he pushed her out of the house.—The
Bench deed him LI, or • fortnight'. IMprisonmenti
He warn allowed week to pay in.

Mild him be thought Schroder was deed. He was
lying on his left side. Before he left to go tithe mate,
he sew nothing In the hands of either of the
Parties. The mate then eame Into the aft cabin, felt
the dmmuied"s 4telise, lulled him by name, and found
him quite dead. From the eceamenesteent of the
quarrel till the time the mate found him dead did not
. mud sena minutes. The mate's name was Frederick
Bohn, brother of the muter and owner. Red been on
board the Teasel about five months, sad bad never
known them to quarrel.--Gottlieb Labin, a seaman, on
board the Catharine, Said be was in the fore cubin with
the &messed and last witness. Marquez It then came
in and complained of the of paraffin and said
their pudding emelt par Chit. home words room
and Marquardt **ld he Ned heard onmethios of deceued
lion another Alp. The deceased asked what it was.
and the other replied that he wield not go as an able
seaman in the other vessel Upon this the eleoes.ed
threw down his cep and smashed it, stripped end eou•
insetted the struggle. Deceased was a very powerful
num and Marquardt jumps on his boa. Deceased
seised the other's comforter and pushed him upon his
book, or berth. Marquardt then caught hold of
deceased by his head, drew his knife. and stabbed bins
in his neck. Witness, himself. suing this, crawled
sway among the timbers and could scarcely get out
again. As Noon as deceased was stabbed, be fell, and
Marquardt fell upon him. Marquardt then lost up
and This on deck. Witness had been in the venal five
swathe sad had never before known the parties to
quarrel. He believed that deceased's age was 28 years.
Witness identified the knife produced es belonging to
the prisoner. It wax the name be used in stabbing the
deoessed.—Hetry Hope Nettleton:l surgeon, Ila;c1 that
he was called to emnine the deemed on Friday,
between two andathriu o'clock. He found him dead,
and on examining found some arterial and veinits
blood on the floor. The knife
_produced might
have eauAri the wound, and if she blood on
the soar mot fleet the wound it would be seal-

taent to **use deirth. Could not, from tbe internal ap-
pearance of the wound, say what was the internal injury.
Re had no doubt the man died from hemorrhage, but
bow that hemorrhage was brought about he oould not
say. The hemorrhage, of comae. was caused by the
earn instrurpent that was foreed into the neat. —S,Areer-
intendent Underwood produced the knife.
prisoner woe brought to the 00110 P station at Dorchester,
vitae,. told him the charge, and prisoner said they had
a row about demise the ship, and the man who was
dead skipped to fight him, and pushed him in the bunk,
end be then strbbed him in the rook and fell under
ham. That afternoon witness went on board the reeved
cad found the knife he now prtriseed, with a quantity
.4 blood on the handle, in the fore-oabin, amongst the
deals, near to where the straggle was said to have taken
4 Igoe He had compared the knife with the marks in
the demand's seek, and had no doubt Imre a knife
would prides, those mark.. The hole was two inches
This being the whole of tire evictions, the kroner
tnwprained the law of the sass. Sad the jury returned a
verdort of manalaughter againa Freaks.* Marquardt,
sad the ror.ner. committed him for trial for the °tame
at the next DOlllll4 Ass.ses.

On Monday the primoner eras brousht op before R.
FAiot, Faq.. and R. H. 0. Souffleld, Fon., the
'videos, given above having been repveted, be via
ectomaittec. by them alao for trial on the slurp of
'manslaughter.

THE GALE: GREAT DISASTERS TO

POOL&

FATAL AOCIDSIT. —Mr. Edwin Potter, who for.
merly resided at Poole, met with e fatal aosident no
hoard the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam•
ship Delta, on the Nth ultimo. At ten o'clock on
that day he was standing on dick near the meth.
room, whim the ship rolled and he fell upon the
cylinder of the engine, and was crashed to death.
few,, buried the next day .4 ma. Re leaves a
widow and one child to lament their loss.

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