The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-09 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, IMO.

Ft= Conosea.-26. Hew? Symonds has been
nominated by Giles ilynteedel,ddeptity oeroner,in
the place of H. Lock, Reg.,
Tan Atvitaarrox oF THI Wmotrtg ROAD.—WA
understand that the Bouth-Western Railway (Dor-
chester station) suffers appreciably in low of traffic,
through the obstruction of the road by the To"
Council's works.
MORTALITY fivsnertce FOB no Boeotian, FEB.,
1820.—Births, 21 (Fordington, 16) _• deaths, 12 (For-
dington 10); therefore the annual birth-rate is 336,
and the deatlx,rate 24 per 1,000. Intent mortal) ty
being 288 per 1•000, is very 'high, six Wiring died
under one year of age; however the same number
lived OM 60 years, leering only three deaths between
theme extremes. Bronchitis caused, ; infismomtion
enemas, ; consumption, 2; one only was due
to old age, whilst two were sudden dmthis—R. J.
Day, Medical Officer of Health.
Massa. Oolong AIM BAZYLL'i Arraiss.—A meet.
log under the failure of Meese& Coimbra end Hera,
farmem of Frampton, in partnership, and formerly
of Portland and Wyke Regis, was held on Thursday
at the Antelope Hotel, when a number of the principal
creditors were present. Mr. R. N. Howard, of Wey-
mouth, represented the debtors, whose joint UsWities
were estimated at about £4,600, of which there was
due for rent, ?cc., about £1,600. The awes were
estimated at about £3,000, but it was stated that
since the valuation was made many of the sheep were
found to be affscted with " coathe' " and, of course,
would not realise as much as bad been anticipated.
The meeting decided the estate should be wound up
In liquidation, Mr. Henry Dnke being chosen as
trustee, the committee of inspection to comprise the
, following :—Mr. R. Hazel and Mr. C. B. Bennett
, (Dorchester). Mr. Jolty (Itadipole), and Mr. J.
Templeman (W•Froota.4

BieMINPOIII3I. TIM naplUT
IOOIWITY SlMlMMlLkelnrelay.—Befare Lord Port- Was held on Saturday evening at the Guildhall, before bir.
I meh. the 11171 W. reeWeen. Igeut-Chmeral B. N. Howard (Mr. G. Symonds being unable to attend).
Parts, laa, and Idsjor-enieral Sir Charles TYoyly,
p
The follovring ntiemen were sworn on the jury
Bart :—
Marisa Jodie 01 Anders" 'v., anramaced foe Keelen. H. A. Randall (foreman), 1,. trtiett, C. Burdon.
insulting Charles Mitchell, • boy of the num, place, on J. W. Board, J. Cans J. lanes, Et Jackson, W. J. New.
the piMons Satarday evening.—Mr. Atkinson ton, J. Staines, H. &Sett. T. Hawke., rind C. Smyth.
In support of the summons.—lt appeared from= o.aot.
plainant's evidence that be and the defendant , had an Mr. F. Arden represented the friend, of thu dcceas
altercation about some swede., and that defendant took Tbe following evidence was adduced :
hold of him, tote his cost, and strut* him two or three Isabella Eaton paid she was a servant in the cniphy of
times. Hs malted his fether, and defendant caught him Miss Hurdle, Si. Edmund-street, aud the dece.e...l liiid
by the nose and threw him against a bank.—The father in the same house. That morning about /deems o'clo.-k
gave corroborative sorldenoa —Defendant denied assaulting she was in the bedroom making the beds, and on going to
the bog. --Satan Mosby. wife of the last defendant, was open the door of the drawing room she saw the d.cened
summoned for ansulting Betsey Mitchell, mother of the on the landing facing her. fleeing him she turn d
hat toutZlint, on the same ascriaioo.—Compisinant back and went into the bedroom. She did not
said she her boy cry out, and came out of her house see him again until she saw hbri toeing cut
and met the defendant, who struck her in the mouth and down by the storeroom She had seen him .'ace before
face and kicked her. Defendant aka struck her with two that morning, and had spoken to him. She did not
iron hoops which she had in her hanct—Defendant sllsged notice any strangeness about him—ln fact, she ttoozht
that complainant struck bra baby which she had in lin be looked as well as ever he did. The day before he Ohl
arms at the time, but the boy and defendant aocidastelll not get up until late in the afternoon. She went into
'truck the child herself with one of the hoops—Defendant the drawing-room about seven in the evening and found
denied striking complainant with her fiats, and said the him sitting in the dark, and without • fir,. She asked
boy first throw the hoops at her.—Delendant gave the him if she should light the fire, and he said no. She did
magistrates plenty of tongue, and the Bench being of not see him again that evening. He hal not boon very
bl opinion that she was most to ame, bound the husband well for some time.
In £lO as surety for her good behaviour for six months. In answer to the Foreman, the witness said when she
Alfred Dialle,. of Milboros St. Andrew, was summoned new the deceased standing on the Ind in.; he made no
for unoPoenng in search of gams on land in the occupation remark whatever.
of Mr. J. C. Mansel-PleydeU, at 11111borne,_on the Ilth of Thomas Hurdle, the nephew of the deceased, said he
February.—Defendaat did not appear. —William Shave, "lbw in the business. This morninr he was at the
gamekeeper to Mr. Pleydelt said be saw three hare wires
and two traps set in a wood, and defendant cup and took store on the morisin side of the road. A little after 11
the daughter the deceased cams scram and said her
• rabbit out of one of the trips—The magistrates inflicted Istawir hid hurt himself or was going to do so.
• flue of 4135. and 9i. oasts it. at once ran across the road into the house
TAmssas Neter, of Blandford, was summoned under the and saw his uncle (the dowsed) benzine by •
Poaching Prevention Act for being unlawfully possessed rope attached to the baluster. He immediately called
of a rabbit and twelve nets on the highwily at Biandford, oat to their man George to get a knife to cut the rope, and
on the 7th of February.—Mr. Atkinson was for the defence. wither ran up the Mane to to him up by his arms until
—P.O. Andrews said be saw defendant coming from the ewe was cut The man irawediately brought the
Blandford St. Mary on Saturday, the 7th of Fe bru try. knife and cut the rope. There were no signs of life what-
He paned defendant near Kr. Anbery's, and noticed that ever. Dr. Tigard was in attendance about three minutes
his pockets were very bulky. His raked defendant "that from the time. The deceased had been unwell for over
be had in them and be rePuel "Nothing.- On searching twelve mouths and at times a little strange in his wanner.
defendant he founds warm rabbit sad twelve rabbit nets. Of late he had been particularly strange, but not to such
all wfit and with rabbits' fur about them—Hr. Atkinson an extant sa to lead them to think be would commit such
said defendant had been ferreting on Mr. Ward's land, at an act as this. its had shown his e'rangeness by beim(
Blandford St. Mary, with Kr. Ward and his friends. ae he very silent in matters of banner, very denamed. and
had done Scores of times before. Defendant borrowed the Deemed not to take the interest that be wad to do. He
note for ibis purpose, and Mr. Wet I save him the rabbit, was about Si years of ain
—Sir Wiliuu Marriott', gamekeeper said be had never In reply to Mc Arden witness said deceived seemed
seen defendant ferreting oa Word's land. —Upon the very vacant and suffered from akm of memory.
applicaVon of Mr. Atkinson the Burtch adjourned the
osee for a month, for the attendance of gr. Ward as • taisorgo Croat in the employ of Messrs. Hurdle. said
'Mese. this morning about eleven clank he was in the atom and
saw Kiss Hurdle call the last wither. He followed them
into the house, and saw the deceased harming. Thomas
Hurdle called for • knife to cut the rope, and he at macs
got it and cut him down. They laid the deceased on the
stairs but he named to be quite dead. The rope was
fastened with a running noon round the neck with-
out a knot. He only beard • slight notes in the throat
when be loosened the rope but no sign of breathing. Of
late the deceased had appeared very strange in his
manner. Witness had been in his employ for 16 years.
Ot late he seemed very vacant and with no memorl. He
used lobe a very_ active man of bu.inesa, but he bad not
recently been able to attend to his business.
Dr. Tined, medical practitioner. twilling at Weymouth,
said this morning about twenty minutes pat eleven, when
visiting a patient in St Mary's-street, he was summoned
to see the demand. He at once went to him and found
him lying on the stairs apparently quite dead. He used
means to try and resters him, but lit was without effect.
There was a deep purple naark extending around the back
ot the neck from the int war to the right, and there was
a large discoloured patch under the right air, caused by
the pressure of the rope by which he had been suspended.
The cause of death Wee suffocation, produced by strangUla•
tion.
At the Coroner's suggestion, the jury at once returned •
verdict of "Temporary Insanity."
TIOVIL.
SENDING DISEASED PIGS TO KARKEr.

The Yeovil magistrates were occupied several hours on
Tuesday in hearing • charge agtiost Mr. George Honig,
dairyman. tieing at Clinger Farm, of having exported for
sale in the Yeovil Market certain pigs which were, and
to his knowledge, suffering from typhoid fever. The
case first came before the Bench several months ago.
Defendant appealed, and the case was tient back to the
magistrates to receive the 'eidetic and re-hear.
To-day Mr. S. Watts, of Yeovil, appeared for the
prosecution, and stated the facts.
Superintendent Smith was then called, and stated that
on the 9th of May last, he saw 20 pigs belonging to the
defendant in the market, ilvitie of them were ill,
especially two. Veterinary Inmector Stewart WU
present on the occasion and the defendant asked witness
to wait for two hours whilst he telegraphed to Sherborne
for a veterinary. Be consented, but le about See Minutes
I afterwards Mr. Stewart returned and sad to "
wait for us, kill them at once."
1 Mr. Watt.: In consequence of what Stewart said, the
pigs were killed I
I Mr, Howard: No, it was on the certificate of the
t rinary inspector.
This wail the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Howard
then opened the case for the defence. He remarked that
the question for them to decide that day was whether or
not the defendant had means of ascertaining that the pigs
• aro coas4.l ; .hnther he had means of knowing thst
the pigs were suffering from typhoid fever. The defend-
ant war a dairyn.sn, and ha i FOAM 50 pigs. During the
winter 111:1 allowed them all to tun together, and owing to
the cold nittite the little pigs crept under the big ones.
and • disease called pankers, something like • broken.
winded horse, was produced. The defendant took some of
the pigs to Dorchester market, but not getting a suMcient
offer for them be took them borne again to the other pies
Some of the pigs were suffering from tanker., and, had
they typhoid fever, the defen lint must have been a
madman to put them with his others. He afterwards
took some to hi iiden Newton, and then to Yeovil. A man
offered biro 174, each for them, hot he refused it, and he
put them into the waggon again with the determination
of taking them hotue. That showed that he did not know
them to he suff, ring from the typhoid fever: if he had
known that they were would he have refused 17s, each for
them! and if he had • guilty knowledge would he not
have got rid of them? What was there about the pigs that
he should have known that they were suffering from the
dined I They bad the evidence of three medical men,
and upon that evidence he said they had not typhoid
few. There had been no typhoid fever at Dorchester,
at Maiden Newton, or at the farm, and the only typhoid
fewer was the erase on the brain of Superintendent with
and Veterinary Byrnes. Mr. Howard time called
Mr. Thomas Walden who boughtoa an average from 40 to
ery pigs a week. Free yews ago typhoid fever broke out
among his pies, and he lost 116 out of II& The symptoms
were—running at the evi.s and nod, blotches, and the
ears would lop. In April he saw some pigs of the defend-
ant's at Dorchester, and remarked how badly he had been
keeping them. Six or eight of them were suffering frees
pincers.
Mr. Charles North, Cane, stid on the 10th of May he
went to the defendant's farm and there examined the
pigs. There were not any signs of typhoid fever, and
there were not any means to led one to suppose that
they were suffering from the disease. On the following
Monday he again visited the f irin with the Superintend.
ant, but could not discover any trace of fever.
Mr. Henry Coristopher said h* resided at Broadmayne,
and dealt extensively in pigs. He remembered seeing the
defendant's pigs at Dorchester, where they were offered
by Mr. Eager by auction II& or as. eath were offered
for them. They were suffering from peckers, and there
were net any symptoms of typhoid fever. He also saw
the defendant's pigs at Malden Newton on the sth of
May. They were small ours, and the greater part of
them were suffering from ranker; and not from fever.
They were worth about lit or 14s. each, but would have
fetched 17s. or 18e. had they not packers. Pigs suffering
from fever would not have the stomach to eat held
beans.
Mr. John Stewart, veterinary surgeon. Yeovil, said on
the 9th of May he saw the pigs in question in YeortL The
defendant and a Mr. Lock, from Ash, who had sines gone
abroad, were there. Hs examined the pigs, and could not
detect any sign of typhoid fever. The symptoms of fever
were loss of appetite and great desire to drink dirty water;
the ears would lop as the disease developed, and there
would be sprite visible, but not any of thosi symptoms
were apparent on the pies.
Mr. Jahn Elwin ofYetminster. said he saw the defend-
ant's pia, but did not notice that any of them were
guff erbgeforrogui fever.
e Brooks, butcher, Yeovil, said he saw the
defendant's pige, and he told the policeman at the time,
they no more bed the fever than he hid.
Mr. Philip Oreensiade said he rented the farm where
the defendant had a dairy. He had seen the pigs four or
five times daily, and not any of them had the fever.
Mr. James Christopher, • butcher, of Dorchester, abo
gave evidence.
The defendant, Mr. Geo. Harris, stated that he yaat.4
the dairy at Clinger Farm. He bad • field of fire or six
scree, in which he let about 50 pigs run. He bought
them about March at Yeovil, giving fla. to 10t each. ide
took 10 of the smallest ones to Dorchester, putting •
reserve price of 124. each upon them. Those were bought
In, and he took them home agais. A few days after-
wards he took 14 out of the 20 to Maiden Newton; some
of them were suffering from peckers. He sold theca foe
111/. each. He brought 20 to Yeovil. and put them into •
pen. He was offered 17s. each, but refused has he wanted
we, When he found the pigs WWII condemned, he went
and bought is. worth of bead, which they were not long
intim.
Tbh IMP the case, and the Bench retired for nearly an
hour to consider their decision On returning into court
(the Mayor being absent), the ex-Mayor law they were
of opinion that the defendant had not used reasonable
diligence to find out what the disease was, and they there-
fore confirmed their last decision.

It is computed that since the advance in iron, the
London and North Western Railway Company have made
• profit of £20,000, on old pernianent way materials.
During 12 America exported 785,130,409 dollars worth of
merchandise, against 797,002.073 dollars in 1878. The
imports were valued at 513,780,016, and 431,812,483 dollars,
reevely.
While it is acknowledued that Hr. J. B. Hannay has
succeeded in producing diamonds, the cost of the artificial
over the natural gem is sot= 2,000 per cent
" lesxuaterinuc" Paestum= Apparently inex-
haustible are the borrowed hats that. UMW the Coni orer's
tender cue, develop an abnormal capacity; and his port-
folios rival • 00-operative store in the multiplicity and
variety of their costae Indeed. in Poole respects they
=thesm for we have not pet hated of the !dorm
in cannon balls or babies I From these recepteeles
come goblets, dolls, drums, doves, bonnets, Chinese lan-
terns, ontraviahs, retinal= rabbets, bonbons, birds, and
ewes, chandeliers, and children Far more, indeed,
tomes out than by any possibility meld ever have been
stowed within at one time. Part of the parole lies in the
fact that some of the above-named ernthet 20 into small
compass until opened out, OA they are when broueht into I
the view of the audience. Thus Chinese lanterns Ile flat'
dolls collapse, being merely Onlaila OS 11111111 frIZINWOrk ;
tins fit one within another ; retcules are filled with other
articles, that are handed ont before they are produced ; and
asps are made " practicable," to be subsequently opened
out to most =potion dinienrions; even cannon-balls prove
amenable to reason, and flatten themselves without the
sasistenoe of • Monitor's sides. If the wizard produces
several of these latter, P.O may take it that only one is
genuine, and this the magician will carefully lot fall that
on may be made aware of its solidity. One other may be
a spherical wooden shell, • portion of which will screw
out, and the interior will then be discovered loaded with
no worse explosives than bonbons and crackers. These
the professor will distribute before showing the ball,
which, in the first instance, he has raised from the senreste
into the bat by placing his second finger into a hole in it,
specially made, crooking the finger and so inserting the
ball into the borrowed headgear. The remaininc sphere,
are merely "dummies," circular Win§ covered with black
cloth, and lying Oat In the hat, but plump as any =awed
specimens or • warlike projectile when taken thence. Bat,
say you, chandeliers ead babies do not bear much corn.
pression ; nor do stew-pans with smoking-hot contents
readily squeeselintocornets ; ru.d brawls are not Improved
by mulching I Our answer to this is—oerteinly not. These
are mainly portfolio tricks; and, hemmer large, the,
could not °ordain a tithe, at one time of that which they
give forth. There is a proems of re-filling going on, over
bawe
and over agals,-dothee. and other um tianim ban
from the sertaats end the engradiluss.out
from Ume to time, serve ti corer the operation of " load-
ing." 'reit rally difficulty is the bit of animate nature—
Qs bey or girl—to be fished out of the deeps of the
porUollio. Hare the pegs -uoconeciousli watch' 0.1 cyst
I. of great service) bungler es he is, he drops • cloth in
treat of the portfolio. and, at tne sous instant, the child
le shot through a trap ia the stage to the level et the beak.
T'ha "riarsism" ',Meet picks up the cloth at Me= Ins-.
the trick is dr= I—Ltiouse

WHAT TOR WORLD SAYS.
Lent. the theatrical kto nobc hes had no effect on the
extraordinary pecuniary auc,... of the revival of the
Merchant of Venice. The grow takings fir the two per•
yoyenaneee on Saturday last were very dose upon 000.

The Empress of Austria tr.& a beautiful seat on horse-
back. wears a habit which fit. to perfection, and an kin-
txmptionable hat. The tour ensemble. however, Is not
exactly like our type of the English noreewornan. A cer-
tain foreign dash carved, s the whole. Perhaps one lit, le
itici.l.nt which tends to this un-Euglieh effect is the fan,
which &&&&& its an aprandaed to hi r Maje-ts.• .addle-tree.
The black-and.yellow fan is nut used as a remedy for
ex :east,e heat. but as a shade against the sun's rays. The
&nom', It is said, surfers from weak eyes, and cannot
stand the rays of a bright spring sun, even in the Emerald
Isle.

The yocl.ting world will be glad to hear that Lord Otbo
Fitaterall intends shortly to launch upon the waters •
aplendid now yacht, *hick is now building for him on the
Clyde. She la to be of 300 tone burden, and to combine
and steam vessels—much In the
the advantages of Balling
style, though considerably smaller, of the Sunbeam—and
U built with three raking masts. Lord Otho is himself •
very clever engineer, and the vessel will be fitted up with
all the newest and latest improvements for timed and
comfort. Every luxurious idea that can be invented or
imagined will, no doubt, be found in this yacht, which is
to i.e a model of her cleat. The period for her being
launched is tot yet fixed, hut certainly bdore the r, gular
yachting season eels in. She Is, I he 11% tO be chti,tened
the "Fair Geraldine," in honour of the lady.foundress of
the house of Fittrerald, whoso portrait hangs as a family
heirloom on the walls of the drawing room at Carton, the
Duke of Leinater's ancestral residence.

The accounts from the Black Country are very cheering.
Where last year closed mines and hungry ragged men out
of work were to be seen on all sides, now the isePect is
entirely chanced: the sound of the descending cage, the
smoke from the works, and the busy burn of • working
population ara beard and seen as of yore, and L
Dudley's iron bids fair soon to be as profitable, and his
mines as lucrative,as they proved for so many years before
the great and terrible stagnation in the iron and coal trade
sot in. Tbe wealth and promarity of England depend so
greatly en her iron trade that this improvement, which
mop pruhapa be regarded only as • source of satisfactim
to the owner, ought really to be considered • national
cause for rejoicing. Already has the tide turned in other
trades depending on this great backbone; and even agri
cultural proepecta are far lees depressing than they have
been for many months. When these mining populations
get high wages they live well, and meat accord= rises
in price ; they will always have of the very No
Australian beef for them—the real English Juicy sirloin
is for their money; and it may be noted as • curious fact
that simultaneous with the rise in wages in the mining
districts and the employment of • larger number of men
has been the rise in the price of fat cattle in the markets
There is really cause to hope England has seen its wont
days, and that Ikon is a "good time coming" which will
not be evanescent.

Estract from Popyis Diary, published February, 1993
"To the great sale-rooms in Yingetreet, where • mighty
fine collection of blne-and.white old ginger-pots from
China and I did see 000 man give DSO for one, and
another man 0120 for another. Yet they do say there be
poor folks without dinners, and many little children with
no clothes to put on them, over in Ireland. All which do
seem to me mighty contradictory and not • little sad to
think on. so I will no more trouble myself about It.

Lord Hartington justly complained that the Quincedor
of the Exchequer bed not consulted the limiters of the
Opposition before bringing forward his resolutions on the
subject of o',struction. This, however, is by no means
the full measure of the Chancellor's autos. He ignored
not only the leader, of the Opposition, but the speaker
himself, who, of all moo, ought to have been taken into
the conlidence of the leader of die House. The conduct
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this matter is all
the more inexcusable that Lord Hartington bad actually
written to him (Sewing suggestions in reord to the best
manner of dealing with obstruction. Of these suggesti:no
not the slightest notice was ever taken, either publicly or

privately.

There is, I understand, every reason to believe that a
contract of marriage wil alertly be entered into between
• Prince of our Royal Rouse, whose modesty and learning
have won for him golden opinions, and a Mutants who
was universally admitted to boar away the palm for beauty
at the last drawing-room, and who is the daughter-In-law
of a Scottish earl distinguished for his gallant hearing and
literary attainments

I hear width ely that the plot to blow up the Winter
Palace was discovered by the Berlin Palm, and information
giving many details of the designs of the (*aspirators WO/
forwarded to St. Petersburg ender Prince Bismarck's
instructions by special couriers ten d•ys previous to the
catastrophe which hes startled the world. It la no wonder
that., of the two officials who had charge of the palace, one
has since shot himself. and the other has bad • paralytic
etroks.

_
The Duchess of Bdindurgh was not, as has been stated.
In the sputment with her father when the explosion took
place. S e was at the moment in her private spirtmenta,
and completing her toilette foe dinner. When the chock
was felt. the Duchies. though pale with emotion, mani-
fested the moat perfect seracfred. and endeavoured to
rite...tire her terrilied attendants, remarking that the
enginetri were probably blowing up the ice on the liver
tu relitve the pressure on the bridge.

It does seem somewhat impugn/tent and incongruous to
read in one potion of an Irish raper of the dire distrait
of the country neceultating urgent appeals for
all other nations , f the earth, and in mother
the same piper, almost aide by side, to reed of • large
aunts of money collected from these very poor and stem
hut people by their blames to mend out ta the Pope in
distant Italy under the head of Petcr'a Pence. hasaisr.if
the unpro(e.sing world are expected to give of tbieriniis.
Or their much, to hap their suffering brethren, t great
head of their church should deny himself the
offerings drugol from the very poor amongst flock,
and forbid the collecting of such pence till tbe present
famine and diaries have pawed away.

Tim dollared youth of America, who, from Wit of brains
think it better to be married "than mentioned not atsli,'
have bit on a curious Method of arquirh
Hitherto they have been oontented to enter
of trimony—under abnormal conditions.
the M.onuioth cove.. on suspension bri
bslloorts ; but it was reserved for a certain
surpass, in ingenuity. all other aspirant.
She fitted upa large room in her 11,,tu
then issued invitations to her friends