The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

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DEFENCES OS THE TAT.—We have it on rod autho-
rity that the Government plans for establishing a nine-
pin battery at Broughty-ferry Castle are already com-
pleted, and that tenders for executing the work will be
advertised for in • very abort time. The old Castle of
Broughty, which now forms so picturesque an addition
to the line Deanery in its neighbourhood, will, we are
happy to say, be kept standing, the new battery being
about to be placed at its foot.
THEFT AT A BANK TABLIS.-011 Saturday week one
of the clerks of the City of Glasgow Bank (Edinburgh
branch), while transacting business at the National
Bank, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh, laid on the
counter a pocket-book, containing £412 in bank-notes.
His attention being momentarily distracted, the notes
suddenly disappeared, and every effort to recover or even
to trace them proved quite fruitless. The notes in-
cluded two for EIOU each of the Union Bank of Scot-
land.

RIVOLTIMO CRUELTY BY • MAN TO 818 DAOGHTZE.
—John Lander was brought up at the Dundee Police
, thug with revolti cruelty to his Court, on remand
daughter, Mary Lander. From the eanora adduced,
it appeared that the daughter had been seduced and
proved enceiiire, which so exasperated the accused that
be beat her cruelly with a horse-whip, and turned her
out of his house. Me attention of Mrs. Watson and some
other matrons was drawn to the poor young woman, who
was lying on the ground in a cart shed adjoining her
father's house, with • block of wood for bar pillow.
The women got the assistance of Mrs. Haggart, • mid-
wife, and she having ascertained that Mary Lander was
on the point of giving birth to a child, a quantity of
straw was procured for the poor creature to lie on, and
the women were stuffing the chinks in the abed to keep
the draught from her, when the accused came in armed
with a pointed hedge stake. Mrs. Haggart told him the
state his daughter was in, and requested him to go out,
and all would be over in ten minutes, and then she
would remove her to her house; he however swung
the stick round the heads of the women, and drove them
all out but the midwife. He then poked his daughter
with the stick in her back, and told her to get out, and
she sprang to her feet, and, giving a vermin', ran out of
the Abed, and fell to the ground. She eras carried to a
neighbouring house and was delivered immediately, the
child being alive. The case had been adjourned for the
attendance of the daughter. On the prisoner being
placed at the bar, &Lillie Wilson informed him that his
daughter had because insane, and, it was feared, a hope-
less lunatic. From the altered state of the case, he felt
it his duty to remit it to the Procurator Fiscal.—The
rimier was lammed in custody.

Glom day C 041.161 dross."—Uow often have .11 to admire
the ingenuity sod skill of a poop* who, U. vastly inferior to
CoUriairgi In good of the !Frond features of chiliadoe. yet
excel In tobrewing and In the need erte—but we are induced
to hesitate before we encourage the adopted's., of the b e5h.,:4141f
log to an steals 01a der Ting the Chinese
colour to the Met bulk of Tee rug ot to a
well known beet, sod that the nabs object In this,
:turn* at As coonteter's espaent for by all
of the low odour the bread Savouries,
Iwo feseednallart a fell price with the bed, blew the Mow
rdideamet so often wouplakod of by the consuoscre of dee
Vale wig wad the Mudd attractive kinds of Tea, whose
Ttal, drese."—The remedy for this to H 01116.0,1.1 Pure
without powdered colour on its surface ; being the Spring
=Lb bliss *own gsvourieen leaves to disguise, sod la
" show good ata.." Agents are tounterated In
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