The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-31 00:00:00

A CLERICAL APPLWANT FOR A SPIRIT
LICENSE.

A meeting of ratepayers was held at Wigan on Tuesday
to Petition the magistrates against granting any more
licenses to sell drink. and memorials were unanimously
adopted to that effect. The Rev. Philip Heins, vicar of
St, George's Church, occupied the chair, and commented
strongly on the fact that the rector of Wigan (the Rev.
and Hon. O. J. Orlando Rridgernan) was all applicant
through his 6011, the Rev. Z. R. Orlando Bridgeman, rector
of Tarporly, Cheshire, for a provisional order for • license
to sell all intoxicating liquors for en hotel Proposed to be
built on ground in the meanes belonging to the Rector,
and Re:joining the proposed new Wigan Market Hall.—
' Mr. Hues said : I do nut think the curate of Tarporley
has had any complicity in this application. It is not the
gentleman who haa lately taken holy orders who has
made this application, but our own Orlando Dridgoman,
who is a very great man—(lnughter). He is the rector of
Wigan? rural dean, honorary canon of Cheater Cathedral,
chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen, brother to the right
honourable the Earl of Ilnulford, the Master of the Horse,
and, above all, president nf the Wigan branch of the
Church Temperance Society —(laughter). In the name of
religion I protest against • minister of religion applying
for • spirit license. In the mime of the Church of
England I protest againAt her altars being clesirrated by
&licensed victualler iidnistering at them.—The application
was refused at the licensing session.

A WIIOLESALE MUItDEttIIL
The l'aris correspondent oof the Tittles says that • work-
man of Tonbase, named &ogee, has just been condetunesi
to death for three murders winch he committed on the
Stith October last year. On that day, about nine o'clock
In the morning, he left his house in Faubourg de lionheur,
and proceeded on the road to the village of Balms with a
doubledorrelled gun over his shoulder. Ile was known to
all as adoring poacher, so two MOD. who met him on
the
road, were not surprised to hear him fire twice. Berge,
almont immediately after repassed them groin( towards
Toulouse. One of them said, jokingly. "You have soon
found the hare." Berge' made no answer, but, reloading
his gun, contintud on his way. The two men in question,
however, were attracted by loud screams from a
neighbouring cottage to the spot whence they heard the
reports proceed, and 50011 found the li f class Lothar of
Lesbos and Needy two cantouniers, hying on the road.
Both had been shot through the head, and were quite dead.
llerses, continuing his wink, asked a woman if (hemlines
the proprietor of the house where she lived, was home.
" Probably," she replied, "since he was ill." " I shall
know hew to find him." remarked Berge* who on
arriving at the house, perceived
up:tairs. The murderer took steady aim, and hit his
victim lochind the left ear. The unfortunate MAUI fell
dead, whereupon Berge* continued his houniciolal
progress, and sonic 201) yarbi further on, perceived a
an,,,,r named Vergues shaving himself before his window.
Bergen discharged his podia, full in NM man's face, and
wounded him no severely that Ins life was at one time
despaired of. Borges then tried to kill 1 self, but the
neighbours seised his gun. "I have killed four," said he to
the crowd, " aild only regret that I have not killed
Laurent." Ile next tried unsuceessfully to get poluessiou
of a knife belonging to C mac, a blacksmith, who had dis-
armed him. Barges then fled, and going into another UAW).
seised a knife, with which he attempted to kill hire/sew
1,, a bail, street by pressing the 1.011 of the 'knife against
the amid plimong tie :lade into his alslumen. Lis.
pile bin PeVerO wev.nos, he left this spot, after hiding the
knife and won after was arrested without making the least
re4staince. All this, it must be remembered, !matinee.'
witliiii two, hours. in a thickly-topubited neighlsuirbood
and in broad lay-lint. 'Surges, ou his trial, said that he
was induced to kill Ninety Locates, he sent end spirits to
annoy him. Be killed Laslox because he found him
talking with Noi.ly. U,m.msoinilis luol once accused him
a indecent behaviour towards a neighbour's daughter;
and Vernon Inel interfered with his poaching proclivities.
Ile ilescail,el his having lawn spell lai 1111 l I by a beautiful
woman, radiant as a princess, and said the night before
he committed the waders he heard noises count his
house, awl lie heard the voice of Nouily as he dug with •
pickaxe outside. Ile hail, to cure himself of his malady,
shaken howls with all his friends, in order, he said. to get
rid of the venom. Forty.eight witnesses were examined,
most of whom stated that Barges %Val not considered out
of his mind, bat tliat lie was very passionate. Five
iliwaors accustomed to deal with lunatics declared
thirties to be out oof his mind, and reconatuendial his
instant removal to an asylum. A sixth, who hail
exai ll ill ed him, sent au affidavit stein:: that if lierAes
as, tint mad he had at least committed the criMe4 of
which he was accused while u, • elate of high fever.
In:spins this es id•nse, tho jury found Berge* guilty,
without exteimat .4 circumstances. awl he was
condonnued to death.

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ACCIDENI AT ?SIMI:LIU FALLS.
A sad a:cunt:two, ranking lit the death of a lady and
gentleman, is reported in the Niagara Palle lirgiAter.
tbs the Mit that. a party consisting of Mr. Ethelhert
Parsons and Miss Lottie C. Philpott, Mr. William A.
junr. aa,l wife, Miss Hattie Fields, of Buffalo,
and Alr. Charles IL Pnilpott, stArted for the Cave in the
Winds, about lice o'clock. They chose this time because
ate t other hour of the day can the rainbow be Been in
such perfection. As they were ail thoroughly familiar
with the place, and had made repeated trips through the
cave in former years, they declined a guide and started
down the Biddle Stairway. They followed the usual
pathway uutil they reached the extreme eastern end of
the railway, wheu they clambered out upon the reeks
humediately in front of the cave. William ?kapott and
his wife seated themselves on the rocks, whilst the other
four ventured out still further, and descended M.& stream
which flows down over the rocks in (rent mad a little to the
right of the cave. Here they verna:e.ed for teams time
amusing themselves in IL., water, which brawls over the
rocks and rushes thruegh the crevices with great force.
Finally, Miss Settle went still further down the river,
umd ontered an eddy, which, however, was partially pro-
tected by encircling boulders. Here she played in the
water, which at this place affords an excellent current
lath, and was soon re-joined by her three other friend
Mr. Parsons entered the water with her, and while he
was getting a foothold, that ho ntight guard against any
possible accident, she slipped. Us had hold of her hand,
and 116 she fell Le caught her, and together they were
swept m into the curreut, which bore the down about 30
feet towards the river. ThiNe on the rocks report that Misa
Lottie was nest bOCU standing up in the watai and leaning
against a large rock. They were now in • powerful cur-
rent, and seemed to be mat tng endeavours to save one
another. lier ptatitioil was the 'more precanous, since the
slightest mot ement either way weight expose her to the
full fury of the water, and once fairly in the power of
the current all hope of escape would be enda
Parsons, from his position, could have easily saved him-
self, but thinking that he could rescue her, he seised her
and tried to reach the rock above them. Though he battled
with the current with the etrungth despair alone can give,
they buth were ewesst from their vantage ground on the
rock, and whirled into the maddening dorsi below. Twice
they disappeared below the surface. By this rime they
had been carried well out into the river, and to their
agonised friends on shore they appeared to be standing on
rocks, about eight rods or so front the hedge of the river.
To one unacquainted with the great depth of the river and
the tremendous force of the undercurrent, it seemed that
they had at last found a place of safety, and might yet be
rescued. But the treacherous current was bearing them
rapidly down the river to the death which was now inevit-
able. The fatal current separated them, and Miss Lottie,
deprived of the strong protecting arm that before upheld
her. disappeared with hands raised desnairlugly above her
head. 31r. Parsons must have seen her go under the water,
lout Ito still made brave efforts to presenas his own life.
From the shore he was seen strufgling in an aimless way
to keep his head above the water. A thick cloud of spray
intervened for a moment between the drowning man and
the friends who were powerless to lend him aid, and when
It disappeared Pal sous was gone. A spectator perched
above on Luna Island stated that not mere than five
IAAi AA utes elapsed front the time they were swept into the
river to the moment when they filially disappeared. The
spot were they were last seen is about .ate thinl the way
across, and directly in front of the American Falls. Miss
Philpott was years of age,. and the only daughter of Mr.
William Philpott, an old resident of the Fall:. ilthelberfs
was Su yesirs of age, and the wet of Mr. Horatio
A. parsons, of La Salle. At last t„ccattutts the bodies had
u u; been recovered.