The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

tato anti fume.

Ma. RIGBY WA3GE has obtained a rule orsi for • new
trial in the case of his action against the T awn for libel.
DAVID W•rsoic, • labourer, has been sentenced to
eight year.' penal servitude at Edinburgh, for wilful
fire-raising on Licheod farm, causing the destruction
of twelve stacks of grain. The prisoner gave himself
into custody, and could asaign no motive for the act
eicept lowness of spirit,
BURNING A DEAD BABY AT BRIPTIELD.—At Sheffield
poliee-oisurt on We Inuday, • woman named Ann Hall.
66 years of me, vu charged with having bornt the body
of a dead infant. The old woman assisted at the birth
of • child, said to have been stillborn. on Saturday
night, and on Monday fetched away the body in •
coffin for burial. In the ource of the evening her
nei_hbours wort sickened by • strong smell as of burn-
ing desk coming from her house, and they observed
that she lied a large fire, and behaved in a eery
enyeterione manner. One of them, looking a short
, time afterwards through the keyhole of the door,
which was locked, saw her breaking up the coffin.
Information was given to the polio., and she was taken
into custody. She was remanded.

HORRIBLZ CSOILTY TO • CHILD.—A wealthy farmer,
ID. Joseph H•nkiisa, and him wife, wholived at Limey,
in Herefordshire, have been heavily fined (including
coo,. el; Mi. Bit) for asaaulting and beating Sarah Ann
Brker, • child twelve Teals old, who was taken by
them ant of the Wedbley workhouse in March lint..
The child, in giving evidence, said that during hay•
making time Mr. Hankins beat her with • horsewhip,
and left severe marks. At •pple-picking he again heat
her with • riding-whip, cut lur head against the stair-
poet, made her nose bleed, and ahe had run away from
him sir times through his cruelty. On another day he
pollrd her hair, kicked her on the hip, and knocked her
over the pomp trough. During haymaking time Mr&
Hankins struck her on the head with a shoe-brush, and
made the blood low. She then out her muses the
shoulders with • holly stick. Another time her
mistress pot her to bed, and beat her with • lady's
riding whip. Her son, Charles Haskins, had beat her
with a birch in an indecent manner; his mother told
him to do so. Sarah Ann Horgan swore that she saw
the child put in the pump trough, and Hankins arsa
going to pump on her.

laM week, In th. can. of Ynatman I. yeam.n
As EITIAOIDIXAIY ntheDivuwhichree which
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the wife complained of desertion, the busban4 thus
described his courtship and his married life : -When e
young man he had been introduced to the petitioner by
his brother, who wee engaged to her sister. She was
of German extraction, and we, then in the care of some
of her relatives, who, she represented, often locked htr
up, and bad sometimes beaten her. Though he had
become engaged to lire with their consent. she told him
that they had resolved to break off the cionnection, and
urged him to run away with her to Scotland. Fle did
so; but her conduct on the way was very extraordinary.
She 'seemly spoke a word, and when she reached
Lanark she went to bed for • rumple of days. With
some dculty he got her up and took her to
Edinburgh. One night when he went to her
room be found that instead of being In bed
she was lying on the floor weeping bitterly. With
• great deal of difficulty, and after some hoar's efforts
to discover the clause of her grief, he learned from her
that she bed been 'educed by reitiontlent's brother. Of
course respondent was borrilled and distreseed, but be
never doubted her statement, and agreed with het that
there should be • 'operation without legs' process
After he had thus spent • miserable night with her he
we, preparing to go away when she lulled him beak.
On his returning be found her dancing about like •
maniac, and she told him that the whole story was a
hoax. He forgave her, but it was only to discover
before long that cohabitation with her was impossible.
She insulted everybody; she could not keep a house,
and nobody would have her as • lodger. Sbe was so
filthy in her habit; that no decent person could ale..p
with her ; and respondent was from time to time
obliged to go into her room in consequence of what the
servant' had told him, and compel her to strip off her
clothes and born them in his presenoe. She treated
her children with extreme and wanton cruelty, and she
habitually swore and uttered the most frightful
blasphemies. When he found that he could not live
with her, he placed her with her friends, but she goon
not stop with them. He then threatened • divorce
ii rae.sa et dice°. but her friends begged him not to take
that coarse, and offered him • private separation. They
afti rwards rattled, however, to carry out the arrange.
ment because they had been iadvised that she was
Insane. Respondent then said that if she was insane
then, she had been so all along, and he began proceed•
ings for nullifying the marriage on that ground. He
lost his cue throngh the absence of a material witness
(the correspondent Dempsey in the previous suit),
from whom he had recovered substantial amanita Mr.
Yestrnan contended that he had not been guilty of
wilful desertion at all ; that he had not withdrawn
himself from cohabitation with the petitioner without
seificient e.t.a's, and that shs had acquiesced la en
armor:was for a separation.

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had Fields. Landau: ?Maw.

"Then,' midi the Colonel, "they should pay the
penalty in blood."
'Rut soup..e they object," retort...l hi. Bride,
"and wouldn't pay the penalty in blood or anything
else ?"
A mournful silence en.ued. . . • •
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Alice, " with • melancholy smile," comes to the
conclusion that "the grown.np people are too strong
for us. They make us ridiculous." William
Tinkling's baby brutter bad been christened yes-
terday; and there hal been no King present at tb•
ceremony, unless, as W. T. suggested, he was dis-
guised 'as great tines Chopper ;" no Queen, no
"wicked fairy," as Alice had supposed Miss
Grimtmr to be. "Or perhaps," as Mice suggest.,
" MINI Grimmer is a wicked fairy, after all, and
won't act up to it, because the grown-up people
have pereuadet her not to." Alice gently protests
against Mr. Belford) calling them "Tyrants."
Coll not names, my kiedlorth, or they will apply
to Po."
"Let 'em," said the Colonel; "I don't cars! Who's
be ?”
Alice pomades him to withdraw " the moody
expression."

•" What remains for on to do?" Alice
went on in her mild wise way. "We must educate,
we must pretend in a new manner, we must wait."
'lto Colonel clenched his teeth—four out in front,
and a iere off another. and he had been twice dragged
to the dorr of tie dentist-dmpot, but had ewnped hem
hi. gnarls. "How educate? bow pretend in • new
manner? how wait?"
" Educate the grown-UP people," replied Alice. "We
part to•night. Yes, Redforth fer the Ootond
tucked up his cuffe—" part to-night ! Let as, in theee
nest holidays, now going to begin, throw our thoughts
into something educational for the grows-up people.
hinting to them how things ought to be. Let is veil
our meaning under the maiik of romance ; you, I, and
Nettie William Tinkling being the plainest mad
kest writer, shall Dap) out. I. it agreed?"
The Colonel answered sulkily. "I don't mind." Hs
then aiked, " How about pretending ?"
We will pretend," said Alioe. "that we are
children ' • not that we see thole grown-up peeple who
won't hal', us as they ought, and who understand us sc.
badly."
The Colonel. RUE much dissatisfied, growled, " How •
about waiting?'
"We will wait," 'rimer little Alice, taking Nettle's
hand in hers, and looking up at the aky, "we will wait
—ever constant and true—till the timeshare BO changed
a. that everything helps on out, and nothing makes se
ridieulon,, and the fairies have omna bark. We will
watt—ever constant and true—till we ere eighty, ninety,
one hundted. And then the fairies will mend as children,
and we will help theta oar, poor, pretty, little creature*,
if they pretend ever so much."
"So we will, dear," said Nettie Ashford, taking her
round the waiat with both aria., and kissing her. "And
11., if my haaband will go ant buy some cherries for
us. I have got some money."
In the friendliest manner I invited the Colonel to go
with ma, but he no far forget himself as to Acknowledge
the invitation by kicking out bshind, and then lying
down on his stomach on the grass. pulling it up and
chewing it. When I came back, however, Alice had
neatly lirought him out of his venation, and was Ktoth•
ing hint by telling him how Boon we should all be
ninety. As we sat ceder the willow-tree and ate the
cherries (fair, for Alice shar-d them milk we played at
being ninety. Nettie complains I the.i she had • bone in
i her old back. and it made her hobble, and Alice sang •
song in an old womaa's way, but it was very pretty.
and we were all merry. At least I don't Imam about
merry exactly, but all enmfortable.