The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-24 00:00:00

DORSET COUNT? EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1861

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The past week has been one of more than
ordinary excitement in domestic incidents. The
first that we shall notice, because it comes
nearest home to us, is the Preston murders.
Within the last few months we have had to re-
cord the circumstances of no less than three
soldiers having murdered their superior officers,
and this week our columns contain a report of
the shocking tragedy of an infuriated savage
shooting the adjutant of a depot battalion—a
member of one of the oldest families in the
county of Dorset—and the commanding officer.
When, some time since, the private shot his
sergeant and was hung for it, the public raised a
cry of indignation against the dangerous practice
of unnecessarily supplying soldiers of bad char-
acter with ball cartridge to fie kept bx them in the
barracks. Yet the Horseguarda took no notice
of the subject, and the system has been con-
tinued till the present time. Our readers, we
are sure, will heastily concur in the following
sentiments of a correspondent to the Times:—

" In Use name of common sense, why should aoldien
be allowed to carry ammunition in their pouches, ex-
cept when 'swaged in active service in the field, unless
such • measure is intended to supply a ready means of
revenge to • man smarting under a recent award of
punisliment, and in addition, perheps, 'offering from
the effeete of debauchery to that degree that he be-
comes seedy a maniac, and Is goaded on to • desperate
and deadly use of the means so unwisely placed in his
reach, simply because such is the ' system r At all
Wreaks and encauipnients where is:Adler, are stationed,
either at home aria the colonies, there are magazines
where the ammunition can be deposited with the
utmost safety out of the reach of the moo, sad which
on any sadden emergency can be hatted to them by the
quarteneaster of the regiment, assisted by his pioneers,
in • few minutes, while the corps is forming on parade.
By &aerating this very simple course, infuriated soldiers
would be prevented (at lead as far as the desperate me
of Ilreenas goes) from adding to the list of horrible
' murders which, I regret to say, have been perpetrated
so frequently of lat. in this country."
When the Great Eastern was first launched
we were told that our triumph over the au was
now complete—that the winds and wares had
been conquered, and that in future we should
be able to skim the ocean as easily as walk on
dry land. The Atlantic was as good as bridged
over; a voyage across the Ocean would no
longer be a game at pitch and toes, but would
be in every respect like • few days sojourn at a
fashionable watering-place. Alas for the inspi-
ration of our modern prophets! On Tuesday
the 10th instant, the Great Eastern started on
another trip to America from Liverpool. AU
went on well till Thursday the 12th, when a
heavy gale arose, and "the sea was tremendous."
At half-past 8 in the evening a grating sound
was beard like the roar of thunder in the ?iii.4t3
paddle-box, and the engines stopped.
Great Eastern would not now answer to the
helm, and fell off helpless in • heavy sea. Every
moment the roll of the vessel increased, and she
"was tossed about as though she had been an
egg-shell," the waves rose as high as the Verne
at Portland, and to walk on board was im-
possible. Even the oldest sailors could not find
their sea-legs. On many occasions the ship was
at an angle of 45 degrees; the boats on
either side of the ship dipped into the sea,
though they were suspended 40 feet above the
water mark, until first one was swept away, then
another, and then three others, two more being
stove in 60 SS to render them perfectly useless
Still were the efforts renewed to bring the ship's
head to the wind, but without swum "Almost
an sissy of men" were working at the wheel,
when a tremendous sea struck the ship's stern,
broke the redder-head, and damaged the stern
post, allowing the rudder to swing round upon
the screw, and entirely prevent the screw frotn
working. The Teasel now lay like a log upon
the water, tossing and rolling in the most
alarming manner. A ton of crockery and glass
was swept from the shelves in the store-room
and fighting • fierce battle on the floor. In the
grand saloon the lounges were overturned, the
tables aod chairs thrown down ard broken, the
chairs "frantically chasing those who huts few
moments before had been their fair occupants."
The stores got loose, books flew about in all
directions, and furniture, fittings, services,
glasses, and traeos were involved in the common
wreck, and their fragments went rolling from side
to side in company with bottles, broken crockery,
knives, forks, and plated articles in the very
spirit of discord. A passenger who had retired
to his cabin to "die comfortably," describes the
din in the dining-room as " a noise as if rocks
were shifted to and fro by an angry surf." "In
the grand saloon the devastation was almost
greater still. A marble slab joined a high-nosed
gentleman in the enterprise of smash-
ing the largest mirror. Of course nose and
mirror had the worst ,of it. Only with damage
of life could people cross one of these saloon.."
On deck two auks containing 200 gallons of fish
oil stove in and poured their unfragrant contents
into the hold, causing an intolerable odour. In
a large compartment a chain cable, weighing
many tons,lrOke loose, and spread consterna-
tion through the ship. Other cables on deck
rolled about till they polished themselves bright.
The cow-abed, just over the ladies' saloon, gave
way, and the two cows were rolled to death, one
of them having first poked her head through a
window "to take refuge against the bad weather
in the ladies' saloon." The cook had his leg
fractured in three places. One lady had her
arm broken, another a rib fractured, a third had
her shoulder dislocated, a fourth her wrist; and
broken noses and black eyes were to be seen
everywhere. When a change of raiment became
necessary by moon of the deluge of water which
poured into the cabins, and the hatchways of
the luggage stores were opened to procure it, it
was found that the water had got in there also,
and that the friction had reduced portmanteaus,
hat-boxes, dressing cases, and all the personal
chattels incident to 400
passengers, into a mass of
pulp such as could not be rivalled by one of the
most powerful shoddy mills of the West Hiding
of Yorkshire. For two days and three nights
this scone continued, when the storm abated.
The ship had then drifted 100 miles out of her
proper conies. The passengers in the ship while
P•png • lugh compliment to the captain on his
skill and gallantry, passed a resolution unani-
namely oondemnafpry of the directors for send-
ing the Great Eastern to sea in an ui.prepared
state, and in the evident mianianagement in
everything relating to the colinfort and con-
venience of the passengers atoll .04.004 • 111•89
are grave °burl) 6Pd will n 9. de•bi be iansii-

gated by the sherplioldera In the meantipe it
is satisfactory to kuuw that the great ship is of
sigh marvellous etreegth, that shelter been sible
to withstand the most severe teal thateleuld
poseibly be applied. Yet she rode,' or rather
"rolled" it out, whereas any other ship must
have gone down.
The events of real life are, indeed, more sur-
prising in their complications than those of
fiction, just as the tragedies of every-day exis-
tence are immeasuteably more bitter and sad
than those which novelists present to us. Talk
of the old stock-in-trade of the Radclyffe or the
James' school—the midnight robberies of high-
born children by gipsies, or the exchange of
infants in cradles—why, this is the dullest of
reading compared with the "romance of real
life" which is now undergoing investigation at
Rugby. There has been nothing like it since
the great Annesley, in which the heir to apeer-
age was driven into the streets and discarded by
his uncle, and subsequently kidnapped and
carried away to the American plantations, shot
by a hired iusandan, and hunted down to the
very brink of death. Whether or not Mr. Hilt
will be able to give a different version of the
affair than that we at present possess, remains
to be seen, and consequently it would be unjust
to attribute motives to him for conduct of which
vat have but an ex-parte account. Next week
wilhall have had a better opportunity of forming
an opinion on the matter. In the mean time the
hideous purlieus of St. Giles's will resound with
the cheat of ballad-singers, and the wretched
inbiebitalida will regale themselves with doggrels
recitirik the woes of the heir to a rich estate, and
the cruelties of an "unnatural parent." An in-
genious novel writer may manufacture two or,
three good paying volumes out of the incideuto
of the case, for the gratification of the novel-
reading community during the dull evenings of
the approaching winter, replenishing the ex-
cheguer .Of the author, and the immortalisation
of the name of Richard Guinness Hill, whether
he be inhoceut or guilty.
The new education minute has raised up $
host of oppeinents to the Government scheme,
and we shall not be surprised if Ministers are
not obliged at least to modify it considerably.
The grounds of complaint ate —lst, That an
evil will be inflicted upon pupil teachers, in our
national schools and training colleges, by throw-
ing the 'payment of them upon the local mana-
gers of schools, mid by withdrawing
the payment for them at present
received by the master; secondly, the abolition
of £lOO a year paid to lecturers in training
colleges; thirdly, the making of certificates
honorary, instead of being, as at present, a source
whereby augmented salaries are obtained; and
folirthly, the clarification of pupils for cern&
•ites of proficiency into four classes and two
grades ; the effect of which it is alleged will be
to induce masters to refuse or to neglect children
above eleven years of age, and also to give no
more credit to the diligent and proficient scholar
than to the negligent and dull one. There are
other points of minor importance objected to,
and upon the whole scheme there is a singular
amouut of unanimity among its opponents. Now
we have invariably found that there is a very
strong tendency in the objectors of all new
measures to exaggeration, and it is probable
tl.at the scheme is not so bad as it seen* nor its
effects so mischievous as is feared. But while
we make these remarks, let it not be supposed
that we entirely agree with the new minate. It
does seem to deal somewhat sharply with the
teachers of our national schools, and the worst
phase in it seems to be the sudden and-stealthy
manner in which it has been introduced. But
we hold that much of the alarm is premature.
The great complaint of the present system is its
failure to arrest and retain local support and
sympathy, and the object of the now minute is
to cure this. Government may have taken the
wrong means to accomplish this, but the end
sought to be accomplished is most desirable. The
greats for educational purposes have risen, of
late years, to immense proportions, and it is not
unreasonable that Government should seek to
chock or to modiff infem which is admitted
on all hands to be notorioluly defective That it
has done so in a clumsy 'fashion is but too/obvious
from the commotion the new minute has raised;
but we must not, on that account, ovarlook or
forget that some change is reqnired, and that the
intention of the minute is essentially beneficial.
The object of the Privy Council is to provide
education, especially for the children of the
humbler classes; but it has always been a lead-
ing feature a their proceedings to combine local
and national effort, and to test the sincerity of
those who sought grants by the animuit they
themselves subscribed. And tide, it must be
admitted, is a sound and safe principle; but
before the Education Com eassionere, Dr.

Temple distinctly proved that the capitation
grant diminished both the proportions which
the local subscriptions bore to the government
grant and also their amount, and he added
that this is the cousequence—" I was repeatedly
told by managers of schools that they got more
money than they knew what to do with." If
this ba.so, there need be no wonder of the
attempt to stop it. On poor districts, no doubt,
the new system would fall with great severity,
and would lead to the closing of schools. This
would be greatly to be regretted; but on the
other hand we could point to many large schools
in manufacturing districts where the government
grants go indirectly into the pockets of our large
manufacturers. Now this is ()btu laity wrong,and
calls aloud for amendment But where is the
line to be drawn 1 The fact, however, proves
that there is immense difficulty in dealing with
the question of National Education.

DOILCSIZIOTIR PITCHZD CORN NARK IT, Saturday,
Sept. 21.—The attendance was not large, and the
general tone of the trade, as fares conversation went,
was decidedly firm. We are astonished to find that
the funds of the Town Council were not the least
augmented by the tolls of the corn market, there
being not a single sack pitched; whether this was
caused by Woodbury Hill fair, or otherwise, we do
not know; but of one thing we are certain—if a few
buyers do not very soon come into our market, the
farmers will have to go farther from home with their
produce.

WOODBURY HILL FAIR. - There were a large
number of sheep penned, and we were struck with
the improvement of their condition. Trade was
sluggish, but prices were not lower, and Down
ewes, with big beads, fetched u much as 40s. How
long the fashion will continue in favour of the coarse
kinds we do nut know; but we ourselves would
rather dine off a leg of mutton from Waterloo than
imitate the Londoner', who have no objection to
baked sheep's head ; but the public will eat what-
ever they please. We bare oily to report things as
they are. The rage for fat lambs continues, and the
difference in price between the well-bred (we mean
pure), and the Hampshire and cross-bred ones was
very marked. The horses were not so good as for-
merly, hence& dull trade, far mers generally sot being
disposed to give long prices, consequently thermals's'
sold was very limited. The number of shows. round-
abouts, and other inseparablesfrom the plume fair,
show an annual falling off in the attraction et this
kind of amusement.

Tlig PIO NUIBANCL-011 Monday an adjourned
summons. Wined against Mr. J 41114111 Yearsley„ for
keeping pigs in a stye in Bell ittreet, was heard I
before the Mayor, and W. D. Tapp and J. Elliot%
&qrs. Inspector Pouney stated that in conaseptenee
of frequent complaints from Miss Campbell and
others residing is Belliitreet, of a nuisance arising
from the keeping of pigs in a stye opposite her
house, belonging to Mr. James Yearsley, he had on
two occasions reported the same to the Board of
Health, and on their last meeting • summons was
ordered to be issued. The summons was returnable
on Monday, the 16th inst. Mr. Yearaley did not
attend, but his son was present, and said the pigs
had been removed, and tho summons was consequently
adjourn.-d. On Wednesday he saw Mr. Yearsley,
who spoke to him on the subject of the summons,
and he also said the pigs had been removed. It now
appeared that two mows and young only had been
removed--that Ave large pigs were left, and they
bad been removed to an adjoining stye. Tlie
nuisauee still existed, and that morning Ms had
visited the place and found the stench exceediagly
offensive, and the muck in the yard leading le Um
pigs
was several inches in depth. Mr. Mity said
• was the owner of Miss Campbell's bones, sad eif
the adjoining property. and that the nuisance/arming
from the pigs being kept opposite by Mr. Yearplay,
was exceedingly °Bemire and prejudicial to health.
—The Bench inflicted a penalty of 205., including
costs, and 5s a•day for every day the nuisance was
suffered to remain.

DORCHESTER •ND DIRSZTSBIRE INDCSTIIIAL PRO.
TIDIES SOCIETY. —This society commenced business
at the stores in Trinity-street, on Saturday, the 14th
instant, and durin the four evenings that the stores
have been °pet., upwards of £l5 has been taken
over the counter, and there is every prospect of a
large incream in the weekly receipts, as the fact of
stores being now open is more generally known, and
the principles of co-operation heroines better under-
stood by the working classes. A very moderate out-
lay in suitable Ulmer.. has given meitea busiaesedike
appearance to the store-room, affording an agreeable
surprise to the members as they come to make their
numb's... Let there be only union &annalist the
members generally, tact and perseverance in the
,xammittee, 'stet in a little time the dividend will
,how that what hu been accomplished elsewhere
clan also be done in_ the old town of Dorchester.

—OO-1311-TY PETZY 81111110101.-At As 4307u-kiy—Potty
liessioin, hold $i the filizehalli as &Simi*, beton

11. llilliaciiu.Th. N. lisliddlitm, and M. Williams
Faris the cuestion arose to whether or not the
'Sqperiptendint of Police doubt cross-examine sit.
nessees who appeared to give evidence in favour of
fehtrant• MUTlOloried before the Court by the police.
--A riebrihop-keeper named Dnrnfonl, was sum
molted by Superintendent Underwood on the
alleged charge of haring kept his house open after
the hours slowed by law for the tale of beer.—Mr.
Weston,
to prove
for the defendant, called
witnesses te prove that no beer had been sold. At
the close e the examination-in-chief, Superinten-
dent Usidenvocd rose to cross-examine witness, when
Mr. Sywords, who ires in court, asked why the
thing was allowed, and submitted to the Court
that the thing was altogether illegal, and Mr.
Howard, of Weymouth, wins was also present, sug-
gested that the county should retain solors fur
the purpose of conducting prosecutions. Now as
have nothing to my against any professional gentle-
man having an eye to business, but we should oar
-
tinily protest, in the namis of the ratepayers of the
county, to the employuleyt of professional men to
conduct oh the police prosecutions. We do not
profess to to sufficiently learned in the law to give
an opinior as to whether it is illegal for • prose•
rotor to cross-examine witnesses adverse to his
case, but ye do happen to know that the thing is
frequently permitted before stipendiary magistrates
COMMITTED TO The DORCH "STILE G AO L. —STUMM/ :
Frank West, obtaining goods by false pretences at
Dorchestes•—titttli • Labour: James Greenwood,
vagrancy se Mifflin Newton, seven days; James
Martin, misbehaviour at Sherborne Union, fourteen
• days; Charles Rolls, vagrancy at Weymouth, one
calendar month; Frederick Samways, refusing to
j• his ship at Weymouth, fourteen days; Sarah
Russell, vagrancy at Wyke Regis, three calendar
months; William &Irani, drunk, ke., at Wisnborne,
6 weeks.--Impritosmest Thomas A. Suit, insolent
and not obeying orders on H.M.S Collagens, twenty-
eight days; Abion Collins, bastardy at Pulliam,
three calendar months. _ . .

Tilk Rsvisw.—The review of the County Vo
teers a appointed to,cmue off on Slonday next, the
3ilth inst., at Maiden Castle. UelortuntlelY Pound'
bury lair has been appointed to be held that day,
amd alsongh Alma been stated that efforts are being
saki* to postpone it, no official intimation • has been
giten to-lbat effect. The following battalion order
has been issued:—

Dorchester, 12th Sept., 1861...

BATTALInBt ORDIMIL-1. The annual review of the
battalion bidore the Lord Lieutenant of the County will
take place it Maiden Castle. Dorchester, on the 30th
invt., under an officer to be specially appointed for the
r INA /0 .
2. The corps composing the battalion will assemble in
review order, with plumes, at eleven o'clock a.m., on
the Blandford road, in the same incliner as on the occa-
sion of the battalion drill on the 31s1 July last. Each
nian will be provided with IA rounds of blank ammuni-
tion. . .

3. °dicers commanding corps are requested to make
themselves acquainted with, and instruct their men
in, the different movements both of hattalion and
light drill, referred to in the programme arranged by the
Lieut.-14,10nel commanding.
4. Arrangements have been made with the Railway
Companies for the conveyance of Volunteers front all
parts -if the county to Durcliestei and back for Is. 64.
each ; and it is hoped that of that avansuiltabout Is. can
be defrayed out of a sum of LIO voted by the County
Aseociation for the purpose.
There will be an officer's mess dinner at lb. Ring'.
Arms Hotel at 4 o'clock p.ui., on the day of the
review. _ .

6. Tim covering eergeant of each corps will fusnish
the adjutant. insinediately ou arriving at the place of
assembly, wills • field statement, according to the fol-
lowing form :

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By order of Id..ut.-Colonel Stapael,
CHAO. li. BARarrr, Captain and Adjutant.

DORRRT COCNTY HOSPITAL.-Mr. Joseph Hock•
ing, of England, has heal' electod house
surgeon of ths institution, vacant by the resignation
of Mr. Phillips.
On Wednesday and Thursday, October 2nd and
3rd. the eighth anniversary of the Southern Counties
Adult Education Society, will be held in this town,
the Right Hon. Lord Portman in the chair. The
members will dine together on Wednesday, and on
the following day a general meeting of the society
vill.be held, the chair to be taligs by Harry Chester,
Eaq.

WEYMOUTH.—Haw Ptscx or Wortintir.—On
Sunday last the Jiffy. Talbot Greases commenced
divine service in a new building erected in Turton-
street. The bills sent round inviting the inhabi-
tants to attend, stated that it was nut desired by the
worthy rector to draw people from other places of
worehiplint thin their budding will be opened on
Sunday mornings, at half past 7 o'clock, an Sunday
evenings at 7, end on 1 iloodsl evening* ha 7. IllaPlY
for the purpose of inviting three who went nowhere
else. The room is very oomfortably fitted up for the
purpose, and on Sunday last it was well filled.
CHURCH hlisanni•UT SOCIETY. -- OA Sunday last
sermons in aid of the Church Missionary Society
were preached at 8k Mary's Church—in the morning
by the Rev. Talbot °reeves, M.A., rector, in the
afternoon by the Rev. A. Washington, M.A. curate,
and in the evening by the Rev. B. Savage, M.A.
vicar of Nuneaton. At St. John a Church—in the
morning by the Rev. R. Savage, in the afternoon by
the Rev. Sohn Vaudrey. 8.A., curate, and in the
evening by the Rev. E. Headland, rector of Bincornbe-
cum-Broadway.
PRESTON. A Doonte Cuanot. James
Patchett, a beer-shop keeper. residing in the parish
of Preston and Sutton Points, appeared at the
County Petty Sermons held at Dorchester on Satur-
day, as defendant, on two separate charges preferred
against him by the police. 'He was defended by Mr.
Weston. The first case heard was • charge of hav-
ing had his house open for the sale of beer at 15
minutes past 11 o'clock on the night of the 7th of
September. P.S. Hibditch proved seeing two men
in the house whom he knew were residents in the
parish, and although there was no beer on the table
before them theism was • portion of a jug of beer
placed on the shelf close by, and a glass was on the
seat There were also two men-of-wars'-mm present.
The defence was, that the men were all lodgers at
the house that night. The cause assigned why a
man named Samways lodged there was, that he ass
a widower, and his daughter, son-in-law, and their
three children lodged with him. Both his daughter,
and her husband were very ill,a nurse was called in,
and as there were but two rooms in the homer, he
' was obliged to go out to sleep. He accordingly went
to Puckett's house and hired lodgings. After Sam.
ways had got in, the landlom s nephew, George
Puckett, came and wanted lodgings, and he was also
accommodated. It was denied that either of them
drank anything that evening. The magistrateisaid:
that there were some suspicious circumstances
attached to the case, but the bulk of the evidence
being in favour of the defendant, the summons
would be dismissed.-- The defendant was then
charged with Lavin threedeficient pint measures in
his house on the 9th of Sepessaber. Superintendent
Underwood intimated that defendant's wife was
aware that these measures were deficient, as while
be was examining the cups. she tried to hide them
with her apron. To defendant said he bought them
fur the races, hut the Bench could not see that this
exam headed, tp improve the matter. People at
the rues had nar gime right than people elsewhere
to be cheated. He was fined 405., including costs.
OSM INGTON. —We have beard teetotal lecturers
sometimes assert that than publicans MOO add the
largest quantity of water to their gin are the best
friends to their customers. On the rams principle
we suppose they Would argue that those who used
the smallest measures were the greatest benefactors
to the beer-drinking coinmunity. Superintendeut
Underwood summoned Jithat IValley, of thunington,
before the county. magistrates at Dorchester, on
Saturday, for hewing 10 quarts and 7 pint mea-
sures in his possession that were greatly deficient.
Most of them were new, and had not been used,
and defendant said they had been bought for the
races. An old quart memoirs, nearly • quarter of a
pint deficient, and an old pint measure, half a gill
deficient, were, however. among the number. It
was the first time the defendant had been sum•
moned, and the magistrates, willing to believe his
statement that be did not intend using the new
measures till he had tried them, fined him in the
mitigated penalty of 20e., including costa.

BLANDFORD.— The works in connection with
the Dorset Central Railway are being praised (or-
ward with all poinitils spied, and ere long a great
change will he poropptible in this part of the
musty. Doting the progress of the works on Mil-
dew= the workmen came upon the remains of some
of thou whs. is the year 1757, was encamped
hero The total number is supposed to have been
sa tem than MOS man, and an their stay was
about three moths, i 6 is reasonable to suppose that
many died and was hurled here.

PIDDLETRENTHIDE.--Rauessisscs Goosz-zoo
One day last weak a goose, belonging to Mr. James
Loveless, farmer. of Pidilletrenthide, laid a remerk•
aide egg—measuring l3j inches by 10i inched* in
circumference. kin. Loveless thought she would
use it for culinary purposes. and accordingly broke
it, when out canis the complete 3oke of en egg,
enclosing another edg, with hard shell,
and measuring 9 ladies by 7i inches. On
Saturday last, Mr. Loveless took the outer *hell and
the enclosed efg to Mr. Shone, of the Wilts and
Dorset joint-stock bank at Dorchester, where we had
an opportunity if inspecting it.. The "double egg"
is to be presented to the Dorset County Museum.

RANIPISHAII.—A Sumnimouse Kasran Sum
MON I'D. —A polio constable,named James Cockenim
summoned Jame Dersferd, the keeper of the Jolly
Sailor beershop at Sampisham, for keeping his
house open for the sale of beer at ten minutes before
11 o'clock atoistt on the 17th August. • The &len
dant was rspressiesd by Ur. Weston. The poluis-

tiian Alt he lay under the .furilitkiro boors
before Ia went into the house, and elsilis be est
there no one went into the house, balf_lt dairPn'n
residing in the parish catne out, and &Dabs WOO
his horse, hail some beer. He then wait in &no
found three men seated there. They were residents
of the place, and Lad part of a quart of cider bakes
them. According to the defendant's account the
cider was not sold. Mr. Durnford had lent his farm
labourers to lfs.„strong, a farmer in the parish, and
in the day in quest' .to Dlr. Strong had acknowledged
the kindness by winding his men to help Mr. Dorn
-
ford. The last named gentleman did not them
for their work ; they were paid by their but
Mr. Durnford gave them some supper as .two
quarts of cider. Witnesses were called for tb&de-
fence to prove these facts, and the migistraterilis-