The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

POOLE.

SWETI.A ND'S CH A RITY. —On Monday Mr. Church-
warden Moores distributed 258 loaves to the poor of
the town, in conformity with the instructions of the
will of Ann Sweden& dated Dec. 13, Ps22, she
having bequeathed £2OO in the three per cent. consols
to the churchwardens, for that purpose.
Mr. H. EY ERR. CONCERT. —On Monday evening
the lovers of music bad a rich treat afforded them
by Mr. R. Eyers' annual concert, at the Townhall.
The list of arti4es included Madame Amailie, if Her
Majesty's Theatre, Madlle. Sedlatzek, of the
Italian Opera, Mr. E. Reeve., brother to Sims
Reeves, Mr. Allan Irving, of Her Majesty's concerts,
awl Mr. Henri Iziurent, the eminent composer and
pianist, who, with Mr. H. R. Eyers, and Mr. Eyers'
Quadrille Rand, formed a troupe never equalled in
Poole. The programme consisted of selections from
the English anti Italian Operas, with a few of the
choicest English songs and ballads, most of which
were rendered by the different artl4e4 with third.
hog effect. The performance On the Pianforte
by Mr. H. It. Eyers was received with rounds of
applause, while the execution of some appropriate
music by the Quadrille Rawl was admirable. The
attendance was not au numerous as might have been
expected from the nature of the entertainment
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Puttrit.—Monday. (Before the Mayor J. W.
Martin, EN.) Jane Ga token was brought up by
I'. C. Groves, charged with ;tailing a small loaf of
broad and a piece of pork, the property of George
Batchler, grocer, and was remanded till Thursday,
when she was again brought up, and the prosocutor
not appearing, she wiis discharged.- —A melin !lemony,
was smninoneil by Jemima Brown for an mimic
Case dismissed, the expenses to be paid between
than.
A 1T1.31 PT TO COMMIT Scutum—On Saturday
week a WOlllllll named Summers, attempted to coin•
mit suicide by cutting her throat. It appears the
woman and her husband had been spending the night
with a few friends, when between 5 and 6 o'cltstk
they went to their bed ; they hail not been in bed
more than half an hour before an alarm was given
that the w.,,, had cut her throat. 51r. Wed,
11111711011, WU shortly in attendance and mewed up the
wound, She had several times during the day and
night Mid she would cut her throat, And when the
W1,U11.1 11441 Weil WWII up she clip:eased her deter
utination ti rupunt the act. No reason can he
aseigneil for this rash Rd, beyond the fact of the
woman being intoxicated.
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Saturday evening week, an eld
woman named Brown, living in ri+h Street, WA/ in
the act of dudeeieling the gape leading to a cellar in
her holm, when her foot slipped, and caused her to
fall, fracturing her log. Nleilieal ',distance wan
promptly procured, and-the fracture reduced.

l'iiecuier, • Mr. Evers' vowed hero WA/ Wtill
lAAAWIIi/oi, MAI thu yrourninine, ao far aa the admire,
hle vocalisation of the lady, Nimbus'', A limbo, awl
Mr. Allan Irving went, exipsisitelY performed. The
first pert consiated of compositions of HAIN, Schu•
beet, Verdi, and Utility. Rarely
are the provinces treated with the opportunity of
listening to the roc erfully sweet intonation and 11C.
annitlialnal 4.llVOntion of Mrs. Amadir. Mr. Irving
Is a Ilrin and powerful liamo of the flrat order. The '
heat effort of Nle K. ROOVUA WAS wills Nle. Ivring in
" A ll's well ;" but it CAMMA lie said that both '
gentlemen gave an equal degree tif satisfaction.
A gentleman announcea U Nlone. Laurent slid hie
duty as an acominani.t to perfection, whilst the
pianoforte performances of Mr. Eyors' sons in.) the
Wearillii Rood were As WMAI the Mr reo,llo of the
evening. Cordielly ilo we thank Mr. Kyere for his
efforts to give ila all ANIMrd treat in this locality, and
we wish him oven butter success nest year.
Prrtv demostoxii, Jan. 14.--01efore Charles Parke
f( hairman). the ROV. J, ttlyn, Willett /dye, J. T.
Basked, and Edwin' Castleman, Emie.
The usual average levies of fines for trespass In pm,
suit 1 game did not abate at this session.
Two eld offendere named Lrri Porker and N. Mark,
of Holt, were oeverally mulucted in CA and £2 each. and
in defer& iientenced to three months' hard labour.
They were defended by Mr. F. W. Freeman, who, how.
ever, failed to shake the testimony of the complainants,
although one witness swore diametrically opposite to the
complainant as to most iniportant facts. Mr. Freeman,
therefore. appealed for the benefit of the doubt, but
without avail. (When will this blockhead tioachhig
fraternity be convinced how utterly absurd it is thus so
perpetually to violate the laws of their country, and rob
their neighbours of that which they, at great cost,
attempt to preserve ?]
Aaaar LT.— elnpe,gt v. &swirl Crumple?' WAS heard at
great length, and complainant detailed that on the 2dtli
of December I ist the defendant entered his house, at
Lytchet Matravers, where himself and Ida wife were
sAting, about to have • tea, and without a word on
either side took hold of the complainant, and on the
wife interfering, struck or kicked her also. That de-
defendant was acminipanied by his brother Ti as,
that a scuttle and fighting, which lasted 001110 time,
ensued, and many valuable thing% in the house were
deetroyed. TI as Crunipler, for the defence. swore
that complainant had taken • cow in compensation of
all damages connected with the case ; but complainant
denied this and said the cow was merely a consideration
for the hodcen furniture caused by the affray, and not in
respect of Cl.. assault.

There wail elm a summons againet Thomas Crumples%
hut the game facts applied to both CilleA. as also that of
the wife of Mr. Clapoott, which was not gone into.
The Bench being divided in opinion, the e...vies were die.
missed in the usual way, each paying his own costs.
Mr. F. W. Freeman conducted plaintiff's Came, and Mr.
Henry Moore, the defence. The cases will probably be
re-heard at our next aeasion.

Mario V. Adaua. This was an amusing
case of astiault brought by Maria Eaton, housekeeper to
Mr. Joshua Cox, of Sturminster Marshall, against the
defendant Alitllol, who had dared to remove 401111: clean
clothes put out to ilry by the la(1111111111111111t Olt I hedge
belonging to a Mr. l'ike, but which was wily accessible
through defendant's garden. I)efentlant had often
desired Maria to desist from placing her clothes there.
She alleged that defendant struck and pushed her, but
this was contradicted ix tole by two eye-witnewea who
saw the whole transaction. In cross-exatuination by
Mr. Freeman, complainant admitted she haul struck
him with her 'mittens, bessneared hint with dirt and
swedes, and finally threw half her pan, which was
broken in the scuttle, st the defendant. Mr. Freeman,
for defendant, contended that as it had been clearly
proved the complainant committed the first aggression,
it was MI justification that the defendant hail removed
her clothes, but was It question of right for • civil court.
lkfendant was, however, fined &I.
Raker, keeper of the Oakley Gate, claw!, to the
South Western Railway station at Winiliorne, W.l
MlltellOed to three montlia' hard labour for stealing
coals fr ttttt the yard of Mr. Potheeary, the canal merchant
at Winilairne. It appeared that the prisoner (who on
the Sunday previous had performed Divine service at a
Primitive Wesleyan Chapel On Coleloll, and who
was so scrupulous as to his observance of the Sabbath
that he paid another person, y penniasion of the coin-
'
,any, to cc 't the sin of doing his duty for him, a
shilling on that day), was caught in the fact of removing
a barrow of coals along the line by P.C. Pomeroy. The
prisoner struggled, and both rolled of the line from a
considerable height. Pomeroy, however, happening to fall
uppermost maintained his position, and retained his man
in the most praiseworthy manner. The prisoner has a
wife and sic children, and Ma/ about to be protnoted to a
portership on the line.
Tutuilts and Ororve Joimisosi were fined 5..
each for riding without reins, and being drunk while in
charge of their horses and wagons between Wiiiihorne
and Blandford, on the information of Mr. Super-
intendent Baynton, who stated that if a lady in • small
carriage had met the defendants, life would have been
endengered. [We have often in our columns alluded to
the frequency of the same irregularities between Bland.
ford and Wituborne, and it is the bounden duty of all
who witness them to we the culprit.. punished.]
AFYILIATIoN CA46.—lrillino4 Brown, a respectable
shoemaker living at Poole. was summoned by Harriet
Ikan, of Organ Ford, as the father of an illigitimate
child hay her. The complainant swore to a certain
number of (Acta which at first led the Bench to conclude
that the paternity was rightfully placed, arid these facts
were corroborated by a sister and mother of Dean. A
letter was put in as being in the writing of the defen-
dant, and the defendant's advocate put him into the hos,
when he swore that he never had connection of an
immoral nature with the complainant; that he had at
one time thought of her on honourable terms, but that
having caught her with the arum of a ilial named

Ricketts around her waist he gave her up and married
another. lie pi!s contradicted the handwriting. &rah
i:Jge also swore in confirmation of defendant's oath that
4" had been draired hi his wile to see the complainant
before their marriage, Anil that Him Dean had assured
witness that she knew nothing of the dole:Want beyond
walking with him. The case occupied two hours, and
was decided in favour of the defendant. Mr. Freeman
conducted the defence.

MAK MR. Eiirrou.--lki, through your columns,
direct the attention of the police to the crowds of
idle ha:igen-on which assemble outside our churches
and chapels just before the isimmencement of and
at the end of the Minster services. There could nut
have been less than 900 people At the Minster on
Sunday evening (nut owing, of course, at all to the
unpopularity of the morning and afternoon colloc•
tines, which have indeed hitherto increased silo* the
evening discontinuance), and persons had enough to do
to wade through the Mass of idlers congregated at
and mar the doors. Short pipes, and jokes loudly
uttered, were also freely enjoyed, as usual, much to
the disgust of those who heard them. Surely there
was enough obstruction of the highway on Sunday
last to bring the culprits within the very defective
law on the matter. .