The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

Somtrortsbire.

YEOVlL—October 48.—(Before W. Bide, Esq.,
Mayor, and Alderman Tucker.— William Crocker,
Den., and William Crocker, jun., wore charged
by Mr. Joseph Haggit with an assault on the previous
day. It appeared from the evidence that plaintiff
went to levy a distress, and that the younger
prisoner committed the assault upon him. The
elder Crocker rescued a horse from the complainant
which he had seized.—The klagistretos, after a
patient ezatnination, fined W. Crocker, jun., £l,
including costs, and discharged the elder defendant
with • caution.

WHAT'S O'CLOCK?- -This is • question often asked
both jig strangers and inhabitants, and is rarely
answered correctly, Why is this? Simply because
our business-town of Yeovil cannot boast of a town
cloak, which would enable the enquirer to save him-
self the trouble of asking the question. It cannot
be supposeed that every individual can carry that
neoeseary appendage, a watch, to enlighten him on
the subject. It should be remembered that time is
money. Tempts ftwil —time flies, and waits for no
man. Then surely the hour of the day or night
might be easily ascertained by • dial being placed in
some conspicuous part of the borough, where all
could see how the time goes. Cannot • subscription
be raised ameng the residents to affect this object?
Answer replies, Yea, if all unite with the full deter-
mination to bear out the, perhaps, rather vulgar
expression, "I know what's o'clock."
WRIGHT% iIND MILASUMIL —A notice has been
issued by Mr. C. Smith, the inspector of weights
and measuresA that he will attend at the following
places with a copy of the imperial standard weights.
At the police station, Somerton, thelthird Wednes-
day is, every month; at Yeovil police station,
Friday and Saturday, the Bth and 9th of November;
Martock, at the George Inn, Monday and Tuesday,
the Nth and 19th of November; at Langport, the
Dolphin Inn, Thursday and Friday, 21st and 22nd
of November, between the hours of nine and four
o'clock, for the purpose of adjusting the weights
and measures in each district. In order to protect
the public from fraud, all weights and measures
sh.suld be proved by tho exchequer standard at
lead once in every year, and for such examination
no charge is me unless found defective, and
adjussl, and all weights should be free from dirt,
grease, he., when brought to the inspector.
CHIAILLIOROUOR FAlL—This fair On Wednesday
last was numerously attended by farmers and
dealers, who were enabled to realize good prices for
sheep of a very superior quality. There was a
large supply of the saute, nearly all of which
changed hands. There were not many beasts, and
those were by no means choice. Of horses, there
was • large show, but, few, however, could be called
good; consequently, all remained quiet in that
department. It was • splendid day, a circumstance
which caused many to combine business with plea-

trip.
STAFFORD.—On Tuesday, at noon, a hayrick,
belonging to Mr. Vaizey, was burnt down. The
fire was caused by the overheating of the hay, con- sure.
sequent on its being ricked in too green a state. Tut I.Theraelame CHAPEL—This chapel having
Fortunately the tire was seen immediately it broke undergone thorough renovation, was opened on
out, and there being plenty of assistance,* the Sunday, when two sermons were preached by the
people, by the aid of the engine, succeeded in pro- Rev. J. L. Short, of Bridpurt. The morning
venting the flames extending. Had the fire occurred service was not utunerously attended, but • large
twelve hours later, when there was a stiff breeze of congregation met in the evening. The rev, gentle-
wind, the 'probability is that the whole of Stafford man preached from the 15th chapter of St. Luke,
would have been bnrnt down, which had reference to the Prodigal Son, and the
CORFK MULLEN. —George Chappell was on sermon so eloquently delivered appeared to make •
Friday last charged before the Rev. CATT Glyn, and great impression on all present.
St. John Coventry, Esq. with aseaulting Matilda COUNTY Purace, Monday.—Before G. Harbin,
Cherritt on the 19th Oct —Complainant said that she Esq.—A boy named Harris, of East Chinnock, and
was going fur hot errands, and had to pas the de- a man named &hoard Talsol, sa/Sar to Mr. Bred.
feudant's lieuse. As she steel to speak to her son ford, eel merchant of Yeovil, were brought up in
the defendant came out and called them very foul custody by P. C. Hammen, 143, on a charge of par-
names. She asked him what she had ever done to loining some hay, which had been entrusted to the
induce hint to use such language towards her, when care of Talbot for the prosecutor's horses. Mr.
he kicked her, and afterwards spat in her face three Chaffin. who attended on behalf of Mr. Bradford,
times. She told her husband, who WAS with her, stated that that gentleman had no desire to prow
not to strike him, as she would have the law on him. °at& The magistrate, however, remanded them
—She called William Coffin, and Phinerms Jerrard, until Friday next, but said he would accept bail for
labourers of Corte, to corroborate her evidence. They Mica eiNwereoew in the saw of £2O each. Msll was ,
both said they see defendant till "he Hew ultimately obisinads
out of his door," and pounced upon the complainant COUNTY COURT, October 28th. Before C.
just like a cat upon a mouse. —The defendant said &nada" rag. There were altogether 150 C141N4
that when complainant came along she called out, but the most part were settled out of court.- -7'ilke
saying she never had a twopenny lawyer to give v. Cole.—Thia was • alaim for the payment of .C 2 Ss,
her a dress and treat her with a bottle of gin ; and being • bassos of £3 15s for some fixtures taken by
then commenced calling his wife a very disreputable defendant, £llO.. being allowed for the occupation
name, such as no modest woman could listen to with. of the premisee.—Mr. Fear, for the plaintiff, said his
out indignation. It seemed th,re was an 111.1 grudge client wits& lodger in a house kept by Mrs. Higgins,
betweun them, the particulars of which he did not (the mine being the pmperty of defendant) previous
exactly know. Ho then went out to her and she to the 24th of March last. Mrs. Higgins being then
caught hold of him by the waistcoat, and pulled him about to leave the house, defendant applied to his
across the road. She spat in his lase several times, client to take the house. He agreed to do so at 418 '
and he returned the compliment three tinies.--The per year if he would have it put in thorough repair.
lunch dimanmed the ease,_complainant /ma she To this Mr. Cole agreed. His client took time
did not "see that" at all —she did not call that jue• fixture* for £3, and a grate for 15e, but as the
tice, and she should put the case in a lawyer's limds, defendant did not repair the premises, Mr. Tillen
She would not, she said, pay her costs for hearing quitted them on the 16th of April, and took the
the case.—The Bench told her the must pay betas keys to Mr. Cole on the 24th of Apmil, who
she left.—She persisted that she would not, but her refused to take them. Mr. Cole made • set off
husband, who wo more reasonable than she was, agilltit the fixtures, of a quarter's rent up to 24th of
placed the money on the table. June. He brought forward witnesses to prove that
Tersest's.— IPiw,i4 l'oney pleaded gnilty of defendant had several times tried to let the house,
trespaseing on some land in search of coniee, and that a person named Swaffield came to the
Thomas Delman, Mr: Fryer's keeper, said he took a plaintiff for the keys. After a time when he could
quantity of nets from him, which be was ailing. not get any one to take the house, he made a claim
Defendant asked if he could not have the nets shale for rent for a whole quarter.—Mr. S. Watta, for the
The Bench replied that they could make no order. *log', produced evidence to show that his client
Defendant said he should diem "See farther into offered the plaintiff 30s. and the produce of the
it." lie WaR fined gl is. &L, including seem., to be garden, until it should be let A day or two after.
paid in a fortnight. wards Mr. Cole called on plaintiff and said he would
LVI.CHETT lIINSTER: —Sarah ilionseepher only give him 155,; this he refused. Serena witnesses
pleaded guilty, before the Wirnborne Bench, with were Gelled, who "id the house was is bad state assaulting Elizabeth Christopher, by pushgagbet and not at to live in. This concluded plaintiff's
away from her door on the 21ist Oct. . - owe. Mr. Watta called the defendant, who said he
plainant said she ocouldhot tell exactly what their had at all times referred peaks to Mr. Tillon when
relationship was, bat Sarah's husband's mother was they applied for the bonze, and he believed he would
her husband's sister. The defendant said the never have left had he not been going to take a beer
reason she pushed her away was, because she was houe. The premises were in good repair when Mrs.
very quarrelsome, and came to her homes for the Higgins left,— His Honor gave Judgment for
purpobe of "kicking up a row." She also produced plaintiff, for 305., exclusive of garden produce.
a note from a respectable gentleman in the parish to CHARD.—Rieuevere or Surxturrirtme.—An
the Bench, to the effect that the complainant was a old man, named Joseph Lawrence, aged 83, who
very quarrelsome woman —in abort, • perfect kept bees, died on the llth inst., and it issaid by
Xentippe, and her character was not otherwise the superstitions that the event was foretold by the
good.—'The Bench therefore fined defendant in the swarming of the bees around the house about 48
penalty of 6d. only and costs, hours before, when they Ditched on a turnip leaf in
MANI/FORD. —llichard Golding, a baker at the garden and were hived in the mud manner.
Btuideal, was on Friday charged before the Wim• Another instance of credulity has just oome under
borne Bench with delivering bread in the country our notioe—that of a married woman going from
without having a beam and scale* in his ark— • door to door, with a
Plittri and wae I3ned 13s, etti, intlading hire's Iv"' the • rd •to
leaded baby in bar arms, begging
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Tin ROAD MUIDER —The following inscription has
been placed in Uottbdon Cliurcliyer.l, on the toinheton I
raised to the memory of the unordered infmit. Saville
Kent —To the me ri of Francis Saville Kent, the
dearly-loved eon of Simnel Saville and 11.ry Drew.:
Kent, who was cruelly unordered at Road, dune ao.
1863, aged 3 years soil 10 mouths. 'Shall not 4,03
search th,s cut? For he knewctla the secrete of the
heart.' "

BIiIST)L.--I(lvLg CONTEXT BICTWKIN EAKI.
DIXIK AND B 11131•01. RIELEMEN.-011 Thursday a
rifle competition took place at Sauey.' Park testis ecu
Earl Nem, the Lord Lieutenant of the Comity, and
four picked riflemen from the Bristol hilly Curpe.
The noble lord was the challenger, having olek.l to
try his skill against any four min selected from the
whole hattali .1. lessrs, Gibbs, Pinney, Hamm Is,
and Metford, four liist-rste shots, were seleckal
compete with his lordship. The competitors mired
at several ranges, and upon the scores hieing made
up it was found that Eaal Ducic was at the head, Le
being tom point above Mr. Pinney, tha latter gentle-
man being two points more than Mr. Gibbs, who
was third.

CULTIVATION Or COICON IN At-Nil:AM.—The
cultivation of cotton in Australia is beginning to
excite attention at Sydney, and a colonist writes to
a gentleman in Bristol for samples. liesays "My
object in writing to you is to rapiest your kindness
to try to send me some samples of • SOA Island' and
a few others, with the market prices attached to
them. The reason why I thus tumble you is that
the tints is not far distant when cotton will become
one of the staples of this country for export to
England. It may be grown along pur coast for
hundreds of mika, and of a superior quality,
although more will be produced in the lidautl of •
Feejee, where the supply of uativc labour is good.
The natives of tins country are the most indolent,
and perhaps the most thriftless of any race on the
whole globe. They sill not ilo any dung to support
nature's wants, hut merely dig for a few indigenous
roots, hunt opossums, or fish a very few will look
after sheep and ride on liorsehack."
A ROMANCIL—Our readers will remember snme two
years ago an action for breach of promise at Bristol,
which, falling at a very dial tone of year, was made
the most of by the Bristol papers. 111 comma- d•I IMF
guage they " dist:stunted" the trial before it arrived at
maturity ; and alter they had whetted the public appes
tile for several days with anticipatory situ, to the
wealth of the bridegroom, the beauty of the bride end
the long array of lute letters, expectation was diem,-
, pointed by • compromise—the ilefetelnet consenting to
a verdict against hint for £2,000, and the plaintiff agrees
I In; to deliver up itts " love letters." 11,0 parties to
this suit were Miss Ellen Mih-s, daughter of a fr.h-
monger in this town, and Mr. Megan, an Irish gentle-
man. Many pooli-poolied the idea of 1.2,000, being in-
tended to be paid ; others thengla the gentleman ntust
be a very poor one; but the facts are bey I tlutioilte,
that the £2,000 were paid and invested with all legal
security and form for WWI Elleues benefit, and that the
defendant was an Irish member of parliament, who
had previously married the slaughter of an Earl !
William Henry !linen, Essi., formerly menther for
Westmeath, sod soil of the late Henry ilsgan,
Esq., of Clouted, Kings County,was • cornet in the 9th
Lancers, aOll afterwards • C..ptain in the 4th Light
Dragoons, and whilst doing duty with his regiment at
Dorchester, he became Acquainted with ninny persons
in the county town, who may sttll call lOW to enind.
Miss E. Miles,was an assistant at Swan end Llgar's,when
she formed the aomaintante of Mc. Megan ; and it
would seem that in th• correspondence which was ear-
ned on between the parties, literriage was promised--
al all even ta Mr. Magee, who knew as well as suyone
what his letters contained, eini.ented to pay £2,0110 for
the privilege of horning them. We may here state, that ;
by • very singular coincidence, the writer of this
article happened to be at the house of a hi, nil in an
assize town its the Wiat of Eagland (not Bristol) just ;
before time Min OW heard of in public. The
friend, desiring to ehow him some curious en •
graviugs, took him over his house, and pointing to •
large bundle of papers On a table, add, " There
is • brief in • Breach of Promise case, containing
all the love letters." It afters-RH' transpired that
these were the letters to which so costly a price was
attaohed, and it is not a little strange that, jealously
puirded as they afterwards were, they skull hays
been unconsciously placed within the power of observa-
tion of • person who, being in the same town Rs the
plaintiff, had, coining front a distance, happened to
alight on the very room in which her correspondence
lay! The case became a "Nuts days' wonder," and
that was forgotten. A crotple of years after, it may he,
the actors again appear upon the scene, and tin the 24th
of August, %Valiant Henry Megan, Esq., of Elonearl,
Ireland, is united in the holy hoods of matrimony, at
Yeovil Church, to Miss Ellen Miles, of Sherburne. Now
cumuli" the last" sad Ken, of all—the ilectlt of Mr.
Hagan, at Weymouth—a month nfter his romantic mar-
riage ! We are aorry to add that there is but tuo much
reason to fear that he fell a victim to an excessive
craving for ardent spirits. After staying some little
time at Sherborne, where his conduct was certairly not
that of a total abstainer, he and his wife went off to
Weymouth, and took up their abode at the Victoria
Hotel, front whence he renioved into private lodgings,
and died the day after Ile entered them, at the early age
0143, His body was taken to Dublin. on Monday, for
interment. It is understood that although " the Cap-
tain" as lie nali still called, died embarrased, and indeed
was about to compound with his creditors, his carriage
and horses having been snlil under an execution, yet
that his mother ma poesesseil of considerable property,
and that the wife of a nionth will find lier widowhood
solaced by an income of ffido a year l—Sliert.erae Jour-
nal.

CURIOUS NARRATIVR OF A WORKHOUSE B!.—
Some double having been expreseed by the Briatol
Board of Guardians and other*, concerning the truth of
Miss Carpanter'e statesiienta before the Committee of
the House of Commons relative to the unige experienced
by the workhouse boys in the Briatol and Stapleton
Union, William lagrove, in • letter to one of the Bristol
papers, states the results of his own experience as a
workhouse boy, whose unfortunate lot was cent there
during a period of six years, from the year 1031 to l&17.
He says a—" My find offence was spending three-lialf-
pence out of sixpence that my uncle gave ine,for which the
nurse (whose name I give you) gave ma severe beating,
and took the remaining fourpence-halfpenny from me
and kept it all, because I did not lay out any money with
her. And for looking at her husband eating his dinner
be pushed • spoonful of mustard in my th.
For the least offence she would make us march
round the table with poker, tongs, and fire shovels,
or anything thet was heavy, holding them up over our
heads ; and if front fatigue we should let them rest
upon our shoulders *lie would beat Us. I hove as-en
more than a dozen at a time doing it; and if her Intsbiuld
should cenne in during the "table march" lie would
make sport of us, by saying, " Welt, any little ' LiTIOX,'
what have you been doing to day ?" Anal at other
times she would beat us when naked with a bed•rone,
and frequently had the boy she was so beating been held
stretched out by four boys holding the sufferer by each
inn and leg. We were allowed suetty pudding and
treacle every other Sunday. She would Keep beck part
of our treacle, with the crumbs, to make bread pud-
dings, and make those boy* that had any money buy it
of her. We were ellowael twopence each at fair times,
which, she would make us lay uUt With her for ginger.
bread, Ile. At the time of the cholera we were put out
111 the country with different palate, which I can happy
to say closed any Acquaintance with the nurse and her
husband. After the epidemic was over we were called
In and sent to Stapleton Asylum under Another nurse
(whose name I furnish) and Schoolmaster Davis, but
preferring the kind treatment I bad received front Mrs.
of Longwell'irgreen, to the unkind treatment I
had before experienced, I ran away back to Mrs.
Harris, who kindly kept use a few days, *though a
poozaromana When I was taken back to the asylum I
was beat with • birch, being held upon Another bar's
back, and ley meet awls stopped for A week. litany
other boyaran away at different tones, and when they
returned they were severely dogged, and dressed in
clothes made with stripos yellow and grey and various
colours, and put in 'fetters' la pair of stocks), and had
their heads shaved on one side hem the pole to the
centre of the foruhew.h cad their meat etepped, and
were told it was not for going away, but for returning
they were punitheal. I have frequently seen the second
nurse dip boys' laced* in the utensils that were kept in
the ward, and the flith would be hanging &leant their
hair when they were taken nut. I could enumerate
many other eirermastances of ill-treatment, lint will not
further trespstui upon your column* at present."

Tee lindowraLrry or GaNITNISS.--HOW ALONE IT
MAY se WON.—We fent of "Immortal" heroes and
statesmen, het they are only immortal in history. The
portien of mankind that does not read history knows
nothing about ahem, and even the setiolsr, who is
familiar with its pages, takes coinparstively little
interest in these dead-atail.gone celebrities. nut when
a great man links his name to a great invention or dis-
covery, the benefits of which iaust ender° its long Si
the world lasts, he secures free iientortality—the
universal and undying gratitude of mankind
through all the coining ages. This it ap:.eirs to us
will be the 'need of Themes liollowsy, the distin-
guished originator of tho two most popular (because
most sut.c..:sstul) remedies that have ever been applied
to the cure of external diseases. It is impossible that
his name should aver die out of human reirollestion, or
cease to be held in honor, while his Pills and thnt-
merit are performing su.li extraordinary cures as the
newspaper press, in every country, almost daily records.
In the future,
"To the last syllable of recorded time,"
theaame happy results will doubtless be produced by
the same means, so that the name of Holloway is pretty
sure to be "kept Krcen in the mule" of coining genera-
tions. This is • kind of lune worth tolling for ; worth
living and dying for: He Who leaves such an heir-
loom to his descendants bequeaths to them • legacy,
compared with which wealth is but as dross. Tens
of thousands in all parts of the habitable world will
bear testimeny to the truth of these statements, many
will My—we were cured of fevers and agues ;—many
again will say, we were raised from beds of sickness
when torn down by weakness and debility,— while
others will tell us that their digestive organs were
always at fault,—and that there was no relief for them
until they used these marvellous medicines,—the
renown them of this man is truly wondeiful.—Fishadi
Standard.
WATCHES TN RELATION TO THZ FINS Alive,—
"Indeed, one of them has already made a very marked
advance in this respect by producing artistically-orna-
mented watches adapted to meet a high standard of
cultivated taste. The manufacturer here alluded to is
Mr. J. W. Benson, of 33 and 34, Ludgate I fill, and 46
and 47, Cornhill. In recently visiting his newly.
enlarged show-rooms, we found • most rare display of
highly-ornamented watches of all kinds. The watches
here exhibited surpass; those of any other English manu-
facturer, in respect to novelty of design, combining
artistic beauty and exquisite finish in the ornamenta-
tion. The wide reputation which Mr. Benson has
gained for the perfect time-keeping qualities of his
watches leaves nothing for us to say on this point.
Mr. Benson can meet the views of the economic utili-
tarian with the same facility as he can the wishes of
the most elevated. A buyer intent on securing a supe-
rior watch of good design and lasting qualities cannot
fail of meeting with satisfaction at this establishment."
—o6serrer.—Ber.son's Illustrated Psuiphlet, post free,
for two stamps is descriptive of every construction of
wateh now tia<le. Witches We by pest to aji Pule et
the globe.