The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-06-25 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

The Court hat returned to Windsor, and hes
Majesty, it is said, is looking all the better for
her trip to the Highlands. Ihe Prince of Wales
has once more been playing his old part of •
Norfolk 'squire, with his usual geniality. He
is President of the Norfolk Agricultural Society,
and took the chair at the annual dinner at King's
Lynn, on Wednesday, talking about Norfolk
fanning, and thanking his neighbours for their
sympathy during his illness. The Princess was
with him. It seems to have been a very happy
gathering, without soy formality, and • good
deal of nature. A correspondent writes—Lord
Leicester made a deprecatory allusion to "a class
of ladies becoming very common in the present
time," with an approval that would seem to
indicate that the ladles of Noifolk are quite
content with the existing position of their sex,
but the incident of the evening was when the
Prince, having pronounced himself of Lord
Leioester's opinion as regarded the position of
women in the abstract, and expressed his delight
at their presence on every social occasion, pro-
ceeded to say, his hand meanwhile resting on
his wife's shoulder, that on any occasion when
the Princess did not accompany him he always
felt there was something wanting in his happi-
ness. The touch of nature in the gestures and
in the unstudied sincerity of the words found
their way straight to the heart of an anthems
composed as was this. The cheering and clapp-
ing and waving of handkerchiefs lasted tor
several minutes, while • flush of pleasure rose on
the beautiful features of the Prinoess an she
glanced upwards in reciprocation into her
husband's face. On Friday, the very day of his
return from Norfolk, he attended the christen-
ing of the infant son of the Marquis of Bland-
ford, and received the Burmese Ambassadors,
before presiding the same evening at the grand
state ball at Buckingham Palace, at which soon-
, siderable number of members of ths Royal
Family were present, and to which about 1,900
of the Upper Ten were invited. Oa Saturday
' the Prince held a levee on behalf of Her
Majesty, which also was very numerously
attended. As was very natural, the Prince was
more popular than ever on these first public
state appearances since his illness. The Queen
remained at Windsor to receive the Barmen
Envoys after they had presented their respeota
to the Prime of Wales in town. These Envoys,
after Oriental fashion, brought some very valu-
able presents for her Majesty, and will no doubt
carry back equivalent presents to their own
monarch. The Sailor Prince, Alfred, was at
the Trinity-house banquet with most of her
Majesty's Ministers and two or three of the
Opposition leaders. The speeches were long and
dry, and the Prince, getting bored apparently,
suggested that perhaps next year it would be as
well if the guests, instead of promising to make
short speeches, actually did shorten them a little.
The criticism was sailor-like ; but it is very much
needed at all public dinners. Sir Stafford North-
cote facetiously asked the Marquis of Ripon to
put a clause in the Ballot Bill interdicting all
after-dinner speeches NI well as speeches on the
hustings, and to place a box at the door, where
every guest on the toast-list might drop in his
speech, and then have the MSS. read after
dinner.

The weather has been on (as PuncA says) all
the week, and then sudden touch of the tropics
we have experienced, although very discomfort-
ing, is just what the crops need to make the best
of them after an unfavourable spring.' Grass-
cutters have been the greatest service to farmers
in the peat week, and in a week's time all the
hay should be in stack if the weather bold fine.
The wheat has wonderfully recovered itself, and
on most lands looks stout and well; oaring time
is passing MOM favourably, and we may indulge
the hope of a healthy crop, although ill, not
likely to be more than an average; even Mr.
Mechl, sanguine as he always is, not taking •
more rosy view of prospects than that; and the
harvest must be at least • week later than usual.
But if the crop turns out as we hope it will now,
and as it promises to turn out all along the Rhine,
in Hungary, on the banks of the Danube, and
in Southern Russia, farmers will have a better
rent-paying harvest then for several years past,
and the people .ill get their share of the bless-
ing, for, under such circumstances, the price of
the quartern loaf will not be higher than it is to-
day, and may possibly be lid. or 21. lose before
the year run, out Nevertheless, it is an
anxious tiino lituriata, and in these days
of strikes and rumours of strikes, the implement
makers are indeed friends, far on good machinery
they may always depend.

The Alabama oonference has also been on, but
with no further result than a good deal of
cypher telegraphing and an adjournment for
instruction.. One thing is clear from the recent
proceedings, namely, that before two Govern-
ment. can avail themselves of arbitration, they
must come in a great measure to an understand-
ing between themselves, and narrow their dispute
down to definite limits. Arbitration cannot,
therefore, be looked upon as an infallible expedi-
ent in all quarrels, for we can 660 how difficult
it may be sometimes to agree upon the points
which the arbitrators are to ..lecide, or upon the
preliminaries to submitting a point to their
judgment. Indeed, there seems more to settle
out of court than in it.

Parliament is discreetly reticent upon the
American question during the adjournment of the
tribunal, and has been industriously engaged on
ordinary legislative work. On Friday, on the re-
port of the Ballot Bill, the Lords put the finishing
touches to their "improvements" in the measure,
and seemed as well satisfied with their work as if
it were certain t) remain a permanent monu-
ment of their pawer and legislative ability.
Well, the Billie to be read • third time on Tues-
day, and almost immediately it will be returned
to the Commons, amid then we shall see what the
latter think of the metamorphised =ware.
Before the end of the week the fate of the Bill
will in all probability be sealed. Meanwhile,
the Commons have got the Scotch Education
Bill practically out of hand, and have set seriously
to work in oonamitteea on the Mines Regulation
Bill; so that we are likely to have some useful
legislation this session, even if the Ballot Bill
fall through—unless that American question
crops up again in a disagreeable way, and spoils
everything.

The band of the Grenadier Guards has been
playing the British and American anthems at
the Boston Jubilee, and evoking the wildest
enthusiasm in that city of Quakers and Puritans.
All this, of course, forma " • fresh guarantee of
peace"—in the newspapers, if it does not in the
White House. But the Texan Indiana, with
very bad taste, have selected the moment when
the Grenadier band is playing" Yankee Doodle"
and the National Anthem, to "take the war-
path." Why, is not explained; but the Indians
have turned out in their feathers and paint to
the number of 7,000, and, of course, all that we
can say is, that the turn out is particularly M-
araud.

Men with grievances are pretty sure to crop
up again at some unexpected moment. Mr.
Leonard Edmunds, of Patent Office notoriety,
for instance, has been prosecuting an action
against Mr. Gladstone sad Mr. Lowe for a
minute they had signed as Lords of the Treasury
severely criticising the conduct of the plaintiff
while Clerk of the Patents. Mr. Edmund. 0011-
ducted bis own case, and illustrated the old say.
ing abo,t. the man who is his own lawyer, for on
Saturday he elected to be non-suited, being un-
able to prove that any member of the Treasury
sent the letters to the newspapers upon which
the action was founded. The letters charged
Mr. Edmunds with misappropriating between
1.70,000 and Eio,ooo of the public money while
oceupiug an office in the Treasury department.
he bailders' strike in London, involving the
willing or enforced idleness of 25,000 men, is •
portentous incident; and we also hear that the
milling population of Durham and Northumber-
land ii t o‘; to :.•riko against the present
price of pieviaions, especially meat and milk.
This, of coarse, is striking against the conse-
quences of • strike; and if it goes on, may
perhaps after all bring us back to the state in
which we were • few months ago. "w ie
the use of an addition of 25 per amt. to our
pay," the miners are as',ing themselves, "jf
instead of paying 8d a pound for mutton we
MUSE pay 10d., 2d. for a pint of milk where In
only paid ii mid 70. for the quattern loaf
where we only paid 6d. or &id 1" The London
carpenters and masons refused the master.' offer
of arbitration except with the conditions asttled(l),
and now insist upon 9d. a hour and nine boon
a day. It is now not a question of debate, but
of strength. Who will give in &Ito the elethles
or the men

Gold is the cheapest thing out just now. The
Bank rate we. lowered on Thrirsda_y to 3 per
out.. and even at this rate the Bank appii_
sently cannot hap its ogail at "ghli kr the

Mosta Raorrat..—The pupils at :tooth Groves:lounge
school, oondoolod by Um IWwes II avey, gave • 11111i0
recital on Friday thermos, before a numerous &iamb-
lags of lady visitors, Pb. folioed's being the pro.
gramme I—tort Sag ; Men Dunn, *Goaditillod;" Miss
Paul's', "TM Arabion Waltzes;" Miss Creech, 'Lay.
of Albion ;" Miss Wooleten, "My Love she** his a
Lassie yat ;" Kids Worms, Brightitglemos our Ben.
nor,' KW those, "Li Its Coquette ; Miss Wightinan,
"Harvest Hone ;" Wee Newman, " Grand liormao
Militalrei" Mien Barn.. "Sunny Meadow . . 11 " Miss ,
"Faust; Part Song ; Mime A. Woolston, "Away
with Mislimeholy 1" /Ass Peach, "Tramp, Tramp ;" Mies
U. Head, "Swim Boy ;" Miss Hawkins, 'Sturm Maria
Gam ;" Mins Symonds. "The Spirit of the lull
" God Sate the Qoesn." The yonos I dies smutted
themselves With a moldable degree of efficiency, and
the Misses Hervey may be eonrratulated on the lady.
like behaviour as well ea the mama' progress avinoail
on the part of the pupils. Particularly noteworthy
were the performaame of Mimes Cr..., How, Newm sn,
Hawkins, and Symonds. After the recital the yonog
ladme promoted to z. White, their Toaio ol.lra
tsachet, an elegant inkstand and book•holder as a sedum
of their rogard for him

CArrii-Diaaaaa. —The returns from the several
divisioas of Mks sestaty for the poet week show that lb.
foot and math disease is laareeeing. la the Bleadford
&said six Witlie bays bees uewly attacked, one bee
died, and levet remain dl.eusd, fire sheep have
emaciated. Tits dissent sontieuse on two farms. la
the Bridpeet diviaion there has been one fresh oasbreak,
viz., at Bloke Abbott. 13 rattle and 30 swine have beet%
meshed; oss sow has 41.4 end 37 reeovered, and there
now remain suited 24 cattle. 5 sheep, and 20 swum
These are oa three farina la Caroe dtvisioa, there
has been a hash outbreak at Alton Panora' in sheep,
and the diastase exWnels to six farms. Newly atiaoked
are 26 Gentle, 160 alump, and 30 swine ; 24 oaths, 64
sheep, cad 30 swine have resovered ; end there remain
diseased 66 salt* 160 sheep, and 40 swine. In Slid-
tesbary divides there !save been new outbreaks as
itoartoe, Masa. and llutwornisk esti 8 !arms are
affected. laity hearts have bees attacked darting the
week, 90 have reciovered, mid 59 remake. la Star-
miaow divides taste are I tarots effaced, sad in the
week 3 freak athlete, hivolvana 23 settle and
4 sheep. Two animals have died, 17 muslin's%
cad 25 remota. Is Wareham division there have beta
sew estbreSki at East Lalerowth cad Moreton 20 cattle
and 279 sheep sliewiag the disease • 2 intiale have
recovered; 46 rattle and 279 sheep ouila affected.
In Whither= division there have bees four fresh
atte:ke—at Melon Mattel, litaraluster Marshall (2),
and Whaberne Minster. Newly attaehod have been
137 cattle, no 'beep, and 24 swine ; 1 taw sad 7 alrial
have dad ; there have reeovered 20 settle, 130 sheep,
sad 33 pip) sad remaining dimmed 162 Guild, 660
sheep. and 21 swiss. In Dorchester &vistas It cattle
and 40 sheep have bees attacked, 18 salt!, and 10 itip
recovered, sad there remained diseased 30 tattle 80
sheep, and 13 swine. At Lytehett Minster, Da Mr,
Hunt's fern the.. heifers are &fleeted with planro.
poeumonta ; sad al Mr. Draper's, Alton Panama, one
sow remains affeeterL .

—/Vao- ofti-Putty Siious, Thuralay.—Beforo J.
Bishop, lbs.
Fulfil JAIL —Ana Brown, landlady of the Rail.
way Tavern, Soath-street, wee broaght Spin custody
lthehell charged with being drunk and riotous.
The t stated that at quarter pat Wawa, no
Wedaee4y nigkt. he was passing the Bailway TOM%
and heard • great rotrad/Zg on. Re naked what was
the ssalitst, and the 0%1144111m la and wanted
to give his wits in °harp. They were hutting with
wok other. Witness advised them to go to bed, but
Witmer was wry violent and kept einasklng the
things, end he failed to wake any impression upon her.
This watlinsed far shoat half -an.hour—glass, Sables,
and edges being brokes. sad Ones thrown into the
street by Km Brown. She was drunk, sad wale into
the street, deesasdiog the keys of the bar, or she
would umiak the door. AU efforts to quell the
dletarbanes failing he took her la melody, bat she
wan so violent that the serwalker was iwooght late
?pedalling., she was aewly asked. in sumo to the
Brows denied she was drunk. Her haw
We'ked provoked her to it slaw Monday lash and
he had anted badly to her sad the ceildrea. It was
hint that was !mak. Saws tine rises he laid hold of
• razor, sad is the skittle alley " pre•wded" to cal Ida
throat. Re had own token hie sluldreell bet!!, and
limn it mist the pat,. Bite hod *hid idt4
beaWl he Ulm CIO within* her khowlai
Imesed 114 atsigleMes add WI tor

a woman in her position such cionduot could not be
tolerated.—Fthei 20, including oasts, or 7 days' im-
prieooment. Mr. Brown mad h W uld pey the fine,
providing hi, wife w"till leave Min at ones., and if she
returned, he mass ask that she he t.. 110,1 overt, keep
the pesoc. Tie. fine was ultimata? Pill.
iioSDAT.—Before J. F. Hodges, Esq., end J. Bishop,
Mary Jams flay wan charged with using abusive
languaae to Bleseeeth Keats, to Miller's Gloss, West
Yordiegton,
The parties are neighbours.
A constable spoke to serving the aummons, and Um
Mrs. GUI appeared. Sue admitted ths hare.
A croseeurninons had been issued charging Mr..
)(sets with Wesley • °Mil of Mrs. Gay's, aged about 4,
named Willman Guariee
C implainant said on Saturday morning, 15th Jane,
after she hid dratted two of her children ahe cut them
to look tarough • gate to seo Ilse so,,to.ra
nttniing at her .loor phe saw Mrs. Kest, sta., the child
wills her I Is 'and. 11,1.1 tee tek lues by the shou'der
en i Ores., him. It 1.,r, tidily this Mio. K mut told the
child ti 11t6114 beak in the road, W4ael (she said, he
Gould seo quit. OA well MI close to the gate. After the
slap compisioent tl4 her she should not stand it, and
Mrs.Kosts eloped her hand. ant wool insulting gestures.
Mr. Keats t erred thug so.. .idled the ohildren '• devil.,"
.D 1 dared shoes to pats in front of Ivo. Cb also
put tar on the child'. imalt stud tonafori. After thus
she coiled for Mrs. Keats to cam, oat. an I then told
her if she dii not leave her and her children alone she
should giro her • weir of Clack eves! I rhea they
ash ol one another " lyina mita'
Defendant put on her digoity, mot said she would
rather out ask eoasol Linnet itny qucstam, 'she hada't
'pokes' to her for two years, and 114.1 masa to.. Her
tale was that Gouda.; out ul the S id otter milking lo r
, cow she told the chariness MA to hang on the gate, far
'tis very old. Mrs. Guy meid " Don't mind, children,
what she do say; do ward you like, lit. gels belongs
to me mil then as well mit doos to 'he. • lire. GEV
ale °died her opprobrious Timm, wrung up her date
at her, sad said she'd give her two black eyes as her
husband had does to make her lie in bad for • month;
and she &leo teed about '' gouging out her eyes !"
Yrs. Gay woad not admit the tale entirely, but it
was evident there was some truth in it.

Both parties were betiti over to keep the peato tot
sit 'ninths, in 1.10 imili, their husbands beiug the
itUrretiwe.
(J01:11,11 PLTrT SIMBI.INB, ‘tard.y.-13-fore it 0. F.
Steward, kq ii. Warr), Sul., and H. It. Itid 8r0.., Sol.
Jlauleu WAtit, 4 Pulhoto, was charged with drunkeuurss,
but he did not 'Wok proptr to obey the swum nit
Pt. Mach on Wodislialay llth feet. met defendant on the
highway In charge of throe borooownd wairgun. He was very
drunk, end incapable of driving hi. tau. Wit... stopped
the horses, and naked def -.ideas to au to hi. lodging* Ile
was very willing Ul do no. sod stopuel about n hours Then
defendant went shout 8 iniles on the way to Puddietown with
hire- [D,dendant now entered the duck. lie wu • respectable-
looking toiddleyped man.)-by which tune defen taut had
rerov.redi

Dehminnt, after pulling hie forelock to the Bunch, afi'd their
parion. Ile only had • quart eV el. from Pulharn to Piddle.
lumen, and he was rather overcome wiLka the drop he had.
K. works for Mr Drake, of Pulbun.
Pined
. . . . .

inn feiTewing lionises were tranWerred :—Nerokaid, Wyke
flees, from James Vine to Garolumi Vow, his widow; Tune.
Read, West Cacho:ell, from tiltabeth Finnic Jeceseed, ho
Jane F oohs ; tese Getnteen, Portland, from Usury Dray. At to
Thomas Gam,; the Standard Inn, Pertisad, !ruin Thornat
Rimers, deceased, to nie widow Georgina Karam
Mantas ADAM, Soh seller, and landiont of the gam'. Own,
Dachau', we. BlinaMooo lion allowtai two bones to stray it
atia4uni

P.C. E ford said on Sunday, June Id, shmt in lilysee.
Mocha ding• Lou homes grasing, anl 61 or 70 yard. off .gago
and boy Via,/ laths diwa, silski On his appissziug, gut Up. Ile
asked the man if they were hie home% aO.l he shimmed " No.
Thomas Alaues." Told him Adams would he summoued.
Fanners complained of burns going up the lane. aid tearing
the hedges to pito.. About au boor before he saw the bursa
going in that direction.
Doleadesit said he nog .10.111 at PorUand buying ouckerel on
the hunday •it was nut 1114 wish Liss srses should ho there.

Supt. 11.. r;. +aid defeedaut had beau proi:uary.-ccravlaZior
a NMULU uthlliCe.

101 and 7. COWL

WEYMOUTH.

BOROUGH PIIM Sieltit—o,-Tuaraday.—Before J.
Ayliax, E. 9., nald 11. Rwigett,

?Wm LL WM brul punarged wins %Listing a drew
skirt 5., the purperty d Eluta Parry, who so Tam-
pions. • C.,urt, St. Edmund-stmt. Tins 114NPA1... LI% Stood up
tin skirt su LOG purge near her door, to dry. IL ".611.1L8.1 ILL
o'cl..k In thu craning ' ' but .1 10 It was
Atria Hanaford w the prisoner about hall.psat 9on the
evening when laza skirt Vie tamed ; oho was wowing on.
sunder to that lost.

Harriet ISurdou saw • svoroassa shortly beton staahni nos:
whore Ulu skirt liras loss from.

likrvey—prod---u;i'd .dr7s.es skirt, which pris veer ealruitt•d
to be the one Hat she wore on the evening when the ektrt In
quemion was lust.
Reamoded to Saturday.
iiISILT HILL wa• brought up for being drunk aud riotous in
iligh-mrmt, about half -pun nine the previous evouturg. .thumn
days.
Asthug Nhahts, an old off erni•r. who has been 17 Mum
convicted, was brought up for vagrancy.
P.C. Amoy found him !reigns,/ on the Grosvenor-pleas
Road, and DoreMawr K 0.4. When h• mearchol him, there
were found sundry coins on his b ely, wrapped nod rolled up,
and concealed is strious plasm, shillings, twu-elilido.o pieces,
he:, amounting to les /O.
Remanded for • week. _

tieTUBOOT.:-B•fore H. Rigolt,
P.m flith woe brow/ht up on /emend, uheried with
stealing Utz* Perry'e dray elurt.
Diethargetl for want of evelence se to the identity of the
aklrL

RIGH•RDIIOX. • negro, wan brought up fur hawking,
without baring cortalleaLe endorsed._ . _ .
. . . .

P.C. Delaniont me him bass-k;;; made ti 'wad in the Fmk
this morning. He lent a certcate, but it was two year. old,
and was nut endorned for this bsrough.
Tne black man said be did not know h. had to got the carn-
age endorsed. Fined It 13.1,
. . .

He flrat maid he had—Only 24 this amouut was
accepted; but them tie Lineal .ut • *mailer sum, aaid tli•t
was all he b.J. U. wag threatelml b Ui. dupenoteu lent that
his things should be retained iu pledge ; but tie was ultimately
let ga.

ugATH TiII.IOIJC.: I'lt Kln;4; A PINT OF OIN.

7Wo WiTNS43IB DRUNK AT TUX ISQUItia.
SIMI CILNALINA Br Titll cuauxsa.

An inquest was held on Frilay aftsrnoon last, by
GilesSyruriAls. Hey., Ottro.4tlf, Mr. B 3•1.1 foreman of the
jary, on the body of rllOOll4 Jennings, • travelliug
tinker, populszly known as "Thozusie toe Tinker," who
died from drinking two half-piats of gin at tits Task's
Head puolio house, lisot-stroet. _

It appears that 'Jennings was an old and not orlon,
drunkard, who ate little but drank all he wild get
given him, and has been many times inertial for
drearier'. On Tburaday abort 9 he met some room.
pinions who had money, one of thorn hod gained £.5 by
fishing, and they went front the bridge to the public
house, and eat drinking all the rest of the morning.
Jennings was greedy over the drink, and oricie or twiee
complained tort the oturs had not left him etIOU4b.
On this they offered hits whet he liked, and the mon
ordered half-a-pint of gin, for whirr tne others were
willing to pay. The londlord appears to be new to the
trade, having only about • mouth kept • public house,
and he supplied the gin, and turned to another
customer. On this Jennings swallowed the staff, and
was greedy for more. kite ormpanions who were both
drank, recklessly humoured him, Jointing. had another
half-pint and swallowed this also. The landlord now,
according to his statement, seems to have started, and
ormajujer, "Why, man, it will kill you, I sever saw
such a thing done begone" One of the companions
was sent for a doctor, the polies superintendent direct-
ing him to a part of the town near where are four or
fir Mallitta gentlemen; but the messenger wee in such
a state himself that he could not find one, and returned
wither. Meanwhile Jennings was taken out Into the
yard, and water dashed over him. He recovered the
shook traced by having taken so much gin, end was
thought to be better. Toe deadly staff, however, then
began to be absorbed, and instead of ref:lrene& Jen-
nings sank Into a stupor. Dr. Grifilo was called, after
the man had been removed into a stable' and laid on
straw. Tne doctor &mired in five minutes, to find the
man dead, and apparently death had token pleas on
hoar, for when the doctor tried artificial reit:derma, lie
could not encoded, as the chest marls' were stiff.
The Coroner had the inquest held not in • public.
house, but pursued his enquiry with solemnity and
ore at the Goodwin. There 'Forest least fora publicans
on the jury.
The first witness called wee the man John Harding,
who had the day before gone for the dootor. He ap-
peared with • flashed ter, and a thiok utterance, and
when the oath was administered, did not kir the book,
and only watered that he knew nothing about it.
The Coroner: Are you sober?
Witness (thickly): 1 ain't—l ain't fresh.
Tie Corona': 11 is a most diagraeatul state for a
man to appear in, at fur an 00.10tff as thil.
Mr. Vickery I'm afraid the other wittiest is as
bad. _ .

The Coroner: Then I'll adjaarn the Court, smd If
they come before sue in this state again, l'U oommit
them. I ant not going to have men in this state before
me with impunity; I have tte power to commit, and
I'll do so. I Walt it is extraordinary that 01•1110•111101
remain sober after such an oriettrrenoe as this, at least
natal the enquiry is held.
Charles dwindles was Vasa eallad, aad we found to
be not stopklly drank, lllhoucb he was evidently
druak-valimat. He woe to some axiom; sobered by the
grave manner and .in**tions of tue Coroaer, sad his
*video's *mounted to the following: I •ut • ileeassd
bewket, live et Weymouth, and have known Thoinas
Jenniugs for several years. I was with hint put
day morning ou the bridge, about 8 or 9 u'olook, I can't
say to half•anMoor. My harm was at the Tork's Head,
and I &liked Jenniug'e to go there and have some beer.
There wen three where with us, Lod we went together
and there we kept on barmy ale sod beer, all the lot
of os. I ean't toli bow much we had. but who; we
had we paid for.
The Coroner: Yee, that is not the point; how much
did you have?
Wit:tem: Well, I suet tell. We sort of people
generally like to have a spree, and we don't know how
much we drink.

_
The Coronor : Wether it is • spree for you or not
&pen& upon tne result, and what people think of it
Witness: YOLI kllollr, Sir, WWI do go very quick In •
publio.house—
Tim Coroner : No, I don't know anything about it,
and.l snoold b. very sorry to do so.
. . .

Witness assured lMr. itlyznonds thst time did pun
quiakly, and his etarnisation was than oontinued with
the following result: —Manley, one of the men, went
about 10 or 11 o'clock, when myself, Harding and
Jennings ware left behind. all three went on drinking;
boll was no more drunk than I am now (I) nor, as far
U I can say, wham the others, for we mull see ono
anothor, you know. sir. I left Jennings on the floor,
he warn asleep, at least I didn't know but what be was
&sleep. }it slept some time and we thought we would
starry him out in the frail Mr, oonsidsring he wee
drunk. We carried him from the bar to the wash.
house, whore I put some straw under his heal and a
beg, and I washed his head three or four times. The
landlord helped. We washed his face over three or
four times for about two or three hours. Dating all
this time the mart kept snoring. as if he was thoroughly
drunk The landlorsre nun.. I believe W" .1.8101.
John Harding went for &doctor ; but he essald not Ind
one at borne The man kept on snoring, and we could
not tall but what he was properly drank.
Tho Coroner: What had you to drink f—A.: Bar
and ale.

The Coroner : &Antos Jae? —A.: No, not that I
know of.

The Coroner : Did gee hare may gin 1
Wilmer : There might hare hem gis there.
The Oommer ; Let me were ye.. I &eked god it
thus vas myth* mere the. bear a ale, mg yail

s ' No,' and the Dent thing yon tell is that there
might hare been gia the S.
Witness: Ali I knew is that nest morning I toned
my ;Ls. vary 114ir.
The Curoa-r: Theo you were drank as he ca.!
%Vita. a.: To., and when I sot .J. I am so direly to pay
for a g .1,04 ul bast as a plat, or fur anything else.
The Ou veer : Did he scit you hare any or the gin
toother ?

Witomm : I can't tell.
Tao Ooroner: Horrover a man can stand up with
t"s. like roura, and make such • 000remion as that, I
can't make nat. 1)14 &hit man JeAllillge ramble about
anv 4riok all?
Witu..a: lii kept on saying " that al: you have
left 10,! •'
ii, was sort of owe:stow for drink.
Q. : What wee said about "having • tightener ?"
A. : I never heard that.
Q.: Rave you said an
know that I di ything about : I don't
d.
al.: 1).4 you talk to the p lion al &Reboot it last
nigltt I —A. : I don't know.
td you 00E110 tr the polies offiest—.a.: Yes; I
did tl.t, .

: Wh.t did Ina enum for? —11..• I Game to the
police et ttmn to tell that the man wadi dead.
: Dia You tell the superintendent of pollee any•
thihg shoat it. when you went to tell that the man warn
deacl?—A. : Wo went to tell his that we did all we
Gould ; but we never thought the man was likely to die.
Q. Where there any sober in the hoesef—A. : The
landlord ought to be sober. I don't know that he drank
at all. _ .

Q : D;il you pay for any gin yourself ?—A. : 'Tis no
are for in, to any whether it woe ruin, or gin, or brandy;
it 10 00 um for roe to say wrong.
Q.: Did you toll the superintendent that you had
pald for any gin, or had p 4,1 a shilling for any gin that
the man iniskit have a tigh:enerf —Ai : I had some
money about me when I want In; bet I don't know
what I spent; when I am out like this, I don't We
what.l Ppend.
Q . Who furnished the drink ?—.t. : Mr. JIMIII4
Tile Curoper than sailed for Mr. James ; but before
he was examined, Kr. [hard said he thought it gait*
likely that the witnesi was last night to sneh • state
that now he was quits likely to have perjured himself
unknowingly. There was no doubt he Gould not tell
what he did.

remsrked that the witness hsd more drink
now than he oarbt.
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C ironer : I think.
E 'mend Jams, landlord of the Tnrk's Head Did
not kuow Jennings, bet he was at my bones yesterday
morning with SwindelL Herding, and another 11144
named limey. 'frier a me there WOO after 10 o'olook
I. the morniog and ordered a quart of ale and a bottle
of ginger beer. Tbey drank that, and bad soother
quart of ale, which woe drunk and thee one left. 11,1
bad more—about four quarts altogether. mad this rasa
(leoeesed) kept stylus every tins,' Is that ell you have
left f.r me?' Ja..; bcfora 12 o'olook they got no to
go sway, and the deceased drank last and said again "Ii
toot all you bare left for me?'' John Harding replied:
" You eon have what you like, tad I'll gay." Mowed
said " Me.ter, give ins a pit.t of gin.* 'Witness replied
No; have hali.a.piat fires." Wittier drew lii. half.
plot, and pot it on the @minter, and tamed roand,
who, the throe men present bunt oat lambing—all the
three. Looked round, and sew deceased with a oup is
bis hand, the other two laughing at him. Dsoseeed
said NMI/a ; fill me another,' when wits... filled
another sad put it ma the *minter.
The Coroner : Ware these the "tightesere?"--ift. :
Yes, suppose o.
. I s
. . . . _ .

Wil; said but tLe tightooorsl—A :tit tel
you direct y.

The man t tok holt of that, ant drank It off at ono°.
Witness said "Well, my coin, that'll kill von; 1 over
S•lr 11110• • thing MI tat in my life." 11. sal.l " Ni.
It won't. I shall have whether." %Vitae,* • No, nit
here." Deomood then abased him, and said twit IVY
all he had in the house, when witness replied 'Never
coin!; you'll have no more here." He stout about a
little wade, and then sat down on the floor. Bet of
the men were will pato let deemed have what he liked,
and acid they wantet him to bars a tightener. They
then about fire minutes after, carried him oat in the
yard, WI I placed him on somistr•r in thw epee •ir.
wog insensibl This Es, *boat 12 o'olook, and he re
maned in the yeti till bee o'olook. Daring the iotaral
his hum was washed several timea by Swindell, ad he
was thou taken into the atable. About 10 minutes past
fire witness went and found he was dead.

The Foreman : 11,w wt. it you did not go ti got
• doctor !—A: Juba Hardy wont to tey and get Os*
between 12 and 1.

Q. -:-WireTli-d he go for a dootor ?—A. : To err and
lave the maiie life.

The Corooer (to James): laarounob as you hold your
lioeuoe ou condition that you do net permit drunken.
nog in your house. aud your very sliders. swat to
convict you of having allowed it, if that is not sudieirmat
to °suss you to forfeit your iiosoce, then I shall bit
very much astonished at the administration of jostles
in Weymouth. sod I thiak ths jury will to astonished
too.

Juror: When you took Um mak Into it's stable
did be brekettel—A. : Hs snored._

Mr. :abort.? : Wu: soy w.ger I tad that he wooid
drink • oeri•in q••ntity of go in • give* Um* ?—A.:
No. _

- Did no men threw down sa. to pay for ea mush
so no would drink.—L: No. not 56.; but they would
psy for no moon as he wanted.
. .

Did be drink the grit heir-pint : I don't
know ' • he seemed oonfinutlied. I think WU •h.,.e
drankte int. to web.. fool of him.
The Foreman : What Mete did you Ware him lit
when you isft him at 5? Did you think he was going
to die ?—A, : No.

Till) Coroner: Was Harding drunk ?—A. : No.
Mr. Shorry : Wawa they milled tor the saeond halt
pint, d 4 not the deoessed say " Draw me another;
I'll drink soother? —A.:' He said 'IW me another,"
The Coroner: It seems to me than although you are
not legally responsible, you are morally respoasible foe
suet oiaia's death, isi must a. if you had shot Mos by
acendebt, although you dl.! not Weed to harm the
men.

Mr. Sherry mid if them men et first only drank the
four pots of wanton sla it was not enough to make
them drank. •

Tn. foreman and jury espreesed themseives dissa-
tisfied with Swindell'e evideeoa and resisekad how
sheaking it was that the two men should MOO Into the
Court thank.

Tee Oorooer said the man they sent Inc the doctor
might have been so drank that be WM not aisle to
distingoish the dootor's door'from a Imp-post.
Soot. Vickery said the min was In that stets when
beta. him.

Supt. Visitor, was sworn and Mid she mon Harding
and Swiodeles were not so drunk am they won now.
He cintinued : I saw deceased lying on his book In this
yard, and knew him as a very grad druokard, and
asked what he bed been drinking; they said gin and
beer. Mr. Hare, the dept. of Dorset County Consta-
bulary. the landlord, and Harding wee present. De-
esased's °oiler was bora, and water had been thrown
over him. Witness spoke to the landlord, and said
"Yes are responsible, and the beet thing you tan do
is to put the men in the stable on dry straw, and send
for the doctor." Harding enquired where the doctor
lived, and witneas made lam sensible where be sodh
find one. After the Connell meeting had broken up,
witness saw deceased who seemed better, sod seemed
to breathe freer. Harding said he had been for a darter
to three Or four pleas ; but could not dad oat, be
gave such a deariptlon ad if be had pee to Dr. Third,
ant witnest toll hia there were three or four living
near. _

--ii;e Foreman thought Hardee's erliegen ought ti
be taken.
_ _

Toe Coroner said he would adjourn She enquiry if
necessary. but it had been proved almost amigos. as it
amid that the man had drank half-a-plat of gin and
in spits of the-landlord's idea that She others might
have drunk the find half•pint, there wee little doubt
deuesed had that. They might therefore arrive at the
opinion that the dammed died from exited,* drinking,
sod then aoalee the question " Who is responsible r
The law ealtlololl that • moo who has arrivei at yesrs
of demotion is reeponsible for the epergnes's* of hli
own Oct : but be was sue Wel oaaid not help having a
strong opinion of the landlord's oindarst. He was
afraid that if Harden's 'widens* were Sakes, be must
be kept In custody SW he was sober.
Dr. : I was milled about 30 initiates put eve,
and went at ones, and totted deeseeed In She atable by
one of the staUs. He wee quite dead, and beginning
I, cool. A quantity of brownish froth, mixed with
liquid, was running from his nose withal wee oom-
pistol, stopped up. The °sting appeared to be beer,
alters! from partial digestion. Tried widest respire-
scion but without mousse ea the musks of his *hen
had become quite stiff. Should judge be most have
bet dead from three qusrters of as bear to an hour.
Could smell the beer; but it wet an airy plus, and
the stabil cuelliag strongly it would not be easy to
soul, gin. Believed that he died from the effects of •
pint of gin drank apparently within ten minutes. The
gin was the immediate 'sue of death, and was quite
NA :tent to inossion it, in inch a short interval. Ti.
first symptoms were the result of shoe from taking so
mach spirit unmixed with waist, he appeared to have
resiovered from that and afterwards the absorption of
the spirit took place, nod consortial' of the brain was
osuser.

Yr. Board suggested thr. oa sosoust of his
immporioaose, the lesidlord wr sot so mush to blames
aa might be supposed.
Ite. Kenewsy rid Om leadlord hoeing expressed
himself .1 he did by lapis( "It will kill you," ought
to hews looked OM himself evils, to gets clamor. Hs
wm so ouipeble ea either of them.

The Lk•Laer hi. as dieoralablo to the I tadlord as
to lb. others. TIN pabile-house system was so espial
that he hoped he shoulS hoe le lei the day whoa It to
altered.

In answer to the Jury, the lindlord mid he hed only
been at tie Tark's WWI • month, end had never kept
• publio.boass before.
A juror suggested that the system mast be wrong,
'rhino permitted of an utterly unskilled and humph-
ienoed man, as James aokuowledged himself to be,
Wing entreated with sash • power.
The Coroner replied that if it were honesty to have
examinations, it would be alinoet saying that the land-
lords toast be ohmic&
The Jury returned • vhdiat of "Died from excessive
drinking." Thy had before exorcised a wish that the
Coroner would give • warnidg to the parties, and Mr.
*wounds said he should not fail to de so,
The Coroner now oiled forward Swindells and th
landlord, and said : Anything more discreditable than
thug Lame, to all the parties eoneerned, it has never been my miefortano to enquire into. Depend upon
*1 101. sort of thing will Ming yos to rain. To Swindells
and Harbin : I would say the publialioase Is not he
pleas to bogie frequenting at 9 &hook in the mornings
and continue in for hours. To do so is not As way
for a man to saimeed in this life or the We to some. my
mom mendation to you both is to tarn over • new leaf.
for, altar soon a disputing entertainment ea jolt bad
yeetard•y, to oome to.day In tbe stole Is what you
I've come, tasked the affair of yesterday far
worse, though nothing is required to dose. age:WIWI"
I my, If this is the beginning of your pablhhease•
keeping, and is the result of year Irma month only m 7
opinion is that you will eh keeps paldhailissee left
The Cormier went on to advise Jammu lo *AT 60e
terms of his Loehr, end take waritog tosio lOu II".
Rs had trehed dassawal so bssber ski. It Ye boos
nog, and had allowed him to set =40asd
then had him earned oat MU •
Hordes sosostood In • kag•••••001 bulb° 11616.
She lad et the esesier. Ls le le be hePti %it

well men may like the Coroner's manilas. end nos
expo** themselves to he carded out Si brutes. sae
allowed to die in a stable, in the "midst el itialdier
M.DUIIO.

THE ANS ;FRU OF THE LOCAL BOARD TO
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THE WEYMOUTH TOWN 001:7NUIL
Portland, 17th Jane, 1872.
Dear B&r,—Your letter. on the part of the ~.lorpors
Bon of Weymouth and Melsombe Regis. addressed to
the Chs/gotan of the Portland L 0341 Board, wilting
iiilll and the members of his B ..rd aa the local govern.
lag body of Portland, to join in sending • titisturial to
• 'goober of th., Boyal Family to attend a Incennt to
declare the Pardee t Breakwater compht,d, lieu been
plaited before them at Owls meaning, and I en inatoneted
to acknowledge the reseipt of the same and to it ite—
That my Board would he glad to be informed, if your
Oorporation bee bad any official einumuniettion Magog
that the Breakwater is eoutpleted?
_ _ . . _ . . .

The Portland Breakwater', with the exception of the
tweeting of a fort, bee bseu in its present stets some
yean, ant thorefore wy El nard aro f opioicrt, that If
any ceremony 1.111 desirable, the tint., for seen to bare
taken pleas wool I has• been when the openiag between
the two parts of SUIIEJ Bre•kitater well °trawl for the
wogs of vessel.; and, that time being allowed to pass
by, it does appear to them that now is not the time,
but that the application should be used. when the Fort
Is oomplattd, and royalty eon be greeted with a seiner
from the guns which will then be mounted.
The Board also feel that at all Miami • visit front
royalty would be • wares of great gratilleation to
thenk.slyes god the inhabitants throughout the Wand,
which is one of the royal manors of the Crown, and it
is with some regret they are obliged to say, that it does
appear to them absurd for the reasons above stated to
mead a memorial jut now.
The Portland Breakwater, I am desired to stets, is
within the jorisdistion of my Board, cod not that of
your Corporation, and they therefore dispute any right
of your Corporation to interfere therewith, at they
ecirmider your Corporation has rialto auffloieat of their
own to attend to, and although willing In till, to
attribute It to 0101111161) loyalty, yet they mail ask It
sot to oust again.
They also consider the oreetioa of sash Breakwater,
although a national work, yet if it bad been thought
desirable that • public meeting and ceremony should
have taken pleos, with that sourtely which ought to
exist between neighbouring iinthoritimony Board are
emulsions', of opinion that your Corporation should at
the least hate suggested it to them,and have stated your
willingness to have joined in the apirlieetion, and
oot have taken the prineipal part in • matter nastily'
to premises out of the larisdiotion of yoar Corpora.
lion. . . . . .

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fray other authorities had so trsetsd your Coe.
Fomstoc, .04 steed their Intention of applying to •
member of the Royal Family to attend • meeting to
declare the Pile her tionpleted. or the Pork woll, oi
laty work of a patina caters withio the joriediodon of
your Oarporotion, sad • rked {our Corporation to Jiro
in the ceremony, the Portion Board feel oon•rooed
that your Corporritioo would ewe eomplatoel mush of
snob ao act on the port of soot antitonty.
I am, dear Sri,
Your obedient servant,
IL N. flOwalta.
F. C. Stegall, En., Clerk to the Corporation of
Weymooth rodYeleumbs li.urs.