The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

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Ten Edinburgh magistrates have fined a muff numn-
leeturtr, named L ndsay, MO for adulterating Mesita!
with tooquin beans.
THa great bankruptcy case of Sir Morton Peto,
Bart., Betts, and Crompton wan gran before the
London Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday. The claim
for upwards of six millions sterling made on behalf of
the Leaden, °Latham, and Dover Railway had been
appointed for further consideration, but it was not gone
Into on account of the recent indisposition of Mr.
Linklater, who represents the railway company. After
swam dismission as to the dividend the °Lee generally
stood over until tbe liih of July.
As ledoern 1101111 AND.—In July last a Birkenhead
wooer, twined Timmons, wee persuaded by his wife to
go to A aaaaa lia, leaving his property in her charge. On
retaining lest April be found his wife had taken a man
named flodslan to live with her, and the property was
gone. On Wednesday morning Timmons walked up to
Sodden as he was opening kb shop, and fired three shota
at bins with a six-chambered revolver. They all pawed
clue to him, and lodged in the woodwork of the shop.
For the defence it was urged that the shots were fired
for the purpose of frightening Haddon. The magistrates
committed prisoncr for trial and refused bail.
“REY 0811 WASTAID AT Holer.—The man Finlen,
who made himself notorious by his inirudent conduit
at the Horne-office. and by his Fenian proclivities,
egspeared in soother, and scarcely so pleasant a
chsruhr on Monday. He was brusght up at the
Cl. rkenwell polies-court for doe rims his four children
end leaving them ihsrgeahle to the perish. The
defendant said he had not received a farthing for his
"spouting" for the lest eighteen month., but he WA
now obtainesl employment, and was anxious to come to
an a rrengement to support his children. The magis-
trate adjourned the cam so that defendant might settle
Abs m•tter with the perish authorities.
CHILD Monnea.—At the Haininermnith poles-wart
on dourday Isabella Davidsoo, a domestic servant, was
chanted with the wilful murder of her illegitimate male
child, aged eLven monti.e. The body of the child was
found in the Aiteh.n gardeo, wrapped up in • pareel,
with a handherrhief tied so tightly over the farm that
the nose was fiattened, and another handkerchief tied
in knots round the throat. Tbe prisoner had placed her
losant whib a woman to norm at 3s. 6d. a week, but had
taken it away on the night of the murder UPen Pretend*
of naming it herself. When taking into muted, she
exclaimed several times, "Oh, v hat will they do with
me?—shall Ibe hanged." Tbe prisoner wee remanded.
hies has since been committed for trial.

Tin MoDILIII CAPTAIN EIOARLETT.—VraNcis Moorland
a well rireved lad el 15, alias Ceptain Soarlett, wee
enlarged lest week at Thames polies-court, on remand,
with stealing eight silver watcher. The prisoner hit
upon so 'evictor's method of plundering tradesmee,
&AT watek,nUer Hi. practice wee to go into •
ereitalrle shop., oak to look eta •atch, and, while the
shopkeeper's heck was turoed, run •way with it. If
Win icia coutht until In had stolen eight wstehes in
Oda moaner. On eeerehieg him a pocket-book was
toned, in which entries were made of the price he had
received for each w•tob, and the manner In which he
had spent the proceed.. A 'tailor', mask, rope with
and revolver •ere !mini upon him. He vu
committed for trial.

FtLott LiTteeTtleir.—Two boys were tried al
Witlrlieees session for borglery. They bad broken into
tbe °aloe of a tradesmen who employed one of th, so,
and stolen a few pound., which they asset in strip to
the ploy and other &maws:lents. Their falser sold
they bet cnoe been good boys, bat of late their minds
had been poisoned by the reading of infamous publica-
tions. scab as the "Juvenile Highwayman" an I other
things id that vamp, and as if to conk rm his statement
It transpired that the officers who epprehended the l&is
found in their possession a 'motivation of whet may be
gelled robber properties, such am a dark lantern, a
loaded pistol. percussion cape, and several implements
of housebreaking ; just the tool., in fact, with which
the heroes of the boy etortes perform their wonderful
exploits.

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eItUELTT TO A CHILD.—At Blsokburn, on Monday,
William and Harriet Thompeoc, man and wife, wire
charged with comely ill-treating • boy, nine years of
age, named William Henry Dixbury, son fib. female
by her firat huaband, by fastening him down in • wicker
sk p for several hours on Saturday lard. From the
evidence it seemed that each of the prisoner's bat three
children when they were married • short time ago, the
man being a Carte F. end the female an operative in
mill. From information given to the police, Inspector
Eaatwood searched the house oat Saturday afternnon,snd
found four small children by themselvee, the oldest not
more than seven year.. Tne boy was found upetairs in
• lock bedrilnin, securely fastened down in a skip 141 1
limbos deep, 25 inebee long, and 18 Inches wide. Ti.
lid was closed, wad the poor child had been in that
crimped poeitdon since balf•putn..o'clolt that morning,
nor hat any fond been given to him. A blanket was in
the bottom of the basket, but the boy bad no covering
but his shirt. He could neither stand, sit, nor lie in •
comfortable position, and appeared exhausted when
released. He bad hien confined in • similar way for
some boom on Friday, bet managed to get onion that
say. The defence wee, that in .11 cases the punishment
bad beet, infli led for bad behaviour, The prisoners
were sent to the Howie of Correction for six months'
each, and tie children were pLuved under the care of the
relieving officer.

CALCILATT lit PIIIVATI 1.1141.—A correspondent
writers to. eontemporary as follows :—" Much has Mimi
said to prejudice the public mind as•inat istror l'alcraft.
whom only crime is Us.: las is minister of Justine and
the drwaxtr executor of the rigour of the law. I happen
Xtoow the man, as the miniaterof the church in which
he worships, ands more worthy creature does not mixt.
To stigmatise him as • hard.heartard, cruel, low-
lived, crawling, crouching, fawning wretch, which
mme of the papsrs, in connection with his duty as
yobbo executioner, have don., is utterly wide of the
hot. He is • good and tender.hearted man, and habitual
frequenttr of • Church of England place of worship,
where his white head and venerable appearance is
pleasingly conspicuous, though his identity is not generally
known among the congregation. The execution of his
duty is no pleasing topic oonvervation with him ; he
takes no delight in gratifying curiosity by enlarging
on the dismal scenes in whieh he takes so necessary a
part ;he is modest and unassuming. He ie by trade •
shoetuaker,and you might deal with hire all your life.and
have no more idea that he was a crommon hangman than
that he was the Grand Lama of Thebet. He is a very
devout attendant upon public worship, and a man of
very simple and straightforward mind. fulfilling all the
relations of domestic and social life in a kindly and
affectionate manner. (teleran is no monster, end
we one, I am persuaded, will be bettar plated than he,
that he haa no longer to perform his unenviable duty
in the lam of an excited and oftentime exasperated
snob."

Tan " %mittens Scanotc" c•as is before VON-
Cb.nadlor Giffard. The informition was filed by Sir
R. Palmer. and called upon the defendant to give a full
amount of his receipt' sa Clerk of the Permits, and
Clerk of the Commissioners of Patents. Mr. Edmunds
does not object to the amounts being subjected to en
examination, provided that they be taken in • just and
equitable manner, for he °oaten& it will be wee that
be is entitled to receive from the Exchequet (nide.
grendent of the amount doe to him in respect of discount
for stamps) the sum of 1.7,715 17a. 11d., and from the
suitors' Fee Fund, the sum of Cl3O 17s. 2d , amounting
together to £7,848 15" Id. The Attormy:Grneral save
that tire defendant, since 1544, he. mule deductions not
justified by the Acts of Parliament, and Um', so, by
memo of money belonging to the Crown, he fort loon
series of peen made lupe profits by purchasing from
the Crown ammo' et mama lower than thom at which
he gold them to the peretros to whom he lamed patents,
be most amount for that profit. Air It. Palmer
followed on the mate ride. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C.,
on behalf of Mr. Edmonds, contendet that, according to
the evidence of the official. In the public departments,
he was entitled to invest the balances of puhlis money
fa his bands in any way that be might think most
profitable, and that the profit seamier from such invest-
ment belonged to him. The only duty that devolved
upon Mr. Edmunds with regard to these balances we.
that when he was sailed upon to amount for them he
should be ready to dom. It we.. most tyrannical
pea:reeding OD the part of the Crown, now to call upon
ktr. Rimmede to amount for matter% extending over.
period of thirty years. The cum is not yet *misted.
THICLENZIOrWiLLOtrridat: Rim-Finn OF Rattail?.
_Th. c,„„,,ries Michael Barrett we. assented on Tuesday
morning at Newpate. The concourse never was large,
and the demennour of the spectators waisted mo.t
favourably with former smogs around ihe scaffold.
When the weer** appeared the.. 000gregated in
atm vicinity of the petioles groaned sod hooted
vigorously for • moment. Then all was still as the
wretched Barrett stood fate to face with death. He
looked doled with 'elm face epos the multitude, and
the straps wore adjusted upon his leg. by Calcraft,
line demeanour, without partaking of bravado,
11.1.11 remarkably fins, but he enuemd perfeetly sensible
of his awful position. While the last preparations were
being made, he held the bond of the Rev. Dr. Homey,
end joined quietly, but with mush earsestncee, in the
prayers for his departing mini Wendt
seemed partieularly careful in the adjustment of the
rope and straps. Having drawn the asp over the
oomict's lure, he wired hire to move forward a little
so as to be directly under the bean. This Barrett
at once did, and the hangman then took his left
heed, and exprieed the hope that he bore no hatred
to him Then immediately deecending the stare he
drew the screw, nod the drop felL The wretched
scun dit not seem to straggle much- His body
slowly swung round one. or twice, and thee all was
over. Bane" remade' will and enormous self-control
weentilid prominent is the deeth agony. The ordinary
death twiteldop coondaiy.
„mops
of haws, and feet were none of them to be seen, and 114
be hODI stiff and rigid, and with protruding toe- aad
swollen distorted features dlacernible under their thin
white reotton oovering, as if they were part of some
icesquerading, his broad Madden and thick.
ash ~nesulsz hums seemed to part with life without a
sisals throe or heave. Wendt remarried below, placing
his hands on the dying man's feet as if to steady the
swinging body ; but without employing the pen or jerk
with which he is said to nocaarocally supplement blue
dreadful fall. In death tire legs were drawn partially
up, and tamed cmtwardly at the kerma/ if ill ivoltuatary
uja of determinatioa. n. criminal either had his neck
broke in the firrt fall or kept unmoved in mutineers of
a let purpose, but it is pertain that his proud spirit
departed without betraying the usual sympathies
of an unnatural and violent deer*. Durgin(
over the barrier intinediately opposite the gallows,
and supported on either side by a female friend,
stood the half fainting figure of a young woman of some
(oar or five and twenty. Her deoent demeanour and
modest air non even upon the brutal natures round her,
and a couple of genuine London roughs kept back their
iinstrades by entreaties, and, when Peossurry, by blows
What i.e her relationship or knowledge of Barrett may
have bees, there meld be no doubt of the genuineness
el bar emotion on Monday morning. Deadly white,
with cleached lips, and hands ertii.h along le the wooden
barrier before her with the tenacity of • drowning
man, she roc:ceded in controlling herself anti, LH drop
gregually fell. When Barrett appeared on the seaffold
the women supporting her redoubled their emeolatoey
efforts ; sad her blanched farms gad wistful sir beams in.
fiensified in their expression. Rat when his fees was
peered she gave way, and it the fatal moment fell
preetmle. amid lay in a minim of hyillmieel Oar did
6o Mho booms and Mind to tir DOD, 'Mg aad
emosioas 4•11 of the oak's sal 11. droblitol

&aural Nam

THE Qom sad royal family aro ezpootod to return
from Balmoral about Mao 15th of next month.

A Logo Bronr.—Tho Japnnote Dickens. Kloyto
Makin by has written one story in 106 volume,
wbich woo Welht pars going thronsh the prem.
TEM polling for &Si Worolatershire took plies on
Fri,loy. The numbers wore :—Mr. LYDAMon (Lama')
2,620. Mr. Losl4l (Conservative) 2,411, insiority for
Mr. Lytlelion 279.

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SINGULAR CuR ON Daowirtno.--a young wotnan,
18 years of ege, named Cather•ne Gough, resiefing at
Fairfield, met with her death by falling into a dolly.tab
which @he was using. It wu supposed that she bad
been mimed with a fit, sad bad fal4n over the aide of
the tub.

FACT TOR TINTOTALLERI.— A contemporary says :
There is a gentlemui (Me) in Newtown who acknow-
ledges to the drinking of, on an average, toents ball-
pinta of als a day for the last thirty years." That is,
in round numbers, 13,100 gallons. —Dswestry Advertiser.
EXPLOSIOI. —About IMO on Tuesday an explosion
took place at a firework motifs/dory at LiverpooL The
owners 1b5.116 R&zpsr sad Bop, were both inside at
the time of the explosion, and, as wallas • boy, were
killed on the spot.

tleaana Plaines. —Tbe great "Derby fly" of Gm.
berwell pigeon fanciers foe a eweepeudies of £ll5 wee
.on by Ur. Hark Comber's blue 'lumina pigeon. The
bird arrived •ith the name of tbe winning hors* within
eleven minutes Liter the number was bolted on the
conic. al Epsom.

Tni RI-COMPOUND HOWIZEOLDM. —Four thousand
suremonms for non-paymeat of rates hare been issued
by the Chelsea magistrates, and it is said there are
nearly 10.600 householders there elm cannot pay. On
Friday the Hackney magistrates heard nearly 7,000
summonres for the eame default.

'Fita Right Hon. H. U. Addington Liu forwarded a
cheque for £5O to Sir Roderick Hutchison in aid of the
"Eyre Defence Fond," and Mr. John Humphrey, of
Clapham Common, has sent a cheque for EZIOU for the
defence of Mr. Er., as a iiet.off to Mr. Baaten'a rah-
seription of £5OO tor the attack.
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Tux Qougn.-7The Torssaark thinks the recent de-
parture of her Majesty for Balmoral le "quite sufficient
evidence of the deplorable state of health, both physical
sod mental, in which our unhappy Queen now la" To
say ono so &Sided, limiter,* and responsibilities of her
position must be inexpressibly humming, and the
Tomahawk advisee that the Trines of Wales be ap-
pointed Repoli
R t Acctourr.—The junior clerks of the
Lancaster Banking Company have a trapeze for their
amusement in a "strong room.. A youth, named
Robert Townley, aged 17, who WU very expert upon
the trapalm, and food of banging upon a mostly the
shin, was prectieing it alone on Taeaday afternoon,
when the noose slipped against his throat and strangled
him before he could take hold of the loose end of the
rope, and so release himself.
Tax OAMI, on Fliday, was about the most miserable
"ladies' day" at Epson that there has been for several
years. The morning was fine, but a beery storm, with
drenching rub, set In and speedily cleared the course.
Oely nine horses started. Lady Bilizaheth, so far from
retrieving her Derby chummier, confirmed It, and cam*
In last but two. FoTOIO4II, the first favourite, ridden by
Fordham, who &chord to ride Lily Elisabeth again,
wee the winner, Lady Coventry being second, and
• Athena third.

BANKRUPTS. -A. Mineral. Chariton, Hampshire,
dealer an wood. W. Pita. Granadon, Wiltshire, saw)er.
Barnard Curtis, late of Romsey, gentleman, June 21,
nil. London. Walliam Henry Lapthorn, late of Porte.
month, sailmakar. June 18. me 1, London. Henry
Sparabott, late of Bournemouth, market gardener, Jan*
22, at 1, London. Henry Byers, Pslanerston•road,
South's.., plumber, June 19, Portsmouth. William
11 ton Messenger, Orchard4ane, Southampton, carpenter,
Jong 8, Southampton. George Robert Titiagradgio, 88.
George's-equarg, Portess, accountant, June 15. at
12, Lcedso.

CHOICI Or • PRIIIOX.—Thos following dialovais is
stetted to have taken plea* between a visiting magistrate
at one of the London gaols and a juvenilia offender
serving out his thrm niontlm:—How old are you?—
Piece, sir, I'm 13. How often have you beet in gaol?
—Pismo), sir. debt times. Have you ever been in
Reading gaol? —flews, sir, ones. Have you ever been
in Wistruinster gaol?—Please, sir, once. How dies
have you been bare—Plasm. sir, six times. Why do
you come bete so often ? -Plow, sir, bows at West-
minster the turnkeys kemks yew shoat with their keys.
How do you eontriv• to get emit here T—Pli-oao, sir,!
alien prigs is. Holborn itow.—P•l4 Mall Gazette.

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' A noiviorra are not Sleep. IlliprOveniente for
instance, time was when good We was readily obtainable
—pare wholesome tea—Dr. SemeediJohniion I,lisd sash,
and most people seek such now. John Chinaman
knows that ' Englioh merchants like tea good looking
the Chinese ere not slow in finding out that • coat of
mineral onlour disguises brown flavourless &atom' leave',
ea oolovring all qualities alike internale' that own and
the merehant's profits. The experiense of upwards of •
querWr of • century has proved to Horniman and co.
that • lasting preference is secured by importingrosily
the cholas spring growths, that hays no brown went dem
leaves to be dnguised with powdexint colour i—this
every Engi.sh tea isinkin admits is • real improve.
meat,' an Yiornimsn's tee is always fine, strong sad
chacip. It is eapolied only in packets, through agents ;
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for list me advertisement in this rape's..
ANCIENT OBWRVANCESI AT WRITSUNTIDL —Among
singular customs, now obsolete, observed In the Whiten.
mason, may be notieed one at Ensham (Orford). There
the townspeople were allowed to out down .ml awry I
away ea mach timber ea they could ley in lb* abbey
yard; the ehurchwardens making taw Met chop on the
trees. As much as they could carry out, In spite of
the opposition of the servants, they were to keep for
the reparation of the church. By this service they
kept the right of commonage. Hidlington, in the
same cminty, bad • cuatom, on the Monday after
Whitson week, to run after • live fat lamb. The
manner was that the maids of the town, having their
hands tied behind them, should pursue the lush until
oce caught it with bee teeth. This expert was titled 1
"The lady of the lamb." The victim was then deemed,
and, with the skin hanging on, carried on • pole before
the lady and her companions, to the green. Hers •
mortis dance was performed, and the rest of the day
spent in dancing and merry-making. The day following
the lamb was part baked, boiled, and reseed for the
!lady's feast, where she presided, with her companions,
wail.; and attendants. And the. the affair ended.—
WA iraisnlide Anneal.

Toe DEIBT.—Tb• greet racing event of Dee year
cam off on Weaselslay at Epsom, and resulted in "the
ring" getting • hard hit Lady Elisabeth, who had for
several months maintained the premier position in the
betting, and was LIM I•voarits at starting, was last
but three in the mos. Bow to account for her runnier,
says " Amadeus," la an enigma, the solution of which
would puzzle the ingenuity of a Kentucky lawyer: She
literally never took any prominent part in the nos.
Every and all the precautionary measures calculated to
assist her chance were strictly serried out. She was not
subjeeted to the excitement and bustle of having •
preparatory canter in front of the grand stand, but wee
saddled away from the net, near the startAl poet.
Nevertheless, she was restive, and had to be led to the
starting-poet Though last off when the gag fell, the
favourites enures was not much affected by her getting
off badly. Not once during the excitement of the nos
was Lady Elisabeth's name mentioned, and as the
issue wag • inateb for the lest quarter of • mile with
the bier hen•kers' trua King Alfred, and the
" coopered" Blue Gown, the epic:Wore, especially the
professionals, 111•111 singularly quiet. When Sir Joseph
H•wley's colours, worn by the popular Wells, were
seen slightly in edema • hundred yards from home,
ten thousands tongues sisoultimously proclaimed Blue
Gown's victory, whilst in the ring all we. silent as the
grave. Blank astonishment wee expressed almost in
every faces, the wont of flit Joseph liewin's three
having evidently been a eompetitor with which most of
the bookmakers bad taken • liberty. Ono of the
professionals, it cm paid, lost as much as £90.000 ; and
all roared reports were rife of thin, that, and the other,
having dropped £23,000, MAW. and £2.000- Quit.
ten lengths from the pair Mashed Speculum, who was
ridden borne from the half-distance; St. Rocco being
fourth; Rosicruolan, ; Suffolk, sixth; Orion,
seventh; Paul Jones, eighth; Gresensleens, ninth ; See-
ks, tenth, Lord Glasgow's colt, eleventh ; and Coe-
d-the-Walk, Cap-ape., Lady Elisabeth, Forest hag,
end Viscount next in the order named, the favourite
trotting in. Behind the Whitectall colt rem Samson
(who broke down), sad among the mood hobbled
Framable., who broke leer leg. The value of the stokes
is £7,000. The race wan run in 2 min. 434 soea, time
as taken by Benson's ohronoirsph. No large winners
were reported. Piz Joseph Howley was beer.) to say
L that hie had not won more than £9OO, and throe
suppoired to have been in the swim with the Kinereckre
lot actually bet large sums, having stood to win heavily
on Itosicruciso and Green Sleeve, and laid spinet Bins
Gown. Sensational as last year's Derby was, the
present will live longer in the member of speculators,
and one of the wont "nettling." the bookmakers ever
encountered is before them this wet. Arooopt the
winners it was rumoured that the NAN* of Haitian
Ind netted several thortsenda—the °lobe says about
£3o,ooo—the owner of Lady Elisabeth always expressed
open confidence lath. chance of Blue Gown.

FIRM—Ite esseretery of the Ben The Insurance
01800 dated to the CORDMOiIe Beloit °amities of lad
session on Brie, " that carelessness in using heifer
matches causes to that *Mee • lode of £lO,OOO • year."
Sorely statements of this kind should icdoos the Fare
Offices and the public to do everebbig In their power to
encourage the see of Bryant and Kay's Patent Safety
Ketches which light only on the boa.

HOLLOWAT's 011171111111..—Paidass Cares.—flores,
wounds, ulceratioos,msdotberdiersesaffeetiog the skin,
are ecomidable by this cooling and healing unguest. It bas
ailed forth the loaded praises from persons who had
suffered for many years from bad legs, abscesses, and
chronie Wirers, after every hops of fare had long parsed
away. None but thorn who have experienced the moth.
ing r- lest of this ointment con form an idea of the
comfort it bestows by restraining inflammntion' and
alloying pain. Whenever this ointment has been omen
It 68A edablished its own worth, and has again
bees eagerly sought for as the mien and safest remedy
for sil alestoria complaints. In neuralgia, thatnotirder
and
wenderfal goat,
relief. the same opplication, properly rued, glass

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1... had reported to me, aad bare sena their beneficial
effects for years, in came of eossmaiptioa. mama,
wraiths. ha Indeed, the offsets at your deservedly
popular wafers are most wooderfeL I could recite
U marvelloas instances of their beaelle=azd.
le it were reetical intimacies, sad I with
row:minuend Mem." Dr Loma's pulmorde wafers stye
Instant relief mad a nipid ware of meth's', assiumpltles,
~,,migba, and all dieordere of the breath. and lenge. All
throat affections me immediately relieved by allow's(
ooe 000soiosally to dissolve in the mouth. To Mallen
and publie sneakers they ere invaluable for elerataa and
etmairtlieeing the 'else. They have pleasant Meta.
Price Ii lid., 2.. 04., 4. 64,, sad IL. per bes. Said
by al druggist& Caotioo.—goory box of the ge•si"
makes Imo the words "Dr. Lamers Wahine' in white
1.14.1 001 red pound lath. Gounssaist leer, with.
out whirl' wore efl a,. osualuelnift and aft Inupasillos.