The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-05-14 00:00:00

Vampob ire,

Sournsmrros.— The indium Famine Relief
Fund. —The local subscription to this fund amounts
to C 360 15s. Bd.

SOUTHAMPTON SA ILOR.S' ROME. —The donations
towards the astablisiment of a Sailors' Home in
this town amount to nearly £7OO, and the annual
subscriptions promised towards its support amount
to nearly £BO.
NEW RAILWAY STATION. —A new station on the
South-Western rai:way was opened at Portswood,
on Wednesday, an.l the daily trains running from
Southampton to SaLsbury and Portsmouth, will fur
the future regularly call at that station.
PORTSMOUTH.— The lale Affray wall the Convicts.
—We ( Portsmouth Tinies) are glad to be able to
be able to say that the two convict keepers, named
Edson and Lawrence, so brutally attacked in this
dockyard by the convicts, are progressing eery
favourably. The former went in a cab to the prison
on Thursday. Lawrence is still confined to his
bed.

Oosvocx.—lnquesi.—An inquest was held by
Mr. Wilson, on Wednesday, at this village, on the
body of a child, named Tom Ford, about five years
of age. It appears that the previous day Mr.
Squarey's thrashing machine, which is driven by
water power, was employed in thrashing. The men
in charge, about finding
a sudden stop, immediately went out to see what
was the matter, when they found the body of the
deceased entangled in the spindle. The water-wheel
was instantly stopped, but the child only breathed
twice afterwards. The body was much mutilated,
and appeared to have been carried several times
round the spindle. The deceased must have got
through a gap in the hedge, as the spindle is in Mr.
Squarey's private grounds. Thu jury returned a
verdict of" Accidental death."

Msndissr. LOT/L.—The Union de rOigest of Angers
records a singular case of the murder of a hatband by
his wife, the only motive being "excess of maternal
love"! Thu odly son of a woman living at Blaison, in
the department of Maine and Loire' was drawn for a
soldier. The mother, distressed beyond measure at the
idea of parting with him, consulted her neighbour as to
the means of procuring his exemption, and in the course
of her inquiries she learned the piece of military law
that if she were a widow her son would be exempt, as
the prop of the family (maim de famine). Upon this
hint she murdered her husband.
FRACAS BIETWILII THE 88TLI AND ESSEX IttFLI
regreat to learn that disturbances have
this week taken place between soldiers of the 88th
(Connaught Rangers), stationed at Colchester camp,
and men of the Essex Rifle Militia, billeted in the town.
On Sunday night, it appears, the disturbances com-
menced by some limn of the 88th catching • solitary
and unoffending Essex rifleman rambling in Darling's.
field (now the government drill ground), and maltreating
him by striking him on the bead with a stick. On
Monday night, by way of retaliation, a party of Essex
riflemen, walking upon the Military-road. pounced upon
a solitary 88th man, named Edward McHugh, who had
been to post a letter, when the riflemen struck him on
the head with • stick, thereby inflicting • severe wound,
which bled so profusely that the injured man was taken
to the camp hospital. The 88th men hereupon vowed
vengeance against the Essex Rifles for ill-treating their
comrade, and on Tuesday night the town was coin-
pletely in a state of consternation, numerous gangs of
the 88th, armed with huge bludgeons, being seen hur-
rying to and fro, seeking about in the lanes and alleys
for the riflemen. They entered every public house sup-
posed to be the billets of the riflemen, who were for the
most part wisely got out of the way by the landlords,
several of whom locked up their men in stables and
upper rooms to keep them from the fury of the assail-
ants. In one instance we heard of a party of the 88th
rushing upstairs to the bedroom of the riflemen, when
one of the latter, seizing his rifle with fixed bayonet
stood firmly with it at the charge to guard the door,
and threatened the men of the 88th with the "cold
steel" if they dared to enter; the latter thinking discre-
tion the better part of valour, beat a huty retreat. One
of the 88th threw a stone at a rifleman quietly sitting
upon the door step of his billet, the Anchor, Magdalen-
street, and cut his head open. During the fracas the
pickets from the camp were scouring the town in all
directions, while others were posted in different streets,
so that they succeeded either in driving the 88th into
camp, or taking them prisoners. The tradesmen of
St. Botolphetrept, the chief thoroughfare to the camp,
were obliged to Close their shops earlier than usual, on
Tooorloy pittlit, to toLo woof. Ow sui..ll.lor whin], ormturoti
imminent. On Wednesday night, the 88th were confined
to barracks, and thus no disturbance ensued. We under-
stand the ringleaders in the fracas have been brought
before • court martial and punished. Various exaggerated
reports have been in circulation that several of the 88th
and Essex Rifles were killed, but beyond the infliction of
sundry ugly cuts and bruises we are happy to say no
serious ounscrtnences are likely to ensue. It is,
however, considered of the utmost importance, for
their own safety, and the preservation of the peace and
good order of the town, that the belligerent forces
should be kept as far removed as possible from each
other's oompany.—C7iehnsford Chroniek.
CAUTION TO MRRCRANTS AND TRADZSIIIIN.—An
impudent attempt to defraud a firm at Coventry of
a considerable amount of property, under the guise
of a legitimate business transaction, has just been
happily frustrated. The circumstances of the case are
these:—Last Saturday morning • letter was received
by Meagre. G. Phillips and Co. general merchants,
of Southampton, from Mr. Hill, of the firm of
Thomas Hill and Co.', watchmakers, of Coventry,
stating that he should be in Southampton during that
day, and would bring with him the watches for
which they had been favoured with Messrs. Philip.'
order. In the after part of the day Mr. Hill called
and had an interview with Mr. Phillips, producing
an order for a large number of gold and silver
watches, written on a sheet of paper at the head of
which was litlifigraphed the address, ' 12, High-street,
Southampton,' and also bearing the usual accom-
paniments; of documents of this character, as issued
by commercial houses, such as" ledger folio," "number
of order," kc. Enclosed in the order was one of
Messrs. Phillips' business cards giving the name of
their referees in London and elsewhere, which the
coneoeton of the attempted fraud had procured from
some unknown source. The order requested that the
watches should be forwarded to "our Mr. George
Phillips, now staying in Essex-street, Brighton," and
at the foot instructions were given that all communica-
tions and invoices should be sent to the same address.
It is almost needless to say that the affair proved to
be • complete swindle. Mr. George Phillips has not
been to Brighton at all; no order of the kind has
ever been given by his firm, of whose business trans-
actions the trade in watches forms no part; and the
lithographed sheet was • forgery as far as the use of
their address was concerned. There can be little
, doubt that this is but a branch of an organised system
to defraud wholesale houses, as it seems hardly likely
that the parties would go to the trouble and expense of
preparing • lithographed form for one order only, and
merchants and tradesmen generally cannot exactas too
much caution before they execute any orders, for the
genuineness of which thg dightest poodgo doubt could
tra satidaimid.

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