The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-07-13 00:00:00

Cailtsbirr.

LADY PEMBROKE hail engaged the servire4 at a trained
niar,e. to attend on any sick persons in Wilton.
The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company have declared
the usual di% idend for the half-year of de per cent
per annum. . . . . . .

K %MIK CHURCH. near Ileyteibury, is to be rettonal at
a co.t of £l5O.

Till{ Maros' of Sali.bury ill collecting buliscriptiona for
thc inundated in. France.

A Liberation Socaety meeting. which Was litnely atWo-
dell, WO+. 61.1 at Trowbridge last week.
Tux Swindon, Marlborough, and .Itolover ltailway is to
he hegun on the t4th July at Marlborough.
PREBENDARY Joys has iuued an appeal for further
help towards nautoring the Saxon church at Bradforl-on•
Avon.

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Mn. K P. NITIIIKLI, a law farmer. ha• been 'hunt tin
for eamang a number of hi, heifero having foot aud mouth
,lnoet., tviriven,tllong a highway at :tyre.
. . .

NI. MLR Wons Well menagerie we. In hThAloUry last
week a miller named King put hie left hand between the
bar, of the hyenas cage. One of the an,n,d. ,larted at it,
and, lining it claws in the upper part of the thinl finger,
iinappnl off the tip with its teeth, lie swooned. On
recovering he was taken to the infirinam

... .
I'rince Icopold was best 1-113111" at the tuarriatte of Mr.
IL H. Collins, '.11., his former tutor, and Miss Wightwich,
at Codford St. Peter, on Thursday. The Prince looked
delicate and walked with difficulty, hut chatted with me-
&Herald° animation, and appeared to accept his istdtion
with much aatidaction. H.R. Highness ,ignod the register
as.a.witnests.

HOLESALE SHEEP STEAL.VG: APPREUENSION OF A
FAILIMIL—Great excitement has recently prevailed in the
neighbourhoal of Marlborough in consequence of cases of
wholesale shecqrstealing, the latest instance being that of
Mr. J. Tanner, of Poulton Farm, from whose flock 21 teal
and 21 ewes were stolen in the early part of lost month.
The matter was placed in the hands of the \Yid., Con-
stabulary, and 1.:100 reward was offered for inch infor-
mation as would lead to the dis,..very of the guilty
parties. Deputy Ode( Constable Stretton instituted
searching inquiries, and the information obtained led
to the apprehension of John Bright, shepherd to Mr.
C. Brown, farmer, of Midenhall, near Marlborough.
On flatarday, at the Divisional Petty Sessions, at
, Marlborough. Bright was brought up before the Rev. C.
Seamea and Messrs. R. F.. Price, and D. I'. Maurice, and
t formally charged with stealing the sheep in question. The
evidence taken showed that on the previous Saturday, the
3nl July, the prisoner voluntarily made • statement at the
Marlborough Police Station, in the presence of the Deputy
Chief Constable and the prosecutor, and Mr. Stephen
Butler, admitting that he drove the sheep from prosecu-
tor's farm on the 9th of June, and at four arlock in the
morning drove them to hi, master's (Mr. C. Brown's)
: that his master was looking out of window at the
time and low him do it; that at nine o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 10th his master and himself marked the stolen ,
animals with Brown's initial, 8.," in a circle, and the
sheep were shorn later in the day. Ur. Ilaycmft, wool-
dealer, of Marlborough, was engagol to pack the wool for
Brown. On Wednesday Mr. Ilaycroft proceeded to Brad-
ford, Yorkshire, to which place the wool had been con.
signed, and picked from the wool 21 tug said It ewe
fleeces that differed both in quality and coloor from the
remainder. Thirty-three of the tug ileums were marked
with •• B." and a circle as described. fin the completion
of the evidence on tiaturday application was made by the
prosecutor's solicitor for the apprehension of Mr. Brown
(who was present), and by direction of the magistrates the
deputy constable took Brown into custody. lint he was
afterwards liberated on bail, himself in 1.910, and two
sureties of i.:2311 each. Mr. Brown's apprehension has
caused considerable sensation in the neighbourhoui.