The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-28 00:00:00

LITUPOOL.

The Conservatives h.;e—re-sOfv;d on bringing forward
Mr. John Torr, a moderate m- sober of the party, for
tho mat rendered vseaxt by tile &mit of Mr. Graves.
The extreme Toile, propose to start Mr. W. Simpson,
who woo a prominent mover in the recent labourers'
stntes ; the Home Sole ps.rty bare decided upon Dr.
Colitosios, barrister, am their nomin e ; while the
LLerals resolvod to send a deputation to Mr. Fitsjanps
SLE pheoa, Q C., inviting him to stand On their behalf ;
but he destined, saying be Is preparing a work no Law
Morin, +blots be eonsidare of more value to Liberal
intereids. The Liberal party will therefore unite to
support Mr. Cane, a Weal iron merchant. Mr. Toff in
his eddress states that he holds fast by Protestant pet:-
Mph', that he is in favour of a MSIIII4IV for ferdlitatiug
procedure in Eoclesiastical Correa so far ea questions of
doctrine are concerned, and that the insuiltude of our
national expenditn.e, °wins to the 'oarless of the
national debt, demand, the serious oonsiderslion of
Parliament.
FATAL ACCWINT AT DIDCOT.
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A frightful 4,4,11.13 °canned at the Great Western
Redoes station, Oldest, on Saturday morning. A man
Dotard Herrl4go. •reployed by the sissy, o,naigggy 5 g
'hunter, cm welting down • aldinw, whore a goods
train mu being ionised. At. engine with one truck
at. oohed entered the aiding, at.d, from some ones o!sined
cause, knocked tile down, awl the wnesla of both
truck end engine passing over hie nook, oompletely
severed his bead from his body. Tee bead wan felted
on one side of the motel and the body on the alma,
wader tits oscine. Dooonsod was &bowl 19 'sin of 0"
ond

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT SEA.

About ball-pad 10 QM Wodneday night, Um emi-
grant ship Northleet, Nada Knowles, with • mew
of 34, and pamengers 378, woo it anchor off Dungemem,
and mod .Bth. powwows were in bed, whell she was
run low by e foreign tread on tit* starboard side, juet
before the main hatchway. A survivor says—A big
Teasel was right against us with her bow—that near
that I could have jumped on to her, with • lot of (Don
I rousing about on her, jabbeting in a tongue as I could
I not understand, nor the mato neittitr, Toes the mete
turns to me and age, "I can't uoderstand what th•y
say. You run down bslow, and tell Ina, French fellow
to mum up, prrhaps he can talk to tbons," for we hati a
French fellow among or. As I was turning round to go
down, I toe, the foreigoer bearing round with her stern
to outii, and • lot of her crew ronnittg ho Ik, bow with
• pilau of tarptulin, whioh they threw ova the figure-
head, ,0 .5 to hide hoe DAMS. With that alio hooked
water and got ohne of tu, The nut* he wasi shouting to
th.on all this lint-, and when he sees this he arise out,
0, my God I stop sad SOTO US, for vs have meg four
huodred emigrants on board ; but it was not a bit of
me, sir, for she basked water and shot ahead so.oe. our
bow' and was away with her black stooks driving In
our tapes, before we could any many cord, to each
other, while they oo board cried out something fore go,
whioh of warm we mold not make nothing of.
The commander was immediately on deck, and having
sent up signals of distress to the shore, at ono* launch.-4
the boats, and issued imperative order, that the women
and children were tilO fitilt to ho saved. But, It was
overybody for himself, and tho deed take the hindmost.
Only four out of the 90 women got in the boats, and
perhaps it was partly their owu fault that so few of
them wire eared • for they were running about looking
for their Istosbaoda and their children, or just bantam
I they were going nivl. The boatcsrato rageo and swore,
but it was not ranch 11/e. Til out off the hand of the
baud of the nest man that gets to title boat,' be bellowed
out, but before Ilia words wore oat of his mouth half-a-
dozen men had tumbled in, rightly judging that if they
were going to be drowned • hind more or less on thoir
wrists woe of small amount. Than the captain some
down with his pistol in hi. hand. 'Get back if you
are men,' he roared, 'and tat the women per.' Batmen
are not they eared for nothiag or nobody la the ptnio,
and still premed forward, threateniog to swamp lb.
boa' and drown themsolves in the btrgalo. 'By
I'll :hoot the neat man that steps In the boat! the
**plain Inaba% showing his pistol; end he wee as good aa
Ids word, bringing dowo, by a shot in his thigh, a man
who none the less kept Lis piece in the boat, sod is in
bed inn the next room &tibia minute. This quieted them
• bit, and the boats from th• davita gst ol•ar away—th•
captain's wife in me.
Coptain Knowles was • fins seaman, who didn't rook
more than 30 years of ago, and who was married only
ais week/ ago- Ile brought hie wife with him on this
voyait•—• pretty little thing, quire a girl In her ways.
se. bed gone to bed wheo this happenod, and ran up
altar her husband on dad when the crush mine. Some-
body told he to go down and get some clothes on, and
die went, coming up again in • minute. The captain
was standing on the poop, and she ran to him. Be put
his aim rottod her waist, and calling out to the boat-
swain said, ' Bo'sen, I am going to do my work right
through up hare, but just look after my wife, and see
her sate into a host.' rhe hostawain did it like a man,
and lore oho itt sale in Done at this 411110t41. Cod hies*
her I

, Another says—ls the midst of the wild o infusion,
the captain's wife was being lowered into the boat on the
starboard idde. She hal been aroused by her husband,
who assisted ti•sr to dram, and as a precaution against
sinking she pot on • oork belt Ai she wee lowered the
captain waved his bands, and .1 1, "Good bye, my
deer, good by. ;" and his wife replied, "Good bye, my
love, I don't ezpoot Loses you any more." At this
juncture the fors end of the ship nitrated under water,
and washed of all the quarter deck to the middle deck.
Tbe septain was heard to exclaim "Take care of my
wife, boatswain ;" to which the boatswain promised,
" I will earsin ;if she goes I will go with her."
They lowered • boat, and pet the captain's wife and
• ciouple of women into it. The rest werp sailors and
the mate and eons of the pamengers, but she wits fall
In a moment, and shoved off. The captain stood on the
desk very quietly, looking 64 her as she went, and
waving his rod to hla wife.
The night wee dark, but there wan light enough to
see • half-dressed crowd came rushing madly up from
the steerage presager berths, and you didn't want an
light to hear the shrieks of the women and the crying
of children. Most of the men went to the pump.,
which had forty pairs of willing hands working at them
for dear lila I weat down below with the carpenter
to examine the leak, and we soon found that we might
se will try to pump the Chariest dry as keep the ship
clear of water; in fact, tryiag to pump the Channel dry
warn jest what they wee doing, for there was • bole
stowed in the ship's quarter whir was qaitikly leaving
not a pia to choose [MUMPS the Bailin Cbannel and
the hold of the Northeast. The repeater tried to
stuff • great piece of tow into - the hole, but it just
quietly weft Unoutth Si if you were showing a rope's.
end through • port-hole. Is was all up, down there.
I managed to scramble down the hatchway, and
wpe my way to my book. When I rate to the foot
of the ladder I stepped In water to over my rotes, and
the sold sent • obeli through me. for I knew then we
had not many micros to live. I don't know how it
was, bet I got to the place where I had beeo
but I was not long about It. When I got there, I saw
Jew Thomson lying in his bunk with He clothes over
biro, and pullet them off his body and shook hits, sod •
cried out to him that hie bad betmr erne on deck, for
that the water was rising on the main deck ; but he
looked at me in • stupid tart of way, and groaned, and
shook his head. "God help me" rye ho; "I may as
well be drowned here, George, Oh I Gel have meroy
on me." I tried for • moment to pall him out, and
drag him along with me; but he was like a log, air, and
*content help no more than a baby. They were groan.
tag and trying all around ma. Some of them were
getting their boxes net, and some were putting their
Maria on, and when a told them it was no use stopping
down below they asked me what was the matter, and
was it really as bed as some of us had told them. Well,
sir, I could not stop any longer, so I ran up the fore-
most hatchway.
The deck wee full, and they were all going mad, or
rooming stupid like myself. One of them set himself
nezt to we, and said newer • word, but had his pipe
in his mouth edit, and wad pealing in it sad spitting
no if be was smoking, whir he wasil. At last he
says to me, "Georges,' he says, " It'. all op with us,
I'm steers. I was plug out to make a bit of money
for my little balm, as is at marl now; but I hope
God elle take oars of her, for I shall never re her
again." And with that he laid hintalf oat fiat, and
polled his sup over his eyes, and never spoke to me
rain. It wasn't many minutes efteefesztis that we
felts sort of shock, and as I looked to the bow I saw
that it was Doming to the water's edge and I could see
the wars looming no the bulwark and dashing their
spray over. Presently the water cane running along
the der, and there was • general shriek among the
peoi Is, sod the women began to well more than ever.
All of them dropped on their knees in the wet and
began praying for mercy and trying to say the Lord's
Preyed., whin I don't think many of them remembered
much, and I felt myself getting sleepy. The water
began playing around my boot., and I palled my kers
up to soy chin, seas to keep them dry • for I thought,
111 wait till It rates with • rush, it will be all up io •
moment. Already • another had taken to the rigging,
and were climbing up the ladders, but I felt so weary
and sick that I did not try to follow them. It wee
getting very dark around me, and I believe I was going
off to sleep, when I felt the water stealing gently on
my legs and rousing me. Then I knew that there would
be no rush, and I jumped up. I waded • few 'tope,
and ran up against half -a-dozen, who were stumbling
about like myself, crying and weeping like children, or
silent, and sourly able to grope about. Near the
women's hatchway I came upon • lot of ferries
clustered together, and holding tight to each othar
without moving • limb. They were standing in the
water, and their clothes were drenched with the softy
that dashed over the bulwark, but they ware linable to
do anything but weep and wring their hands. I did
not cop to speak to them, end! don't know am any-
body else did, fee I was looking towards the bate,
thinking that perhaps I might get hold of one of them
yet. They were ali tamed upside down, rd knocking
about. Two of them were half floating in the see, sad
tearing away at their ropes, and acme of the tar wire
trying to tarn another up and get into it. While I was
running towards that one, and holding on by the bal.
ward, I felt • shaking of the der, and • forfeit shout
from for'ard. At the same moment the deck seemed to
be lifted from under my feet; there was • Gran, and
another; the masts seemed to be giving weiy, the
bulwark reeled, and everybody slang to everybody
elms, and begged and prayed to be saved, and or
woman rens up to me, and gave me her baby, sad
says, "For the lows of God save this innocent thing
but I could not do anything, for I knew that the last
had come. And so it had, for in • moment the water
seemed to rise to my lips, and rushed into my ears and
eyes, and It pressed upon me from all sides, and
knocked me against the side, and I was nader—l could !
feel that. So I gays • lift up sad struck out, my boon
going away of themselves, add my jeert getting as
heavy as • to. of brier Bat I wee up agar sad afloat,
so I swam for the bulwark, when I was kerb d over
again end sucked under. I dos% know how I
managed,to gee eff *leer. I hays rme reeollectioo of
being laid bold of several times, and kicking and err-
ing myself away. I think I remember other fi
coming to to. and trying to lay hold of my should.,,
but I felt I bad got some life in me vet—jort enouith
for myeelf and no more, and struggled hard, sir, fee
that little tilt. I thought of nothing ban keeping
afloat until I was ern and away from the wreck, for
slao wee sucking under me and drawing me down. At
last I got oleo; and out of resin of tho.• that were
trying to swim, or drifting about on bits of wood, Rod
the boats and life-buoys, and such like. Hors I kept
adost, aid was picked up, / don't remembe:.
A labourer, named John Brown, says—Tbe fate of
all was now seen to be near. "Mercy, mercy," was
Imploringly called for by those In the water; sod an
incident of a touching prune occurred. A father sod
two of his sons met together in the water. The elder
nu faintly stld, "Let me kiss you, father, for my loess
for we all aril be drowned" Both sons remnant;
kissed their parent, and were then washed away.
So tremendous was the force of the eollision, that
within three-quarters of an hour the Horniest went
down in twelve fathoms of water, the captain perishing
with nearly 2SJ of the preengers and Grew. By the aid
of the boats, with the steam-tug City Logsdon, amid
the pilot cutter Prime" 97 prone in all rig
rescued.

--TCC—Northilsel belonged to Yew& J. Psttoa and
ot Lendenhall•ttrent, sad wee o* reckterld
tonoapi. She was proonedieg to Hobert Town, aLd
01011 r of the male pseesogsrs on board were of tlle
ohm gent/rally known no navvies," who ware pit(
out to unlit in the construction of • rallwey La

describe§ Capta a
Knot mind, sad retorting every anxiety for the tumour of
those least able to help themselves. The treptein
remained et bin post, giving Mot orlon as the circuit-
. TotlePils L it
risplachargs'ying libe "rgentrasatßmb eort'losse and
traouuse
.1.000. require.' till lb* chip milk. Omo of the sur-
vivors tastes that be was stending close to him when
pia, wept .owe, but he hammed to lay hold of some
' floating outtatarros and was bon* to the outface. The
saptain, howerer, was not again soon ; the pilot sod ten
others had taken to the mirootopmait, from RUM they
wore anal/ nomad.
The taloa of individual distrian and auffuriad kilt' by
the survivors aro boarireodlai. Many Idea sfil
lig tbs ka of wins sad Wallis; sad yams sad ,

ehildren lite loss of husbands and fathom Mem( the
brought by the tag was a alb girl, shoot
of age, whom nobody baler. Sine says that
her father put her in 40 boat, and told her he was foie'
to fiud her mother; he never returned, and the plot
°bold defied sway from the Mafia( skip an orphan.
The rockets from the Northdeet went seen by the
washes of several vamosis, but were supposed to be
sigmas for a pnat.
The Northfieet is sub! oa • seedy bottom, and being
laden with railway Iron it lath Ambit Min will soon a-t: le
drove. She is starding upright, ii if In dock, just
opposite No. 2 Battery.
John Brown, labourer, reinainei on the ship till all
went down. H. had despaired of hie if., when hie
attention was directed to I fishingerneek, and he leaped
Into the sea in the hope of reaching it. The reene at
every point of the vessel was most distressing; mei,
women, and children were In the set of prayine ; and
others were running about in the most frantic manner.
Before he had " struck out" for the fishing smack he
wee pulled down by a woman, who entreated him to
°Wm me and my lady on your back and save no."
This, howemr was impossible, and the mother and her
intent nerish;d. Brown continord his Gann in the
direcnen of the smack. He had swain for ab ut half •
mile, and so strong was the wind that the lid.ing boat
made • deckled task, widish readered hie abrts in
that direstioa useless. He MO acomatl abed 1011+4
three miles is ima that dished idol to and fro, up and
down, when be tame neer the City of London steam
tug, from which ropes were thrown. Bib 'Cased the
first, and a lifebuoy was thee thrown to hoe, the rope
which he placed round hie wrist becoming entangled
with the chain at the die of the peddle wheal. Thom
on the tug monneneeri puling the rot,, to emw him
in ; Brown held up both his heals lo tbankfoinees,
sod having set on board ley is an exit meted seeditioct
for ten minutes on deck, and was afterward, rem reed
into the 'robin, where he slept till the tug reached
Dover. Brown was tbe first to reach the tag.
The cargo of the Nortblest le worth lire or Mx
thousand pounds. Three amok diving autism have
been engaged. 'fhe poor widow of the Capt. Knowles,
when the WS/ landed In DOTSr had nothing bet what
she wore and her wedding ring and keeper. Her
jewellery was in &small bu in the oeptalu's °shin, and
&be box also eontaiaed • portrait of her tituihand, and
all the presents he had made her in her oriortshlp.
This box Mrs. Knowles is very anxtoua to obtain, if
powthis, and her wishes being mete known to one of
the divers, be at area said that his first act when he
got into his diving-dress wield be to enter the treble
and fiad it for her Fortunately there will be no
dillicalty Ia mitering the cable while the ship remain.
In her presses paiMen leamettek as its Mulatto& is
known, and the skylights that *seared it have floated
ashore at Douses...a
The Mansion. House fund mouse to over £3,000.

THE artasura ers.wita.

It Ix believed that the delinquent steamer to the
Murillo, which, alter having Antwerp with rails atui
other merchandise let Limbos, landed her owner and
i W diot at Dover shout 8.45 on elseetley everdog. It
is the owner'. oplake that she must have sunk inane-
diatety after the solllsion.

The impreseloa of the Marine Depsrtment of the
Board of Trade is that the steamer most herself have
foundered in deeper water, end too Admiralty and
Trinity House have meat out a cruieer et a tender to
look for floating wreck or other signs of the weasel.
Mr. ilenry wager, the how. secretary of the New
Romney and Dungeness branch of the National lAN-
boat Instiution, reports that it ls understood that the
steamer which caused the mischief has been discovered
Bunk is the West Bay, Dungeness.
lIQUENT.

At Dover an inquest WS/ held on Sebarday on the
only body yet wished ashore—that of Mr. Breed, the
sontramor's engineer, who amens to have floated is the
water for many hours, mapported by • life-bolt, before
death overtook him. The body was that of • floe young
man of twenty-ono or twenty-two. It was lying at
length, la the 'odd.. garment+ wore by the deceased
when the 1.11-fstei skip went down, on a bread plank of
elm, nod, *kw by, workmen were pnttima the finishing
touches to the lest DIUTOW reetlegiolsee of the Weems@ .4
' When found, the body waa fleeting well out of the
water, one of the stork jacket life-belts having been ee.
surely fastened in the roper position round the chest,
and inspected from the shoulders. Having been more
than 30 hours in the water when &wavered, there la no
doubt that death we the ',suit of physical exhanattee,
from the solder. of the water having at Met prevented
the deceased tram making the othesoary exertion to
keep an erect pod Mon, til, fare having inclined for-
ward and nis hands hanging in the water. With
swept on of the fain being disoolowed by large
;Waco of red, the features were natural and planed;
but the bands Lad the shrivelled and shrunken appear.
woe so cheracteristio of bog immersion. To get the
body on board it was necessary to remove the cork
jeaket, nod when it rem laid on the cutter's deck, and
the "reefer' be wore over a thinner jacket beneath
was unbuttoned, a revolver fell out from his breast it
Ii stated to be undoubtedly that which he banded to
Centeln Scowl**, and with which tits lathe- fired at the
num Rides. An examination showed that this was
loaded, and that two of the chambers had been arid.
On his person were found a silver watch, two weer-
'ohmic pipe.,. parse wetainhig .f 2 a baboh of
keys, a tobacco pooch, • matob box, and two lettere
Magi on bowl it. Northfield', but not dated, and
wades evidently to take advantage of the pilot's leaving
tile Teasel, to be posted to his friends. These harms
established the Wowed's identity, ose of them being
addrami to Ma mother, filled with affectionate adieus
to all his relatives and friendr, and c.ne/ading with •
prayer that they might be all kept well, and that he
might erne day return rale to them.
Evidence of identity WIW briefly supplied by Captain
Oates, the prior ormunseder of the Northfleet. John
Stanley, the mate of the Prisms, idiot boat, stated that
there were at the time he first perceived the slyale
from the Nortbilset between 200 and 300ssil at anchor
off Dungeness. Thimetatemeat will boned with astonish.
moot whoa we recall the fact that only 85 out of the
412.passenyes tarried by one of the crowd of ships were
wed whet this mad foundrire.l. leke all others who
saw the rocket§ going whom the doomed ship, Stanley
at the outset interpreted the 'agoras as being the msg,
for a pilot, and in • businem-like way tasked his 'utter
and bore down in the direction where the rockets
flared; but like Captain Slayton, of the City of
London, and, like the muter of the lugger Mary Anne,
when he saw rocket suooeeding rocket, and aloe .fires
burning continually, it occurred to him that there woo
something wrong with the Mg:ailing vessel. "I thought,"
mald Stanley to the coroner's jury, "when I maw theme
going on in that way, there wag something extra.
ordinary the meteor. I did not know what it wee.
but I bore down OA the able. &ad at the wile time
gave orders to slow away both beats, so that we might
be ready for any emergency. la 10 minutes irons my
getting upon deck we were within might of the vessel.
and then raw soon enough what We wasted, foe she
was going down boadforennoet. The Sahel were still
burning and the rookete gotta up, sad -by their glare
I could see the people no board as well am I oansee
you in this room. They were all on desk, a mow/ on
either side amid hips, struggliag to get into the boats,
'Web were already full. Set the greeter crowd was
on the pop, where the women Mood shrieking, and
holds( up -limit eitildrest above their basic L:he
that," said the mete, holding up both his arms, with
something of the horror he had witnessed reflected
won his trussed fees as he recalled the fearful picture
that had been gaoled upon him through the darkness
of the sight in the ghostly glare of blue lights. Ow
other remarkable feature la thanley's enemies is the
reference to the myseertees boat he saw retain/nit!
the wreck, when he wee having with the first
from the rigging of the wreck. "I took tenVeZa
the twin rigging the first journey," he said, "and
there were Ave left. As we were pulling beak to the
matter I saw • boat rowing by the wreck. She had three
men in her; two pulling and one 'Min in tse stern.
I hailed her and said, 'Take the rat c,l! tb• men
eg the wan bot she did not answer.
When I returned he no lb. seam* Mail found
the five men situ i too natio'. I said so them,
'Didn't the other boat come near you?" they said.
"No, we have not men any other boat.' I said, 'Never
mind, my boys, wait • bit, I'll take everyone of you
off'' AU the ships that were found on the next
morning in oontlguity to the awe* of the week were
asked whether they had put out Mate to save the
peasengers of the foundering vend, and wail answered
that It had not known of the need. Whew., then,
somee this phantom boat whinh sago about the wreak,
makes no answer to the With hail, and have. without
attempting to resins the men clinging to the rigging of
the Northileet? If the owner of the ilthrillo's story is
wrest and him ship after girls' • death-blow to the
Northdeet inocaUneutly went to join her at the bottoms
at she se', I. it possible the boat Stanley any had been
launched from the sinking steamer, and that the
foreigners made no response to the leen& plias had
because it was spoken in • unknown tongue?
The Moak" wee adjourned.
Toting Broad was buried no Sunday ottoman in the
churchyard at ledd, andild every mark of pagan
17InPstkii•

AN IXECIITION IN SPAIN.
At Madrid as meentiou by garroting MA PAW •
few days ego. The culprit, • man named Diego Sake-
Guilds was seeordtag to the usual =dos, .0.4.14la the Ohapei of the prison (ft wapitis) daring ih• by.
days previous to the execution. at eight o'elosit in the
li.lintng the priest sad exectutkeser mitered the ant-
d••••• 4141011•1 sopa afterwards lbw culprit wee brought
out to the 'afield, erected ootaide the Bliboe gate, o•
• Oros of waste ground oalled the Cameo de Guardia'.
The Instrument was • now one. sail the so:Poulton us.
lnitlat.din his dread work. Glade, pale and trembling
from head to foot, vas placed on the fatal beach, sod
and the ermutloaer, elmoei se terrified es the culprit
himself, loot • good deal of time to placing tho item
crunde round hie seek In oormecioenue of it. being too
The orowd, attributing this delay to so oot
olemeeoy oa the part of the King, save eutkludeetie
; presently, however, a hammer wee prodeead
and the cremes made to fit the neck oonveniestly. The
essoution wee than peooesded with, end Weed no lad
thee eight animate'.

A n order hes been resolved at Wool wish for the mew
&Mare of 200,000 shrapnel shells for India.
American sleeping MS are, it la said, to be introduced
en the Midland lina
, It Is 4't.4 that the Empress of the Preach is abous
to leave Camden Flee., but will matinee to reside in
Zeeland.
It is rumoured that Lord clareadon sad Lord
Vernon will propose and meond the eddrem In the
Roam of Lorda.
It is ibis intention of Government to sell oat the Yeo-
manry Cavalry for permanent duty during the penal
year.
The mortal ranting of Lard 14116da virs laidcs
Saturday, In et, &Lamina% airs& Weelesineter
Abbey.
Two stearesee—abg Welt Ridlag and thsAalaby—
came bate malaise Gs they were Marla( the Weil
Cooks on Saturday stainer" sad the former seek
almost Int
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