The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1868,

lain anb Crime.

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GeOgg Citogurr.--At the Rochdale police-court, on
Monday, Check, Smith, blacksmith, Victoria-yard, won
charged with mashy to his son, Alexander Smith,
aged twelve years. too of the borough polioe etated
that on Friday Dight he received information that the
prisoner won cruelly bootleg his child. He went to thi
house, and found the child without any shirt and bleed-
ing wounds all over his body. Fanny Taylor, a neigh-
bour, stated that on Friday night she beard the child
cry oat, "Father, don't murler inc to-night." She then
saw the prisoner oateh the child by the throat and beat
him brutally with a wire rod, and after that be struck
him on the forehead with • bucket. Smith's defuse
I was that his son was continually robbing hita, H. was
sent to prison for four months.
A 111•WITIVa RIGHT To ORDER • SERVANT TO GO TO
RID,—.II singular came came before the county court
judge (Mr. Stonor) at Guildford on Thursday. Elise.
bath Wheatly r. James White, wale claim of 16.. 84,
in lien of notice. The plaintiff said she was in the
service of defendant, who had dismissed her without
giving her any notice. Thn cause of her diunialal was
that the def-ndant came down into the kitchen one
night and told her to go to bed at a quarter to ten
o'clock. She refused to do so as they never went to
bed till half-put ten. On the following morning be
threatened to kick her out of the luau if she did not
go—The Judge I think your master we. quite
justified in dismasing you. When your master told
you to go to bed it was your duty to do no. and as you
did not obey his reasonable commands, he wee quit. I
juatilled in dismissing you. I shall dad a verdict tor
defendant. —West Sas= Gazette.

Ton OIANGI RIOTS: MURDER AID CUILIIINCI.—The
12th of July has not primed in Ireland without blood-
shed aid murder. At Monaghan a Roinin Catholic
named Hughes was shot dead, • number of others were
wounded, and one Oronatiusa was so seriously injurol
that be is not expect,l to ',cover. 8e1t.," has
been quieter then usual during the annual Orange
Tn. body of Hughes was laced in •
coffin, for the purpose of removing it to Tyholland,
which is two miles and • half from Monaghan, sod
where the friends of the deceased resided. At this
time upwards of 3,000 Roman Catholics bad collected
in Dublin•street, and • largo force of constabulory, in
addition to the entire militiry force dral test into the
town, were in attendee's. The isofffn was borne by six
young men, and preceded by a beaus.. They marched
slowly along the street. On arriving opposite Baird's
public-house one of the most extraordinary scenes
ever witnessed in Momighon was enacted. The come
was taken off the shoulders of the party who were
carrying it, and laid on the footpath, exactly opposite
Baird's door. When this had been done, all the
Roman Catholics who Ind assembled knelt down in the
street, and the entire bcriy shouted "Murder, murder,
murder I" Prayers were then offered up to the Virgin
blary, requesting bra to uk God to pour down His
vengeance on Baird and him family, and to make them
sunned on eorth. For folly ten minutes they curaei
him and his funny ins mann r dreadful to listen to.
They then gut off their knees, and the coffin was raised
to the shoulders of the six young men who had ,pre-
viously carried it, The hearse was &rain started, and
the coffin-bearers marched slowly after it, followed by
• large crowd. When they got outside the tows the
oofiln was placed in the hearse, and driven to Tyholland.
The pasties who went to Tyholland after the bursa
returned to town about ten o'clock ; they cheered on
passing through the shambles several times, but no dis-
turbance took pleas.