The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-23 00:00:00

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SALISBURY, POOLZ, AND DORE= JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY this Bill it is proposed to incorporate
the Salisbury, Poole, and Dorset Railway Company,
with • capital of I:290,000, in £lO shares, and £16,666
by borrowing, for making the following railwaye, viz. :
—No. 1, length 18 miles, :10 chains, from a junction
with the Salisbury and llishopstoke branch of the
London and South-Western Railway, at Aldenbury, in
the county of Wilts, to &junction with the Southampton
end Dorchester Branch of the London and South
-
Western Railway, at West Parley, in the county of
Dorset; No. 2. leugth three miles, 36 chains, from •
junction with the Southampton and Dorchester branch
at Canford Magna, to the town of Poole, in the county
of Dorset; No. 3, length three miles, sixty chains, from
a junction with the Southampton and Dorchester
branch, at West Parley, to a junction with the
authorioed line of the Ringwood, Christchurch, and
Bournemouth Railway, in the parish of Ringwood in
the county of Manta; and, No. 4, a traniroad, length
lostymine chains, from a junction with No. 2 to the
Quay, in the parish of St. James, Poole, such works to
be completed within five years. The Bill authorises
I the new company to run over the Salisbury and Bishop-
' stoke branches of the London and South-Western Rail-
way, between the intended junction with the former
branch and their Salisbury stations, and also over the
Southampton and Dorchester branch, between the in-
tended junction therewith of Railways No. 1 and No.
2; and to enter into agreements with the London and
South-Western, and the Ringwood, Christchurch, and
Bournemouth Railway Companies, or either of them,
with respect to the maintenance, use and working of the
intended rail ways, and the division of receipta from the
traffic thereon. The Admiralty report in respect to
this Bill observe that only interference with their Lord-
ship.' jurisdiction occurs in that secondly described in
the 19th clause of the Bill, viz., • railway commencing
in the parish of Canford Magna, in the county of Dorset,
by a junction with the Southampton and Dorchester
Branch Railway, and terminating at Poole, from two
miles from its commencement to its termination being
carried below high water in Holes Bay, or Poole Lake,
to which their Lordships must object; but they will
assent to the crooning of the Bay to the extent shown
by the landward limit of deviation, subject to following
condition—That over the above distance, where access is
proposed to be cut off between land and water, such
crossings over, under or on a level, be provided as the
Admiralty may from time to time require, in order to
give free access to and from the shore.

MURDER OF A CHILD BY TWO BOYS, ?MAR STOCKPORT.
—On Friday the dead and naked body of a child, about
two and a half years old, named George Burgess, was
found in • brook near Ilempshaw-lane, Stockport. The
deceased was the son of • person named Ralph Burgess,
residing in Higher Hillgate, Stockport. The body
presented a pitiful appearance, the whole of the back
and arms being • mass of bruises, apparently iallicted
with a stick. An inquest was opened on the body on
Saturday, when several witnesses were called, who
deposed to having seen the deceased in company with
two boys in the vicinity of the place where the body was
found, whilst one of them stated she saw one of the
young wretches beating it with a stick. The medical
gentlemen who had made • pug marten examination
stated that the cause of death was suffocation from
drowning, and that the injuries on the back must have
been indicted with a stick shortly before death. Two
lads, named Barrett and Bradley, each stated to be only
eight yesni of age, were taken into custody on Saturday
night, and they have confessed to committing the
murder. The coroner's jury reassembled at the White
Horse Ilainpehaw, on Thursday evening. Polio...eon-
stahk Morley said lie went to the honer of the pri-
soner Bradley, in company with Barrett, O:11 Saturday
evening, and charged them, in the presence of Bradley%
father, with being in company with • little boy in
liampshaw.lane, on Thursday, and they said they were.
Bradley then said, in answer to the question where they
went to, that they went on down Love-lane till they got
to a hole with some water in it; that they both un-
dressed the child, that Peter pushed it into the water,
and they then commenced beating it on the back and
head until it was dead ; and that they did not leave it
until it was dead. No threats or promisee were made
to induce either of them to confess to the crime ; and
on comparing the clogs of Bradley and the shoes of
Barrett with marks in the soil near tbe brook, they
exactly corresponded. The evidence of the surgeon
(Mr. Massey) was to the effect that the wound at the
top of the head had produced congestion of the brain,
and consequent insensibility. The immediate cause of
death was, ut course, " death from suffocation" by im-
mersion in the water. Neither the parents nor the
prisoners, who appeared very indifferent to their awful
i situation, asked the witness any questions. The jury
returned a verdict of" Wilful murder" againt Peter
; Barrett and James Bradley, and they were committed
for trial at the next Cheshire mixes.

CUM or LITULATIC CoVOUS, LC.. s YEOVIL, IT DL.
l,ococli'i Prl.lloNlc WATZLL— From Mr. Ince Omni., Medicine
Warehouse, oppoeite Steekeye Bank, Yeovlt. " Gentlemen,—
As • proof of the excellence of Dr. Lococlee Puinsonle Wafers,
I may mention the following cam :—A lady called and
purchased • 'la. 9d. box, and observed that *be had heard a
good chancier of them and cu determined to give them a
trial, having suffered for yeare from an extbmatic cough, and
spent pounds on other medicines, and all to no purpose. A
few weeks after the mine lady called again, when I sated her
If she Mal found any benefit from the box; she replied that
slie had been completely cured by than,'—inerely one 2a. 9d.
box. Other holiness are front time to tme oceurrivg, which
prove the seine of them 'avenge* above all other medicines for
pulmonary d.isesuies, coughs, cold'. Asc. lent DAMS." To
singers and public speaker. they are Invaluable for clearing and
strengthening the voice. They have • pleasant taste. Prim
b. lid., YA Dd.. Lod Ito per box. Hold by all druggists.
Caunull—Erery box ol the exams medicine has Ms words
w DR. LOCOCHIII WAFERS" iu NUM Wars on irsd ground
In the Government Stamp, and without width words AM Alf
cocrriarium LLD AZ UffrOSITILL.

Vottrp.

THE RETURN Oi SPRING.

Dear as the dove, whose wafting wing
The green leaf ransom'd from the main
Thy genial glow, returninF Spring,
Coulee to our shores again;
For thou hut been a wanderer long,
On many a fair and foreign strand,
In calm and beauty, sung and song,
Passing from land to Lind.
Thou bring'st the blossom to the bee,
To earth • robe of emerald dye;
The leaflet to the naked tree,
And rainbow to the sky;
I feel thy blest benign control
The pulses of my youth restore;
Opening the spring of woes and soul
To love and joy once more.
I will not people thy green bowers
With sorrow's pale and sceptre band,
Or blend with thine the faded lowers
Of memory's distant land;
For thou wort surely never given
To wake regret for pleasures gone ;
But like an angel sent from heaven,
To soothe creation's groan.
Then while the groves thy garlands thine,
'fliy spirit breathes in Bower and tree,
My heart shall kindle at thy shrine,
And worship God in thee:
And in
While listening to thy choral strain.
Past griefs shall he a while forgot
And pleasures bloom again.

MALcoms.

MURDER OF A CHILD..—On Monday evening, the
15th inst., the inhabitants of the picturesque village of
Danbury, in Esser in which is situated the palace of
the Bishop of Roegoner, were horrified at the discovery
of the murder of • little boy, about three pairs of age,
named Juba Gipson, illscialosate son of • young woman
of that name, living with bwr father near Church-green.
The perpetrator of tbla crime is • married woman,
about the middle age, named Martha Weaver, wife of •
respectable mechanic living in London. It appears that
on Monday (the two woineo living in adjoining houses)
the mother, at the request of the accused, mot the little
boy with some matches to light the fire of the latter.
The child having been absent a considerable time, search
wax made for him, and the mother, accompanied among
others by the Bev. G. Thorpe, the curate, proceeded to
the house, when they found the door locked and admit-
tance denied. A ladder, however, was procured, and •
man ascending examined the interior of the up-stairs
room, when lie was horrified by seeing the woman lying
on a bed on the floor, and the poor child on its back on
the bare Boor, quite dead. The body being brought
out, it was found that the And had been strangled by
a mall shawl being tightly compressed around his
throat. Weaver said but little to the questions ad-
dreseed to her, and assigned no reason for the horrid
deed. She was immediately arrested and conveyed to
the county gaol at Chelmsford. The most remarkable
feature in the case is the absence, as far as at present ap-
pears, of the slightest motive for depriving the child of
life. An inquest was held on the body before Mr.
Codd, coroner for the district, on Tuesday evening. The
investigation lasted several hours, and the evidenee con-
firmed the above particulars. The jury returned • ver-
dict of wilful murder against Martha W , who was

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present at the inquay.
ESTIMATZD EXPIIIM Or TEI CINICS.—In the Civi
Service Estimates for the current year the ci2lo cot
of the Census is put down as follows—England : and
Wales, £105,000; Scotland £30,000; Ireland, ,480—
total, £161,482. Of this sum it is proposed to ask
£126,930 to be voted by Parliament this year, leaving
£34,660 to be voted in 1862.
DIATH Or A CIENTWARIAL —The death of John
Hill who was believed to have been the oldest man in
England, he having reached bin 104th year, took place at
Rochester, on Sunday last. The deceased was born at a
village in Susses in the year 1758, and during the early
part of his life was employed in sericulture! musuitii.
Ile was always remarkable for being a man of very
abstemious habits, and also an early riser, both of which.
probably, omduced to his longevity. Until within
the last few months Hill was in the habit of taking his
daily walks about the city, and notwithstanding his
advanced age had the appearance of being a hale old
man. The deceased lived during the reigns of five
English sovereigns, and ICU in the frequent habit of
conversing on events which took place during the first
few years of the reign of George LII., of which he had
a perfect recollection.

GARIBALDI AND THII WORKING MIN OF BRIGHTON.
—A gold watch and chain purchased by puny sub-
scriptions was presented by the townspeople of Brighton
as • testimonial to Garibaldi. He has acknowledged the
present in ,the following letter addressed to Mr.
Coninghism, M.P. "B. pleased to express my feelings
of great gratitude to the English working men, to which
good and laborious class I am proud to belong, for the
valuable gilt which they h .ve transmitted to me
through you. I knew that the hour of Italian nation-
ality was marked on the dialplate of time ; but, observ-
ing that in my own country many denied this, because
the counsels of the foreigner and dastardly fear would
have it so, it is a great comfort to me to tind that hour
indicated by the watch which the people of Brighton
have giNen to use. With the greatest regard I subscribe
myself yours and ever yours,--" G. GARIBALDI."—
" Turin, Apnl 11.
lILARRIAOII IN HIGH Lim—The marriage of Miss
Victoria Russell, second daughter of the Right
Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., with M. Villiers,
Esq., eon of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of
Durham, took place on Tuesday at Peters-
sham Church, Surrey. The church was crowded at an
early hour with spectators. The bride, who .was
accompanied by her father, was attired in • dress of
white glaze silk, with two deep Brussels lace flounces.
Her head-dress consisted of a wreath of white roses,
white lilies, myrtle, and orange flowers, and • large
square veil of Brussels lace. A valuable necklace of
pearls and diamonds completed the costume. At the
conclusion of the ceremony the wedding party repaired
to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, the seat of Lord John
' Russell, where a dejeauer was given. The newly-
married couple afterwards left town on their tour.
leaves taken from the Tea plant in the early
Spring when full of virtuous juices, are by far the hest;
as the season advances the crop increases largely in
quantity, but decreases greatly in quality • towards
Autumn the leaves become almost tlavourlies. This
latter growth was formerly all sold at low rates under
its real imiue,—Boitea :—but this dingy common tea,
together with the best have long been made to appear
alate by being covered by the Chinese with the same
powdered mineral colours, and mixed off with the fine,
to the great loss of the Consumer. (See Parlianewtary
and Lalteet Reports). The way to avoid the cones-
quenoes of this objectionable practice is by purchasing
Black sorts that are not made intensely dark, and all
Greens of • dull olive Au, without any bluish eoboar on
the surface. Horniman and Co., London, import each
PULE TIA, and supply the same in packets, through
their authorised Agents, as LOCAL LINT advertised in
this Paper.
INLAND BZWZDMON THROUGH CHINA.—The following
extract from the letter of an officer commanding a
derpatch boat in China, and dated Shanghai, February 4,
refers to an interesting expedition, which will taut
its rise from the opening cruse of Admiral Hope into
Yang-tee :—" An exploring party has been formed here
composed of Dr. Ramon, Major Sorrel (Staff), and
Csetain Blakiaton, ILA., who purpose travelling through
China across the Tbibet range of mountains to Lusa ;
thence across the Himalayas far west, and down the
Ganges to Calcutta. The Admiral has placed a vessel
at their disposal, and they will accompany us as far as
we go up the river. They expect the journey will
occupy nine months to accomplish, audit will doubtless
be fraught with some dangers and many adventures;
but for men with great endurance it will nevertheless
pave a • moat interesting trip. I know them all well,
and I doubt if litter hearts oould be found to undertake
such a perilous campaign."
Tag Bo Dowr—We are not celled on to follow the
example of the Chancellor of the Fachepser, by carry-
ing the reader through a wilderness of figures, or of
Sowers, before the grand object of the journey is
revealed. Inartistic as the order may be, we will state
at once that, estimating • surplus of £1,923,000 for the
year 1861-62, Mr. Gladstone proposes to take a penny
off the Income Tax and to repeal the Paper Duty. As
Mr. Osborne expresser* it, he wraps up his penny in
paper, though the object in this use is not to disguise
the contents, but to make the envelope more acceptable.
Perhaps it is the ffrat time that the Howse of Lords was
bribed with • penny, but we trust it will induce them
and the sticklers for the privileges of their order to
forget the little disturbance of last year, and paw a
repeal of the Paper Duty. For our own part, we do cot
require a bribe to give our went to the proposition.—
Tines

Rums OF Tests Plumose raw Fnue.—On San
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day atoning, between two sod three o'clock, the pre-
mises of Mrs. &irk coffee-house keeper, of Great Sut-
ton-street, Clorkenwell, were found to be on dn. A
cabman, named Culverhonse, who stands in King.
street, Guildhall, was passing with his cab at the time,
and seeing that the Are escapes were not at hand, drove
his cab on the pavement, stood on the root, and, cripple
ash. is, rescued Mrs. Sans, the landlady, C. Evans,
and Catherine Chamben, from the int door.