The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-24 00:00:00

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A CHILD IN

WARWICKSHIRE.

On Saturday, hafO-r-e- ii-e-tra-g—isinTes at Shipton-on-
Stour, Alfred and Ann Lerman., man and wife, were
charged with the manslaughter of the female child of
the male prisoner, aged five years. The evident* dis-
closed the fast that the child had been systematitally
and shockingly ill-treated by both prisioeera, who were
labourers residing at Idleeote, • Tillage three miles from
Shipston. Owing to the intervention of a neighbour
the clergymen of the pariah remonstrated with the
stepmother. The child died on Saturday, 14th Wt.,
and on that morning and the previous dey it had been
cruelly beaten by both prisoners, and wee heard to
are= loudly. The prisoner. were cot poor, and had
plenty of food is the home.
Mr. Miller, surgeon, of Helfer& saki he found
bruises on the child's forehosd and a contused wound
upon the front of the Book with mark. on each side of
the windpipe. The tongue was protruding, and the
whole body presented • blackened sppearsooe. It woe
mush eroaciated, and the rib, were neerly through the
skin. tie was decidedly cf opinion that the child's
death Vlb• sawed by strangulation.
The Male prisoner admitted beating the child on
three 000ssions ; but denied having starved her.
The Female's defence was that the child, about a
fortnight helots bar death, got a large button in her
throat, and that the marks on the neck was canoed by
forcing the button bask with her (prisoner's) hand.
Mr. Miller said the mark. were very meat, and
could not have been canoed In the way suggested.
The magistratea unanimously decided to itomatit the
prisoners for trial for venial murder at the nett War-
wickshire anises.

"BTRIKR" OF CURATE; AT RICHMOND.

The resignation of the four pariah curates at Rink-
mood has mused great sioitement in tha town and he-:
mediate neighbourhood. The real CUM of the mild.
nation of the curates is ea follows :—On Sunday, Dee.
I, the Rev. F. N. Ozeuham, M. A., senior *twat%
preached at hi. Matthias Churoh, taking
as his text MM. relit, 17. Great street was laid ea
the importance of attending the early morning Com-
munion (seven a.m.), and on tha duty of partaking of
the more fasting. Bo earnestly was the "duty' of at-
tending the early erommunion enforced that a great
many persons took offence, and during the week the
view received nairerons letters oomplalaing of Mr.
Osenham's leeching on the subject. On the foll3wing
Bunday the vicar pWntedly alluded to the subject In his
sermon, remarking that although he himself approved
of the early fasting oommunioa, he did not regard it
am. matter of importance, but left it to the conveni-
ones of the members of his oongregsUon. Mr. o:alt-
horn's sermon wee virtually apologised for. Mr. Oxen-
ham wrote • letter of rentoutrairoe to the vicar, who
returned • reply to the effect that he Gould no longer
work with Mr. Oxenham. Mr. Gresham immediately
resigned, and shortly afterwards all the other curates—
via., the Rev. W. Watson, Rev. H. Edwards, and Rev.
C. 0. Maturin—also seat in their resignations. Mr.
liatnrin and Kr. Edwards consented to perform their
duties tin Lady-day neat; but Mr. Oxenbam and Mr.
Watson, although having the option of remaining till
Lady-day, preferred leaving hnetediately.

Another serious landslip took plum at Dover this
morning on the gait el,ff. lite two end houses on
either ede of Athol Court were crushed, and other
houses damaged. No persons injured.
ANOTHIR SAD SCIICIDL —M. Verry. • member of
the French Jockey Club, and MIS of the rieheat and
most dirtingulahed mon on the Preach turf, shot him-
self in his apartment in the Rue d'A.tjou, St. Room h,
Paris, on Tuesday. He is mid to have fired sir shots
in the religion of the bowl before acoompliehiag his
suicide. H. was • bachelor, and aged 81. Betting
Items, it is believed, led to the set, but rumour sap
there Ws' a ledy in the sass. The details of his attici.ide
however, have been kept very sesset.
EXIGIWITI 111 Musa. —A. number of letters =
Uglier emigrants in the State Colonies at lirszil have
been published at Leamington by the Brazilian Consul-
General, as • oontnediction to reports that have been
calculated unfavourable to the emigration. In general,
the letters give a hopeful account of the settlements.
The statement that any emigrants had petitioned to
some heck is offisially denied, or that there is any sub.
maripticie in Warwickshire for such • impose As to
starving, Br. Strap, the emigrant agent, writes that
such reports are abated, as the Government maintain
the odonists until they haws got in their irst crop.
From the lot of Jsausry the emigrants are to be sent
weekly.

PLUM Yon Fart WLATEXI.-11 pastoral from
Archbishop Manning was road on Thursday in all the
Small& o.tbolia please of worship la the domes of
Westaidneter, in which attonUon was drawn to the
leagoentinued rains, " forowaruinn as of many impend-
lag evils: pastileues and owarolty of food, and heavier
toil with lees return; sad all these Wass with our long
winter already upon or." The Archbishop therefore,
inggontod oertain alterations in the prayers need in his
diocese, " with the intention of milting that the jut
judgments of God may be mercifully averted."
A FOOL AND BM MONET, &C.—in support of a
(huge of fraud preferred at the Hall pollee-court on
Friday against Henry Jeaketia, • quack doctor, some
=vidonos was given, The proesoutor, John
a, a farmer, had pat himself under the •
MOW* bfioNOMIN, and, allowing himself to be persuaded
that his liver, bangs, heart, and kidneys were dimmed,
parted with ridiu• sums of money for snob midi-
item as" The Elixir of Life," " Bpikestard with which
Christ was &anointed," "Manna, or Bread of Lite' •
"Adder's tongue," and the like. For throe and
similar drugs, which wore to poems minsulons 'Mosey,
he paid 293, £96, and oven 250 at • time, the whole of
the quest dos 11/00=1 sooting to £250. Prisoner
wee remanded.

-I.BATCII-01, M1711Dill& —Thin have not been for
=pars so many prisoners lying under minium) of
se there are now, via porth•eountry
slain, for ticking a poor mutilate to death, at
flpsniutyrcoor ; a Liverpool isbmosgsr, for shooting
hi paramour; a hawker, who stubbed & lad beaus* he
thought he had stolen an apple; a Warrisk Imbiber,
for stabbing his wife. Added to thus as the mysterl
mu nudge of a woman at New Hampton; the murder
of a bricklayer's !shearer by hit *ifs, In an alley use
Drury-Line Theatre; and the Whitodupel tragedy,
where a woman wen found dead on the stalresse, she
having be strangled. Truly we see Improving is our
nittewthe chapter" Hardee as 005 01 arta."
war's PILUI 1./D Ourrriarr. -- Miens
olfoolio•o, with all their smistenttent mutoyenives
'Mooed by statecipberie shames or too liberal dist,
amid be checked at epee, or miens mosequeoes
may 111111110. When ray ow• lads kW Moms lms dear
than usual, hie eyesight dimmed, and his heed dime,
tmeornpuded by a relseltraer for all ezerdoe, physical
or mental, be may be quits sue that he is It leatediato
alai et some ceollag sod pordying mediates. Lee
elm at snow mod tot • box of Holloway's Pills, whist
mill &se him from his sawing& and spsedly mew
his mud bsatihlui WS* if the bowls be Irritable
Hallieway's Olatenent &add be di4ently rubbed ore
abe elms* and liver rriry Watt and Itsrldss•