The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-02-17 00:00:00

SRA rTe.sßuity.

COUNTY CoURT.:ifii;CO-drt:w.ts held on Wednesday.
before Mr. T. E. P. Lefroy, the judge. The only case
of public intereet was that of Burpitt v. Moyle." Mr.
Howard appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. J. T. Davies
for the defendant It appeared Iron' the evielehco that
Mr. Atkinson, solicitor, of Blandford, hired a horse of
plaintiff on the 30. h July last, and drove it to
Shaftesbury, and put is in defendant's stable. On the
following thy, whiles the ostler war harnessing it, the
animal slipped down and put out it. pin boos. 61r.
Davies admitted these facts, but argued that it sr" a
pore accident, and that the defelendaut woe net liab.o.
Mr. Howard, on the other band, quoted a awe where
an Innkeeper had been held liable even where the
orieurrenoe had been perfectly accidental. His Honour
held the same view, and gave a verdict for plaintid
for .C:3o._

Tan Lan ELlcnOtr.—Mr. Bennett-Staaford, the
newly-slanted member for Shaftesbury, having addressed
letter to the mayor of the borongh, ingniring LI IO
the "origin of certain prizefighters in the town during
the late contested election," his worship has traascultW
the following rep:y
" Shaftesbury, Feb. 0, 1574.
"My dear Sir,—ln reply to your inquiry rwpecung the
prizefighters who came down Irons London ou the Monday
preceding the election, the and information I had ea. a
W 10172331 received by the superintendeut of police, a huh Ito
brought to me, saying, 'A lot of roughs have left ...absitory
Station for the Stelfteshury election.' Ile immediatsk snit
out a body of police, who met them on the road. and warchol
them to the yard for not giving a sativfactory aewmut of tb.oo
5C1331. I then went up to the pulice-oditat, and had theut
brought In one by one. The ant man I examined, JA1.3.11
pillOng said he was hired to conic down for eloeti so poet„,,o
hy • sir. Price at the Abbey Amts.' (Si questioning the °Mule
they said 'Dillon engaged them to come down—some 00
Saturday, the ethers on Sunday -atid meet hint at the Waterloo
St.ti"b on Monday wonting. Tickets Wens 110.31 taken for them
&MI given to each When they got wit at Sculley each ono
acknowledged haying received, ' half a sovereigu.' 1 sulk UR en
who paid them. Several of them said, 'That man,' pointing to
Dillon through the strlow. twe or two of them, said • Part
of us were paid by another wan,' whom they described as Me,
Price himself. I asked each one where they acre told to g,)
when they arrived at Sbaltoehury, and every one of them.
answered 'The Abbey Amis." I then gave thew the ttptiou of
being locked up until after the election was over or going back
by the next train. They all replied they would kwassliatelylge
back. I then said 'I think you have decided wisely, for if yen
get into a Shaftesbury row no opinion is that 0 oftow o— you will
ever reach Loudon again alive.'—l rcusain, sitar sir, yours
faithfully,
"Jong licsgarr, Mayor of Shaftesbury,
To V. F. Dennett
At a meeting of trs f.b.nds and supporters of Mr.
Seymour, held at Shateileny on the 7th Fo}b.,, the
" .stau..
mburnlyol, Esq., M.P., Lyt Meuse,
followirg resolution .s osirted with enthusiasm :
" That we congratulate Mr. S,.yniour oil the degree of
atlases. that has attended his eff,,rts at tho late ilactiou,
and his noble fight for the ce.use of Ll:mac:l4m. V. •
o
feel cur indebteduess to him for oeming forward as a
osadidate to represent tho town of Shaftesbury, and
pledge ourselves to support him to t^e utmost of our
uower at aty future ehotion ; and we ttuat we
thenl
and
have
outrL erePpirretuartse of asOUg
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