The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-22 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF A SLAVE DHOW.

Her Majesty's ship Vulture, Commander A. T. Brooke.
was crusing of the north-west coast of Madagascar on the
morning of August 11, when a sail to the south-west was
reported by the masthead man. Chase was given, and
live hours afterwards the dhow was come up with and
boarded. It was full of slaves, 41 men, 51.1 women, and 137
children. The slaves were suffering a-utely from weak-
ness and cramp, having hail to remain in one position for
a long time. Several of the children were unable to
straighten their legs for three or four days after they
were received on board. One woman was found buried
up to her neck in damp sand at the bottom of the slave
dhow, under the lower slave deck The owners of the
human cargo were 35 armed Arabs, and the captain
determined to take them to Zansilar and have them
summarily dealt with. The Vulture sailed for the
Seychelles after burning the dhow and picking up four
boats that had been sent away cruising a few days
previounly. The pussage was made in ten days, and
during that time 17 liberated slaves died of dysentery and
extreme debility. This is the largest capture which has
been made for a very long time.

A COMMERCIAL MAN'S LOVE LETTERS.
In a breach of promise case tried before the Under-
Sheriff of Warwickshire at Leamington, Miss Elizabeth
Owen. of Shrewsbury, the daughter of • soldier's widow,
was awarded by the jury .C 25 damages against her faith.
less swain, William Swindell, a coniniereial gentleman,
carrying on a partnership business at Macclesfield. The
defendant's letters were of an amusing character. They
began "My ever dearest' or "Most dearest Lizzie," but
the first sentence was invariably, "Your kind favour to
hand." In the early part of the corresprunlence, he wrote
in gushing terms. Shortly after plaintiff left Macclesfield,
he told her he had spent two sleepless nights, having
"awoked," and been unable to sleep again for thinking of
her. He said a "single look at her would relieve hint
much," and "that writing to her caused the tears tallow,
over the remembrance of what had been. He repeatedly
espresool a desire that she was near him, that he might
"cuddle," kiss, or squeeze her, as he had done in the
happy days of the past, and in one declared that he could
kiss her away. In October, 143, he told her he could
not live long without her, and that the thoughts of the
past "fare" made his heart beat for her. The latter part
of the rorrespondenoo referred to defendant's bodily
ailments—varying from indigestion to lumbago—the hu.
possibility of fulfilling his promise, and the unsatisfactory
state of business.

THE HEALTH OF THE CLAIMANT.
Mr. Whatley, M.P., publishes a letter in which he says
he has received a conununication from Dr. Kenealy, who
avers that, notwithstanding what Lord Rivers has said
as to the health of the Claimant, he (Dr. Kenealy)
believes he is evidently dying, his face "being livid and
in the extreme, and hl k time on earth short."

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