The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

THZ MZLPLAISII AGRICULTURAL SIOCIETT.—The
annual meeting of tbis society, grill be held at
if elplaisb, on Tuesday, the 23rd of October. —See'
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Harm or • Beretax orr THZ H•ssouit.—A
host Game ashore on Wednesday afternoon from the
Emily, bound from Dartmouth to Hartlepool, for coals.
and lying five miles off the Harbour, to siek medical
amistanoe. Dr. Jefford was taken out. and found
a man named Griffis suffering from cholera. lie
applied the usual remidim. and returned' "d .ent
hack to the vessel some disinfectants. The stricken man
died, and Dr. flay and Dr. Jefford went aboard to
gire a certificate of death, whereupon the body IMO
buried in deep water. AU the others of the crew were
healthy.

SAVED ?Rom DIOWNINO.—A boy of Woe, the sou
of Captain T. Jarvis, • few dui ego fell into the
channel between the plena& about half-tide. alien there
was • considerable depth of water. A ahipwright
named Henry Rioliards saw the accident from the allay-
yard, rushed to the spot, and plunged in, in tins to
seine the drowning boy by the hair and held him till •
boat horn the 'limit. rescued them And another work-
man who had gone to render &Renitence. The youth
was taken to the house of Mr. Clarke, coast guardsman
were every attention vu paid him sad be speedily
recovered.

THE ROll-DILIII•L AI7TUIVIAL CHLPTIR of the
clergy will be held on Tuesday, October 16th, at the
Natiooal School•room, in Bridport. Morning prayer
with Holy Communion at the parish church, will be
at 11.15. The two followiog (locations will he sub-
mitted for discussion: —(I). Education in Church
Schools—What is called The Conscience Clamps"
protegees to embody two principles, namely the yin-
ciple of unrestricted freedom in teaching the doctrines
of the church, and the principle of unrestricted power
of withdrawing from such teaching. Could the
church safely and honestly admit such a clause into
the trust deeds of its schools (2). The other 900**
bon refers to marriage—le there anything in the
Acts of Parliament or in the canons, relating to banns
of marriage, which please unnecessary difficulties in
the way of church marriages, and can you inquest any
alterations which would remedy such an evil if it
exists?

THE BRIDPORY OLD BRIWZRY COMPANY
(LIMITRD)—APPLICATION TO APPOINT A PROVISIONAL
LIQUIDATOR —Oa Friday lest, applicadon WIN made
to Mr. Hall, Vice-Chant:ollo. Stuart's Chief Clerk, for
the appointment of • provisional liquidator to protect
the Company's property, on the ground that executions
were already issued against the Company. Two
petitions, it was stated, had been presented to wind
up, and one on the previous day had been lodged with
the Lord Chancellor's Secretary. The Chief Clerk
asked to see • copy of the petitions. and upon
their not being able to be produced, it was asked
that the matter might stand over till later in the
day, which was refused. However, about twelve o'clock
the solicitor's clerk presented himself again, with • ropy
of one petition, and excused his urgency by stating that
it was of extreme importance to the Company that
the property should be protected by the appointment of
• liquidator at once. The Chief Clerk refused to
interfere in • summary manner without having both
petitions, and all parties before him, notwithstanding
that it was alleged that executions were being con'
atantly issued; and eventually the matter stood Over
till this day (Tuesday).
COUNTY POLJCIt, Satorday.—Before Joseph P. F.
°emirs, Esq.—Thomas Marsh, • respeotablehooking
young man, living at Loder,, wad charged with stealing
E 24 from Kra Nortbover, an infirm old woman, at
Hilton, in the parish of Powerstock.—Jans Northover,
boredom,e keeper, at Milton, said that on Thursday the
4th init. she had in oboe in her bedroom about 1:24, of
which about Ell was in gold, and the remainder in
r;sue amongst the gold was an old guinea. The
prisoner had been working about her house as a mason
on that day and during the week. Between two and
three on Thursday afternoon she was in the lower part
of the house and beard some one walking about up-
'ashes. Sonic little time afterwards she went upstairs
jot, her room to get some money to pay • man for some
butter, when, on opening her box, she found all her
mumy was gone. The prisoner was afterwards
working there during the day. The bag now produced
containing money was the one in which the had the
mousy. The box in which it was kept was not locked
it had the key in it. She afterwards communicated
with the police.—John Brown, a carpenter, living at
Milton, said about half-past three p.m. on Thursday,
he was .but ten yards from the hones of proseoutrix.
He saw the prisoner at work at her hone!, prisoner
went away from the premises about half-past three.
Witness saw him go on for about 200 yards and then
lost sight of him. He was going on the road in the
direction of Leigh Gate. Witness did not see bar
return. In answer to a question from the prisoner,
witness said he saw him go ten yards beyond Palmer's
gate; he could not see further at there was • turn in
the med.—Sarah Northover, grandchild of prosecutris,
• young girl, said sl • lived next door t Iher. grandmother.
She um the prisoner on Thursday last at work on the
premises. About half•past 3 p.ui. th,t day she saw him
coming towards her grandmother's orchard where witness
was picking apples. Its was coming through a lane
which lends from Leigh gate. Sloe saw him get
over the hedge into the orchard and up to the back
door of her grandinother'a house, and then went on
with his work. Ile WAS calling out for a boy. P. 0.
Desiond, stationed at Powerstook, said that on Thurs-
day last about 4 1,.m. from information he received, he
went to the pro.ecutrix'a house when she told him she
had lost more than VAL From what the prosecutrix
said to bin,. be went up a lane, leading from prosecu-
tria's house to Leigh gate. he examined the bank' on
each side of the lane, and in one place, about 250 a ards
from the boueefound thee trth had lately been ci•turbed.
Ile removed the earth with his hand and found the hag
now orod neat containing 12 sovereigns one guinea in
gold, and Ell Ss. 61. in alive,. the cant, Mich and snowed
the bag to proucutrix and she identified it as bees. He
afterwards a-comt soled the prisoner to a Ow 30 or 40
yard, from where he found the money, where there were
foot mark/. Witness took off prisoner's boot.' and cow-
pa re•d them wit h the marks and Loind they sgr.d, this wee
near Palmer's gate. The prisoner said they were his
footmarks as be bad gut over that gate, but that he bad
not been beyond. The footmarks however were a little
distance beyond the gate towards where the money was
found, and must have been made by a person coming
towards the gate from where the money wan. He then
took the prisoner into custody and charged him with
stealing the money, he said he knew nothing about it.
On the road to the police station here, prisoner said
"I've heard there's many a poor fellow gets in for it
innocently, and I don't see bow they can hurt mesa
they did not find the moue) upon me." Vi'itneis had
previously cautioned him. Prisoner denied the charge,
and said he was at work on the premises with another
wan, and went up to procure • boy to get some mortar,
and in hunting for him passed over Palmer's gate.
Prisoner was committed for trial at the 'miens, and ad-
mitted to bail himself in £4O tad two sureties in £2O
sub.