The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-07-27 00:00:00

AN IRISH BANKRUPT.

In the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday Judge Walob
bad before him the case of Edward McGrath. • bankrupt,
reolll/10, residing at Gortnuillerthy, Donegal. The par-
ticulate of the case were of an extraordinary charactar.
The bankrupt. • miserablolooking old man of imbecile
oppoaranoe, •44 about ft years of age had been sum-
moned to attend the Court for examination on the 9th
bast,, but as he did not appear • warrant for his arrest was
issued, and Mr. Foster, the messenger of the Court, pro-
ceeded to Donegal on the 11th inat and from his state-
ment at what occurred it appeared that as he was going
to the bankrupt'. house. Petrick McGrath, the bankrupt's
.014 shouted at the top of his rove from • field where he
was working,to a boy atthe house to run to the houseand
ghat the door ; the boy got to the house before the mes-
einser, and the dew was shut. Patrick McGrath left his
well; and ran to the house shouting at the top of his
voice to keep the door chisel As the messenger ap-
proached the house Patrick McGrailt seised • pitchfork
end thmatesed to run him through with it if he did not
go away. lie advanced dope to him In • menacing
attitude. Mr. Foster, believing it was his intention to
stab Mtn, drew his revolver and told him to stand back.
When he 'sly the revolver be ran a Short distance from
the house sbilettine and whistling for assist anise. The
bankrupt's wife hearing the shouts came running out of
the back door. The messenger tried to get in, and the
bankrupt, who was inside, pushed against him
and struck at him with some kind of reap-
ing-book or ecythe, hitting him on the arm.
Teo bankrupt's wife threatened that he should never
leave the Woos give, and pushed him outride ultimately.
In oonsmossos of the violence offered he was obliged t
amnion the arrest. When going away through the li"141.1
he was followed by some men and wee obliged to draw
out his revolver and threaten them He proceeded to Mr.
• meiffstrote, and laid an information, upon which
the bankrupt and We wife and son were arrested by the
pollee, and brought before the rossistrates.--4r Carton,
Q.C., who appeared for the awignese, now exallinedi the
bankrupt with regard to • vale able farm. which. it
appeared he had sold to • man earned McGlorm. —Toe
bagnrant s+eted he got Lffilo for the term. H., mole li,,'r
statement Met he had hidden the money in
iditeh. war 0( which we, on his own land and part on his
alstrer's, but he declined lo mention the asset ,p .t where
the money was coucealed.—Judge Walsh cousidered the
answering unsstisfectory, and his deposition
bankrupt's
eommittog to writing, he was called upon by
his lordship to sign it.-. The bankrupt »rased to dos,,
and was than committed for contempt In retailing to sign
Ide deposition.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Another earthquake has been expesienced at Manilla.
Not a siultie *dine° was spared, and the inhabitants are
encamped outside the town.
Dv. ()shorn has calla! attention to the reports of
political action of Wesleyan ministers, and deprecated
',heir acting on committees of Parliamentarr candidate,
and the use of NYesleyan premises for such objecta
Sir Bartle Frere has, it is said, answered the hints of
the Government as to the advisability of his resigning.
He flatly declines to yield to what he calls "popular
clamour, and throws on the Government the responsi-
bility of recalling hint.
A report from Teheran says England has proposed to
Persia to purchase for herself for £140,000 • coast lino 011
the Pondan Gulf. with ports at Bonder, Bushire, and
Bender -tbbas, besides land on the frontier of Beloochis-
an.
An unrehearsed scene was enacted recently at the Polies-
Dramatiques during the performance of " Les Vacences de
Beautendon." The hero has several daughters, and in the
second act a man, from what we should call in London the
upper hoses, cried out ti one of them—" Ah Eugenie,
girl I've caught you! You have gone on the boards
against my will. You'll just coins home, and at owe?
Before the laughter had died away the enraged father had
reappeared, this time on the stage, and tore away his
daughter from the arm of the actor, and amidst the c ins
of the aud.ence the curtain was lowered.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON'S DIONUMENT.—The committee
having withdrawn their proposal to place it in Henry
VI Is . Chapel, the queen has offered a site in St. George's.
Windeor, where the monument will now be erected
L-ARE•ISIINRIS.—FIrst young lady (of walking school): I
hate this horrid walking: we look just like the animals
coming out of the ark. Second ditto: Arkadian bliss
compared to this, Maude; they had • gentleman to see
them out. Noah would he decidedly preferable to Miss
McStinger.—Jedy.
At the Cabul Durbar held there on Thursday Abdul
Rahman was publicly recognised as Ameer by Her
Majesty's Government. The early withdrawal of our
troops within the frontier fixed by the Treaty of Gunda-
muck was at the same time announced. Sir D. Stewart
urged the Sinters to sink all private quarrels sad unite in
assisting the Amber to restore peace and order to Afghan-

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titan.
Bankers in F:urope are cautioned by the American
papers =Mind negotiating rolled States bank not's until
they have verified that they are genuine, as well-executed
new 100-dols. counterfeit National Bank notes are in
circulation.
M. de Bouville, the Conservative deputy for the
Gironde, t get a loan of 5101f_ represented he hsd
come into • fort ins of 300,0014. This money was for the
separate use of his wife, ills hills were protested, an he
was prosecuted for a fraudulent st-itement. M. de Danville
was sentenced in 4efault t 3 three months' imprisonment,
and to re-fund.
It is stited that another peer holding an ofil.-e in the
Administration, and owning large estates in Ireland. has
expressed his inteetion to resign in order that be might be
free to oppose the Compensation for Disturbance Bill on
second reading.
In 1812 there were only three lead smelting works in
In the great lead-producing district of Carthagena. Spain,
but in 11812 seventy-five works turned out 17,178 metnc
tons of lead. This number continued to increase until
187, one hundred works produced MAO torts.
WM* LOUIB AgD THE LIBIMALA. —Whig leaders,
on the whole, are sensible and prudent men. They
will not, without grave cause, withdraw themselves
from the strong forward movement of the Liberal
party. With that Liberal party they are influential
and powerful. We have never been amongst those
who undervalued their past services to the cause and
their capacity to do it further services. But it is
doing them no injustice to say that without the
Liberal party they would not be of much political
account. They cannot stand in open and or
opposition as the Tories can, and as a sort ortliiidercl
party they would soon find themselves isolated, power.
less, and almost indeed forgotten. Besides, to do
them justice, the wish of the beet of the Whigs has at
all times been to keep themselves, even at considerable
sacrifice, in union with the other branches of the great
Liberal party.
AFOHAN FluzczNess.—An English force and an
army of Candaharees had started, not exactly
together, but in sonj unction the one with the other, to
meet Ayoub Khan, who after many months of
inaction and intestine quarrels at Herat, was advanc-
ing from that distant fortress upon Candahar. The
allies had reached the Helmund, and were apparently
I there waiting for the enemy, when one of the
' inexplicable "re-arrangements of groups" which seem
' to play as prominent a part in Afghan as in Italian
politics, occurred. The Wali's infantry mutinied.
though his cavalry remained faithful, and the troops of
General Burrows, instead of fleshing their swords upon
the troops of Ayoub, had to try them, of course with
suocess, on their late comrades. Since that time
General Burrows has judged it best to retreat to a
more favourable position, where he will doubtless be
able to give as good an account of the Heratees as of
the revolted subjects of Share All.
The Marquis of Hartington, on Thursday, received
a deputation who presented • memorial upon matters
relating to the administration of the government of
India. The noble Marquis said it was undesirable to
make sudden changes. Lord Ripon was now consider.
ing the Vernacular Press Act. The Arms Act had
not yet come under review. 'Upon the question of the
admission of natives of Inglis to the Civil Service, he
would lay the views of the deputation before Lord
Ripon. The subject of representation was toe large
for him to enter into at that time. Both he and Lord
Ripon had much to learn, and the present time did not
afford much leisure for the consideration of general and
theoretical subjects.
Rev. A. H. Mackonochie is going on with his
appeal.
Touzisys AND TRAVELLERS, ladies rinking, visiting
the seaside, or otherwise exposed to the scorching rays
of the sun and heated particles of dust, will find Row.
lands' Kalydor most cooling and refreshing for the face,
hands, and arms; it eradicates sunburn, tan, freckles,
Itc., allays the pain and irritation caused by mosquito
and gnat bites, and produces a beautiful and delicate
complexion. Sold in two sizes. Rowlands' Maceasar
Oil prevents the hair falling off during hot weather.
Rowlands' Odonto whitens the teeth. Sold by chemists,
perfumers, and hairdressers. Buy only Rowlands'
articles.

-1•0 i. AND SUICIDE. —The coroner for East Surrey
lately held an inquiry, touching the death of Miss
Emma Cloud, aged 31, whose body was found partially
buried beneath the mud of the Thames. The deoessed
had formerly been in affluent circumstances, and
about ten years ago she was crossed in love. From
that time up till Sunday last she had been in a reserved
state of mind. At three o'clock in the afternoon of
that day she called upon Mrs. Lawrence, where she
remained till half-past nine o'clock at night. Suddenly
the deceased rose up, and, without saying a word to
her friends, went into the street without a bonnet."
She was followed hy Miss Lawrence, and on arriving
at the corner ef Brookatreet, Kennington-road, the
latter remarked, "How strange it is you should run
into the street without your bonnet." Deceased
shouted out in an excited manner, "I cannot bear this
any longer; the water will see me to-night I am
quite tired of my life, and I have a presentiment that
I must do a thing whether it is right or wrong. I do
not care for anybody but one." Witness then lost
sight of her, and she never saw her again alive. The
deceased who was a very prepossessing young woman,
NMI identified by her sieter.—Verdkt Suicide from
Mental Derangement.
HARVEST PROSPECTS TE FRANCR.—Aocording to the
Paris Temps there is every prospect of the approaching
harvest being a fair average one throughout France.
The straw generally is short, but the grain having
been formed under very favourable circumstances, the
yield promises to be, if not rich, at all events satisfac-
tory. In the south-east of Fran°, the harvest has
already begun, and there the yield is reported to be
marked by great inequality, being exceedingly
abundant in some districts and poor in others. This
Inequality will, there Is reason to believe, prevail
everywhere in France, and, consequently, on the
whole, the harvest will probably prove an average one.
The late alternations of rain and heat have been
extremely favourable for grass lands, and the meadows
are now covered with so luxuriant a vegetation that
an abundant aftermath will doubtless compensate for
the deficiency of the first hay crop. The root crops
have also been much benefiUed by the showers which
have refreshed the earth, and potatoes especially,
which lest year suffered greatly, are now in good
condition. The reports from the vineyards are less
reassuring. From the Bordelais come complaints of
blight; while in the Burgundy, Orleans, and Tours
districts the vines were much damaged by the severe
frosts of the winter. On the whole, therefore, there
is reason to fear that the total vintage of 1880 will not
exceed the 25,000,000 hectolitres of 1878,
A Tumuli YROY THZ Sze. —The Plongeur, schooner,
belonging to Messrs. Guerin, of Brest, which went to
Lannion with several divers, for the purpose of
the place where was lost in 1851 • vessel lade/It'll
ingots of silver and lead, has fallen in with the cargo
in ten fathoms of water, quite close to the Triages
Rocks. The divers have already brought up several
tons of these medals. Salvage arranged MIS per cent.
on the value recovered.

roxiio Bur.—At the Liverpool Police-court on
Wednesday, a firm of butchers carrying on business
under the name of Block and Cleaver were aummoned
for exposing for sale four pieces of beef which had been
prepared by • process known as "duffing." It wadi
explained on behalf of the defendants that the process
merely consisted of removing the bone and replacing it
by pieces of fat. The Bench oonaidered that an offence
had been committed against the 'Act, and imposed a
fine.of_:_is and costa.

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Sir Henry Thompson (Liberal) has been ousted from
his seat forlC.naresborough by the Election Judges.
At Liverpool the Conservatives have decided to
contest the seat rendered vacant by the elevation of
Lord Ramsay to the peerage.
Sir Samuel Morley, M.F., has been chosen President
of the Aliddleses -Liberal Association, which has
decided to revise its rules.

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--i;111C -ORIGINATOR or Brlvostv Bcfroota.—A marble
tablet, placed inside the old Cathedral of Brachia,
Scotland, to the memory of the Rev. David Blair, one
of the parish clergymen, records that—" About' the
year 1760 he instituted a Sabbath evening school in
Brechin, the first, it is believed, that was opened in
Scotland." Mr. Blair died in 1769, and the monument
was erected shortly after his death.
Liverpool,'Loc
'At OPTION cot TRIALuIe
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teres. jingonelst:tteorf
bearing on an experiment which is being made in that
town with the system of Local Option. Liverpool, he
says, has had more than enough of the free-trade
:experiment, and now 4 trial in prohibition is being
lade there on a pretty extensive scale- Lord Sefton
and Mr. John Roberts, We., for Flint Boroughs, have
agreed to prohibit the sale of liquor in any shape on
land laid out for building purposes by theta in the
south of Liverpool, For some years past new streets
have been springing up over this area, and it is estimated that, when the whole ground is covered, there will be some 50,000 persons living in a district
where not a drop of liquor can be sold or bought.
The results are that " Nlr. Roberts declares' he has
never had a word of complaint from owners or
occupiers of houses in the district on account of the
absence of liquor-shops. Mr. S. U. Rathbone, the
espected chairman of our School Board, has publicly
called attention to the fact that the working claws%
are rapidly migrating from the districts where public-
houses are thick on the ground to this prohibitory
district. The Head Oonstable reports that his officers
have ler?, little to do on this ground where there are
no public-houses. The medical officer reports that
the death•rate is exceptionally low in the district.
The feeling of the inhabitants in this district towards
prohibition may be gathered from the fact that when,
the other day, application WY made to the licensing
niagistratee for an outdoor licence for a house on the
borders of the ground prohibited, the court wascrowded
with residents aroun who opposed the appliChtiOn,
and it was refused by the Ben& accordingly•

Mr. Dodson is the Libesal candidate for Scarborough,
and has been well received. He is opposed by Mr. A.
Duncombe.
In Basutoland, South Africa, the natives are in
rebellion because they will not give up their arms, as
demanded by the English.
The Sultan of Turkey is said to be utterly opposed
to ceding any more territory to Greece, exoept,
perhaps, the island of Crete, and his Minieers are
afraid to remonstrate for fear of being sent into exile
for their unpalatable advice.
SogoLanettire Ms THE Bugtx—The Cloth-workers'
Company have devoted the sum of one hundred
guineas per annum for the provision of three
scholarships at the Worcester College for blind sons of
gentlemen. for students of good nurture, but limited
means, who may be desirous of pursuing a liberal
education in this college. The endowment fund had
previously reached r.LOOO, which supported two small
scholarships. The competition for the scholarships
established by the Cloth-workers Company will be
held in November. Intending candidates are
requested to send their names to Mr. S. S. Foster,
M.A., Head-insster of the Blind College, or Mr. A.
W. G. Ranger, M.A. 8.C.L., Solicitor, 87, Great
Tower-street, E.C., Hon. Sec. to the Scholarship
Fund.

A BOURNEMOUTH DIVORCE CASE.
Oliver r. Oliver and Cos, which was the husband's
petition for a dissolution on the ground of his wife's
InptresheidDenivtorhoeidDbaivoisire Division,
him
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tlfhoridalocyla thedi T Rigoreeh oat Hon. a
the
adultery wii Is the co-respondent.
Mr. 'Searle app-seed for the petitioner, Mr. Keogh
was a compositor, at Bournemouth, where be made the
Sear
acquaintance of the respondent, who at that time was
reger.entiniu.e:
hine resopmpoinndretnhte
ma.
a linerodrsper's swiss-ant. After a short courtship
said the petitioner
they were m:irritid ins the 25th December, 1877, at St.
Ssviour'e Church. B ith, spending the honeymoon in
London. Shortly alter his reaching London he took
the respondent to a theatre, where she introduced him
him to • gent lemsn whom she deecribed as • friend.
This gave cei tain unpleassntness, especially as
she refu•ed to return home at the a tans time that he
il,il ;she afterwar Is refused to return to B urns-
month when he de-ired her to do so, but consented
t, twin: sent to her in thee, at Bath. She subse-
quently live! for • short time at Bournemouth,
but in Jaouary, 1878 she again went to Bath,
promising to return on the Ist of February. She
did not come bolt as expected, and on the 6th of
February, 1878 lie received • letter saying that she
bad atarted for New York. lie afterwards traced her
to a place called Keynsharn, near Bristol. but she re-
fused to come beck, Bay Lug that she intended to earn
bar living by teaching. She also on this occasion sent
the petitioner her wedding ring. It was afterwards
discovered that whilst at this place she was living
with the co-re.nondent as Mrs. Young, he going by
the name of Young himself. It was also dUwYered
by the petitioner that his wife afterwards lived with
co-respondent at Clifton, and by him she there had a
child. He then instituted the present proceedings.
James Oliver, petitioner, said he was a compositor
at Bournemouth, and his wife was an assistant in a
draper's establishment. He was married to her on
the 25th December, 1877, at Si. Saviour's Church,
Bath. Alter marriage they came to London. On one
occasion soon afterwards they went together to a
theatre. She introduoed him to • gentleman who
she said was a friend of hers. This gentleman had
MIA of her arm. After the theatre was over he was
pointing out several objectionable planes to her.
Witness remonstrated, and she replied that if he did
not t Ike her abont London she should go with some-
body else. He then left her and went home to Peck-
ham. She reached home between 1 and 2 o'clock next
morning, a- d he apologised for leaving her in the way he
had done. They lived together until New Year's day
following, when she refused to accompany him back to
Bournemouth, saying she wished to remain in London.
She, however, consented to return to Bath, where she
went to live with her mother for a time. After a
while he went to fetch her home, which she consented
to, and on the way to Bournemouth she said, "Jim, we
have both acted very foolishly; let's forgive and f orget
the past." Witness agreed to this, and took • house
in the neighbour's, o I of Bbsoombe, near Bourne.
mouth. Sh 6 stayed till the 9th of January, when sire
said she wanted to get some things which had been left
at Bah. She slated that her mother intended leaving
there, and asked his permission to go, she promising
to return on the Ist February. Shortly after she went
&tr..), he received • letter from her, in which she stated
that by the time it reached him she should have
sailed for New York, where she intended to earn an
hones 4 living, and hoped to get on. In consequence
of this he frequently went to Bath to try and find
her, and on the nrd of February, in consequence of
Information which reached him, he proceeded to
Keynaham near Bristol, where be saw his wife.
A friend of his knocked at the door, which was opened
by respondent, who directly she caught sight of him
shut the door in his fuss. After waiting about 5 minutes
he burst open the door, and had an interview with
her. She then refused to return home with him, say-
ing that she would rather "live with all the devils In
hill than live with him as his wife." She said she
purpo ed to get her living by teaching. She
_promised
to writs once a week, but failed to do so. Lle after-
wards traced her to Clifton' and in the easly part of
last February he proceeded there. She was living at
IT, Whiteladies'-road, Clifton. He spoke to the
co-respondent Cox, who, after first denying that the
respondent was in the house, admitted that she was., and
that she had just been delivered of a child. Witness
saw his wife, who was in bed at the time, and told her
that he hopei God would forgive her as freely as he
did, and added that if the co-respondent ever married
her, if he had Me opportunity, he trusted she would
behave more honourably towards him than she had
done to himself.

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ross-examined -The only time he bad spoken to
the co-respondent WIN on the occasion in February.
Re-examined—On that occasion he asked 00-respon-
dent if he had been living with his vilest Keyrishaso by
the name of Young, and he admitted that such had
been the case.

Mary Ann Lacey said she acted as servant to Mr.
and Mrs. Young at Keynshan, who lived as man and
wife. She remembered the petitioner bursting open
the door and speaking to Mrs. Young.
This being the petitioner', case, and there being no
defence, his Lordship pronounced a decree airs with
costs.