The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

LAW AND CRIME.

RURAI. IGNORANCE.—A case of extreme rural
simplicity and superstition cattle before the county
magistrates at Ilacch afield on Toes lay. A farmer's
wife accused &Gipsy woman. named Pui.cilla Heap., of
Ste ding from her the auto of £43 10a. The gipay woman
mema to have discerned at the first view the character
of her victim, and she trafficked with her in the usual
manner of her tribe. The tgrlller.lll wife was sick, and
she was told she was "bewitched," and, as " money did
It." " money would cure it." The silly MOlllan put
hour £lO notes and 34 sovereigns in the heath td the
gip-y, of course, under a protnim that it would shortly
be returned to her. It neerl hardly be said that the
" wise woman" never I•suite to Ow rendezvous until did
was brought to it by • policimusn. She MU committed
for trial.

" ItsonsTlcias."—Wir truat the punishment awarded
to. MAD named Ward, at York, will have seine effect
in checking the v.iileut tyranny of trades unions. It
appear, that there hail been a atrike in the building
trades at Huddersfield, and that the masters hail imi
ported a number of operatives to take the place if those
who had " turned out." This proceeding aroused the
anger of the men on strike, among whom was the pri•
some, and a murderous attack was made upon a 1111111
named Mlienny, who was elicited to be a " knobatick."
with the view, we presume, of striking terror into the
ltenets of the poor fellows who had had the audacity to
sal their labour for what they conceived to be its
marketable value. Ward was seen animating the
outrage, and the learned judge, reit arking upon the
arrocous system of which the present case (umbilical
so painful an illustration, sentenced him to three years'
penal servitude.
THE NV 11,,I.FAALE PoIRONINGS AT COVFXTRY. —At
the Warwick Assizes, on Tuesday, 'William Beamish,
aged 3,5, weaver, was indicted for feloniously, wilfully.
aid of inalice aforethought, killing ad murdering his
wife, Betsy Beamish, by 1101,4 th, at Coventry, on the
itic of August. Two children of the prisoner hunt also
been imiaoneil in the lime way, ant at the same time.
Ti,,, vase excitvil unusual interest from the aecreay with
which arsenic hail been administered. A girl nAmed
Emma Stab on, who was emidoyeil by tie prisoner,
had hi, eu in custody for the same offence, And • motive
was found for the crime in an alleged intimacy between
the prisoner and this girl. The prisoner was found
guilty, aud sentenced to be executed.

THE QUALERM AND Tile WAIL—The Peace Society
have a [tressed a ineinsnal to Lord Pslisienitua and
Earl ltuse.ll on the American difficulty. The society
say. a great tlesl that is very true and very proper with
respect to the horrors of wsr an I the desirability of
avoiding it on questions generally, and on the American
question particularly. After referring to the amity
that existed recently between ourselves and the Ame-
ricans, the memorialists may that, " With mariner of
heart we see all this sorrowfully changed, ands question
of international law, which, if it could he submitted to
a competent tribunal of able jurist*, whether Euro.
pests or American, or to the mediation or arbitrament of
any independent State, might probably in a few hours
be settled to the satisfaction of all ;Parties, appears to
be in imminent danger of occasioning • vast destruction
of human life, a prodigious waste of treasure, • total
interruption of trade and eoclal intercourse, and an
incalculable amount of moral evil ; while it is just as
impossible, in the nature of things, for the question of
right or wrong to he really cleared up by such an appeal
to the sword as it was for the guilt or innocence of the
accused in usedinval times to be settled by the wager of
battle or the massage over burning plottgosharea." Th..
memorialists, after declaring their confidence in the
desire of the Coyest/lunit to avert war, proceeded to slay
that, "We rejoice to pro the rinelple of a•lntretims
etre/oily ',musette/Pled he the Plessi.o.o..t...ri.i ths
B•iropests Pourn. Mho were 1.4•10.111. the Trestv
Paris. Where a i'moieties rovision 4.1 this kes:
eitlts its isitern.tion .1 treaties any •11111.tay whgh lii t
sari.- wooli sus. urally take the course thee pregritsed
for its settlement terme the lioention of right Igeoue
mergea in the storm of loonloti. And, though there
me:, be no such peosiwetive provision applicable to the
pre.ent dflieuluy, we egoithl r.a.eutlmihiy submit this,
it mar not he too late for our Government. strong in
the eimscionsne... of right, to propose sash a reference.
should the reply fnsm Washington not esint•in the
happy and peen f,ul tesuritsetism of the dispute Thetis
are itimor eiriniimit•Meee in the present po-1111.ii of Eor
laml which enable her to maintaie • perfectly teusoerste
and conciliatory •ttitilde ; end nOtll4 it line wren
Unprevirron. to drive matters to extremities with thr
United States at the time elp.si th y are engaged mu •
StraMcie for their tistio,al integrity, if not for their
national existence r We &nee the Pease Society all
credit for the eseellen.e of jig intentions ann the
disirPesestedneat ef it. efforts, and we cordially join iv
ill pntter that p•Are ,oay lie pr.-grew'.
A 1.1-"Sn'ttus too, heen Peon! td the London and
Bienon Itlevv•,y nv umfert king wall • pro-
!tined c...pitsl of C 120.009, foneed for the porch/weasel
(whom of one .4 11,, oldest ports .r breweriealts London,
I°olllwr with • pais &a leeway at Bartaa-apcs•
Treat.

THE GREAT DISCoVEI2Y OF THE ACIE.
EMEItY'S MAGIC BEETLE FOISON.
cdo....ted prepar.tion i. eerealit death to
111.cnIn-ethn. Coeneoarhee, t'riekete. Rank .nd Uso, it
6.itog the urginnl, awl the only one to. be relied on.
T,ousdnds rmiy he destroyed in one eight, Isaboat
.I.oser to household rut.. in conopiroce of the
tiomand..%atent. h•rehorn npl.one, a every
Inn in the Unite.' Conti rn. Ohte.nAte thnmgh nii
rylblnt, Ci.n.0..E...173317.,;,F4eLtae1a5Ly
wmirefinrbeele,:trl:heLteefory.
W, laNai on nun.
disprove awl worthless taitaticas.

DO YOU WANT LUXURIANT HAIR,
wif ISK EMS, YOUSTA CH It NI, mid Elf fir
SHOWS? Of the numerous preparations intredesed
for the H AIR. mom bare maintained each selshrity et
113111,1 E DEAN'S CRINILENE, which is
to produce Whiskers, bloestachke, sad Iyhraws So
few *'.lc.; sod will be found emineatly severatel
ionnalliag, curling sad Imuntifyieg the hair,
greys.... in all its images, strengthen' week hserkla
rtevelitim to follies of In the el Web
from whatever cense sad at whassimie NIL .611/
rill au. will prove its astonishing power. In the neenelif
it to ndispensable, fermis( the Laois ef • Issetlfel lana
If hair. Prior 2s. per bottle, buge boats} sentefaisf
mire than four times Vie small ouem Is 001-
every Chomiet in the world, Of sans post fret •• ••••••e"
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