The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

THREE FARM-MAIM DgitTILOYISD.

Extreme7.lar was c7cerieioite7l throughout the
Yorkshire Welds oe Wednesday night sad on Thu day,
owing to three simultaneous and most destructive lime of an
incendiary character. Only a few weeks ago, as reported at
the time, a very salient fire occurred in the stockyard of
Mr. Borders, of Thwing, when very great damage was doer.
The fires on Wednealay night were at Buttorwiek-owlie-
Wolds and Boythorpe, I. the immediate neighbourhood of
Miring ; hence the alarm was considerably enhanced, espe-
cially as the The ing fire has never bleu satiateetorily traced
to its perpetrator, the party arrested having been set at
liberty.
Tae present triple dingier may be briefly related as
follows :—Mr. Anderson, aa extemive farmer, reeding at
Butterwick-on-the Wads, had a few friends—neighbourie
farmers—et his house on Wednesdayay t.
.The P
who are sufferers from the present wetZ
preeset, namely, Mr. Hall, Batterw, and Mr.
Anorexia and Mr. Speak, of Boytborpe. Each of
these gentlemen have what I. celled their " high
barns' upon each of their extesuive farms. Them
barns are in reality separate and distinct farmsteads,
off on the Welds (away from the villages), where cattle
are boomed, sad certain Factious of farm praime consumed.
Mr. Anders" about eleven o'clock, went out of the home,
bet immediately rebutted and startled the company by
wing be had seen ell his stacks on fire. Others then
went out, and Mr. Riby, another farmer, discovered that
Mr. Hall's nooks were also burning, about a quarter of a
arils diorama. A third gentleman also at the same time,
exabiroad that he saw Mr. Speck's stacks on fire, fully
is the opposite directioa. The alarm of the
nowt firm, end the triple dieomery of the night, induced a
belief that some plan was afoot for firing the stacks of the
whole mighbourbood. Horses were quickly saddled, and
asesseogers sees to warn the neighbouring farmsteads and
villages, and the various parties concerned each departed
to the scene of his own ninfortuee. Each of the " high
berm" has its regular set of cattle sheds, Be., but only
in one (Mr. Anderson's) had soy cattle been put op. Oe
'Meg to release them, it was found that previous to firing
the Meeks, the doors of the sheds has been throws
apes, but as the fire drove directly towards there
the cattle refused to fees it, and could sot be
got out. The placer, therefore, had to be pulled down from
the other side, in order to save the stock. From the
owing to the great bold el the fixes, 'Be bleak position, and
general absence of water, it was ?cued utterly impossible
to save any porticos of the property ; aod as engines
would have bass aesises, nom were sent for. On Mr.
Hall's farm there were eleven corn stacks, of which Mx
are entirely burnt, along with some of the sheds. On
Mr. Anderson's farm the corn, with the exception of one
wheat stack, had bees threat ed out, bus the remaining
Mack, and the whole of the straw, in entirely consumed.
Oa Mr. Spook's farm, the state of things is precisely as is
the set named, with the additioa of the destruction of the
buildings. It I. stated Mr. Hall is unwed in the Imperial
Office ; Mr. Anderson, in the Sun ; and Mr. Speck, in the
Yorkshire.

TM ir-; were hernial the whole of Thursday, sad, high
upon the weld biEs a. they were, were seen almost through-
out Die East aiding. Dariog the day vast numbers of
=t.lilted the plaom, and it may be said a DOOM of
rity has seized on every farmer in the neighbourhood.
As to the qnsation of damage', it ma hardly be deter-
mined 'chairman/my value osa mimeses& it. The total destruct
nos of the yeses modem of straw macro the high wolda is
of itself a selsfortum altogether irreplaceable. There is,
at present, so minim that 700 quarters of earn (wheat,
oats, and barley) have been destroyed, sod the straw, in
week a position, is almost limitable. The damage must
he at least 2,00 W. _ _

MALTON. FRIDAY KORNIS°.
Last night, la the vicinity of Weaverteorps, in the
neighbourhood of the three conflagrations, Sergeant Had-
' dos, of Norton, arrested a man named Jobs Sherwood,
alias " Snaillieg Jack," a notorious coil " rugger." This
man. it is aseertained, was in the neighbourhood of the
Ms, although it should be stated, so one was seen about
say of the places when the fires were first discovered. It
may,
.however, be mentioned, tbat Sherwood (oe whom
sespicsoa falls) is the same man that was arrested for the
miring firs. mid discharged. The prisoser, it is es
mil he examised here to-morrow (Saturday).—park

DEATH 111011 Loci Jaw.—A singular instance of
&Mb fres loskjaw osserrad at Etowah cu Thursday
BIOS A lad asinsd Dabridga woobing fader. staplss, of
Naribetreit, bad blared bb foot by lamading email, and
afterwards strain* himself is aklasvb to carry a sack
m.dews, lockjaw sugued, ifsish wind h • —Wester*
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