The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER IN YORKSHIRE.

A great deal of painful excitement has been caused in the
a town in Cleveland, distant
neighbourhood of Stokesley,
from Stockton and Middlesborough about ten miles. The
facts are as follows :—Two respectable farmers, who were
neighbours, living a short distance from Stokesley, had been
in that place on business, but had had rather too much
liquor. They left the town together to walk to Hemling-
ton, where they both resided. Their names were Mr.
William Johnson, of Newhaven Hall, and Mr. Brad-
shaw Graham, of Hemlington. The 111011 were on very
amicable terms until they had arrived at Newby, a small
village on the road. Here they were met by Johnson's
farm servant, who brought a horse for his master. There-
upon Johnson wanted Graham to get upon the horse with
him, but he refused. Johnson then mounted the horse and
again urged his companion to get on behind, but the
latter again refused, upon which Johnson retorted that it
was because he was too proud—Graham being in rather a
better position in life than Johnson. This remark led to
some angry words between the two men, till ultimately
Johnson said that if Graham gave him any more 't chaff"
he would get off and wring his neck. Graham made a pro-
voking and defiant answer, when Johnson got off his horse,
and both men began to square at each other. Ultimately
Graham struck Johnson on the side of the head with a
stick, when both men closed together and fell. Whilst they
were on the greund Johnson called out to his man, " Oh,
John, come and help me." The man came and assisted
his master to get on his feet, when be immediately fell
backwards. On being again helped up, ho repeatedly fell,
and never spoke again. Graham was at once secured and
lodged in the lock-up.
Au inquest was held yesterday ; verdict—wilful murder.

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awwfhtohhe magistrates and himself, they were gratified
this expression
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The CHAIRMAN replied, and said that, on the part
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entertained
from the bar towards one for
so high a respect. They had
always felt everything Mr. Cripps had said,—they
had always had the greatest pleasure and confidence
iu Mr. Henley's leadership and guidance; no man
ever occupied so high a position and enj'yed to a
greater extent the confidence of the magistracy ge-
nerally.
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They felt that it was a loss not to be re-
p
'and that the loss of his experience was a loss
n
to themselves, but to the public. It was
g
to_know that the business had been con-
so happily and harmoniously under Mr.
ducted
Henley's guidance, and he might be permitted to
say that they felt that this was in a great measure
(Wing to the fact that the chairman and the magis-
trates had always received from the Bar the
greatest possible kindness and assistance. It was
a matter of great importance that the business
should be so conducted, and no man appreciated
that
assistance and kind treatment which he had
always
received more than Mr. Henley himself.
Whatever his ability might be, he felt that his suc-
cessor would receive the same assistance ; and on
the part of the magistrates and himself, he thanked
Mr. Cripps and the Bar he represented for the kind
and able manner in which he had brought this sub-
ject before the Court, and assured him they felt very
sensibly his motive for so doing.

HEREFORD AGRICULTURAL , SOCIETY,

The annual meeting of this society was held at
The show of stock was Hereford on Tuesday,
limited, as usual, to cattle of the Hereford breed,
which were sent in large numbers; and, it being
the day before the great annual fair, a large quan-
tity of stock was sent for sale, independent of
those sent in for competition. In fact the cattle
market overflowed with specimens of Herefordshire
bucolic excellence, and the streets were perfumed
with the odour of neat cattle. The £2O prize for the
and offspring
best bull, cow, Was token by Mr. T.
Roberts, of Wington bury, and the second by Mr.
Taylor, of Showle.court. Mr. Capper, of Ross, took
the 1.:15 prize for the best bull, and Mr. B. Rogers,
of Staunton•on-Arrow, the second best.
The diaper was held at the Green Dragon Hotel
in the evening. Mr. R. Arkwright, of Hampton-
court, presided, and there were present Mr. King,
M.P., Col, Clifford, M.P., Mr.
M.P., Mr. G. Clive,
Chandos W. Hoskyns, eac.
After the usual loyal toasts had been given, that
of " The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese" was
proposed from the chair, and responded to by
The Rev.
T. POWELL, who defended the Hereford-
shire agriculturists from the attacks made upon
them by a certain portion of the press at their last
meeting, when they were charged with uttering
mere platitudes.
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Health of the
County Members," explaining that the absence of
Lord W. Graham and Mr. Mildmay arose from illness.
Mr. KING KING replied, and congratulated them
on the prosperous harvest 'which they had experi-
enced. They had reason to be thankful for this
blessing, although it might be a blessing of a tem-
porary character, and a change for the worse might
ho apprehended. They could see no end to the
present deplorable condition of America, and they
saw the trouble that was arising in different parts
of Europe. Let them be thankful for the good
which they enjoyed, and bear in mind the axiom
that "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof."
The CetailtataN gave "The City Members."
Col. CLIFFORD replied, and while defending the
speakers at the last Herefordshire agricultural din-
ner from talking "platitudes," said he must confess
that he held a strong opinion that at dinners of this
sort, where agriculturists assembled together, it
would be far better that they should shorten the
mere official and complimentary speeches, and devote
themselves more to what were the real objects of
these associations. This object might be attained—
first, by responding to the official toasts as briefly
as possible; and secondly, by making the toasts bear
as much as possible on the practice of agriculture;
and, keeping this in view, he would not detain them
longer by any remarks in reply to the official toast
of ",The City Members." (A laugh.)
Mr. CLIVE having thanked the meeting for the
honour'done him and his colleagues, observed that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer when about either
to impose a new tax or to repeal an old one was in
the habit first of telling his audience what he would
not do, and he (Mr. Clive) would in a manner fol-
low his example. He would say then that, as was
done at Leominster, he would not make a speech
about the ladies, because there were none present.
lie would not talk about domestic politics, because
that subject was supposed to be forbidden at these
meetings; nor would he advert to foreign
politics,
because if ho did ho should only be telling
them
what they could learn from the newspapers,
that they were quite right in not interfering_rtnaffairs of America, and should be wrongquiteel
in
to
in-
terfering in Poland. Nor would hepetecykd
r i
eg doe so
about agriculture, because if heattoed m t
about
he might be fairly met with the I
the foolishness of teaching an aged elative,
h
though he did not happen to pos
how to suck eggs. sess one, the way
(A laiis .) But lie thought he
ther,
might make one remark connected wand which ith the subject
which had brought them ?get was
that he thought Herefordshire was rather behind-
hand in the matter of steam p oughing, He had
1 ately been on a visit to Mr. Lane,ton, the member
for Oxford, feoni whom he had learnt a good deal
about the advantages of steam Voughing, and he
strongly recommended his Herefordshire friends to
read a pamphlet, price 9d., recently published on
the subject by Mr. Nicholson, who farmed many
hundreds of acres of land for Lord Brownlow. He
thought after reading that pamphlet they would
be convinced that a great deal of benefit was to be
derived from steatu ploughing. He hoped to see
the time when every landlord would have a steam
plough on his estate for the use of his tenants, and

he (Mr. Clive) hoped to have one at work on his
own grounds next year. He believed the introduc-
tion of the steam plough would be found necessary
not only to keep their land in a consistent and por-
ous state, and also firm and retentive, so as to let
the air and water pass through it freely, but also
to enable them by increased produce to meet what
he considered would be found to be the perman-
ently depressed price of corn. (Hear, hear.) In
conclusion he proposed " The Committee of Manage-
ment for the year."
Mr. C. WREN HOSKYNS, replying to the toast,
alluded to the late harvest, which he said was pro-
bably the best that had ever been gathered in this
country. No doubt many of his hearers had read
the remarks of Mr. Lawes in the columns of the
limes, in which he had given the results of the
harvest, as ascertained on his experimental and
ordinary farms. The result was that an extra
produce had been raised, amounting to 20 bushels,
or he would put it lower—say, two quarters per acre.
He spoke of this excess as extending over a very
considerable area of land, and it would be a very in-
teresting problem to solve what was the total gain
in increased produce in England this year. Out of
the 37 millions of acres of land in England 18 mil-
lions, or nearly one-half, were under arable cultiva-
tion, of which nearly 4,000,000 were under wheat
craps alone. They could, therefore, roughly estimate
the surplus crop of wheat in this country—two
quarters per acre over 4,000,000 of acres making
8,000,000 quarters of wheat in excess of the average
produce. The natural produce of the country was
estimated at five months' consumption. After some
further remarks on this subject Mr. Hoskyns ex-
pressed an opinion that the pastures of England were
not so weil managed as the arable lands, and he
especially advocated the use of lime and road scrap-
ing on them to restore those inorganic substances
which were being continually taken out of the soil.
He next came to the subject of agricultural statistics,
and expressed a hope that they would soon be ar-
rived at. It had been objected to this proposition
that these statistics would afford an advantage to
the landlord, and might lead to rents being raised;
but he (Mr. Hoskyns) believed that rents were
already as high as the market would bear. What
he recommended was, not that they should take the
statistics of every farm, but that they should obtain
the returns of the growth of each particular grain
or other produce in each parish, so as to be enabled
to compare the produce from year to year. He
hoped they would succeed in obtaining this before
the expiration of another year.
Other toasts of a complimentary and local charac-
ter followed.