, 1875-11-24
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From Calls NesOs Letter.

e%Ventful.
Fine rains have fallen and continue to fall
In the mountainous districts, which have been
very gratifying to the planter, who is making
great preparations for taking off more than an
average crop. Machinery is expected for some
estates in time for "taking off"
The Cornwall Agricultural Club has induced
the Government to put $500 on the Estimates
for the encouragement of pen-keepers and stock
raising. Their annual meeting is to come off
at Black River on the 25th instant, and their
annual ploughing match at St. Elizabeth du-
ring the month. A travelling agent is here at
present from the well-known Agricultural I'M
plement Manufacturers, Kerr & HObson, Of
New York, with a view Of Introducing Ameri-
can machinery, and opening a way for the
reception of modern appliances for field work
In this island.
The Chief Justice has at last come to the
conclusion that the dignity of our Courts must
be preserved, and that the rowdyism Of a Sec
ton of the profession, accustomed to practice
In the Police Courts, must be put down with a
strong hand if the Judges are to be respected
and the legal profession looked up to. A most
unseemly fight took place in the Supreme Court
the other day when Mr.. Henry Yendrye8, a
Solicitor, left his place at the table, and walk
ing round to Mr.. ID. p. Nathan, another Solici-
tor asked him to repeat certain words be had
usedsome little time before. A few words follow
ed, when Mr.. Vendryes struck Mr.. Nathan, and
Mr.. Nathan, catching Mr.. Vendryes by the
hair, struck him a blow, and the fight continued
until the police separated the combatants.
The Chief Justice fined Mr.. Vendryes $50 and
Mr.. d.. 2. Nathan eco, and ordered that they
should be kept in custody until tue fine was
paid. We trust this ~Salutary lesson will have
It's effect in all our Courts, for in one Court a
Solicitor before the sitting Magistrate told its
ofncer he " did not know his own father" and
TO another Solicitor in practice he said ga few
years ago he would not have employed him to
be his groom" and at another time told the
presiding Magistrate if he would only come
down off The bench and come outside he would
thrash him. And this is what one of the Kings
ton newspapers approvingly calls manly SEN
timent."
A Cuban named cassie was tried for the
murder of another Cuban, to whom it was
said he administered strychnine, but the
Crown made no case, and the jury before
hearing the defence stated they desired TO
hear none, for their minds we're fully made up,
and they delivered a verdict of ''not guilty"
The most ludicrOus scene of the whole was the
evidence of a Mr.. Bowrie, a young man who is
styled Island Chemist" He did not agree
with the sentiments or the experience of
Professor Taylor, the great medical authority
on pOlsOns he had his own views and his own
experience and although he said he dis
covered an "appreeiable quantity ofstrychniue"
in the stomach of the deceased, yet he gave
it as his opinion that a man might swallow
grains of strychnine in a glass of ale without
finding it either bitter or disagreeable. The
amusement the evidence of this great chemical
luminary gave under the cross examination of,
Mr.. Wellesley Bourke will not be forgotten for
q long time to come. "The present state Of
chenical science" of which he SO frequently
speaks, was certainly not very satisfactory, if
Mr.. Bowrie, our Island Chemist, is to be ac-
cepted as IFS intelligent exponent. Courts are
sometimes happily relieved of their monotony
by a little fun from a witness, and if Mr.. Bow
RE was useful for nothing else in the case he
certainly was useful in this respect.
The Bishop of Kingston is fast bringing the
Ch0rch down upon his ears and has brought
himself into very general contempt among the
people,. Contrary to the expressed wish of the
congregation in Spanish Town and a written
memorial from 600 of the inhabitants of
Spanish Town, including the late Chief
Justice, Sir Bryan Edwards, the Principal
of Queens College, the Rector, DIR. Brad
shaw and all the responsibility of the parish,
the Bishop refused to ordain the Rev. Mr..
Val Spinosa in Priests Orders, and supplanted
him by a clergyman the people did not want,
the Rev. Mr.. Hepburn. The consequence
was that six hundred Sunday school children
with their teachers walked out of the school,
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