The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1877-07-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER.  At the Lancaster assizes Thursday ThomaeJohnson (28), labourer, wee charged with attempting to murder Cecilia Ritchie,at Blackburn,on the 29th of November, Kitchie lodged at the house of prisoner, as did also a young man of the name of Rhodes, with whom she was keeping company. On the night in Tiestion Rhodes was sitting talking with prisoner's wife and Ritchie, when, in a fit of jealousy, prisoner came in from a back room, and after giving Rhodes two or three blows on the head. he attacked Ritchie with a plasterer's axe, fracturing her skull and injuring her arms, and for several weeks her life was in great danger. Prisoner was found guilty of wounding, with intent to do grevious bodily harm, and he we. sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude, tip, judge characterising the case as a most barbarous one.  _ Kensington House and grounds, built and laid out for Mr Albert Grant, were on Friday offered for sale by auction at the mart, Tokenhouse-yard, by Messrs. Driver. As, however, the bidding' realised only £165,000, the property was not disposed of. The Rev. Charles Henry James, 8.A., of Trinity Cols lege.Cansbridgetwas charged before the Abingdon borough magistrates Friday with obtaining a quantity of core. minion plate under false pretenees fmm Messrs. Keth, of fl, Denmark-street, London. The goods were obtained in the prisoner's own name, the orders being dated from Bippon Parsonage, near Abingdon. The plate was then taken to Oxford and pawned for about one-third of its value. He was remanded. The sospension is announced of Mr. John Oldroyd, of Fitly Park, Huddersfield, and Britannia Mills, Dewsbury, carpet manufacturer, with liabilities amounting to from £270,000 to C2e0,000. Mr. Patterson, • Liverpool magistrate, giving evidence on Friday, before the Lords' Committee on intemperance, stated that 710 public-houses, Is Liverpol were held by 71 persons. The present Mayor alone held 43. On Friday, at Bedford Assizes, the woman Jane Favel was tried for burning her daughter to death in October last at Leighton Buzzard. The prisoner had a quarrel with her daughter, and in the morning following the quarrel the daughter's body was found burnt to ashes. The jury were a hour in retirement, and on their return they acquitted the prisoner. Mr. De Tonrville, the (naturalised) English barrister charged with the murder of his wife in the Tyrol under wellAnown circumstances, pushing her over a precipice, has been found guilty of the crime by the Austrian court at Botxen, and has been sentenced to death. An appeal against the conviction, however, has been lodged, and a fresh trial will take place. HOLLOwAY'S PlLLS.—Worthy of special note. —These purifying Pills excel every other medicine for regulating the digestion, acting healthily on the liver and bowels, invigorating the nervous system, and strengthening the body. At all seasons the sYstem is liable to sudden checks. In such causes these Pills restore the balance of the circulation, and ward off dangerous attacks of diarrhcea, dyeentery, or cholera. They are the hest correctives of the stomach, when disordered by repletion or by the presence of indigestible food. They speedily rectify the flatulent weight, and general uneasiness which are experienced in the bowvls prior to the accession of re serious symptoms, which debilitate, if they do not endanger.  ltEl.lll, or COUGH ATM ASTHMA IN Try