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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1858-04-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BLANDFORD. THE FAILURE OF THE OLD BANE.  It is usual, in appointing trade assignees under a bankruptcy court, to select those who, by the sworn approval of creditors, shall represent the largest amount of a bankrupt's liabilities ; therefore, to secure the appointment of Mr. Provie and Mr. M. Fisher, it was necessary to obtain the appended signature" of s sufficient number of Oak and Bnow creditors to the forme usually e_mployed for that purpose. This has been suoceedally accomplished oattimoortaltshignaneewasfurthab:lureqtalyuireareand who have approved of the trade assignees recurrent accounts with the bank, qf:::rodui yetedhntoo; se:bthuwgrthoealthtehadier and their pass books to Basing. hall-street, which has abio been done. It is now further requested that those amongst the 'supporters of the proposed assignees, who are executor" and who kept official current amounts in the bank, should send probate' of the wills under which they were appointed. We trust these are but the ordi. nary obstacles that have to be overcome, and are not exceptional enforcement', intended to throw needleu difficulties in the way of the appointment of trade assignees chosen by the creditors as fitted to assist in further unravelling the banking delinquencies of Messrs. Oak and Snow. Neither professional nor official red-tapeism can avail in the present day in preventing a full disclosure in, a bankruptcy or criminal court of the secret trarumobons of that commercial failure which justly awakens the suspicion of the public mind. The moral tendency of the age in which we live, the publicity lately given to banking and trading villainies in our courts of law, and the frequent deflouncing' and stirringe-up of the press, happily now prevent that public blindfolding by "friendly arrangements," which once disgracefully prevailed in reference to great commercial failures. We refer to a rumour of Mr. Snow having aimmitted suicide merely for the purpose of informing those who may have heard it, and who live at such a distance from Blandford as to prevent them from verifying the truthfulness of the report, that it is entirely unfounded. Such rumours serve no other purpose than that of unnecessarily paining the public mind. Mr. Bartlett, who was once an actuary to the Blandford Savings Bank, has recently died, and in consequence of his death, the estate of Masers. Oak and Snow will be benefitted 41,000. When living here he appears to have insured his life, and handed over the_policy to the bank as a security for an overdraft. Report says that it has just been discovered that the "Tunis Mutiny Fund," lodged at Oak and Snow's bank previously to its being transmitted to London, has been dealt unfairly with; and that the amount which should have been forwarded falls short of the amount subscribed by about £6O. A committee was appointed to obtain subscriptions, and to secure their transmission to the proper authorities in London. and it is difficult to understand how the non-sending of £6O could have escaped its attention when the matter was finally halanced.—Correapandent.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1858-08-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BRIM W LTIIR. noo Children Attached in their Sleep by Rate. —An ouourrence of • very rare nature happened reoently to two children of Mr. Baker's, landlorvl of the Horse and Jockey, in this town. On the evening in question their daughter, about seven years of age, having been put to bed at the mud hoar, shortly afterwards alarmed the family by her screams, whew the wryest wee deepaeched to her room, who found the child bleeding. On examins• nittiont seven or eight wounds were discovered in her nose. They at once conjectured, what afterwards appeared to be oorreot, that the child had been bitten by a rat. French brandy was immediately applied in the hope of oonnteraotiug the effect of my poison which might have been communicated. About two hours afterwards when the family had retired to rest, the mother was again sadly frightened, upon haring as infant, which eh* had in her arms at the moment, cry out. Upon eicami• nation, blood was observed on its hand, which it it was discovered had been bitten through, doubt. less by the same savage animal. Mr. Baker has since destroyed many of this pestilential and ferocious family. Burro!. —/i orrible Murder at Nailsea, and ai• tempted Suicide ql the Murderess.—Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner for the eastern division of the minty of Somerset, held an inquest on Thursday night, at the Butchers' Arms Tavern, Nailsee, on the body of a little boy named James Carr, who woe murdered by his mother, Eliza Carr, the wife of George Carr, a collier. Mrs. Carr had el* children, and resided with her husband in a cottage in the village. It appeared from the evidence of her little girl, six years old, Melinda Carr, and the other witnesses, that on the day In question, after her husband had gone out, the unhappy woman sent her three eldest children out of the house, and then took the witness, her donated brother, James Carr, who use four years old, and a younger child, up into the bed-room. She then esed hold of the little fellow James, who resisted, and tried out piteously, "Oh I don'tee, mother, don'tee," and with a visor out his throat with such desperation IA to nearly sever the head from the body. She was about to perpetrate • similar crime on the other children, but happily their aria caused an alarm, and, fearing that she would be interrupted, the desperate woman hurriedly out her own throat. The gash which she indicted on herself WM a very deep one ; bob happily the large bbtodyseselo were not divided, to that the medical gentleman who WM called in seems to have considerable hope that she will ultimately mover. The jury returned • ver• did of" Wilful murder" against the mother, Ellie Carr, and as moon as she is sufficiently reooveerd to admit of her removal she will be committed to await her trial for that crime.  SUICIDI Of •
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1858-08-10 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SIJIOJDI 01 A PNINONIIII IN BRINTOL GAOL.—On (timidAy a man named Thomas killoos, late keeper of the Friendship bourbon.° Glinskiln•lane, who WIN convicted at the last Brie:limner Seasioni laf mato. ' Mg 1 quantity of stolen awl sentsnosil to three years penal servitude, committed suicide by bonging himself in his mil in DAIWA gaol. Sin HINNY HOANN AT Berm.—The libemi mitts. of the Bath district invited Sir Henry Hnorel here, on hie Journey from London to Sam, to attend I oonamittee at the Liberal Assosiatiou Rooms, Seth, on Monday week nt halflast twelve o'clock; and Sir Henry responding to the invitath,n, attended the muting, el wltiofi Capt. lboirell,M, P., voided, sup, ported by Mr, Norman, Mr. Wilson Brown' and other tried reformers of Somerset, numbering about 40. The Chairman introduced Sir Henry to the meeting, and then spoke of the position in which Smusrsstohire now stook being misrepresented by 4 Tories, go, He observed that such a elate of things ought not to sitist, and he was quits sure, if the Tegninere homed on their armour in time snub a state of things would not exist. He then maid upon Sir H. Moire, who, immediately ID the most bank and °indict manner, complied, and mid it certainly was a diagram for the minty to be monopolised by bur oonsarvalivest end he thought in Mbrt should be made to moue It from its presoak itanatand poll' lion. Hs declared that though begs,, no yst if called upon to fight the bMte hs  would not be found wanting. Hia lndples were those of Progressi kb Reform, fore reasonable Extension of the Fr,suchise, for "Ecmipetitive Examination" fully and &illy carried out, and for the total and unqualified Repeal of Church Hates. The committee were quite pleased with the straightforward, gentlemanly bearing of Sir Henry, and thought it high time that the Liberals should bestir themselves to oust Mr. Enatolibull. The following resolution was car. ried Fem. eon. :—" That a vote of thanks be given to Sir Henry Hoare for his kind exposition of political sentiments, which this meeting deems to be highly satisfactorily."
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1872-01-16 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE EFFECT 4 OF A GRAIN OF STRYOHNINE. Amen in Harrisburg, gays a Chicago paper, recently attempted to commit suicide by taking a vela of strychnine. Tile skiLl of his physidan having armed hi. life be narrates his expenenee for the hermit of science. He eye —.ln the sourer of five mingles I began to feel sIMIrt cramps in the calves of my legs. The cramps increased lx intensity, and extended to the feet and thighs, °toeing the wait intense pain. 1 •tteinyted to rise front the ohiiir, but fell to the fbo, with convillejol3ll in the lower ceastul attempts' were made to baths my feet he hot water, mob effort to raise me bringing on • violent paroxyism, in ttie lest one of which I ;nought my jaws bad become unhinged. I was now perfectly paralysed from the hips down, and suffering the most excrutlah Mg pains, which began to extend upward; the muscles of the ehoulders and neck soon being considerably eat. sulked ; the foreerins still being free from pale I now prepared forth, uslatruggle, which I knew muse be near at hand, as I had become rigid from the neck down, save the foreerm. T4O 0012VMSIOUS of the iso•elre were be:waling fearful, and the torture awful to endure. My hands were drawn into my sides, with the fingers drawn apart, and slightly bowed, and the jaws bream° rigid. I felt myself raised as if by some mighty power, end fixed immoveably, with telly my feet and heard touching impetus/. I became snooper:dons of everything except my own agony which was now beyond all description. I could feel my been flattering, and my brain beating and throbbing with an irregular motion. an though at every beat It would burst from it. confinement. Every joint was locked, anl every drop a blood maimed stagnated. I remember thinking it could not be bug thee, when I mast have lostoonscioninese. I remember nothing more steel I fell a sensation of relief, ag though the (anneal. of death, which had been drawn over me, were now belag drawn back. Moss terrible *ramps 'seined to be descending toward. my lower limbs. A feeling of relief stole over. and I began to be again conselour From that time I resumer oineriousaces, when I was erstiregy free from cramp, with the exception of • little in the fest. I hod but one attack of mono afterwards,whish was immediately relieved by • dose administered by my wife—the dootor having left for • abort time--and when he returned I felt that the pelmet was etimpleitely neutralised." tie is not likely to try seryithalne again.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1872-03-19 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

DREADFUL MURDER OF A WIFE. A. most shocking wits amulet ham takes plume al Itromagrove, wear lErwiagliam. JUDOS Hoboes wed hle wife had quarrelled, whisk, It sesene. libey were la Me habit of dom.& and on Thursday night sloe weal to her mother'a house. On Friday night he weal there sad asked her to return bat ilts refuted. Uri held tits baby in her arms &ad it prattled to his over the mother'. shoulder. ii,gulps it a may, anti al the Immo time, putting old arm round his wdes week, drew • raarr across her throat It severe! ail the peat artorioe. and the poor women died in s few minutes. If Ames abeoondcd, but was apprehended at his brother's house. wino distanon off. Lie hal attempted suicide by cutting his throat, but the wound was nos dangerous.  FAS fING UNTO DEATif. .I,un Cope, sg•cl forty•five 7.", menal with Mr. L. lieunarsy, Bazaarld, Exeter, hag paid the penalty of a too doss ob•lrrauce of Leut She Is stated to dare been • histily religious soma.), and during I.lllttalm erosions of fasting oho abstained from °sting but the merest mend.. With the advent of the present Lenten moon she gave ap her usual meals, arid the consequence was that rattler more than • week silica she had to seek medical advise for poi n various pasts of her boil. Kr. Roper impressed upon her the nomeaty of taking nourishing food, end he Preeenhod some reqilicine for her. Sae felt hotter on Tharsday 1,•",lf, nut the stio.nlating effects of the dodoes pre. sc..eio..Wert, lAA j te.llputary. and on anode/ ehe Wei ft e. to T.e.k IN ought on, a I Mr. Roper had no doubt, by exnanition, causal by • WM" of proper food. At no helmet held ea the body,____. _es ifeigteZll4ne Mr. &mimeses holm, the j cry ea' seedires /44 Beffela •plaisa.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1872-09-17 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE OF AN AMERICAN GOVERNESS.  Au iniusat was h•la on the body of Alto' Shisehe Oswald, an American Governess. woo threw howl/ WI Vibb•riou bridge on Thursday afternoon, and was drowned. One of the Thames Tahoe 'wavered her body, and her "Dolly Varden" bat dolited. On the bridge Was found kw green silt umbrella. There we • purse containing a bronze haUpenny, • &wheats for • Shawl, • wedding ring, and a snail box key, and a ring WM an her finger with sewn small diamonds. She had a pair of gilt earrings and • small brooch ; • locket, with a black enamel cross outride, and the photograph of • gantleman bead.; also • small orals OA • bbs. ribbon round her neck. There were several papers found in her pocket and her purse. The following latter wee there:—  _ _ . London, Sept. 3, 1d72, 17d, High- dreg, ShadwelL crtme that I am about to commit, and that I must error for harrier, la nothing compared to my present Mary. Alone an Weldon. not • penny, or • friar to advise ar lead a halping hand, tired and 0n.,, with looking for rimething to &N. Whin in every way, foot-.ere and heart-weary, 1 prefer death to the dawning (another wretched morning. I have only bean la BriUan nine riots, I came as • nursery governor with * lady from America to Wiak, in Scotland, whence oho dochargai me, ref ming to pay ray pilaw back, giving re nay wren which &immured to /.3 10s. After ray asperse to London, I found rojooU in thls gnu city with only lin What was Ito do! 1.014 my watch. The paltry sam 1 error Irma that boon went in paying for my board and in looking for • situation. Now lam destitute ; eery day las Wow, tom. / no friends, no hope, no money. Oh, God of reran ham mercy upon • poor bengal. sinner. Thou Unman how I ham striven against thr, but fur is against re. I cannot trod the path of tin, Mr my dead mother will be watching mo. Polka. rm. motbrier, bore I have none. Oh ! for the rarity of Chrotteo hews*. lam not mad ; for days I hays foreman that this would be the ends May all who boar of my sad forgive me, rid mei GM Almighty do so, before wiling barl must ao soon appmr. Formren to all, to Go. brutiful and yet wretched world.—Arca BtAircua
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-07-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER TX HAIRIS.—On Friday last great excitement was created in Harris by • crime of an unusual character in the Highlands and Intends—that of an attempt to murder. A young woman on the island is in a state of pregnancy, accusing a Donald Morrison, • neighbour, with being the father. On the day in question Morrison is said to have met the girl and endeavoured to strangle her with a rope, which, after getting her down, he tied round her neck. The cries of the woman attracted attention, and the fellow ran for it, leaving the woman unable to remove the rope from her neck. She was, however, speedily relieved, and, medical attendance being obtained, she was found to be seriously injured. Morrison ran off towards the shore, and got on board one of the boats then leaving for Wick fishing. The police as once set off in pursuit, and Morrison was captured in Wick, and he is now lying in Stornoway gaol. It is believed his intention was to strand!, the woman, and to leave her in such • position as to produce the impression that she had committed suicide from remorse occasioned by her shameful condition.—Northern Romp,. CAUTION TO RAICITRa.—A WM WU heard before the West Hiding mogisirate. at Leeds on Tuesday, which will inform for the first time a great number of the breadinakers and retailers in the county that any other bread than that male entirely of the flour of wheat cannot be sold unless it has a large Roman letter "M" visibly inapt eased on some part of it. Charles E. Symons, sasht.nt to Mr. Boynton, shopkeeper of ilosforth, near Leeds, on the 13th inst. gold at Bowden two loaves of Tycbread on which the letter "H" was not di-tinctly 111A1 kol, as reqiiind by the 17th section of the 6th and 7th i William IV.;cap. 37. By that section any person milling bread, or exposing it for sale, made wholly or partially of pees, beans, potato, s, or any °Otte wet of corn or grain other than wheat, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding 104. for every pound weight of such bread, and so on in proportion for any less quantity. In consideration that, though the Act of Parliament was in Is3tl, this was the first ease under it whicrahsael occurred in Leeds or the neighbourhond, the magistrate Imposed a penalty of 2s. 6d. only without costs.  Six
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-12-29 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

COMBO. —lf you have negleeted to get in your spring potatoes and early pees, you had bet•er lose no time now in planting them. A sawing. machine or two would he antra When peas are planted as late m this it is as well to put them teat night, and you should be very quiet, and wear imitelippers, and this they wore trzwer. If yes have • tern for ventriloquize.. and eau ingrate the quaking of young dooki, try it—it owl tutees the peas to come up quicker. Should you be Ott of swedes, • very good' imitation of them may losehleved by cooking mangoidwertnel whole and &veering them in a gnaw-way. Novrisitsn AJD DlCZnln..—Wben potatoes psniss In being small and bad, It.. best to give them to the pig.; for they must chart, have had a stye in their eyes from the first. Now a the time to lay in annuals. We shoald advise you to Forebear the annual which you will see advertised below. twill be found rich in lame., very ornamental, and gaits's novelty, and the price is absurdly low.  Sir Riehmd Mayne, Clef Commissioner of the Metropolitan Polio', died on Saturday night last. Sir Rioturd wag appointed &commissioner in lefl, and for hie services in that cispalty he was created a C.B. in 1847, and was made &08. in 1851.  A DOODLI Suicroit.—A double suicide boa juel been onminitted by means 4 chicreoal at Bourse (Crouse). M. Poumerol, tax rctor, and his wife were found dead in their bed. 4 letter which be had left on this table stela that he w led to put an end to his life by the fear of being auop4ted to hive stolen three bags of silver money recently nt to BOWIIIO by the Strasburg mint, and which are ug; he protested his incommov, which, however, was no way doubted, aa lie was most highly esteemed his wife, be said, ref used to survive him.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-10-20 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ICISORANCI. At the inquest held on the body of the poor shepherd who was murdered on the Soutlidosens on Friday night some remarkable facts concerning cottage life and the t (location of children were revealed, We do not know the sine of the cottage occupied by Baldry, but we find that the persons inhabiting it coexisted of the deceased man and his wife, three sons, • little girl, and a lodger. One lad, who is ten years of age, when questioned by the coroner, raid he did not know anything about heaven or bell ' • and could not tell where boys who told lies went to alter they were dead. Hs had never been to school. Ile knew nothing of the Testament, and had never bees taught to speak the truth. Be bed never been sent to church or • Sunday school; and although he had seen the clergyman of the parish, he bad newer spoken to hint. This poor boy diseovered the body of his hither, in company with his younger brother, as they were going, not to school, but to work.- West Susux-aszette. SCIcIDI Ott A ItAlLWAT.—Shortly after eight o'clock Frdiay morning a middle-aged man of gentlemanly appearance was seen on the down platform at the Loughboroosh-road station, awaiting the 837 express to Ludgate-ha His manner was noticed as somewhat singular. sod on the approach Lf the 8.10 through train from Biekley he took • deliberate jump from the platform on the main line immediately in (route( the engine in motion, and, owing to the speed at which the train was travelling, he was carried come distance before the engine, but was then run over and cut to pieces. The bialy was at once removed to a storeroom belonging to the station. The deceased wore no jewellery. and all that guild be found in his pockets was an old key and • scrap of paper, on one side of which was written Lando& and County Bank, Lombardistreet," and on Ile other "13, Mllton•villas, Millbrookiroad." The station-master despatcheol a messenger at once to the lact.sieined address, where the wife of the deceased Trailed. and the name of the unfortunate man was mmertained to be J. 8001 Cartwright. It is said that the deceased has on more than one occasion expressed an istention to commit suicide; but no information is given as to the motive of that intention or of the act rah& deprived him of life. •
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1868-05-12 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

STAR DITEN."—We regret to announce that the "Star Diver" has come to a miserable end. The poor rash fellow Worthlngt,in was to exhibit his hairbrsined feata on the river Dement at Derby. on Thursday. One of he achievemente was to jump from a height of one hundred and twenty test into the river. A great crowd gathered to see the young man—he was only twenty-three - perpetrate oonsteociic. suicide. He Immix to dive, and perform • variety of tricks under water—drinking milk from • bottle, peel. ing and eating an orange, blowing a trumpet, inc. Then he ascended tee scaffold—a hundred and twenty feet above the level of the river, pot himself into a pooition for diving, and juniper! Into the stream. In his progress downwards lie turned one summersault, and was striving to torn another, when he struck the water with his breach. The crowd which had assembled seemed to tbisk that his staying long under the water was designed, and not • consequence of • fatal accident, and some minutes elapsed before my eff.xte were made to mover the body. At last Mr. Smith, of Little Eaton, dived into the water, and, after several unsuccessful efforts, see. needed in bringing the lifeless body of Worthington to the surface. Four medical gentlemen, who had been aritneering his performances, promptly attended him, but their efforts were unveiling. as life vie extinct. His mother and two brothers were present, and were the painful spectators of his untimely death. At the inquest on Friday. Mr. Fact, surgeon, who was present at the scene, said that in his opinion the cause of death was the way in which dec-sued fell on his ghost. If requisite means had beam at hand, life might probably have been restored. Ho noticed, when deceased sank, bubble. rise, as if he was breathing. Henry Wheldon said deceased asked him to meet in getting up the gala. Deceemel attended to his own preperationv, and bad complained that the platform was too low. Witness sess with the deeenied Lest; he viola good spirite when preparing to ascend the seadold. In witness's opinion if the platform bad been 10 feet higher, he would have got the "turn" in, and the ace. dent would not hove happened. The jury returned • verdiet of "Accidental death.*