PETTY SESSIONS PENRITH – TUESDAY, JUNE 23rd.....part 1 (Before J. JAMESON, Esq., REV. J. HEYSHAM, CAPT. JAMES, W. PRITT, Esq., J. THOMPSON, Esq., F. COWPER, jun., Esq., and W. PARKER, Esq. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT BY A DUMB MAN. – JOHN MASON, a middle-aged deaf and dumb man, lately residing at Croglin, was brought up in custody charged with having committed a violent and aggravated assault upon JOHN WAUGH, who now lies in a precarious condition, being still insensible. MR. SUPT. FOWLER produced a medical certificate stating that complainant was so ill as to be unable to appear, and applied for a remand for a week. MR. ARNISON made an application for the prisoner to be admitted to bail, which was opposed by SUPT. FOWLER. After a short consultation, the Bench did not consider it safe to let the prisoner go at large, and granted the remand applied for. EXPOSING DISEASED CATTLE FOR SALE. - WILLIAM WAUGH, cattle dealer, of Soulby, for whom MR. LAMONBY appeared, was charged with exposing five fat cattle in the Penrith Auction Mart, on the 8th of this month, when suffering from the foot-and-mouth disease. MR. RICHARD HARRISON, the owner of the mart, said the animals had travelled from Glasgow, and were brought to the Auction Mart on Monday, the 8th, and put in the stalls where animals are placed previous to passing through the ring. A person came to him and said one of the animals appeared to be lame. Two of them were found to be suffering from some disease,and they were at once ordered out of the mart. MR. PEARS, veterinary surgeon, said he was called to examine the animals, and found two of them suffering from foot-and-mouth disease. MR. SUPT. FOWLER said since these cattle were brought into the district, seventy animals upon seven farms had been affected, and there had been no disease before that time. The Bench said it was quite clear that the state of the animals had been sufficiently brought under defendant’s attention as to have caused him to make a proper examination and inquiry before he exposed them in a public place for sale. It was a very serious offence, for the disease was spreading far and wide in many parts of the country; and they did not think they would be doing justice in the case unless they imposed a substantial penalty. The defendant must, therefore, pay a penalty of £10 and costs. The bench at the same time intimated that if another case of the same kind was brought before them, they would enforce the full penalty in order, if possible, to stop the spread of the disease. ______________________ Barb, Ontario, Canada.