The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

Norottosbire.

PROTOSID BROAD GUAGIL HAM TO SIIERDORNR.
—immediately after the Board of Health meeting on
Teeedsy, about twenty of the leading tradesmen,
arteenthists, and others, who had been invited to
sttend a preliminsry meeting, assembled to consider
the propriety of taking steps to bring up a broad
page rail from Yeovil. Mr. W. Hoot s explained
the devrabty of getting Sherborne in direct coru•
munication with the broad gunge system, which he
thought the only means of reviving the market. At
prompt, owing to the delays, break of gongs, and
;Dm of transit, it was found cheaper by the Gas
cempany to have their coals by road than by rail.
He bail had communications with Mr. Ward, the
ewgineer of the Wilts and Somerset, who estimated
the cost of the line at £lO,OOO, of which 1:10,000
might be left for debentures, leaving a sum of
ou,ooo to be raised. He suggested that the Great
weeceth would work the line at a fair per centage,
bat Mr. Saunders seemed to think it useless to ask
the company to construct it. Mr. Ffooks, however,
ebeereed that they could find .620,000 readily for
the little loop from Yeovil to Stoford, and if they
weidd only turn it the other way and exchange
tralfic with the South•Weetern at Sherborne instead
of Yeovil, he thought they would effect all they
&hired, And that they might subscribe part of the
capital. Mr. Ifighy was most favourable to the
eme,aed would do all he could for it. After
„me general conversation, in which the prevailing
opinion loaned to be favourable to the proposal, it
was determined to call a public meeting on the
subject
reerninsx.—Swieide.—On Tuesday last a labourer
named Henry Samways, upwards of 70 years of age,
committed suicide by hanging himself. He was
employed at thatching a rick for Mr. Isaac Symes,
hriner, and 'darted to his work on the morning in
esetion caber than usual. His son, who by
'Ate piece about 6 u'elock, heard a noise, an going to
the stark saw his father suspended from the ladder.
He cat him down and sent for a surgeon, but he WWI
then dead. he reason could be assigned why
deceased committed the rash act, save that his
=hter told him the night before that Mts. Stick-
mid he had scored up 10s. for drink; to which
be replied that she should never score up any more
fre bun. He was a man who could not bear contra-
diction. An inquest was held the same afternoon
before Henry Lock, Esq., deputy-coroner, at the
Fountain Inn, when the jury returned a verdict of
felo Jr se.. The coroner consequently adjourned the
Amid till Wednesday, that the verdict of the jury
might be recorded on vellum.
WrfROCTR.—We have on more than one occasion
been requested to ask what has become of the flag
belosiging to St. Mary's Church, as it is now never
men ° waving in the breeze" from the top of the
tower.
Votesvue Itivum.—The Weymouth Volunteer
kirks performed various skirmishing evolutions on
Temday evening, in the presence of the Colonel
Commandant of the Doreetahire battalion. They
acquitted themselves in a highly creditable manner.
SAINT Msey'sCircuili.-The committee appointed
for raising subscriptions for the remainder of the
amount required for enlarging St. Mary's Church,
lave canvassed a portion of the town during the last
isw days with very considerable success. We under-
stand that if enough should be collected, it is bi-
b:sided also to erect a peal of bells.