The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

SHAFTFABITRY.

AOCIMMT. —An accident occurred in the High-
street, November 14, under the following oircum-
stances : It appears that Mr. Edward Reed, of the
Railway Hotel, Blandford, and who is also a corn•
mercial traveller, having occasion to atop at the
Half-Moon Inn, at Cann, left his horse and fonrwheel
unattended for • few minutes. The horse, from
some cause, started off al a rapid rate towards the
town. In passing up Salisbury-street, it narrowly
escaped coming into collision with several waggons
and a steam thrashing machine, but fortunately
parsed them without injury, Shortly after turning
the corner into High-street the horse attempted to
pass an empty dirt, but the wheels coming in contact
the axle and springs in front were snapped to pieces.
The crash caused the horse to increase his speed, but
after going a few yards it attempted to rim into the
passage of Mr. White, draper, Ste., no doubt mis-
taking it for the yard of the Abbey Arms, close
adjoining where Mr. Reed is in the habit of stopping.
It was here taken hold of and forced back into the
street, when it commenced plunging and kicking
violently. Assistance was soon rendered and the
horse freed from its harness, without any damage,
The harness was much injured by being cut, and the
front part of the vehicle was greatly injured, but
fortunately no person was hurt.

BRIDPORT,
A eISOOND Crop of apples this season is now growing
on • tree belonging to Mr. Samuel Millman, Solidi,
street. Some of the apples are now very fine ones.

A project for making a railway from our present
terminus to Chard Road, passing through Whit.
church Canonicorum, Charmoutb, and Lyme Regis,
is to be brought before Parliament next session.

Mr. JOHN CLARE, of East-street, baa grown in one of
his fields a fine mangel wurxd, 40 inches in cirouni•
ference, and of the extraordinary weight of 39 lbs. The
seed from which this remarkable specimen, one of a
crop of great weight, was grown, was purchased from
Mr. Walter Elliott, Beadsman.
StwouLan SUIMIM—A sad event (for the oWner
especially) occurred here last Friday. night. In the
evening, when the toils and whine and whacks of the
day were finished, a horse belonging to Mr. G. Resta.
rick was turned into a field adjoining Mr. Samson's
foundry. During the night it seems that tbe poor
beast brooded over its sorrows till endurance seemed no
longer possible, when it walked away to the end of the
field, plunged into the stream, and put out it. spark of
life! Matter-of.faM folks say it went to the water to
drink, slipped in, and was drowned, but I don't believe
it ; besides, is'nt the other a prettier story? Anyhow,
on Saturday morning, to the great grief of its owner.
the horse was found stark and stiff, wit -
buried in the mud. —S.
PHABOAH'S SZEPENTE.—These extraordinary scientific
toys which have created a sensation of wonder and
delight wherever exhibited, may now be obtained at Mr.
F. 1 ticker's, bookseller, South-street. They are made
by decomposing sulpho.cyanide of ammonia by per.
nitrate of mercury. The grey powder which precipitates
is the per•sulpho-cyanide of mercury. This is dried and
premed into small cones of tinfoil. Upon heating the
top of the cone, the mercurial salt is decomposed into
mellon and gas, which last being of great comparative
bulk, expands the tenacious mellon into the fantastical
forms termed "serpents." The articles have been
patented by a Frenchman and the patent is already the
subjeot of a law suit in this oonxtry where it has also
been provisionally registered. They are cheep, three
being contained in a shilling box. We strongly advise
our readers to "try them."
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. —lt ia a matter for

ith its howl ;wel

general regret when a man respectably connected
and favourably situated in life outrages the truat
reposed in him and renders himself amenable to the
law of the land. But, notwithstanding the severe
punishment with 'which such offenders are visited,
oases of that character not nnfrequently occur. We
have this week to record such an occurrence in our
own town. On Monday last a man named Wilson,
who has been for a considerable timeoemployed as
traveller for the Old Brewery Company, anfl who
in that capacity, ii well known in this district, was
apprehended on a charge of embezzling sums of
money belonging to the Company, and taken before
F. Good, Esq., at the Magistrates' Clerk's office,
when such evidence was taken, in private, as to
juatify his detention, and be was remanded till
this day, when the charge will be investigated
before the borough Bench. An application was made
to lidmit him to bad, and the magistrate required
him to find two sureties 10460 each and himself
in £3OO.
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IZIGHT•SOHOOL.—On Monday evening a night.
school was opeoeil in the Upper Nation3l School.
room, Ciondiry.lane, under the presidency of
the Rector of the pariah. It is intended, we
understand, to continue the school on Monday and
Thursday evenings during the winter months, 4ttd