The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-04 00:00:00

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TUE RAILWAY,

fieillelliay7aire;i7oon" tioi.tri—et7:rone--;"(lir. W.
Ii AtNneen) hold an inquest at the Castle Inn touching
th.d.a of Jobe Got, an old man of 77, who was cut to
• o, the railway on Monday morning by the 10 10
fro. :tlitedford. The Rev. K P. Blunt law chosen
for... of„ he jory. John Williams said he was an
o• the Somerret and Duvet Joint Lin•
lix mr,r,day .o,:ung he was driving N. 12 engine, and
left Spettishury for Railer Gate shout 1031. When about
half-...,j. from Spo ttiabuurr @talon he ...the deceased
no the left hand side .4 the line (where b. be. • serden,
whielt he rents from t•e Company). about 100 lads in
front of the engine. He next noticed • hoe (produced)
lying across the permanent way with the handle acroa
the mils on the right hand side'. M. knew the 00e ootild
not endanger the train, and did not idow the whistle.
When he was within almut 15 y ell. of decouut he wt.
him cross the line as if to p 4CO 00 the hoc, ,M 0
I,but the regulator, put on the steam Drag*.
and reversed the engine, hut whilst he was doing
su he heard the deceased's bones en:shins under the
engine. He pulled up as soon as he could, and examined
the engine, bat did not find even a spot on her. He Ira.
furnished with break power from the engine to the end of
the train, and could slop within any reasonable distance
in case a any obstacle or emergency. In the present on
he was so clew übon the &imaged when ho attempted to
mon the metals that it was utterly imnoeuble to umil
—Mr. Jaeolt Lowe, Superintendent of the Permanent
Way Department, said he was with th • last wither on the
engine, and be could corroborate his evidenee in every
respect, but could add nothing to it—The Coroner briefly
commossed up to the limy, who immediately retarned a
verdict of " Accidental Death."

lIIL ILIEDIORD.
UNDICII/TOZN. —A very heavy thunderstorm. mom-
=with vivid lightning, pawed over this town on
al ,ernoon. The thunder shook the railway
station and the electricity of the lightning made the bin&
tell of the telegraph instrument strike.
fiCinonsin POLICIL Tuesday —Before the Mayor (Mr. Y.
T. leans). and the es-ll ,yor (Mr. S. Abbott.)
Robert Nreitt, • shoemaker of the town, was charged
in monody with being drunk in the Mock. on the previous
night—Be pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay • fine
of 2..6i. to include costa.

grittiltilTal RM.
ANOTHER WORD FOR THE ROOKS.

_
The Ker. Harry Jones, in a letter to the name ols
Hondas. Iwt, 'aye: " Le tens which I have reesiva
hear unanimous witless, to the usefulness of rooks as
destroyers to the wireworm. I myself last year had a
lidd of wheat within IMO yard. of my rooks. y. which.
when threshed, produced o‘er aims corm. ,
The rooks lusl ample opportunity to select fief which
lusi no carts die add dressing, but they !oak the wiro-.
worms instead, and left me an excellent crop of corn.'
_

FOX-DAY.
In Colossi Townley's Jowled/ j. the lee 1 M.A.
1791, he notes:—

..J'ssu 2511- Is 1.7 lone rainl4e quiet with a farmer,
whoml hid ten minutes' chAt with; and oh .714 f °Ps'
the uric ,namon filmness and plerantners of toe:7dr
lA. month January. he replied, Yea het beii
would b. ooli rotlar Fox-dr : (or there was a great
hoar upon the round early in the tooruisit. though veil
frott. A Fir-riet is a very 010112{11012 aspersios in the
island and by it I holier. etwwean S .uutle falr da.r,
that is sure to be closely prior be • rain, °se.'
W. N. STILLXGEWATI.
Stockport.
—ln Nola and Quern.
THE AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION.
A meeting of the Committee apported to promote
the holding of a great Agricultural Exhibition in
London next year, under the auspices of ths Royal
Agricultural Society of England, was held at the
Mansion House on Wednesday. Alderman Sir Charlie
Whethro presided. Further donations to the extent
of £l,OOO were announced, malting about £4,000 in all.
It wen stated that it was always usual for the city or
town in which the annual exhibition of the Society was
held to contribute largely or considerably towards the
prise fund and the other expense., as. for instance,
Liverpool gave £7.000 last year. and Mai:loiterer
£lO,OOO in a previous year. The expense* of holding
the show in London next year were *rime ed at front
£15,000 to 120,000. It was determined to impirs
whether the various provincial Agricultural Societies
would anoint the project by merging their !mooed ehows
next year in the one great Agricultural Exhibition of
the Metropolis.