The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-07-18 00:00:00

1011 SKULL OP TIM Mr CRAM LOST AND

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At the time of the restoration of Trowbridge parish
church, an DMI, the tomb of the poet Crobbe was disturbed
to Lower the floor of the chancel, where the poet's vault
hes. The rewires came upon the poet's bones, as also
11we the vault of the Duke of Trowbridge, from whom
6 Somerset family descend& By soma means or other
the skull of the poet was miming before the remains
swirl be re-interred, sad every possible search and
tl.try were made te Bad it, but without success. The
day • box containing • iludt was forwarded to the
churelswarderut purporting to be the veritable skull
of Biute's pruelge, the poet Crabbe, wbose Byron has

said—
Though Nature's sternest poet,
Vet her hut
From ioetuses it preyed to be the real skull of CrIVRAII.
which a gentlessar of the town succeeded in tracing.
The diecorery has caused no small talk among the
Inhabitants, and, as the chancel of the church is being
lad with encaustic Wok it is thought to be a fitting
ty to inter this interesting relic. A braes plate
:sgriluitig prepared, setting forth that ' Herein Lies the
headed the poet Crabbe, which was abstracted from the
"quilt during the restoration of the church in MC. and it
te buried as near the mpot as possible where the other
remains of the demised lie."

IRE FICESSIVE RIAT.
On Ratarday there were two fatal came of sunstroke in
Bristol, reaeltlas (men the excessive heat that we are at
Present experiencing. A. man named John Britten. aged
• labourer, wee esspieged in unloading the steamship
Amgen. belonging Whitwill, at the Grove,
'risen about one deka* he 4.'11‘ rendered senseless and
we, removed to the Infirnury. it waa found that he was
outlawing from an attack of sensirotta and he died
Uterus ems and eight o'clock. Later la the day
Private Maurice Condom, belonfll to the 7111.tfeNeees%
ewes fraud by a wateretan Mon in ea mmookila
oosiditien. and he was taken to the Clifton station. Yaw
thence he was removed to the Infirmary, where It was
found that he was also suffering from an attack et
.anitstroke. Re was brought to the Infirmary between
eilgtit and nine o'clock, sad be died within half Ainhour of
ts admimion, the ore from the first being seen to be •
'vary bad one. From dloonaemeta found in the poor
rfsFicw's kit, which was left lw him in the early pert of
glie Lay at the British Lion beerttones, Beckett's-fields.
Tiewfoesidlandroad, it seems that he as " Private
Nutria Condon, No. 1.711 t, K Gonspaar. ThUsßaginient,
Teshawnr. MINI India." and from • second address. „sving
the name of a relative at " Cloglieen, Counts Tippers%
Ireland,' it Is 'rammed that the poor fellow was Mama-
ins home on fluter/h. Ile wail a smart-looking Milk
Ift. 10in. in height And comparatively young. The
isolanoholY intelligence was te=ed to his friends in
tripod by the °Metal.; at the

A BRUTfd,
About half-past two o'clock co deberday afternoon,
ithdren *'Kerney, • bricklayer's labourer, living at IS,
elradwell-street, Mush-lane. Preston, killed Us wife.
When be returned home from hia work at the tens men-
tioned. be fouled her frying some meat for his Maw,
and for some pesser asked her for the knife she had le
her hand. ii aeleiod to give it to him, and then.
according to the stadoneet of hie eldest daughter, a girl
11 years old, lie knocked her down with a single blow,
mud, as she tell to the Soar. kicked her savagely on the
'now part of the abdomen. Km. Smith, • neighbour,
ilmering her screams, ran into lie SOON, and found her
strying to rise from the door, and bl..dles profusely from
'beneath her clothes; On soling Ars. blind% the poor
+roman acclaimed ' Oh, I'm killed f* and WS. Smith
asked Use husband. "Andy, what have yoe bees &Sur
He replied, " She aggravated me to it." Tba Injured
wosuaedliàie.e few minutes afterwards, in the premeds
it earned neiglibeers, and before the arrival of the pried
who had been oast ler. The murderer had left the house
while the neighismics we attending to his wife, but he
was eliellikteded within in hour in • *bed in Ingham's
ntoawbsrry t was felgwilAed.449. On
with killing wife, he lash.
=r —arid on the t? the police ,:tatiou he Pt
asked the polkas:or/ Are you sess droesdit.
fat
exclaimed. Whet will biome of my Kw children r
The &owed, who is said to bawl been an itsiestrious
weans& as • power-loom weaver, baa lel t five Weise,
the youagrat of whom is only three mouths old. and the
neat ywingset. 15 mouth& old, cannot yet walk. ICKerney
has too character of being 4. very drunken fallow, who
ohm brehally ill-used his wife, but Mrs. smith and hi.
aangwriseth state that be was ones sober on Saturday,
when ha pee kis wile Idek.

Cows or ott Irrooooso Aortt4. Ciiito, Ic.,tt Da.
Loarco's Pousoroc Worgas. —lfocobod from 11,.
Itoottor, Moire, rthitv y..O7Ar
may excellent in ail a.aectiene dr the amok
okr.rwitits tathalo. end mesa.'s Gelds ; thor sem to
so, ilk.' eberns.
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AL tot to thi• Per box bY
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iti=t -"I hove roan: try,
Waterever door Its inn • 12,P4,4444
sad otthovookoorstdmirottootioo.
&dice at this water aa compared
waters e? an adman almost us or lb. us,
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