The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-06-17 00:00:00

ABBEY XILTON.

To the astonishment of many Milton Abbey is
advertised to be let. It was generally Nuppoeed, and,
indeed, asserted by members of the family, that by
Baron linmbro's will there was no right of letting,
much to the dcsagrantnt of the present owner. How-
ever, I suppoae • loophole of escape haa now been
found. Not, however that Milton is to be dieparsged
as a residence. It la, in fact, one of the finest places
allied to one of the prettiest villages in England. At
one time there was • talk of Milton being leaped by
the Prince of Wales. In any cue it will scarcely be
long without a tenant, though the cost of keeping it
up is no mean sum per annum.— World.

IWERNE . XINEITZ7L.

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LOAD WOLYSIT.Mt has been making great improve-
ment in Lis kennels at Iwerne Minster. Claridge's
Patent Asphalt& has been laid to all the kennel floozy
and approaches, with a view of rendering them water-
tight, which is so essential a matter for hounds feet.
The work has been entrusted to Mesas. ii. Smith and
CO., of London.

A.O.F.—We hear that in consequence of the weather
on Whit-Monday the fete in this village was not
eucceseful, and the committee intend holding another
on the first Monday in August, when we sincerely wish
them a fins day.

&MATING OF • 44-POONDILIL Gusi. —A detachment of
the Southemptoe flat Hants) Artillery Volunteers
through • marvellous experience in their shot ..I"arg
practice at Unruhle battery on Tuesday. The detachment
started from the Floating Bridge at two o'clock. the
officers present being Captain-Cmmandent Bence, Capt
James S, Pearce, Captain Hush is.. the Adjutant of
the brigade; land Surgeon Major Turner, the medical
officer of the three All went well with the practice
until about Ilve o'clock, when the detachment were firing
shot from • U-pounder garrison gun, which has done good
service in the corps for some years pest AU present
received a sudden shock, which was found to have arisen
from the gun seating at the trunnthns, the muzzle falling
immediately in the rear of the gun carriage, and the
breech being divided into three parte. (The of these fell
immediately in the rear of the gun carriage, one wee
blown a distance of some hundred yards, and the third
piece some AO yards on to the mud in the rear. The
detachment firing the gun being all in their proper
places, the escape of a single man with his life
is regarded with great thenkfulnms. Fortunately,
however, the only one of the number materially
Injured was Sergeant Borth, who was blown from
his .podtlon soles four yards; towards the muzzle of
gun and had his leg broken. He was immediately picked
up and attended to by the surgemon the spot, Captain
Pearce, with two orderlies, proceeding to Netley Hospital
for en ambulance, which was storm meet courteously and
readily placed at his disponi' and sent to the spot, with
splints and other medical appliances, reaching the sufferer
before the captain's return. Corporal Walton's face was
very much disfigured ; and the escape of No. 5 of the
detachmenthru simply marvellous, one small piece of gun
flying off to the left, making such a distinct impression
upon the wall of the as matins, wi th in slew inches of where
the bombardier was standing, that it is believed if it had
struck it must have Wild him. Captain Pearce, as being
in Marge et the detachment, was at the moment Heeding
on the top the magthine to watch the effect of the
thou and experiencing • peculiar sensation, it was found
that • small splinter had struck him just above the eye-
brow, causing considerable Weeding. The IMO Cardin
was found somewhat splisitered on the left side, but the
right side from which one of the pieces of the gun see
ofi, steno,e to say was left practically LOMA. TOG escape
of the detachment from fatal injury is regarded ea little
short of • miracle. Burch is • Stineberyneee man, where
he his been for five or six yearn; Walton is also spoken of
as • thoroughly efficient minnbw of the carps.
DILATII or,. CLITTIVIAILIAN.—The news reached us last
evening of the death Tuesday afternoon of the Rev. Canon
Hesston, the centenarian, who, we had heard, had for the
last fortnight or more given signs of diemutiee. The rev.
gentleman has been recognised as having attained his
lUnth year at the clam of 1577, when, it will be remem-
bered his cothanagers of the local Savings Bank. with
which he had been associated for ltd years, and the
Corporation of Southampton, of which borough he was
the last remaining freeman, pmaeuted him with
addresses of congratulation, and the beak secured,
through Messrs Adams and Utilised, a very themes/ al
photograph of the rev gentiernan,which they caused to he
hung in the hank room, his position an an educated
gentleman and the proofs he was able to give relating to
his early life ant career leading to the full belief that his
was one of the very few substantiated cases of men
attaining their hundredth year, and moreover preening
in a fair degree all their intellectual faculties. Born in
London in 1777, he graduated at Trinity College, Oxford,
In the first year of the present century, and in 1811
succeeded his father in the neighbouring rectory of North
Stoneham, in the following year I, jug made a canon of
Wells, which cathedral he regularly attended AA can on
in residence until within • comparative recent period,
Until the text three years he had y attended the
bank in his tarn as manager, and we. a constant visitor
at the quarterly niceties. He had, however, of late
necessarily been kept apart from all excitement, slinegh
he proved well able to converse with onrsainuni
friends until recently, when it wsus thought advisablet. visiting,;
maintain him in perfort spiict. in thin way we expect
authoritatively to hes; he peacefully ptheed to his ~,et
mmected hy all and Iselovesl by not a few who had tin.'
.nsisess.'irf"unil. D t'"The mel toutilLielybecUltusel""rangarlYa
muffled peal last eveuing to mark the death.

FOOD ADOLTIZATION.—Dr. Trip% public ri:jpz
of the Hackney district. reporte, ''that all the
he examined, except one, were sold se mixtures of
cocoa, arrowroot, and sugar, the exception being
Cadbury's Came Essence, which waa genuine. The
quantity al March In the other samples varied between
117 and ee per amt., so that allowing for sugar, there
was not hi some of them mote than le use cent. o/
ODOM As saki' Us this was oossyel7 value.
less as aloud."