The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

Sommetsbire.

lam& Hamm', Bruct, AND 00., thei well-known
eirionitural implement manufacturers and ironfoundera
lately burnt out at Tiverton, have taken the extensive
primal., at Rowbarton, near Taunton, lately used as •
manure works, which they are about to adapt to their
requirements by the introduetion of extensive plant and
machinery. one hundred and fifty skilled workmen,
with their wired and families, are to be sent forthwith
to oommenes operation&

Tag Witua Minima : llama or Bleoltors.—Tlie
petition to her Majesty for the respite of Biagrove, on
the pound of there being no premeditation about the
murder bas been sommsful. On Friday night a Queen's
messenger arrived at the gaol, and informed Kr. Oskley
that be had been sect from the Home-office by Yr. A.
13raes, her Majesty's Secretary of State, commanding
that the ...teem. on Biagrove should not be carried
into effect. Up to this time Engrave had repeatedly
ackno irledged It. justice, and seemed willing to expatiate
his crime upon the scaffold. The Wesleyan minister,
the Be,. H. Bultne, who was in constant attendance
upon him, had great hopes that the repentanse be
outwardly exhibited was sincere, and believed that he
thoroughly deplored the act he had eommited. prompted
by some sudden impales. When the respite arrived,
Biagrove was made acquainted with am last ; his
surprise was great, and at first be appeared to be amble
to realise his position, co convineed was be that in •
few hours his existents, would terminate in an
ignominious death. When he had somewhat recovered
he expressed his thanks to those who had so generously
totereeted themselves in his behalf, and so the prison
officials for the kindoess they had shown him whilst
under eentazios. Oq Saturday he wee removed from
the condemned cell, placed In one se, apart roe
mid attired in the dims allotted to that OWL Sweet
will doubtless be at once liberated, and Bisonve
pass the remainder of his wretched life in penal
servitude.

" NOWN BO BLIND LB THOeig WHO WON'T Eige."—This
old adap received • telling illustration at Bristol police.
court on Thunder, when Eliaareth ATM, an old goody,
dressed in • profusion of ample °looks. whieh gave to her
short and somewhat stout figure a comfortable
appearance, far removed from that of beggary or desti-
tution, was sitarged with annoying persons at Clifton
by begging. The magiatretel were informed that she
wee "so old offender," whom they had forgiven On two
or three occasions ; and just now Clifton wee beset with
osedicants who proved • perfect nuisance to the
inhabitant• The Bench resolved to send the aged
delinquent to prison for seven days, and Mr. R. G.
Barrow was about to tell her of this resolve, when Mr.
Williams assured the magistrates that It woe utterly
melee to attempt to say anything to the amused, in
consequence of a muvellossly sudden fit of deadness
with which she was seised when she came "to oourt."
The officer in charge of "the case" attempted to
enlighten the old lady by shouting the sentence in her
ear, but facing him sharply, and raising both hands
with surprisinc activity and vigour, she shouted, "It's
no welt all l I'm deal." Disregarding the laughter that
she thus excited, the old goody then tuned to the
members of the prole to ono of whom she began to plead
her cause with an air of outraged dignity. Her garrulity
fully justified the belief that even if there was any truth
in her plea of &etas= her other senses and her powers
Of perception had been left unimpaired, end the aught
-
trues' clerk wrote down in large characters the words
"seven der.' imPrisotinent," and desired the officer to
let the priaonersrsed the sentence. Seising the plus
of paper, she eau:Lined the characters attentively for
nab a length of time that some one in oourt hazarded
the conjecture that she warn blind. Evidently oatehing
at the suggestion, the old lady suddenly turned towards
Mr. Williams nod told him in a confidential misuse
that "she supposed it wee his name that he had written
down." She was then removed. the Bench Intlmj
that doubtless the female °Murat the Bridowell
mowed in enlightening her.

A OLIIIGYN•1 IN • TTPHOON.—The R. W. Banslay
dergyrnan, ehaplain to the Cheddar Valley and Yatket
railway labourers, narrates in a Bristol paper an extra-
ordinary storm whit& he encountered on Banday in the
Mendip Hills. The rev. gentleman prefain• al story
with the remark thst if he had heard lla week ago el
anybody else he would not have believed It. HIM la
the tale. just u Mr. Barclay tells it :—" I halted •
moment to draw my plaid tightly round my shoulden.
and then went forwards, after casting a glance towards
Shot Igall sad Its dumps of pines. Flying across them

I. my direction (dos south) come • riblinny cloud r m-
ine) about 900 feet beg, end the mold berigit abL•Lr
the trees It was mooing, javaliu-faatomi, foil at my
back, yrt gyrating like a mr.tv corkscrew. I took no•
partieulor timber of it, on the flying mists play strango
pranks in them bill., and plodded soS towards Azbridge.
thinking over my sermon. Soddenly a rash bad roar of
wind •rose from behind me. I ws. struck in tbe brick
with • .Lunation as U two or thr:e stout cudgels bad
been sioioltaneously laid serum we; WW, shot forward
at the top of my speed Lite a aro•,o from a eatapult ;
mit, or rather dew, in this fashion for about 100 yard,
daring the last tureolyof which my feet searerly toadied
ground. end was finally burled to the earth with volt
violence, and rolled over half a dozen times by the mum
overmastering typhoon! In a mooed or two it had
pasted, and I sat up in terrified bewilderment. I found
myself on some newly-laid atone., stunned, bruised, and
bleeding, is, cost sleeves torn to shred?, and myself be-
plastered from top to toe with mud. My bid was feel
disappearing in the remote distanee. One of • pair of
glove. which I wee carrying in my left band bed down no.
one koowe where; the other I bad stuck to, but it was
numglod out of all decency by the stones over which I
had been rolled. I steamed on to my logo, dosed
giddy, and deadly ask. as the first heavy fall had been
flat forward on the stomach. I felt my right elbow,
whisk I feared was out, but there was no displacement..
Then the fingers of my left hand, about which I was by
no means so our.; ; then picked up my mattered senses,
and went on to Asbridge, picking up also my hat about
half smile from the owns of the catastrophe, bedaubed
with mod inside and out. I went Into • good Smnati-
tan's, hard by the mission room, where they helped me
off with my damaged coat, pared the mud from the rest
of my garinenta, washed my bruises, and lent me an-
other soil, in which to offlotato. I just managed to
get through the Berries, and played the harmonium
with the blood oozing front my bumbles ; then 'went to
surgery,' and was properly looked alter; sent • toes.
senger to Cheddar to stop my distant evening servidre
and after some food sod lying dowir for an hour got
home before dusk in considerable pain and messes. but.
very thankful that I had no limbs broken.*-