The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-17 00:00:00

SILIDPOZT.

The de tilt of the Duke of Marlborough last week,
terribly sodden a. it was, produced • shook and •
surprise throughout the cessedry. The danies, however,
"scores me," so to speak, to she Liberal party, as the
Marquis of Blaadford--unlike his brother " Eaudy "
—is • good Liberal la politic.. The new peer, at •
public gatherieg not loag oonoluded • powerful
and telling speech by payi_ng the following eloquent
tribute to the Right Mon. W. IL Gladstone r—
" I mane tara from thaw rellsotioes without °eateries
To=is Engisad's great Prime Minister. nor cm I
the gigentio sneer Its ham so aotsy exercised
flor toe pressed sad future tease of his country. Whet
tritium haa his lila been to that of the what great masa
departed—the one • liana diemaileat of the
fikihool of Miderdok, the &antral ally of as
*dwells,. the senile worshipper of coeds sad
grnaddocituat Arm& If he served his oceatry to ray
purpose a wee to hold Maned opus contrast to what
public virtues can exhibit in • trey noble 'Wad. When
lb. history or Ale Use Is written. It will not be tite
woos poliUoiaa who now It.. sleeping in lingheaden
Ohu,chyerck whose id. eel diameter wilt be mewed as
mxiel by which the Laglish youth will be taught to
locos hts charmer. It win not le thu page of our
alasseath citatory history that our future nemeses will
dwell upon, bit rather the hie and writings and podia
emtioct of as type.! as 2 oglishmast as is to bs found
throughout the four quarters of the globs, and whose
Wine reward ol posthumous fame will be to bye again,
not only la this hearts but also in the character of tha
individual Eagliabsaisa a. Wog as this race ishabits the
cavilled glom. This, gentientaa. in • tew words is what
I coosider to bs the true pireara of an legit& Mater
inia. Veins the picture whit, you have it with you, sad
treasure it, minding the day whim you may he deprived
oi its earthly presentment, for no man can baqasath to
pootority • brighter heritage."

Toe Arubalanai stmiodation (yids last week's
Megrim) is not only spoken highly of by the Duke of
Cosp.augot, bat by Lord Wok 'ley, who inspeoted lb.
Chant g Cross H opital Ambulanai Comp_auy at Bt.
George% Barracks, Trafalgar-squire, on Wednesday.
In presenting the prose to ths suooesat ii candliates,
this distirsgulsbed soldier 000sidered It would be a
great advantage if other reedkol schools would start
Ambnimos Corp.. Medical Volunteer Corps might
also be formed by a combination amongst the students
I. Innd in, who ooull resolve some trainiag for
Military duties. which would to highly Important U
at any time their services same to be regaired la the
fiel.l Surely this would be an interesting and profit-
able course of study for our local oompany of vauntsors.

AIX BIS WILL.
SAD Daunt —On Thursday, the fab, the district
c inner, Mr. N. M. Loggia, held an (squint at Nutter's
Dairy, I. this parich, on the body of Tohn Metthews,
of Stancombe, • shepherd, in the employ of Mr. John
Shepherd, farmer, Askerswell, who died whilst in a
fit the plosions morniog —Scow the evidence It ap-
peared that about five o'clock On the previous morning
the deceased left his hams for the purpose of going op
on the down after his mist.,'. sheep, which were
to les trimmed with the iteelsteuee of another man
named George Bart, also It the the employ of Mr.
tih•pher.l. Irlndieg he did not own, with the sheep,
Burt went In search of him, In oompany with the
&armed's little bay. About half-past eight o'clock.
when abut hulfeemile from St moombe, In a held
called Heydon, Burt sent the boy forward to look
for his father. Having gone about 541 yards, the boy
returned and said his father was dead. When Burt
reached the spot indicated by the boy he totted the
dece.sed lyiug in • ditch on his face with his legs
haoging in the bushm, having evidently fallen in head
first. Burt to nod the body over and discovered that he
was dead and nearly stiff. Ile gave information toli
Arai,' Askerewell, who returned with him eott
it, and the b siy was revolved Nalkr's Dairy il&r.
Vine's, where it was deposited in the barn, to sweat
the inquest. The face of the deceased, when he was
found SS described; was puled up end of a dark
colonr, aed bore marks of watches as from the bushes
into which he had fallen. A pipe was found amongst
the busbeenear to where the dammed lay, hie crook
awl shears were found co the banks, whilst his dog
eat quietly keeping wattli over all. There were no
marks of • straggie.—Mrs. Elisabeth Matthews, wife
of the deceased, stated that her husband had adored
from fits for the it foor years, and he was attacked
with one of them during the night previous to hi. death.
—George Bart gave evidence ae to the fiedlag of the
body, ahem which the jay returned • verdict of "Died
in a fit," and gave their fees to the widow of the
deceased, who is left with five children. Deceased was
46 year. of age.

SHOCKING DEATH OP A STATIONMASTER.
On Friday scorning kir. Crawler, at the Railway
Stalla, Prittshill, North Staffordshire, nut with a
I, Otto! de.Vi, The deoaaaeJ, who was over 70 years
of age, and deal, was croeslag the line we the trale
was due, tor the parpues of oolkeetlog tickets. The
tr4sl arrived nolealowly, aad kaooked as old
m o:k down and literally oat bias to pleen. Soma
pweengers witnessed the shocking accident.

711118UNIalth4ND DIaASIT.R.
111111DUPG OP Till JIM.

Th. Mooed upon the children who resided at Moak-
wearmouth and were killed in the disaster at the
Victorinhall. Sunderland, wag 0000 laded on Tuesday.
Tail jury, after an hour's 000 salt Woo, foetid that
tile deceased c two t 3 their deaths by intonation
throw h the partial dosing of the doe on the landing
fixed in its position by a bolt, but by whom the bolt
was fired them Wm no fieldmice to show. The jury
further found, in answer to a series of rtuaeUons Sub-
mitted by the roomer, that upon grams. ray sod
Coates meted the legal reepordbility of taldng proper
=dons forth. Feeorvation of the lives of the Ail-
that the partiodar &react of duty. which led to
the Wes of life WM in omitting to winkle a sufficient
staff of attendants to preserve order within the
gallery and during the dmertur• of the children,
and that the staff provided was not suffineet
for the
_purpose even It the fatal door had not
waded. The careniker's omission to inform Fay and Ids
ligament of the existence of the door was a male.* of duty
aad the &reason of the Viciodadnell Company were
Dot kindled la erectiag such an unusual door with
such peculiar fastening without instructing the care-
takers to call the amnia attention of strangers moor-
ing the hall to it. I hey were of opinion that parents
or relatives were not justified in allowing children of
wader age to go *lone to crowded entertainments with-
out first milefying them elves that some grown-up
poisons were intending to take entire charge of the..,
and that the master, of the various schools were not
justified in allowing children under their charge to be
entrained by Fay and their attend* ioe mewed with-
out provision b.ing male for proper supervision and
roan.' by their teachers. The jury dually mown-
mended that statutory provielon should be weds f,r
enforcing the entrances ant exits of buildings being
ma is to open outwards and for the inspection of public
buildings In reply to the o room, the jury expressed
an opiate that the negligence on the pert of the
hadivkinele rife red to was sot suffialeatly culpable to
warrant a verdict of manslaughter.