The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

kontrroatablre.

Teowroe,—The inhabitante of Taunton Are (leelr.
no. of purchaling the intereet of the Lord of the
Manor, Et, Mattock, Keg, in the old Alliee.halle,
and of converting them foto one large ball, 'ratititon
has grown too big for ite Aesembly.rootne.
At our tinildhall, on Tiitirelay, before Dr, King.
lake and IL 13atleock, Pao., two young fanners,
named John Barton and l'hotna4 l'rortirumbe, were
ohargoil by the police with riding furiouely through
the High-street, in Taunton. !tartan WM tined
inouaing costa, and Vearticouibe Xl.—lloth flees
were inunedlataly paid,

Ynovit.—A vestry meeting was held on Than.
day, to receive a communication from the Cemetery
Committee of the Town Council, acting as the Burial
Board of Yeovil. —Mr. Hatton, the Town Clerk, ap•
penred as the representative of the Town Council,
and explained to the vestry that after the design for ,
the cemetery had been approved, and a emu of .C 4,000
has been voted by the perish to entry it out, it had
been found that £1,500 more would be required to
carry out the approved design. The Council de.
liberated under these oircumstanoes whether they
should out down the estimates or abandon the pro.
posed plan; and thinking it most respectful to the
parishioners to submit the matter again to them, they
now placed themselves unreservedly in their hands.
The excavating and levelling of the ground would
eost much more thin was at first contemplated, and
is seemed desirable to enclose the ground-, and have
an extra hedge. He was sorry that Mr. Shout, the
architect, was not there to state why the original
estimate was so much exceeded.—George Harbin,
said hie opinion was, that the extra sum asked
was too much. Surely such cemeteries as were midi.
°lent for Taunton, Dorchester, and Weymouth,
would be sufficient fur Yeovil. He believed the
whole of the works could be done for £2,000, instead
of £4,000 (Loud cheers.) They did not want
highly decorated buildings for such a purpown—Mr.
Cox olearved that thooarving alone would coat £5OO.
Mr. Batton replied that the Taunton Cemetery cost
£7,000. The committee proposed to out off the
tower, and preserve the cloisters and chapels, as
originally designed—Mr. Seaways thought Mr..
Shout should have been there.—Mr. Harbin was of
opinion that the architect should have gone through
all the details, and not have misled the vestry.—Mr.
Cox said they ought to have known the cost to a
shilling.—Mr. Harbin felt quite sure that the pariah
would not vote the £l,soo—Cloud cheers)—and he
would move that the £4,000 be not excieeded.—Mr.
&Anthem wished to make a notion to the same
effect, but Mc Batten pointed out ea then was no
lusointien for an bombed grant before the vestry,
there was no asessaity for such a mobione.—Mr, Bev

bin observed that even the committee themselves
hesitated to ask for the extm X 1,300. (Laughter.) He
felt satisfied they could du without the tower, which
Mr. Haunam wanted to band down as a prcof of pro.
gross, and he should bo happy to see the burial
ground without a division. —Mr. Bodenliam thought
Mr. Hannan, as a Quaker, wouldhavo been more con.
instant if he had discouraged all unnecessary decora-
tions. (Laughter.) —Mr. Tooker advocated the erec.
thin of something modest, effective, and unpretend-
ing. Ultimately the following rev lotion was car-
ried unanionnoily :—" That the Town Council be not
authorized to expand any sum beyond the amount
already sanctioned by the vestry."
SOUTH BRlNT.—Teatimonial to the Rev. Joseph
Ditcher. —A testimonial has just been presented to
the Rev, Joseph Ditcher, M. A. vicar of South Brent,
'in recognition of his firm and consistent mainte.
mince of the unseat truth in the (see of much opposi.
thin anti reproach, in the use of Ditcher ro, Duni.
son." The testimonial consists, as we understand,
of a large.sised polyglot Bible, a pocket Bible, and
a fine quarto copy of the Book of Common Prayer,
and of tho Book of Homilies; all being richly bound,
and bearing appropriate inscriptions.
WINOANTON.—PrighO4I Charge agasost a Clergy.
man—For some time past our active auperinten.
I dent, Davies, has had his eye on an elderly and ro.
speotable man, who has slaked various towns in the
west (amongst others Sherborne), and who las been
, suspected of being guilty of revolting prat:ideas with
, youths At length sufficient evident), was obtained
1 to warrant the necessary stem for his appreheminn,
on a charge of assaulting a boy named George King,
of Bruton, and Superintendent Davies started for
Mere, to which place it was understood the rev.
, delinquent had removed. Whilst waiting for his
I return to the hotel, the officers raw him in company
with another boy, and, on interrogating the latter,
they obtained from him sufficient information to
!haulm them to apprehend him on a capital charge,
the particulars of whith are, of course, too illsgustfng
to be stated, The rev, gentleman was brought beck
to Winianton, but it was deemed necessary to send
him before the }linden bench of magistrates,
_by
whom he was committed for felony; the boy, a lad
named Gray, being ummittell also for trial at the
next Wilts Gallus. The prisoner gives his name as
the Rev, Frederick Vane, and he is said tube related
to a noble &only. He was in the habit of drawing
on his London banker" at the rate of about £4O a
, month, and we hear that then was found upon him a
1 diary in which the names of parties with whom he
appeal" to have practised his abominable propensi.
ties were entered, with the sums he had paid them.
He is at present in tits Wilts eounty prison.
ARHILL PLOUGHING MATCH. —On Friday week
the second annual ploughing match took plus in the
parith of Ashill, in a field cooupied by Messrs
Bradley, of Ilton. Pennon ploughs competed for
the several prises' and a capital oonipetition it was.
The improvement that has taken place in the plough.
Ins sines hat year is very great, and many persons
were astonished to see young striplings walking oft
with the prises, whilst many of the old men who
won prises last
_year had to go empty avow. _ The
umpires Mr. Paul, of Diunpool Farm, mid Mr. F.
Bond, of Athelstyn Farm, said the whole of the
ploughing was good, and that they had a diMoult
task to perform. After the field work was disposed
of a large and respectable company, among whom
were a great many respectable visitors from the
neighbouring towns and villages, assembled at the
Ashill Inn, where the catering was done in excellent
style by the worthy landlord, Mr, John Churchill,
Captain Speke presided, supported by the Ilev. T.
A, Voules, vicar of Beer Crowuombe ; Mr. E. Clark,
of Chard, and others.
°ASTMS CARY.—The lint Istituto of the sown, in
connection with the Reading and News Rooms, was
held in the Townliall on Mundny evening week, the
rev, the vicar In the chair. The lecture was deli.
veered by T. W. Byard Sheppard, Esq., of Frome I
subject—" Mineralogy." At the close a vote of
thanks wu given to the leoturer, and the audience
left highly gratified.
luniltlTll4.—At the annual meeting of the corpora.
tion of liohester Mr. George P. Slade was appointed
the town clerk of the borough.
DURSTON. —Fatal Railway Accident. —We have
again to report another fatal accident on the Bristol
And Exeter Railway to a person passing over one of
the level musings. It appears that a man named
Clark was s passenger by the 9.45 am, down train,
and, as he arrived near Durston station, he perceived
a woman crossing the line from Northmoor. Not see-
ing her afterwards, he imagined she had been
knocked down by the engine, and on arriving at
Dureton station, he said to the driver, "Do you
know that you have killed a woman r The driver
replied that neither he nor the stoker had seen a
woman. They then examined the wheels and other
parts of the engine, but could find no blood or other
evidence that an accident had occurred. The oiroum•
stance was reported to Mr. Hoskyna, the station-
master, and he immediately proceeded up the line in
a trolly, to the spot pointed out by Clark, where he
found the body of an old woman, named Elizabeth
Tucker, aged 70, very much mangled. He had the
body removed to the late residence of the old woman,
and gave notice to the county conetabularly. On
Wednesday an inquest was held before W. W.
Monokton, Esq., at the Railway Hotel, Durston,
when the Jury, after hearing the evidence, returned
a verdict of "Accidental death." Near the spot
where the body was found is a crossing from one
aide of the line to the other. The old woman was
very deaf, but it is stated that an approaching train
can be perceived at that spot at least a mile off.
BRIDOWATER.-4 celdent.—As Edward Milton,
an apprentice to Mr. John Burman, chemist anti
druggist, Cornhill, was moving a large jar of vitro!, i
the burning liquid "splashed up " against his left
eye and face. The youth suffered great agony, bat
under the care of Dr. /Sewell, it is probable he will
recover the sight of the injured organ.
There was a fire on Monday night at Messrs Ax.
' ford's of oonsiderible extent, but the promises are
insured, cause not known. The fire began at nine ud
lasted till two or three, Fortunately there was no
Wind.
Our Borough Registrations came off on Mo;day
And Tuesday week, with the following rand !
Conservative ohjection", 94 I_ withdrawn, 111 not
sustained, 7; unstained ti. Moral ohjoetions 93 ;
withdrawn, I; not sustained, 13; suataino , 9.
Liberal elating 5; 4 sustained, 4 not.
Information has reached Bridgwater of the total
lose of the riot Kinlly, with Calitaiii 00%11i1 ait two
other crew, The mate must have had a mir ohms
amine, M. wording to his own statement, je was
seven hours allti a half in the water. The YOllOl was
fecund from tiannileilfoot to Bridgweter, wifi 0041
and intim, The spot where she Nninilered linear
the Minithies It oe he w a vessel of 117 tons dor,
and belonged to Mrs, Gabriel, of Rued 'am,
Bridgwater, and was inured, The thriniitpoirema
who are doubting,. tut are Mr Gould, Uwe Ketch,
a MOAMAR, and a boy named Hartsell. i Old Ina
left a wife and !seven children; Ketch Was un.
worried, ,
tit.apitoesotiv,—laell week oonslilershle lisation
was orisitiml Ili title tuwn, in ooliminanoe of Le being
reported that is hollow ekeloton hail bean il up by
one of the navviea lin the railway line, tw ueet he.
low the sorfaie, at Polshom, The pollee aid souls
medial num speedily repelled to the lipid, and On
hispeeting the bonito, which were In an 'Manua
atoto of dimoniposition, otinoluded they wort thou of
0 tall female. Aiming many surnilaer, aa
l amine.
tun as a it w renollected hin y we of the in !Ultim,
Bat about thirty yule sines a female of t4l stature
and rather dissolute habits, left her home 4,11 morn.
lug, and Was Have heard of or Wall a rwartio I
It waft therefore supposed she might have been the
person whore skeleton wee thus tilicovereil,
Wilbui, —lto/meet, —An inquiett WU held at the
Coaoh and Horses I
nn, on Monday wadi, before
If urges Fry, Esq., coroner, relative to the death of
Sarah Warrington, who, was last seen alive so &dor.
day at seven o'elook in the evening, and on her
attendant going up stairs to see her, about two home
after, she found her dead in the bed i the deceased,
who was in her 71st year, had been bed-ridden and
helpless oonditiOn Mr several years put. A
In a veryvenlic
verdict that death was occasioned by "Paralyse
was returned,
Dant. Medicos of Head•Moster V Kt
&ward's Grammar SeAul,—The elution of fleak
Master to KiniEadward's &heal to supply the
vacancy caused rt the decease of the Rev. A. J.
Madsen°, MA., s resulted in the election of the
Rev. Henry Stun Fagan, MA,, of Pembroke Col.
lege, Oxford. The appointment carries with it the
rectory of Charoombe, near Bath, valued at £3OO a
year, and the total emoluments of the post may be
!etiolated at £l,OOO.
Coionsinow NY THII LORD•LINUTINANT or
Somsastr.-9nd Somerset Regiment of Militia—
de.
oi samuetd.
IG ',leo rhgne
AGrYtilesiurioPolAwsClal PKtaylten, Hvia"rwWoodari, eGint.,
to be Ensign, vice Omagh, promoted.