The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

FEARFUL FLOODS IN TLNNEVELLY.

A correspondent of the tlrsrlras Timers, writing from
Palameottala on the Ntia ult., describes an unusually
high flood which had jui t inundated that district.
"The people," be say., "retires' to rest little exteet-
ing the scene of desolati on that daylight would ilia.
close. At midnight the river roe, suddenly, quietiy,
and so rapidly that at lay break the water reached
the crown of the welt of the F•uolotiehenum bridge,
Laving risen about 25 feet. The superintendent ut
police, Captain Trutma n, was the first to discover the
danger. Ile was awn! aimed to a sense of his position
by his cows taking ref ugo in the verandah, and found
that • few inches mole tare would place his drawing.
room floor utsler watts, It was with difficulty that
Mrs. Trotman anil her children could b.. earrie I
through the water to a place of safety, and then Cant.
Trotinan anal Major Payne, who was likewise ruined
from sleep, waded I.lireugli the water above tier
middles to the jailea's house, which stands on the
ralanacuttal. bank .if the river. So noiseless was the
rise of the water that though am riper to the sir. rut,
one in the I nose was, aware of tic dostrnetion %Lich
Wits to all appea 411C0 AW&Ii1111: it. Very Lastly
lashing chairs upon bamboos, just as day broke the
party iname lintel,- left tic Lustre. Mrs. llicoster
and her children on chairs, and Mr. Webster, Major
Payne, awl Captain Trutman wading through the
water, which had by that time rearhe Ito within
half a yard of the lower storey, awl 'tail seemed to ee
rising rapidly. The nearness ut the house to the
edge of the Wink of the riv-r caused every one to
fear that, should the batik be injure I Iltho rosin of
water, the whole building would subside into the
torrent. The Rev. Mr. S usenet house became •
harm of refuge, and glad enough II ladies mind
have been to get uniler shelter, for eve rain came
dowia in torrents, and it war most bitterly cold. The
spletelid bridge across the river was the next to
stiffer. A crack was reports I very early on We Int..-
day, but great hopes wore entertained that the dam-
age was not no serious as it inns since prove Ito be.
Day by clay the crack has continue., to increase, and
this morning part of the centre welt has falesa in,
&nil it is sail the three middle arches must go, and
it is now merely a ow* (A time. The sail ealamaty
shut• t.ff all communication between antleredy and
this sink., of the river, an-I the ilistress is gas at, amongst
those who have brought their goods for sale into
Pautmeottah either in country carts or on bullocks,
and who bow find ad return to their homes cut off.
Tine whole town of Tinhevelly was three feet tinder
water, and about two hundred houses were either
blown down or washed away. Mr. Pennington, the
snibcollector, who inns just retursw I from Englatel,
was out all day doing all he royal t fur tin p one, anal
Dr. Thomson and C. 17 tsia must have spent
hours in the w.scr. tile,nn,niunrneation was, an
still, is, shot off between this pace and Madras. Tho
Tuticorin rued is °lsm again, but the telegraph Wires
are injured and canhot be used between this and
Corkin; as wed as between ns awl Tuticorin awl
Mat lens. At the Mi atary Lines very many fine
trees were known 'horn; all gardens ruined and lainl
wa.te--vcry many house, injured in elivers ways.
li-areely any boundary walls remain standing. The
bawl-stand i• a thing of the 1V.% MAI many of the
Fen.y lines have been destroyed. At ono time it was
frarel that tlie new buildings at the gaol "re 'NUM.*
but ta anise to tine timely exertion. of Dr. Thotnrsou
•rel Contain Trot man noilninr lint ie. el there. Tine
Ii subside las rapidly as it bad risen, and by the
afternoon a.very ono thought all danger was over.
11..wever, just as ninalat fail the river rote again as
rapidly as before owing to the burstiwr of a lar_o
tank, an.l a few more hours of deluge and aptvei "n-
-inon slime led. By about daybreak on Thursday the
waters had again WHIC iiOWll. 11101 ad was satishine,
but uprooted trees, ruinol Louses, gardoos without •
ve.tige of cultivation remaining, and disip cracks on
the rwola and fewer broken down, Is we witness to tire
Undid runl of the water and the fume of the wind.
All public work is stopped. The court has been closed
fur day., as no one will attend it. The cmcinerrics
are also deserted from tine same cause. It will take
years to repair the damage clone in • few hours, but
the greatest misfortune will be the loss of the splendid
bridge for 2:i year.. the boast of the districts"

fl bearinc of a petition for adjudication of hank.
Triptry acaiti.d. the Duke of Newea.tle wax re. um.' I
Ilunda. h.foo Mr. C.,mmi.noner Wing.ow, tut
uruceediugs were again conducted in private.
A pkikeephio editor in Atlanta remarks :—"A Ku
Klux editor call. us a liar, but we bavo nut suilicieni
confidence in hia word to believe him."

There i. porno (mention of bringing out at the
Theatre !taboo M. Iteyer's " Eradiate," written fu*
Maden-Ba.len, and p.ayed there • few year. a4o.
The temporary theatre at Dresden has been opened
with " I pLigenia it, Tanria." The hone+ i. built wino.
what like &IL arena, and will hold :Owl .pectator...
Arrording to the Rrrve et Gazeilr Mr'
G... ha. ei.giged for three years Signor Vianesi all
ti.e succeteor of Sir Michael Coiita and Signor Arial.

The subscriptions to the Faraday Monument Fund,
r"‘uvel up to December 7 amount to £14.040. The
ul.ieet of the fund is to provide a public memorial to
Faraday.
Madame Clara Schnmann is performing In Vienne,
where ti.. Herr Strau., is also now staymg.
11,. flayed Ileethoven's concerto at the opening Flud.
ha•muhic concert.
Sighor Mario has remme4l his duties at St. Peters-
It is hi• intention to retire from the stage
after Le has filled his engagement itt. Convent Chirden
fur tho coming season.
The Prihro of Wales attended divine servico at the
Ito:al, St. James's, uu Suu•lay. The sermon
vas preached by tho Rev. T. Ileduore, frum the
Li alio to the Humans, :v. 12.

Mr. Joseph Smith, a veteran Tyne pilot, and wiper.
ii.ten.lent of tie Tyne lifeboats for t 'cooly-five years,
dur:ng that time, mono off to 207 wrecked vowels
ahl assisted in rescuing 1,001 IiV6S.
At the Trowbridire Station of the Southgastern Rgil
'way, uu Friday uielit, a man named Win. Saunders.
I onmeynian paiermaker, was killed through getting
Gill of a train ohile it was in motion.

A Freleh mnsieal journal anuouneee another
novelty promi.eil by M. A über to tlie Opera Comique
year, un.ler the title "So ipit. duo Cuter,"
I,bretto by AIM. Ikunery aud Connect.
Tte Chicatto Common Council has adopted • re.
tleekr n • tl.•t, " li-burette the habit uf amok.
ura.n. counril is utabecomieg gentlemen awl
re,' Buwking should be stopped.

~rown Ims nominate,' the Iles% M. F. &eller,
4. I VOW., It.Nlfer, I, te the rectory of I lon ituu, 111
tu.O lila. Dr. Mark:truer, Do'hup of
Ox fut.!.

Y IVangaraltn, •
V.0111:t man WhO kiss.d a lady against her will has
Lecii I by thn MAN or of that Saco to tVIO
.4rgars.
Si '1,14S DEA'fli on A cLEßoymAN.—Whibit tho
Rev. ljr. Bicknell, vicar of SAlhouse, Norfolk, was
a sermon, on l'u,sday he im Heel), foil
hac and expired. The res. gentle-in'an learns a widow
and eight children.

'lle new ballet about to be bronzlit oat at the
14era, on the subject of the Pon;on de Na-
temberit, but the title is not yet determined 'mous
The divertissement is funi.,h. I upon Schl'-
ler%, "Li of the Heil."
The death is annotinred of !fr. Geordiegnn, Pro-
fe,sor of Medical Jurisproleuee in the It 131 College
lrgStlllll in Ireland. For many year,. he wa. em-
as adviser of the law olli,ers ol the govern-
nii ot in camas involving medical questions.
The " Lierve, Borgia," and lint" Ituy Mao." the
lA.; by Victor Ilugu which will ier!rewt the " Oho"'
r to Ilai.on Itouge" at the l'urte-Saint-liartln•
,au.e Marie Laurent will play Luensre,L mouNg•
Aluionthe WEE* and 11. Taalistie Getman).

An address to the Right Rev. Bishop Semler, ergs
pre aim; regret at his lord.hip'• resignation, and
thanking him for his great labonrs for the welfare of
the diocese, hes been exteusively and influentiaby
signed at (I.lillford.
The cargo of the ship Lightning was destroyed by
fire while loading at Geelong for LiverpooL It com-
prised 4,000 bales of wool, beeiles Colonial wine and
tallow vaMed, it is laid, at £,40,000, atul chiefly in.
SUleli at Liverpool.

The British Museum has just received two remark.
&Wu stone Aetna, from isLer linand in the Pacific,
whirl, exhibit on the back. • m irking like that of
the crescent and triangle, so common in the scalp-
third stones of Scotland.
Petitions are being prepared, according to the Netts
Yt..rit rod, asking the Pennsylvania legislature to re-
enact the ten commandments, the people, so far as
the conduct of a good many of them show, having
forgotten thoir existence.
The Eeho states that the government have in
contemplation a proposal for the entire abolition of
patronage in the krerr ranks of the Civil Service.
Under this arrangement the system of nominatien•
to examination for clerkship., etc., would be
and all thrown open, under proper regulations, U.
sodas ecaapetition.

On lion try, Er in Jarmo, tit, father of thy .1011.
fit tiiigtrl. turn, olored hieodelf to tao rorooor,tds.
Ono. Tiiontai, st Carmarthen, ati I wod booty' tto
app.,trtt tlio nett ',Agit to t .ko I,ld trTril ft 4,41
otattollnzlitet of his daughter, Sarah Ja •ob.

Mr. T. Chamber., M.P., presided at a meeting )ield
on Tnewla,, in the Imnbeth 114114, to eunsider she
subject of Sunday trw lin z. It was state I that at pow
out there are about 37,000 shops kept open every
Sunday in the meircnolk awl in these are employed
ewer ;0,000 assistants. Botobitions vroro agrozd to
Pwwimmowling tl.ti discontinuance of trailing on the
Gal bath day.
Robert Macdonald, convicted at the last Central
Criminal Court of a robbery with violence, and son-
tenoed to seven years' penal servitu.le and to receive
twenty-five lashes with the "eat," was flogged in
Mawicate on Tn.-s lay, in pretence of Sheriff Sir 311116111
Vallentin, Under-Biieriff Baylis, Under-Sheriff Crow-
ley, Mr. Jonas, the governor, and Mr. .1. R. Gibson,
t.i.e surgeon.

The Coroner's ininiry Into the circumstances at-
tending the death of Mrs. Beetleson, a policeman's
wife, wdli bar four children and a visitor, was held ía
London on Wednesday. The Jury found that the
deceased died from suffocation at a fire arising from
accidental causes. They added their opinion that
the conduct. of Mr. John Winnett in not informing
the neighbours, the firemen, or the police that Mrs.
114etdeeon and her children were in the Lase, MA
deserving of the very strongest censure.
TILE PROPOSED HALFPENNY POSTAI:IE.—A letter
from Mr. Graves, M. P., was on Wednesday roe I at
Us. meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Clam .er
of Commerce, on the subject of • halfpenny po.ta
for 2os. packagesand printed matter. Mr. Graves
siid in his letter that the scheme was approved f by
Mr. Madstone and the Postmaster-Gmeral, but Mr.
Lowe wa•onpo-ed to it, and be, therefore, urged all
Chambers of Commerce to send memorials in favour
of it. The Council agreed to do so, so far as they were
simmer, ed.

BrEAlt priom LIVERPOOL 10 BolaAy Is FiFry
DAYS.—On Wednesday a telewsm was received in
Liverpool stating that the .crew steamer Bras lion,
belonging to the Liverpool Men-haute Tin ling Co-
mpany, arrived at Bombay en the 27th inst. The Bra-
milieu left the Mersey fur Bombay, ria the Sues Canal,
on the Gth of November, and therefore has made the
passage out in fifty days. This time includes deten-
tion at l'urt Said, where she had to discharge about
hall of her cargo. The telegram states that the ran
from Sues to Bombay occupied only 15 days.

. -
A LADY SIEGT IN DiELAND.—The Freeman's
erOanll4l report. an agrarian outrun, on a lady in
Mayo. The lady, Mao Harriett Girdiner, having
some rroperty near Bsllp:taste, has been fired at
while sitting in her kitchen. "She received @e'en
or eight grains in the head. The crime is of an agra-
rian n•ture, as she evicted eeveral of I.er ten ,nts
during the past six mouths, and has prectoses of ej ot..
merit served on others at present. To e tie
constabulary are exerting themselves active.y to find
Out the perpetrator, but no clue has been direure.ed
as yet."
A STRANGE DEATHBED SCENE. —At Tavernen.,
on Monday and Tuesday, a trial of a sinErilfir kind
took place before Sheriff Ivory and • jury. The Rev.
John Macdonald, Roman Catholic priept at Fort
Augustus, and two men, name! Macpherson an
Mae ellan, who were charged with having assaulted
various persons within the house of the late C.aptain
Rues, at Fort Ausmstus, in September last. The
Litt had endeavourel, it serna-, to shrive Ca. Cain
, who was dying, while Mrs. Ross resolve I he
should not, and over the dying man's bet • fight
took place, in which the defendants were on uue
side, and Mrs. Ruse and persons she lied cafe I in on
the other. The p-lest insisted that Certain Ross
wanted to be a Roman Catholic; Mr.. Rotes sup-
ported by several witnesemi, that he dint not. After
bearing all tl.e case, the Jury font. 1 the defen.lauts
guilty. Mr. Macdonald was fined A:10, and the other
da•pdants £2 each.—Seutseren.

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN ABERDEEN.
BIIIRE.—FoUIt MEN KILLED.—On Tuesday morn-
ing • melancholy accident occurred on the Great
North of Scotland Railway, about three miles from
Gently. Two engines and • brake-van were des-
patched from Aberdeen about h tlf-nast two o'clock
In the moruibg, along with a 'now-plough, to clear
the line for traffic. Each of the engines was in cha-ge
of • driver and fireman, and one of them also °erred
Mr. Rest, the inspector of permanent way. The
brakevau contained • number of waymen and twa
guards. Nothing occurred to stop the progress of
the engines and plough till the ambient occurred.
It took place at four a.m, when w,thin about a mi
and a half of flontly Station, at • I ,iut where the
line runs on a steep embankment. The engines and
plough were saddealy thrown off the rails, the fore.
most engine being precipitated down one silo of line
and unwise I, and the second thrown into a field on
the other side, through • fence, where it stands,
apparently not very greatly damn:c.f. The bralt”van„
brtunately fur its occupants, who all eneaprd unhurt,
was very little damage I. &Ms, the driver of the
folk:awing engine, strange to say, eie,ped very little
hurt, and was able, with assistance, to walk to a farm.
Lunge close by. The other occupants of the engines
were killed, viz.: Thos. Beat inverter of Permanent
way; David Watson, engine driver; William Malcolm,
fireman; and James Paterson, fireman. The cause
of this' the most serious and lamentable accident
which has ever happenod on the Great North of Set.
laud Railway system, is at present inexplicable. At
the place where it happened there was little or no
snow on the rails, and none of the rails were broken.
—Glasgow llrraltl.

A SIVA-KING SranY.--On IVelneAay last, man,
name Thomas Lightfoot, n 'roc •r, carrying on his
bweiness in Everp•troot, Aneuats, was taken into
caste ly on a charge of eorifining his brother in .he
cellar of his house and generally negleeting him. The
Mnalis of the confihel man, who i• bni nt and idiotic,
at:meted the attention of the polieeman on tho beat,
On Tuesday tiii:44.; but, the window of the lar
beitig boarded up to wa- unable to dis^orer when^o
they proer..li I. He report° I the eireumd.ance to
his superior officer, however; and, un lev to direc-
tion if Mr. Sw.i•rititatidetit Afiiiertmt, the hoipo wii
entered on Wednesday, and warn-bet. In the re,lar,
in which there writ no fire, a man, about Mlty 7 .are
Of air,', wni. found lying in a corner. in a most filthy
with nothing to roviv him but an 0,4
hurso ring and ronle filthy rtta. Ile wan •hiverirg
from rui•l, and, judging from his appearance, his
clothes had not been e1401...,r0d for yearl. Ili. hair,
Which wilt thick an I bushy, hung matted over his
shoulders ; and his heart ani whi•kors, which Lad
recently been worn long, wore phased off one silo of
his face. He was so boot and wink that he was un-
it!, e to walk, and the officers had to cirry him out
of the cellar and convey him to the police station.
The neighbours say that tho unfortunate man, whose
name is Samuel Lightfoot, has been confinodl in the
same p.,ace for sic yam., but th t previous to his be-
coming anable to walk he was allow° I to go out into
tho backyard. It is within the knowle Iv of the
p dice that he wan in the keeping of hi, brother five
or sir ,tair ago, btit for a lung time they hart lost
sinit of him. fhb father, who was in ea.), ("ovum-
star.-es, 1,-fe. him an annuity. Tim money was paid
to on, brother quarterly by the executors, who always
understood that Lo was in good health and oomfort.
able„

ENT i 1:oNE II ENT 01 DR. TEMPLE AT EXETER.—
Tie rorernoey of entlironiw; Dr. Temnle took pla^e
in Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday. The Bishop en-
tered hi,. dioee.e on Tuesday, and, staying during 1,,.ft
night at Sowton, at the house uf the Rev. Proben ti ry
Sanders, his old master at Blundell' School, Tiver-
ton, calm over to the city on Wednesday morning.
t.lla
At tie Eat Late his Lordship was met by the civio
a,ntyluiouriatia
C manw iiglll, and
the representativesiSheriff,
tieUn.leSlieroifffit;,ief
p
various friendly societies in the borough. The line
of route to the entrauce to the Close WWI crowded.
At this point the Bisbee was called npon to receive
an a,hlress presented by the senior of the Episcopal
Clarity Schouls of the city, whichaltrem besought
his Lordship to ail as patron of the 'school, a request
was immediately complied with. Prom Bmad.
ga:e the procession, which was now heretot by the
choir, the Dean and Chapter, and about a hundred
of the clergy of the diocese in their surplices and
moral towards the western entrance of the
Cathedral, a hymn being sung upon the way, on
the choir being reached, the Bishop and the Beau
retired to the chapter-house, whence,aft-r the read.
ing of the second lesson in the ordinary Morning
service, Ili* Lordship was coothictel into the choir
by a long procession, and was installed in his throne
by ...lie Dean awl Chancellor Barrington.. This cere-
mony over, His LJnlship (the cathedral being crowded
to err,...) preached an extempore sermon of fifty mi-
nutes' durattan. The sermon balt with God' ii three
progress'se revelations to man—conscience, the Writ-
ten Word, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Each of these
revelations was elaborately explainwl and illn-trated,
the Bishop 'eying that it hail been his determination
not to lose a single day after his appearanee in his
eat....edral as bishop of the diocese in speak:ng to his
reverend brethren upon these grand soil important
sullieets. It should, he said, be his aim,. God per-
to i
mitring, to co rage them by embodying n his
works the spirit of the words of his sermon that day.
Hs .arnestly besought all his hearers to remember
that cousoience was above all other faculties, the
Bilsl.l above all other books, awl the life of Christ
&bees all other lives. Dr. Mackarnea, the bishop
sleet of Daftird, wai Rama in the CAbtlikliaL

0„ly nik,ut Loon fighting mon of tho Ars •ho In-
dist.* azoloft. licuerii Ord keys We rum i fa.t. dy lug
out.

Professor Carl Vogt, of Vienna, is activoly engagesi
In the formation of an anthropological socioty or
Austria.

Signor Braga's "Adventnriori" has benn played at
Trieste. It now opera, "Caligula," is to to brought
out at Milan.

On Friday evening Lord Torphiehen died at his
residence, Caidor Hunan, now Edinburgh, in the 63ud
your of his age.

"Deceased came to Ids death by accidental burn-
ing rool old age," vraa the verdict of • coroner's jury
at Witnington, N.C.

" Don Giovanni," originally produced in Prunue,
vraa played the other night in the Bohemian capital
for the 228th time.

Mr. T. W. Robertson has written for the Adelphl
a play, canal "The Nightingaie," which will be pro.
tlueed early in 1870.

At Pont, M. Emile JuinArti has proinced • little
vo!ume of poems, entitled " Insomnios," which has
reached a second edition.
The Noe York Commerrial Adterriser announces
on anthority, that Mr. Tharlow Wood has retired from
political and journalistic life.
Mr. A. Clint has been elected President of the
Society of British Artista—an ofiloo which the late
Mr. liuristune held since 1t45.

The Royal Society, at their last meeting before
the Chriitmris holidays, elected Lord Napier of
Nagdala • Fellow of the Society.

The Italian opera at Brussels has failed. Concerti
have been given for the relief of the unfortunate
artistes belonging to the company.

It io Ant.. I Ciott—• Lite etreeis th-f lan. more Jet re-
main 1,539 oil lamps.

11r. Fed-liter id te, reePivo f. 91 nor nigh* far thirty-
iii repmeutatious at Niblo'e. Now Yolk

The village of Styfon (Pay-do-Dome) has Moen al.
most entirely deatroyei by fire. The iuhabitaals are
in tho greatest misery.
Some of the Freneh papers Tmblish a carious para.
grap:. with the °Weet of showing that tho Empress
is deaconded iruin a Liege wooer!

Mr. Hewing Hine Ball, the well-known prim nttle
breeder and gr .zier, of Ltankridge F.llllll, neat Taun-
ton, died suddenly on Sunday night.

A telegram from Rotterdam ifttes that the steamer
which sank on Smiley, wam lif•e.l on Taesday,
after her whole cargo Ila,l been dischargod.

In about a month the Rieff-Balta and narkoft-
Taganrog railways will both be ready for use. These
lines are the last links wanting for the connection
of St. Petersburgh with the Azell and Black Semi.
To render Russia somewhat independent of the fo-
reign article almost esclusively used on her lines,
railway carriage maw-factory is to be estaulialied at
Revel.

The Anti-Council, recently dissolved by the Italian
government after it had hold two sittings in Nap:es,
Is. resolved to adjourn until September next. It wi
then meet in Switzerland. While awaiting the mo-
ment in which it can procla.in its views "on tho-
roughly free soil," it again protests against the v ela-
tion of its rights, and publishes a doclarciou of prin-
ciple*, in whieh the necessity of abolishing all othoial
churches is affirmed.

SitoociNo DEAIII.—A prostitute was burnt to
death in a brothel in Southampton on Christmas
morning. It is suppose I that she went to bed in-
toxicated, and set the bed 6otlies on fire. Ste was
discovered by her screams, and was in a dreadful
state—she looked scarcely human. Those who went
to rescue her threw cold water on her, which caused
her to utter horrible shrieks. She wad carried to the
Infirmary, but died on the way.

FRAULS UPON INSURANCF. ComPANIEft.—At the
Natation-house, [undue, on Monday, FIIIIICie BrUMI7I,
fish dealer at Gravesend, and IVllliam 'Ferry wer.• ful-
ly committed for trial on the charge of obtaining
t2ito on a ',Wiry of iusurauee in the Monarch Marine
I I,OIIIIICC Company, by mean, of forgery and false
reprii,entat lone. Another charge WWI then preferred
against Brown of a similar csaract,v, where he had
obtained E2OO from the Oivau Marine insurance
Company.

The Republican papers speak of a military plot in
the lit division of the army d Paris, it Mug that 74
suus-ufficers and soldiers are under arrest. They de-
mand explanations. None of the papers published
In the evening &laid° to this canspiricy which 100 k...
if or ler. had boon sent round not to mention tho
affair. The it.sil aay• that this disagreeable busi-
ness is to bo hushed up, and the men dispersed
among other regiment., the was-utticers being reduced
to the rank*.

Tito organisers of the working men's demonstrat ion
at Vienna, now in prisen, have a 'dressed to their
comrade. an appeal inviting them to avoid all act.
which would constitute breaches of the law. One of
the principal loaders, named Hartung, who succeeded
in escaping when arrested, has not yet been re-
captured.
The journey oithe Crown Prince of Prussia through
Ita4 was hastened by the illness of his youngest son
Prinee Waldemar. For the same reason the return
of their Royal Ilighoesees the Crown Prince and
Princes. to Berlin has been postpone'. As, however,
Prince Waldemar Lam now almost recovered, they
are daily expected.
Sifoefaliu FATALITY AT A CuLLIERY.—A earl
accident occurred on Monday, in the Wigan Coal and
Iron Company's California pit, at Aspen, near W gen,
by which two men were killed and one was serious-
ly hurt. In the colliery there is an inclined plane,
by means of which tubs are drawn in two directions,
and about the middle of the day named a train of
waggons became detached from tie chain which held
them and ran down the plane with terrific velocity.
One man who was ascending the road,l'aul Ilelyneux.
was frightfully crushed by the tubs, and was brought
to the surface quite dead; and Richard Smith, of
Westhoughton, was so seriously injured that he died
16 minutes after be matched the bank; and • third,
named John Mersa, of Ladies' Lane, ilindley, was
taken Lome in • cab with his leg badly crushed.

- _
C4)IIhAUEOL:23 CoNDUCT OY A WONAN.—Ou Mon-
day afternoon, a little fellow four years of age, named
Walter Nottage, whose parents live in cottage at
Waltham Abbey, fell into a mill stream. The acci-
dent was witnessed by a poor widow named Ann
Walters, the mother of six young children, who int.
modiately jumped into the stream after the
whom sho succeeded in securing. In consequence
of recent heavy rains, the stream was much swollen,
and running rapidly; and Mrs. Walters, with the boy
in her aline, Wan borne along by the current, which
11130 Wald nut resist, for twenty yards, when she suc-
ceeded in grasping the branch of a tree growing by
the side of the stream and projecting over the water.
An alarm was raised, and she was enabled to hold on
to the branch until assi-tanee arrived, when both she
and the child were rescued from the perilous position.
It is a somewhat curious coincidence that this poor
widow, who so courageously risked her own life to
save that of a neighbour's child, lost her husband
some two or three years show by drowning.

ID:. GLADSTONE AND O'DONOVAN ROESA„—The
nippy/aril hire Prras publishes the (pilots-leg h•tter,
which has been received in reply to a memorial t 4
tie l'reinier for the release of O'Donovan Rona
Downitig.street, Dee. 20tli.—Sir,—Mr. Glad-
stone desires me to acknowledge the receipt of y out
letter a the IGili instant, and to assure you that he
does not in any wa.. question yonr title to refer to
Min in the matter to which you allude. Mr. Glad-
ttone is, however, ready to assume the responsibility
a the decision to ilec,ine the relea e which you do-
oire.—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, W. Ds
Martin O'Dwyer.

'ri.a present Lords of the A.lmiraltyhavecompleted
reform uhieli we believe had been some time in
contemplation ; they have resolved Unit in future no
h•tters whatever are to be franked in the Admiralty
ita tuient, except such as are on offieiai or semi-
official business, to be verified by the initials of the
writer in the ourrier. Nu totters are to be sent home
horn foreign stations in Clio Admiralty bags (except
on official or Me mi•utticial business) Without the WI.
P r ion of the Commander in Chief or senior officer,
and without having proper pubtago stamps affixed cn
them. No private letters are to be tranunitted to
foreign stations in the Admirulty bags except on
simil ir conditions, and any letters received at the
A liiiiially insufficiently stamped will be sent to the
Post-ollice to be dealt with under the regulations of
that department.—Pali Mall Gazr

IiIEhANCIIOI,Y DEATH 01, • YOUNG WOMAN.—
On tliruitmaa Eve, a young woman, name.' Harriet
Candler, rest ling at 'I wickenham, committed suicide
under distrus,ing circumstances. The deceased lately
left service, and during the week had been making
preparations to give her brother—a young soldier,
who had obtained a seven day.' furlough to spend his
istnute at hume—a hearty welcome. Aocumpaied
by her father, sinter, law( brother, she went to lain-
north to purchase the Christmas provhdons. They
were all returning home in the evening by St. Mar.
garet's Ro id, and upon nearing the bridge over the
creek front the 'fliamcs she suddenly broke from her
brother's arm, jumped upon the parapet, and threw
lier,elf into the water. The brother bravely jumped
in after her, but the darkness of the night and the
suddenness of the act precatiled the pos-ibility of
saving the poor girl. The young roldier was got out
iv very elliartAted state. The body of the deceased
was soon after recovered.

A girl of fifteen years of age, named Lydia Perry,
• domestic errant, was chargol at Worship-street,
London, on Monday, with having attempted to com-
mit .nicido by taking poison. A gentleman, named
W'vtun, was psuadug through Wells-stroid, Ifickney,
ou Thursday night, when • boy called his attention
girl, who was lying on the ground insensible.
T" the
Two bottle,., which hal contained laudanum, and
both of which were labelled "poison," were handed
to him. The srirl was removed to the German Hospital,
where she continued insensible for eleven hours.
WhOil con-ciotisne.• was restored, she said she had
made the attempt, upon her life through lore. The
pri-oner's "lover, ' woo had called Mr. Weston's at-
tention to the prisoner, was called as • witness. He
said he was only fourteen years of age. For the last
nine mouths he ha I been in the habit of owing the
prisoner. On the night in question be was with her,
and she swallowed something in hi pssono.o, thaa
kissed him, and said, " Good-by." linrn.dist.t Itor.
wards she ran away, and the boy, seeing her fall to
the groitelid, beeammadea the psimar l
me alarmed, called
a lf
week.
Weston,
xr. ewise

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JAIN

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