The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-02 00:00:00

B=Z-N.ZIIIi.

WE understand that the Vicarage of Meacham, vacant
by the death of the Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, has been con-
ferred by the Dean and Chapter of Saliabury, on the Rev.
Francis Wane, 114. A., Vicar of Bare Regis, DorellA_end
Prebendary of ffelisbury Cathedral It is worth E•gr7.. Per
annum, and the population Lu about 4,000. Bare IWO' is
worth .COI only.

saziaosira
Vgamy blitCrtno.—A vestry meeting of rather an
exciting character took place on Thursday, for the purpose
of electing • vestry clerk in the place of Mr. J. Y.
Malmoth. There were three candidates, Yr. C. L.
Bartlett, Mr. J. T. Davies, and Kr. & Jolla. Mr. Davies
having retired, the contest lay between the other two
On • show of hands being t•ked, 44 voted
for Mr. Bartlett sad 13 for Mr. JeUs. Kr. Rawlings
then demanded a poll of the parish, which is Mitseinted
for Monday next. In Use absence of the Vicar K. Bang
took the chair.

Da. LOCOCK'S PULMON IC WAFZIU3.—Mons
CUR= Or linoccatime. VOICE, CNINT CONON lAN .TiAtz
00ww.spes.—From Mr. Earle, M.P. h., es, Market
Hull.— Your Waters are invaluable forth. Yoke, Throe;
and Chest. An software from Bronchitis. fluidal Cough,
and deprivation of rest should take them—hundreds
would find quick relief." Dr. Lowers Wafers rapidly curse
asthma, couslinitition, coughs and all disorders of the
breath, throat. sad WM* Sokt by all droatiste, at is. lid.
per box.
13NOONII EDITION IN TUC P431.101T. —Last Sunday, tai.
incumbent of a new Bristol church between
it:fiche-I's parish and 'Clifton having been from home,
two clergymen undertook to do the duty for him--onIn s
the mornintirobad an excellent eerznow, and theclergyman in evening delivered SA evenly good
cliscounie, as both 0 were preceso4....; and the
congregation being the same , the only wpm
amseremtly unoonscirms of Ui. cusioqe eoftei "
was the preacher,

DLABOLICAL OUTRAGE IN LONDON.

On Thursday morning • terrible explosion took place in
Clerkenwell, resulting in the destruction of a large
quantity of property and serious injury lo a leading
tradesman in the pariah. 'About nine o'clock .me of the
vans of the Parcels Delivery Company was driven up to
the door of Mr. William Larkin, No. Pl, Northampton
Square, Clerkenwell, a chronometer maker and watch
dial engraver, who has carried on business there for many
years. The driver of the van delivered to the servant a
box addressed " Mr. Larkin, Northampton Square:" and
after she bad given a receipt for it she gave it into the
hands of Miss Larkin, who, with the curiosity of her sex,
shook it violently in order to endeavour to ascertain what
it contained, but hearing nothing raLtlo inside she took it
into the workshop and handed it to her father. The old
gentleman is in the habit of receiving such boxes contain-
ing dials, etc., for engraving, and he at once proceeded to
open the hog by forcing up the lid with • chisel, when a
slight click MU heard inside, which was followed by a
terrific explosion, blowing out the windows, wrecking the
shop and contents, and hurling Mr. Larkin against the
wall. The box was blown into atoms, small pieces only
of the wood and the internal mechanism being found.
The volume of dame whirl accompanied the explosion set
fire to the clothing of Mr. Larkin, who was fearfully
burned over the arms and face, all his hair being singed
a and some of the fingers of the right hand fractured.
A medical man and the police were sent for. An exami-
nation of the premises showed that the box had been
made of deal, with an inner lining of tin, andh
with gunpowder. In various part of the room were
covered pieces of spiral spring and nipples, indicating that
some secret internal machinery had been so arranged
that the mere opening of the box would inevitably lead
to an explosion.

IMPRISONED IN A SEWER.
Michael Gelgirnan, a wall-known sneak thief, residing
in Elisabeth, N.J., lan the Nato Vert Timm, has been dis-
covered in the act of etteuipting to rob the money drawer
in Jackson's Saloon, near the Singer Sewing Machine
Works. He ran into the street, sad was chased biin
officer, who permed him closely for several blocks. ne
thief ran down is the foot of Trumbull-street, and darted
into the mouth of a large sewer which empties into the
river. The officer procured a lantern and followed him
for a short distance, but WM finally so much overcome
by the game* and offensive odours that he was compelled
to retrace his steps. in the meantime Gelgiman, who
had seen the gleam of light from the lantern in the hands
of the officer, crawled into one of the branches connect-
ing with the main sewer, and made his way to a man-
hole, through which he hoped to make his escape, hut he
found he could not climb up the sides of the man-hole.
After wasting his strength in desperate but ineffectual
struggles to release himself, his agony became intensified
on finding that the tide was rapidly rising. The water
rose until it reached his breast, and he was nearly suffo-
cated by the fcetid atmosphere which he was compelled to
breathe. He could hear only faintly the noise of traffic
in the streets above, and he shouted while a pellicle
of strength remained, but his voice could not be heard.
When the water receded he renewed his struggles until he
fell fainting and completely exhausted into the mud and
filth with which the bottom of the sewer was covered.
His face came in contact with some water flowing through,
and this seemed to revive him. Then he began to crawl
backwards, and his utter despair produced • feeling of
desperation, which imbued him with a new strength, and
he continued his desperate struggles, until at eight
o'clock on Sunday morning he was overjoyed at finding
himself again at the mouth of a main sewer. Be fell
unconscious on the sandy shore, where he was discovered
by some passers-by. who rendered him assistance He was
in a horrible condition. The flesh was worn off his fingers,
and the nails had almost entirely disappeared. His hands
and knees were bleeding, and in some places the bones
were exposed. His head wee one mass of bruises where it
had come In contact with the brick walls, and his clothes
were torn into shred.. He was covered with dirt and filth
from head to foot, so that he bore only • slight resembl-
ance to • human being. He had been in the sewer three
days, but they Deemed to him to be months. Goldman
was taken to the police headquarters and thence removed
to the almshouse for medical treatment. Being a man of
I unusually strong constitution, be may recover from the
I effects of his forced imprisonment, but it is considered
very doubtful. Al it is thought he las been sufficiently
punished already, the charge of Lamy will not be pressed
against him in case he should recover.
CIVILISED ENGLAND—AN EXECUTION IN THE