The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

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SALlSKTRY.—Conami.sionx signed by the Lord-
Livutenant.—Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, to be a
Deputy-Lieutenant. Wiltshire Vulunteerl:idet!orps.
17th (Marlborough) Company : Francis Edward
Thompson, gentleman, to be Lieutenant; Henry
Jenner Hillier, gentleman, to be Ensign.
Bt.:et:sr.—An inquest was held at the Council
nous,. on Monday, before It. M. Wilson, Dq., on
the body of an elderly woman named Lake, who
was found dead in her house in Salt-lane on Sunday
morning. Apoplexy appieved to have been the
cause of death, and a verdict to that effect was
returned by the jury.
Sr. Eenuee's Senoot.s.—These schools will be
opened on the 3rd September. There will be divine
service at 11.3% at which the Lord Bishop will
preach, and the Holy Comm-mum will be admin.
istereti, after which the schools will be formally
Opened by the Bishop according to the form of ser-
vice recently issued for the diocese. The schools,
which adjoin St. Edmund's churchyard, have cost
£4,501), towards which a Government grant of
£.1,3.10 has been obtained; the National Society
have given .C7O. and the Diocesan Board of Educa-
tion £3Oll. The remainder has been raised by
private subscription.
Tee " Hoeoeittni.e" Sior ECERTON.—TIIO
Honourable Seymour Egerton, alias Charles Henry ,
Nlellers, was discharged from prison. on Thursday
morning, apparently none the ktb.r for his removal
from polite society and the exhilarating effects of
champagne. He was immediately taken into cue- I
tody by an officer from Brighton, and on being con-
veyed to that town was committed on two separate I
charges of obtaining goods by false pretences. A
witness was called from the First Regiment of Life
Guards, who stated that the prisoner was formerly
private in that regiment, but that his conduct was so
unsatisfactory as to induce the Colonel to discharge I
him. His mother is keeping a boarding-house in
Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square. London, and it
is mild that be has been a great bunlen to her, as he
would doubtless have been to his Salisbury friends if
the police had not fortunately become acquainted
with his antecedents. A fine meerschaum pipe,
which he hail graciously presented to Mr. Nash, of
the Shoulder of Mutton, as a memento of his visit,
was demanded by, and given up to. the officer by
whom his " Lordship" was conveyed to Brighton.
His occupation, except at the treaded% is now gone,
and those who so rejoiced at his patronage must
have had enough of great folks.
" THROW PHYSIC TO THE Does."— A Salisbury
Doctor's Bill in the year 1639 is very curious as
giving the form as well as the prices of the medicine
administei ed. No record is left as to the time over
which the attendance extended, but the prices seem '
sufficiently exorbitant for the period :

For Mr. -Ws) Inen.l4l, by Doctr. Ilr,t. his prescription,
6111 of October, lea/.
d.
- • •

A pt t of electunry for sundry takings ..
A clau of syrup
Four papery of powder to take in mace ale .. 3 0
Tao micro of other powder 0 6
Ato of digestive powder oz 4 0
• confect:on to procure rest . 2 6
A rooliall bolus 1 6
A gentle i otion

1 2 4
I desire this bill may he delivered to the executor of
Mr. Wayueman. :Mrs. Waynetnan knows this
money due, that Mr. Wayneman about 4 years since
promised to send me this money, but the trouble of
the times 1 believe was the muse it was not paid. I
desire it may now be conveied to me.—Wm. Wilson
of Sarum, pothecaric.-22 Aug. IG46.—Stale Paper
Docirr. Car. I.

Distitzr.A.—The Volunteer Rifle Corps.—The ladies
of this town and neighbourhood have presented the
corps with a beautiful silver bugle, drums and fifes
for IG musicians, and a complete uniform anti set of
accoutrements for the band.

SWINDON.-7'he case al it,. !Mich.—it in stated
that the fnenda of Mr. Hatch intend indicting Mrs.
l'ku.nmer for perjury,

Rate,,. —A rate of 6d.
in the pound was granted un Thursday at St. Mary's
fur the necessary expenses of the current year.

THE COLLEOK.—The streets were th-e scene of
much bustle and activity during the latter part
of the past week, in consequence of the return of the
collegians.
ADDERS 1% Tax Foarrer.--An adder, 3 feet 2!
inches in length, was killed on Sunday morning, on
the farm of Mr. May, of the High Trees, by Mr.
Pike, of the Cross Keys Inn, it was found to
contain 24 young ones.
(AL's'..— The adne Rai/tray Company. —The
first general meeting of the Caine Railway Company
was held on Monday, Mr. T. L Henly in the chair,
when the Director Report was read and approved
of:—" The Directors regret that the undertaking has
not received greater support from the landed pro-
prietors of the neighbourhood ; the Marquis of
Lansdowne and Mr. Esmead being the only land-
owners who have as yet taken shares. In
consequence of this, a sum of nearly £4,500 (which
is not a large one) remains to be subscribed before
the Directors feel themselves justified to conclude
any contracts for the purchase of the land, and to
commence the works They feel bound, however,
to state, that no official application has as yet been
made to Mr. Heneage or 31r. Puynder. considering
it better to defer doing so till they could give those
gentlemen the fullest information possible. The
Directors, however, have much pleasure in being
able to state that the Marquis of Lansdowne has
expressed his willingness to sell such of his laud as
may be required for the purpose of the railway, at
the rate of 40 year's purchase ; while agreements
have been entered into with Lord Crew and Mr.
Starkey to refer the amount of compensation to be
paid to them to Mr. Clutton." A committee of
shareholders was appointed "to co-operate with the
Directors in endeavouring to raise the remaining
amount of capital required, in order that the works
may be commenced with the least possible delay."
The proceedings terminated with the customary vote
of thanks to the chairman and provisional directors.
WISTBUKV. and Determined
Suicide. —The district of which Promo is the centre
would seem to be labouring under an extraordinary
fatality just now. On Sunday much consternation
ensued from a report theta case of infanticide had been
discovered, and on Monday the same district was
startled by a report that a dreadful suicide, under
peculiar distr....ailing circumstances, had taken place
near the town of Westbury, a place some seven
miles from Frome. The particulars as at present
known are these :—On Sunday last the banns of
marriage between a labouring man and a widow
with a large family were published in the parish
church. There seems to have been nothing peculiar
in his manner; on Sunday he retired to reit, and
arose next morning as usual. He went out on
Monday morning, and after a short absence returned
and went upstairs, where his mother soon after fol-
lowed, attracted by an unusual noise. Her horror
. can well be imagined when she found her son lying
on the bed with his throat cut from ear to ear. So
determined had been the fatal act, that life was
already extinct, the vertebra having been completely
severed. The horrid affair has cast quite a gloom
over the district. On Tuesday the inquest ()lithe body
of the man, whose name is Elkins, was held at the
, Red Lion, Chalfont, before J. W. Sylvester,
' coroner. From the evidence of the man's mother
! and other witnesses it appeared that he was much
addicted to intemperance, and when drunk was very
wild. He had been drinking more or less for a
week past, since his return from the country, where
he had been in search of work for several weeks
previously. Mr. ShoreLuid, surgeon of Westbury,
was of opinion that the continued intemperance in
which the man had indulged had impaired his in-
tellect, and that in a temporary fit of aberration he
committed the rash act. The jury, after the sum-
moning up of the Cormier, returned a verdict accord-
ingly.