The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

WAREHAM.

PRESENTATION. —A few friend. of the Rat/. W. J.
Underwood, 8.A., have presented I.im with a hiu.d.
some silk gown and • small puree of money, in
tratimooy of their ammo of his faithfulness and
dev-itinn to his work, on his leaving the curacy af
Wareham, to undertake the curacy of a church, near
Accrington, Lancashire.

BOARD OF OVA ROTARR. —At the meeting of the
Itsrd of Gunn-hone of the Wareham and Purbeck
Union, held on Tuesday last. great regret was
RR•RiMoR•iy expressed by all present at the COVIDO.
staore Of their being deprived of the 'PORTICee of their
chairman, 'rho no hold. the important and
honourable rape of High Sheriff ot the county,
, *bleb howe•er prevent,. him actins in the capacity of
a magistrate or rx.oftio guardian It has been
determined (provided Mr. Calcratt accepts the B.ffice)
to have him elected as • parochial guardian during
the year of his shrievaity, and thus again secure his
valuable services se Chairman to the Hoard of
Guardienv. when the newls-elected Ileird meet I,r
the first tone on the IG:h April nest 48everal
guardians have announced lbw ansnoto wish to
retire from i thee for this purpose. The same course
was adopted during the year of Mr. Floyer's
ahrievalty, which fell to him while chairman of the
Udecluster Board. The Chairman, Vice-chairman,
lead Assessment Committee are elected on tips day.
rho Karl 81 Eldon has now become an ex.ofcio
guardian of the union.

STR•ROZ CAPE OF DROWPIRO. A IFOONIO,
named Sarah Cattle, of Stoborongh, was drowned o
Friday night, the Bth, in a ditch in that parish,
under peculiar circumetenoes. A neighbour, who is
a married woman, enened Mary Ann Woo!fries,
astes that on Sunday afuernoon, March 3rd, Mra
Cattle went to her hones and Paid the had a very
bad dream, and on the promise that site would nit
I tell anyone, not even her husband, she related it to
her. It was to the following effoct :- That she had
gime to Mrs. Payne's, on the Quay, at Wareham,
and had some drink with a me•ried man, at Sto-
b orough, who had a wife and chiliren, bit she could
not call him by name, end just as she had got pivot
Wareham hnelge, he commenced making work wr b
her, and as he could not succeed in his purports, he
out with his hands, and shoved her itto the mod
and water. There didn't seem hardly any water
there. The man never offered to get her ont, and
nobody came till she as. gone." Mrs. Cattle cion•
tinned to cry nearly all the time she .as relatiog her
dream. Mrs. Woolfries said that they sallied out
I together, and she begged of Mrs. Cattle not to bees
any more dnok or her dream might come true. At
the inquest on Saturday, before T. Phoppard, Fog..
the evidence showed that Mr.. Cattle was at Moe.
Payne's the New Inn, on Friday evening, in c ono-
rant with John Linninoton, brichlater, of Soo
borough. They left together to go to Otaloorough
about in even o'clock. Linnington said they walk ri
totetber as far as the bridge, when she walked on
leaving him on the bridge. She had left bum
scarcely • minute when be heard a splash in the
water. He ran towards where he heard it, but it
was very dark, and he could not find her. He went
back and told Mrs. Pasne and Sept. Boles. The
latter he told that " he wag going over the cause'
way with Mn. Cattle, when be stopped, and some-
how or other, she slipped round him and ass in the
water in • minute." He told RC. &mom that
"he eras coming over the causeway with her, sod
she propped uoder the rails and was into the water."
The Superintendent and John Basket went wi h
Linuington to the snot. Linoington took them to
the place without their searching for her. There
were marks on the roadside as if .411111 one had loon
roollonse about. Baeket did not think the hotly could
be seen without a light. It seems both the deceased
and Ignnington were the worse for liquor. —The
joiry returned • verdict of "Found Dno• ued," but
bow she came drowned they had no evidence to
m,h.ow. They expressed their diesattafectoon with the
evidence of Lineington, and the crooner impressed
upon him the necessity of speaking the truth.