The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.—A poor young collier, eighteen
years of age, met with his death on Tuesday morning in
a pit near the notorious Cethin one at Merthyr Tydvil.
He was descending to work with his father and
brothers when, by some strange mishap not yet es-
plained, the carriage stopped midway. The young sot-
tier, without a moment's consideration, and naturally
thinking they had arrived at the bottom, jumped
out, and, after falling a great depth, was dashed to
pieces.
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STRANGLED BY NISTA/EL—A remarkable instance of
restoration to life after strangulation occurred at Craw-
ley to a lad about seven years of age, in the employ of
Mr. Thomas Smith, surgeon, on Thursday. It seams
the lad, from some whimsical or fanciful impulse,
thought proper, while engaged in the stable, to jeopar-
dize his life by placing the bridle rein hanging from a
post round his neck,and inadvertently got the tongue in
the buckle hole, and probably from fright and agitation,
became unable to extricate himself. Mr. Clark provi-
dentially havingoceasion to go to the stab'e found fueled
on his knees, his bead dropping forward, hie hands drop-
ping listlessly by his sides, his face greatly discoloured,
and to all appearance dead. Most providentially, again,
Mr. L. Fricker, assistant, was instantly on the spot.
and Mr. Smith in a minute or two. There seemed no
possible chance of restoring animation, yet the lungs
were instantly inflated and compressed, and this was
persevered in apparently without any chance of success.
The countenance, however, beginning to pale, indicated
returning circulation, and it took about an hour and •
half before the lunge freely discharged their proper
functions. The lad, being then icy cold, WAS wrapped
in thick blankets, and placed in bed, and exposed to a
brisk current of air at the time ; it became very difficult
to keep him in bed from his struggling. The lad,
although comparatively restored, seems at the present
time much bewildered ; hia memory seems almost en-
tirely gone, and no rational answers can begot from him
on his being interrogated, although he is gradually im-
proving.
Were the Government to attempt to play off one of
the tyrannical tricks upon the people of this country
that the latter are constantly in the habit of playing off
up in each other we should very speedily have a revolu-
tion. A reign of industrial terror has been long estab-
lished in the unfortunate town of Sheffield, under whichi
the artisan can scarcely lay his head upon the pillow at
night with the assurance that lie will find it there in the
morning. The tyranny exhibited in Sheffield by work-
men to workmen is from time to time exhibited in
other quarters, under the pressure of special eircum
stances. Our rsaders are aware that at present York
shire is afflicted with a colliers' strike, and from oertain
proceedings that took place on Tuesday at the Leeds
West Riding Court we learn that a number of the
miners on strike had been attempting,by forcible means,
to prevent others who preferred work to idleness and
starvation, from working. The Messrs. Halliday, of
Gildersome, it seems, had brought labourers from a dis•
tome about the beginning of February, to replace the
men who at that period refused to work, and they had
no sooner commenced than they were subjected to all
those insults and annoyances which in such cases are
had recourse to by workmen, for the purpose, as they
say, of defending their rights, forgetting that they are
invading in the most offensive manner the rights of
others. From verbal interference the men on strike
lnpsed into hostile demonstrations of a more formidable
character, and the new hands were pet in terror of
their lives. Several parties have been bound over to
keep the peace. and it is to be hoped the strike will
soon come to an end, although, unfortunately, there is
little prospect of that at present.

TRH MURDER AT DERBY.—At the Derby Assizes on
Monday, Richard Morley was found guilty of the murder
of his sweetheart, Eliza Morrow, and sentenced to
death without the slightest hope of mercy. The murder
was of the most cold-blooded character, Morley having
in a fit of jealousy out the poor girl's throat whilst she
was walking at his side. Throughout the trial the
prisoner did not betray the elighest sign of remorse.
A COLLIERY ON FlRE.—About half-past one o'clock
on Sunday morning the fire-tenter at the Wombwell
•Main Colliery., belonging to the Messrs. Bartholomew,
Baxter. and Company was alarmed by a vast quantity
of smoke issuing from or "slant" between the south
levels, and through which they were ventilated. He.
With another moo, trent to the spot from whew* tilt

"I took some trouble to see the quantity of colour
the Chineee use to 'face' tea," writes Mr. Fortune, (page
94), in his Visit to the Tea Districts of purposely
to show drinkers of coloured tea in England, what quan-
tity of Prussian blue and gypsum they imbibe. To 14g
pounds of tea, the workmen at the drying pans applied
rather more than one ounce: the minerals are
employed principally to hide the brownness
of wintry dainaged leaves, and as the colour
washes off when the leaf is infused, the con-
sumer actually drinks more than half-a-pound of Prus-
sian blue and gypsum to every hundred pounds of tea;
yet, tell the drinkers of coloured tea that the Chinese
eat cats and dogs, and they will hold up their hands in
amazement, and pity the poor Celestials "-It is ten
years since Murray published the above work, disclo-
sing the Chinese practice of colouring tea,the public con-
sequently have since evinced a decided preference for
the pure uncoloured serte.

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PERFECTION OF ART IN WATCH MANUFACTURER,—
" The stranger in London cannot fail to be struck with
the magnificent establishments of goldeinitlis with
which the City abounds. Sneh disphys as are pre-
sented to the eye are rarely to be met with in any other
city in the world ; indeed, whole fortunes are concen-
trated in their windows. Foremost among such estab-
lishments is that of Mr. Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-
hill, and 46 and 47, Cornhill, which may truly be called
the Home of Art. Everything exhibits the most per-
fect taste; and, while the beantifal is thus cherished,
the useful is also carefully studied. Mr. Benson hR*
gained a high position for the superior manufacture and
artistic designs of his watches espeaially."—City Preis.
—Benson's Illustrated Pamphlet, post free for two
stamps, is descriptive of every construction of watch
now made. Watches ado bx poet to al Rats of the
aloba.