The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-12-11 00:00:00

HAPPY ENGLAND.

Mr. Htunphreya held an inquiry on Wednesday at
the Wittington Arms Church-row, St. Matthew's, on
the body of Mary Ann Byngbrett, an aged Jewess,
who resided in apartments at Albert House, Approach-
road, Victoria Park.—Sarah Elizabeth Byngbrett said
she was the daughter of the deceased. Her father was
many years a purser in the East India Company's
service. Shortly after his death the deceased received
a legacy of I:6,000 from her own brother. The deceased,
witness, and htr brother then went to Australia
Witness and her mother returned to England, leaving
her brother and the bulk of the money behind them.
He promised to make remittances for their mainten.
anCe, and did so for a short time, but the supply was
suddenly stopped, and they had received no further
tidings of him. Witneee attempted to earn a living
for herself and the deceased by dressmaking. During
the whole month of November she had only been able
to earn from eight to ten shillings, and out of this
witness paid 54. for two weeks rent. She had from
time to time parted with their property to obtain
food. In answer to the coroner, witness said she and
the demised had not had a fire in their room for
months past; they had neither bedding, sheet, nor
blanket to cover them during the night, and very little
clothing to wear during the day. Witness) warn sorry
to admit she was obliged to borrow boots and a dress
from the landlady to enable her to attend the inquiry.
—The Coroner When did you or your mother laid
e of animal food of your own procuring....ss : Oh, not for many, many months past—
The Coronerr And I suppose you are perfectly
penniless now, and have no means by which to bury
your mothert—Witness (crying) That is so.—Mr
Kate Preaman said she was the landlady refei red to.
She knew the deceased and her daughter were in a
very necessitous condition. She did not ask them for
rent, and frequently gave them food and lent them
clothing. They were respectable, well-conducted
people, and she could not take the room they occupiedfrom them. Witness had advised the deceased to
obtain assistance from the parish, but she had a horror
of bemeniw • pauper. After the death of the deceased
witness •ed in one of the relieving officers of the
perish: On his arrival he found the daughter without
of food or fire. He merely pdied her, but
no relief. Witness herself paid £lB a year for
taxes, sad she could not help saying the daughter
ought to have been promptly relieved by the pariah.
_jr. Momingbrun said be wee called to the case on
Illeaday night. He found the deceased in a dying
state. She had injured herself by a fall in her to&
room, and died a few minute. after he left the house.
—By the Coroner's order he made a post mortein
examination. He found an effusion of blood on the
brain. There wee about half an ounce of fluid in the
stomach, end the intestines were empty sad opaque.
The blood was poor, and there wee no trace of fat in
the body. The cause of death was due to an effusion
of blood on the brain, accelerated by long privations
and want at nouriehment.—The Jury reow this AN
*dr verdict.

Iveuxqi.—An inquest was held on Thursday last, at the
Hit or Min Inn, before Mr. H Lork, dennty coroner, and
a respectable jury. on the body of Siesborn Cornick,
dealer, who died suddenly on the sth inst. It seemed
from the evidence that on the sth inst., deceased
complained of bring poorly but nothing serious was
thought of it. Deceased was left sitting by the fire, and
wee afterwards found h the fire dead. The jury returned
a verdict of "Died by the Viiitation of God."

ABBOTSBURY.
On Wednesday evening a temperance lecture MLR given
he Mr. Charles Bent, agent of the Western Temperance
League, who, in a homely way, kept a crowded audience
listening attentively for • boor and a half, whilst he toll
them of the evils of drunkenness and the blessings of total
andainence. His subject was the Wen( himself. By trade
a shoemaker, but mixing in the company of dog fanciers,
rock-fighters. Ac., he sank step after step instil at last we
find him brought to the lowest steps of misery and ruin,
shoeless, without a penny to call his own, in debt, and bin
wife and two children starving. At the age of XI he was
induced to take the temperance pledge, and after • while
he manage.' to net tv in business, and at the cement time
has a large shop and houses bringing him in .£ll5 a year for
rent. As he told of his downward track and his rising
from those slums, all could not but help feeling that "he
ea is a brand pl lacked from the burning." When we find ru rh
men rerlaimed we can truly say "Teetotalism has not
been a failure," and it makes us lone for the time when
all men following in the footsteps of Charlie Bent may see
the folly of their ways and enrol themselves under
our temperance banner. Roots of reclaimed drunkards are
fighting with us against our coantry's clime, and when we
have such living examples as in the case of the speaker
nur cause in the end must, with the help of God, prevail.
The chair was taken by the respected Vicar of Abhotsburv,
the Rev. C. IL Penny, an old obtainer for the last 25
years.