The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

After the shooting the company sat down to • capittl
spread 'applied by the worthy buret.
CA M. A farSTAIT-Orikaita. --A very MA oential
meeting wee held ic the vestry on Tuesday last, for
the purpose of electing an assistant-overseer, in the
room of Hr. Dmiel Malpass, resigned. The Rev.
Cornford, vicar, occupied the chair; and, after •
few portions{ remarks, Mr. J. T. Barton proposed,
and T. Hardwick, Earl., seconded, that Mr. James
Holloway should he elected assistant-ovenser, which
proposition was carried unanimously. it is but due
to the retiring assiatiust-oversecr (who has held the
office for upwards of twenty.yeare) to state that he
has frildUsd ths duties of the °Moe with considerable
credit to the present time, when his age colelPe6
him to retire.

B %TH. —We regret to heir of the sudden death
at Torquay of Colonel Oliver, J. P. of Bath, and a
magistrate for Wiltshire. He left this city for Tor-
quay on Saturday; and while at church on the fol.
lowing day, those near him heard him utter •
spasmodic hound, and before he could be removed to
Lb. vestry life had departed.
A DoUILB MORDBILaa. —A fellow named James
Howell, a c eternionger, who, in l, was convicted
of manslaughter in killing his wife, and ornt•"4"-I
to sin years' penal eerrituds, wagon Tuesday brought
before the Bath magistrate', charged with the murder
of • woman named Susan Cleverley, with whom he
cohabited. The inquest upon the body of deeeseed
was bell on the previous evening, and a verdict of
" Wilful murder" returned. The prisoner, who is
an ill conditionLd looking fellow, it seems, had lived
with decezeod almost from the time of the aspiration
of his previous sentence, and the evidence showed
that he hail continuously treated her in the most
brutal manner. (la Tuesday morning last. between
One and two o'clock, the persons living in the same
hones, No. 3, little Conn-street, Bath, and also in
the adjoining houses, were awoke by cries of" Har-
der," and by noises as of • person jumping upon
some substance. This was the !vote jumping upon
the body of the dammed. The neighbours, upon
rushing to the room, found the woman upon the floor
bleeding profusely from the face; and the prisoner,
110 reply to their questions, admitted that he had In :
dieted the injuries. A policeman wee called in, but
the unhappy woman refused to give him into custody,
saying that if she did sobs would be sure to kill her
afterwards. The brutal rascal would not touch her
in presence of the policeman. but as soon as he had
left ran about the hoops with • poker seeking his
Earainoar, wlit had sought refuge in • fellow lodger's
room, swearing be would kill bar, and any one who
harboured her. The unhappy woman died (ruin the
effects of the injuries she received on Sunday morn-
ing. Her body was frightfully bruised, and the
medical evidence clearly showed that death was
caused by injury to the brain revolting from the
prisoner's blows. He has been committed for wilful
murder.

HEN BU RY. —Or eltinCi 07 • Ngw INFANT
SCROOLIIOO/A AT H•ttszi.—Wednesday last was a
day of much rejoicing to the inhabitant& of the little
hamlet of Hellen, in the parish of Henbury. On
that day was opened the newly-erected infant school-
rooin in that place, the gift to the parish of the Rev.
Disney Robinson, of Henbury-HilL For • con-
siderable period the rev. gentleman was lecturer end
curate of Henbury, but owing to continued ill health,
was most reluctantly obliged to relinquish his
clerical duties. Anxious, however, to do something
which might we. as an enduring memorial of his
minietarial connection with Henbury, be some time
ago_ generously made an offer to the vicar to erect
at Halle n a building in which the infant and Sunday
schools in that place might in future be carried on,
instead of. se heretofore, in an inconvenient room
in one of the small cottages. Such an offer, it is
almost needless to add, was readily accepted, and
hence the opening of the elegant.-looking structure
on Wednesday, in the presence of a large number of
the inhabitants. During the afternoon all the children
attending the infant school were, with their mothers,
regaled with tea and plain-oohs in the sew school-
room, the supply, despite the stimulating effect* of
the north-esat wind upon the appetites of the
juveniles, proving fully equal to their hungry
demands. After tea the Rev. D. Robinson read an
appropriate portion of acripture, and the Rev. J.
H. Way delivered an eddrese to the parents and
children. The interesting proceedings were brought
to • close by singing the National Anthem. Amongst
the company present were the lt.. J. H. Way and
Mira Was, the Ree. D. Robinson and Mrs. Robin.
eon, Mr. and Mrs. Harford. Blain Carnal,; tlrs.
Sawyer, Clifton ; the Misses Percival, Severn House;
Miss Fisher, Miss Stone, ko. The schoolroom
nearly adjoins the church, and is built in • similar
style of architecture. Upon • freestone slab in front
of the building is the following inscription :—" 'To
the glory of God. Of thine own have we given Thee.'
1 Chroo. 29c., 14 v. A.D. 1664."

80MERTOR. ISTOLIIIANCI. —We have re-
aired an account of en interview which took place
in • village not a hundred miles from hence, between
• clergyman and • Bible reader, who was on his
knees praying with a poor sick woman when the
Incumbent of the pariah came is, and it is said (but
we hope this most be a mistake), collared him, and
=d him backward to the door. The Bible
refused to go out, and • oonvereation
is which the incambest told him he had committed
• deadly em n in taking upon him the minis-
terial °Soo, and that no man had • right to do
this in the parish without his leave. The other
replied that neither law nor religion would bear
him out. The incumbent rejoined, the Act of
Uniformity would. The Bible reader said he should
not receive such treatment in Rome. The clergy-
man then told the potpie of the bogies that he made
it a rule not to go where this man went, for be was
• minister of td., and the other an agent of the
devil. The Bible reader expressed surprise at such
treatment from • Protestant minister. I ion not a
Protestant minister," returned the incumbent.
"Then what are you r asked the other. "A
Catholic priest" was the reply. Sheri:arm
Journal.