The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

MIDDLIIXABSH.

A FATAL AOCIDINT occurred to Mr. George Way.
rind, of Henley Moor Farm. Middlemarsh, on
Thursday nightal,ist. It seemed the deceased had
attended a sale of property at Sherhorne, and wee
ing home, about seven m., when near
VOre'd p.
s t Pond, in the part& of Holnest, the home
ridden by deceased shied at a vehi •le drawn y Mr.
John Noake, of Bewley Wood, Rockland Newton.
Deceased eras thrown bawdy to the ground, and
sustained a severe fracture of the skull, and &alb was
instantaneous. An Instoest was held at the White
Haan Ina, IlLkidiraarab, an Saturday atinesnaa

last, before Mr. H. t 7 coroner, and a
respectable jury of whilit deputy
reThilip leo twa. fore-
mot. when the follovrimr evid-nce wee adduced Mr.
Becket Foot., of illativilles Wouton, stated that on
Thursday evening last, about seven o'clock, he was
coming home from Sherborne. when n.,r the turning
to ll•dme Iltphes, in the parioh of Hapset, Mr. G.
Waygood, passel him cantering his horse along. The
h-prie Witurla rule tried to km. Up with Mr. Way-
go. d'a Nut witness checked it. There was some one
driving in front which witneve *items:de found was
Mr. John Wake, of Bewley Wood. and when Mr.
W.mirood's horse was near the cart, driven by Mr.
Ae, the horse Mr. Waygood was riling shied in to
the green by the Wde of the ros.l, and then galloped
in. When Witties■ cline up to the cart he found Mr.
Nosike had at leped, and that the deemwed had fallen
off his horse, and wad lying in a pool ol blood in the
road. Witness lifted deosaml up with the assistance
of Mr. Wake. Blood was still if wing from a wound in
decease l's head, and from his noseand month. Witnees
at once went to Sherburne for medical assistance,
and called to inform the police constable at Long.
burton. Afterwards returned, and • doctor came who
pronounced life to be extinct, and stated that he
thought the deceased's skull was fractured. Deceased
was removed in a cart to his own home.—ln answer to
a question from the Coroner. witness stated that he
had seen deceased at Sherborne. between four and five
the same evening, and thought him perfectly sober,
and also thought Mm perfectly ..her at the time he
passed witness on the root—Mr. Make corroborated
the last witness, and the Jury returned • verdict of
" Accidental Death.

PIIIIIIITVII MITHODISr. —The annual meeting of the
•nrP'r'er• of t iiiimions in conn.ootlon with the
Primitive Slethodiata was held on Thunalay evenin&
Inlet the presideorr of Dr. Williams. The meeting Wu
addressed by the Rev. F. Berkley, R-v. J Green, Rev.
J. T. HOMP. and others, and CO the close a collection eras
.uade in aid of the missions. The amount subacribed was
iordly up to the
Intim —Mr. Horace Nutt, coroner for the liberty of
ihrrbwoe, held an inquiry at the Anteloi, °D
Friday afternoon, on (If,' inlaat child of Jew Beale. •
.n dried woman, whale husband has been in the Iforston
Avylurun for several seen pest. The foreman of
he inn wan Ilin'Stesrart Sarah Monis, motbecin.lare
of the woman. and Hannah Line, a neighbour. Kayo
'''id"hr• *bowing that the child wan stillborn on the
wevious day. It appeared that the inquiry was held at
'be instigation of the medical officer, the mother not bee-
og on idso on the previous occasion, sent for
medical anvistanon The jury returned a verdict of

SluluoTis—Aliftha.—A man named Hillard, in the YOIBIST
tt lite Higbee building-yard had one .4 his legs broken in
.wo Piece. on Wednesday arousing. He was welting at
the entrance to the Town-hall in Half-Moon-street, to go
n to the rehearsal for the concert when a /ream took
Mace between Itho and P.C. Hutchings. of the Dorset
,lonstabulary, which ended in his being coaled down the
-tees leading to the hell He fell in the road and broke
-no of his lota in two lases. Ho wea seee.lily removed to
he Irt'utotth Hoseital, where be in r.ely ',Tapering.
be conduct .4 the police-constable is being investigated.
.nd public feeling I. strong.
Tug SOCTX.WISTSIS AIM Tag SALISBOIT AND YEOVIL
LINE —Llerypetlis Jennie{ cviinmenting upon the mama
the given by the S ....Western Company for the Salis-
bury and Yeovil line—for evert Cli(I .4 the latter stock
Lb. South-Western giving MO of their ordinary stock
.orth at the present price nearly £3so—nays :—We cannot
lispute that it would have been better for the South-
Western to have porcha-.d the line years ago, when the
trident was far lens than 11j per cent. (the dividend for
he year IFCI6), but in giving the present price the South-
Western are only paying full value for the line ; also they.
the South-Western, Ire large recipients of the benefits
-hey bestow, for out of the total ordinary stock of the
iaisbary and Yeovil, amounting to 41316.761, the South-
Western bold as much as SUIS.9OO, and only £116,1166 is in
the hands of the public or ordinary Salisbury end Yeovil
shareholders. The South-Western receive the high prim
they give on L 1110.900 of the Salisbury and Yeovil ordinary
they hold, and pay it on the CL46,8t15 in the band. of
Salisbury and Yeovil therehildera Thus the South-
Western really largely partake of the good they do, and
the higher the value of the line for acquisition the better
for the South. Western.