The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

Capitation Grant—Boys
1,1
II Girla

15 0 0
16 16 0
31 16 0

Boys' Pence 31 15 8
Girls' Pence ~ .• 48 11 11
Conduct Cards sold to -Boys ... 0 7 0
--- 80 14 5

Work done by Girls for Dor-
chester Charitable Institution 1 10 0
Balance of last year .. 67 13 9

£2'73 12 8

PAYNZICTS.
Master's Salary 60 0 0
Teacher 4 0
Allowed to Muter for House
Rent • 1500
Porter, for Books, tee. ... 6 4 9
Parsons, for Books ... 3 6 11
Stroud
.Woolston 1 3 3
Coal Company ... 2 010
Burden 0 7 6
Cooper Sundries as per
Quarter's Amount ... 3 7 9
122 6 3

Mistress's Salary ... 50 0
Teashers . ... 410
Woolston . . 1 13
Monday ... 25 0
Foster . 518
Coal for School and House... 410
You 119
Pardons 0 10
.Gelpin 1 14
Durdi
Saunders ... 08

1 Chun& Rate_ ... ... 0? 8
Board of Health Bathe ... 018 11
Annual Reward, . ~,. • ... 012 6
Sundries, as pi* Mu Claw
shill's Book .. u... 5,...41 11 11
108 14 7
Poster

Gemara! Account
1190
Ponney, Collecting .1110:4;iptioas 010 6
Balance in band ... 45 2 4
47 11 10

C 73 12. 8

WEYMOUTH. —Tsui, BY JURY. —The weekly
lecture at the Literary and Scientilic Institution was
delivered by the Rev. W. Barnes, of Dorchester, on
Wednesday night, on "Trial by Jury." The
lecturer commenced at the beginning of his subject,
a thing which lecturer's do not always attend to, end
hewn arises the mass of confusion in the minds of
their audience. Commencing with patriarc.hial
times be traced the form of trial in vogue in differ-
ent ages and countries, down to the present time.
Mr. Hill presided, and at the conclusion proposed
a vote of thanks to the lecturer, which MY °acrid
with acclamation. We regret to state that the
attendance was small

BLANDFORD. —The Right Hon. Lord Portman
was, on Wednesday, unanimously elected President
of the Royal Agricultural Society, in the room of his
late Royal Highness the Prince Cone3rt. This year,
therefore, the county of Dorset has been specially
honoured in the Portman family, as the Hon. W.
H. B. Portman, M. P., iii. well known, was selected
for the distinguished honour of moving the addresa
to the Crown. _ _

WI id BORNE. —COVIrrY Powys, Wednesday,
Feb. 12. —(Before Rev. C. J. Glyn, and Willett L.
Adye, Esq.)—Georqe airpeaser, of Pamphill, was
brought up on remand, charged with stealing four
fowls on the ith inst. Mr. John Carlton, of Cow
Grove, now attended, and proved miming some fowls,
and identified those now produced by Superintendent
Boynton, which had been sold by the prisoner.
Having elected to be summarily dealt with under
the Criminal Justice Act, he was sentenced by the
Bench to three months' bard labour.

POOLE.—New MAGMYTSATIS.—A t • meeting ef
the Town Council on Friday, a letter was read from
the Lord Chadberlain, acquainting the Council that
he had nominated four additional magistrates for
the borough, viz., G. &Ahem jun., G. R. Penney,
W. C. Nutt, and J. W. Martin, Fawn After a
little dismission aa to the advisability of making an
increase in the list of magistrates, a resolution warn
serried that the Council entertained no objection to
the gentlemen named. .
ST. Jenen's Stricnsor Smtoobit—The want of •
suitable building for the accommodation of the boys
and girls attending the Sunday school in connection
with the parish church, has long been felt, and since
the institution to the living of the Rev. Alfred
Wilkinson, that indefatigable minister has been
working most arduously and perseveringly in fur-
therance of the object. The site damn for the
erection of the new schools is in Chuseh-street, and
is now occupied by some old tenements, the removal
of which has been commenced, and will shortly be
replaced by the handsome building, as designed by
Mr. C. C. Creeks, which will give • very ornamental
appearance to that part of the town.
RINGWOOD.—VISTRY MINTING.—A meeting
of the ratepayers took place at the Vestry-room on
Tuesday, for the purpose of filling up the vacancy
in the Redid Board, °condoned by the death of the
late Rev. C. H. Mat:twin. The &v. Joseph Harri-
son, the chairman, briefiy stated the object of the
meeting, when Mr. Charles Cox proposed Mr.
Sharp, octal merchant, as a fit and proper person to
fill the vacancy. The nomination was seconded by
Mr. Stephen Street, and serried unanimously.
Tes TESTIMONIAL TO TIM MEMORY Or THE LATII
VICAIL—We ass by a nodes dined that the com-
mittee have decide on leaving the subecription list
open for one month, in order to give every one the
opportunity of contributing to an object that seems
to be desired by the whole of the parishioners. We
understand that between thirty and forty pound,
have already been subscribed.

CHRISTCHURCH.--Concwr.—On Thursday
evening • concert was given by the Christchurch
Choral Class, conducted by Mr. Halsey, in aid of
the funds now raising for the sufferers by the
Hartley colliery calamity. We were glad to see the
concert so well patronised, and to report that the
attendance crowded the room even to almost block-
ing the entrance. The programme consisted of 21
pieces, including glees, madrigals, part tongs, and
solos, the whole of which, considering that 40 in-
dividuals assisted in some of them, were well done,
some better than others; but liberal minds will my
that Mr. Halsey had not laboured in vain,in training
these 40 members. We can hardly venture to par,
ticularixe, as in • genera audience • variety of testa
must exist; but if we consulted our own idea, we
should say "Now is the month of Maying," "Hard
times come
be,"
no more," "Soldiers -brave and
pliant be, Hark the lark," "Oh, merry goes
the time," and "Now pray we for our country,
were among tke best, several of which were encored.
Our old friend, Mr. Charles Hicks, was very happy
in the comic, and was greeted with • storm of ap-
plause. We hope to have many iinore such pleasant
evenings, under the pleasing influence of Mr.
Halsey 's band of minstrels.
KlNGSWOOD.—Fiuoirrent COLLIZZY Amt.
DINT. —The village of Kingwood and the adjacent
neighbourhood have been thrown into a slate of
I, melancholy excitement in consequence of an accident
which, if not equal in magnitude, resembles in many
of its feathres that which recently occurred at
1 Hartley. The facts appear to be as follows s—At a
short distance from Two Mile Hill is as old coal
mine, the property of Mr. Whitteek and others,
and known amongst the miners employed in it as
"Torn Joy's fit." About half-past 7 on Wednesday
evening five or six men, amongst whom were Thomas
Ilas and Joseph Brien, were at_ work, about 150
yards from the bottom of the shaft, in propping up
with timber a portion of the roof of one of the
drivings. It is said that whilst they were thee
occupied a "shot" was fired for the purpose of
removing coal or muck in another part of the
driving, and from the shook mused thereby an
immense mass of muck suddenly fell. It appears
that the men had worked into an old "tip" or
shaft that had been rendered useless and filled up
for many years, and the existence of which was
unknown to the men engaged there—and come upon
the whole workings of the mine. Brien happened,
at the time of the fall, to he in the "tap," and the
debris crushed him to death. Has was a sheet
distance in one of the old drivings, and on the ma*
falling he was instantly deprived of all means
of communication with the shaft. As soon as
the accident occurred the then in the pit,
with the assistance of others to whom the sad infer.
motion bad been conveyed, commenced operations
with a view to extricate the body of the deceased
from the mass of muck, and relieve the entombed
man from his perilous position • and by two o'clock
on Thursday morning the deed body of Brien was
recovered in a shockingly niutllaled condition, and
during the night the voice of lies was distinctly
heard by the men outside, but towards morning
it was faint, as though he was becoming exhaust
The men worked energetically, and although they
removed a vast quantity of muck the superincumbent
man gradually fell, thus rendering their exertions
almost entirely abortive, until between six and &even
on Thursday morning, when a second great "tall"
took place, and all hopes of rescuing the poor
fellow within a short period were at an end. Before
now he had been enabled to obtain fresh air derived
through an aperture which existed between the
muck and the roof of the driving; and up to nearly
seven o'clock in the morning he was heard to
but this formidable fall of muck entirely cheer tali'm
aperture, and up to five o'clock on Thursday the
men at work heard nothing to lead them to believe
that the poor fallow exiid. Indeed, the accounts
given by the men as they came to the mouth of the
pit from time to time were of so disheartening a
nature that the general impreekon was on Thursday
that foul air had accomplished its deadly work.
Many gallant fellows volunteered their services in

the endeavour to release their oompaaion, to the im-
minent danger of their-own lives, and so ford was
the air at the spot where their exertions were required
that single candles would not burn, and to secure
any light at all it was necessary to compress several
candles together, and thus prodnoe a united dams
that should weaken the effect of the air upon the
light. We need hardly say that under such circum-
stances much heroism was required to induce men to
enter the drawing, and continue there in the removal
of the mock. The month of the pit was crovrded during
the whole of Thursday with persons anxious to MOO,
tam n the fate of the poor man entombed beneath
and the prove= which the men were making is
their arduous enterprise. Many of the friends, not
only of the imprisoned man, but also of those in the
pit, remained there all day, weeping, and anxiously
inquiring for the safety of their friends below, mull
the accident was the subject of conversation, not
only amongst the residents in the immediate vicinity
of the pit, but also amongst the inhabitants living
within a radius of two or three miles, and people
were frequently men coming to their doors and
asking those who were walking from the direction of
the pit whether the poor man had been released.
The greatest activity prevailed at the mouth of the
pit, and all the requisite appliances were used to
facilitate the operations of the working party. The
clothes of the missing man, which he bad thrown if
on oommencing work, were picked up near the
"tip." Should he survive it will be by his
ascending the higher portions of the old workings,
where, it is said, the air is comparatively pare.
Joseph Brien was about 28 years of age, and has left
a wee and one child. Thomas Iles was about the
same age, and has a wife and two childres--the wife
being close upon another confinement Both
familim, we hoar, are in distressed circumstances.—
Since ttlar above was written we Imrn that the body
of Iles reoovined on Saturday. Of mane the
poor fello had long been dead. The Dear
Western Preis, in reference to the melancholy
circumstance, says:—" The wives and families of the
deceased men are in great diatrem, and aay
that the benevolent may be disposed to gave
their relief will be thankfully resolved by Mr.
Isunbert, churchwarden of St. Michael's, Tweihe
Hill. The calamity differs greatly from that et
Hartley in extent, but them two widows, we wed
not asy, have been as suddenly and °4l
deprived of their means of hvi se any ef2116,17.
hundred and forty widows of with whom
snob # noble Muipeith2 has been.nnutilevbed by the
nation. Theleeser evil is not less desersiog Of the
public sympathy."