The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

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MARTZLIAUS RAWAP/11.—On the 19th ult., sa the up
express train was descending the incline towards Beat.
took, the engine driver, to his horror, obeerveda little
child about four years of age sitting in the middle of the
rails along which he had to pea, picking up done" into
a small pitcher. Unable in time to arrest the progress
of the trim, he pushed on in intense agony till he reached
the !station, full of tear of the consequences. On inquiry,
however, the infant had been found, neither harmed nor
afraid, pursuing her work, by the mother, whore atten•
Mon and fears the passage of the train excited.
A Itatin CAT.—A boy named Alexander Gordon,
aged about sic years, while walking with a companion
of about the saine ego in one of the back streets of
Fochabers, on Tuesday last, wiusfurionsly attacked by
• huge cat. The creature sprimg at the boy's throat,
and would have destroyed him but for timely aid of
some pinions who howened to be nesr. After being
removed frees the throat it caught hold of the thigh,
and ultimately of the leg, and it was with the greatest
pmisible diffloulty that the cat scold be got to quit the
leg. The unfortunate boy still lies in a very precarious
state. The animal OM more of a pole cat than the
common domestic cat, being • moo between the two,
had was quit* rabid at the time.

TNI ROYAL BRITISH BANK 8111NDLIL—It may be
curious, toys the Nora Brifigh Daily Mail, to give an
extract from the advertised prospectus of this swindle,
as we have before us one of the advertisements published
at the period of Re and establishment. After enume-
rating the trustees and directors, the advertisement goes
on to say—" The charter of incorporation will require
that a statement of the wets and liabilities of the bank
shall be published monthly, and that its affairs shall be
wound up, if at any time one-fourth of the paid-up
capital (i.e. tl2 10s. out of 250) shall be lost. Deposi•
tors, therefor*, inn incur no risk whatever, and share-
holders know that their liability cannot exoeed onl.
fourth of their paid-up stock, instead of their risk being,
as inalmost all other banks, unlimited." We need hardly
say how very illusory to both depositors and share-
holders these mendacious assertions have proved. But
it is instructive thwi to compare the bait with the
tra_p.
THS PSRTFISHIRS btoone.—A Rannoch correspon-
dent writes as follows —" Some of our sportsmen did
not arrive at their sporting lodges till the 20th August ;
and the gentlemen for the deer forests on the verge of
this district (but in another county) 'rave not yet arrived
at their hunting seats, although, se I am informed good
Iport awaits them. In regard to the grouse shooting,
hear no grumbling such as was prevalent lest year.
Everybody seems to be well satisfied. Parties of three
or four tune bag 50 brace daily in the space of live or six
hours ; and though Ole falls short of fernier seasons, we
should bear in mind that it will require some years be-
fore the grouse can increase to abundantly as formerly—
considering the severe malady of previous years, which,
had it continued, threatened to exterminate the grouts
altogether."
Buicton or A Beiron IN • Ctrunoa.—The town of
Hamilton was thrown Into a state of great eloitenient
on Sunday forenoon, through the perpetration of a incite
deterudned sot of suicide by John Orlinstons, beadle of
the parish church. Orimstone, in aooordsuos with his
duties, on the Sunday morning rang the bell as usual at
9, and also at 10 o'clock, but did not return shortly after
the latter hour to his own house, as he regularly did, to
change his clothes, and prepare himself for his church
service'. Al 11 o'clock his lOU, in his &Mena, rang the
bell for the assembling of the congregation. On tire
church serving being commenced the elders in attend-
ance proceeded to the rustry•rcom with the contents of
the plate oollootion. Grimmone being still absent, and
seeing his bonnet and waistcoat lying on the stair lead.
log up to the belfry they ascended thither in search of
him, when, to their horror and surprise, they dis-
covered the unfortunate man lying on the fluor welter.
log in blood m with his throat out from ear to ear and
the rum with which lie had oommitted self•dmitruetlon
use found beside blur. The elders and other parties
who 041110 to their imistanos also fogad that a small
looking•glass, had been lateen from tire vestry by Grim.
stone, and used by hint to Insure success 111 Iris design,
by making the fatal gash at the proper place. His slArt
sleeves were rolled up to the elbows,lllll hla troweem to
the knees. All the while lire minister and congregation
were kept In total ignorsnee of the horrible Nene which
lied been estaeled en dimly to them. By the time of
dismissal at 1 o'clock a large crowd had assembled around
the ohuroh gate, and every ens Was in a state of conster-
nation and anxiety to glean the pertioulars, There can
be no doubt he muol ham been labouring under doi4rism
IPS/MN/when lie committed the dreadful ad, We hare
heard it mild that lie Was about to be disiniewl from
the ofiloss he held in eonneetion with the 'humph, and
preebytery on amount of his irregular conduct, and this
inay hare weighed heavily on hie mind, He soled as
grave-digger In the parish ehurellyartl, and occasionally
wronglit ne a gardener. The defamed hae left a widow
and grown-up family to lantent his untimely end.