The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

Sonterzetobire.

YIOVIL.—At our Council meeting, on Monday
last, a third plan for a corn market was produced,
and approved by a large majority—only Mr. Marden
and Mr. Hill dissenting—acid ordered to be adopted.
It is to be formed in a square, occupying the present
vegetable market, and as much of the out-premiass
of tho Bell Inn, in South-street, as will form an area
of 1020 feet. The estimate is only £3BO. The
Watch Committee recommended that the borough
police should be amalgamated with the county
polio'. This arrangement would give them a force
of one sergeant and four oonstables, and it was under-
stood the residence of the superintendent would be
removed from Somerton to Yeovil. The expense
was estimated at £2Bl Ba., of which one-fourth will
be re-paid. Captain Willis, the government halm-
tor, had declared himself dissatisfied with the force
as it estate at present. Mr. Hill objected to the
alteration, u it would surrender Rowers for which
the burgusee had dearly paid. The subject was
postponed for decision. Mr. Shout's plans for
chapels and entrance lodge to the Cemetery were
approved by the council. The chapels are in Loin.
bardio style, with central tower 100 feet high.

DEATH THOM DROW24II4O.—On Tuaday last •
middle aged man, named Henry Taveuer, • glove.
cutter, living in Reolaford, in this town, went to
Cricket's Warn for the purpose of fishing in the
river Teo, and when there got up into a tree over.
hanging the river, for further convenience in his
amusement, and while thus 000upied, from some un-
explained cause, he lost his bal•noe and fell into the
strum beneath him, and being unable to swim, was
drowned before he could be rescued. Some boys
engaged in fishing at no great distanoe raised an
alarm, and a boat was speedily fetched from Newton.
House, but all efforts to restore animation proved
useless, Ths poor fellow has left a wife and two
children. . . .

XINTINO PRISINTATION.—A very handsome
testimonial has been presented to Apse, the late
huntaman of the Berkeley Hounds, on the wagon
of his removal from the Cheltenham country. It
consists of a =salve silver tankard, end a purse oon•
taming upwards of 900 sovereigns, the proceeds of a
publlosubeerlptlon. The tankard bore the following
inscription "Presented to Henry Ayres, together
with' puree of 200 sovereigns, by the members and
friends of the Berkeley Hunt, on his leaving the
Cheltenham country, which be had hunted for the
late Earl Fitshardinge for upwards of twenty.flve
years. May 16th, 1868."
D writ uorms aro an. —On Thursday morning week
a violent thunder storm visited the neighbourhood of
Abingdon and 23 sheep and lambs, belonging to Mr.
Johnlitaoiy, were Amok by the *learn, fluid and
perished. The poor creatures, frightened at the
storm, were huddled in one corner of the fold, and
some labourers, who were beginning their mowing
close by, were &mimed spectators of their destruc-
tion. No external marks of injury presented them.
selves on the carouse being examined, but a sulpha.
peons smell clung to the deems and on being
skinned the bodies were perfectly black.
Somerton. —Townhall, Monday. —(Preeent : R.
N. Grenville, Eaq.) George Young alias Poulding,
wu charged by the county police with steeling a
quantity of wearing apparel from Solomon Wit.
combo, of Street, in April last The prisoner who
was lodging at prosecutor's house, left early with
the best portion of his wardrobe. Information was
given to Superintendent Smith, and the Firisoner
was apprehended near Swindon, where he had just
committed another robbery, and for which he was
eentenoed to six weeks' hard labour, at Devisee. On
his emerging from the gaol, he wee, however,
waited on by a "Gent in Blue," and escorted to
Somerton. The case being dear, he was committed
fur trial at the next Quarter Simons. He has been
committed wend times previously.
BRIDOWATIR RIGAITA.—The committee made
arrangements for the holding of their annual regatta
on Friday last, being the review day of the West
Somersetabire Yeomanry Cavalry, and the only day
upon which the tide would serve. A series of prizes
were awarded, and the splendid band of the above
Zzit was in attendance. The local band also
in will • the amusements of the day.
Mr. Symonds, was y, and Mr. E. Phillips,
Treasurer.
The Rev. T. N. Irvin, curate of Ellesmere POI*
ambit% has been instituted by Lord Auckland,
Ulu* of Beth and Wells, to to rectory of Char.
lilountessielaire, value 4400, on tbe nomination
of B. literkeq, req.

CREWHERNIL —The adjourned vestry for the elec-
tion of a perpetual overseer was held or Thursday
week. Three candidates for the office appeared in the
field, Mr. Hann, Mr. Howe, and Mr. Cornelius.
The show of hands was as follows :—for Mr. Hann,
; Mr. Howe, 47; and for Mr. Cornelius, 46. A
poll was demanded for Mr. Cornelius, which was
closed on Friday at 4 o'clock p.m. At that time Mr.
Howe had • majority of 28 votes. He was therefore
declared duly elected.
NORTH PYRROTT. —Monday morning' George Wil-
mot, • young man in the employ of the Rev. H.
Hoskins, was driving his master's putt to the pota-
toe field when the horse took fright, and the unfor-
tunate young man was by some means jammed
against a bank. He received very serious injuries in
the jaws, and the shoulder bones were completely
crushed. Several of his teeth were picked up in the
! road, Mr, Jolliffe, surgeon, was quickly in atten-
dance, but the poor fellow is not expected to survive.
&TIPTON. —A. Man Killed by a Mower.—A melan-
choly and fatal accident occurred at Rimpton, on
Saturday week to a man named Charles Hodder,
working for Mr. Sherrin. He had been mowing
clover with several other workmen, all of whom had
stopped for the purpose of whetting their scythes and
having a drink of cider. Hodder, as soon as he had
finished, threw himself down on the swath of grass
next to his own to rest till his companions were ready
to re-commence, and at once fell asleep. The others
being soon ready, again fell to work ; the mower
who worked next to Hodder did not perceive his
companion lying against the swath of grams which
he was cutting, and the find stroke of his scythe
carrying its burden to the swath, drove its point
deep into the neck of the poor fellow, who was lying
there unperceived. Messengers were at once des-
patched to Camel and Sherborne for medical men,
but soon after the accident occurred a surgeon of
llchester happened to pass the field, who saw the
man and pronounced him already dead. The man
who was the cause of this decamped. The deceased
has left • widow and six children to deplore the un-
timely loss of their parent
GLASTONBURY. —Mr. Hodge, of Glastonbury,
Orsini's executor, has left Genoa for England, by the
Britifh steamer Teneriffe. _

-7fBTD-6- Or ITSIE Poetor BRISTOL. —The Customs'
duties received at Bristol for the mouth ending
the 31st of May last amounted to £105,067 2a. 2d.,
oonsisting of duties.receivrd on tods nuE*Ttna di-
rest into Bristol, £77,898 15e. , and unties re-
oeived on goods from other ports, £27,168 7s. The
export trade to foreign ports during the past month
has been extremely dull. and in staple articles of
oommeree—iron, coal, and coke—the business trans-
acted has been considerably below the average. The
total exports of iron have been 1,115 tons, of coals
two tons, and of ooke 31 tons. Compared with the
fortnight ending the last day of A pril these returns
show • falling off of 986 tons of ooals, and an in-
crease of 369 tons of iron in the live weeks of May
as against the weeks in ApriL The exports of coal
from the Severn ports (including Bristol, Cardiff,
Swamis, Newport, Llanelly, Port Talbot, Neath,
and St. David's) during the month of April last
were 113,540 tons.; in the corresponding period of
last year they were 120,670 tons, thus showing a de-
crease of 7,130 tons.
MukticaoLv Accrortvr.—On Wednesday even-
ing as Mr. J. Shorland, jun., of Dundry-grove, near
Bristol, one of the magistrates of Somersetshire,
acting in the division of Bedminster, was returning
home with his wife from Winford in a pony carriage
the axle-tree of the vehicle broke, and the night
I caused by the accident to the deceased, who suffered
from an affection of the heart, produced almost
instantaneous death.

WlLLOW.—Yelancholy and Distressing Case.
An inquest was held before Bruges Fry, Esq.,
county coroner, on Wednesday the 2nd instant, at
Single Hill, Wallow, near Bath, on the body of Mrs.
Anne Selway, aged 37 years, wife of a collier, re-
siding there. It appears that her husband's house
(and that of his neighbour) was on fire, in conse-
quence of sparks from the chimney falling on the
thatched roof. The deceased was baking, and an
alarm was given, when her husband, herself, and
neighbours tried to save their household stuff, and
deceased returned once too often, for on her teat
entering the house a portion of the roof fell, and she
had no alternative but to rush through the flames or
remain in the house and be suffocated. The poor
woman, who, it is lamentable to add, was six months'
pregnant, chose the former, and was so dreadfully
burnt about the face and throat that she died after
ten days' extreme suffering, her case having baf-
fled the skill of Mr. Hinton, surgeon, of Charter.
house, Hinton. What makes the case doubly dis-
tressing is, that deceased has left six small
children who stand much in need of their parent at
so tender an age.
W sus. The Railway—Operations connected
with the projected branch line to Wells commenced
last week at Coxley, where some very valuable land
has been cut up. It is reported that the land adjacent
to this city to be appropriated by the railway com-
pany was sold at £3OO per acre.
VESTRY MEETING. —A meeting of the rate-pay-
ers of the parish of St. Cuthbert's was held in the
vestry-room of the church Friday morning, the Very
Rev. the Dean in the chair. The accounts of the
retiring churchwarden, Mr. John Wilmott, were
read amidst frequent interruptions from the meeting,
the rate-payers decrying the system of enormous
expenses being incurred without first consulting the
pariah. One item of £l9, for gates and pillars to the
church, caused much angry opposition, for the reason
just referred to. After reading most of the accounts,
one Bill from Mr. Crowe, the sexton, for 125., for
tolling the bell for three hours on the occasion of the
death of General Havelock, was animadverted upon
by Mr. Wilinott, as being exorbitant. Mr. W. I.
Welsh, all Vice-chairman of the Burial Board, said
that the charge was 2s. for half an hour for tolling
the bell, but to continue at the rate of 4s. an hour
would be monstrous. He would propose that the
bill be reduced Ga., and the cbucrchwarden's accounts
be passed. The motion was seconded by Mr. H.
Bernard, and carried. Mr. Hippisley, the present
churchwarden, then moved for a rate of 3d. in the
pound, for church expenses, etc. (Great confusion.)
Mr. Clammy moved an amendment, on the ground
that church-rates were contrary to the principles of
religion and justice. Mr. William Tate seconded
the amendment amidst much applause. Mr. Hippis-
ley (with warmth):—l object to the putting of the
amendment. You are bound to pay this rate. The
expenses are neoessary. (Loud cries of " Oh, oh I")
The Rev. Chairman put the amendment, which was
negatived bye majority of one.
WEST 801111111511 Y EOMARRY CAVALRY. —The
members of this corps met in Durleigh field, near
this town, on Saturday wed, in heavy marching order,
for eight days' premsnent duty. The attendance
was, from various causes, hardly so numerous as at
the first call at the muster.roU as might have been
expected. On Sunday the regiment attended divine
service at St. Mary's Church' and the trains from
Weston-super-Mare, Highbridge, Taunton, and Wel.
lington, as well as private conveyanoes, brought in-
numerable visitors to witness the movements of the
troopers on parade. Friday was the grand review
day, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The following is
a Bet of the officers I—Colonel—The Hon. W. li. B.
Portman ; Lieut.-Col Frederick W. Blade; Major
Aug, Puldord Brown.; Captains—W. H. Bernard,
C. N. Welman, R, Neville Grenville, P. P. Bouverie,
F. W. Clarke, G. H. Warrington Carew, Wyndham
Slade; Lieutenants—H. C. Adams, Stucky Lucas,
Fredk. Chas. Moore, Vincent Wood, Theobald
Walsh, Alfred Seymour, C. W. F. Tinling, G.
Troyte Bullock; Comets—F. G. Bernard, F. M.
EasMent, A. D. Graham, R. R. Sewell, H. W.
Matthews; Adjutant—Capt. T. B. Tomlin Chap.
lain—Rev. Arthur H. P. Trewman Surgeon—W.
Trevor Veterinary Surgeon—James Channon ; Reg.
Serjeant MaJor—Robt. Mitchell.
BURNHAM. —The new route to Wlesse.—We are
gratified to announce that the new line of route from
the West of England vid Burnham, to South Wales
and Vied versa, promises at present to be every luorer
tire affair, From the stewards' book it appears that
nearly two thousand passengers have availed them-
selves of the services of the steamer during the past
fortnight, and every one speaks in the highest terms
of Captain George, bar °Pomander, both with re-
gard to his urbanity and swiping qualities.